Seiko U.K. Limited and Seiko Watch Corporation offer online resources that provide product-related information and services, as well as corporate news, employment and other information related to our business.
The protection of personal data, as well as compliance with privacy and data protection laws and regulations, is important to our organisation and affiliates. We aim to ensure the privacy rights of our consumers, business contacts, and employees when we handle information about them.
This policy only applies to personal data collected through our websites operated by SEIKO or by third parties acting for and on our behalf as data processors and further processed for the purposes specified herein. This policy does not apply to personal data collected from offline resources and communications. This policy also does not apply to third-party online resources to which our websites may link, where we do not control the content or the privacy practices of such resources.
Should you have any questions about this policy or our data collection, use and disclosure practices, please contact us.
As referred to in this policy, references to “us,” “we,” “our,” and “SEIKO” generally means Seiko U.K. Limited and Seiko Watch Corporation (these can include affiliates of SEIKO depending on the contexts).
Who are we?
Seiko U.K. Limited located at First Floor, Building 1, Concorde Park, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 4BY and Seiko Watch Corporation located at 26-1, Ginza 1-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8118, Japan will act as a data controller and will process your personal data collected through our websites.
Collection of your personal data
We collect personal data online through our websites. Individuals may access many parts of our websites without providing any personal data. If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence. If you choose to provide your personal data, such as your name, address, date of birth, telephone number or e-mail address, by entering into forms or data fields on our websites and corresponding with us, we will collect and use the personal data.
In addition to the personal data mentioned above, we use Google Advanced Consent Mode V2 to collect anonymised information about your interactions with our websites in order to provide you with the best service possible. This includes data collected through cookies, which can be managed through your consent preferences. Importantly, Google Advanced Consent Mode V2 operates through a mechanism known as ‘cookieless pings’. These pings allow certain non-identifying anonymous information to be collected and transferred to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and Google Ads, even if you have not consented to data tracking. This ensures that essential website functionality is maintained, while still respecting your user privacy. This information helps us enhance our website functionality and user experience.
Where we offer warranties, repairs or other services, we will collect and process details of the services you have requested and the watch you purchased, such as the purchase date, watch reference number, case number and serial number. If you contact us about a repair, we may collect and process data about the watch repair, including the watch repair status and quotes.
When you visit our websites, we automatically collect information about your computer or other electronic devices which may include your Internet Protocol (IP) address, date and time of your request and information provided by tracking technologies, such as cookies.
Use of Google Advanced Consent Mode V2
In our commitment to comply with privacy regulations and respect user preferences, we have implemented Google Advanced Consent Mode V2 on our websites. This system adjusts our data collection and processing activities based on your consent choices, particularly regarding cookies used for marketing and analytics purposes.
When you visit our websites, you may be asked to provide consent for various types of cookies and data collection. If you decline certain cookies, we use Google Advanced Consent Mode V2 to gather anonymous or aggregate information. This allows us to understand anonymised user interactions with our site and improve our services while ensuring your personal privacy choices are respected.
In the Advanced Consent Mode, even if a user doesn’t consent to data collection, our site will fire tracking tags before the user interacts with our cookie banner. This allows so-called “cookieless pings” to be sent to Google even if the user does not consent. These pings contain data such as:
This enables us to recover certain amounts of anonymised non-identifiable data for Google Ads and Google Analytics 4, even without the data subject’s consent. Please note that this data is non-identifying and aggregated.
For more details concerning cookies, please refer to our Cookie Policy.
The reason why we collect, use and share your personal data
We process your personal data to the extent permitted or required under applicable laws, for the following purposes:
We process your personal data for Performance Purposes in order to perform our contractual obligations to you. It is also in our legitimate interests to process your personal data for Performance Purposes as it allows us to ensure the proper administration of our site and to improve the user experience within our site. Similarly, it is in our legitimate interests to process your personal data for Contact Purposes in order to respond to your inquiry.
Where we process your personal data for Marketing Purposes, we will ask for your consent. Where you choose to disclose your opinions and photos on our website, it is in our legitimate interests to process and publish this information. However, we may also ask for your consent to publish this data on our website. Finally, we may process your personal data to comply with and enforce our rights and perform our obligations under applicable laws.
You can also refuse to provide your personal data to us. However, if you do not provide your data, this can have an effect on your use of the website or some features on our websites may not fully function.
