Privacy Policy

Last updated April 2024

Cartier Women's Initiative together with Cartier SA has its registered offices at rue André-de-Garrini 3, 1217 Meyrin, Switzerland. Its affiliate in China, Richemont Commercial Company Limited (with registered office in 701-708 Tower 3 Kerry Center, Jing’an, No. 1228 Yan’an Zhong Lu, Shanghai, China, postcode 200041) (hereinafter “we”, “us” and “our”) is responsible for personal information protection and other relevant matters in the Mainland China. In this Privacy Policy, we use the term CWI (and "we", "us" and "our") to refer to the head office of the Cartier Women’s Initiative at the registered address above, our affiliates and our boutiques.

Please take a moment to read the following policy that explains how we collect, use, disclose and transfer the personal information that you provide to us on our websites, mobile applications and other digital platforms (together referred to as the “Platforms”), when you visit a CWI boutique, contact the CWI concierge by telephone, or when you interact with us over social media platforms. It also explains how we collect information through the use of cookies and related technologies when you use our Platforms.

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

From time to time we may update this Privacy Policy. When we do, we will publish the changes on this Platform.

INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US AND HOW WE USE IT

We collect the information from you as detailed below:

• To access certain areas of our Platform and make an Award submission, you will need to register with us. During the registration process you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (including your name and address, date of birth, e-mail address and telephone number). Please ensure you read the Awards Rules of Participation. By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable CWI to provide you with the services you select;

• If you choose to interact with CWI via a social media platform or other third party service, we will collect the information you have provided to us through that platform;

• We also collect certain information automatically about visitors to our Platform, described in the section headed "Cookies and other information that we automatically collect", below; and

• We will collect information about your location to the extent that we provide any location services, described in the section headed “Location services” below.

We will use the information we collect from you to:

• Manage and administer the Awards, our accounts and records;

• Deal with your enquiries and requests;

• Send service related communications, including announcements and administrative messages;

• Send you marketing communications (including e-mails and social media audience matching) relating to us and other third party partners and that we think may be of interest to you where we have a legitimate basis to do so (please see the “Your choices” section below for further information about how you can control these updates);

• Conduct market research so that we can continuously improve the services we provide; and

• Understand how our Platform is used so that we can continuously improve our Platform and services and other offerings.

Where you have agreed to a particular use of your information, we process it on the basis of your consent. You may withdraw that consent at any time (for example, for us to send you marketing communications) by contacting us (see the section headed “Contact us” below). We also process your information where this is necessary for the performance of a contract with you or where it is necessary for our legitimate interests of operating, protecting and improving our business.

COOKIES AND OTHER INFORMATION THAT WE AUTOMATICALLY COLLECT

This website uses cookies according to our Cookie Policy below. This Cookie Policy is available to users on each page of the website linked to this Privacy Policy and on each information banner regarding cookies.

IP ADDRESSES

We will collect information about your computer or mobile device, including where available your IP address, operating system, log-in times and browser type. We use this information to better understand how visitors use our Platform and for internal reporting purposes. We will anonymise and share this information with advertisers, sponsors or other businesses.

LOCATION SERVICES

Some of the services that we provide are able to use information about your location. For these services, which are typically available on mobile devices or applications, you are provided with the opportunity to provide your consent to the use of location services, which, for example, process information deriving from GPS, sensors, beacons or Wi-Fi access points in order to allow you to benefit from a more personalised service. Your device will have settings that allow you to turn off these services should you no longer wish to benefit from them.

SHARING YOUR INFORMATION

We do not share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except under the following circumstances:

• We will disclose your personal information to third party providers for the purposes of providing online and other payment services, handling credit checks and fraud prevention, and any other services required in order for us to use your information for the purposes specified in the section entitled “Information you provide us and how we use it”;

• We will disclose your personal information to any law enforcement agency, court, regulator, government authority or other third party where we believe this is necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, or otherwise to protect our rights or the rights of any third party; and

• We will disclose your personal information to any third party that purchases, or to which we transfer, all or substantially all of our assets and business. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to try to ensure that the entity to which we transfer your personal information uses it in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.

