How recipients opt in

Program  AnchorPoint Gateway Alerts
Effective date  19 August 2026
Applies to  SMS notifications sent from the phone number ending 0785
Operated by  Kevin Spreier

This page exists so a reviewer can verify the consent flow directly. There is no public sign-up page to inspect, because there is no public sign-up — and there is no solicitation either. Every recipient asks to be added, in writing, on their own initiative.

01 Who receives these messages

At present, one person: the operator, about his own infrastructure. No other number is enrolled.

Anyone else is added only if they ask to be. There is no customer list, no marketing list, no purchased, rented or referred data, and consent is never obtained on anyone else's behalf.

02 How someone opts in

The recipient starts it, not the operator. The operator does not solicit consent, does not send an invitation, and does not add a number he has not been asked in writing to add. The complete flow is three steps:

1. The person emails the operator at sms@spreier.org asking to be added, and gives the mobile number in that email. For example: "Please add my number 555-555-0123 to the gateway alerts." 2. The operator replies with the confirmation shown below, which states what will be sent, how often, that rates may apply, and how to stop. Those disclosures are in the body of the reply itself, not only behind a link. 3. The operator puts that number into the system's configuration by hand. It is held in a machine-scope environment variable on the server, never in a file, in source code, or on a web form. 4. The change takes effect on the next deployment. Only then can any message be sent to that number.

There is no sign-up page, no web form, no join keyword, no QR code, and no paper form. Nothing is automated at any step: a human reads the request and a human edits the configuration.

The confirmation sent at step 2, in full. It is sent before the number is added, so no message can reach anyone who has not been told the terms first:

Subject: Gateway ALERT - your number has been added You asked to receive Gateway ALERT messages at (***) ***-1234. What you will receive: automated technical alerts about the operator's trading-data infrastructure, sent only when a monitored system fails or recovers. Message frequency: varies. Nothing is sent while systems are healthy; during an incident, up to 12 messages per hour until it is resolved. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to unsubscribe. Reply HELP for help. Privacy policy: https://sms.spreier.org/sms-privacy-policy.html Terms and conditions: https://sms.spreier.org/sms-terms-and-conditions.html

03 How consent is recorded, and where the proof is

The proof of opt-in is the recipient's own request email, and it remains on file. Each request is retained by the operator exactly as received — its date, the address it was sent from, and the mobile number the sender supplied — together with the confirmation reply sent back at step 2. Because the recipient writes the request themselves and states their own number in it, the request is the consent: there is no separate agreement to capture and no checkbox to record.

There is no public sign-up page to screenshot, because there is no public sign-up. The stored request emails are the record, and they are available to a carrier or reviewer on request at sms@spreier.org. They are not published here: they carry a third party's email address and mobile number, and posting those on a public page to prove consent would be its own privacy failure.

Consent is per person and specific to this program. It is never shared, transferred, or reused for any other purpose or sender.

04 How someone opts out

The same route, in reverse. The person emails the operator at sms@spreier.org asking to be removed; the operator deletes the number from the configuration, and it stops on the next deployment.

Independently of that, replying STOP (or CANCEL, QUIT, OPTOUT, UNSUBSCRIBE, STOPALL, REVOKE, END) stops messages immediately at the carrier layer, which is required by US messaging rules and cannot be disabled by the operator. HELP or INFO returns assistance. Opting out is per person and affects no other recipient.

05 What is sent

Automated technical alerts about the operator's own trading-data infrastructure, sent only when a monitored system fails or recovers. Message frequency varies and is not fixed: nothing is sent while systems are healthy, and during an incident alerts repeat about every five minutes until it is resolved — up to 12 messages per hour. Most weeks there are no messages at all. Message and data rates may apply.