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Terms of Service

Last updated: 4 October 2026

1. Who we are

These terms govern the use of SMS For U — the app, the website at smsforu.app, and everything belonging to them. The provider is L&L Synergy FlexCo, FN 650676b, Commercial Court of Vienna. Full details are in the legal notice. You can reach us at robin@smsforu.app.

These terms apply to every use of SMS For U — on the website, in the iPhone app and in the Android app. There is no account; you accept these terms with every purchase. On the website you confirm this before every purchase with the box you tick, which also accepts the privacy policy. With every purchase we record which version you accepted and when. These terms, the privacy policy, the information on the right of withdrawal and the legal notice are available to you at any time on the website and in the apps under the "Account" tab. If you do not agree, you cannot use the service.

2. Definitions

Activation — a single purchase: one temporary, receive-only phone number for the verification code of one service in one country. Each activation is paid for individually.

Target service — the service where you use the number for verification, for example a messenger or an online account.

Guest identifier — a random identifier by which we recognise your browser or device without you signing in: on the website in the cookie "sms_geraet", in the apps an identifier the app stores on your device. It takes the place of an account: your purchases, your support requests and your ad-measurement choice are attached to it. It contains no name and no email address.

3. Our service

We provide temporary virtual phone numbers for receiving verification messages. We do not send messages and do not place calls. We are not a mobile network operator.

We do not monitor the content of incoming messages. What you use a number for, and whether that is lawful, is your sole responsibility.

4. Who may use SMS For U

You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter into contracts.

No account. You use SMS For U everywhere without an account and without signing in. The guest identifier in your browser or in your app takes the place of an account. You are responsible for everything that happens through your browser or your device; do not pass on the address that takes you back to your number on the website after payment.

On this device only. You see a purchase only in the browser or in the app where you made it. If you delete the website's stored data or the app, you may lose access to a running purchase. A refund that is due still goes through on its own on the website and in the Android app; for a purchase in the iPhone app you can still request it from Apple (see section 7).

5. Where SMS For U may not be used

The service is not available to people in countries or territories subject to sanctions by the European Union or the Republic of Austria. Circumventing geographic or technical restrictions is a material breach of these terms.

6. Prices and payment

What you buy. You do not buy credit or a subscription but exactly one activation: a phone number for one service in one country, paid for individually.

Price. The price depends on the service and the country. You see it before you buy, in the purchase sheet and on the button you buy with. On the website all prices are final prices. There you pay in euro if you browse from the European Union or from another country that uses the euro, otherwise in US dollars. In the European Union the website's prices include Austrian VAT; outside the European Union no Austrian VAT applies. In the apps Apple or Google state the price in the currency of your store and calculate taxes under their own rules. If the price changes while the purchase sheet is open, we show you the new price and only buy after a further confirmation.

Payment. On the website a payment service handles the payment; who that is, is set out in the privacy policy. Which payment methods you can use there, for example card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, is shown at the checkout. In the iPhone app you pay through Apple (in-app purchase), in the Android app through Google Play. For purchases through Apple or Google, their terms apply in addition; Apple or Google handles withdrawal and refunds for these purchases under those terms (see the information on the right of withdrawal).

Number first, payment second. We reserve the phone number before you pay, so that it is not sold to someone else while you pay. If no number is available right now, we tell you beforehand; nothing is charged. If you cancel the payment, we return the reservation; nothing is charged and no contract comes about.

How a purchase on the website works. You pick a service and a country and see the price. You tick the box and tap "Continue to payment"; the button shows the price. You then reach the checkout.

  • The checkout is valid for ten minutes. If you do not pay within that time, or you cancel, we return the reservation; nothing is charged and no contract comes about.
  • The contract comes about when your payment is credited. We release the phone number and send you the confirmation of the contract.

How a purchase in the apps works. You pick a service and a country and see the price. You tap "Activate"; the button shows the price. Apple's or Google Play's purchase sheet then opens, where you confirm the purchase. The contract comes about as soon as Apple or Google confirms the payment to us; we then release the phone number.

Correcting your input. Until you pay you can change your choice at any time: "Cancel" closes the purchase sheet and you pick the service and country again. You can also still cancel at the checkout or in Apple's or Google Play's purchase sheet.

Contract text. For every purchase we store the purchase details and the version of these terms you accepted. You can view, save and print these terms at any time at smsforu.app.

The contract language is German or English.

Immediate delivery. The phone number is released as soon as your payment is confirmed. Before buying you expressly ask for immediate performance and confirm that you thereby lose your right of withdrawal — on the website with the box you tick, in the apps by tapping "Activate", above which this notice is shown. See the information on the right of withdrawal.

