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Glycinewatches.com Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 11, 2025

 

Our commitment to privacy

GLY Global LLC, a Florida corporation d/b/a Glycinewatches.com ("Glycine") has created this privacy policy (this “Policy”) to demonstrate our firm commitment to the privacy of the personal information of our visitors, customers, applicants, and employees. Glycine is committed to respecting your need for appropriate protection and management of the information you share with us. The purpose of this Policy is to describe the personal information we may collect from you, the purposes for which we collect it, how we use it, and when we may share it with third parties. This Policy also describes the choices you can make about how we collect, use and disclose your information. Glycine will not collect, use, or disclose your personal information other than in compliance with this Policy.

By using the www.glycinewatches.com (the “Website”) and/or making online purchases of products, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Policy. If our Policy changes substantively in the future, we will notify our customers and Website users of any such changes by posting an updated Policy on our Website.

Following the posting of such changes, your continued use of the website will constitute your acceptance of these changes and you will be bound by such changes. If you do not continue to use the www.glycinewatches.com website following a change to our Policy but take no other action with respect to your personal information, our use of that information will remain subject to our Policy as it was in effect prior to the change. You are responsible for regularly reviewing this Policy and any changes thereto.

We may offer you the ability to connect with our Website, or use our applications, services, and tools using a mobile device, either through a mobile application or via a mobile optimized website. The provisions of this Policy apply to all such mobile access and use of mobile devices. This Policy will be referenced by all such mobile applications or mobile optimized websites.

What kind of information do we collect?

We may collect personal information from you when you send, disclose, or otherwise provide your personal information to us such as by setting up a user account and password, logging in as a registered user of, searching for a product, making an order for a product, providing information in your account (and you might have more than one, if you've used more than one e-mail address when shopping with us), interacting with us by phone, e-mail, or through our websites, mobile optimized websites, mobile applications or otherwise or if you complete an entry form to participate in a contest, promotion or survey, whether online or any brick and mortar location, if applicable. As a result of these actions, you might supply us with personal information such as your name, e-mail and postal addresses, phone number(s), credit card information, names of people to whom purchases have been shipped, including address and telephone numbers, product interest information and financial information and in certain circumstances, your opinions, and individual preferences. We may also maintain a record of your product interests and acquire information about you from our present and future affiliates or divisions. When you visit our website, we may also gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include, without limitation, browser information, Internet Service Provider (ISP), operating system, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses or other device identifiers, location and date/time stamp.

We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, household (“personal information”).

We may have collected the following categories of personal information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months.

Category

Examples

A. Identifiers

A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.

B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).

A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information.
Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.

C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.

Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information).

D. Commercial information.

Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

E. Biometric information.

Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.

F. Internet or other similar network activity.

Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.

G. Geolocation data.

Physical location or movements.

H. Sensory data.

Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.

I. Inferences drawn from other personal information.

Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

J. Sensitive personal information

Sensitive information means a consumer’s social security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number; account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account; precise geolocation; racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, or union membership; the contents of a consumer’s mail, email, and text messages unless the business is the intended recipient of the communication; genetic data; the processing of biometric information for the purpose of uniquely identifying a consumer; citizenship or immigration status; personal information collected and analyzed concerning a consumer’s health; and personal information collected and analyzed concerning a consumer’s sex life or sexual orientation

Depending on the applicable jurisdiction, certain categories of information may be included from the definition of personal information. For example, under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), personal information does not include categories of personal information, such as: (i) publicly available information from government records; (ii) deidentified or aggregated consumer information; (iii) personal information that is collected, processed, sold, or disclosed pursuant to the federal Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (Public Law 106-102), and implementing regulations, the California Financial Information Privacy Act (Division 1.4 (commencing with Section 4050) of the Financial Code), or protected health information that is collected, processed, sold, or disclosed pursuant to the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and implementing regulations.

