This Notice explains how and for what purposes Seiko Watch Corporation (“we”, “our”, or “us”), in its quality of data controller, collects and processes Users’ Personal Data during the use of the App.
This notice refers to the App only and does not apply to our website nor to third party’s websites accessible through links on the App. Therefore, we invite Users to read the privacy policies of such websites, should they decide to access them through the App.
We may from time to time amend this notice, also in order to comply with further legal requirements. Users will nevertheless be able to read the amended and updated privacy notice on the App.
For any information on our privacy policy, Users can contact us at the following address: privacy@grand-seiko.com
The California Consumer Privacy Protection Act (CCPA) provide certain rights to residents of California. For additional information for California residents, click here.
During the use of the App, we will process the following Users’ Personal Data, as well as the following information on the Devices employed by them (collectively, "Your Data"):
When you create an Account, we will collect the following information
(ⅰ) your first name and last name
(ⅱ) your e-mail address
(ⅲ) your job and job title
(ⅳ) your username and password
(ⅴ) your nationality
(ⅵ) your age and gender
You acknowledge that this information may be personal to you, and by creating an account on the App and providing Personal Data to us, you allow others, including us, to identify you and therefore may not be anonymous. We may use your contact information to send you information about the APP, but only rarely when we feel such information is important. You may unsubscribe from these messages through your Account settings, although we, regardless, reserve the right to contact you when we believe it is necessary, such as for account recovery purposes.
About Cookies
Cookies are small text files that can be used by the App to increase a user's operability on the App. The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of the App. For all other types of cookies we need your permission. This App uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third party services. Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Website Privacy Policy.
Purposes of Cookies
We use cookies on our App to collect anonymous and aggregated information for the purpose of understanding how you use our App, and to improve structures and contents of our App. Cookies are also used to create statistical materials regarding operation of our App and investigate causes of unauthorized access.
Types of Cookies
Cookies we use are categorized as “session cookies” or “persistent cookies”. Session cookies are stored in your computer only temporarily while you are browsing our App. Persistent cookies are stored even after you stop browsing our App and remain on your computer until they expire or you delete them. Cookies are classified into the following types depending on their functions and providers.
Strictly necessary cookies:
These cookies are necessary for the App to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
Performance cookies:
These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our App. They help us to know which webpages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the App. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our App, and will not be able to monitor its performance.
Social Media cookies:
These cookies enables you to make it easier to access social networks and social online tool by sharing comments, ratings, webpages, bookmarks and helps.
Targeting cookies:
These cookies may be set on our App by us or our partner companies and service providers. They may be used by those partner companies or by us to build, by combining with other information as necessary, a profile of your interests and show adverts relevant to you on our App or other App. They do not store directly personal data, but function based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
Functional cookies:
These cookies enable the App to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our App. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.
Third party cookies
Whether a cookie is a first or third party cookie depends on which party the cookie comes from. First party cookies are those set by or on behalf of the App accessed. All other cookies are third party cookies. Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be performance and analytical cookies.
Storage Period of Cookies
Except for strictly necessary cookies, each cookie will expire after storage period specified in the table in “Cookies used on our App” section below.
Cookies used on our App
The following table lists the cookies that we use on our App.
Cookie Type:
Strictly Necessary
Description:
These cookies are essential for the normal functioning of our App. They make it possible for you to browse and use our App.
Personal data:
These cookies do not process personal data as they do not identify you as an individual.
Storage Period:
1 year
Example:
- model of the Device;
- operating system version;
- language; and
- anonymous information related to the usage of the App, such as date and time of access, duration of the use, frequency of use, visited sections of the App, version of the App and information on possible crashes.
Cookie Type:
Performance
Description:
These cookies collect information on how you use this App in anonymized form, which enables us to help analyze browsed webpages and duration of visits and improve our App.
Personal data:
Cookies relating to your interaction with the App do not identify you as an individual, as such data is collected and aggregated anonymously.
Storage Period:
Expires 2 years from set date
Example:
Google Analytics:
Please see here for the details.
Amazon Mobile Analytics:
Please see here for the details.
Google Firebase:
Please see here for the details.
Flurry:
Please see here for the details.
Cookie Type:
Social Media
Description:
These cookies enables you to make it easier to access social networks and social online tool by sharing comments, ratings, pages, bookmarks and helps.
Personal data:
These cookies do not process personal data as they do not identify you as an individual.
Storage Period:
Determined by third party provider of each cookie
Example:
Facebook:
Please see here for the details.
Twitter:
Please see here for the details.
Instagram:
Please see here for the details.
YouTube:
Please see here for the details.