Confirmation of the contract. After a purchase on the website we send you a confirmation of the contract on a durable medium, to the email address you give during payment. It contains the order number, the time, the service, the total price, our provider details, the note on your consent to immediate provision, and links to these terms, the information on the right of withdrawal and the privacy policy. For a purchase in the apps, Apple or Google sends you the confirmation of the purchase by email to the address of your Apple Account or Google Account.

Reversed payments. If a purchase is refunded or a payment is reversed, the order ends; we may switch off a phone number that is still running.

7. What we owe

We owe the provision of a phone number, not the arrival of a message. Whether a message arrives is decided by the target service. That is outside our control. Some target services do not accept virtual phone numbers or do not send a code to them. The success rate we show for each country is a reported value based on experience, not a promise.

Ten minutes. After payment you see the phone number and a timer counting down from ten minutes — rarely a little less, if the number technically expires earlier. Request the code from the target service right away. If no code arrives within that time, we end the number on our own initiative.

Another number. If a number stays silent, after a short minimum time — currently about two minutes; before that a number cannot technically be returned — you can tap "Try another number". We first check whether the code has arrived after all. If not, we end the old number and give you a new one for the same service and country at no extra charge, with a new ten-minute timer. This works up to ten times per purchase, as long as a suitable number is available; in the iPhone app also after the time has run out. If none is left, you get your money back as described below.

Cancelling. "Cancel & refund" is also only available after this minimum time; until then the button counts down. We then ask whether you would rather have another number for free. With "No, refund me" you end the number and get your money back as described below. If the code arrives at that same moment, the code counts.

Code arrived, service performed. Once a code has arrived, our service has been performed and the purchase is complete. There is then no refund, no swap and no cancellation for it.

No code, money back. If no code arrives — because the time runs out, because you cancel or because no other number can be found — you get your money back. How depends on where you bought:

  • Website: we refund the full purchase price on our own initiative — you do not have to apply for anything. The refund goes to the same payment method you paid with and is triggered as soon as it is certain that no code will arrive. If a refund fails for reasons on the payment service's side, we try again until it succeeds.
  • Android app: we refund the full purchase price on our own initiative through Google Play, to the payment method you paid with; you do not have to apply for anything. If the refund fails, we try again.
  • iPhone app: purchases in the App Store can only be refunded by Apple, and only at your request; we cannot technically refund them ourselves. The app opens Apple's refund window for this — right away after "No, refund me", and via "Get my money back" once the time has run out. If you closed it without requesting the refund, you find the way under the "Account" tab at "Report a problem with a purchase" or at reportaproblem.apple.com.

Refunds by Apple. Whether an in-app purchase is refunded is decided by Apple, not by us. If you request a refund, Apple may ask us whether a code was delivered. We answer automatically: if no code came, we recommend a full refund to Apple; if one came, we advise against it. By accepting these terms you consent to us providing this information. Details are in the privacy policy.

Your statutory warranty rights are unaffected.

8. No rights to a particular number

You acquire no right to a particular phone number. Numbers are assigned temporarily and may be reassigned after they expire.

An activation serves to receive one code. After the first code the number is closed for you; there is no further message to the same number and no later reuse. For another code you need a new purchase, usually with a different number. We delete the content of a message about 24 hours after it arrives; after that we can no longer show it.

We may limit the number of simultaneously running numbers per browser or device. On the website it is currently one number per browser: while a paid number is running there you cannot buy a second one; cancel the running one or wait for it to end.

9. Prohibited use

SMS For U must not be used for:

Authorities and regulated areas

  • authorities, government bodies, courts, public registers
  • banks, financial institutions, payment services, lenders
  • crypto exchanges, trading platforms, wallets and any custody of other people's assets
  • insurers, health services, pharmacies, prescription platforms
  • elections, petitions and citizen participation procedures
  • any service that carries out identity verification under anti-money- laundering law

Deception and harm

  • fraud, identity deception, impersonation
  • circumventing blocks, security measures or account restrictions of others
  • harassment, threats, stalking
  • multiple accounts, abuse of sign-up bonuses, commercial ticket resale
  • dating under false pretences, and any use involving minors
  • circumventing a gambling self-exclusion or an operator ban

Crime and attacks

  • any criminal act, in particular fraud, money laundering, terrorist financing, extortion, trade in weapons, drugs or other prohibited goods, and any depiction of sexual abuse
  • phishing, smishing, account takeover, SIM swapping and any unauthorised access to other people's accounts or systems
  • spam, bulk registrations, bots and automated access to our services without our written consent
  • attacks on our systems, circumventing technical protection measures, reverse engineering and security testing without our written consent
  • circumventing a block, for example through new guest identifiers, other devices, VPNs or proxies

General

  • paid subscriptions and recurring billing
  • passing on, reselling or using the number for others
  • any use that breaches the target service's terms
  • any use intended to circumvent a legal or contractual identity requirement
  • any other unlawful purpose

This list is not exhaustive.

