Effective Date: October 22nd, 2024
Hodinkee LLC (“Hodinkee,” “we,” “us” or “our”) recognizes the importance of personal privacy of our customers and online visitors. We have created the following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to inform you of our information collection, use, storage and sharing practices for when you interact with us, including when you visit our website available at https://www.hodinkee.com (the “Site”). However, please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to the information we collect in connection with insurance products, which is subject to the privacy policy on https://insurance.hodinkee.com, or in any employment context which is set forth in a separate privacy notice.
PLEASE REVIEW THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. When you provide us with your information, including when you visit our Site, you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, and consent to our collection, use, disclosure and retention of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Hodinkee collects personal information about you, which may include:
If you post a photograph on social media and tag us or if you post a comment on our social media pages, we will collect the photograph or content of that message. Please note that if you choose to post photographs on social media and tag us or post a comment on any of our social media pages, any information you post will be visible to any other visitors to that social media page. We are not responsible for any personal information you include in such posts or for any use of such information by any other visitor to the social media page.
This information is collected and stored electronically when you subscribe or register an account with us or contact us.
Where permitted by applicable law, we may combine your personal information with other non-personally identifiable information we have collected from you. We may also combine your personal information with information we receive about you from other sources, such as our service providers.
In addition, information about your device’s hardware and software is automatically collected by Hodinkee when you use the Site. This information may include:
We may also collect information regarding traffic patterns, the actions taken on our Site, including the user’s click-stream and session replay information, and your interaction with our Site and advertisements. This information is used by us for our business purposes, including for the operation and improvement of the Site, for technical troubleshooting, to maintain the quality of the Site, to provide general statistics regarding use of the Site and to determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns.
We may also receive similar data from our business partners, including our parent company, subsidiaries, affiliates or other related companies, online advertising networks, and from social media platforms, such as Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and X, subject to your registration and privacy settings with such third-party social media platforms.
A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website or use an online service. When you visit the website or use the service again, the cookie allows that website or online service to recognize your browser or device. Cookies may store unique identifiers, user preferences and other information.
We may use “session cookies” or “persistent cookies.” Session cookies are temporary and expire once you close your browser or once your session ends. Persistent cookies remain on your device for much longer or until you or your browser erase them. Persistent cookies have varying durations that are dependent on their expiration date.
The types of cookies Hodinkee may use on the Site include:
We may also use third-party cookies, like Google Analytics, for example, which sets cookies on the Site to help analyze how visitors use the Site. If you would like to opt-out from the use of your information by Google Analytics, you may use Google Analytics’ opt-out browser add-on designed for this purpose.
Cookies help us improve the Site by providing us with information about which parts of the Site are most popular, enabling us to analyze technical and navigational information about the Site, and helping us to detect and prevent fraud. We also use cookies and other data collection tools, such as pixels, to help improve your experience with the Site.
Web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to manage and delete cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. Some web browsers provide settings that allow a user to reject cookies or to alert a user when a cookie is placed on the user’s computer, tablet or mobile device. Most mobile devices also offer settings to reject mobile device identifiers. Although users are not required to accept cookies or mobile device identifiers, blocking or rejecting them may prevent access to some features available through the Site.
A pixel is an HTML code snippet embedded in a website or email that collects information about user behaviors and interactions with the website or email.
We may utilize pixels both on certain aspects of the Site and in HTML-formatted email messages to you. Pixels may be used for the purpose of, among other things, measuring the success of our marketing campaigns, compiling statistics about Site usage and tracking the activities of users of the Site and email recipients. For instance, we may use pixels from Meta and Google on the Site to enable us to create targeted advertisements and measure the effectiveness of our advertisements. For additional information on interest-based advertising, please see Section 2 (Interest-Based Advertising).
We may collect information about your online activities on our Site to provide you with advertising about products tailored to your individual interests. We also may obtain information for this purpose from third-party websites on which our advertisements are served.
You may see certain advertisements on other websites because we work with advertising partners (including advertising networks) to engage in remarketing and retargeting activities. Our advertising partners allow us to target our messaging to users through demographic, interest-based and contextual means. These partners track your online activities over time and across websites, including our Site, by collecting information through automated means, including through the use of third-party cookies and web beacons. They use this information to show you advertisements that may be tailored to your individual interests. The information our advertising partners may collect includes data about your visits to websites that participate in the relevant advertising networks, such as the pages or advertisements you view and the actions you take on the websites. This data collection takes place both on our Site and on third-party websites that participate in the ad networks. This process also helps us track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts. For example, we utilize certain of our advertising partners’ targeted advertising services to show you our advertisements on other websites based on your prior visits to our Site and other online activity.
