What is Text Privately?

Text Privately is a virtual phone delivery service which allows SMS-enabled direct inward dialing (DID) and direct outward dialing (DOD).

What does Text Privately do?

Text Privately allows you to purchase secure virtual phone numbers which may send and receive text messages without ever revealing your real phone number or numbers.

You can also set it up to be message-only with specific commands and answers!

You may also log (record) your text messages, useful for sending and receiving texts online if your phone is not available.

Note: This service is text-only and does not support voice calling, which is available on our other web application, Call Me Private.

Who is Text Privately for?

Anyone with a mobile phone number with texting capabilities can use Text Privately.

Whether you are an individual looking to protect and secure your real phone number or a business looking for an affordable service, our Service is for you!

How do I use Text Privately?

After registration, log in to the Dashboard. Navigate to Settings and add your credit card.

After verification, navigate to the Numbers page and add a default number and a virtual phone number to your account.

Freely give this number out and when anyone texts, it will be sent to your real phone number.

What can I do with Text Privately?

Text Privately was designed to give you secure private virtual disposable phone numbers.

You can send text messages to your virtual number and mask your phone or receive text messages to any phones you own without ever revealing your real phone number, log your conversations, leave a message to anyone who sends you a text, blacklist texters, or suspend your virtual phone number.

Why use Text Privately?

Think of Text Privately as a disposable no-hassle virtual telephone number.

If you have several businesses and wish to appear as if you have multiple phone numbers, Text Privately will allow you to achieve that at very affordable rates.

You can also use your virtual phone numbers for security purposes and if you prefer to have a new number every month, you can simply cancel your virtual phone number at any time and add a new one from anywhere in the United States and Canada.

Can Text Privately receive all text messages?

Short code SMS is NOT supported.

For example, if you were receiving a message from a number that looks like: 246-821, it would not be received.

Known companies with SMS Shortcodes:

• Amazon
• Paypal
• Google Voice Verification

Note: Receiving ANY messages from these companies listed above is NOT possible due to their strict regulations.

Can I send text messages with Text Privately?

You can send text messages to others by sending your virtual number a text message. Here is the comand:

• 17125555555:hi there! — OR — 17125555555 hi there!

You can make this easier for yourself and add that number as an alias by typing this command:

• add 17125555555:john
  17125555555 becomes john

Once you receive confirmation that the alias was added, you can now type this command:

• john:hi there! — OR — john hi there!
  17125555555 becomes john

Want to remove John as an alias? Type this command:

• del john
  John will no longer be recognized as an alias.

Note: You cannot have the same alias twice in reference to two different numbers. For example, if you were to add John Smith and John Jones, you cannot have "john" as the alias for both. You will need to distinguish between the two people such as johns and johnj.

• list
  A list of all of your alises will be sent to you.

Can I send text messages to a bunch of numbers with Text Privately?

You can send text messages to mass numbers by sending your virtual number a text message.

Similar to the alias feature, you must assign each or your contacts to a group and texting that group will send the entire group a text message.

• family:hi everyone, will be late for dinner tonight!
• friends:lets all meet up at the pub later tonight around 7!
• coworkers:did anyone see the latest report?

How many numbers can I purchase?

Unlimited.

How long can my text message be?

The standard SMS message can contain up to 160 characters, received or sent. Our system will attempt to deliver more than that if possible, but it is not guaranteed.

Do I have to enter a credit card?

In order to purchase virtual phone numbers, you must have a credit card on file.

Note: Pre-paid credit cards are allowed, but it is imperative that you ensure they have enough funds. After 3 failed charges, your number will be automatically deleted.

Do you offer a free trial?

We do offer a free phone number for you to try.

Scroll to the bottom of this page to see more about adding numbers to the sandbox.

How much are phone numbers?

Local phone numbers in the United States are $2.50 per month or $24.95 per year.

Local phone numbers in Canada are $3.50 per month or $34.95 per year.

Note: There are no fees for the setup or cancellation of virtual numbers.

Note: Virtual numbers are billed on a monthly basis.

Note: There are no refunds.

Can I transfer data from one virtual number to another?

Never lose your aliases, blacklist, or messages! Add a new number and quickly transfer the data from an old number to a new number!

How am I billed?

You will be billed accordingly by NoteToServices on a monthly basis by virtual numbers you purchased and fees from outgoing, forwarded, and message-only SMS.

Rates per text may vary according to your country. Check rates.

Note: Your billing for virtual numbers may not be in sync.

Do you offer phone numbers outside of North America?

Currently, only phone numbers within North America are offered.

Do I have to enter in a country code?

By default, you do not have to enter in a country code, but all numbers technically require it, so we assume you are from the United States and we add it automatically. Without an actual country code, you will not be able to receive or send text messages.

To add your own country code or a country code outside of the United States, go to settings and turn on Do not add 1 in front of numbers which will let you enter any country code you wish.

Visit countrycode.org for your country code.

Can I use your Service outside of the United States?

Local numbers will work almost anywhere they are available. Click to check for pricing & availability in your country.

Can I send a text message to someone outside of the United States?

You can send a text message to almost anyone in the world, but before you do, go into the Settings, and ensure that you check off Do not add 1 in front of numbers.

Your number must include a country code.

I did not receive a text message.

In order to use the Service, you must have at least one verified number.

Your number must include a country code.

How much does the Service cost?

Incoming text messages are FREE from just about anywhere in the world, but will still show up in your log.

Sent text messages from your virtual number will incur a per text fee (usually $0.01¢) but may vary depending on your country.

Do you offer refunds?

In order to keep the price of our Services low, we cannot offer refunds.

Can I cancel a virtual phone number?

You can cancel virtual numbers at any time.

After cancelling, you may continue to use the phone number until the Renew Date.

My virtual number was deleted, why?

In almost all circumstances, it has to do with an invoice that needs to be paid.

Text Privately will attempt to warn you for 3 days via email and SMS to let you know that you need to add funding to your credit card.

Note: Once the number is deleted, we may be able to restore it up to 12 hours after it has been deleted.

Can I update or remove my credit card?

Navigate to the Settings page and click Update Credit Card to change your information.
Note: Credit cards on file must be up to date at all times.

Also on the Settings page is the ability to remove your credit card.
Note: Removing a credit card will immediately cancel all virtual numbers. This action cannot be undone.

What type of information do you keep?

We do not keep actual transcripts of your texts unless you specify otherwise by enabling the record button, but your account will keep a log of most activity to and from your virtual phone numbers, your redirect phone numbers, and the texter for billing purposes.

Are there any issues I should be aware of?

The Android and iPhone are very different.

The iPhone will add a country code in front of your text automatically, while the Android will not.

Text Privately will automatically add a 1 to your outgoing text messages unless specified otherwise.

When giving out your virtual number, you may need to make sure others are aware that they may need to add a 1 in front of your number when adding you and texting you.

I want to buy a number from a specific region, but it says nothing was found.

Our number stocks are constantly being bought and released all the time. Just wait a few days and there should be more numbers in stock.

I did not receive a text message.

In order to use the Service, you must have at least one verified number.

Your number must include a country code.

Is my credit card safe?

We do not keep a record of your full credit card on file, only the last 4 digits, which is encrypted, and the expiration date.

We use PCI-compliant Stripe as our third-party payment processor.

We take privacy and security very seriously.

Please read about Stripe's security policy.