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Comment
See privacy policy:
http://www.viewpoint.com/pub/privacy.html and statement
http://www.viewpoint.com/pub/privacy_commitment.html
According to PP they gather no personal data with respect to the user, nor collect behavioral tracking data, nor do they collect keystroke behavior and they do not have accesson the user's computer.
Regarding the Eula:
-There IS a Viewpoint Eula that users agree to before installation from their website. If a user downloads Viewpoint with a 3rd party software provider, the 3rd party provider will list them in their own Eula.
Adware
SpeedBit derives revenue from DAP, among else through showing
advertising to the users within the DAP client software and DAP website.
advertising to their users.
DAP installation require the user to actively run a setup file and to go through the whole installation process in order to have DAP installed, DAP has never been bundled in the any other application.
SpeedBit shows advertisement only within the DAP client software, we do NOT use pop-up ads. on the DAP application.