Sharing of your personal data with third parties
Your personal data are intended for us but may be shared with third parties in certain circumstances:
SEIKO group affiliates: SEIKO may share your personal data among SEIKO group affiliates in order to administer SEIKO’s services and products, provide you with customer support, process payments, understand your preferences, send you information about products and services that may be of interest to you and conduct the other activities described in this policy.
Service providers: We use other companies, agents or contractors to perform services on our behalf or to assist us with the provision of the SEIKO services and products to you. We may share personal data with the following categories of service providers:
In the course of providing such services, these service providers may have access to your personal data. However, we will only provide our service providers with personal data which is necessary for them to perform their services, and we require them not to use your information for any other purpose. We will use our best efforts to ensure that all our service providers keep your personal data secure.
Third parties permitted by law: In certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with legal or regulatory obligations (for example, we may be required to disclose personal data to the police, regulators, government agencies or to judicial or administrative authorities).
We may also disclose your personal data to:
Third parties connected with business transfers: We may transfer your personal data to third parties in connection with a reorganisation, restructuring, merger or acquisition or transfer of assets, provided that the receiving party agrees to treat your personal data in a manner consistent with this policy.
We will not sell your personal data to third parties.
Please note our websites may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our business contacts or affiliates. Please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and we have no control over how they may use your personal data. You should check the privacy policies of third party websites before you submit any personal data to them.
Transfer of personal data outside your country
We will not transfer personal data relating to you to a country which is outside the EEA unless one of the following scenarios under the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) applies:
Please note that personal data relating to you may be transferred to our SEIKO group affiliates in Japan for administrative purposes. Such transfer is lawful under data protection legislation as Japan is subject to an adequacy decision by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (as mentioned above).
Protection of Your Personal Data
We have implemented appropriate technical and organisational security measures to protect personal data in our possession from unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. Such measures include administrative, technical and physical safeguards, for example, limiting access to personal data only to employees and authorised service providers who need to know such information for the purposes described in this policy.
Protection of the privacy of children
We do not provide services directly to children or proactively collect their personal information. However, we are sometimes given information about children while handling a complaint or conducting an investigation. The information in the relevant parts of this notice applies to children as well as adults.
Users who are under 16 years of age have to inform and obtain their parents or guardians consent to the processing of their personal information, show this policy to their parents or guardians, provide their parents or guardians’ name and contact information to us, and have their parents’ consent to us processing their child’s personal information.
Your Rights
If you are a resident in the UK or Ireland, you have the following rights in accordance with applicable laws and regulations:
With the implementation of Google Advanced Consent Mode V2, you have greater control over your personal data. You can modify your personal consent choices at any time, impacting how we collect and use your data on our site. We ensure that your rights to privacy and data control are upheld in compliance with GDPR and other relevant regulations.
Where you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact information below. For your own privacy and security, we may require evidence of your identity or to be provided with additional information before we are able to act on your request when the information we have is insufficient to accommodate your request. We will attempt to provide any requested information or make requested changes in accordance with applicable laws.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
If you are based in the UK, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK’s supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office, if you believe that we have not complied with applicable personal data protection laws. Please see further information on their website: www.ico.org.uk. If you are based in Ireland, you have the right to lodge a complaint with Ireland’s supervisory authority, the Data Protection Commission, if you believe that we have not complied with applicable personal data protection laws. Please see further information on their website: www.dataprotection.ie.
Your Personal Data Retention Period
Unless we are required or permitted by law to hold on to your data for a specific retention period we will hold your personal data only for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements, in particular:
We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
Where possible, we aim to anonymise the information or remove unnecessary identifiers from records that we may need to keep for periods beyond the original retention period. Where we no longer need your personal data, we will dispose of it in a secure manner.
Contact Information
See below for enquiries about this policy or our privacy practice.
Please note that, depending on the nature of your enquiry, we may disclose your personal information to our affiliated operating company that is responsible for the relevant products or advertising so that the company can reply to your enquiry.
SEIKO UK- Personal Information Enquiries
Telephone Enquiries
+44-(0)1628 770 001
Available hours: 8:30 – 16:15 (except weekends and holidays);
Online Enquiries
As we will collect your personal information, including your e-mail address, name, and address and use such information to respond to your enquiry, please send us an e-mail after reading this policy and agreeing to provide your personal information.
