PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated April 1, 2026
This Privacy Notice for
MessageUniverse LLC (we,
us, or our), describes how and
why we might access, collect, store, use, and/or share
(process) your personal information when you use
our services (Services), including when you:
- Visit our website at https://www.messageuniverse.com , or any website of ours that links to this Privacy Notice
- Engage with us in other related ways, including marketing emails, social media, or otherwise when in contact with us
Questions or concerns? Reading this Privacy
Notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices.
We are responsible for making decisions about how your personal
information is processed. If you do not agree with our policies
and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have
any questions or concerns, please contact us at
support@messageuniverse.com.
SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS
This summary provides key points from our Privacy Notice, but you
can find out more details about any of these topics by clicking
the link following each key point or by using our
table of contents
below to find the section you are looking for.
What personal information do we process? When you
visit, use, or navigate our Services, we may process personal
information depending on how you interact with us and the Services,
the choices you make, and the products and features you use. Learn
more about
personal information you disclose to us
.
Do we process any sensitive personal information? Some of the information may be considered
"special" or "sensitive"
in certain
jurisdictions, for example your racial or ethnic origins, sexual
orientation, birthday, address, contact info, locations and religious
beliefs.
Do we collect any information from third parties?
We do not collect any information
from third parties.
How do we process your information? We process your
information to provide, improve, and administer our Services,
communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply
with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with
your consent. We process your information only when we have a valid
legal reason to do so. Learn more about
how we process your information
.
In what situations and with which
parties do we share personal
information?
We may share information in specific situations and with specific
third parties. Learn more about
when and with whom we share your personal information
.
How do we keep your information safe? We have
adequate organizational
and technical
processes and procedures in place to protect your personal
information. However, no electronic transmission over the internet or
information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so
we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other
unauthorized
third parties will
not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access,
steal, or modify your information. Learn more about
how we keep your information safe
.
What are your rights? Depending on where you are
located geographically, the applicable privacy law may mean you have
certain rights regarding your personal information. Learn more about
your privacy rights
.
How do you exercise your rights? The easiest way to
exercise your rights is by
submitting a
data subject access request
, or by contacting us. We will
consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data
protection laws.
Want to learn more about what we do with any information we collect?
Review the Privacy Notice in full
.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Personal information you disclose to us
In Short:
We collect personal information that you provide to us.
Personal Information Provided by You. The personal
information that we collect depends on the context of your
interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the
products and features you use. The personal information we collect may
include the following:
- names
- email addresses
- phone numbers
- physical addresses
- locations
- sexual orientation
- born gender
- date of birth
- thoughts and opinions
- physical appearance traits
- timezone
- facial recognition (for authentication)
- fingerprints (for authentication)
Social Media Login Data. We may provide you with the
option to register with us using your existing social media account
details, like your Google, Facebook, X, or other social media account.
If you choose to register in this way, we will collect certain profile
information about you from the social media provider, as described in
the section called "
HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS?
"
below.
All personal information that you provide to us must be true,
complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such
personal information.
Information automatically collected
In Short:
Some information — such as your Internet Protocol (IP)
address and/or browser and device characteristics — is
collected automatically when you visit our Services.
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or
navigate the Services. This information does not reveal your specific
identity (like your name or contact information) but may include
device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and
device characteristics, operating system, language preferences,
referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how
and when you use our Services, and other technical information. This
information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation
of our Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting
purposes.
The information we collect includes:
- Log and Usage Data. Log and usage data is service-related, diagnostic, usage, and performance information our servers automatically collect when you access or use our Services and which we record in log files. Depending on how you interact with us, this log data may include your IP address, device information, browser type, and settings and information about your activity in the Services (such as the date/time stamps associated with your usage, pages and files viewed, searches, and other actions you take such as which features you use), device event information (such as system activity, error reports (sometimes called "crash dumps"), and hardware settings).
