Privacy policy
Last updated: 22nd November 2022
FOSSIL TIME MALAYSIA SDN.BHD and our parent, subsidiaries and/or affiliated companies within Fossil Group ("Fossil", "we", “us”, or “our”) respect and protect your privacy rights. This Privacy Policy describes:
• what information we collect in any Fossil stores, Fossil websites, through any Fossil mobile application (except for the Fossil Q App) or through any service provider,
• for which purposes we use Personal Data we collect and
• your rights regarding your Personal Information.
“Personal Data” is information through which you can be directly or indirectly identified, e.g. your name, your e-mail address and items you purchased (provided that we can connect them to your e-mail/customer account).
This Privacy Policy applies to all personal data that we hold about you as well as any personal data you may provide to us. By interacting with us (including use of the website), providing us with your personal data, submitting information to us or signing up for any newsletters or services offered by us, you shall be deemed to agree and consent to all terms and conditions in this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact our Data Protection Officer at the contact details provided in the Privacy Policy.
In the event of any discrepancy or inconsistency between the English and other local language versions of the Privacy Statement, the English version will prevail.
WHEN DO WE COLLECT PERSONAL DATA
We collect Personal Data from or about you depending on the nature of your activities, especially in the following cases:
Sign-up/Registering: We store the information that you provide to us, such as when
• you create an account at our website (including e-mail, name, date of birth and additional information you may voluntarily provide us for example your general interests, items you register that you previously purchased in stores or when you create a wish list).
• you give us your e-mail address in our stores to receive an electronic receipt for your purchase.
• you share any pictures/materials with us for publication on social media.
• you enter a competition or promotion sponsored by us.
Transactions: We collect details of purchases on our website or in Fossil stores (date, price, products purchased, credit and debit card information, billing and delivering address etc.) as well as when you return or exchange a product or when you send us your product for warranty or repair service and any communication in connection with this. If you provide any personal data of another person, please make sure that you have the right to share that information with us.
Visiting our website/Using e-mails: We store details of your visits to the websites (such as pages visited, browser details, your IP address) and your interactions with any e-mails that we send to you. For more information, see our Cookies Section.
Failure to provide the information requested above may result in our inability to provide our products or services to you.
WHAT DO WE USE PERSONAL DATA FOR?
Transactions/Provision of services:
• We use your Personal Data to process your purchases, send you confirmations or electronic receipts (if you requested this), screen transactions for fraudulent behavior, and handle any returns, repairs to exchanges of your products and for any related communications.
• We use your Personal Data to administer your website accounts such as to enable you to access your shopping bag, to see products you saved for later, products you registered (which may earn you points to redeem at stores) or to show you other products that may interest you.
• When you enter a sweepstake/contest, we process your Personal Data to enable your participation.
Analytics: We may combine and use Personal Data to help us learn more about our users’ shopping preferences, to be able to tailor our offers and websites according to your interests and preferences, to help us address problems with and improve our site design, products and services, to analyze trends and statistics and to present content in the clearest and most friendly manner
for you.
Marketing: We may contact you for direct marketing purposes per e-mail, text message or mail unless you have opted-out from receiving further direct marketing messages (see below for your opt-out options)
Securing our assets: We may also use Personal Data to protect the security or integrity of our websites and our business.
General Matters: We may also use Personal Data to verify your identity, respond to and process your request or queries, complying with any applicable laws, regulations and investigations, and any other purposes for which you have provided the information.
Other: We may use and collect Personal Data for any purpose associated with or related to the above purposes.
COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES
Please see our Cookies Policy, which forms part of this Privacy Policy, for more information on what cookies we use, why we use them and how you can better control their use through your browser and other tools.
DISCLOSURE/SHARING OF PERSONAL DATA
We treat your Personal Data with care and confidentiality. We will not trade, sell or rent your Personal Data to or with any third party. Fossil will not provide Personal Data to any third party without obtaining your prior consent except for the following cases:
• We may involve other companies for the purposes described in this Policy. These other companies might be members of the Fossil group or other third party providers, which may be based in other
jurisdictions than your country of residence. Third party providers perform various different services in support of our websites and our business such as administrative, computer, technology outsourcing, data processing and marketing services. In these instances, we will need to share your Personal Data with these companies.
