This website is operated by Watch Collecting Limited, company registration number 13050798 and the registered office of which is at C/O Bishop Fleming, 10 Temple Back, Bristol, United Kingdom, BS1 6FL, together with our parent company Collecting Cars Limited (herein after “Watch Collecting”). References to “we”, “use” and “our” mean Watch Collecting.
We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so we are regulated under the General Data Protection Regulation which applies across the European Union (including in the United Kingdom) and we are responsible as ‘controller’ of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.
If you have any questions about the contents of the privacy policy, you can contact using the contact details provided below.
We are regulated under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (“UK GDPR”) as well as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) if you are based in Europe and Watch Collecting is responsible as a ‘controller’ of your personal information for the purposes of those laws.
This privacy policy relates to your use of our website and our mailing list.
Throughout our website we may link to other websites owned and operated by third parties, such as Stripe Payments Europe Ltd (“Stripe”). These other third party websites may also gather information about you in accordance with their own separate privacy policies. This privacy policy is not applicable to the processing by these other third parties. For privacy information relating to these other third party websites, please consult their privacy policies as appropriate.
We collect personal information about you when you access our website, sign up to our mailing list, create an account in order to sell a watch or bid on a watch or contact us, use social media functions (such as Facebook) on our website or watch a video or listen to a podcast on our website.
We collect this personal information from you either directly, when you sign up to our mailing list, create an account in order to sell a watch or bid on a watch or contact us or indirectly, such as your browsing activity while on our website (see ‘Cookies’ below) when you use social media functions (such as Facebook) on our website or watch a video or listen to a podcast on our website.
The personal information we collect about you depends on the particular activities carried out through our website. Such information includes:
- your name, address and contact details
- date of birth
- details of any feedback you give us by phone, email, post or via social media
- details about the watches you own
- payment information such as credit card details
- information about the services we provide to you
We use this personal information to:
- customise our website and its content to your particular preferences
- improve our services
- allow you to create an account with us
- provide you with updates about Watch Collecting
- respond to queries you raise with us
- to allow us to create a post about your watch
- to allow you to sell a watch, bid on a watch, submit a comment, question or reply in the “History” section or purchase a watch if you are the successful bidder
- to allow you to make a payment throughout our website
- to allow you to watch a video or listen to a podcast on our website
- to allow you to connect to our social media platforms
When we use your personal information we are required to have a legal basis for doing so. There are various different legal bases upon which we may rely, depending on what personal information we process and why.
The legal bases we may rely on include:
- consent: where you have given us clear consent for us to process your personal information for a specific purpose
- contract: where our use of your personal information is necessary for a contract we have with you, or because you have asked us to take specific steps before entering into a contract
- Legal obligation: where our use of your personal information is necessary for us to comply with the law (not including contractual obligations)
- legitimate interests: where our use of your personal information is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party (unless there is a good reason to protect your personal information which overrides our legitimate interests)
For further details on when we collect personal information, what we collect as well as how we use it, please read the following sections:
| When information is collected | What information we ask for | How and why we use your information |
|---|---|---|
| When you sign up to our mailing list | Contact details: your name and email address | We ask for this to send you marketing emails from us.
We rely on consent as the lawful basis for collecting and using your personal information. We will keep this information unless you ask to unsubscribe from our marketing list. |
| When you create an account | Contact details: your name and email address Payment information | "We use this information to be able to create an account for you
which
will
enable
you
to
list watches with us or to bid in auctions.
We rely on contract as the lawful basis for collecting and using your personal information as we need to process this information to provide our service to you. We will keep this information for as long as it is necessary. |
| When you submit your watch for listing on Watch Collecting | Contact details: your name and email address
Details about your watch and watch ownership history | We ask for this information from you so that we can communicate with
you
and
follow-up
with
further queries we may have and to inform you if your watch is
eligible
for
listing
on
Watch
Collecting, and to introduce you to the successful bidder on the
watch.