- Device Data. We collect device data such as information about your computer, phone, tablet, or other device you use to access the Services. Depending on the device used, this device data may include information such as your IP address (or proxy server), device and application identification numbers, location, browser type, hardware model, Internet service provider and/or mobile carrier, operating system, and system configuration information.
- Location Data. We collect location data such as information about your device's location, which can be either precise or imprecise. How much information we collect depends on the type and settings of the device you use to access the Services. For example, we may use GPS and other technologies to collect geolocation data that tells us your current location (based on your IP address). You can opt out of allowing us to collect this information either by refusing access to the information or by disabling your Location setting on your device. However, if you choose to opt out, you may not be able to use certain aspects of the Services.
Google API
Our use of information received from Google APIs will adhere to
Google API Services User Data Policy
, including the
Limited Use requirements
.
2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short:
We process your information to provide, improve, and
administer our Services, communicate with you, for
security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We
may also process your information for other purposes with
your consent.
We process your personal information for a variety of reasons,
depending on how you interact with our Services, including:
- To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user. We may process your information to provide you with the requested service.
- To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. We may process your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the requested service.
- To send administrative information to you. We may process your information to send you details about our products and services, changes to our terms and policies, and other similar information.
- To protect our Services. We may process your information as part of our efforts to keep our Services safe and secure, including fraud monitoring and prevention.
- To evaluate and improve our Services, products, marketing, and your experience. We may process your information when we believe it is necessary to identify usage trends, determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and to evaluate and improve our Services, products, marketing, and your experience.
- To identify usage trends. We may process information about how you use our Services to better understand how they are being used so we can improve them.
- To comply with our legal obligations. We may process your information to comply with our legal obligations, respond to legal requests, and exercise, establish, or defend our legal rights.
3. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
In Short:
We may share information in specific situations described in this
section and/or with the following third parties.
We may need to share your personal information in the following
situations:
- Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
In Short:
If you choose to register or log in to our Services using a social
media account, we may have access to certain information about you.
Our Services offer you the ability to register and log in using your
third-party social media account details (like your Google, Facebook or
X logins). Where you choose to do this, we will receive certain profile
information about you from your social media provider. The profile
information we receive may vary depending on the social media provider
concerned, but will often include your name, email address, friends
list, and profile picture, as well as other information you choose to
make public on such a social media platform.
We will use the information we receive only for the purposes that are
described in this Privacy Notice or that are otherwise made clear to you
on the relevant Services. Please note that we do not control, and are
not responsible for, other uses of your personal information by your
third-party social media provider. We recommend that you review their
privacy notice to understand how they collect, use, and share your
personal information, and how you can set your privacy preferences on
their sites and apps.
5. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short:
We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the
purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice unless otherwise required by
law.
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is
necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice, unless a
longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax,
accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice will
require us keeping your personal information for longer than the period
of time in which users have an account with us.
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your
personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such
information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your
personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will
securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further
processing until deletion is possible.
6. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
In Short:
We aim to protect your personal information through a system of
organizational and technical security measures.
We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and
organizational security measures designed to protect the security of
any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards
and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission
over the Internet or information storage technology can be
guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that
hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will
not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access,
steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to
protect your personal information, transmission of personal
information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should
only access the Services within a secure environment.
7. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?
In Short:
We collect information from minors under 18 years of age only with
parental consent and over the age of 13, depending on the
applicable law. We do not knowingly collect information from
children under 13. And we do not knowingly allow such individuals
to register for our Services.
We do not knowingly collect, solicit data from, or market to
children under 13 years of age. By using the Services, you represent
that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of
such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the
Services over the age of 13. If we learn that personal information
from users less than 18 years of age has been collected without
parental consent, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable
measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you
become aware of any data we may have collected from children under
age 18, please contact us at
support@messageuniverse.com
.
8. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short:
You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time,
depending on your country, province, or state of residence.
Withdrawing your consent:
If we are relying on your consent to process your personal
information, which may be express and/or implied consent depending on
the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any
time. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using
the contact details provided in the section
HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?
below.