• Exception to the consent requirement: under the Personal Information Protection Law, we do not need to obtain your prior consent before sharing, transferring and publicly disclosing your information under any of the following circumstances:

o the processing is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract to which you are a contracting party;

o the processing is necessary to fulfil statutory functions or statutory obligations;

o the processing is necessary to respond to public health emergencies or protect the life, health or property safety of natural persons under emergency circumstances;

o personal information is processed within a reasonable scope to conduct news reporting, public opinion-based supervision, or other activities in the public interest;

o the personal information that has been disclosed by you yourself or other personal information that has been legally disclosed is processed within a reasonable scope in accordance with the Personal Information Protection Law; or

o under any other circumstance as provided by any law or administrative regulation.

• We may share with third parties the aggregated or anonymized information or data that cannot directly identify your identity.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

All of your personal information specified in the section headed “Information you provide to us and how we use it” above, including the sensitive personal information, we collect and generate in Mainland China, shall be stored in Mainland China. If, in exceptional circumstances and based on our business needs, we need to transfer certain data to our overseas data receiver located in Switzerland, Cartier SA (please see below the address and contact number) and Richemont Group’s affiliates, for processing, we will only transfer your information overseas after we obtain your separate consent and meet all the requirements on cross border data transfer under the laws and regulations (including passing the security assessment by the national cybersecurity department). For our Group affiliates, please visit https://www.richemont.com/en/home/about-us/global-presence/. The transferred information will be retained at the overseas data receiver until the earlier of the achievement of such purpose for such transfer, and the cancelation of your account. We will supervise the overseas data receiver’s processing of personal information to ensure that the processing meets the standards for protection of personal information under the Personal Information Protection Law and is only carried out within the authorised scope.

Overseas Data Receiver:

Cartier SA

rue André-de-Garrini 3

1217 Meyrin

Switzerland

Tel: + 33 (0) 1 58 18 10 28

PROTECTING YOUR INFORMATION

We want you to feel confident about using our Platform, and we are committed to protecting the personal information we collect. We limit access to personal information about you to employees who reasonably need access to it, to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. We have appropriate technical and organisational physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect the personal information that you provide to us against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, damage or destruction. However, where we ask you to choose a password in order to access certain parts of our Platform, you are responsible for selecting a secure password and keeping that password confidential. You should choose a password which you do not use on any other site, and you should not share it with anyone else.

RETAINING YOUR INFORMATION

We keep your information for only as long as is necessary for our purposes, and in particular to protect ourselves in the event of a legal claim (for example, information relating to a contract with you will be kept for the lifetime of the contract and up to ten years after). After this period it will be deleted or in some cases anonymised. Where we sought your consent to process your personal information and we have no other lawful basis to continue with that processing, if you subsequently withdraw your consent we will delete your personal information. If you request that we no longer send you direct marketing communications, we will keep a record of your request and contact details to ensure that your request is respected.

YOUR CHOICES

You have the right to ask for access to any personal information that we hold about you in our records, to correct any inaccuracies and to update any out-of-date information. In some circumstances, you have the right to request the erasure of your personal information or a restriction of its use.

You have the right to request a copy of your personal information. If you would like to obtain a copy of your information we collected, you can use the user interaction function in our Platforms (if applicable) or the method described in the section headed “Contact Us” in this Privacy Policy to contact us for requesting a copy of your personal information.

You have the right to object to us processing your personal information in some cases. In particular, you can ask us to stop sending you direct marketing communications at any time (however please note that we may continue to send you service-related (i.e. non-marketing) communications, such as e-mail updates on your order status). If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please write to us at the address listed below.

You may unsubscribe from e-mail marketing communications at any time by e-mailing the address below in the section headed “Contact us” or clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ link in any CWI marketing e-mails.

If you have a concern about how we use your information, as a first step please contact us using the details set out below and we will do our best to resolve your concern. After investigating your concern, we will respond to you in writing within a reasonable time setting out our proposed remedial action. If you think we have processed your personal information in a manner which is unlawful or breaches your rights you also have the right to complain to a European Data Protection Authority in your place of residence or work, or the jurisdiction in which the processing took place.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, or privacy matters generally, please contact us at the address provided below. You can also use this address if you wish to request access to the personal information we hold about you or to unsubscribe from any further e-mail marketing communications.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the manner in which your information may be processed, please contact us at:

Email: contact@cartierwomensinitiative.com

Telephone: +86 400 885 6618

Learn more about our cookie policy here.