We rely on contract as the lawful basis for collecting and using your personal information as we need to process this information to provide our service to you. We will keep this information for as long as it is necessary. If your watch is not selected for listing then we will delete your contact details. |
| When you bid on a watch | Contact details: your name and email address | We ask for this information to enable you to submit a bid and so we
can
identify
you
and
introduce you to the seller if you are the successful bidder.
Payment
information is
collected so that we can charge a fee to you at the end of the
auction
in the
event
you
are
the successful bidder.
We rely on contract as the lawful basis for collecting and using your personal information as we need to process this information to provide our service to you. We will keep this information for as long as it is necessary. |
| When you submit an enquiry | Contact details: your name and email address | We ask for this information from you so that we can communicate with
you
and
respond
to
your
enquiry.
We rely on legitimate interests as the lawful basis for collecting and using your personal information. Our legitimate interests are that we will need to use your contact information to respond to your enquiry to us. We will keep this information for as long as it is necessary. Once an enquiry has been closed then we will delete your contact details. |
| When you submit your watch for listing on Watch Collecting | Contact details: your name and email address
Details about your watch and watch ownership history | We ask for this information from you so that we can communicate with
you
and
follow-up
with
further queries we may have and to inform you if your watch is
eligible
for
listing
on
Watch
Collecting, and to introduce you to the successful bidder on the
watch.
We rely on contract as the lawful basis for collecting and using your personal information as we need to process this information to provide our service to you. We will keep this information for as long as it is necessary. If your watch is not selected for listing then we will delete your contact details. |
| When you bid on a watch | Contact details: your name and email address | We ask for this information to enable you to submit a bid and so we
can
identify
you
and
introduce you to the seller if you are the successful bidder.
Payment
information is
collected so that we can charge a fee to you at the end of the
auction
in the
event
you
are
the successful bidder.
We rely on contract as the lawful basis for collecting and using your personal information as we need to process this information to provide our service to you. We will keep this information for as long as it is necessary. |
| When you submit an enquiry | Contact details: your name and email address | We ask for this information from you so that we can communicate with
you
and
respond
to
your
enquiry.
We rely on legitimate interests as the lawful basis for collecting and using your personal information. Our legitimate interests are that we will need to use your contact information to respond to your enquiry to us. We will keep this information for as long as it is necessary. Once an enquiry has been closed then we will delete your contact details. |
We will generally hold your personal data for as long as your account with us remains active and for as long as its reasonably necessary for us to retain your information in connection with of our service.
We may hold your personal data for a longer duration if and to the extent such data must be stored for a longer period due to tax, commercial storage and/or documentation obligations arising under legislation or where holding your personal data is required for the assertion of claims, examination, processing or defence against any liability claims that may reasonably be expected within the applicable limitation periods. Holding of your personal data in this context therefore constitutes a legitimate interest.
We will not retain and process your personal data other than for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. When it is no longer necessary to retain your personal data, we will delete or anonymise it.
We do not share your personal details with companies, organisations and individuals outside Watch Collecting, except in the following circumstances:
- We may share your personal information with other companies in The Collecting Group Ltd group of companies.
- Where a watch has been lost or stolen, we may share your information with the Art Loss Register, the police or other law enforcement agencies in order to try and recover it. A lost or stolen watch can be searched against the global Watch Register in order to try and locate and recover the watch. Further information on the Art Loss Register is available here;
- We will share personal information with law enforcement or other authorities if required by applicable law. We may share your personal information with the parties mentioned in this privacy policy for the purposes set out.
- We may share your personal information with other users of our website in order for us to introduce the seller of a watch and the successful bidder on the watch, and with Stripe. Where your personal data is shared with third parties such as Stripe, the processing of your information will be governed by their privacy policy. Stripe’s privacy policy is available at: https://stripe.com/gb/privacy. We do not share more personal information with them than is necessary.
- In order to assess the legitimacy of the users of our website and protect against fraud, we may share your personal data (including your email and postal address) with Experian who use your personal information to undertake a fraud risk assessment. Experian's processing of your personal data for these purpose is governed by their privacy policy, which is available at: https://www.experian.co.uk/consumer/privacy. We do not share more personal information with them than is necessary.