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to [provide you products and services, process your application for employment, maintain our business relationship, other actions, etc.] and in accordance with Glycine’s data retention schedule, unless we have or deidentified or deleted your personal information in response to a request to delete. We may retain your personal information for longer if it is necessary to comply with our legal obligations or reporting obligations, [i.e. resolve disputes, maintain an employment relationship, collect fees, etc.] or as permitted or required by applicable law. We may also retain your personal information in a deidentified or aggregated form so that it can no longer be associated with you. To determine the appropriate retention period for your personal information, we consider various factors such as the amount, nature, and sensitivity of your information; the potential risk of unauthorized access, use or disclosure; the purposes for which we process your personal information; applicable legal requirements.

Purposes for Collection and Use of Personal Information

We may collect or use the personal information for one or more of the following purposes:

  • To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to ask a question about our products or services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your personal information to purchase a service, we will use that information to process your payment and facilitate delivery.
  • To contact you and/or provide you with email alerts and other notices concerning our products, services, events, or news that may be of interest to you. For example, we may send you announcements, surveys, and newsletters using any communications preferences you have expressed. We may provide these communications via email, postal mail, online advertising, social media, telephone, text message (including SMS and MMS), push notifications, in-app messaging, and other means. Of course, if at any time you no longer wish to receive such communications, you have the option of unsubscribing from our mailing list for that communication.
  • To provide, support, personalize, and develop the Site, products, and services.
  • To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.
  • To process your requests, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud.
  • To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
  • To personalize your Site experience and to deliver content and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through the Site, third-party sites, and via email. For example, we engage our advertising partners, including third party advertising companies and social media companies, to display ads around the web. These companies may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information (including automatically-collected described in this Policy) about your interactions over time across our site, our communications, and other online services, and use that information to serve online ads that they think will interest you.
  • To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Site, services, databases and other technology assets, and business.
  • For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our Site, products, and services.
  • To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
  • As described to you when collecting your personal information.
  • To manage our recruiting efforts and employment and workforce relationships. These activities include, for example, sourcing and processing employment applications, onboarding employees and contingent workers, and carrying out a range of employments activities relating to the employment relationship, such as compensation, benefits, promotion, discipline, termination, and certain post termination activities.
  • As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, security, and safety of us, our employees, our consumers, our information systems, and the public.
  • To evaluate or conduct 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 us about the Site’s users/consumers is among the assets transferred.

We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

Sources of Personal Information We Collect

  • You. We may collect personal information that you provide during your interactions with us, such as through the Site, by email, or when you communicate with our professionals online, by phone, at one of our locations, or through social media. We may also collect information when you attend an event, or participate in a program we sponsor. We collect information when you are an applicant for employment with us and employed by us. We also collect information through certain online tracking tools, such as browser cookies, flash cookies, and web beacons, as well as through our advertising activities.
  • Related Entities and Affiliates We may collect information about you from our related parties and affiliates, including joint ventures (if any).
  • Social media and related services.
  • Service providers and contractors When you obtain products and services from us, we may collect your personal information from service provider and contractors who collected information about you that is needed to provide those products and services.
  • News outlets, social media, surveys, and certain third parties. In the course of performing our services or marketing activities, we or third parties on our behalf may conduct research and other activities resulting in the collection of personal information about you.
  • Information Collected Automatically See the description of this above in the Privacy Policy.

 

DO WE DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES?

We do not sell or share your personal information to third parties. We also do not use or disclose your sensitive personal information for purposes that, with limited exceptions, are not necessary in order to provide our products and services and are reasonably expected by an average consumer requesting those goods and services. We also do not have actual knowledge that we have sold personal information of minors under age 16.

However, in the event of a sale of all or substantially all of our business or another similar transaction, we may transfer or disclose your personal information to a purchaser or prospective purchaser, who may collect, use and disclose such information for the purposes of evaluating the proposed transaction or operating and managing the affairs of the acquired business, or for other purposes identified in this Policy. In the unlikely event of Glycine's bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors' rights generally, Glycine may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used.