Provided that a company participates in industry-developed programs designed to provide consumers choices about whether to receive targeted advertising, you may opt out of interest-based advertising generally through the Network Advertising Initiative website or by visiting http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ (web-based advertising) or http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices (for mobile advertising). To learn more, please visit the websites operated by the Network Advertising Initiative and Digital Advertising Alliance at www.networkadvertising.org/choices. Opting-out does not mean that you will stop receiving advertisements from us. It means that you will stop receiving advertisements from us that have been targeted to you based on your visits and browsing activity across websites over time.
We may use the information we collect for any of the following purposes:
We may disclose your information:
Hodinkee does not sell or share your personal information with third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes.
Our Site may contain links to third-party websites and online services. Any access to and use of such third-party websites and online services is not governed by this Privacy Policy, but is instead governed by the privacy policies of those third-party websites and online services, and we are not responsible for the information practices of such third-party websites and online services.
Some aspects of the Site may allow you to interface with social media, such as Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and X (formerly ‘Twitter’). We will attempt to identify these aspects of the Site to you, for example, by identifying them with the applicable third-party logos or trade names. By using these interfaces, you will allow us to access information about you from those other online services, including information and other content that you submit to those online services. If you interface with the Site through your social media account, we may contact you or enable you to share your experience and content via your social media account, which information may be publicly viewed by other users of those services. For a description on how such social media services and other third-party platforms, plug-ins, integrations, and applications handle your information, please refer to their respective privacy policies and terms of use, which may permit you to modify your privacy settings with that service or platform.
You may choose to stop receiving our marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in such emails or by emailing contact@hodinkee.com. If you have a user account, you may also unsubscribe from comment replies and watch comments on Community profiles via this link: https://community.hodinkee.com/members/notifications.
Hodinkee uses reasonable security measures designed to prevent unauthorized intrusion to the Site and the alteration, acquisition or misuse of personal information. It is your responsibility to protect the security of your login information.
We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected, or as required by applicable laws or regulation.
Our Site does not currently take any action when it receives a Do Not Track request. Do Not Track is a privacy preference that you can set in your web browser to indicate that you do not want certain information about your webpage visits collected across websites when you have not interacted with that service on the page. For details, including how to turn on Do Not Track, visit www.donottrack.us.
We do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from any person under the age of sixteen. No parts of our Site are directed to or designed to attract anyone under the age of sixteen.
Under Nevada law, Hodinkee does not sell your personal information. However, we are legally required to make you aware that if you are a Nevada resident, you may submit a request that we not sell any personal information we have collected about you by contacting us at DPO@thewosgroup.com.
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CPRA”) provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. The below describes such rights and how you may exercise such rights, and our information practices, including the categories of personal information we collect, use, retain, disclose, sell or share, and how and why we collect, disclose, sell or share such information.
You have the right to request that we disclose what personal information we collect, use, disclose, sell or share. Specifically, you may request that we disclose to you the following:
You may also request that we disclose to you:
You have the right to request that we delete any personal information about you which we have collected from you by calling us at (646) 905-0553 or emailing DPO@thewosgroup.com. If it is necessary for us to maintain your personal information for certain purposes, we are not required to comply with your deletion request. If we determine that we will not delete your personal information when you request us to do so, we will inform you and tell you why we are not deleting it.
You have the right to direct a business that sells or shares personal information about you to third parties not to sell or share your personal information. We do not sell your personal information for monetary consideration. However, we do use cookies for targeted advertising purposes. The collection of data through certain cookies for our targeting advertising purposes may be considered a “sale” and is considered “sharing” under the CPRA. To opt-out of having your information sold and shared with third-party website analytics and digital advertising service providers for this purpose, please click on the hyperlink entitled “Your Privacy Choices” set forth at the footer of the Site.
You have the right to request a business that maintains inaccurate personal information about you to correct that inaccurate personal information, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes of the processing of the personal information.
Hodinkee does not collect any sensitive personal information.
You have the right not to be discriminated against because you exercised any of your aforementioned rights.
