tuneNow recognizes that its customers, visitors, users, and others who use www.tunenow.com or other web sites owned or operated by tunenow (the "tuneNow Sites") value their privacy. This Privacy Notice details important information regarding the use and disclosure of User information collected on the tuneNow Sites. tuneNow provides this Privacy Notice to help you make an informed decision about whether to use or continue using the tuneNow Sites.

Please note that any link (or redirect) or other content posted at the direction of Users onto the tuneNow Sites becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Notice.

The information tuneNow collects

• User Provided Information: You provide certain personally identifiable information (such as your name and email address) to tuneNow when choosing to participate in various activities on the tuneNow Sites such as posting messages, entering contests, taking advantage of promotions, responding to surveys, or subscribing to newsletters or other mailing lists.


• Cookies Information: When you visit the tuneNow Sites, we may send one or more cookies - a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters - to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. tuneNow uses both session cookies and persistent cookies. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser. Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the site. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser help file directions. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of the tuneNow Sites may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.


• Log File Information: When you use the tuneNow Sites, our server(s) automatically record certain information that your web browser sends whenever you visit any website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser language, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time of your request, and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.

The way tuneNow uses information

• If you submit personally identifiable information to us through the tuneNow Sites, then we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the tuneNow Sites.


• We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major tuneNow Site changes or for customer service purposes).


• We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the tuneNow Sites and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing User preferences and trends.


• We use cookies, and log file information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the tuneNow Sites; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track your entries, submissions, and status in promotions, sweepstakes, and contests.

Your choices

You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the tuneNow Sites, in which case tuneNow may not be able to provide certain services to you. To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you profile access or making corrections. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.

Third-party advertisers, links to other sites

tuneNow allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within the tuneNow Sites. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on the tuneNow Sites. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content you see.

tuneNow does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks (see links below) for more information on their practices and for instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices. tuneNow's privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

Special note to international users

The tuneNow Sites are hosted in the Netherlands and are intended for and directed to Users in the the the Netherlands. If you are a User accessing the tuneNow Sites from the United States, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that differ from Dutch laws, please be advised that through your continued use of the tuneNow Sites, which are governed by Dutch law, this Privacy Notice, and our Terms of Use, you are transferring your personal information to the Netherlands and you consent to that transfer.

Changes and updates to this privacy notice

This Privacy Notice may be revised periodically and this will be reflected by the "effective date" below. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. In general, we only use your personal information in the manner described in the Privacy Notice in effect when we received the personal information you provided. Your continued use of the tuneNow Sites constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Notice and any future revisions.

For revisions to this Privacy Notice that may be materially less restrictive on our use or disclosure of the personal information you have already provided to us, we will attempt to obtain your consent before implementing such revisions with respect to such information.

Date last modified:
This privacy notice was last modified October 10, 2006.