We may, however, disclose your personal information with services providers and contractors who help us provide the products and services, such as, payment processing, marketing and advertising, email, text and other communications, applications, business support, and website, software, platform, cloud, data storage and other technical services.

We may also disclose your personal information if necessary to: (1) comply with federal, state, or local laws; (2) comply with a civil, criminal, or regulatory inquiry, investigation, subpoena, or summons by federal, state, or local authorities; (3) cooperate with law enforcement agencies concerning conduct or activity that we reasonably and in good faith believe may violate federal, state, or local laws; or (4) initiate or defend legal claims.

Lastly, we may transfer to a third-party personal information as part of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, or other transaction in which the third party assumes control or acquires of all or part of the assets of our business.

Of the categories of PI noted above, during the past 12 months, we disclosed the following:

Categories of Personal Information

Categories of Third Parties to Whom Disclosed & Purposes for Disclosure

Address and other identifiers

Third parties as directed by you. We may disclose your personal information to the third parties to whom you direct.

Address and other identifiers Protected status – such as citizenship, ethnic background, gender, or other similar identifiers Financial information – such as bank account details, credit history, income details or other similar identifiers Education or professional information, including veteran status or other similar identifiers Sensitive Personal Information

Our business partners. For example, we might disclose your personal information to one of our business partners for purposes of collaborating on providing services to you, or to invite you to an event we are organizing. These business partners should also have their own privacy statements that set out the manner in which they will collect, use, and disclose personal information. Where applicable, we encourage you to review each such business partner’s privacy statement before signing on with them.
Governmental entities, legal service providers. We may disclose your personal information in order to comply with the law and in the course of providing our products and services. We may also disclose information if a government agency or investigatory body submits a request.
Successors to all or portions of our business. If all or part of our business is sold, we may disclose personal information in preparation for or as part of that transaction.

Internet or other electronic network activity – such as browsing history, search history, a consumer’s interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement Geolocation data Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.

Third parties as directed by you. We may disclose your personal information to third parties to whom you direct.
Third parties that perform services on our behalf. For example, we may disclose information to certain service providers, including marketing companies, professional service providers, debt collectors, information technology providers, payroll and benefits managers, and data storage companies. We might also authorize our service providers to collect personal information on our behalf.
Governmental entities, legal service providers. We may disclose personal information in order to comply with the law and in the course of providing our products and services. We may also disclose information if a government agency or investigatory body submits a request.
Successors to all or portions of our business. If all or part of our business is sold, we may disclose personal information in preparation for or as part of that transaction.

Biometric Information Inferences drawn from personal information – such as individual profiles, preferences, characteristics, behaviors or other similar identifiers

Third parties as directed by you. We may disclose your personal information to those third parties to whom you direct.
Third parties that perform services on our behalf. For example, we may disclose information to certain service providers, including marketing companies, professional service providers, debt collectors, information technology providers, payroll and benefits managers, and data storage companies. We might also authorize our service providers to collect personal information on our behalf.

Glycine and/or third parties that we contract with may employ "clear GIFs" (a.k.a. Web Beacons), tracking pixels or similar devices, which are used to track the online usage patterns anonymously (i.e., in a non-personall0yidentifiable manner). In addition, Glycine may also use these devices in HTML-based emails sent to users to track which emails are opened by recipients.

Various features on the Website may allow you to share your information with others by publicly posting that information on the Website and/or sharing that information by other communication methods including (without limitation) email, Facebook, or Instagram. To the extent that you choose to share any such information it is no longer considered personal information and is not covered by this Policy.

The Website is directed for use by adults. Glycine does not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13. Those under age 13 should not use Website or provide Glycine with any personal information.

 

We reserve the right to disclose your personal information as required by law, in response to legal process and law enforcement requests.

