Your privacy is important to us! GuardMyPhone is committed to respecting your privacy through the protection of your Personal Information.

As the collection of information is facilitated through technological advances such as the Internet and the mobile network, we have established our commitment to protecting your Personal Information.

The following outlines our pledge to you:

• Purpose and Consent: Before collecting your Personal Information, or at the time of collection, we will explain to you the purpose of collecting it and obtain your consent.
• Limiting Collection: Our collection of Personal Information is limited to what is reasonable under the circumstances and your information will be used only for the purpose for which it is collected.
• Security: Your Personal Information is kept confidential and secure and is not disclosed to anyone outside GuardMyPhone and our strategic partners without your consent, unless required by law.
• Access: You have the right to access your own Personal Information, and to correct any inaccuracies.

If users have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact GuardMyPhone by email at privacy@GuardMyPhone.com.

Information Collection and Use

When you sign up for our service, you will be asked to provide your name, email address and mobile device number as well as a private password and a security question and answer, which will become part of your account information. This information is stored on GuardMyPhone 's secure servers and will not shared with any third parties. If you forget your password, you will be asked to go on the GuardMyPhone website, answer your security question and create a new password. A confirmation e-mail will be sent to the registered e-mail address you specify.

The contact list you stored with GuardMyPhone will not be shared with anyone without your permission and will be used to provide you with secure, Web-based access to its data and to run the GuardMyPhone Network. The information can also be used by GuardMyPhone to send your invitation including a message that you write to your contact. The name and email addresses of people that you invite will be used only to send your invitation and reminders.

Moreover, we may use Your Account Information:

• For license reporting and assessment of service levels;
• To conduct analysis of the usage of our products, gauge traffic patterns and study the popularity of our products and services;
• To verify access rights to content, services or software;
• To provide you with the latest update on our products, services, special offer, news and events;
• To purchase or download GuardMyPhone products and services; and/ or
• To provide you with personalized content programming, instructions and services

When you use our service, we will be collecting and storing data from your computer, devices, applications and files on your behalf. This is the information you will be managing in your GuardMyPhone account. We use unique identifying information available on your devices to assist in the authentication and verification.

Limited Data Sharing with Third Parties

GuardMyPhone is committed to protect the privacy of our users. We will not sell, rent or otherwise provide your personally identifiable information to any third parties is committed to protecting your privacy for marketing purposes. We will only share your personally identifiable with third parties to carry out your instructions and to provide specific services, such as credit card processing company. However, these third parties do not retain, share, or store any personally identifiable information except to provide these services and are bound by strict confidentiality agreements which limit their use of such information.

We may share aggregated and anonymous demographic information with our business partners but no such information can be linked directly to Your Account Information. If you would like to be excluded from the aggregated research or products based upon aggregated data about our users' activities on the site, please contact our customer service.

Although we will use every reasonable effort to preserve your privacy, we may need to disclose Your Information, including personally identifiable information, when required by law if we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on GuardMyPhone and/or the Site. We will notify you of such actions where reasonable and permitted by law.

Rights to Your Information

You have the right to access, correct, update, and/or delete Your Information at any time. You can do so by using the mobile device or by logging into the Site with your username and password. The amendment made to your account will be executed immediately. For example, if you delete your account, your account immediately becomes inaccessible and all Your Information within your account is completely removed from the GuardMyPhone Servers.

Cookies

GuardMyPhone uses "cookies" to track site usage. A cookie is a piece of data that is transferred to your browser by a Web server and can only be understood by the server that gave it to you. It functions as your computer's identification token and enables GuardMyPhone to recognize you when you return to the Site. The cookie also contains your e-mail address so that we can make it easier for you to sign in. If you reject the cookie, you may not be able to sign up for some of the Services or use certain features of the Site.

Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it. (For some Web pages that require an authorization, cookies are not optional. Users choosing not to accept cookies will probably not be able to access those pages.)

While GuardMyPhone uses cookies to enable you to use the Services and the Site, and our Web servers automatically log the Internet Protocol ("IP") address of your computer, GuardMyPhone does not use this information to identify you personally except to provide you with the features of the Services.

Log Files and Backups

GuardMyPhone uses log files to collect information in order to provide better service to you. The data held in log files includes your IP address, browser type, e-mail application, Internet service provider ("ISP"), referring/exit Web pages, computer platform type, date/time stamp, and user activity. GuardMyPhone uses server log data to analyze trends, administer the Services and the Site, and improve service levels. IP addresses are not tied to any Personally Identifiable Information.

GuardMyPhone Communications

GuardMyPhone will communicate with you through email and notices posted on the website. We may send all new Members confirmation e-mails verifying the ownership of the e-mail addresses provided in Your Account Information. We also communicate with you to provide requested services and in regard to issues relating to your account.

Members may occasionally receive information on GuardMyPhone products, services, news and events. Out of respect for your privacy, we present you with the option to not receive these communications. You may change your current setting by modifying your Account preferences using the Site.

On rare occasions it is necessary to send out a strictly service-related announcement which is not promotional in nature. This announcement may notify you of changes to the Privacy Policy and/or Terms of Service Agreement, as well as planned service suspensions and outages. Generally, you may not operate out of these communications, though you can deactivate your account. These notifications will generally be sent to a validated e-mail address for your account.

If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and/or email address.  We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site.  GuardMyPhone stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.  Your friend may contact us at privacy@GuardMyPhone.com to request that we remove this information from our database.

We post customer testimonials on our web site which may contain personally identifiable information such as the customer's name.  We do obtain the customer's consent prior to posting the testimonial to post their name and city of use along with their testimonial.  To request for a testimonial be removed from GuardMyPhone’s website, please contact privacy@GuardMyPhone.com with your request.  You may be required to identify yourself.

Children's Privacy

GuardMyPhone is committed to protecting the privacy needs of children and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children's online activities and interests. GuardMyPhone's Services and Site are not intended for and may not be used by children under the age of 13. GuardMyPhone does not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13 and GuardMyPhone does not target its Services and Site to children under 13.

Government Authority

You should be aware that, as with all legal contracts, our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy could be amended, terminated or modified without the consent of you and/or GuardMyPhone by judicial proceeding, court order, in connection with bankruptcy or other insolvency proceedings, or pursuant to other government action. When reasonable and lawful, we will notify you if this occurs.

Security and Confidentiality

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.  No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

• If you forget your password, you will be asked to go on the GuardMyPhone Web site, answer your security question and create a new password. No plain text passwords will ever be passed through e-mail.
• The Services use Secure Socket Layer ("SSL") for all client-server communication using Your Information.
• Your Web-based access to Your Information is protected by an encrypted password. We recommend that you do not disclose your password to anyone.
• Additionally, Your Information resides on a firewall-protected server that only selected GuardMyPhone personnel have access to via password. GuardMyPhone strives to prevent unauthorized parties from viewing Your Information.

Changes to the GuardMyPhone Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding GuardMyPhone’s Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@GuardMyPhone.com.