Text message program
Route Outlook Hail Alerts
Hail warnings for the places you choose, by text, from Route Outlook (Verby, LLC).
Who gets texts
Hail Alerts Pro subscribers who add and confirm a mobile number. Texts are optional: every hail alert is also sent by email.
How you opt in
- Sign up for hail alerts at routeoutlook.com/hail-alerts with your email and a location, and confirm your email.
- With Hail Alerts Pro, open "Manage your hail alerts" (the link in our hail emails), enter your mobile number under "Text alerts", and choose "Text me a code". You can also enter a number on the sign-up form, where you must tick a consent box.
- We text you a 6-digit code. Entering it confirms the number and your consent. No hail alert is texted to a number until it is confirmed.
This is the consent wording shown next to the number field:
By adding your number you agree to receive hail alert texts from Route Outlook at this number. Texts are a courtesy and may be late or not arrive. Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply. Reply HELP for help, STOP to opt out.
Consent is not a condition of any purchase.
What we send, and how often
A one-time 6-digit code to confirm the number, then a hail alert whenever the National Weather Service issues a hail warning for one of the subscriber's locations. Message frequency varies with the weather: usually none, and a few a month during hail season. We never send marketing texts.
Examples:
- Route Outlook: your code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes. Reply HELP for help, STOP to opt out.
- Route Outlook HAIL ALERT: 1.75 in hail expected near Westborough, MA. Move your car to covered parking now. Reply STOP to opt out.
Help and stopping texts
- Reply STOP to any message to opt out. You'll get one confirmation and no more messages: "Route Outlook Hail Alerts: you are unsubscribed and will receive no more messages. Reply START to resubscribe."
- Reply HELP for help: "Route Outlook Hail Alerts: help at [email protected] or routeoutlook.com/hail-alerts/texts. Msg & data rates may apply. Reply STOP to opt out."
- You can also turn texts off from "Manage your hail alerts", or email [email protected].
- Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
Privacy
Mobile phone numbers and text messaging information will not be shared with any third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. Text messaging opt-in data and consent will not be shared with any third parties, except the service providers that deliver our messages (Twilio). See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
Hail alerts are a courtesy service, provided as is, free or paid. An alert may be late or may never arrive: it depends on many things outside our control, including whether the National Weather Service issues a warning for your area, email and text message delivery, your device, carrier and spam filters, and our own systems. Never rely on these alerts alone to protect yourself, others or your property. To the fullest extent the law allows, Verby, LLC (Route Outlook) is not liable for any loss or damage arising from an alert that is late, missing or wrong. Some places do not allow these limits, so they may not apply to you, and nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, such as for death or personal injury caused by our negligence where the law forbids that, or for gross negligence or willful misconduct. Terms of Service
