# Textbelt privacy rating

SMS API with a paid hosted service and an open-source self-hosted version that sends through carrier email-to-SMS gateways.

## Summary

Textbelt is not graded yet: 45% of its criteria have evidence, and 60% is needed. It partly meets open source and TLS configuration. It does not meet no trackers or telemetry and security headers. Still needing evidence: no ads or data sales, independent audit, transparency report, tells users about requests, message content deleted or redacted and EU data location. It is based in the United States: Five Eyes member; subject to the US CLOUD Act. Automated tests: SSL Labs grade B and Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade D-.

- Website: https://textbelt.com
- Source code: https://github.com/typpo/textbelt
- License: MIT
- Jurisdiction: United States. Five Eyes member. Subject to the US CLOUD Act.
- Home page trackers: Cloudflare Web Analytics (cookieless analytics)
- Category: [SMS and voice APIs](https://privacyratings.com/communications-apis/)
- Grade: Not graded (45% evidence)

## Criteria

| Criterion | Answer | Note | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Open source | Partial | The self-hosted version is MIT-licensed. It uses a different, free sending method, and the code of the paid hosted service is not public. | https://github.com/typpo/textbelt/blob/master/LICENSE |
| No trackers or telemetry | No | The website loads analytics.js with a Google Analytics ID. |  |
| No ads or data sales | Unknown |  |  |
| Independent audit | Unknown |  |  |
| Transparency report | Unknown |  |  |
| Tells users about requests | Unknown |  |  |
| TLS configuration | Partial | Grade B | https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=textbelt.com&hideResults=on |
| Security headers | No | Grade D- (25/100+) | https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/observatory/analyze?host=textbelt.com |
| Modern web standards | Not tested yet | Not tested yet. |  |
| Message content deleted or redacted | Unknown |  |  |
| EU data location | Unknown |  |  |

Source: https://privacyratings.com/communications-apis/textbelt/
Edit: https://github.com/privacyratings/privacyratings.com/edit/main/ratings/communications-apis/textbelt.md