PRIVACY AND SECURITY

FOSSIL GLOBAL PRIVACY POLICY 

Last Updated: March 31, 2021

At Fossil Group, Inc., its affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively “Fossil”, “Fossil Group”, “we”, “us” or “our”) we value your data protection rights. To find out which entity is responsible for the data processing in your case please refer to section 13 below. In this Global Privacy Policy we provide you with both a brief summary and an in-depth explanation (starting with section 1. below) of how we handle Personal Information. Since our privacy practices may vary among the countries in which we operate to reflect global practices and legal requirements, country-specific variations will be noted below.  

This Privacy Policy describes:

• Personal Information we collect in our online and offline stores, our websites, our social media accounts, through our call-centers or through our repair centers, and the purposes for which we use it.
• Personal Information we transfer to third parties.
• Rights you have and how you can execute such rights.

“Personal Information” is information that can be used either directly or indirectly to identify you. Examples of Personal Information include your name, your email address and the items you purchased.

Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to Personal Information we collect through any of our Apps or wearable technology devices. Please refer to the Privacy Policies of our App(s) for privacy information related to our wearable apps and devices. 

Service Provision We and our service providers process personal information related to you in order to provide you with the full range of services and features we offer. This includes data necessary to set up a customer account and data required to receive products and services.  Marketing We may use your data for marketing purposes to provide you with personalized offers about our products and services, unless you opt-out.  Recipients  We and our service providers access your data in order to provide services to you as described in this Privacy Policy.  Your rights  You have the right to access, correct and delete your Personal Information, withdraw your consent. Location of your data Data we use will be primarily stored in the United States with us and our cloud service providers, subject to appropriate safeguards.

1. What Personal Information do we use, for which purposes and on which legal basis?

In order to provide you with our services and the full range of features, we and our service providers use your data (including your name, email address and IP address) for the following purposes: 

• When you create an online customer account, to manage your account, to provide access to your shopping cart, to display purchased, reserved and registered products, or to present other products presumably of interest to you, to verify your identity if you forgot your password and to process your product reviews.
• When you choose to provide us further information, such as date of birth, address, personal settings, a wish list and your gender, to enable us to personalize both your profile and our recommendations for you. 
• When you order goods online, in this case we additionally need your address, telephone number and payment information, to process your purchase, send you confirmation or back-in-stock notification and scan transactions for fraudulent activity. 
• When you order goods to be picked-up in one of our stores, we need contact details such as name and email address of a pick up person other than you. 
• When you purchase a product in a Fossil retail store and request an e-receipt, to process your request.
• When you subscribe to our newsletters, participate in loyalty programs, recommend our products to others, redeem a gift card or other rewards or benefits, or when we offer you discounts and bonuses etc. we use this information in addition to purchase-related information to determine whether you are eligible for additional discounts and special offers. 
• When you share a product or wish list via our homepage to a friend or when you provide us with the contact details of a friend we will use it to process your request.
• When you share any pictures/materials/comments with us for publication on social media for such publication.
• When you enter a sweepstake, contest/competition, or promotion sponsored by us to administer and promote the sweepstakes, contest/competition or promotion.
• When you return or exchange a product or when you send us your product for warranty or repair service, to process the request and any communication in connection with it.
• When you contact us to answer your requests, provide customer support and handle your inquiry. 

You do not have to provide us with any Personal Information.  However, if you do not do so, we may not be able to provide you with the products, services or benefits you have requested. 

In principle (unless we have a legal or other legitimate reason to maintain it), we delete information related to you 

• upon your request,
• after expiry of the relevant legal retention period,
• once we do not have any business purpose for retaining the data anymore. 

In addition to those just described, we want to explain certain of our processing activities to you in more detail:

1.1 Video surveillance  

We process your data gained from video surveillance in some of our stores and campuses for security, loss and fraud prevention. We share this data in the cases described in section 3. The duration of the data storage depends on the governing national law unless storage is otherwise permitted (see section 4).    