• Where we engage service providers that use Personal Data on behalf of Fossil we will use reasonable measures to contractually ensure that Personal Data is only used for the purposes of Fossil.
• Fossil may share your Personal Data where necessary in order to comply with any legal obligation, to protect and defend Fossil, its subsidiaries and affiliates and all of their officers, directors, employees, attorneys, agents, contractors, and partners, in connection with any legal action, claim or dispute or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements.
• Occasionally we may also share your Personal Data with select third parties so that they can send you promotional materials about goods and services offered by them. We may also occasionally share your Personal Data with organizations that combine the Personal Data with publicly available information and information we receive from or cross-reference with our marketing partners and other third parties. We use that combined information to enhance your shopping experience with us, to communicate with you about our products, to inform you of events that may be of interest to you, and for other promotional purposes. Fossil reserves the right to transfer your Personal Data to a third party in the event of a transfer of all or some of Fossil's assets to a third party, provided that the third party agrees to adhere to terms similar to those of this Privacy Policy. Fossil may disclose aggregated, non-Personal Data about website users without restriction.
Subject to applicable laws and regulations, Fossil may disclose aggregated, non-Personal Data about website users.
TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA OUTSIDE MALAYSIA
We may share your personal data with Fossil’s subsidiaries in Hong Kong, Singapore and the United States to fulfil the processing purposes as stated above. Otherwise, we do not usually send your Personal Data outside of Malaysia unless it is necessary for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy. When we do send personal data abroad, we have in place adequate safeguards in compliance with the requirements under the applicable laws. This includes ensuring that the recipient is bound by legally enforceable obligations to provide the transferred personal data a comparable standard of protection as that under the Personal Data Protection Act 2010.
RETENTION PERIOD
Fossil will keep your Personal Data for as long as necessary for the purposes described above or as long as we are required by law. After this your Personal Data will be deleted. We cannot remove your Personal Data when there is a legal storage requirement, such as accounting rules or when there are other legal grounds to keep the data, such as an ongoing contractual relationship.
SECURITY
The security of your Personal Data is important to us. Accordingly, while no set of privacy and security standards or safeguards is 100% secure, we take steps to ensure any information that you share with us is kept secure and strictly confidential in accordance with this policy. We take various precautions to protect information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification, alteration, destruction or similar risks.
LINKS TO OTHER MATERIALS
If you are offered a link to connect to a third-party website, it is for the convenience of our website visitors. Sites linked to and from this website are not necessarily under the control of Fossil and Fossil has no responsibility for the content or privacy practices of any such linked site or service. We recommend that you read the privacy policies of those third parties to see how your information is handled.
OPT OUT PROCEDURES
With regard to Personal Data that you have provided or that has been collected under this Privacy Policy, you may opt out of uses for direct marketing purposes, such as correspondence from us about our products and promotions or the sharing by us of your Personal Data with select third parties for their direct marketing purposes. You may opt-out by sending an e-mail to ap-privacy@fossil.com, or use any other options we may offer. Your opt-out choices do not apply to:
• any communication which is not promotional in nature,
• sharing and use by Fossil of your Personal Data with service providers used by Fossil to enhance your experience on our websites and
• to allow Fossil to provide you with more personalized advertising across the internet. If you do not exercise your opt-out or "do not share" choices upon registration on one of our websites, it may take up to ninety (90) days for your opt-out choices to be fully effective.
ACCESS TO AND CORRECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
This website gives you the ability to view and change the Personal Data you provided to us within the My Account section of the website. You may access information we hold about you, request a correction where data is incorrect or a deletion of your data, unless we have to keep your data for legal reasons. For any inquiries please contact us at ap-fossil@fossil.com.
Kindly note that a reasonable fee may be charged for an access request. If so, we will inform you of the fee before processing your request.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Any updated Privacy Policy will be posted with a revised effective date.
