PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy discloses the privacy practices of Owie Wear LLC, d/b/a Owie Wear (“Owie Wear”). Owie Wear takes very seriously the privacy of all visitors to our website. This Privacy Policy informs what information we collect from you, as well as how we collect and use information that you share with us. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information and data collected by this website.
This Privacy Policy covers all Owie Wear websites and products and all data and information you share with us whether directly by using our website or by email. By using our website, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.
This website and Privacy Policy is targeted to and intended for users in the United States. If you live outside of the United States and choose to use our website, you do so at your own risk and understand that your information will be sent to and stored in the United States. By using our website or otherwise providing information to us, you agree to this Privacy Policy.
Personal Information
“Personal information” generally means information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person and any other information associated with it. An identifiable person is a person who can be identified, either directly or indirectly, by reference to an identifier such as a name, identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
We collect information you voluntarily provide in the form of certain Personal Information that can be used to contact or identify you, including, but not limited to:
· User name and password
· Contact information, such as name, street address, demographic information, birth date, phone number, and email address
· Personal information about other people provided by you. If such third party personal information is provided by you, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy
· Financial information, such as Google Pay, Apple Pay, Amazon, Pay Pal, credit card information, and billing information
· Any information you provide in any communications with us, such as via email or social media
Information Collected Passively or Automatically
As is the case with most sites, we and our third-party service providers, such as advertising and analytics providers, use cookies and other technologies to receive and store certain types of information about visitors of our site, including the web request, Internet Protocol address, device and mobile ad identifiers, browser information, interaction with the site, pages viewed, and other such information. This information is generally non-identifying. If any of this information were to allow identification of you, we would treat it as Personal Information.
Use of Cookies
Our site uses certain cookies and other technologies to help us understand how you use our site and to enable us to personalize your experience. To learn more about cookies, please see: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ . Many browsers default to accept cookies. You may be able to change settings in your browser and you can also clear cookies.
We may use analytics cookies to monitor performance of our website and may count page views, numbers of unique visitors, and other statistics.
We may detect the physical location of your device by, for example, using GPS information collected by mobile apps or location information shared by your web browser. We collect this information for purposes of enhancing or facilitating our services, such as enabling certain functionalities of the site that can provide you with information about promotions or relevant product information near you. We may use your device’s physical location to better understand how our site and other services and functionality are being used and to provide you with relevant and personalized location-based services and content, including advertising. Should you wish to opt out of the collection of this information, please adjust the settings of your device so that information about your physical location is not sent to us or third parties by (a) disabling location services within the device settings; or (b) denying certain websites or mobile applications permission to access location information by changing the relevant preferences and permissions in your mobile device or browser settings. Please note that your location may be derived from your WiFi, bluetooth, and other device settings. Please consult your device settings for further information.
We may use cookies to help you have easy navigation through our website.
We may use text files that track how our site interacts with you. These cookies may, for example, help open a chat window in a browsing session.
We may use social media cookies to allow for sharing features, commenting or to use a central log-in.
We may receive information from third parties such as advertising and marketing partners, public databases, and social media platforms, to supplement the information we receive from our consumers. If we do so, this Privacy Policy governs how we can use that information.
Use of Personal Information and Data
We may use Personal Information as permitted by law, for business purposes including the following:
· To provide customer support on any product purchased from us.
· To communicate with you about purchases, orders, returns, promotions, rewards, accounts, events or other promotional purposes.
· To process orders, purchases, and returns.
· To improve your experience with our products and services.
· To analyze our products and services, as well as our site, and to perform audits, security and fraud monitoring and prevention.
· To develop new products and to enhance, improve or modify our existing products.
· To identify usage trends, determine the effectiveness of our marketing efforts and to otherwise improve the operation of our business.
· To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us.
· To fulfill other purposes for which you provide your Personal Information.
· To provide information on other products we feel may be of interest to you.
· To provide you with information you request from us.
· To notify you about any changes to our site.
· To conduct surveys or promotions.
We may also use your Personal Information, as necessary, for certain essential purposes, including but not limited to the following:
· To comply with applicable laws and regulations
· To respond to requests from public and government authorities
· To detect, prevent, or investigate potential security incidents or fraud
· To facilitate the functionality of our site
· To provide important product safety information, including recall notices
· To enforce our Terms of Service
· To protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, security and/or that of our affiliates, you or others
· To allow us to preserve the right to pursue any and all available remedies and to limit damages we may incur
Sharing and Disclosure of Personal Information
We will not share your Personal Information with anyone, except as explained in this Privacy Policy or when we inform you and provide you the opportunity to opt out of having your Personal Information shared.
To the extent permitted by law, all of your Personal Information may be disclosed as follows:
· To our affiliates for purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
· To our third party service providers, agents or contractors who provide services such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, infrastructure provision, IT services, customer service, email delivery services, credit card processing, auditing services, debt collection, data enhancement, and other business purposes, to enable them to provide services. We do not authorize third party service providers to use or disclose your Personal Information except in connection with providing their services.
