WATCHSUPPLIERS Privacy Policy

Last updated on April 3rd, 2024.

This Privacy Policy describes our policies on the collection, use, and disclosure of information about you in connection with your use of our services, including those offered through the WATCHSUPPLIERS website (www.WatchSuppliers.com and any subdomains) (“Site”) and communications (e.g., emails, phone calls, and texts) (collectively, “Service”). The terms “we”, “us”, “our” and “WATCHSUPPLIERS” refer to: (i) WATCHSUPPLIERS.com. When you use the Service, you consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of information about you as described in this Privacy Policy, and our Terms of Use.

This Privacy Policy does not cover any information that you make publicly available through the Service or your use of any of WATCHSUPPLIERS paid products, nor does it cover WATCHSUPPLIERS.com employees, former employees or job applicants and prospects.

1. About WATCHSUPPLIERS

WATCHSUPPLIERS offers a public website where you can search for and share information about products, services and providers, communicate with Site users, contribute reviews and connect with potential partners.

2. Information We Collect and How We Use It

We receive, store, and process certain types of personal information about you from your use of the Service, automatic data collection, and from certain third parties.

What Categories and Types of Information We Collect

We collect, transmit and store various categories of your personal information in connection with the Service.

WATCHSUPPLIERS has not collected and does not plan to collect characteristics of protected classifications under applicable laws, biometric information, education information; and sensitive personal information other than account logins and encrypted passwords. Although neither required nor recommended, it is your choice to provide any of the foregoing information in connection with the Service and to make that information public.

 

Categories of Sources from Which We Collect Personal Information

We receive your personal information from any one or more of the following sources:

• Directly from you. When you visit the Site, log-in as a registered user, or provide your information in a form on the Site, we will collect and store that information.
• Indirectly from you. When you navigate and interact with the Site, some information is automatically collected by cookies and similar technologies. Not all information collected may be personal information, and some cookies are necessary to use different functionalities of the Site. The personal information collected may include information about your computer and internet connection, like IP address, operating system, and browser type. For more information about the cookies we use, see our Cookie Policy.
• From Social Media Networks. When you use a social network login to access the Site, you will share certain personal information from your social media account with us. For example, if you connect to the Site through your LinkedIn account, we will receive and store your LinkedIn profile information and LinkedIn connections.
• From Other Sources. We also may periodically obtain both personal and non-personal information about you from affiliated entities, business partners, and other independent third-party sources and add it to other information about you. For example, if you visit the Site by “clicking-through” from a site operated by one of our business partners and you have registered with that partner, then information about you that you have provided to that partner may be shared with us.

Why We Use Your Personal Information

We may use personal information as permitted by law, for the following business purposes:

• To provide the Service and various functions of the Service. When you create an account on the Site, we store and use the information you provide during that process. This may include your first and last name, email address, the company you work for, and any other information you may provide during the account creation process. We may, if you consent, publicly display your first name and last initial, as well as any other photo or content you supply as part of your account profile. We also store and use any preferences you provide to personalize your user experience, including the types of services and products that you use. Any reviews or other content that you submit to the Site are intended for public display and are therefore viewable by the public, including but not limited to your first name and last initial, and photos associated with your account.
  • For this business purpose, we may use these categories of information: identifiers, commercial information, internet or other electronic network or device activity information, geolocation data, audio and visual information, professional or employment information, inferences, sensitive personal information.
• To fulfill any contact requests you make on the Site. When you request additional information on a certain third-party service or product listed on the Site, we will use the information you provide to connect you with the provider of that service or product.
  • For this business purpose, we may use these categories of information: identifiers, professional or employment information.

