Of course, most people do not know it is automatically loaded in their system so they are subject to a potential loss of their privacy by stealth. Until then, we must be very careful about adware and use it with caution. The advertising industry must regulate itself and ban these poor and often illegal activities. However, ultimately users will vote with their feet and advertisers will not get a good response to their ads because everyone will be too cautious to use them. You may recognize them as banner ads displayed within the software interface.
Many software companies utilize our technology to provide FREE ad-supported versions to the public.
Notice of the ad-support and related activity is provided in the user agreement displayed during installation. Once installed our technology delivers ads from our server to the ad-enabled application that you have installed. When you are online the ad-enabled application occasionally contacts our servers to send and receive new ad information for future display, and report on displayed ads. Conducent follows very strict privacy guidelines that prohibit the collection of ANY personally identifiable data. Conducent may collect non-personally identifiable information through the license registration process, but only when the user voluntarily provides this information.