· To a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business or assets (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceeding).
· In connection with the essential purposes described above (i.e., to comply with legal obligations).
To the extent permitted by law, your name and contact information (and other information you make public) may be disclosed with the following categories of third parties:
to third-party strategic partners with whom we may enter into a special relationship for promotional activities, where permitted by law
to distributing partners with whom we share information for product sales and distribution
to our suppliers and delivery partners, if you interact with Owie Wear in a business context and sharing your information is reasonably necessary in connection with a corporate order or related inquiry
To the extent permitted by law, information that is passively collected when you use our site may be disclosed with the following categories of third parties:
our online and email advertisers or other third-party vendors we use who may provide cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs or other similar technologies for use on our site or other websites to manage and improve our online and email advertising campaigns.
Our disclosure of your personal information to third parties, including distributing partners and advertising and analytics providers, may constitute a sale under certain state laws and, in California, may also constitute “sharing” (which is a term used to address the sharing of information for advertising purposes). To the extent that our use constitutes a sale or sharing of your personal information, you have the right to opt-out by (a) enabling an opt-out preference signal or Global Privacy Control (GPC) on your browser or (b) opting-out of cookies.
Storing Personal Information and Data Retention
We will maintain your Personal Information for as long as is necessary to meet our business purposes unless and until you ask us to delete this information.
This site is operated in and directed to those in the United States. If you are located in another jurisdiction, please know that your information will be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States. It is important to note that the privacy laws in the United States may not be as comprehensive as those in other countries such as the European Union.
We require that our service providers use appropriate safeguards to transfer your Personal Information to the United States. Data that is provided to us is stored on our third party’s secure servers. Details relating to any transactions entered into via our site will be encrypted to ensure its safety.
Third Party Sites and Links
We may have links on our site that direct you to third party sites we do not operate. These third party links are provided for your convenience only. If you click on a third-party link, you will be taken directly to that site which is governed by its own privacy policy. We strongly encourage you to read that privacy policy. We do not control such third party sites and assume no responsibility for their content, policies or practices.
Individual Rights – Your Choices and Access Rights
We hope to ensure that the Personal Information we possess is always accurate and therefore we encourage you to update your information in your own account in case any changes have occurred.
We have listed below the rights that you may be able to exercise with respect to the processing of your Personal Information, subject to applicable law. We take every reasonable step to ensure that the Personal Information that we process is limited to the Personal Information that is reasonably required in connection with the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
Please note that upon exercising any of the rights listed below, you may be requested to provide additional information for identification purposes. Such additional information shall not be used for any other purpose and will be removed after successful identification.
Providing your information: You may choose not to provide your Personal Information to us. It should be noted that some features of our site and other services may not be fully available to you if you choose not to provide us with your Personal Information (e.g., we may not be able to process your orders without the necessary details).
Unsubscribing: We include an unsubscribe link in all electronic marketing messages we send to you. You may withdraw your consent to direct marketing at any time. If you do so, we will promptly update our databases, and will not send you further direct marketing, but we may continue to contact you to the extent necessary for the purposes of any products or services you have requested.
Checking and editing your Personal Information: Should you have an online user account, you may edit and complete your Personal Information directly yourself. If you do not have an online user account, you may contact us and we will, upon your request and as soon as possible, rectify, remove or complete the information which is incorrect, unnecessary, lacking or outdated.
Blocking and deleting cookies: You may block the cookies using your browser settings. Please note that blocking the cookies may affect the usability of our site. You may also delete the cookies from your browser via its settings, in which case the information collected by the previous cookie will not affect the account created based on the information collected after such deletion.
Advertising. You can opt out of online targeted advertising by opting out within the advertisement itself or by visiting Digital Advertising Alliance,http://www.aboutads.info/. You can also opt out of the Digital Advertising Alliance using your mobile device settings.
Allowing use of location data: If we request it, you may give your consent to the use of location data in the options of the device or the application. You may also withdraw such consent at any time from the options menu in your account, or by contacting us.
You may request a copy of the following: (1) the categories of Personal Information we collected about you; (2) the categories of sources from which the Personal Information is collected; (3) the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling (if applicable) the Personal Information; (4) the categories of third parties with whom we share Personal Information and the categories of Personal Information shared; (5) the specific pieces of your Personal Information we have collected, used or disclosed (if applicable).
You may request that we delete your Personal Information. Note that deletion requests are subject to certain limitations, for example, we may retain Personal Information as permitted by law, such as for tax or other record keeping purposes, to maintain an active account, and to process transactions and facilitate customer requests.
You have the right to not be discriminated against for having exercised any of your rights identified in this Privacy Policy. We will not deny you goods or services, charge you a different price for our goods or services, or provide you with a different level or quality of goods or services as a result of you exercising any of your rights identified in this Privacy Policy.
