Text messages

Who gets them

Only adults in enrolled member families, and only ones who have asked for them. A member signs in to the co-op’s own web app, enters their mobile number in their account settings, confirms it with a code sent to that number, and ticks a box saying:

I agree to receive text messages from Sursum Corda Cooperative about co-op closures and my own turns on the rota. Message frequency varies and is rarely more than a few messages a month. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to opt out or HELP for help.

Nobody is added by anybody else, and no number is ever bought, sold, rented or shared. Numbers are not collected from this page or from anywhere else on the public internet.

What the co-op sends

• Only two kinds of message: the co-op being called off, and a reminder when it is your turn to open the morning in prayer.
• Never anything about money, never anything about a particular child, and never anything a teacher wrote about one.
• Never between 9pm and 7am, unless it is a co-op day being called off that morning.
• Never to anybody outside the co-op. Numbers are given by co-op members in their own account settings and are never bought, sold or shared.
• Rarely more than a few messages a month.

Stopping them

Reply to any message with one of these. They work whether or not you can get into the app, and they take effect immediately.

STOP

No more texts, at once. Everything else in the app carries on as before.

START

Turn them back on, if you have stopped them.

HELP

A one-line reply saying who is texting you and how to stop.

Members can also turn them off in the app under Settings, which is the same switch by another route.

Cost

The co-op does not charge for this. Message and data rates may apply from your own mobile carrier, as they would for any text.

Your number, and what happens to it

A number is used to send these messages and for nothing else. It is not used for advertising, it is not given to any other organisation, and removing it — by replying STOP, by clearing it in the app, or by asking an administrator — removes it from everything.