Thank you for visiting www.Amway.com,
or the Personal Website of your authorized Amway Independent Business
Owner (IBO) whose name appears on the site (our "Site"). This Site is
powered by Amway and made available by Amway as a service to your IBO.
As used in this Privacy Statement, the terms “our,” “we” and “us” refer
to both Amway and your IBO unless the context clearly provides
otherwise.
We appreciate the opportunity to interact with you on the Internet
and are committed to protecting and safeguarding your privacy. The
purpose of this Privacy Statement is to inform you about the types of
information we might collect about you when you visit our Site, how we
may use that information, whether we disclose it to anyone, and the
choices you have regarding our use of, and your ability to correct, that
information.
What Information We Collect and How We Use It
Any information we collect on our Site generally falls into the
following two categories: Personally Identifiable Information or
Aggregate Information.
1. Personally Identifiable Information
This refers to information that lets us know who you are or things specifically about you.
A. Visitors
You can browse our Site using the Visitor function without revealing any
Personally Identifiable Information. If you want to register or place
an order and do not have a sponsoring IBO, you may voluntarily provide
Personally Identifiable Information (such as name, address, e-mail
address, and telephone number) to be shared with an authorized IBO near
you for the purpose of contacting you, including via e-mail, to assist
with registration and ordering. In such event, we might maintain a
record of your contact, including such Personally Identifiable
Information, in a file specific to you. We use this information to
provide better service in the event that you contact us again.
B. Registration
When you register to become an authorized IBO and start your own
I-commerce business powered by Amway, or when you register to shop
online as a Customer, enjoying full access to the many products and
services available on our Site, we will collect Personally Identifiable
Information (such as name, address, e-mail address, and telephone
number). This Personally Identifiable Information is securely stored and
may be accessed under Contact Information. You are assigned an
identification number and select your own username and password-both are
needed to enter the Site and to access your Contact Information.
C. Ordering
When you place an order for products or services, we collect Personally
Identifiable Information (such as name, contact and billing information,
credit card, and other transaction information). We use this
information to deliver your order, process payment, and to communicate
with you about the status of your order. We may provide information
necessary to the delivery of your order to our shipping partners that
may include the type of products ordered.
D. Credit Card Storage
Credit card information collected at registration or for shopping cart
orders is used only to process payment for the transaction and,
generally, is not retained on our Site. You may, however, voluntarily
elect to securely store up to four personal credit cards to be used for
shopping cart orders, Auto Renew, Ditto™ Scheduled Order, and Standing
Order features. You may add, edit, and delete your stored card
information.
E. Surveys and Promotions
From time to time you may voluntarily provide Personally Identifiable
Information to complete surveys and questionnaires or to participate in
user polls. We use this information to improve our products and
services. We may also use your Personally Identifiable Information to
provide you newsletters and other marketing information that coincide
with your preferences. You may customize your marketing preferences, or
let us know if you do not wish to receive any promotional materials, by
adjusting your Subscriptions & Email options on the Site or through a
link provided in an email communication.
F. Personalized Health Program
You may voluntarily elect to participate in the Personalized Health
Program offered on our Site, a complete program that delivers a
personalized health risk assessment (HRA), genetic testing, and
customized nutritional supplements tailored to your personal health and
nutrition needs. The HRA collects Personally Identifiable Information,
including personal health information concerning your nutrition,
lifestyle, and health history. The Site automatically processes your HRA
information through an algorithm specially designed to analyze your
nutritional needs, develop nutritional supplement recommendations, and
perform safety checks for toxicity and allergic reactions. HRA
information is securely stored in your separate HRA profile and
accessible only by logging into the Site with your Username and
password. Note that if you share your account with others (spouse,
family member, business partner) with whom you are registered under the
same Username and password can also access your HRA information on the
Site. To protect your personal health information we encourage you not
to share your account and to safeguard the password you use to access
our Site as described in the “Protecting Your Information” section,
below. Except as disclosed in this section, we do not share your HRA
information with any non-affiliated third party without your permission.
2. Aggregate Information
This refers to information that does not, by itself, identify you as a
specific individual. Such information would include the Uniform
Resource Locator ("URL") of the Web site that referred you to our Site,
your Internet Protocol ("IP") address (a number automatically assigned
to your computer whenever you surf the Web), your operating system and
browser type, and any search terms that you enter on our Site. Our Web
server aggregates this information in order to monitor the level of
activity on our Site, evaluate its effectiveness, and improve the
content of our Site in order to make your visit an easy and enjoyable
experience.
We may collect, compile, store, publish, promote, report, or otherwise
disclose or use any Aggregate Information, provided that such
information does not personally identify you. We do not correlate any
Personally Identifiable Information with the Aggregate Information that
we collect on our Site. If we do correlate any Aggregate Information to
you, it will be protected like any other Personally Identifiable
Information under this Privacy Statement.
