If you send spam or initiate messages or calls in violation of applicable laws or this document, you could be liable for significant liquidated damages.Licensor, Outbound Provider and Inbound Provider (both defined below) enable only the transmission of calls and messages through Apps and Services.You are the maker and initiator of the calls and messages sent by you through the Apps and Services, including but not limited to auto replies that you enable through the Apps, and you are solely responsible for all of those calls and messages.It is your sole obligation to comply with all laws, rules, regulations and governmental guidance in your use of the Apps and Services.You are required to share personal data with Licensor in order to use the App and Service.While you are required to agree to all of the terms in this document, you should clearly understand that by accepting this document, you are acknowledging and agreeing that: Some Key Terms: Licensor wants you to be aware of some key terms applicable to your use of Apps and Services. and you would agree to the App-Specific Terms for the Textfree App, which incorporates this Master Terms of Service. App Store, the Licensor would be Pinger, Inc.
otherwise “Licensor” is Dinopilot, a Cayman Islands company.īy way of example, if you download the Textfree App from a U.S. App Store or, for Textfree Web or for desktop versions of Sideline Enterprise, if you identify your country of use as the United States, “Licensor” is Pinger, Inc. Capitalized terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them herein or in the applicable App-Specific Terms. Those App-Specific Terms the terms and conditions of the Master Terms of Service apply to your use of that App and related Service.
In the near future, we’ll have more news about this App Store success story.These terms include the base terms applicable to your use of all software applications (each an “App”) provided by Licensor, and the base terms for your use of the separate services enabled through each App (“Services”).Įach App and Service may have App-specific additional terms and conditions (“App-Specific Terms”). Since then, Pinger has become cash flow positive by keeping iTunes stocked with a stream of new apps. Pinger, founded in 2005, has secured a total of $11 million in funding in two rounds in 20, mostly from superstar lenders Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Or they can pay a measly $5.99 per year for regular Textfree with unlimited texting.
Users can choose Textfree Lite, which limits itself to sending 15 messages per day for free.
Once people start texting, Woock said, they tend to use the app more and more, not less and less. Its user retention rate breaks the gone-in-30-days model of game apps and novelty apps. In December, Pinger had 10 apps in the top 100 at the same time.īut Textfree, which placed two versions in Apple’s Top 10 list at one point, is the app with legs. Doodle Buddy, Slime Ball Lite, and Fat-a-pult Lite are the best known.
The company has more announcements coming soon, but for now it’s enough to note that Pinger has placed 14 iPhone apps into the Top 100 on the iTunes store, 15 million downloads in all. Do the math: Pinger is serving somewhere between one and 10 million text messages per day. CEO Greg Woock - pronounced “woke,” it’s Dutch - a veteran of Handspring, told me on Tuesday that Textfree is already several hundred million messages past the 1,000,000,000 mark.