To exercise the rights described above, you must submit a verifiable request to us.
You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf by providing the agent with signed written permission to do so. You or your authorized agent may make a request to delete or opt-out of the disclosure of your Personal Information for business purposes. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child if you believe we have received their information inadvertently. You may request to exercise the aforementioned rights by:
If you maintain an online account with us, we will verify your identity for a request through the normal account authentication process, meaning you will need to sign on with your username and password.
To submit a verifiable request, you will be asked to provide certain information to help us verify your identity. The information we ask you to provide to initiate a request may differ depending upon the type of request, the type, sensitivity and value of the personal information that is the subject of the request, and the risk of harm to you that may occur as a result of unauthorized access or deletion, among other factors.
If we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request, we will not be able to comply with your request. We will inform you if we cannot verify your identity or authority. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.
Hodinkee has collected the following categories of personal information and used, disclosed, sold or shared such information in the twelve (12) months prior to the effective date of this Privacy Policy:
Each of the above categories are disclosed for a business or commercial purpose as described above in Section 3 (How Information is Used) to the third parties listed in Section 4 (Disclosure of Information).
The following categories of personal information were sold or shared in the twelve (12) months prior to the effective date of this Privacy Policy:
Such information is sold to or shared with our third-party website analytics and digital advertising service providers in a way that may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” under CPRA. We do not sell such information for monetary consideration.
We share or sell such information to:
Hodinkee does not collect sensitive personal information.
Hodinkee collects the personal information described above from or through the following categories of sources:
Hodinkee will retain the personal information described above for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected, or as required by applicable laws or regulation.
Hodinkee does not have actual knowledge that it sells or shares personal information about minors under the age of sixteen.
The categories of personal information we process about you is set forth in Section 1 (Information We Collect). The purposes for processing such personal information are set forth in Section 3 (How Information is Used). We disclose the personal information we process about you with the third parties set forth in Section 4 (Disclosure of Information).
As a Texas resident, you have the rights to:
You may exercise these rights by calling us at (646) 905-0553 or by emailing DPO@thewosgroup.com.
The verifiable consumer request must:
We reserve the right to verify your identity in connection with any requests regarding personal information to help ensure that we provide the information we maintain to the individuals to whom it pertains and allow only those individuals to exercise rights with respect to that information. We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.
In the event we deny your request, you may appeal our denial by contacting us in the same manner by which you submitted your request.
We process your personal information for the purposes of targeted advertising, and under Texas law, our processing may qualify as a “sale”. We share the information set forth in Section 1.b (Information Collected Automatically) with our third-party website analytics and digital advertising service providers. To opt-out of such sharing of information with our third-party website analytics and digital advertising service providers, please click on the hyperlink entitled “Your Privacy Choices” set forth at the footer of the Site.
If you are an authorized agent making a request to opt-out on behalf of a consumer, we may require and request that you provide us with written permission signed by the consumer to verify that you are authorized to make such request.
If you are resident in the UK or EU you have rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’) and UK GDPR.
Hodinkee LLC is part of The Watches of Switzerland Group, and our Group privacy policy explains how we use your personal data and meet our UK and EU data protection obligations. While not all parts of the policy will be applicable to the services offered by Hodinkee, we recommend that you refer to the following sections:
Should you wish to exercise any of your rights under GDPR or UK GDPR, please contact our client experience team. If you have any concerns about the way we handle your personal data, you can contact our group Data Protection Officer at DPO@thewosgroup.com.
For the purposes of the UK GDPR and GDPR we have appointed the following as our representatives in the UK and European Economic Area (‘EEA’):
For the UK: The Data Protection Officer, The Watches of Switzerland Group, Carlton Park, King Edward Avenue, Leicester LE19 0AL, U.K., email: DPO@thewosgroup.com
For the EEA: WOSG (Ireland) limited, Suite 3, One Earlsfort Centre, Lower Hatch Street, Dublin 2, D02 X288, Ireland. You can contact our Data Protection Officer directly at DPO@thewosgroup.com.
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
By email: DPO@thewosgroup.com
By mail: Hodinkee LLC
255 Centre St, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10013
By phone: (646) 905-0553.
Any changes to our Privacy Policy will be posted to this page so users are always aware of the information we collect and how we use it. Accordingly, please refer back to this Privacy Policy frequently as it may change.