Privacy
UPDATED: March 6, 2008

SaveNow Privacy Policy

By downloading SaveNow (the "Software"), you give permission to Vomba Network (WhenU) to display relevant contextual pop-up ads, comparison shopping results and coupons. The Software selects which ads and offers to display based on several factors, including: Web pages you visit, terms you enter into search engines and other online forms, content of the Web pages you view and your IP address and zip code.

WhenU is committed to serving highly relevant, contextual pop-up ads, comparison shopping results and coupons, while still providing consumers with industry-leading privacy protection. The Software protects your privacy by uploading a database of content in small chunks to your computer and then determining on your computer whether to retrieve information from WhenU or third-party servers. To protect your privacy, the same database of content is sent to all of our users. The determination of which ads to display to an individual user is made on the individual user's own computer and isolated from WhenU servers. In this way, WhenU is able to deliver relevant coupons, information and advertisements without sending all of your browsing activity back to WhenU and without establishing any profile about you (even anonymously) on WhenU servers.

Your privacy is also protected in the following manner:

  • Your personally-identifiable information is not required in order to use the Software. WhenU does not know your individual identity and does not attempt to discern it in any way.
  • WhenU does not assemble any personally-identifiable browsing profiles of you or your individual machine.
  • WhenU does not assemble any anonymous machine-identifiable browsing profile of you or your machine.
  • WhenU does not track which ads and offers you see as an individual user - all of our analysis and tracking of ads is done in the aggregate.

The Software sends back to WhenU and WhenU partners non-personally identifiable information from your computer so that we can keep track of the number of users in our network and optimize the performance and relevance of the ads. For example, the Software may send a communication that includes information about the Webpage you were viewing when you saw or clicked on a particular ad, the term you entered into a search engine or online form and/or your IP address or zip code. WhenU does not maintain control over the further dissemination of such non-personally identifiable information by WhenU partners.

WhenU has carefully designed these communications to be highly protective of user privacy in the following ways:

  • Each individual desktop is assigned an anonymous, unique machine ID. This machine ID is used only to enable WhenU to count unique, active desktops in the network. The machine ID is not used to determine which ads to serve individual users or to create browsing profiles of users.
  • When ads are requested and/or displayed by the Software, impressions and click-throughs, including the factor (e.g., the URL, keyword, search term, IP address, zip code or some combination thereof) that caused the ad to be displayed may be reported to WhenU and WhenU partners. To protect your privacy and prevent WhenU or any third party from assembling individual user profiles your unique machine ID is intentionally excluded from these limited ad-optimization communications.

The Software does not place any tracking cookies on your desktop. The Software does occasionally make use of session cookies for the transmission of information between the Software's windows. Session cookies are stored in temporary memory, are not retained after the browser is closed, and do not collect or enable the collection of information from the user's computer. It is possible that a third party advertising on our network might place a cookie on your desktop.

In addition, the Software, advertisers, and/or third party partners may set web beacons on web pages you view. A web beacon is a small file placed on a web page that allows a web site to count users who have viewed that page. Web beacons only track an anonymous identification number assigned to the browser. This allows us, our advertisers and/or third party partners to gather anonymous information for auditing and reporting purposes and to help measure and research advertisements' effectiveness. The anonymous information we gather from web beacons is never tied to personally-identifiable information.

WhenU may institute changes to our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will always post the date of the latest version of this Privacy Policy at the top of the page. Your continued use of the Software constitutes your agreement to any future revisions to this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to visit this page from time to time to remind yourself of our privacy practices and to check for any updates to our Privacy Policy.

Our privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers, third party partners, and web sites. If you want to know about the privacy practices of these other web sites, we recommend that you consult their privacy policies.

For any further questions about our privacy policy, please email consumer@whenu.com or call us toll free at (866) WHENU-11.



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