Information about Coolstreams and Your Privacy

• Thank You for considering becoming a supporting member of, or upgrading your membership to Coolstreams!
       

• Your membership will allow us to continue to operate, build and improve this site!   Advertising & Affiliate purchases do not contribute significantly to the operating budget of this site (less than 10%).  Without LISTENER MEMBERSHIP SUPPORT, we will cease to exist.
       

• Don't Confuse us with public radio even though we have programming as good or better!  We may be similar to a Public Radio station only in the diversity of music and features. We are a Pennsylvania non-profit corporation, but not yet a 501-c-3 tax exempt organization, so your membership will not be tax deductable. Even if we become a 501-c-3 tax exempt entity, our Suggested Membership donations would not be tax deductible, however additional contributions would. If we achieve tax exempt status, we will make necessary arrangements to allow tax deductible contributions. At this time, we operate on only a small fraction of the budget levels of most "non-profit" Public Radio stations, and certainly far less than any commercial station.
      

• We have some banner ads, but we do not earn enough revenue from ads on the site over an entire year to cover the costs of the streaming and other operating costs for one month!
  

• PRIVACY:  When you send us information by Direct Check or Credit Card or PayPal, we will NEVER give your Name, Address, or Credit info to ANY other organization for any reason (with the obvious exception of those who process our credit transactions, for that purpose only).  This policy also means that we will not give your info to any affiliate producers of programs or content offered on the site.  Click here to see the Privacy Policy for the web site.

Information about Member Streams

1. We cannot guarantee that the streams will always work perfectly for you no matter what your connection method or bandwidth.  Even though we will have more than adequate bandwidth and server capacity to  supply these streams for the number of people who qualify to access them, there are too many things that can cause outages or reduced delivery bandwidth that are beyond our control.  Test your connection to our servers at various times of the day or night using the sample programs above.  For the complete "Membership Agreement" that governs your use of our "Membership Services," click here.
      

2. The Programs On-Demand series' are available "on demand" but will be changed and updated regularly (many POD segments cannot be archived for permanant use, but can return periodically in the Archive feature).
      

3. There will be a Login/Password required to access Member's Programs On-Demand and/or MP3 Coolstreams options.
     

4. You will not be able to download either song or program files.  Copyright law prohibits us from offering this, even if it was only for later playback & discarded.
      

5. The quality of the 128k MP3 streams is generally better than the sound quality of FM radio broadcasts.
      

6. Your membership contributions to our service will help us continue to operate the Coolstreams.com website and bring you more programming.  While we will make every effort to keep the current programs and methods of operation,  we cannot guarantee that we will always be able to retain any or all of the specific audio programs or streams, or continue to be able to operate the web site.  We also may need to change terms of Membership in the future or change levels of service or access to our programs or streams.  For the complete "Membership Agreement" that governs your use of our "Membership Services," click here.