Data Privacy Statement and Cookie Policy

INTRODUCTION

We, Time-it GmbH, Obermühle 11, 6340 Baar, Zug, owner of brand “Albishorn”, are the controller of the personal data which we collect and process.

Thank you for visiting and using our website, our social media pages.

We respect your privacy and are committed to full transparency with regard to how we collect, use, and share your personal data.

This privacy notice informs you of how we process the personal data which we collect from you, which you provide to us, or which we may collect from other sources. This includes the various ways in which you interact with us, including in person, by email or telephone, through our website, or through our pages on social networks.

If you have any questions about your personal data, you can contact us at any time by e-mail at info@albishorn-watches.ch.

As a data controller, we are providing this privacy notice to:

- list the personal data we collect from you
- explain why we process (e.g. collect, use, store, share) these data
- specify the legal bases on which we process these data
- identify with whom they are shared and where they are transferred
- lay out the security measures we take with your personal data
- describe your rights with regard to your personal data and how you can exercise them

WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT?

When you interact with us, for example, on our website, through our social media accounts, by email, or at events, we may collect your personal data.

When you get in touch with us, we collect your name, email address, telephone number, physical address, and communications metadata such as your IP address, time signature, and potentially geolocation details as contact information.

When you order a watch, we collect transactional information such as payment details (e.g. credit card or bank account numbers), purchase order number, and billing address, as well as information about your watch, such as serial number, as well as date and place of purchase.

When you subscribe to your Newsletter, we may ask for your preferences regarding our watches.

When you interact with us on social media, we may collect information from your social media accounts, such as profiles, photos, videos, stories, comments and other content generated by you where our name and/or services are mentioned or appear, if you authorize a third-party social network to share your personal data with us or when you use a social networḱ feature that is integrated with our website.

When you use our website, we collect various data including your IP address, location, browser type, operating system, source, duration of visit, pages viewed, etc. as usage information. Please also consult our cookie notice for further information on this.

When you send an unsolicited job enquiry or respond to an employment offer, we may collect professional information such as employment history, schools attended, references, or certifications.

We collect these data directly from you when you provide them to us. We may also collect information about you from the boutiques we partner with, as well as our partners, such as other watch brands, when we co-host events together.

We also use cookies and other tracking technologies (pixels, web beacons, and APIs) that collect certain types of information when you interact with our website or open our emails, such as IP addresses, location, browsing devices or preferences, operating system, source, length of visit, pages viewed, etc. For further information, please consult our cookie notice.

We may collect personal data about you from third party data aggregators (e.g. Google), promotional partners, public sources and third-party social networking sites. Such information may include personal data as part of your profile on a third-party social network and that you allow that third party to share with us, pursuant to their rules.

WHY DO WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We process your personal data in order:

- to respond to your queries regarding our goods and services
- to fulfil your orders and purchases, including after sales service;
- to carry out commercial transactions with you;
- to let you know about different but related offerings to your purchases that may be of benefit to you;
- to provide our customers with relevant marketing and communications about our goods and services;
- to manage your participation in events or competitions which we may organize;
- to optimize user experience on our website;
- to guarantee the security of our website, staff and visitors;
- to respond to job enquiries, unsolicited or otherwise;
- to keep records of our activities to comply with legal and financial obligations or to aid in dispute resolutions.

ON WHAT LEGAL GROUNDS DO WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

Our processing of your personal data is lawful as long as there are legal grounds for doing so. There are four main legal grounds on which we collect and process your data:

  • Processing necessary for the performance of a contract or prior to entering into a contract.

When you start a client relationship with us, say by making an enquiry, getting in contact, etc. we process your contact information on a precontractual or contractual basis. Transactional information and information about your watch will be processed in the course of our business relationship and, if you respond to a job offer or send us an employment application, your professional information will also be processed on the same basis.

  • Processing on the basis of your consent

If you choose to subscribe to our communications and marketing materials, such as our Newsletter or mailing list, we will explicitly ask for your consent to process your personal data. Please note that you may exercise the option to unsubscribe or otherwise withdraw your content at any time by clicking on the “unsubscribe” button at the bottom of our Newsletter communications or contacting us at info@albishorn-watches.ch. Information from your social media accounts and photos taken at events are also collected on this basis. For consent matters related to cookies, please see cookie notice.

