Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy
Last revised September 19, 2009
Our Commitment to Privacy

XOWii, LLC and our affiliates (collectively, ?XOWii?), value our customers and distributors, and respect your privacy. We collect information about you at our events and through our websites in an effort to improve your experience and to communicate with you about our products and promotions. As described in this policy, we may share your information among our affiliates and, under certain circumstances, with third parties that provide services on our behalf or with whom we have partnered to offer a particular product. We may share your postal address and shopping history with like-minded third parties for their direct mail marketing purposes as described below.

This policy describes the personal information we collect about you, why we collect it, how we use it, and when we share it with third parties. Our policy also describes the choices you can make about how we collect and use your information. If our information practices change, we will post an updated policy on our website. You can tell if the policy has changed by checking the revision date that appears above. If we change the policy in a material way, we will provide appropriate notice to you. You may exercise your choices about how we collect and use your information consistent with this policy at any time.
If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please contact us as described below.

What kind of information does XOWii collect?
We may collect personal information from you, such as your name, email address, postal address, phone number, credit card number, gender, birthday, personal interests, etc., when you visit our websites or events, logon to your backoffice, by phone, save your information with us online, contact us with a question or concern, or participate in a promotion, or survey. We maintain a record of your product interests and the purchases you make online or by phone and at our events. We may combine all of this information with information about you that we acquire from our joint marketing partners, from unrelated third parties, and from our other brands.

How does XOWii use my information?
We may use your personal information in the following ways:

• To process and fulfill your order, including to send you emails to confirm your order status and shipment;
• To communicate with you and to send you information by email, postal mail, telephone, text message, or other means about our products and promotions, unless you have directed us not to contact you with promotional communications;
• To administer and fulfill our promotions;
• To help us learn more about your shopping preferences;
• To help us address problems with and improve our site design, products and services;
• To enhance your shopping experience;
• To analyze trends and statistics;
• To protect the security or integrity of our websites and our business; and
• To contact you if necessary.

You always have the choice not to receive marketing information or calls. For instructions on opting out, please see the section entitled, ?How do I make choices about receiving promotional communications??, below.

Does XOWii share my information?
We may share your personal information in the following ways:

• When you provide personal information to XOWii, we may share that information with our other XOWii affiliates and third parties;
• If you purchase products through our website or by placing an order by phone or mail, we may share your name, postal address, and shopping history with like-minded organizations whose privacy policies meet the Direct Marketing Association?s privacy standards, for their direct mail marketing purposes. We do not share personal information about customers or distributors who only browse, email comments, request information, or request email updates. If you would prefer that we not share information about you with third parties, please let us know by contacting customer service as described in the section entitled, ?How do I contact you??, below.
• We may share your information with our service providers who manage our customer information and perform services on our behalf, such as fulfilling promotions, sending communications to our customers, conducting surveys, etc. We do not authorize any of these service providers to make any other use or disclosure of your information.
• We may share your information when we team up with another company to offer or provide products or promotions to our customers.
• We may share information about you if necessary, in our good faith judgment, to comply with laws or regulations or in response to a valid subpoena, order, or government request, or to protect the rights of XOWii or others.

In addition, if you choose to participate in any third-party scrip, or similar program in which XOWii is a participating vendor, and you authorize XOWii or our credit card processor to provide information about your purchases to the company administering the program, we will share your personal information with that program. Scrip programs allow you to instruct us to divert a percentage of the amount you spend on XOWii purchases to participating schools and other non-profit organizations. The information you authorize us to disclose to the third-party scrip programs may include your credit card number and the date and amount of your purchase, and may also include your name and other information you have asked us to provide. Please note that once we disclose this information, the scrip company may use and share it with others in accordance with its own privacy policy. You should review these policies carefully, as we have no control over them.

In the unlikely event of a sale or merger of XOWii, our customers? personal information and other information we have collected as described in this policy may be among the transferred business assets.

How do I access or change my information?
You can review and change certain personal information related to your use of our online sites (such as your name and contact information). To access your information at a XOWii website, simply sign in to your account using your email address and password, and you will be able to edit your personal information in your account profile.  In addition, you may email a request to us at \n distributorsupport@xowii.com .

You can also ask us to update your personal information by contacting us as described in the section entitled, ?How do I contact you??, below. Please note that any request to update your personal information may take up to 10 days for your email request and 6-8 weeks for your postal mail request.

How do I make choices about receiving promotional communications?
XOWii and our affiliates, want to communicate with you only if you want to hear from us. If you prefer not to receive promotional information, such as information about products and special events, from one or more of our affiliates or third party vendors, you can let us know by contacting our customer service as described in the section entitled, ?How do I contact you??, below.