However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the
processing before its withdrawal nor, when applicable law allows, will
it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in
reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
If you have questions or comments about your privacy rights, you may
email us at
support@messageuniverse.com.
9. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile
applications include a Do-Not-Track (DNT) feature or setting you can
activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your
online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no
uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT
signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to
DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically
communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for
online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will
inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy
Notice.
California law requires us to let you know how we respond to web
browser DNT signals. Because there currently is not an industry or
legal standard for recognizing or honoring DNT signals, we do not
respond to them at this time.
10. DO UNITED STATES RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short:
If you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware,
Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, or Virginia, you may have the right to
request access to and receive details about the personal information
we maintain about you and how we have processed it, correct
inaccuracies, get a copy of, or delete your personal information. You
may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of
your personal information. These rights may be limited in some
circumstances by applicable law. More information is provided below.
Categories of Personal Information We Collect
We have collected the following categories of personal information in
the past twelve (12) months:
| Category | Examples | Collected |
|
A. Identifiers
|
Contact details, such as real name, alias, postal address,
telephone or mobile contact number, unique personal identifier,
online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, and
account name
|
NO
|
|
B. Personal information as defined in the California Customer
Records statute
|
Name, contact information, education, employment, employment
history, and financial information
|
NO
|
|
C. Protected classification characteristics under state or
federal law
|
Gender, age, date of birth, race and ethnicity, national origin,
marital status, and other demographic data
|
NO
|
|
D. Commercial information
|
Transaction information, purchase history, financial details,
and payment information
|
NO
|
|
E. Biometric information
|
Fingerprints and voiceprints
|
NO
|
|
F. Internet or other similar network activity
|
Browsing history, search history, online behavior, interest
data, and interactions with our and other websites,
applications, systems, and advertisements
|
NO
|
|
G. Geolocation data
|
Device location
|
NO
|
|
H. Audio, electronic, sensory, or similar information
|
Images and audio, video or call recordings created in connection
with our business activities
|
NO
|
|
I
. Professional or
employment-related information
|
Business contact details in order to provide you our Services
at a business level or job title, work history, and
professional qualifications if you apply for a job with us
|
NO
|
|
J
. Education Information
|
Student records and directory information
|
NO
|
|
K
. Inferences drawn from
collected personal information
|
Inferences drawn from any of the collected personal
information listed above to create a profile or summary about,
for example, an individual’s preferences and characteristics
|
NO
|
| L. Sensitive personal Information |
NO
|
We may also collect other personal information outside of these
categories through instances where you interact with us in person,
online, or by phone or mail in the context of:
- Receiving help through our customer support channels;
- Participation in customer surveys or contests; and
- Facilitation in the delivery of our Services and to respond to your inquiries.
Sources of Personal Information
Learn more about the sources of personal information we collect in
"
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
"
How We Use and Share Personal Information
Learn about how we use your personal information in the section,
"
HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
"
Will your information be shared with anyone else?
We may disclose your personal information with our service providers
pursuant to a written contract between us and each service provider.
Learn more about how we disclose personal information in the
section,
"
WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
"
We may use your personal information for our own business purposes,
such as for undertaking internal research for technological
development and demonstration. This is not considered to be
" selling"
of your personal
information.
We have not disclosed, sold, or shared any personal information to
third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding
twelve (12) months. We will not sell or share personal information
in the future belonging to website visitors, users, and other
consumers.
