SafePulse SMS Program & Opt-In Consent

Effective Date: June 7, 2026 | Last Updated: June 15, 2026

About this app: SafePulse is a personal safety check-in and emergency alert application developed by Frank Nowicki, and is the app behind this website, checkinonme.app. (The same app is distributed as PulseGuard on the Apple App Store and Amazon Appstore.) This page documents how recipients consent to receive SafePulse's SMS safety alerts.

1. Program Description & Message Content

SafePulse is a personal safety check-in app. Each user adds their own trusted emergency contacts (family and friends). SafePulse sends an SMS safety alert to those contacts only when:

the user misses a scheduled safety check-in, or
the user presses the in-app SOS button.

The message contains the user's name, an emergency notification, and a Google Maps link to the user's last known location so the contact can help. These are transactional, user-initiated safety alerts only. SafePulse does not send marketing, promotional, or recurring campaign messages, and does not use purchased or rented contact lists.

2. Message Frequency

Message frequency varies and is event-driven. A contact only receives a message during a genuine safety event (a missed check-in or an SOS). Many contacts will receive no messages at all in a typical month; most will receive only an occasional alert.

3. Message and Data Rates

Message and data rates may apply. Message frequency varies. Your mobile carrier's standard messaging and data charges apply to messages you receive.

4. Getting Help

For help, reply HELP to any message, or contact us at checkinonme@checkinonme.app.

5. Opting Out

You can opt out at any time by replying STOP to any message. After you reply STOP, you will receive no further SMS messages from SafePulse. A user may also remove you as an emergency contact at any time within the app.

6. How Consent Is Obtained

Recipients are the user's own emergency contacts — people the user personally knows who have agreed to be contacted in an emergency on the user's behalf.

During app setup, the user manually enters each contact's phone number. No numbers are auto-imported or purchased.
The app discloses, on the screen where contacts are added, that saved contacts will receive automated SMS safety alerts if the user misses a check-in or triggers an SOS.
The user confirms that each contact has agreed to receive these alerts before saving them.
Messages are sent only to numbers the user has manually entered, and only during a genuine safety event.

Consent script (used by SafePulse users when adding a contact):

"I use an app called SafePulse to keep me safe. I'd like to add you as an emergency contact. If I ever miss a safety check-in or press the SOS button, the app will text you a safety alert with my name and my location so you can help. You might get message-and-data-rate charges from your carrier, and you can reply STOP anytime to stop the texts or reply HELP for help. Do you agree to be my emergency contact and receive these alerts — yes or no?"

    Only contacts who agree are added. Upon being added, the contact is enrolled to receive SafePulse safety alerts for that user and may opt out at any time by replying STOP.

7. Privacy & Terms

We do not share or sell phone numbers. Phone numbers are used solely to deliver safety alerts and are never used for marketing.