• To engage in research and analysis related to the Site. We store and use information to identify and fix errors, understand how visitors use the Site, research and test different features, and analyze how visitors arrive at and use the Site.
  • For this business purpose, we may use these categories of information: identifiers, commercial information, internet or other electronic network or device activity information, geolocation data, professional or employment information, inferences.
• To personalize your experience. We store and use information provided by you, such as the products and services you use or have, or are researching on the Site, to personalize and make recommendations to you based on your provided information.
  • For this business purpose, we may use these categories of information: identifiers, commercial information, internet or other electronic network or device activity information, geolocation data.
• To improve and understand usage of the Site. We store and use information about your use of the Site, such as your search activity, pages viewed, and the date, time and duration of your visits, to understand and improve usage of the Site.
  • For this business purpose, we may use these categories of information: identifiers, commercial information, internet or other electronic network or device activity information, geolocation data, professional or employment information.
• To provide feedback to third party businesses that are listed on the Site. We store and use information about you or provided by you to assist our business partners in understanding their potential customers or current users.
  • For this business purpose, we may use these categories of information: identifiers, commercial information, audio and visual information, professional or employment information, inferences.
• To enhance the security of the Service. We store and use information to ensure the security of the Service. For example, we use the information collected by certain cookies to determine if you are logged in and to detect unauthorized access to your account.
  • For this business purpose, we may use these categories of information: identifiers, internet or other electronic network or device activity information, geolocation data.
• To send you emails about WATCHSUPPLIERS products and services. We use your email address to send informational and marketing emails to you about new products and services, or updates to existing products or services. We may also contact you regarding feedback you provide us, or to learn more about your experience using the Site. Where appropriate, WATCHSUPPLIERS will only do this with your consent.
  • For this business purpose, we may use these categories of information: identifiers, internet or other electronic network or device activity information, geolocation data.
• To serve you offsite advertisements, including targeted advertising. We may serve advertisements for WATCHSUPPLIERS products and services to you through our advertising partners, based on information you provide during your site visit.
  • For this business purpose, we may use these categories of information: identifiers, commercial information, professional or employment information, internet or other electronic network or device activity information.
• To comply with legal obligations. We use and share your personal information as necessary to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process; we also may use and share your personal information to establish or exercise our legal rights, to defend against legal claims, or as otherwise required by law. We may use and share your personal information when we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal or suspected illegal activities; to protect and defend the rights, property, or safety of WATCHSUPPLIERS, the Site visitors and registered users, our licensees, and others.
  • For this business purpose, we may use these categories of information: identifiers, commercial information, internet or other electronic network or device activity information, geolocation data, audio and visual information, professional or employment information, inferences, sensitive personal information.
• In connection with a corporate transaction. We may use and share your personal information in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, investment, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.
  • For this business purpose, we may use these categories of information: identifiers, commercial information, internet or other electronic network or device activity information, geolocation data, audio and visual information, professional or employment information, inferences, sensitive personal information.

How We Share Your Information with Others

WATCHSUPPLIERS may share your information with providers of products and services listed on the Site, our business partners, our service providers, social media networks, our affiliates, and any other third parties whom you authorize us to share your information with.

• Sharing with providers of products and services listed on the Site. When you expressly request to be contacted, we will share your personal information with the provider of the product or service with whom you have asked to be connected, in order to fulfill your request. In fulfilling your request, we will provide the following personal information, to the extent you provide it:
  • First and last name;
  • Email address;
  • Phone number;
  • Employer information; and
  • General location information, at the state or country level.
• Sharing your content. When you leave a review on the Site, unattributed or not, that review and any personal information you have associated with that review, may be shared. This information may be displayed publicly on other social media sites, third-party marketplaces, the providers of products and services listed on the Site, and the operators of other publicly-available websites, platforms, or mobile apps that we have authorized to share this content through their websites, social media sites, platforms, mobile apps, or other marketing materials, such as slide decks or case studies. In sharing your content, we will share your personal information, to the extent you provide it, including:
  • First name, last initial;
  • Email address;
  • Profile picture associated with your WATCHSUPPLIERS account;
  • Job title; and
  • Employer.
• Sharing with our service providers. WATCHSUPPLIERS uses third party service providers to support or provide services for us in connection with the Site, such as hosting, security and fraud prevention, technical and user support, tracking and reporting usage of the Site, marketing, and other functions. We share your personal information with them as necessary to perform tasks on our behalf. The information that we share can include any of the categories identified in section 2 of this Privacy Policy.
• Sharing with social networks. If you sign in to your WATCHSUPPLIERS account using a social network like LinkedIn or Facebook, we may share information about your activity or any content you post on the Site with the relevant social network. For example, if you write a review on the Site and elect to post that review on social media, we will share personal information you have provided in connection with that review to the relevant social network.
• Sharing with our affiliates. We share your personal information with our affiliates and require them to abide by this Privacy Policy. If another company were to acquire WATCHSUPPLIERS, or all or substantially all of our assets, that company would then possess any personal information WATCHSUPPLIERS has about you, and will collect, use, and disclose that information solely as described in this Privacy Policy. The information that we share can include any of the categories identified in Section 2 of this Privacy Policy.

WATCHSUPPLIERS may receive monetary or other valuable consideration for sharing your personal information when you submit a request to be contacted by a provider on the Site, or when you leave a review on the Site that we share with our clients. We do not share personal information with any other third parties. The personal information that is shared includes your first and last name, and email. Any other information you submit with your request or review will also be shared. WATCHSUPPLIERS also, in limited circumstances, shares personal information with cross-context advertising partners.

Where WATCHSUPPLIERS sells or shares your personal information, we do so to promote our products and services across platforms; to allow our clients to display your reviews on their sites; and to provide clients with meaningful insight into their competitive landscape.

