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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.
-