Text Messaging Program & Opt-In

Aqui Aca provides text messaging (SMS) on behalf of the schools that use it, so that schools can reach families about attendance and school updates. Messages are sent by Reflexive Labs, LLC through the Aqui Aca application. This page documents exactly how families consent to receive those messages.

What families receive

Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply.

How families opt in

Consent is collected through the school’s digital Student Intake Form:

  1. A staff member at the enrolled school generates a unique intake link for a specific student and sends it to that student’s family.
  2. The parent or guardian opens the link and completes the form, entering the mobile numbers for the student’s guardians and emergency contacts.
  3. Before the form can be submitted, the parent must actively check an SMS consent checkbox. It is unchecked by default, and the form cannot be submitted until it is checked.
  4. On submission, the consent — the number(s), the timestamp, and the source — is recorded on our servers as a durable proof-of-consent record.

This is the consent checkbox shown on the intake form. At runtime, [School Name] is replaced with the family’s actual school. The box is unchecked by default and submission is blocked until the parent checks it:

The consent language names the school, states the message purpose and that frequency varies, confirms the person is authorized to provide each number, discloses that message and data rates may apply, explains how to opt out (STOP) and get help (HELP), and links to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

Each intake link is unique to one student and is created by a staff member when a family enrolls; links also expire. This is a deliberate privacy measure — the form collects a specific child’s information, so it is never a single public URL that anyone can browse. As a result, visiting the bare intake domain without a school-issued link shows a “form not found” message rather than the form. This page exists so the opt-in flow and its consent language can be reviewed without exposing a real family’s intake link.

Opting out and getting help

Recipients can text back at any time:

Opt-outs are honored immediately and enforced before any further message is sent. For help you can also email dan+sms@aquiaca.com.

Below is the bottom of the intake form as a family fills it in: a contact’s mobile number is entered, and directly beneath, the parent must check the SMS consent box — unchecked by default, with the school’s name filled in — before the form can be submitted:

Part of the Aqui Aca student intake form: an emergency contact with name, email, and cell phone filled in, followed by the SMS consent checkbox — unchecked by default — with the disclosure "I agree that the mobile number(s) provided above may receive text messages from Redwood Elementary School about attendance and school updates. I confirm I am authorized to provide each number and that each person listed has agreed to receive these texts. Message frequency varies and message & data rates may apply. Reply STOP to unsubscribe or HELP for help at any time. See our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy," and a Save button.