Our Website may contain links to websites operated by third parties. These websites may collect your personal information. This Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties and we do not assume any responsibility for, and by using this Website and/or accessing a third party's website from this Website you release Glycine, and its members, employees, agents, officers and directors, of any responsibility for, the actions, practices, and omissions of third parties. Please check the privacy policy at each site you visit.

HOW CAN YOU EXERCISE MY CHOICES ABOUT RECEIVING PROMOTIONS?

If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like promotions, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent or provide you with an opportunity to opt out.

If you prefer not to receive promotional information from us or if you do not want us to use your information to enhance your shopping experience, please let us know by emailing us at email: info@glycinewatches.com or (iii) send your request to Ring 18,
CH-2502 Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. Please be sure to include your full name and the e-mail address you used when you registered with or made a purchase from us. It may take up to 30 days to process your postal mail request, during which period you may continue to receive communications from us. You may also unsubscribe from our email services by using the unsubscribe link situated at the bottom of any promotional message you receive from us.

WHAT ARE COOKIES AND HOW DO WE USE COOKIES ON THIS WEBSITE?

This Website uses cookie technology to improve the quality of your experience. A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded onto ‘terminal equipment’ (for example, a computer or smartphone) when the user accesses a website. It allows the website to recognize that user’s device and store some information about the user’s preferences or past actions. They keep a record of your preferences making your subsequent visits to the site more efficient. Cookies may store a variety of information, including, the number of times that you access a site, registration information and the number of times that you view a particular page or other item on the site. The use of cookies is a common practice adopted by most major sites to better serve their clients. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best possible experience on our Website.

If you do not want to accept cookies, you can block them by adjusting the settings on your internet browser. Please note that this adjustment may also block cookies for any website you visit. You can visit www.aboutcookies.org, which provides detailed information on managing cookies in popular browsers.

Blocking cookies may affect your ability to benefit from the convenience afforded by the use of cookies, may affect your ability to use certain customization features associated with creating a user profile, and if the cookies are necessary for the Website to operate properly, may affect your experience of the Website.

HOW CAN YOU ACCESS OR CHANGE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION, WITHDRAW YOUR CONSENT, OR MAKE INQUIRIES OR COMPLAINTS IN RELATION TO THIS POLICY AND OUR PRIVACY PRACTICES?

We make our best efforts to ensure that the personal information we collect is as accurate, complete, and up-to-date as is necessary for the purposes for which it is to be used. You are entitled to request access to and correction of your personal information collected by us. In order to make such a request, or if you have any questions or to make any complaint in relation to this Policy and our privacy practices, please email our Privacy Compliance Officer by Email info@glycinewatches.com or by mail at:

Glycinewatches.com
Attn: Legal Department
Ring 18,
CH-2502 Biel/Bienne
Switzerland

If you have consented to the collection, use and/or disclosure of personal information as identified herein, please note that you can also withdraw your consent at any time by communicating with us as provided above.

Please note that it may take up to 30 days to process your requests.

HOW IS PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURED?

No system for safeguarding personal or other information is 100% secure. We have adopted appropriate measures to ensure the confidentiality of personal information and to safeguard personal information against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification, in light of, among other things, the sensitivity of the information and the purposes for which it is to be used.

If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with proper encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we adhere to generally accepted industry standards.

MOBILE PRIVACY

When you use our mobile optimized website or our mobile application, we may receive information about your location and your mobile device, including a unique identifier for your device. Glycine and our service providers may use and store this information to provide you with location based services, search results, and other personalized content. We will provide notifications only to those customers who accept to receive such notifications. Most mobile devices allow you to control or disable location services in the device's setting's menu. If you have questions about how to disable your device's location services, we recommend you contact your mobile service carrier or the manufacturer of your particular device.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to modify this Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the Website. If we make material changes to this Policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information, contact our Privacy Compliance Officer by Email: info@glycinewatches.com or by mail at:

Glycine Watch SA
Ring 18,
CH-2502 Biel/Bienne
Switzerland