Privacy Policy

WALDAN INTERNATIONAL LLC

Privacy Policy

Last modified: [September 19th, 2024] 

Introduction  This policy describes the types of information Waldan International LLC ("Company" or "We") may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.waldanwatches.com (our "Website" or “Site”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, processing, and disclosing that information.

If you are not at least 13 years old, do not use this Website.  

Updates and Changes Our Privacy Policy may have changed since your last visit.  Please review this Policy and its date (at the top here) and make note of any changes we made since your last visit.  If you continue to use our Site, you have agreed to this latest Privacy Policy and our latest Terms of Use www.waldanwatches.com/pages/terms-of-use.  If you do not agree with this Policy, please do not continue to use this Site.

Reading and Understanding this Privacy Policy. We have arranged this Privacy Policy by category, and hope you find it easy to navigate and understand.  Look for the Bold Underlined headings below to find specific topics we address in this Privacy Policy.  Things that are particularly important may appear in italics or IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS or BOTH.   If we have not answered all of your questions after you have read through this Policy, or you need more information, please contact us via email at info@waldanwatches.com or via regular mail at Waldan International LLC, 135 E 57th Street, FL 14, New York, NY 10036.

This policy applies to information we collect:

• On this Website;
• In email and other electronic messages between you and this Website;
• When you sign up for our newsletters;
• When you order goods through our Website;  or 
• When you interact with our advertising on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy (meaning things like facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and other social media sites and third party sites that may advertise our products).

It does not apply to information collected by:

• The Company offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or 
• Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. 

Not Intended for Customers Outside the United States

We are based in the United States, and the information we collect is governed by U.S. law.  While you may view this Website, you can only purchase products through this Website if you are located in the United States.  If you are outside the United States, and would like to purchase our products, please see a list of retailers that offer our products at www.waldanwatches.com/pages/retailers.  Please do not register for our newsletters or advertisements if you are not located in the United States.  By accessing or using the Website, or otherwise providing information to use, you consent to collection, processing, transfer and storage of information about you in and to the United States. Please use the contact information below if you have a question or concern about the policies or manner in which we treat your personal information. 

Your Choices  If you purchase goods through our Website, or if you choose to receive our newsletters, we will only use the information you provide to us for the purposes indicated here or at the time of our collection of that information from you.  You can also revoke your consent or unsubscribe for our newsletters, as we indicate below and in each email or newsletter we send to you.  

Children  If you are not at least 13 years old please do not use this Site.  

Only if required by law will we ask for your actual date of birth and except as required by law, you are not obligated to provide this information. 

Parent/Guardian Right of Access:  Your parent and/or your legal guardian has the right to ask about the information we have collected about you.  We will ask that person making the request to verify that they are in fact your parent or legal guardian before we provide them your information.  We will also collect the contact information for the person requesting this information so we can respond to the request. 

For more information about children’s online privacy, please visit (for Children in the U.S.), the Federal Trade Commission’s Resource Page:  https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0031-protecting-your-childs-privacy-online 

We do not knowingly collect information about children under that age of 13.  If a parent or legal guardian believes that we have been provided with information about their child under the age of 13, please contact us at info@waldanwatches.com.  

Correction of Information; Requests to Erase:  If you are asking about information as to yourself, to correct your information, or to tell us to forget you (or “erase you”), we will ask you to verify you are who you say you are before we process the request.  We will also collect your contact information to respond to the request.  We keep a record of these requests, who made the request, how and when we responded, and what information we provided.

For All Site Visitors Information Collected and Sources of that Information

Category	Examples	Source
Identifiers	Name, alias, mailing address, IP address, email address	You or the person that sent you a gift from our Site
Other Personal Information	Phone number, signature, credit card or other payment information (payment information is stored only by our payment processor and our third party fraud detection service provider)	You or a person that sent us a gift from this Site
Internet and other network activity	Browsing history, browser type, IP address, device used to connect to this Site, search history, your interaction with the Website, including dates and times, which advertisements you clicked on, the site you may have used to link here	Cookies, Google Analytics and Web beacons
Your consent, selections and elections	Your opt-out selections regarding advertising and news letters	You

Third Party Service Providers and Your Purchasing/Return Activities:

We do not collect or store your credit card number, your gift card information or your debit card (or other payment method).  We use third party providers to do this for us.  At present, we use Shopify to process payments for us.  We also use third party providers to prevent fraud in our transactions.  If you use a particular source of funds (for example your ApplePay or PayPal account), those sites and applications will collect your transaction information.  These are accounts you created, and you should review the terms of use and privacy policies of those providers that you choose.  

