Privacy Policy

Welcome to the Ben Wright Vintage Watches Privacy Policy. Ben Wright Vintage Watches (“Ben Wright Vintage Watches,” “we”, “our” or “us”) takes the privacy of your information very seriously. We believe that you have a right to know what information we collect from you, and we want you to understand our commitment to protecting your privacy. This policy regarding our privacy practices (the “Privacy Policy”) describes the collection, use and disclosure of your information on benwrightvintagewatches.co.uk (the “Site”) and the services, features, content or applications we offer (collectively with the Site, the “Services”). We’ve tried to be straightforward, but we want you to understand the policy, so please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?

This Privacy Policy covers the treatment of personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) gathered when you are using or accessing the Services.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do not own, control, or manage, including but not limited to any third party websites, services and applications (“Third Party Services”). While we try to make sure that we work with Third Party Services that share our respect for your privacy, we cannot take responsibility for the content or privacy policies of those Third Party Services. We encourage you to carefully review the privacy policies of any Third Party Services you access.

Information Collected Using Cookies:

Cookies are pieces of text that may be provided to your computer through your web browser when you access a website. Your browser stores cookies in a manner associated with each website you visit. We use cookies to enable our servers to recognize your web browser and tell us how and when you visit the Site and otherwise use the Services through the Internet.

Our cookies do not, by themselves, contain Personal Information, and we do not combine the general information collected through cookies with other Personal Information to tell us who you are. As noted, however, we do use cookies to identify that your web browser and tell us how and when you use the Services, and we may associate that information with your Account if you have one.

Most browsers have an option for turning off the cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allowing you to decide on acceptance of each new cookie in a variety of ways. We strongly recommend that you leave cookies active, because they enable you to take advantage of the most attractive features of the Services.

This Privacy Policy covers our use of cookies only and does not cover the use of cookies by third parties. We do not control when or how third parties place cookies on your computer. For example, third party websites to which a link points may set cookies on your computer.

Use of cookies for Google analytics

We may collect information about your computer, including your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and in order to create reports. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that helps website owners understand how visitors engage with their website. Google Analytics customers can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website so that they can improve it.

Like many services, Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track visitor interactions as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We then use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our site.

Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. These cookies are used to store information, such as the time that the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before and what site referred the visitor to the web page.

Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site – for more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google page.

Mailing list

Any information gathered from you in connection with this Email list will be held by Ben Wright Vintage Watches. To ensure that you can add your details to this list in the certain knowledge that they will be safe with us, a strict privacy policy is operated for this list:

This list is operated on a strictly 'opt-in' basis: Your information will only be included on the list if you have specifically requested it be included, generally by filling in the relevant form on our web-site. Only the information explicitly requested from you (ie: your Email Address) will be held, and no other information will be added without your knowledge. We will remove your details from the list, immediately and without quibble, if requested by you to do so.

All Email messages sent to you in connection with this list will originate directly from us. No information gathered from you in connection with this Email list will be passed to any other organisation or individual, and under no circumstances will the list or any information from it be sold or given to any other party. Disclosure will only take place in the highly unlikely event of us being required by statute to make the disclosure, for example if compulsory disclosure is demanded by an appropriate authority for criminal investigation purposes.

The information gathered from you will be used only for the purpose of sending you, via Email, notifications and news from benwrightvintagewatches.co.uk.

To prevent you from being asked to sign up multiple times we log the sign up using a cookie. This cookie does not contain any personal information, it is set to 'true' if you have signed up to the mailing list.

How, and With Whom, Is My Information Shared?

It’s important for you to know that we never share information we receive from you.

What Happens When There Are Changes to this Privacy Policy?

We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make changes in the way we collect or use information, we will notify you by posting an announcement on the Services, updating the “Last Modified” date at the beginning of this Privacy Policy, or sending you an email. A user is bound by any changes to the Privacy Policy when he or she uses the Services after such changes have been first posted.