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PRIVACY POLICY

Welcome to WatchNetwork.com, the website of G.M.T. Distribution, Inc. ("G.M.T.") At G.M.T., we know how our customers and visitors like you value your privacy, and we have created this privacy policy to ensure that you understand our policies and procedures, what personal information you must provide if you wish to use our website and, ultimately, just how we use such personal information.

Information Collected By G.M.T.

G.M.T. collects two types of information from users of this website and the services offered on this website (collectively, the "Site"): personal information described below, and non-personal information such as information about traffic patterns on G.M.T. (for example, how many users log on to G.M.T. on a daily basis).

Personal Information

To interact on certain portions of the Site, such as the Watch Classifieds section (where users can post and respond to Watch advertisements) and the Watch Retail sections (where users can order watch products through the Site from our manufacturing/distributing partners), we require you to register and select a screen name. To register, you will be required to submit some personal data, including, for example, your name, telephone number, postal address and email address. When you voluntarily respond to our email messages, newsletters or other promotional features, we may ask you for other personal information, such as your consumer and watch preferences.

In addition, when you order a product or service through the Watch Retail sections of the Site, we will ask you for your name, address and email address and/or other personal information or credit card information in order to process your request. If you post an offer to sell watch product(s) or service(s) through Watch Classifieds, you will be required to submit your screen name, as well as information describing those product(s)/service(s). If you choose to inquire as to a product or service offered through Watch Classifieds, you will be required to forward your email address to the seller, who may, in turn, elect to respond to you (for further information, see the Watch Classifieds - Communities section below).

How We Use Your Personal Information

G.M.T. uses the information collected, including personally identifiable information, for a variety of purposes. For example, we use your information to better understand your needs and provide you with better products and services. We may use your information to communicate back to you, to confirm your orders, to update you on products, services and benefits, to personalize the Site for you, to contact you for market research or to provide you with marketing information, newsletters, or other information we think would be of particular interest. You may opt out of receiving such promotional materials by contacting us at custserv@watchnetwork.com.

We may also share your personal information with our affiliates, watch product manufacturer and distributor partners, technical consultants, third party auditors and other third parties who make our Site available, enhance its functionality or provide associated services and/or who deal with you in processing your orders and/or delivering content, samples, products, services, gifts and promotional items. Please note that we reserve the right to transfer your personally identifiable information and other information to our successors in business and purchasers of Site assets.

In addition, G.M.T. may share your personal information with certain third parties with whom we do business (including, for example, our watch product manufacturer and distributor partners), so that such third parties can use the information for market research or other purposes, or contact you regarding products, services, offers, or other information we think you will find valuable.

Information obtained through the Site may be intermingled with and used in conjunction with information obtained through sources other than the Site, including both offline and online sources.

On-line Purchases - Watch and Watch Strap Retail sections

Our Site enables registered users to request information and order watch products and services from the Watch and Watch Strap Retail sections of the Site. We collect contact information (such as your name, mailing and/or e-mail address), and when appropriate, financial information (such as your credit card number and its expiration date) to process your requests or purchases. Contact information from an order form may be used to fulfill orders, to get in touch with you when necessary regarding your order and for other purposes, such as to provide information about our company to you. Credit card information that is collected is used to process your request for products and services, and will not be shared with third parties who are not involved with the transaction. When credit card information is transmitted, we use SSL (secure socket layer) 128 bit encryption.

Watch Classifieds - Communities

Our Site enables registered users to post and/or respond to advertisements for watch products and services through Watch Classifieds. To post an advertisement, you will be required to submit your screen name in addition to a description of the product(s)/service(s) you would like to sell; if a prospective buyer responds, you will then have the option of forwarding your email address to the buyer to proceed with the transaction. To inquire about and/or buy a product through Watch Classifieds, you must disclose your email address to the seller so that the seller may (at his or her option) contact you. Please note that, although we provide this forum through which users may list and respond to online classified ads, we are not involved in the actual transactions between buyers and sellers. After the initial transfer or posting of personal information as described above, we have no control over the use of information (including personal information) and materials made available by you to other users. For this reason, we urge you to exercise caution, and to use common sense when using our Site.