Cookie Type:
Targeting
Description:
These cookies record users’ online activities such as use of App, browsed webpages, clicked links or advertisement. We may send online advertisement which are relevant to your interests in cooperation with third party partner companies and service providers (e.g. if you check a webpage in this App, we may display advertisement of products or services which are referred to on this App or similar products or services on another App).
Personal data:
These cookies do not process personal data as they do not identify you as an individual.
Cookie Type:
Functional Cookies
Description:
These cookies enable the App to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our App. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.
Personal data:
These cookies do not process personal data as they do not identify you as an individual.
The Geo-location function can be used only if Users authorize the App to access to their position.
Geo-location data is processed for no longer than it is necessary for the use of the Contents described here above and is stored in the cache memory of the App, without leaving the Device. Therefore, we do not store Geo-location data.
At any time, Users may disable the Geo-location function through the settings of their Device.
With the express consent of Users, we process Users’ data and information about the Device in order to send Push Notifications to them. The Push Notifications function can be used only if Users, upon installation of the App on the Device, give the relevant permission.
By enabling the Push Notifications function and consenting to it, Users will receive on their Device messages from us with updates on new products, services and initiatives, as well as on new features available on the App from time to time.
At any time, Users may disable Push Notifications through the settings of their Device.
We process Your Data to the extent permitted or required under applicable law, for the following purposes:
- to (ⅰ) complete your user account registration, (ⅱ) administer your access to the App, and (ⅲ) verify your identity, (ⅳ) operate the App by providing you with the respective functionalities of the services which you have signed up for when you have registered for the App, and (ⅴ) monitor and maintain the performance of the App (hereinafter jointly "Performance Purposes");
- to (ⅰ) send you marketing materials, such as newsletters to provide you with the latest information about our products and services which might be of interest to you, and (ⅱ) analyze trends, usage and activities in connection with the App or related services for optimizing said marketing materials to be sent to you (hereinafter jointly "Marketing Purposes"); and
- to get in contact with you concerning your queries, security and fraud prevention (hereinafter jointly "Contact Purposes").
We process your Account Information, Cookies, Geo-location data and Data for Push Notification for Performance Purposes, Marketing Purposes and Contact Purposes based on your consent. We also process your Account Information for the Contact Purposes based on our legitimate interest to address any query you submit as well as to detect and prevent any possible fraud.
Without collecting Your Data, Contents and Services of the App may not be available.
Users will be able to choose whether to consent to some functions of the App (and, in particular, Push Notifications and Geo-location) for the purposes of the Contents and Services described in this notice. Without the Users’ consent, the relevant functions will not be available on the App.
(ⅰ) Third parties: We may transfer Your Data to governmental agencies and regulators, courts, and government authorities, all in accordance with applicable law based on legal obligation justification and to external advisors acting as controllers (e.g., lawyers, accountants, auditors etc.) based on legitimate interest justification.
(ⅱ) Service providers: We contract with third party service providers as part of our normal business operations in connection with operating our App and with other technical and organizational services.
(ⅲ) A list of data recipients is as follows:
Data Recipients
#1.
Name of Data Recipient:
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Location:
United States
Receiving Data as Controller or Processor:
Processor
Short description of processing activities:
Support us with provisions of the App.
Safeguards:
Data Processing Agreement pursuant to GDPR or Standard Contractual Clauses or U.S. Privacy Shield.
(ⅰ) We may transfer Your Data outside of the country you are located. Some recipients of Your Data are also located in another country for which the European Commission has not issued a decision that this country ensures an adequate level of data protection.
(ⅱ) By way of entering into appropriate data transfer agreements based on Standard Contractual Clauses (2010/87/EU and/or 2004/915/EC) as referred to in Art. 46(5) GDPR or other adequate means, which are accessible at Here, we have established that all recipients located outside the EEA will provide an adequate level of data protection for Your Data and that appropriate technical and organizational security measures are in place to protect Your Data against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss or alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, and against all other unlawful forms of processing. Any onward transfer is subject to appropriate onward transfer requirements as required by applicable law.
Your Data processed for the purposes hereunder will be stored only to the extent necessary. If a judicial action is initiated, Your Data may be stored until the end of such action, including any potential periods for appeal, and will then be deleted or archived as permitted by applicable law.
In principle, we will retain Your Data as long as required or permitted by applicable law. Afterwards, we will remove Your Data from our systems and records and/or take steps to properly anonymize it so that you can no longer be identified from it.
You have the following rights:
You have the right to obtain from us confirmation as to whether or not Personal Data concerning you is being processed, and, where that is the case, to request access to the Personal Data. The access information includes – inter alia – the purposes of the processing, the categories of Personal Data concerned, and the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the Personal Data have been or will be disclosed. You have the right to obtain a copy of the Personal Data undergoing processing. For additional copies requested by you, we may charge a reasonable fee based on administrative costs.