When you: proceed to check out, or ask us to credit a return, your transaction information, including your name, email or other points of contact, and payment information is stored by our third party provider(s).  Our service providers that process payments and monitor and detect fraud have certified that they are PCI (payment card industry) compliant, and they have contractually committed to maintain your information in accordance with applicable laws.  

These third party providers are not authorized by us to use the information you provide for your purchases, credits, or returns except to help us do our business with you, or as required by law (for example, to confirm there is no fraudulent transaction). 

You can avoid collection of this information by these third parties by purchasing our products through retailers www.waldanwatches.com/pages/retailers.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies (Cookies, Beacons and More) 

How we use information collected by Automated Technology: 

To improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns
• Help you navigate through the Site;
• Store information about your preferences; and
• Recognize you when you return to our Website.

Types of Automated Technology and Your Options:

Some web browsers may transmit "do not track" signals to the websites and other online services with which the browser communicates. There is no standard that governs what, if anything, websites and online services should do when they receive these signals. We currently do not take action in response to these signals. If and when a standard for responding is established, we may revisit our policy accordingly.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. 

[if the website uses flash cookies, include the following language]:  Certain features of the Site may use locally stored objects (or “Flash cookies”) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from and on the Site.  Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.  To learn about how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website.

• Web Beacons. Pages of our Website, our e-mails, and Services may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain content and verifying system and server integrity). 

The information about your usage of the Site collected through cookies may be stored on our servers or on the servers of our third party providers.

Google Analytics:  We may use a tool called “Google Analytics” to collect information about use of the Site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit our Site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to our Website. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve our Site.  We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our Site. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to our Website is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. More information on Google Analytics can be found here. If you would like to opt-out of having your data used by these cookies, please use the Google Analytics opt-out available here:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

Uses of Other Information We Collect and/or You Provide:  

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To fulfill orders, returns, answer your questions, notify you about order status
• To detect and prevent fraud
• To send you advertisements and newsletters
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us;
• To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Website, our databases and other technology assets, and business;
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any purchase and/or other transactions between you and us, including for billing and collection;
• To notify you about changes to our Website or our products;
• For testing, and improving our Website;
• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations;
• In any other way we may describe when you choose to provide the information on this Site; and
• For any other purpose with your consent.

Gifts:  If you are purchasing a gift for someone, and you give us that person’s information for shipping, we are relying on you to make sure you have the right (and consent if needed) to provide to us the recipient’s information

How Long We Keep Your Information:

We retain your information for only as long as we need it for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, for our own administration and internal business purposes, and for any periods that are mandated by law.

Aggregated, Anonymous Information:  We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.  This information either never included you by your personal information, or your personally identifying information has been stripped (anonymized). 

Third Parties to Which you Disclose Your Information:  We may disclose personal information that we collect or that you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates;
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business as described in this Policy (for example, to process payments and to detect fraud)
• Onward Transfers:  To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Company about our Website users or customers is among the assets transferred;
• Other parties with your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;
• To enforce or apply our Terms of Use, available at www.waldanwatches.com/pages/termsofuse; and
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of our business, our users or customers, or others.  

Choices and Opting Out

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information 

Our online advertising and newsletters:  Every advertisement we send to you will allow you at any time to “opt out” of receiving any more advertisements from us.  You can also opt out by emailing info@waldanwatches.com. After we receive your opt out request, we will process it within 24 hours.

Continued Communication After you Opt-Out: We may still send you correspondence (about, for example, a purchase you made, or to verify who you are before we honor a request to “forget you”, to enforce our rights, and to alert you of any suspected or actual fraud or problem, whether with your payment, our Site or otherwise.

We Do Not Sell Your Information:  We do not sell you personally-identifiable information to third parties.  The only exception to this is an onward transfer.  [insert link to the “onward transfers” explanation above]. 

Accessing and Correcting Your Information:  Regardless of in which state or country you are located, if you think the information we have about you is incorrect, or if it needs to be updated (for example, you have moved and have a new shipping address), we will help you do this by clicking here [www.waldanwatches.com/contactus] but we may ask you to first verify who you are before we let you make the changes.

We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement, or cause the information to be incorrect.

Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers located in the United States behind firewalls. 

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do use reasonable measures intended to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. To the fullest extent allowed by law, any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. Except where the law mandates otherwise, we are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you by notice posted on the website. 

Remember:  The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. Users are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: 

Waldan International LLC

600 5th Avenue, 2nd Fl

New York, NY 10020

or via email: info@waldanwatches.com