Please be sure to include your full name and the email address you used when you registered with or made a purchase from the XOWii brand. If you ask us to remove your name and address from promotional lists, we will maintain your name in a ?do not contact? file to ensure that we can honor your request. It may take up to 10 days to process your email request and 6-8 weeks to process your postal mail request, during which period you may continue to receive communications from XOWii
If you change your mind, you can start receiving promotional communications from us again by logging into your online account and changing your preferences, by signing up when you visit our websites or our stores or by contacting customer service.
Please note that when you make an online purchase from us, we will continue to confirm your order status and shipment by email. We may also need to contact you via telephone, email or postal mail with questions or information regarding your order.

How do I stop receiving XOWii information?
If you no longer wish to receive XOWii information or wish to alert us to duplicate mailings, please contact customer service as described in the section entitled, ?How do I contact you??, below. Please provide your exact name, postal address, and email address so that your request can be effectively processed. It may take up to 90 days in order for your information to be completely removed from our list.
To learn more about your rights as a consumer and to receive less national advertising mail, please visit the Direct Marketing Association at http://www.dmachoice.org/.

How does XOWii protect kids? privacy?
XOWii is concerned about the privacy and safety of children when they use the Internet. We will never knowingly request personally identifiable information online from anyone under the age of 18 without prior verifiable parental consent. Our websites are general audience sites and are not targeted to or intended for use by children.

How does XOWii use cookies?
Our websites use ?cookies,? which are small data files that are stored on your computer when you visit a website. Cookies enable you to shop on our websites and may be used in a variety of ways to enhance or personalize your online browsing and shopping experience.

For example, we may use cookies to enable you to use certain website features, remember the items in your shopping cart, store your preferences, recognize you when you return to our website, track your orders, and monitor and maintain information about your use of our websites. Cookies may also be used to collect transaction information needed by a scrip program to which you have authorized us to provide your personal information. (See the section entitled, ?Does XOWii share my information??, above.)

You can set your browser not to accept cookies or to notify you when you are sent a cookie, giving you the opportunity to decide whether or not to accept it. If you do not accept cookies, however, you may not be able to access your account information or make purchases on our websites.

How does XOWii use pixel tags?
We may use ?pixel tags? (also called ?web beacons? or ?clear gifs?), which are tiny graphic images, on our websites and in our emails. Pixel tags help us analyze our customers? online behavior and measure the effectiveness of our websites and our advertising. We work with service providers that help us track, collect, and analyze this information.
Pixel tags on our sites may be used to collect information about your visit, including the pages you view, the features you use, the links you click, and other actions you take in connection with the sites. This information may include your computer?s Internet protocol (IP) address, your browser type, your operating system, date and time information, and other technical information about your computer. We may also track certain information about the identity of the website you visited immediately before coming to our site. We do not otherwise track any information about your use of other websites.

Pixel tags and cookies in our emails may be used to track your interactions with those messages, such as when you receive, open, or click a link in an email message from us.
We also work with third-party companies that use tracking technologies to serve advertisements on our behalf across the Internet. These companies may collect information about your visits to our websites and your interaction with our advertising and other communications. If you have any questions regarding tracking technologies, please contact our customer service as described in the section entitled, ?How do I contact you??, below.
We may combine the information we collect through cookies and pixel tags with other information we have collected from you. This information may be used to improve our websites, to personalize your online experience, to tailor our communications with you, to determine the effectiveness of our advertising, and for other internal business purposes.

How do I know my personal information is secure?
We do our best to provide you with a safe and convenient shopping experience. We have in place certain physical, electronic, contractual, and managerial safeguards to protect the security and privacy of your personal information.
When you enter your personal information on our websites, we may use certain security systems similar to Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to protect your information as it is transmitted to us. To make sure you are accessing our secure server before you submit personal financial information, look at the lower left-hand corner of your browser. If you see an unbroken key or a closed lock (depending upon your browser), then SSL is active. To double-check for security, look at the URL or Location line of your browser. If you have accessed a secure server, the first characters of the address in that line should change from ?http? to ?https.?

What is ?phishing??
?Phishing? is a scam designed to steal your personal information. If you receive an email that looks like it is from us asking you for your personal information, do not respond. We will never request your password, user name, credit card information or other personal information through email.

What about links to other websites?
For your convenience and information, our websites may contain links to other sites, which may have privacy policies that differ from our own. We are not responsible for the content or practices of any linked site. We recommend that you review the privacy policy of any site that you access through our sites.

How do I contact you?
For questions about our privacy policy, to make choices about receiving promotional communications, to update your personal information, or to place an order, you can contact XOWii by email, telephone, or postal mail:

XOWii Customer Services
4440 Von Karman Ave., Suite 350
Newport Beach, CA 92660
Telephone:       1-949-777-3035
Facsimile:        1-949-777-3036
distributorsupport@xowii.com

Your California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits customers of XOWii who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please write to us at the following address:
XOWii - California Privacy Rights
Legal Department
4440 Von Karman Ave., Suite 350
Newport Beach, CA 92660