Privacy policy

Effective Date: February 3, 2022

Last Updated On: February 3, 2022

Mitchell & Bosworth, Inc., also known as watchpartsrus ("us", "we", or "our"), operates this (watchpartsrus.com) website (hereinafter referred to as the "Website").

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Website, along with and the choices you have associated with that data.

We use your data to provide, maintain, and secure the Website. By using the Website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Definitions

  • Website

    Website is the watchpartsrus.com website operated by Mitchell & Bosworth, Inc., also known as watchpartsrus.

  • Personal Data

    Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from that data (or from that and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).

  • Usage Data

    Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Website or from the Website infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

  • Cookies

    Cookies are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device).

  • Data Controller

    Data Controller means the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information is, or is to be, processed.

    For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.

  • Data Processors (or Service Providers)

    Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any natural or legal person or entity who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller.

    We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.

  • Data Subject (or User)

    Data Subject is any living individual who is using our Website and is the subject of Personal Data.

Information Collection and Use

We collect several different types of information for a variety of purposes in order to provide our Website to you.

Personal Data

While using our Website, and depending on what you are using our Website for, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data"). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address

  • Full name (first and last)

  • Phone number

  • Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City

  • Payment information

  • Cookies and Usage Data

We will never - under any circumstances - sell, rent, lease, or auction your Personal Data. In addition, we will not use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and/or other additional information that may be of interest to you unless you explicitly opt-in to and/or join our mailing list(s) and/or explicitly tell us that you wish to receive such communications. If you do choose to opt-in to and/or join our mailing list(s), you may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of the communications associated with our mailing list(s) from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us directly.

Usage Data

We may also collect information on how our Website is accessed and used ("Usage Data") by our visitors, users, and customers. This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's (or whatever device you are using to access our Website) Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), your geographical location, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data. We will never - under any circumstances - sell, rent, lease, or auction Usage Data associated with our customers or visitors.

Tracking & Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Website and we hold certain information.

Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. We may also use other tracking technologies such as beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Website.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you choose to not accept cookies, you may not be able to use or view some portions of our Website. Additionally, portions of our website may not function properly if you choose to block cookies.

Use of Data

Mitchell & Bosworth, Inc. uses the collected data outlined in this Privacy Policy for the following purposes:

  • To provide, maintain, secure and update our Website

  • To process and fulfill customer purchases, store orders, or custom orders

  • To ship (“fulfill”) customer purchases, store orders, or custom orders

  • To process payments for purchases, store orders, or custom orders

  • To detect and prevent fraudulent orders, auction activity (example: fraudulent bidding activity), payments, and purchases

  • To service customer accounts with us, if a customer has created and maintains one

  • To converse with or contact customers in regards to their purchases, store orders, custom orders, auction activity, customer account, or inquiry

  • To allow visitors to use certain features of our Website when they choose to do so

  • To provide support services to our visitors, customers, and users

  • To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Website

  • To monitor the usage of our Website

  • To detect, prevent, and address technical issues

  • To send promotional material and newsletters, only if a visitor or customer has explicitly opted-in to and/or joined our mailing list or marketing communication lists

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), Mitchell & Bosworth, Inc. legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.

Mitchell & Bosworth, Inc. may process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To process and fulfill your purchase, store order, or custom order

  • To ship (“fulfill”) your purchase, store order, or custom order

  • To process your payment for your purchase, store order, or custom order

  • To detect and prevent fraudulent orders, auction activity (example: fraudulent bidding activity), payments, and purchases

  • To service your account with us, if you have created and maintain one

  • To converse with or contact you in regards to your purchase, store order, custom order, account, or inquiry

  • If you have given us explicit permission to do so

  • If the processing is in our legitimate interests and it is not overridden by your rights

  • To comply with the law

Retention of Data

Mitchell & Bosworth, Inc. will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Mitchell & Bosworth, Inc. will also retain Usage Data solely for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Website, prevent fraud, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.