1.2 Interest based advertising

We may contact you for direct marketing purposes via email, mail, or other communication methods (e.g. social media, text messaging, telephone) unless you have opted-out from receiving direct marketing messages. To select which marketing information may be of interest to you and to personalize ads and offers, we may

• use publicly available information (e.g. from your social media profiles),
• analyze your account information and how you use our services including our websites, social media accounts, ads on third party websites and our newsletters,
• use information of your redemption of a gift card/reward/benefit, participation in a sweepstake, contest, competition, survey or loyalty program, 
• use information collected by our service providers or partners (e.g. Google),
• use information collected when you request an e-receipt in our stores or fill out an onboarding form.

1.3 Cross-device targeting

In order to save your preferences, analyze your usage of our websites, provide interest-based advertising to you and deliver tailored ads across multiple devices, we try to link the different devices you are using to you. Technically, we are storing cookies on all the devices you are using and match those cookies within our internal database. 

1.4 Log files, Cookies and similar technologies

We use Cookies and similar technologies such as pixel tags. Cookies are small files stored on your computer's hard drive to help store preferences and other information. Pixel tags, also known as web beacons, are invisible image files, which can be contained in web pages or emails, and which request information about your computer, such as e.g. your browser settings, operating system, screen resolution etc. We are processing data collected through Cookies and other similar technologies to provide a website with special functionalities, optimizing it, ensuring the security of our IT, and also for marketing campaigns. 

We may permit third parties to collect user Personal Information over time or across third-party websites, and we may permit third parties to gather Personal Information passively on our websites for behavioral advertising purposes.

Before we explain to you which categories of cookies and other technologies we use, we want to point out that you can generally reject browser Cookies via the settings of your browser.

Please note that certain functionalities of our website and services may not be accessible to you if you disable the use of Cookies.

We use session Cookies that expire at the end of a browser session (from when a user opens the browser window to when they exit the browser) and persistent Cookies which remain on your hard drive until you erase them or they expire. How long a persistent Cookie remains on your browser depends on how long the visited website has programmed the Cookie to last.

Every time you visit our website, our system stores data related to your browser, its version, the operating system of your computer/device, your IP address, date, length and time of your visit, the website you accessed before and the one you visit following links on our website. We use this information for our legitimate security interest and we delete log files without undue delay. 

• We partner with Google Ads to display ads to visitors of our website on third party websites. Google Ads allows us to tailor our marketing to better suit your needs and only display ads that are relevant to you. To avoid repetition in displaying ads, to stop and detect click fraud and to show you relevant ads based on websites you have visited before, Google uses Cookies. Google stores your web request, IP address, browser type and language, date and time of your request, and other details. You can find detailed information about how Google uses personal information here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. To prevent Google from collecting data for behavioral advertising you may change the settings here https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=en.
• We have integrated a Facebook Marketing Pixel into our websites. The pixel sends information to Facebook about your interaction with our website and potentially more data, which might be used to identify you (such as information about your browser, language preferences, date, IP address, advertising ID). Facebook uses this data to learn if our website has been visited by you, which pages you visited in detail and if you clicked on a link on Facebook or Instagram that forwarded you to our website. Thus Facebook can show you personalized ads on Facebook, Instagram or other websites that are using this functionality. Facebook may combine this data with your Facebook account data and use it for its own purposes. For more information on how Facebook is processing your data please visit https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy. 
• We cooperate with GrowthOps, an affiliate marketing platform for digital advertising services. GrowthOps places Cookies on your device and uses information about transactions such as purchases from one of our webshops. GrowthOps collects information about your browser, device and the time you clicked on one of our ads. GrowthOps cooperates with different service providers (“publishers”) who display our ads on their websites. Publishers may also place Cookies on your browser. 
• We use Bing Ads, an advertising service provided by Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft places Cookies and collects data like your IP address which allows us to process information about your usage of our website and to show ads that are relevant to you. The cookie contains a globally unique ID assigned to your browser, and/or an ID assigned to you as long as it is authenticated through your Microsoft account. To opt-out from Bing Ads click here https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads.
• We have integrated a TikTok Pixel. We use this pixel to display targeted ads to TikTok users who have shown interest in our products or who have certain characteristics and to measure performance of our marketing campaigns. TikTok collects e.g. information about your browser, your IP address and pages you visited. For more information on how TikTok is processing your data please read TikTok's privacy policy: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/privacy-policy?lang=en.

