General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
— Last Updated: 1 September 2023 —
Introduction
Some of the information found on this page may be repeated in our main Privacy Policy, however, this page has specifically been created to cover GDPR.
Please read this policy, along with our main Privacy Policy page before using our site, services or products. APPLE WATCH NEWS (“we” “us”, “our”, “AWN”) are committed to caring for, protecting and respecting your privacy and keeping your personal data secure.
Who we are
We are a UK based online news aggregator affiliate marketing website, specialising in Apple Watch and other electronic products. We do not sell physical products, rather advertise a selection of products from third parties and refer you to those sites for the purpose of order fulfilment and associated activities. We may receive commission for any qualifying sales.
Our website address is: https://applewatchnews.com
Our email address is: info@applewatchnews.com
What personal data we collect and why
a) Comments and Profile Images
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form.
b) Contact forms
Certain areas of the site use contact forms in order to generate an email message directed to us (and only us).
Contact forms capture personal data such as your name and email address, necessary to generate such emails and allow for a smooth communication.
We do not use the information captured on our contact forms for marketing purposes.
c) Cookies
Our full cookie policy can be found here.
d) Embedded content from other websites
Articles or products on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, products, etc.) – embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
e) Analytics
When you use our site, our tracking service providers such as Google Analytics collect information using various technologies, including cookies and pixel tags (which are also called clear GIFs, web beacons, or pixels).
Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our site and your experience, and track usage of our resources. These service providers may use cookies to collect and store information about your device, such as time of visit, pages visited, time spent on each page of the site, items added to basket, referrer, links clicked and conversion information, browser, mobile network information, and type of operating system used.
h) Popups and offers
Should you choose to provide us with your contact information (in order to receive any information that we have presented to you / via email correspondence instigated by yourself) you agree for us to subsequently contact you for marketing purposes or to reply to you as a result of correspondence instigated by yourself. If you wish to opt-out, please follow the opt-out steps found at the bottom of our communications, or by emailing info@applewatchnews.com.
Who we share your data with
We do not sell our users’ private personal information. And we don’t give it away, either.
We share information about you in the limited circumstances detailed below and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy:
Third Party Vendors: We do not share information about you with third party vendors.
Legal Requests: we may disclose information about you in response to a court order, or other governmental request.
Business Transfers: in connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the unlikely event that we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this GDPR Policy would continue to apply to your information and the party receiving your information may continue to use your information, but only consistent with this policy.
With Your Consent: we may share and disclose information with your consent or at your discretion.
Aggregated or De-Identified Information: we may share information that has been aggregated or reasonably de-identified, so that the information could not reasonably be used to identify you. For instance, we may publish aggregate statistics about the use of our products, de-identified screenshots or de-identified code snippets.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment / review, the comment / review and its metadata are retained indefinitely.
Finally, we keep Google Analytics and other tracking data indefinitely, to allow for a smooth running of our business and compare analytics trends over the years.
What rights you have over your data
You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, accounting or security purposes. Please request this by emailing info@applewatchnews.com
On top of that, we recommend following these guidelines:
- Limit the Information that You Provide e.g. don’t enter unnecessary personal data in the comments / reviews or contact form messages.
- Opt-Out of Electronic Communications. You may opt out of receiving newsletters and promotional messages from us. Just follow the instructions in those messages. If you opt out of promotional messages, we may still send you other messages, like those about legal notices.
- Set Your Browser to Reject Cookies
Contact information
If you have a question about any of our policies please contact us at info@applewatchnews.com
Policy Changes
We may modify this Policy from time to time. When we do, we will provide notice to you by publishing the most current version and revising the date at the top of this page. If we make any material change to this Policy, we will provide additional notice to you, such as by sending you an email, or displaying a prominent notice on our site. By continuing to use the site after any changes come into effect, you agree to the revised Policy.