Sharing Your Information
Except as disclosed in this Privacy Statement, we do not sell, trade,
rent, or otherwise retransmit any Personally Identifiable Information
we collect online unless we have your permission. Any Personally
Identifiable Information you provide to us will be stored in our
databases in the United States.
1. IBOs
If you are an Independent Business Owner (“IBO”) with a business powered
by Amway, you’ll receive advice and information from your own personal
business advisory team-a support network consisting of your sponsoring
IBO and upline organization. To allow such communication, we may share
your contact information with your sponsoring IBO and upline
organization. They have agreed not to share your information with any
non-affiliated third parties, and are obligated to observe the intent of
this Privacy Statement. In the ordinary course of supporting your
business, information about you and your orders must be shared with your
sponsoring IBO and immediate upline Platinum IBO. You have the
opportunity to let us know, however, if you do not want any Personally
Identifiable Information shared beyond your immediate upline Platinum
IBO.
2. Customer
If you are a customer, to assure the highest level of personal service,
we may share Personally Identifiable Information about you (excluding
credit card information and order details, however, you may elect to
share order details as stated below) with your servicing IBO, who is
committed to making sure you’re pleased with the products you purchase
and that you receive a favorable experience. Your servicing IBO has
agreed not to share your information with any non-affiliated third
parties, and is obligated to observe the intent of this Privacy
Statement. An IBO may share your information with other IBOs with which
they have a relationship. You may elect to share order details with
your servicing IBO, or let us know if you do not want any Personally
Identifiable Information shared with your servicing IBO, by editing your
preferences online in My Account after completing registration, or
contact us as described in the "Contact Us" section, below, and we will
assist you.
3. General
We may share Personally Identifiable Information you provide online with
other Amway-related entities and/or trusted business partners with whom
we collaborate, as well as those that provide services to our Site.
Where we engage non-affiliated third-party agents or contractors, we
require them also to observe the intent of this Privacy Statement.
From time to time, we may provide Personally Identifiable Information in
response to court order, subpoena, or government investigation. We also
reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities
that we in good faith believe to be unlawful. We may release Personally
Identifiable Information when we believe that such release is reasonably
necessary to enforce or apply our Terms of Use or to protect the
rights, property, and safety of others and ourselves.
Should Amway or its related entities merge with or be acquired by
another business entity, or its respective assets be acquired, you
should expect that we would share some or all of your Personally
Identifiable Information to companies assuming the role of serving you
and other users of our Site.
Your Choices
Your permission is always secured first. We will not use or share the
Personally Identifiable Information collected on our Site in ways
unrelated to the purpose for which you provided the information,
including those described above, without providing you a choice whether
to permit any such unrelated uses.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
We take reasonable measures to ensure that any Personally Identifiable
Information we collect on our Site is accurate, current, complete, and
reliable for its intended use. If you wish to update or otherwise
correct Personally Identifiable Information you have provided to us, you
may edit your information online after completing registration, or
contact us as described in the "Contact Us" section, below, and we will
assist you.
Protecting Your Information
We acknowledge your trust and are committed to take reasonable steps to
protect Personally Identifiable Information you provide online from
loss, misuse, and unauthorized access. We employ physical, electronic,
and managerial processes to safeguard and secure your information.
It is your responsibility to safeguard the password you use to access
our Site, and to promptly advise Amway or your IBO if you ever suspect
that your password has been compromised. We strongly encourage you to
change your password regularly to prevent unauthorized access. Because
your identification number, username and password are specific to you,
you acknowledge sole responsibility for any and all use of our Site
conducted with your identification number and password.
Use of Cookies On This Site
A "cookie" is a small data file transferred to your computer’s hard
drive that allows a Web site to respond to you as an individual,
gathering and remembering information about your preferences in order to
tailor its operation to your needs, likes and dislikes. Cookies also
enable an Internet retailer like Amway to keep track of a consumer’s
electronic "shopping cart" before completing a purchase. Overall,
cookies are safe, as they only identify your computer to customize your
Web experience. Accepting a cookie does not provide us access to your
computer or any Personally Identifiable Information about you, other
than the information you choose to share. Other servers cannot read
them, nor can they be used to deliver a virus.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually adjust
yours (Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox or Google Chrome) to notify
you of cookie placement requests, refuse certain cookies, or decline
cookies completely. If you turn off cookies completely, there may be
some Web site features that will not be available to you, and some Web
pages may not display properly.
To support the personalized features of our Site (such as your country
and language codes, electronic shopping cart, and other ordering and
browsing functions) we must send a cookie to your computer’s hard drive
and/or use cookie-based authentication to identify you as a registered
Site user. We do not, however, use so-called "surveillance" cookies that
track your activity elsewhere on the Web.