  • Processing necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests or of a third party

Although as our client you might be in a contractual relationship for specific goods or services, we may want to let you know about different but related offerings that may be of benefit to you. In this case, it is in the legitimate interest of both our business and you that we process your contact information. Please note that in this case you have the right to object to the processing by contacting us at info@albishorn-watches.ch.

We also process identifying information to guarantee the security of our premises, of our IT systems, as well as our staff and clients.

  • Processing necessary for compliance with a legal obligation

    We as a business have legal obligations under both national and international law. In order to fulfil our obligations, we process your personal data for compliance purposes, record keeping, or fiscal, employment or security reasons.

WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA AND WHERE ARE THEY TRANSFERED?

  • We do not sell your personal data to third parties.
  • We may share your personal data with some of our providers (e.g. our e-commerce platform, our newsletter publishing and distribution services, our billing company, our delivery and shipping services, our marketing agency, and our fiduciary), our partners boutiques, or with authorities. We may also share your personal data with our partners when we co-host an event together.
  • Most of our providers are located in Switzerland and in the European Union.
  • Some of our providers have their headquarters in the United States in addition to their offices and/or entities in the European Union or Switzerland. It is therefore important to note that your personal data may be transferred to this territory. If you don’t want your personal data to be transferred in the United States, please do not send us your personal data.
  • These suppliers have nonetheless put in place various safeguards when transferring personal data to the United States, for instance our payment service provider Stripe: https://stripe.com/gb/legal/privacy-center#how-is-stripe-dealing-with-its-international-data-transfers
  • We may use FedEx as a shipping and delivery service. FedEx has its own privacy statement and for more information about how FedEx processes personal data you can contact FedEx Express Swiss Post GmbH, if you are located in Switzerland, and FedEx Express International B.V., if you are located in the European Union. Contact details are to be found here.
  • We may also use WhatsApp to communicate with our clients. WhatsApp LLC has its own privacy policy and is part to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (see here). For people located in Switzerland or the European Union (but not those located in the UK), the Controller is WhatsApp Ireland Limited.
  • Moreover, our website uses Google Analytics and other tools offered in the Google plug-in suite, such as reCaptcha, the Meta Pixel, as well as web beacons, pixels and APIs. Please note that by accepting these cookies, you consent to the transfer of your personal data to the United States. However, you can refuse them by using our preference center.
  • We may also use plugins on our website linking to social media platforms. The third-party platform's use of information collected from you (or as authorized by you) is governed by its own privacy policy and your settings on the service. If you do not wish a third-party social network site to attribute data collected via our website to your account on that social network, you must log out of the relevant social network site before visiting our website.

WHAT SECURITY MEASURES ARE IN PLACE FOR YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

    • We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to secure your personal data and to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal data.
    • When the personal data that we process is no longer required for the purpose for which it was collected, or to meet legal obligations, they will be deleted or destroyed securely.

WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS AND HOW CAN YOU EXERCISE THEM?

  • You can exercise your rights at any time by contacting us at info@albishorn-watches.ch.
  • You have the following rights in relation to your personal data:

    - You have the right to be informed about how your personal data are processed and access to your personal data at any time by contacting us at info@albsihorn-watches.ch.

- You have the right to rectify your personal data or to have your personal data erased under certain conditions.

- You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data under certain conditions and, when based on legitimate interest, you have the right to object to the processing.

- When based on consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

- You have the right to data portability, that is, to receive the personal data in a structured, commonly used format. and to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from us.

- If you are not satisfied with how we process your data, you have the right to make a complaint to a supervisory authority.

  • You can also limit the use of tracking technologies, such as cookies, by configuring your browser to warn you before accepting them, or you can simply configure it to refuse them.
  • If you are not satisfied with how we process your data, you have the right to make a complaint to a supervisory authority. In Switzerland, the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) can be contacted here.
  • We reserve the right to make any changes and corrections to this privacy notice. Please refer to this page from time to time to review these and any new additional information