With your consent, Penn Care,Inc. would like to send text (SMS) messages to the mobile number you have provided in our records.

By providing your informed consent where indicated, you acknowledge that you have understood the information below and agree to participate in our text (SMS) messaging service.

Penn Care, Inc.'s text (SMS) messaging service is designed to provide you with helpful information, reminders, and notifications via text messages sent to your mobile phone. We may use text (SMS) messages to communicate with you for a variety of purposes.

Voluntary Participation: Participation in our text (SMS) messaging service is entirely voluntary. You have the right to refuse or withdraw your consent at any time.

Benefits and Risks: Benefits: The text (SMS) messaging service aims to keep you informed about Penn Care, Inc.'s by providing an additional method of convenient and timely communication.

Risks: While every effort will be made to protect the security and confidentiality of information transmitted through text (SMS) messages, there are inherent risks associated with all electronic communication. These risks include unauthorized access, loss of privacy, and potential breach of sensitive information. It is important to be aware that text (SMS) messages may not be entirely secure and could be intercepted or accessed by unintended recipients.

Potential Costs: Participation in the text (SMS) messaging service may involve standard text messaging charges applied by your mobile service provider. Please consult your mobile service provider regarding any applicable fees or charges.

SMS Privacy Policy:
We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) governs how we treat the Personal Information that we collect and receive from you in connection with your use of the SMS Service which we make available to you through a third-party service provider. This SMS Privacy Policy is part of our policy. “Personal Information” is information that individually identifies you, such as your mobile phone number or user/screen name, as well as any Personal Information that you choose to include in messages you send through the Service. Through the use of the Service, we will receive the following information from our third-party service provider: your mobile phone number when you send a text message to us, the text of messages that you send to other users of the Service, any user or screen name that you select in connection with the Service, as well as any comments or feedback regarding the Service that you send to us. We use Personal Information to (a) provide you with the Service, (b) process and respond to inquiries, (c) improve the Service, (d) if necessary, contact you with important announcements or messages, (e) conduct research, and (f) provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients and partners. Each message that you send through the Service (either to us or to other users of the Service) is stored on our servers. We retain these messages on our servers. We utilize servers and services owned by third parties. Penn Care will be using RingCentral as our provider. We do not pass any individual's consent to receive SMS from RingCentral to any third party. We do not share phone numbers with third parties for the purpose of allowing those third parties to send SMS.

Opt-out regarding your personal information: You have the right to request Penn Care to stop sharing your personal information for the purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising. Penn Care does not sell your personal information as may be commonly understood. However, you may opt out of having your personal information shared with certain vendors that we use for providing insights about user interactions with our website and for delivering ads to you.

Opt-in to SMS/ text messaging: In order to begin receiving messages from Penn Care, our customers must give their permission by opting-in permission and consents to start receiving your messages.

There are six different ways that a recipient can give their consent via a call to action.

Verbally with consent: The customer provides verbal consent to opt-in and receive your messages.
Entering a telephone number through our website: The customer enters their phone number into a form on your website.
Signing up for an account: The customer signs up to receive messages while using our shopping cart.
Sending a message with an advertising keyword from their mobile device: The customer opts-in by sending a message to your company containing an advertising keyword.
GDPR-compliant signup forms: Our forms automatically include checkboxes for opt-in / opt-out for our campaigns.

Opt-in confirmation examples:

"You are now subscribed to Company-Name. Notifications Msg frequently varies. To get help, reply HELP. To unsubscribe, reply STOP".
“Welcome to Company-Name. You will start receiving text messages. If you need assistance text HELP replying to this message. Reply STOP to cancel subscription”.
“Company-Name: Reply YES to subscribe to mobile alerts. You’ll start receiving periodic messages delivered via automated technology. Text HELP for help. Text STOP 2 stop”.

After a recipient has received a message from an user, they have the option to enter one of three text commands: STOP, UNSTOP, or HELP.