SMS Privacy Policy

Effective date  17 August 2026
Applies to  SMS notifications sent from the phone number ending 0785
Operated by  Kevin Spreier

01 What this is

Automated technical alerts sent by private infrastructure-monitoring software to a small, fixed set of authorized recipients — the operator, and anyone the operator has designated to receive them. There is no public sign-up, no customer list, no purchased or rented data, and no marketing of any kind.

Messages are event-driven: one is sent when a monitored system fails, and when it recovers. A healthy system sends nothing at all.

02 What we collect

Recipients' mobile telephone numbers, held in configuration on the operator's own servers. Alert content — a short technical description of a failure plus a timestamp — which describes computer systems, not people. Delivery metadata (message identifier, status, carrier, error code), held by our delivery provider.

Nothing else: no names, addresses, payment details, location, contacts, or device data.

03 Consent

A number is added only after that person has given the operator express permission, in writing, for example by email. We never add a number from a contact list, a directory, or a referral, and never obtain consent on anyone else's behalf.

04 How recipients are added and removed

There is no subscription system — no sign-up page, no web form, no join keyword, no subscriber database. Email the operator (section 7) to be added or removed; only the operator can change the configuration.

Separately, replying STOP (or CANCEL, QUIT, OPTOUT, UNSUBSCRIBE, STOPALL, REVOKE, END) makes our delivery provider stop messages to your number immediately; HELP or INFO returns assistance, and START resubscribes. This is applied by the carrier layer to every recipient, is required by US messaging rules, and cannot be disabled by us. If you use a keyword, please also email the operator so the number is removed at source.

Message and data rates may apply. Delivery depends on your carrier and handset and cannot be guaranteed.

05 How we use it, and who we share it with

Solely to notify authorized recipients that monitored infrastructure has failed or recovered. Never for marketing, advertising, profiling, or analytics.

Shared only with our SMS delivery provider (Twilio) and the mobile carriers it transits, as far as is necessary to deliver a message. We do not sell, rent, license, or otherwise disclose recipients' numbers or message content to anyone else.

No mobile information or messaging consent will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.

06 Retention and security

Numbers are held only in server configuration and are deleted on request. Alert logs are retained on the operator's servers for at least 90 days; delivery metadata is retained by the delivery provider under its own schedule. Credentials and recipient configuration are held in machine-scope environment variables, never in files, source code, or command-line arguments.

07 Contact

Questions, corrections, or requests to be added or removed: kevin@spreier.org