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Privacy Policy

1. Privacy at a glance

General information

The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is any data that can be used to personally identify you. For detailed information on the subject of data protection, please refer to our privacy policy set out below this text.

Data collection on this website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?
Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. Their contact details can be found in the section "Information on the responsible party" in this privacy policy.

How do we collect your data?
Some data is collected because you provide it to us, e.g. data you enter into a contact form. Other data is collected automatically, or after your consent, by our IT systems when you visit the website (technical data such as browser, operating system or time of page access).

What do we use your data for?
Some of the data is collected to ensure the website is provided without errors. Other data may be used to analyse your user behaviour.

What rights do you have regarding your data?
You have the right to obtain, free of charge, information about the origin, recipients and purpose of your stored personal data, as well as a right to rectification, erasure, withdrawal of any consent given, and restriction of processing. You also have a right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

2. Hosting

We host the content of our website with the following provider: IONOS

The provider is IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur, Germany (hereinafter "IONOS"). When you visit our website, IONOS collects various log files including your IP address. Details can be found in IONOS's privacy policy: https://www.ionos.de/terms-gtc/terms-privacy. The use of IONOS is based on Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR.

3. General information and mandatory disclosures

Data protection

The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

Information on the responsible party

The party responsible for data processing on this website is:

IWT international Watch Trade
Inh. David Piekarz e.K.
Goethestr. 5
80336 München
Telefon: +49 (0)89 60 81 57-0
E-Mail: info@watchtrade.de

Storage period

Unless a more specific storage period is stated in this privacy policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for the data processing no longer applies. If you assert a legitimate request for erasure or withdraw your consent, your data will be deleted unless we have other legally permissible reasons for storing it (e.g. tax or commercial law retention periods).

Recipients of personal data

As part of our business activities, we work with various external parties. We only pass on personal data to external parties if this is necessary for the fulfilment of a contract, if we are legally obliged to do so, if we have a legitimate interest under Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR in the disclosure, or if another legal basis permits the disclosure.

Withdrawal of your consent to data processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may withdraw consent already given at any time. The lawfulness of the data processing carried out until the withdrawal remains unaffected.

Right to object to data collection (Art. 21 GDPR)

Where data processing is based on Art. 6 (1)(e) or (f) GDPR, you have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of your personal data. Where your personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to such processing.

Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority

In the event of breaches of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the member state of their habitual residence, place of work, or place of the alleged infringement.

Right to data portability

You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format.

Access, rectification and erasure

Within the framework of the applicable statutory provisions, you have the right at any time to obtain free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients, and the purpose of the data processing, and, where applicable, a right to rectification or erasure of this data.

Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data, among others if you dispute the accuracy of the data, if the processing was unlawful, if you need the data to defend legal claims, or if you have lodged an objection under Art. 21 (1) GDPR.

SSL/TLS encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, this site uses SSL/TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the browser's address bar changing from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock icon in your browser bar.

Objection to promotional emails

We hereby object to the use of contact details published in the context of the imprint obligation for sending unsolicited advertising and information material.

4. Data collection on this website

Cookies

Our websites use so-called "cookies". Cookies are small data packages and cause no damage to your device. They are stored on your device either temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (persistent cookies). Cookies may originate from us (first-party cookies) or from third parties (third-party cookies). For details of which cookies and services are used, please see our Cookie Policy.

Consent with Complianz

Our website uses the consent technology of Complianz to obtain your consent to the storage of certain cookies on your device or the use of certain technologies, and to document this consent in a manner compliant with data protection law. The provider of this technology is Complianz B.V., Kalmarweg 14-5, 9723 JG Groningen, Netherlands. Complianz is hosted on our own servers, so no connection is made to Complianz's servers.

Contact form

If you send us enquiries via the contact form, the details you provide, including the contact data you give there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and for any follow-up questions. We do not pass on this data without your consent. The data remains with us until you ask us to delete it, withdraw your consent, or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies (e.g. after your enquiry has been fully processed).

Enquiry by email, telephone or fax

If you contact us by email, telephone or fax, your enquiry, including all resulting personal data (name, enquiry), will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of handling your request. We do not pass on this data without your consent.

5. Social media

Instagram

Functions of the Instagram service are embedded on this website, offered by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, Merrion Road, Dublin 4, D04 X2K5, Ireland. When the social media element is active, a direct connection is established between your device and the Instagram server. The use of this service is based on your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG. Consent may be withdrawn at any time. Further information can be found in Instagram's privacy policy: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/.

6. Plugins und Tools

Google Maps

This page uses the Google Maps mapping service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. To use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is generally transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the USA. Further information: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Google reCAPTCHA

We use "Google reCAPTCHA" from Google Ireland Limited to check whether data entry on this website (e.g. in a contact form) is being carried out by a human being or by an automated program. Storage and analysis of the data is based on Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR. Further information: https://policies.google.com/privacy and https://policies.google.com/terms.