Your Rights
You have rights under certain US state data protection laws. However,
these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases, we may decline
your request as permitted by law. These rights include:
- Right to know whether or not we are processing your personal data
- Right to access your personal data
- Right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data
- Right to request the deletion of your personal data
- Right to obtain a copy of the personal data you previously shared with us
- Right to non-discrimination for exercising your rights
- Right to opt out of the processing of your personal data if it is used for targeted advertising (or sharing as defined under California’s privacy law) , the sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects ("profiling" )
Depending upon the state where you live, you may also have the
following rights:
- Right to obtain a list of the categories of third parties to which we have disclosed personal data (as permitted by applicable law, including California's and Delaware's privacy law)
- Right to obtain a list of specific third parties to which we have disclosed personal data (as permitted by applicable law, including Oregon’s privacy law)
- Right to limit use and disclosure of sensitive personal data (as permitted by applicable law, including California’s privacy law)
- Right to opt out of the collection of sensitive data and personal data collected through the operation of a voice or facial recognition feature (as permitted by applicable law, including Florida’s privacy law)
How to Exercise Your Rights
To exercise these rights, you can contact us
by submitting a
data subject access request
,
by visiting
https://www.messageuniverse.com/contact
,
or by referring to the contact details at the bottom of this document.
Under certain US state data protection laws, you can designate an
authorized
agent to make a
request on your behalf. We may deny a request from an
authorized
agent that does not
submit proof that they have been validly
authorized
to act on your
behalf in accordance with applicable laws.
Request Verification
Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to
determine you are the same person about whom we have the information
in our system. We will only use personal information provided in
your request to verify your identity or authority to make the
request. However, if we cannot verify your identity from the
information already maintained by us, we may request that you
provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your
identity and for security or fraud-prevention purposes.
If you submit the request through an
authorized
agent, we may need
to collect additional information to verify your identity before
processing your request and the agent will need to provide a written
and signed permission from you to submit such request on your
behalf.
Appeals
Under certain US state data protection laws, if we decline to take
action regarding your request, you may appeal our decision by emailing
us at
support@messageuniverse.com
. We will inform you in writing of any
action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a
written explanation of the reasons for the decisions. If your appeal
is denied, you may submit a complaint to your state attorney general.
California "Shine The Light"
Law
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the
"Shine The Light"
law, permits our
users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once
a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal
information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct
marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties
with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding
calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make
such a request, please submit your request in writing to us by using
the contact details provided in the section
"
HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?
"
11. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?
In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as
necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.
If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may
email us at
support@messageuniverse.com
or
contact us by post at:
MessageUniverse LLC
South Bend
,
IN
46614
United States
13. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE
COLLECT FROM YOU?
Based on the applicable laws of your country or state of residence
in the US, you may have the right to request access to the personal
information we collect from you, details about how we have processed
it, correct inaccuracies, or delete your personal information. You
may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing
of your personal information. These rights may be limited in some
circumstances by applicable law. To request to review, update, or
delete your personal information, please fill out and submit a
data subject access request
.
14. SMS COMMUNICATIONS
In Short: We may send you text messages for account
verification, message notifications, and reminders. You can opt out
at any time by replying STOP.
If you provide your mobile phone number and opt in to receive SMS
messages from MessageUniverse, we may send you the following
categories of messages. Written consent is collected in two locations:
during account signup when a phone number is provided, and in your
account profile settings (Contact Info) when you add or update your
phone number. The same disclosure text and standalone opt-in checkbox
appear at both locations.
- Authentication & verification: one-time passcodes (OTPs) used to verify your phone number at signup and for account recovery.
- New message notifications: alerts when a letter addressed to you becomes available or is delivered.
- Reminders: subscription, delivery-window, or account reminders you have explicitly requested.
Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may
apply.
Opting out. You can opt out of SMS communications at
any time by replying STOP to any message from us.
After you opt out, we will send a single confirmation message and will
not send you further SMS communications unless you opt back in.
Help. For assistance with SMS, reply
HELP to any message from us, or email
support@messageuniverse.com.
We do not sell, rent, or share mobile information (including phone
numbers and SMS opt-in consent) with third parties or affiliates for
marketing or promotional purposes.
Mobile opt-in data and consent are never shared with anyone for any
reason other than delivering the messages you have requested.
Consent to receive SMS is not a condition of any purchase.
You may use MessageUniverse without providing a mobile number or
opting in to SMS communications.
Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. Supported
carriers may change without notice. If you change or deactivate the
mobile number on your account, you are responsible for updating your
account promptly to prevent messages intended for you from being sent
to the new holder of that number.