Transfer of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the United States and process it here.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Mitchell & Bosworth, Inc. will take all the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Data

Disclosure for Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, Mitchell & Bosworth, Inc. may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Legal Requirements

Mitchell & Bosworth, Inc. may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • To comply with a legal obligation

  • To protect and defend the rights or property of Mitchell & Bosworth, Inc.

  • To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Website

  • To protect the personal safety of users of the Website or the public

  • To protect against legal liability

Security of Data

The security and protection of your Personal Data is of the utmost importance to us, which is why we continuously review, monitor, and harden the measures we have in place to ensure that your Personal Data remains private. We use encrypted connections and a multitude of safeguarding techniques to protect and secure your Personal Data. Please remember, however, that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we have implemented and maintain the strictest security and data privacy measures to keep your Personal Data secure, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Please contact us if you have any questions in regards to the ways in which we secure your Personal Data.

Our Policy on "Do Not Track" Requests under the California Online Protection Act (CalOPPA)

Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. We do not support or respond to Do Not Track ("DNT") requests, however you can instruct your browser to not accept cookies from our Website. Please know that doing so will restrict the functionality of our Website for the duration of your visit.

You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.

Your Data Protection Rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. Mitchell & Bosworth, Inc. aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.

If you wish to be informed about what Personal Data we maintain about you, and/or if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

  • The right to access, update, or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access and update your Personal Data directly within your account settings, if you have created and maintain an account on our Website. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, or if you would like to request the deletion of your Personal Data, please contact us to assist you.

  • The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.

  • The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.

  • The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.

  • The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.

  • The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Mitchell & Bosworth, Inc. relied on your consent to process your personal information.

Please note that for security and privacy purposes, we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).

Service Providers

We use a variety of companies and services to facilitate our Website ("Service Providers"), provide the Website on our behalf, perform Website-related services, process orders and purchases made on the Website, process payments related to orders and purchases made on the Website, and/or assist us in analyzing how our Website is used.

These companies and services have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Website Hosting & Platform

We use Service Providers to host and manage our Website.

  • Shopify

    Shopify is an online e-commerce platform and website hosting provider that we use to host, maintain, and operate our Website. This enables us to sell our products and material to you on our Website. We strongly recommend that our visitors and customers take the time to read through Shopify's privacy policy, which may differ from our own. Shopify's privacy policy can be viewed here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy/customers

  • PageFly

    PageFly is a third-party service, integrated into the Shopify platform, that allows us to customize, maintain, and operate our Website. More specifically, PageFly allows us to customize the experience for our visitors and customers on various pages of our Website. PageFly's privacy policy can be viewed here: https://pagefly.io/pages/privacy-policy

Analytics

We use a Service Provider to monitor and analyze the use of our Website. Please note that we do not - and will never - sell any data gathered and/or provided to us by this Service Provider.

  • Google Analytics

    Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that allows us to gather and analyze Website traffic, usage, and visitor interaction data. We use this data for internal analysis and fraud prevention purposes only. Google's privacy policy can be viewed here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US

Payments

We sell products and material on our Website. As such, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. a payment processor).

We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

The payment processors we work with are:

  • Shopify Payments (Stripe, Inc.)

    We use Shopify Payments (powered by Stripe, Inc.) to accept, process, and complete payments for purchases, store orders, and custom orders placed on our Website. Stripe, Inc.'s privacy policy can be viewed here: https://stripe.com/us/privacy

  • PayPal

    We use PayPal to accept, process, and complete payments for purchases, store orders, and custom orders placed on our Website. PayPal's privacy policy can be viewed here: https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
  • Apple Pay

    We offer Apple Pay as an accepted form of payment for purchases, store orders, and custom orders on our Website. Apple's privacy policy for Apple Pay can be viewed here: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/apple-pay/

Links to Other Sites

Our Website may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. Third party sites that we currently provide links to on our Website are:

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party sites or services.

Children's Privacy

Our Website does not address anyone under the age of 18 ("Children").

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Website, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "effective date" at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us using any of the below methods: