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- Dear SaveNow User -
- SaveNow was downloaded onto your computer most probably as a co-bundle
- with other software that you downloaded from the Internet. It comes
- with a license agreement that you must accept, and if somehow you
- received it without accepting the license agreement please let us know
- at legal@whenu.com, because that is against our partner distribution
- agreements.
-
- SaveNow is a program that gives you relevant offers and tells you about
- other similar sites when you surf the web and allows you to take our
- full WhenUShop product (if it is relevant for you). 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
- instrusive.
-
- SaveNow protects users privacy and does not require personally
- identifiable information - below is an excerpt from the privacy policy
- that partners include when you download our co-bundled software.
-
- "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
- client and server. 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 the client side. There is one daily
- communication sent just to let us know that the client is functioning -
- nothing more (ie no collection of browsing history, etc). The app
- polls for the presence of new browser windows every 3 seconds - which
- results in sustained (but very low) CPU usage.
-
- Typically, data sent to client is done in very small chunks of less
- than 4K - hardly noticeable. Upon installation, there will be some
- bandwidth usage as the initial database is loaded - this is a one time
- event. Very infrequently, there might be a sustained burst of data sent
- to the client - this would only be done if we: updated the client
- itself (which we do from time to time to improve performance) or
- updated the entire 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 (it shares
- RAM with it) and is designed to be non-instrusive and non-invasive.
-
- If you do 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.
-