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- THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT A CONTRACT, LICENSE AGREEMENT OR LEGALLY BINDING
- IN ANY WAY.
-
- Hello, this is an open letter from Alex St. John, CEO of WildTangent
- Inc. This file is for the benefit of folks out there who may have
- missed the WildTangent privacy statement when they installed our
- product, and later discovered that our Web Driver updates itself
- automatically. If you are worried about what kind of information our
- product is collecting and reporting to us, or delivering to your
- computer, please check out the privacy statement on our web site at
- www.wildtangent.com. We are not "big brother" or a Trojan horse, we
- have the utmost respect for your privacy, we don't know who you are
- unless you tell us, and our updater has essentially no impact on your
- computers performance.
-
- WildTangent is working very hard to pioneer game and multimedia
- content delivery over the Internet, but there are two enormous
- challenges associated with this problem that our updater resolves.
-
- 1) Support: DirectX drivers, which we depend on, are frequently
- broken or unstable. Support problems associated with DirectX drivers
- are typically 3-7% for most video game developers. Game developers
- have large support staffs to deal with these issues but the web
- developers using our technology will not have the same resources. In
- order to make it practical to enable web developers to author leading
- edge multimedia content and deliver it online WildTangent must try to
- cope with the support problems associated with DirectX. Our updater
- is part of a sophisticated support automation system that allows us
- to detect driver problems and fix them automatically.. hopefully
- before a user ever encounters them. We track system configuration
- and driver information in an effort to detect problems and fix them
- before our users ever encounter them in content.
-
- 2) Size: Multimedia applications are usually huge. The updater
- allows us to deliver content users request in idle bandwidth rather
- than forcing users to wait for a long download. We keep our driver
- current with new technology using the updater to avoid asking users
- to take a download hit every time they want to see WildTangent
- content. We also stream content. If our servers know your system
- configuration then they can tune the content they are delivering to
- suit your bandwidth and multimedia capabilities. All of this makes
- our multimedia content delivery much faster and more reliable.
-
- Lastly we track information about how WildTangent content is used.
- This allows us to bill publishers that are using our technology for
- commercial applications. This billing mechanism also makes it
- possible for us to make the technology available to a large community
- of small content developers for free, while generating revenue from
- the larger folks who use our technology to make money. We don't know
- who you are, nor do we try to figure it out unless you want to tell
- us.
-
- We try very hard to make our technology as reliable, responsible and
- unobtrusive on your machine as possible. An interesting side effect
- of our effort to be unobtrusive is that some folks think that there
- is something sneaky going on because we don't plaster our logo all
- over the desktop or start menu. Our sincere intention here is to
- avoid cluttering your desktop with stuff you shouldn't have to deal
- with.
-
- That said, the updater can be disabled at anytime from the
- WildTangent control panel applet.
-
- If you found this file and have any questions about its contents,
- please email us at info@wildtangent.com. I hope this letter has
- successfully addressed any concerns we may have raised, and I hope
- you will continue to enjoy our content. If you are computer savvy,
- then you may be interested in learning how to create WildTangent
- content yourself. Our FREE SDK can be found in the developer section
- of our web site at www.wildtangent.com.
-
- Sincerely,
-
- Alex St. John
- President & CEO
- WildTangent Inc.
-