Security
We use reasonable measures to safeguard your Personal Information against loss, theft and unauthorized access, use and modification. The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of data sent to us electronically and the transmission of such data is entirely at your own risk. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password so that you can access certain areas of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.
Sensitive Data
We request that you do not send us any sensitive data such as social security or national identification numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, biometrics or genetic, criminal background or trade union membership information. If you do send us sensitive data, then you are consenting to its processing in accordance with this Privacy Policy. To avoid processing of sensitive data, do not submit it.
Children’s Information
Our site is not directed to children under 16. If you learn that your minor child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us.
California “Shine the Light” Law
If you reside in California, you have the right to ask us one time per year for information about our disclosure, if any, of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. To make a request, please contact us at Hello@owiewear.com or write to us at the address listed in the “Contacting Us” section below. Indicate in your letter that you are a California resident making a “Shine the Light” inquiry. We reserve the right not to respond to requests submitted other than by the means specified in this section, if the request is not labeled or sent properly, or if the request does not have complete information.
California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”)
We have explained our privacy practices in full in other sections of this Privacy Policy. In this section, we provide a list of categories of personal information, as set forth in the CCPA, that have been collected, disclosed for business purposes, shared for cross-contextual behavioral advertising, or sold for commercial purposes during the preceding 12 months, as well as certain other supplemental information. Some of these categories of personal information that we collect may include information that is considered sensitive under the CCPA. Please see the other sections of this Privacy Policy for additional information about our practices and your rights.
Category of personal information
Explanation
Identifiers, such as your name, street address, phone number, IP address, or email address
We may use this information to respond to your questions, to enable you to participate in our programs (such as sweepstakes or contests), to process your registration with sites and apps, and for other business purposes.
Commercial information, such as a record of your purchases
We may use your information to provide you with products, to identify other products and offers that may be relevant to you, and for other business purposes.
Biometric information, such as voice recordings, images, and information about your physical activities that you provide
We use this information to provide you products and the Services and for our other business purposes, such as when we capture voice recordings as part of our customer support.
Internet and electronic network activity information, such as information about your interactions with our Services
We may use this information to improve our Services, to better understand the visitors who come to our Services and what content is of interest to them, and for other business purposes.
Precise geolocation information, using technologies such as GPS or Wi-Fi
We may use this information to improve the quality, security, and relevance of our Services to our visitors and for other business purposes.
Other electronic information, including information you post in a public space on our site (such as videos or photos)
We may use this information to provide the services you ask for on our Services, as part of sweepstakes or other competitions, and for other business purposes.
Inferences about you
We may use this information to personalize your experience with us, and for other business purposes.
Characteristics of protected classifications under applicable state or federal law, such as your gender
We may use this information for our equal employment opportunity program, and for other business purposes.
As discussed in the other sections of this Privacy Policy, we collect these categories of information from you, through our interactions with you and others, and from third parties, and we may disclose these categories of personal information within our company, to business partners and third-party vendors that provide us hosting, advertising, and other services, to advertising and analytics partners, and as needed to comply with legal process.
Your personal information may also be disclosed to third parties with whom you interact and third parties that you direct us to disclose your information to through our Services. We may also disclose personal information with third parties in various additional ways, as described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy.
In California, you may have certain additional rights under applicable law, in addition to your rights to access, correct, and delete your personal information as described above. In California, you may also have:
· The right to request other information about our data processing practices, including the categories of personal information that have been collected about you; the categories of sources from which personal information are collected; our business or commercial purpose for collecting, using, disclosing, selling or sharing personal information; the categories of third parties with whom we disclose, sell, or share personal information; and the categories of personal information we have disclosed, sold, or shared about you for a business purpose.
· The right to direct us to limit the use and disclosure of your Sensitive Personal Information to certain uses and disclosures, such as those that are reasonably necessary to provide our goods and services or as needed to ensure security and integrity; to prevent fraud or illegal activity; or for physical safety.
If you would like to exercise these rights under applicable state privacy laws, you or your authorized agent have two options for doing so:
· Call us at: (314)517-8352
· Submit a request to the following email address: Hello@owiewear.com
Sale or Sharing: Over the past 12 months, we have worked with advertising partners who assist us with our targeted advertising activities, who may have had access to identifiers, Internet and other electronic network activity information, geolocation data, and other personal information.
To the extent we collect precise geolocation information for purposes of performing a Service you have requested, we may be deemed to be collecting data that is “sensitive” under California law. Our use of this data for performing a Service you have requested is consistent with the permitted business purposes in California Civil Code Section 1798.100 et seq. and implementing regulations.
If you do not wish for us to sell or share your personal information for targeting advertising purposes, you can opt out by submitting your request through Your Privacy Choices.
Contacting us
We welcome any queries, comments or requests you may have regarding this policy please do not hesitate to contact us at Hello@owiewear.com. If you wish to contact us by mail, please direct any communication to the following address:
Owie Wear LLC
9909 Manchester Rd. 415
St. Louis, Missouri 63122