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Dear SaveNow User -
SaveNow is a program that brings you relevant offers and tells you
about great deals and similar sites when you surf the web. It is
our strict policy to distribute SaveNow only to users who have
accepted the SaveNow license agreement.
SaveNow is installed on your computer as a module that comes with
WhenUShop or other software that you download from the Internet.
At that time, you accept a SaveNow license agreement as part of the
download process you complete. - If you believe you have received
SaveNow without accepting the license agreement please let us know
at legal@whenu.com.
There are a vast number of great offers and services available
throughout the Internet. In addition, we negotiate a number of
exclusive offers to maximize value for our users. SaveNow's goal is
to show users information about these offers and services - right at
the moment when they need it. For example, if you went to a search
engine and typed in "long distance", you might get an offer for
SmartPrice - a site that we found to be the best for comparing long
distance plans. If you go to a job search site, we might show you an
offer for Hotjobs - which is right now offering great value to users
that post resumes at their site. If you go to Staples, you might see
an offer for a $30 off coupon that will save you money when you shop
there. We show these offers infrequently so as not to be intrusive.
SaveNow protects users privacy and does not require personally
identifiable information. Our privacy policy is always displayed when
users install SaveNow. -Below is an excerpt from the SaveNow privacy
policy:
"SaveNow offers you relevant contextual information as you surf the web
and by downloading SaveNow you give permission to SaveNow to display
relevant contextual information. In order to provide SaveNow users with
such information, SaveNow delivers content based on the URL visited by
the user. SaveNow protects users' privacy by determining on the client
side whether or not to retrieve information from WhenU.com servers.
Client-server communication takes place only on an as-needed basis, and
SaveNow does NOT transmit a full history of URLS visited by the user to
the WhenU.com servers. WhenU.com does NOT assemble personally-identifiable
profiles of SaveNow users and personally identifiable information is not
required in order to use the SaveNow software."
SaveNow is NOT spyware - there is no persistent communication between
your desktop computer and our servers. Users have noted that the program
contacts our servers every once in a while - it does so in order to
retrieve content from us and store that content on your computer, to make
it available to you at the right moment. There is one daily communication
sent just to let us know that the software is functioning - nothing more
(i.e. no collection of browsing history, etc). The desktop application
checks for the presence of new browser windows every 3 seconds - which
results in sustained (but very low) CPU usage.
Typically, data sent to the desktop is done in very small chunks of less
than 4K - hardly noticeable. Upon installation, there will be some bandwidth
usage as the initial content database is loaded - this is a one-time event.
Very infrequently, there might be a sustained burst of data sent to the
desktop - this would only be done if we: updated the desktop software itself
(which we do from time to time to improve performance) or if we updated the
entire content database. Again, these are one-time events - the application
does NOT use bandwidth on a sustained basis. The software takes up only
slightly more RAM than your IE browser control uses in any case (it shares
RAM with it) and is designed to be non-intrusive and non-invasive.
If you want to uninstall, you can do so through the add/remove function in
your control panel. Of course we encourage you to leave it on so that you
can benefit from the occasional offers that it shows you. If you need more
information, or experience any technical problems, please contact us at
techsupport@whenu.com. We look forward to hearing from you.