No Trust, No Love

Many Web 2.0 companies will do almost anything to get more users as quickly as possible.  Even when it means using sketchy tactics to get them.  We’ve heard horror stories of people missing the small print, or quickly checking a box and ending up having their entire contact lists spammed.  That’s just wrong.

Tungle’s primary objective is to build a large user base of ACTIVE users.  That means people who sign up to Tungle, find that it really does fit into their lives, and use it regularly.  If you sign up to our service but don’t use it regularly to schedule your meetings, we are failing.

We believe that word of mouth plays an important role in getting people interested in Tungle, and we will do anything we can to have you raving about it.  To us, that doesn’t mean questionable tactics that take advantage of your contact list.  It means that our service needs to simply and effectively solve your scheduling pain, the user experience needs to be flawless, and our support team must quickly and accurately respond to your questions or concerns.  It means Tungle has to be good enough that you want to talk about it with everyone you know.

But in addition, we need your trust.  Your trust is not something we take lightly and we will do everything in our power to keep it.

In addition to our privacy policy, you should know the following:

• We won't spam your contacts.
• We won't use "select all" options, so there's no chance you'll accidentally email your whole contact list.
• We won't ask to send additional information to your contacts, so there's no chance for you to accidentally leave a box checked or unchecked and have your whole list spammed.
• We won't annoy you with pop-ups to share calendars with people you just invited.

Also, when you send someone a meeting invitation, they won’t be harassed to sign up.   They can easily respond without ever registering or downloading anything.  That said, once they reply we do give them the option to get their own account.  They will always be able to reply to invitations without signing up, but if they liked their Tungle experience, we figure they might want to get their own account and start booking their meetings through Tungle too.