Privacy Policy

SMS Privacy Policy
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1. Introduction
Welcome to Upcode.com. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible manner. This SMS Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you sign up for and use our SMS services.
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2. Information We Collect
When you subscribe to our SMS services, we may collect the following information:
• Your mobile phone number • Any information you provide in response to our SMS messages • Usage data related to our SMS services, such as message frequency and delivery reports
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3. How We Use Your Information
The information we collect is used to:
• Send you requested information and updates via SMS • Provide customer support and respond to your inquiries • Improve our services and enhance your experience • Comply with legal obligations and enforce our terms of service
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4. Opt-In and Opt-Out
By providing your mobile phone number and opting in to receive SMS messages from us, you consent to receive text messages regarding our services, promotions, and other updates. You can opt out of receiving SMS messages at any time by replying with the word “STOP” to any SMS you receive from us. After opting out, you will no longer receive SMS messages, except for administrative or transactional communications necessary to manage your account.
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5. Data Sharing and Security
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to outside parties without your consent, except as required by law. We may share your information with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our SMS services, as long as they agree to keep your information confidential.
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.
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6. Your Rights
You have the right to:
• Access and review the personal information we hold about you • Request corrections to any inaccurate or incomplete information • Withdraw your consent to receive SMS messages at any time
To exercise these rights, please contact us at [Contact Information].
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7. Changes to This Policy
We may update this SMS Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page, and we will notify you of any significant changes by sending an SMS to your registered mobile number.
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8. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this SMS Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Contact@upcode.com
Feel free to customize this policy with your specific website details and contact information.

We process some personal data in order to run our business. There are a limited number of circumstances where we may share your information with third parties (for example, pursuant to a court order, if we are part of a merger, or with our business partners and service providers who support our business or collaborate with us). We take the security of your information seriously and take steps to keep your information secure. Please read the full Privacy and Security Statement below and you may always contact us if you have questions. Introduction UpCode Studios, LLC. and its subsidiaries (collectively, “UpCode”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Privacy and Security Statement. This Privacy and Security Statement (together with our Terms of Use) describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide—for example, when you visit any of our websites or contact us—and how we use, protect, and disclose that information. This Privacy and Security Statement does not apply to information collected on any third-party site or application (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from our websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or data collection, use and disclosure practices of those sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of each site you visit. Please read this Privacy and Security Statement carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. By accessing or using any of our websites or services, you agree to this Privacy and Security Statement. This Statement may change from time to time, and these changes may affect how we use the information described below, so please check the Privacy and Security Statement periodically for updates.

Notice About How We Use and Protect Personal Information

We collect several types of information for our business operations, including but not limited to: Information you provide to us. When you navigate our websites or contact us, we may request or you may choose to provide us with certain information. This may include information by which you may be personally identified (“personal information”), such as name, employer, e-mail address or telephone number, and records and copies of your correspondence with us. Information collected from forms on our websites. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use portions of our websites, posting material, or requesting further services. We may ask you for information when you report a problem with our websites, products or services. Usage details, IP addresses and cookies. As you navigate through and interact with our websites, we may automatically collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns using common internet technologies, such as cookies and Web beacons. This may include details of your visits to our websites, including information about your connectivity, such as your IP address and browser information, location data, logs and other communication data, and the resources that you access and use on the websites. The information we collect automatically helps us to improve our websites and to deliver better and more personalized content and services by enabling us to estimate our audience size and usage patterns and recognize you when you return to our websites.

General business-related information

We may also receive other personal information from or about you in the ordinary course of our business. We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including personal information: To present our websites, products and services to you and continuously improve upon them. To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us. To notify you about changes to our website, products or services (including new offerings) and promotions or events. To maintain the integrity and security of our websites, products, and services. For our ordinary business operations, including people development, recruiting, and business research and outreach.

Disclosure of Your Information

Protecting your personal information is important to us and we neither rent nor sell your personal information to anyone. We may disclose or transfer personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy and Security Statement, including: To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of UpCode’s assets, in which personal information held by UpCode about our websites’ users is among the assets transferred. To our subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to support our business or collaborate with and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes of providing services for or with us. To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request. To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements that govern the sale or use of our products and services. To protect the rights, property or security of UpCode, our employees, our users or others. Except as set forth in this statement, we will not share your personal information with third parties without your consent.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. Here are a couple of ways you may have control over your information: Tracking Technologies and Advertising. Depending on your browser, you may be able to change settings to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the site may then be inaccessible or not function properly. Promotional Offers from UpCode. If you do not wish to receive promotional e-mail messages from us, you may opt-out by sending us an e-mail at contact@upcode.com asking to be omitted from future e-mail distributions.

Data Integrity and Proportionality

We only collect and retain as much personal information as needed for specific, identified purposes described in this Privacy and Security Policy and we will not use it in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

We take reasonable steps to keep your personal information accurate and complete. You may send us an e-mail at contact@upcode.com to request access to your personal information you have provided to us for the purpose of correcting, amending or deleting data that is inaccurate. We will do our best to respond to your request in a timely manner and grant your request as required by law.

Security

We take your security seriously and take reasonable steps to protect and secure your personal information from unauthorized access, use, and disclosure. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our websites, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. Please do not share your password with anyone. Although we take reasonable security measures to protect your personal information, for example, by using Secure Socket Layer encryption when you transmit your password, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our websites. The transmission of information via the Internet is not 100% secure and we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the websites. Changes to Our Privacy and Security Statement We may amend this Privacy and Security Statement from time to time. We encourage you to revisit this page periodically to read the current version of this Statement in effect.

Enforcement

We use a periodic self-assessment approach to assure compliance with this Statement. If you have any concerns or questions about this Statement or if you would like to lodge a complaint, please contact contact@upcode.com and we will investigate and attempt to resolve any complaints through our internal process.

Safe Harbor Compliance

We comply with the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework and the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information from European Union member countries and Switzerland. UpCode has certified that it adheres to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement. To learn more about the Safe Harbor program, and to view UpCode’s certification and safe harbor policy, please visit: http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/.

Children Under the Age of 13

Our websites are not intended for children under 13 years of age. If you become aware that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us at contact@upcode.com and we will work to delete it. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Contact Information If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy and Security Statement, please contact us by emailing us at contact@upcode.com or by writing to us at: UpCode Studios, LLC 
Attention: Legal Department, Privacy Statement Issues
 3513 McElroy Drive, Murrysville, PA