1.5 Your reviews and shared content

When you post a product or seller review or upload an image or other material to our websites, or when you share content with us on third party websites, such as social networks, ecommerce websites, we publish and use this information on our and third party websites. We do not control and do not assume responsibility for the use of information by such third party websites. 

Please also note that you must own the intellectual property rights in the content you upload to our websites and otherwise share with us and must not violate the rights of others (e.g. intellectual property or data protection rights). In providing the content, you grant us, and our respective service providers, a royalty-free, unrestricted, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, sub-licensable, transferable and worldwide license to use, edit, copy, adapt, translate, publish, display, make available, communicate and distribute the content partially or in whole, and to incorporate it in other works for any purposes such as advertising, marketing and promotions and in any form, media or technology known today or later developed.

1.6 Legal Basis (Australia and New Zealand)

We will comply with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) of Australia, the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020, and other applicable national, state laws providing protection of Personal Information, and their subsidiary legislations and regulations.

2. Where do we get Personal Information from?

Most of the Personal Information we process is received from you or is generated from your actions, be it because you entered the data during the registration process, placed an order, applied for a job vacancy or because we track your usage of our website or newsletter etc. However, we also may receive information about you from other sources, such as, Fossil Group companies, and, if publicly available, from third party websites. In some cases we receive Personal Information about you from our service providers and partners, e.g. from Facebook, Google etc.

3. When do we share Personal Information?

We will share your Personal Information in the following cases:

3.1 Legal obligation and internal purposes

We disclose your Personal Information 

• in order to comply with relevant laws, regulatory requirements and to respond to lawful requests, court orders, and legal processes, including requests to meet national security or law enforcement requirements,
• in order to protect and defend the rights or property of us or third parties,
• in an emergency, in order to protect the safety of our employees or any person.

3.2 Joint processing within Fossil Group

Your information will be combined with other Personal Information that Fossil Group companies have obtained about you (e.g. wearable data, goods you have purchased on a company website or from a store, repair transactions, promotion activities). We will also make your data available to Fossil Group companies if you apply for a job with us (for information about Fossil Group companies click here www.fossilgroup.com. We base this joint processing on an intra group agreement, allocating the responsibilities of the respective group entities. According to this agreement, each Fossil Group company will be responsible for the data processing related to its own business operations and will remain responsible for the personal information jointly processed with others. For you as our customer this means that the Fossil entity you are in touch with is responsible for processing your data and answering your requests. If you are not sure about the entity responsible in your case please contact ap-privacy@fossil.com.

3.3 Links to Third-Party Websites and Services

On some pages we allow you to share Personal Information with third parties, such as social networks like Facebook. In these instances you are agreeing to the data being shared and the shared data being subject to the privacy policies of the third party. We do not control and do not assume any responsibility for the use of Personal Information by such third parties. For more information about the third party’s purpose and scope of their use of Personal Information in connection with sharing features, please visit the privacy policies of such third parties.

3.4 Third party advertising

We use third-party service providers to display advertisements across the internet. These advertising service providers may collect information about your visits to our website and your interaction with our products and services, as well as your visits to other websites. Such information does not include your name, address, email address but may contain browser-related information.

3.5 Public Disclosure 

Any Personal Information that you include in the text of a product review may be made public in the product review section of our product pages. We may also share the information contained in your wish list with your friends and family as instructed by you or make it public on our websites in case you enable this function. Wish lists made public can be found by searching for your name or email address on our websites.

