GuardMessage

SMS consent

Last updated: 7 October 2026

This page documents, for carriers and for the people we message, exactly how a recipient agrees to receive text messages from GuardMessage. It reproduces the consent screen word for word.

1. Who receives text messages from us

GuardMessage lets a user write a message, set a check-in deadline and name the people it should reach. Those people — we call them guardians — are named by our user, not enrolled by themselves.

In countries whose carriers require a recipient's prior consent for application-to-person SMS (the United States, Canada, Korea and Japan), we send a text message to a guardian only after they have confirmed on the page below. A guardian who has not confirmed is reached by e-mail instead. Nothing marketing or promotional is ever sent.

Our own users, the account holders, receive check-in reminders by SMS and e-mail; they agree to that when they create their account.

2. How consent is given

When a user names a guardian, the guardian receives an invitation — by e-mail in the countries above — with a link to a verification page. This is what that page says to a guardian whose number is in one of those countries, reproduced word for word:

You're someone's emergency contact

Pavol has set you as their emergency contact in GuardMessage. If something happens to them and they stop checking in, you'll receive a message with important information they entrusted to you.

Please confirm that you know about this role and that this contact is yours — that way the sender can be sure the message will reach you in an emergency.

By confirming you agree that GuardMessage may send text messages to this phone number on this person's behalf. You can withdraw this at any time by writing to privacy@guardmessage.com.

Message frequency: only when this person's switch fires or sends you a code to open the message — a few messages a year at most. Never marketing.
Standard rates: message and data rates may apply.
Help and stop: reply HELP for help, STOP to stop messages.
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Confirm — I'm the emergency contact Decline this role

Confirming installs nothing and contacts nobody — it just lets the sender know you received this and agree.

Pressing Confirm is the act of consent — an affirmative act, never pre-selected and never bundled with anything else. The page is only reachable through a single-use link sent to the guardian, so nobody can confirm on their behalf. The number is not typed in here: it is the one the sender entered, and confirming is how the guardian tells us it is theirs.

Guardians outside those countries see the same page without the frequency, rates and HELP/STOP lines: their messages leave from an alphanumeric sender that cannot receive a reply, so an instruction to reply STOP would be one nobody could follow.

3. What we record

  • the moment of confirmation,
  • the network address it came from,
  • the version and language of the consent sentence shown (currently v2).

The phone number itself stays encrypted, as described in our Privacy Policy. If the user later changes the guardian's number, the consent is cleared — it belongs to the number it was given for.

4. Withdrawing consent

Write to privacy@guardmessage.com at any time. On toll-free numbers you can also reply STOP. Either way, further messages to that number go by e-mail or not at all.

5. Messages a confirmed guardian may receive

GuardMessage: Pavol is sending you a message, open: https://gmsg.app/l/…
GuardMessage URGENT: Pavol is sending you an EMERGENCY message, open now: https://gmsg.app/l/…
GuardMessage verification code: 482913 (valid 10 min). Enter it on the page where you opened the link.

The third is a one-time code that protects the link; it is sent only when the guardian opens it.

6. Contact

privacy@guardmessage.com
Avacod s.r.o., Dúbravská cesta 9, 841 04 Bratislava, Slovakia

See also our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.