As part of the provision of our services we use third party service providers, such as our website hosting provider. They perform the processing on our behalf on the basis of our privacy policy, confidentiality and security measures and we do not share more personal information with them than is necessary.
To create an account we require your name and email address. If we do not have this information we will not be able to create an account for you.
If you wish to list your watch on Watch Collecting we will require you to provide your name, an email address and details of your watch to enable us to consider your watch and create a suitable listing. If we do not have this information we will not be able to create a listing.
If you bid in an auction we will need to process your payment details in order to process the fee payable to us if you are the successful bidder. If we do not have this information, your bid will not be accepted.
To deliver services to you, it is sometimes necessary for us to share your personal data outside of the United Kingdom or the European Union, including:
- with your and our service providers located outside the United Kingdom or the European Union, such as website hosts or photographers (where applicable);
- if you are based outside the United Kingdom or the European Union;
- where there is an international dimension to the services we are providing to you, for example if you are a Buyer of a watch and the seller is located in a different country (or vice versa);
- our third party payment provider, Stripe, may process and store your personal data outside of the United Kingdom or the European Union in accordance with its privacy policy: https://stripe.com/gb/privacy.
- Experian may also process and store your personal data outside the United Kingdom or the European Union. Further information can be found within its privacy policy: https://www.experian.co.uk/consumer/privacy.
Under data protection law, we can only transfer your personal data to a country or international organisation outside United Kingdom or the European Union where:
- the UK government or, where the EU GDPR applies, the European Commission has decided the particular country or international organisation ensures an adequate level of protection of personal data (known as an ‘adequacy decision’);
- there are appropriate safeguards in place, together with enforceable rights and effective legal remedies for data subjects – for example, the standard contractual clauses or “model clauses”; or
- a specific exception applies under data protection law.
Where there is no adequacy decision, we may transfer your personal data to another country or international organisation (such as Stripe) if we are satisfied the transfer complies with data protection law, appropriate safeguards are in place, and enforceable rights and effective legal remedies are available for data subjects.
The safeguards will usually include using legally-approved standard data protection contract clauses. We also put contractual provisions, including standard contractual clauses, in place between our group companies where necessary.
Our representative in the EU is Maximilian Rieger and the address for the purposes of Article 27 EU GDPR is at: Collecting Cars, Lilienthalallee 39, 80939 München, [email protected].
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device when you use our website. For further information on our use of cookies, please see Cookie Policy.
We would like to send you information about the services Watch Collecting offers, which may be of interest to you. Where we have your consent, we will send you marketing emails.
We will only ask whether you would like us to send you marketing messages when you tick the relevant boxes when you sign up to our newsletter and/or create an account.
If you have previously agreed to being contacted in this way, you can unsubscribe at any time by:
— contacting us at: [email protected]
— using the ‘unsubscribe’ link in emails.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:
- access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Notice is already designed to address
- require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold
- require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations
- you can request us to limit the processing for as long as we are dealing with your request. After the receipt of your limitation request, we will continue to process the data only with your permission or if there are compelling reasons for doing so (such as legal proceedings)
- receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format - in such cases, you can also request that your data be transferred directly to another service provider
- object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing
- object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you
- object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information
- We will cease processing your data following the receipt of your objection, unless we can put forward urgent justifiable reasons that outweigh your interests, rights and liberties
- otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances
If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:
- email us at [email protected];
- let us have proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driving licence or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill); and
- let us know the information to which your request relates;
- we will take a decision regarding your request within four weeks, unless we inform you within that period that we need more time;
- If your personal data is processed on the basis of your consent, you will be entitled to withdraw that consent. Any withdrawal of your consent will not prejudice previous processing on the basis of that consent.
We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) member state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred.
The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/.
This website privacy policy was published in March 2021.
We may change this website privacy policy from time to time and we advise you to check this page on a regular basis.
Please contact us if you have any questions about this privacy notice or the information we hold about you.
If you wish to contact us please send an email to: [email protected]