HOW TO CONTACT US
Please address any questions or concerns, inquiries, complaints, requests to access or correct your Personal Information, or requests to limit the processing of your Personal Data regarding our Privacy Program or our practices concerning Personal Data to our data protection officer at legal@fossil.com or telephone: +1 (800) 449-3056
FOSSIL TIME MALAYSIA SDN.BHD and our parent, subsidiaries and/or affiliated companies within Fossil Group ("Fossil", "we", “us”, or “our”) respect and protect your privacy rights. This Privacy Policy describes:
• what information we collect in any Fossil stores, Fossil websites, through any Fossil mobile application (except for the Fossil Q App) or through any service provider,
• for which purposes we use Personal Data we collect and
• your rights regarding your Personal Information.
“Personal Data” is information through which you can be directly or indirectly identified, e.g. your name, your e-mail address and items you purchased (provided that we can connect them to your e-mail/customer account).
This Privacy Policy applies to all personal data that we hold about you as well as any personal data you may provide to us. By interacting with us (including use of the website), providing us with your personal data, submitting information to us or signing up for any newsletters or services offered by us, you shall be deemed to agree and consent to all terms and conditions in this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact our Data Protection Officer at the contact details provided in the Privacy Policy.
In the event of any discrepancy or inconsistency between the English and other local language versions of the Privacy Statement, the English version will prevail.
WHEN DO WE COLLECT PERSONAL DATA
We collect Personal Data from or about you depending on the nature of your activities, especially in the following cases:
Sign-up/Registering: We store the information that you provide to us, such as when
• you create an account at our website (including e-mail, name, date of birth and additional information you may voluntarily provide us for example your general interests, items you register that you previously purchased in stores or when you create a wish list).
• you give us your e-mail address in our stores to receive an electronic receipt for your purchase.
• you share any pictures/materials with us for publication on social media.
• you enter a competition or promotion sponsored by us.
Transactions: We collect details of purchases on our website or in Fossil stores (date, price, products purchased, credit and debit card information, billing and delivering address etc.) as well as when you return or exchange a product or when you send us your product for warranty or repair service and any communication in connection with this. If you provide any personal data of another person, please make sure that you have the right to share that information with us.
Visiting our website/Using e-mails: We store details of your visits to the websites (such as pages visited, browser details, your IP address) and your interactions with any e-mails that we send to you. For more information, see our Cookies Section.
Failure to provide the information requested above may result in our inability to provide our products or services to you.
WHAT DO WE USE PERSONAL DATA FOR?
Transactions/Provision of services:
• We use your Personal Data to process your purchases, send you confirmations or electronic receipts (if you requested this), screen transactions for fraudulent behavior, and handle any returns, repairs to exchanges of your products and for any related communications.
• We use your Personal Data to administer your website accounts such as to enable you to access your shopping bag, to see products you saved for later, products you registered (which may earn you points to redeem at stores) or to show you other products that may interest you.
• When you enter a sweepstake/contest, we process your Personal Data to enable your participation.
Analytics: We may combine and use Personal Data to help us learn more about our users’ shopping preferences, to be able to tailor our offers and websites according to your interests and preferences, to help us address problems with and improve our site design, products and services, to analyze trends and statistics and to present content in the clearest and most friendly manner
for you.
Marketing: We may contact you for direct marketing purposes per e-mail, text message or mail unless you have opted-out from receiving further direct marketing messages (see below for your opt-out options)
Securing our assets: We may also use Personal Data to protect the security or integrity of our websites and our business.
General Matters: We may also use Personal Data to verify your identity, respond to and process your request or queries, complying with any applicable laws, regulations and investigations, and any other purposes for which you have provided the information.
Other: We may use and collect Personal Data for any purpose associated with or related to the above purposes.
COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES
Please see our Cookies Policy, which forms part of this Privacy Policy, for more information on what cookies we use, why we use them and how you can better control their use through your browser and other tools.
DISCLOSURE/SHARING OF PERSONAL DATA
We treat your Personal Data with care and confidentiality. We will not trade, sell or rent your Personal Data to or with any third party. Fossil will not provide Personal Data to any third party without obtaining your prior consent except for the following cases:
• We may involve other companies for the purposes described in this Policy. These other companies might be members of the Fossil group or other third party providers, which may be based in other
jurisdictions than your country of residence. Third party providers perform various different services in support of our websites and our business such as administrative, computer, technology outsourcing, data processing and marketing services. In these instances, we will need to share your Personal Data with these companies.