You have the right to obtain from us the rectification of inaccurate Personal Data concerning you. Depending on the purposes of the processing, you have the right to have incomplete Personal Data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.
You have the right to ask us to erase your Personal Data.
You have the right to request the restriction of processing your Personal Data. In this case, the respective data will be marked and may only be processed by us for certain purposes.
You have the right to receive the Personal Data concerning you which you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and you have the right to transmit those Personal Data to another entity without hindrance from us.
If you have given your consent regarding certain types of processing activities, you can withdraw this consent at any time with future effect. Such a withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing prior to the consent withdrawal.
You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to the processing of your Personal Data by us and we can be required to no longer process your Personal Data. If you have a right to object and you exercise this right, your Personal Data will no longer be processed for such purposes by us. Exercising this right will not incur any costs.
Such a right to object may not exist, in particular, if the processing of your Personal Data is necessary to take steps prior to entering into a contract or to perform a contract already concluded.
Please note that the aforementioned rights might be limited under the applicable national data protection law.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint about any use of Your Data with the competent data privacy authority.
For any information or inquiry about the processing of Personal Data described in this notice, please contact us:
Seiko Watch Corporation
26-1, Ginza 1-Chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-8118, Japan
email: privacy@grand-seiko.com
These terms of use (“TOU”) shall apply to any and all relationships arising from the use of any content (“Content”) offered on this App (“App”) operated and provided by Seiko Watch Corporation (“Company”).
1. The Company may, without the prior consent of Users, modify the TOU. In such event, the conditions for the use of the Content shall be subject to the modified TOU.
2. Unless otherwise set by the Company, the modified TOU shall take effect when the modified TOU are displayed by the App (whether on a website, in an application, or in any other form; the same shall apply hereinafter) and Users shall check the modified TOU at their own responsibility.
3. Users shall not be entitled to claim against the Company that the modified TOU are not accepted or known.
The components of the Content shall be displayed on the App. The Company may, without the prior consent of Users, make an addition or modification to, or temporarily suspend or terminate the provision of, the components of the Content.
Users shall, at their responsibility, use the Content, and will be responsible and liable for any act and consequence in connection with the use of the Content.
1. Any rights (ownership, intellectual property rights, image rights, publicity rights) in or to the Content belong to the Company or third parties.
2. Users may use the Content on the App, provided, however, that no rights in or to the Content shall be licensed or transferred by the Company to Users.
In using the Content, any User shall not:
1. Reproduce, duplicate, modify, accumulate, transfer or resell the components of the Content without the permission of the Company;
2. Commit an act that infringes, or may infringe, rights of the Company, other Users or third parties;
3. Commit a criminal act, act leading to a criminal act, or act that offends, or may offend, public order and morals;
4. Provide false information or make a use for illicit purposes;
5. Commit an act which the Company sees as a breach of the TOU;
6. Interfere with or disparage the operation of the App;
7. Commit any other act that may constitute violation of law.
1. The Company shall not be responsible or liable for any damage or loss incurred by Users in connection with the use of the Content unless such damage or loss is caused by a willful act or gross negligence on the part of the Company.
2. The Company shall not be responsible or liable for any damage caused by a User to another User or third party in connection with the use of the Content.
3. The Company makes no warranty regarding the integrity, accuracy, reliability, effectiveness, or the like of information that Users may obtain through the Content.
4. The Company shall not be responsible or liable for any damage incurred by Users arising from the interruption, delay, discontinuation, loss of data, unauthorized access to data, or the like due to failure in communications lines, computers or other devices, or any other damage in connection with the App.
5. The Company makes no warranty regarding the performance of any equipment or software that Users may use.
6. The User shall, at his/her own responsibility, manage any costs for connection to use the Content that may be charged by a telephone company or communications carrier, and the Company makes no warranty regarding the same.
If a User causes damage to the Company due to his/her breach of the TOU or due to his/her use of the Content in an unauthorized or illegal manner, the Company may claim reasonable damages (including attorneys’ fees) from the User.
The Company will properly protect personal information and comply with the “Privacy Policy” separately established by the Company.
The TOU shall be governed by the laws of Japan.
Any dispute in connection with the TOU shall be settled in good faith upon consultation between the parties. In the event of a failure to settle such dispute upon consultation, the parties agree that the Tokyo Summary Court or the Tokyo District Court, whichever is more applicable to the amount of the legal matter, shall have exclusive jurisdiction for the first instance.
1. If any provision of the TOU is held to be invalid by law, the rest of the TOU shall remain in full force and effect.
2. If any provision of the TOU is held to be invalid or revoked in terms of the relationship with one User, the TOU shall remain in full force and effect in terms of the relationship with other Users.
Established and enforced on March, 2021.