WATCHSUPPLIERS does not sell sensitive personal information, and the sensitive personal information that we collect is limited to your account login information and password.

3. Cookies, Analytics, and Other Tracking Technologies

Cookies and Tracking Technology

We want you to be aware that certain online tools exist to help us serve and recognize you when you visit the Site. We receive and store certain types of information when you visit the Site. When you access the Site, we (including companies we work with) may place small data files on your computer or other device. These data files may be web beacons, cookies, clear gifs, pixel tags, e-tags, flash cookies, log files, or other local storage provided by your browser or associated applications. These tracking technologies, which are often referred to collectively as cookies, allow us to understand how users navigate to and around the Site, view different pages, access content and request services. We may use them, for example, to keep track of your preferences and profile information and collect general usage and volume statistical information. If you want to remove or block cookies, you may be able to update your browser settings. For more information about our use of cookies, and to adjust your cookie preferences on the Site, please review our Cookie Policy. You can also find instructions on how to manage cookies on different types of web browsers at All About Cookies. 

4. Reviews and Other Content Published on the Site

If you leave a review on the Site, or participate on a discussion board, your review(s) or comments will be publicly available on and off of the Site. Other users may be able to identify you, or associate you with your account, if you include personal information in the content you post publicly. You can reduce the risk of being personally identified by using the Service anonymously. Please also note that the messages you send or receive using the Service are only private to the extent that both you and the recipient(s) of your messages keep them private. For example, if you send a message to another user, that user may choose to publicly post it. We may access, review, and disclose such messages in connection with investigations related to use of the Service, as well as our efforts to improve the Service.

Submitting reviews and comments is entirely voluntary. By submitting reviews and comments, you grant WATCHSUPPLIERS an authorization to publicly share them and sub-license the content according to our Terms of Use. This means that we can authorize the providers of products and services to share this content through their websites, social media sites, or other marketing materials, such as slide decks or case studies, and/or the operators of other publicly-available websites, social media sites, platforms, or mobile apps to republish this content.

If you posted an attributed review under your name, you can change your mind later, and we will anonymize or delete it. However, please understand that we cannot guarantee others did not store the personal information prior to the change, by printing or downloading the original post.

5. Your Data Privacy Rights

Depending on where you are located and/or live, you may exercise certain data privacy rights, and WATCHSUPPLIERS will facilitate the exercise of those rights.

European Privacy Rights

If you are a resident or are otherwise located in the European Union (“EU”) or the United Kingdom (“UK”), this section provides additional details about the personal data we collect about you, and your rights granted by the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulations, as applicable (“GDPR”).

Subject to certain limitations, the GDPR provides you the following privacy rights:

• Transparency and the right to information. Through this Privacy Policy we explain how we use and share your personal information. However, if you have questions or concerns you can contact us.
• Right of access, objection, restriction of processing, correction, erasure, and portability. You can make a request to access, object, restrict, correct, erase, or transfer any of your personal information. You also have the right to withdraw your consent when we process your personal information based on your consent.
• Right to opt-out from direct marketing. You have the right to opt-out from receiving marketing materials from us by following the opt-out instructions in our commercial emails, by contacting us, or by adjusting your preferences under your profile details on the Site. Please note that we reserve the right to send you other communications, including transactional emails, service announcements and administrative messages relating to your WATCHSUPPLIERS account, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them.
• Right not to be subject to an automated decision, including profiling. We do not make automated decisions using your personal data that may negatively impact you. We use cookies and similar technologies on the Site to personalize your experience on the Site and recommend products and services that may be of interest to you. For additional information or to opt-out see our Cookie Policy.

Legal Basis for Processing (EEA, Switzerland and United Kingdom only)

Our legal basis for collecting and using your personal information will depend on the type of information and the context in which we collect it.

However, we will normally collect personal information from you only in the following circumstances:

• We have your express consent to do so;
• We need the personal data to perform a contract with you; or
• Processing is in our legitimate interests and is not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.

In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you to protect your vital interests or those of another person (for example, to prevent, investigate or identify possible wrongdoing in connection with the Site or to comply with legal obligations).

If we ask you to provide personal information to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contract with you, we will identify such basis for processing at the relevant time and let you know if the provision of your personal information is mandatory or not (as well as the possible consequences associated with not providing such information).

If we collect and use your personal information in reliance on our legitimate interests (or those of any third party), this interest will typically be to operate the Site, communicate with you in relation to your account or the Site, to solicit information from you, including through surveys, to share aggregated information with providers of listed products or services and other licensees of our research and report offerings, to measure interest in and improve our offerings and Site, to engage in marketing activities, and to otherwise customize your experience with WATCHSUPPLIERS.

If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal information, please contact us at info [at] WatchSuppliers.com.