Veritas Coffee Chats — text message terms

Veritas Coffee Chats, run by The Veritas Forum.

If you tick the box when you register, we’ll text you about your coffee chat and nothing else. That means: who you’ve been paired with and how to reach them, a reminder if you haven’t yet picked a time to meet, and a reminder to tell us how the conversation went.

We will not text you fundraising appeals, event promotions, or anything unrelated to a coffee chat you signed up for.

You’ll get about 3 messages per pairing. If you are paired more than once, the count starts again for each pairing. There is no recurring or scheduled message outside of an active pairing.

The Veritas Forum does not charge you anything. Message and data rates may apply, depending on your mobile plan and carrier.

Reply STOP to any message. That stops the texts immediately and automatically. STOP, END, QUIT, CANCEL and UNSUBSCRIBE all work, and you’ll get one confirmation message and nothing after that.

You can also just tell your campus ambassador — the person who runs Coffee Chats at your school and who introduced you to your partner. They can take you off the list. If you’d rather not go through them, use the Veritas Forum contact page.

Stopping the texts does not remove you from Coffee Chats. You’ll keep getting the same emails, and your pairing carries on exactly as it would have.

Reply HELP to any message for contact information. You can also ask your campus ambassador, or reach us through the Veritas Forum contact page.

You must be 18 or older and using a US mobile number. We can’t send these messages to an international number or a landline.

Agreeing to texts is never a condition of taking part. The box is optional, Coffee Chats works exactly the same without it, and everyone gets the same emails either way.

Your phone number is used for two things: to text you, if you asked us to, and to introduce you to your coffee chat partner so the two of you can arrange a time. Those are the only places it goes. We do not share, sell, rent or disclose your mobile number or your opt-in to any third party, other than the service providers who deliver the messages on our behalf.

For the full picture, see the Veritas Forum privacy policy.

Supported carriers include AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, US Cellular, and others. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. Message delivery depends on your carrier and is not guaranteed.

We may update these terms. If we change what the messages are for or how often they arrive, we’ll ask you again rather than relying on the permission you gave for something else.