Consequences. On reasonable suspicion we may block your guest identifier and the devices used with it immediately and without notice. New guest identifiers of the same person are prohibited. Where abuse is established, we terminate the contract for cause with immediate effect; we do not refund a service already performed. We report suspected criminal offences and cooperate with authorities on lawful orders.

Indemnity. You indemnify and hold us harmless against all claims by others and proceedings by authorities — including reasonable costs of legal defence — arising from your culpable breach of these terms or of the law.

10. Support and reporting illegal use

Support. You get help in the support chat — on the website and in the apps under the "Account" tab at "Support" — or at robin@smsforu.app. In the chat an AI assistant usually answers first. It identifies itself as an AI and answers questions about the service and about your own purchases. If you ask for it, or if it cannot help, it hands over to a human from our support team, who replies to you in the same chat. The AI assistant cannot refund, buy or change anything itself, and its answers can contain mistakes; just write if you would like to talk to a human. Which information the AI assistant receives for this is set out in the privacy policy.

Reporting illegal use. Anyone who believes SMS For U is being used unlawfully can report it through the support chat or at robin@smsforu.app. Please include the phone number concerned, the time period and a short description. We confirm every report, examine it carefully and inform the reporting person of the outcome.

11. Liability

We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, and for harm to life, body or health.

For slight negligence we are liable only for breach of essential contractual obligations — those whose fulfilment makes proper performance possible in the first place and on which you may rely — and limited in amount to the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract.

The mandatory provisions of the Austrian Consumer Protection Act and the Product Liability Act remain unaffected. In particular, the exclusion of slight negligence applies towards consumers only to the extent permitted by § 6 KSchG.

We are not responsible for your use of a phone number, for the content of messages sent by others, or for blocks or measures taken by target services.

Businesses. Towards businesses, liability for slight negligence is excluded; we are not liable for lost profit, consequential or indirect damage, and our liability is limited to the fees paid to us in the last twelve months.

12. Blocks by target services

Target services sometimes block accounts created with virtual phone numbers — even where the message was delivered and our service was faultless. We are not liable for that.

13. Availability

The service is provided as it is and as available. We do not promise uninterrupted or error-free operation; maintenance, updates and errors can cause downtime.

14. Force majeure

We are not liable for delay or non-performance due to events beyond our reasonable control, such as natural events, war, labour disputes, official measures, sanctions or outages of telecommunications networks.

15. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or end guest identifiers and devices for breaches, abuse or legal risk; a block takes effect immediately.

There is no account that you would have to close or delete. Every purchase ends on its own — with the code, with the cancellation or when the time runs out. You end your use by no longer using SMS For U. On the website you can also delete this site's stored data in your browser — that removes the guest identifier and the remembered purchase. What we still have to keep afterwards by law is set out in the privacy policy; you can ask for your data to be erased at any time through the support chat or at robin@smsforu.app.

16. Intellectual property

No rights in software, systems or content are transferred. You receive a simple, non-transferable right of use for the duration of your use.

17. Assignment

We may assign these terms in whole or in part, in particular in connection with a merger, acquisition, restructuring or sale of assets. You may assign your rights and obligations only with our prior written consent.

18. Language versions

These terms exist in English and German. Where they differ, the English version governs.

Exception: the legal notice and the mandatory information under Austrian law govern in their German version.

19. Governing law and jurisdiction

Austrian law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. The place of jurisdiction is Vienna.

Consumers (Art. 6 Rome I Regulation). This choice of law may not deprive you of the protection afforded by the mandatory provisions of the country in which you have your habitual residence. Those provisions expressly remain unaffected. As a consumer you may also sue us at your place of residence, and we may sue you only there.

20. Severability

If a provision is invalid, the remaining provisions stay in force. The statutory rule takes the place of the invalid one.

21. Changes

We may change these terms for future purchases. Each purchase is governed by the version in force at the time of that purchase, which you accepted when you made it; later changes do not affect a purchase already concluded. The current version is shown with its date on the website and in the apps. After a change, the app may ask you in the "Updated terms" sheet to accept the new version with "Accept" before you continue.

22. Entire agreement

These terms and the privacy policy form the entire agreement and replace earlier arrangements.