Privacy Notice

WATCH & JEWELLERY INITIATIVE 2030

When you visit the website www.wjinitiative2030.org and its subdomains (hereinafter the “Website”), Watch & Jewellery Initiative 2030 (hereinafter “we”, “our”, “us”) processes, as controller, information enabling to identify you directly or indirectly and which thus qualifies as personal data.

As we highly care about your privacy, we have prepared this notice to inform you about why and how we process your personal data when you visit and use the Website.

Which categories of personal data do we collect?

When you visit the Website, we collect technical data, including data resulting from cookies (e.g. IP address, logs, etc.). In addition, if you contact us, we will also process identification data (e.g. name, email address, etc.), data related to your professional life (i.e. the identity of the company you work for if your contact us through our webform) and any other personal data you may include in your message to us.

We do not collect other categories of personal data.

Why do we process your personal data?

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

responding to your requests and questions where you contact us (the legal basis of this processing is our legitimate interest consisting in the proper management of our relationships with the visitors of the Website);
analyzing and understanding the traffic on and your use of the Website (the legal basis thereof is your consent – please refer to the “Do we use cookies?” section below for more information in this respect);
ensuring you can access and use the Website securely and seamlessly (the legal basis of this processing is our legitimate interest consisting in protecting the security and functioning of the Website);
administering and improving the Website (the legal basis of this processing is our legitimate interest consisting in the optimization and good operation of the Website);
complying with our legal and regulatory requirements (the legal basis of this processing is the necessity for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject); and
managing any actual or potential dispute with you or any third party (the legal basis of this processing is our legitimate interest consisting in defending our interests).

Do we share your personal data?

We share your personal data with the service providers helping us reach the abovementioned purposes. For example, if you consented to cookies, we will let Google access your technical personal data necessary to provide analytic services through Google Analytics.

We also share your personal data with our partners participating in the Watch & Jewellery Initiative 2030, to the extent such communication is required. For example, if you want to know more about the initiatives implemented by one of our partners, we may need to share your request with such partner in particular.

In addition, we share your personal data with competent courts, public authorities and law enforcement bodies where this is necessary to comply with our legal obligations and/or to manage disputes.

Do we transfer your personal data outside of the European Economic Area?

As we operate globally, we may share your personal data with recipients located outside the EEA, including in countries which are not deemed as ensuring an adequate level of data protection according to the requirements of the European Commission. For example, your personal data is transferred to the United States of America as part of the analytic services provided to us by Google through Google Analytics.

In any case, we implement adequate safeguards (notably standard contractual clauses as adopted by the European Commission) to ensure that your personal data transferred keeps on benefiting from an adequate level of protection.

To know more about a particular transfer and/or obtain copies of the safeguards implemented, you can liaise with us using the contact details specified in the “How can you contact us?” section below.

How long do we retain your personal data?

The retention period applied to your personal data depends on the purpose at stake. In any event, we do not retain your personal data longer than necessary for the purpose at stake.

For responding to your requests and questions, we retain your personal data up to one year following our response. The objective is to ensure that we can keep track of our exchange if you revert to us a while after receiving our response.
For analyzing and understanding the traffic on and your use of the Website, your personal data will be kept in a form enabling to identify you for a maximum period of 13 months.
For ensuring you can access and use the Website securely, your personal data is retained up to six months.
For administering and improving the Website, your personal data is retained up to six months.
For complying with our legal and regulatory requirements, we retain your personal data as long as we remain subject to the legal or regulatory requirement at stake.
For managing any actual or potential dispute with you or any third party, your personal data is retained until all courses of appeal have lapsed, in accordance with the applicable statutes of limitation.

Do we use cookies?

We use cookies when you browse the Website. Some of them require your express consent.

To know more about why and how we use cookies on the Website, please refer to our Cookie Policy.

What are your rights?

Privacy laws may grant you certain rights such as the right to request access to, rectification and erasure of your personal data, or to restrict or object to processing, as well as the right to data portability. You also have the right to specify guidelines on the use of your personal data after your death under certain circumstances. You can also withdraw your consent at any time and lodge a complaint with your competent supervisory authority.

How can you contact us?

If you have any questions, you can contact us as follows:

Watch & Jewellery Initiative 2030
Maison de la Paix
Chemin Eugène Rigot 2
CH – 1211 Geneva

You can also get in touch by email at: contact@wjinitiative2030.org