In addition to Watch Classifieds, G.M.T. may, from time to time, make other community tools available to our users, such as chat rooms, forums, message boards, news groups. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information for other users to view and for G.M.T. to use. Again, for this reason, you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information in these areas, since anyone (including, in the case of Watch Classifieds, prospective buyers and sellers) may use publicly posted information. Please be considerate and respectful of others while using the community tools of the Site; see the "Communities" section in our Terms of Use for complete community rules.

Non-Personal Data

In some cases, we may collect non-personal information. Examples of this type of information include the type of internet browser you are using, the type of computer operating system application software, and peripherals you are using and the domain name of the web site from which you linked to our Site. We use your information on an aggregated basis to do such things as operate our Site, enhance our Site and sell and deliver advertising. We may share non-personal information with third parties for advertising, promotional and other purposes.

Cookies

We reserve the right to utilize cookie technology. A cookie is a small data file that certain web sites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain various types of information, including a user ID that a site uses to track the pages you've visited. We may use cookies to enhance your experience on this Site, to determine user traffic patterns and for other purposes.

Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies; however, you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent or you can flush your browser of cookies from time to time. (Note: you may need to consult the help area of your browser application for instructions.) If you choose to disable your cookies setting or refuse to accept a cookie, however, you may have difficulty accessing your account with the Site.

At times, some of the advertisers on our Site and their ad service providers set cookies when you click their advertising banners. While we use cookies in other parts of the Site (as discussed above), cookies received with banner ads are collected by those advertisers and their ad service providers, and we do not have access to that information. The ad company’s privacy policy and/or that of its service provider will govern the use of this information and G.M.T. is not responsible for the privacy practices of such ad company.

Opt Out Procedures

You have the ability to opt out of receiving promotional information from G.M.T. by contacting us at custserv@watchnetwork.com. Please note that even if you "opt out," G.M.T. reserves the right to retain your personal data and to communicate with you as necessary to facilitate your interaction with the Site and to otherwise use your information for non-promotional purposes. G.M.T. is not responsible for removing information from third-party lists or databases of any kind.

Reviewing or changing your information

In order to ensure that the information we maintain is accurate, G.M.T. gives users the option to change or modify their information previously provided. If you would like to change your information currently in our database, you may either log on to your account and modify your information or you may contact us at custserv@watchnetwork.com. G.M.T. is not responsible for updating information contained in third-party lists or databases.

Security

As discussed above, we work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 128 bit encryption software, which encrypts information you input. All information is stored on our servers in a secure location. It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your account and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer. If your account is compromised, notify us at once at custserv@watchnetwork.com.

Protection for Children

This Site is not intended for users under the age of 18. Furthermore, we have no intention of collecting personally identifiable information from children (i.e., individuals under the age of 13). If a child has provided us with personally identifiable information, that child's parent or guardian should contact us at custserv@watchnetwork.com or send us a letter marked "Privacy - Urgent" at the address below if they would like the information submitted by the child deleted from our database. We will use all reasonable efforts to delete such information from our database.

Privacy Precaution Warning

Please note that no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee the security of the information that you transmit via our online services.

Please note that we reserve the right to access and/or disclose personal information and non-personal information we gather as required by courts or administrative agencies and to the extent required to permit us to investigate suspected fraud, harassment or other violations of any law, rule or regulation, the Site rules or policies, or the rights of third parties or to investigate any suspected conduct which G.M.T. deems improper.

This Site may provide links or references to other web sites. However, we have no control over or responsibility for content on third party sites and transactions that occur therein. The privacy policies and terms and conditions governing this Site may differ significantly from the policies of third party web sites.

Your Consent

By using this Site, you accept these terms and consent to our collection, use, disclosure and storage of your personally identifiable and non-personal information as described above. You recognize that we are able to offer our service to you at our rates based upon these terms which are an integral part of our contract for the provision of services.

By using the Site, you also authorize the export of personal information to the USA and its storage and use as specified above when you provide such information to us. Our headquarters is in the USA in New York, New York. This policy and our legal obligations are subject to the laws of New York and the USA, regardless of the location of any user. Any claims or complaints must be filed in the USA in the State of New York.

We may amend our privacy policy, but if we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the practices of this Site, or your dealings with this Site, you can contact us at: custserv@watchnetwork.com.

In addition, our mailing address is:

G.M.T. Distribution, Inc.
375 Park Avenue; Suite 2509
New York, New York 10152


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