3.6 Sharing with third parties

We involve other companies for the provision of services, who are allowed to use Personal Information only on our behalf and must not use it for their own purposes, unless permitted by law. As follows a list of categories of recipients together with the respective purposes:

• to enable the functionality of our online application portals;
• to provide customer care services;
• to provide hosting and general IT services; 
• to use data cleansing techniques in order to ensure your data, such as your address, is correct;
• for functional, social, analytical technologies and technologies enabling behavioral marketing; 
• for social media services;
• to provide payment services;
• for transport and logistics services;
• for direct marketing campaigns;
• to administer sweepstakes, contests and competitions. 

3.7 Transfer of Assets

We may transfer your Personal Information to a third party in the event of a transfer of all or some of our assets to a third party.  

4. For how long do we use Personal Information?

We will retain your Personal Information as long as necessary to provide you with functionality and services as described above under section 1, as long as reasonably necessary to further our legitimate interests or as long as we are required by law. Examples include the defense against, or the establishment of legal claims and legal obligations (e.g. tax law, or the principle of accountability, which requires us to demonstrate that our processing complies with applicable data protection laws). In order to verify whether you opted out or in to marketing activities, for example, we store your respective choice (e.g. via a cookie or a declaration).

5. What are your rights?

With regard to Personal Information 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. Please consider that if you exercise your opt-out choices, it may take up to ninety (90) days for your opt-out choices to be fully effective. To exercise your opt-out rights, please contact us at ap-privacy@fossil.com.

6. International Transfer 

We cooperate with service providers located outside Australia or New Zealand. We make sure these service providers process your Personal Information based on our contracts with these service providers unless we transfer your Personal Information to a country/region pursuant to another exception allowing the transfer as permitted by applicable law.  

7. Personal Information from Minors

We do not knowingly collect, maintain or use Personal Information about children under 18. Persons under the age of 18 may not use our websites, online stores, social media accounts or otherwise provide your Personal Information without supervision from a responsible adult. We will never request Personal Information from a child under 18 without verifiable parental consent. If we become aware that a child under 18 has sent Personal Information without prior parental consent, we will remove his or her Personal Information from our records.

8. Access to and your rights regarding your Personal Information

Some of our websites may give you the ability to view and change the Personal Information you provided to us within the My Account section or the like section of the websites. 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. We encourage you to address any concerns you may have regarding our use of your Personal Information by using the contact details provided below.

9. Safeguard Security of Personal Information

We are committed to safeguarding the security of your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, copying, modification, disclosure, destruction, and alteration. Therefore, we have implemented physical, technical, and organizational security measures appropriate to the risks. These measures include, but are not limited to, regular testing of our technology and ways of working, including keeping up to date on the latest security updates as well as controlling access to systems and networks, encryption, pseudonymization etc.

10. Complaints

If you are concerned that we have not complied with your legal rights or applicable privacy laws, you may file a complaint internally by sending us an email using the contact details provided in Chapter 13 or you may decide to make a formal complaint with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (www.oaic.gov.au) or the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (www.privacy.org.nz).

11. What happens if we change this Privacy Policy?

This Privacy Policy is effective as of March 31, 2021 and may be updated from time to time. We will notify you of material changes by posting a prominent notice on our website or by sending you an email. 

12. Links to and from other websites

Whenever we provide links to other websites on our website, this is in the interest of our users and should be understood as a courtesy. Pages to which we link and pages that link to our websites are not under our control. In such cases we are neither responsible for the content of these pages nor for compliance with the applicable data protection regulations of those providers. We recommend that you carefully read the privacy statements of these third parties to learn how your Personal Information is stored, used or shared.

13. Who are we and how can you contact us?

Please address any questions, concerns, inquiries, complaints, or requests regarding our practices concerning Personal Information to Fossil at:

Telephone number: 1 (800) 449-3056 

Fossil Group

Attn: Legal & Compliance

901 S. Central Expressway

Richardson, TX 75080, USA

You can also get in touch with our data protection team and the responsible data protection officer we designated in every case required by law per email using ap-privacy@fossil.com.

Our Australia and New Zealand subsidiary is Fossil Australia Pty Ltd, 122-126 Old Pittwater Road, Brookvale, NSW 2100, telephone number: 1800 818 853.  You can either contact our Australia/New Zealand representative sending an email to ap-privacy@fossil.com.