• Where we engage service providers that use Personal Data on behalf of Fossil we will use reasonable measures to contractually ensure that Personal Data is only used for the purposes of Fossil.
• Fossil may share your Personal Data where necessary in order to comply with any legal obligation, to protect and defend Fossil, its subsidiaries and affiliates and all of their officers, directors, employees, attorneys, agents, contractors, and partners, in connection with any legal action, claim or dispute or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements.
• Occasionally we may also share your Personal Data with select third parties so that they can send you promotional materials about goods and services offered by them. We may also occasionally share your Personal Data with organizations that combine the Personal Data with publicly available information and information we receive from or cross-reference with our marketing partners and other third parties. We use that combined information to enhance your shopping experience with us, to communicate with you about our products, to inform you of events that may be of interest to you, and for other promotional purposes. Fossil reserves the right to transfer your Personal Data to a third party in the event of a transfer of all or some of Fossil's assets to a third party, provided that the third party agrees to adhere to terms similar to those of this Privacy Policy. Fossil may disclose aggregated, non-Personal Data about website users without restriction.
Subject to applicable laws and regulations, Fossil may disclose aggregated, non-Personal Data about website users.
TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA OUTSIDE MALAYSIA
We may share your personal data with Fossil’s subsidiaries in Hong Kong, Singapore and the United States to fulfil the processing purposes as stated above. Otherwise, we do not usually send your Personal Data outside of Malaysia unless it is necessary for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy. When we do send personal data abroad, we have in place adequate safeguards in compliance with the requirements under the applicable laws. This includes ensuring that the recipient is bound by legally enforceable obligations to provide the transferred personal data a comparable standard of protection as that under the Personal Data Protection Act 2010.
RETENTION PERIOD
Fossil will keep your Personal Data for as long as necessary for the purposes described above or as long as we are required by law. After this your Personal Data will be deleted. We cannot remove your Personal Data when there is a legal storage requirement, such as accounting rules or when there are other legal grounds to keep the data, such as an ongoing contractual relationship.
SECURITY
The security of your Personal Data is important to us. Accordingly, while no set of privacy and security standards or safeguards is 100% secure, we take steps to ensure any information that you share with us is kept secure and strictly confidential in accordance with this policy. We take various precautions to protect information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification, alteration, destruction or similar risks.
LINKS TO OTHER MATERIALS
If you are offered a link to connect to a third-party website, it is for the convenience of our website visitors. Sites linked to and from this website are not necessarily under the control of Fossil and Fossil has no responsibility for the content or privacy practices of any such linked site or service. We recommend that you read the privacy policies of those third parties to see how your information is handled.
OPT OUT PROCEDURES
With regard to Personal Data that you have provided or that has been collected under this Privacy Policy, you may opt out of uses for direct marketing purposes, such as correspondence from us about our products and promotions or the sharing by us of your Personal Data with select third parties for their direct marketing purposes. You may opt-out by sending an e-mail to ap-privacy@fossil.com, or use any other options we may offer. Your opt-out choices do not apply to:
• any communication which is not promotional in nature,
• sharing and use by Fossil of your Personal Data with service providers used by Fossil to enhance your experience on our websites and
• to allow Fossil to provide you with more personalized advertising across the internet. If you do not exercise your opt-out or "do not share" choices upon registration on one of our websites, it may take up to ninety (90) days for your opt-out choices to be fully effective.
ACCESS TO AND CORRECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
This website gives you the ability to view and change the Personal Data you provided to us within the My Account section of the website. You may access information we hold about you, request a correction where data is incorrect or a deletion of your data, unless we have to keep your data for legal reasons. For any inquiries please contact us at ap-fossil@fossil.com.
Kindly note that a reasonable fee may be charged for an access request. If so, we will inform you of the fee before processing your request.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Any updated Privacy Policy will be posted with a revised effective date.
HOW TO CONTACT US
Please address any questions or concerns, inquiries, complaints, requests to access or correct your Personal Information, or requests to limit the processing of your Personal Data regarding our Privacy Program or our practices concerning Personal Data to our data protection officer at legal@fossil.com or telephone: +1 (800) 449-3056