Use of Active-X and JAVA Applets On This Site
Active-X programs and JAVA applets are executable programs that can be
transferred to your computer’s hard drive to cause your computer to
perform functions in connection with your visit to a Web site. Our Site
does not transfer any Active-X programs or Java Applets to your
computer’s hard drive.
Use of Third-Party Media and Research Companies
Our Site may run limited third-party ads only for those Merchant and
Services Partners with whom we link. In addition, we may use third-party
media and research companies to place ads for us on other parties’ Web
sites.
Links To Other Web Sites
Links to third-party Web sites may be provided solely for your
information and convenience, or to provide additional shopping for
various other goods and services through our Merchant and Services
Partners. If you use these links, you will leave our Site. This Privacy
Statement does not cover the information practices of those Web sites
linked to our Site, nor do we control their content or privacy policies.
We suggest that you carefully review the privacy policies of each site
you visit.
We maintain contractual agreements with all of our Merchant and Services
Partners, which require them to observe the intent of this Privacy
Statement. When you enter a Partner Store from our Site, we provide them
only with your identification number for purposes of introducing you.
In return, the Partner Store shares with us any purchases you make from
their Web sites in order for us to assign proper credit to you and to
your servicing IBO.
Children’s Privacy Protection
We take special care to protect the privacy needs of children and
encourage parents to be an active participant in their child’s online
activities. Our Site does not target and is not intended for children
under the age of 16, and we will not knowingly collect Personally
Identifiable Information from them. If we discover personal data from a
child through our Site, we will eliminate that data. You must be at
least 18 years old as a customer or qualify as an IBO to be on our Site.
Amway.com - Group Alticor Inc. and the U.S., E.U. and Switzerland’s Safe Harbor for Privacy
The United States (U.S.) Department of Commerce, European Commission,
and Swiss Data Protection Commissioner have developed a "Safe Harbor"
framework of data protection principles. This Safe Harbor is designed to
provide U.S. organizations with a means to satisfy the European Union
(E.U.) and Switzerland’s legal requirement that adequate data
protections be afforded to personally identifiable information
transferred from the E.U. or Switzerland to the United States.
This privacy policy is consistent with the Safe Harbor principles, and
our Site has specifically certified that its transfers of manual and
electronic data from the E.U. or Switzerland to the United States adhere
to the Safe Harbor principles.
Our site receives private information about customers, employees, and
business partners from sources outside of the United States including
countries within the E.U. and Switzerland. We have self-certified, with
third party independent verification that our privacy practices are
consistent with the U.S., E.U. and Switzerland’s Safe Harbor principles:
notice, choice, onward transfer, access and accuracy, security, and
oversight/enforcement. More information about the US Department of
Commerce Safe Harbor Program can be found at
http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/.
Amway.com is a part of Group Alticor Inc., which includes the following
affiliated companies and brand websites: Amway.com; Amway.com.do;
Amway.ca; Nutrilite.com; Artistry.com; eSpring.com; MyRibbonGift.com;
Achievemagazine.com; Amwaymediabank.com; News.amway.com;
Globalnews.amway.com; Showsell.amway.com; Amway.net; Blogs.amway.com;
Alticor.com; Alticor.com/ace; and, Accessbusinessgroup.com.
Privacy complaints by Alticor’s customers, employees and/or business
partners in the European Union and Switzerland: In compliance with the
U.S.-E.U. and U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Principles, Group Alticor Inc.
commits to resolve complaints about your privacy and our collection or
use of your personal information. European Union and Swiss citizens with
inquiries or complaints regarding this privacy policy should first
contact Alticor’s Privacy Office at Privacy@Alticor.com.
Group Alticor Inc. and all affiliated companies and branded websites
listed above have further committed to refer unresolved privacy
complaints under the U.S.-E.U. and U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Principles to
an independent dispute resolution mechanism, BBB EU SAFE HARBOR,
operated by the Council of Better Business Bureaus. If you do not
receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint, or if your complaint is
not satisfactorily addressed by Group Alticor Inc., please visit the
BBB EU SAFE HARBOR web site at www.bbb.org/us/safe-harbor-complaints for
more information and to file a complaint.
Changes To This Statement
Any updates or changes to the terms of this Privacy Statement will be
posted here on our Site and the date of the newest version posted below.
Please check back frequently, especially before you submit any
Personally Identifiable Information at our Site, to see if this Privacy
Statement has changed. If any changes materially affect the use of
Personally Identifiable Information previously provided to us, we will
obtain your consent prior to the retroactive application of any material
changes. By using our Site, you acknowledge acceptance of this Privacy
Statement in effect at the time of use.
Contact Us
If you have any concerns about our use of your information or about this Privacy Statement, please send an e-mail to customer.service@Amway.com,
or call 800-253-6500. We will make every reasonable effort to address
your concerns and remedy any problems you bring to our attention.
Updated and effective February 6, 2012.
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