Fortis College

Texting Terms of Service

About the Text Message Terms

If you do not agree to the Text Message Terms, you may revoke your consent, but you will not then be able to participate in FORTIS’s Text Message Program. FORTIS may modify the Text Message Terms at any time and you will need to confirm your continued consent. If you do not consent, you will not be able to continue your participation in FORTIS’s Text Message Program. You are responsible for regularly reviewing the Text Message Terms by visiting Fortis.edu. The Text Message Terms may be supplemented by additional terms and conditions and, together with these Text Message Terms and the FORTIS Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, govern your participation in FORTIS’s Text Message Program.

About FORTIS text messages

FORTIS’s Text Message Program assists users in communicating with Fortis. Text messages are SMS messages sent to individuals who have provided Fortis with written consent to send the messages. Such written consent may be obtained through the use of electronic signatures, as broadly defined under the E-SIGN Act. Fortis text messages are not mobile spam. The service is a recurring message program.

Consent for Fortis text messages

When you signed up for Fortis’ Text Message Program and provided expressed written consent to receive automated texts about educational marketing from FORTIS, and by continuing to participate in FORTIS’s Text Message Program (e.g. by not texting STOP in response to any program text), you have indicated your expressed consent to continue to receive automated texts from Fortis in accordance with these Text Message Terms.

Cost of FORTIS text messages

Although all FORTIS text messages are complimentary, Message&Data Rates May Apply. Depending on your text plan, you may be charged by your carrier.

Discontinuing text messages

To stop receiving FORTIS text messages, simply text STOP (and no other words or characters) to the short code or long code from which you received the FORTIS text message(s). After doing so, you will receive a text message confirming your opt-out and will no longer receive FORTIS text messages to the phone number used to text STOP. Almost all STOP requests are taken care of immediately, but it may take up to 3 business days from the date you text STOP to be removed from FORTIS’s texting list(s). NOTE: Texting STOP will only stop text messages to the phone number you used to text STOP.

Opting back in

If you send FORTIS a STOP text in response to a FORTIS text message, you can start receiving FORTIS text messages again by providing consent to Fortis.edu to send the messages.

Receiving more info

To request more info, simply text HELP to the short code or long code from which you received the FORTIS text message(s).

Commands

Stop: At anytime, you can text STOP to the short code or long code from which you received the FORTIS text message(s). This will prevent you from receiving future FORTIS text messages to the phone number used to text STOP. Almost all STOP requests are taken care of immediately, but it may take up to 3 business days from the date you text STOP to be removed from FORTIS’s texting list(s). Note that texting STOP will only stop text messages to the phone number you used to text STOP.

Help: At any time, you can text HELP to the short code or long code from which you received the FORTIS text message(s). Texting HELP will trigger a representative to reach out to you via phone or text.  

Participating Carriers

AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular, Boost Mobile, MetroPCS, Virgin Mobile, Alaska Communications Systems (ACS), Appalachian Wireless (EKN), Bluegrass Cellular, Cellular One of East Central, IL (ECIT), Cellular One of Northeast Pennsylvania, Cricket, Coral Wireless (Mobi PCS), COX, Cross, Element Mobile (Flat Wireless), Epic Touch (Elkhart Telephone), GCI, Golden State, Hawkeye (Chat Mobility), Hawkeye (NW Missouri), Illinois Valley Cellular, Inland Cellular, iWireless (Iowa Wireless), Keystone Wireless (Immix Wireless/PC Man), Mosaic (Consolidated or CTC Telecom), Nex-Tech Wireless, NTelos, Panhandle Communications, Pioneer, Plateau (Texas RSA 3 Ltd), Revol, RINA, Simmetry (TMP Corporation), Thumb Cellular, Union Wireless, United Wireless, Viaero Wireless, and West Central (WCC or 5 Star Wireless).