Privacy policy
1. GENERAL
Gallet is a brand owned and operated by Breitling SA ("we", "our", or "us"). This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, and share your personal data when you visit the Gallet website www.gallet.com ("Website”) or use its services.
The term personal data used herein applies to all personal information relating to an identified or identifiable person ("Personal Data"). This includes information such as name, country of residence, job title, e-mail address, telephone number and IP address.
You can access and browse most areas of our Website without having to provide personal details. However, the access to certain areas and functions of our Website may require you to register certain Personal Data. By entering your Personal Data in the fields requested, you enable us to provide you with the services you select.
2. IDENTITY AND CONTACT DETAILS OF THE CONTROLLER
Our company name is Breitling SA, and we own the Gallet brand. We are registered in Grenchen, Switzerland under company registration number CHE-102.177.526 HR/MWST, with our main office located at Léon Breitling-Strasse 2, CH-2540 Grenchen, Switzerland. Hosting services for our Website are provided by AWS in their servers in Germany.
You can contact our Data Protection Officer at dataprivacy@gallet.com .
3. PURPOSES AND LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING
We process your Personal Data for the following purposes and on the following legal bases:
Customer Support: Replying to inquiries, notifying you of changes, and resolving issues via customer support, where necessary.
Legal basis: Consent.
Running and Improving Our Services: Ensuring the correct functioning of our Website, maintaining security, preventing fraud, managing risks, testing features, and managing landing pages.
Legal basis: Legitimate interest and legal obligations.
Performing Our Agreements: Processing and fulfilling orders, supplying goods or services, generating invoices or other payment documents, processing payments, shipping, and delivery.
Legal basis: Performance of a contract.
Sending of Marketing Communications: Sending you marketing communications about Gallet products and services, provided you have given your consent.
Legal basis: Consent.
Creation of an account: You can create an account on our Website by providing valid and accurate Personal Data, including your first name, last name, and email address, and setting up a password. Your account information will be stored in our company CRM.
Legal basis: Consent.
Other Reasons: We may also seek your consent for specific purposes. When we do so, we will explain the purpose in the relevant consent request. Furthermore, if required by law or public authorities, we may use your Personal Data to comply with such requirements.
Legal basis: Consent and legal obligations.
We also collect anonymized and statistical data to understand how our platforms and services are used. This helps us to adapt and customize our platforms and services for users, assist with their use, conduct market research, and improve our platforms and services overall.
4. LEGITIMATE INTERESTS PURSUED BY THE CONTROLLER
Where the processing is based on legitimate interests, these include ensuring the security and functionality of our services and preventing fraud.
Whenever we rely on legitimate interest as a legal basis for processing Personal Data, we ensure that our interests are not overridden by your interests, fundamental rights, or freedoms in line with legal obligations.
5. RECIPIENTS OR CATEGORIES OF RECIPIENTS OF THE PERSONAL DATA
We may share your Personal Data with:
Third-party service providers such as payment processors, shipping companies, hosting services, customer communication platforms, mail handling services, analytics providers, and customer relationship management platforms, provided these have committed themselves towards us to observe the applicable data protection laws and guarantee a similar level of protection for your Personal Data.
Within our company group (i.e., Breitling SA and its subsidiaries) for internal business and operational purposes.
During business transitions such as mergers, acquisitions, or asset sales.
When legally required (e.g., for law enforcement investigations or other legal proceedings).
6. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS OF PERSONAL DATA
We store your data on servers located in Switzerland. Where your Personal Data is to be transferred outside of the European Economic Area, we will ensure this is performed in line with national and international data protection legislations (e.g., under Chapter V of the GDPR). In particular, where required by law, your Personal Data will only be transferred to countries offering an adequate level of protection according to the European Commission.
7. LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
7.1. Certain activities through the Website may be linked with those from other unrelated third-party companies that offer you the option to share your Personal Data with the third party. Links provided on the Website to third party platforms are provided as a convenience to you and we do not control those platforms or their privacy practices, which may differ from ours. We do not endorse or make any representations about any third-party platforms that may be accessible through the Website.
7.2 We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any company before submitting your Personal Data. The Personal Data you choose to give to unrelated third parties is covered by their privacy policies, not this Privacy Policy. Some third-party companies may choose to share their personal data with us; that sharing is governed by that third party company's privacy policy.
8. RETENTION PERIODS
We will retain your Personal Data no longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice and for satisfying any legal or regulatory requirements. Specifically:
Personal data processed for answering your request and providing you data about us, our products, special offers, our services, and our business partners will be kept for 3 years after your last contact with us or upon the date of withdrawal of your consent or objection to such communication.
Personal data processed for the good performance and management of our contractual relationship with you will be kept for the necessary duration but no longer than 10 years after the end of your business relation with us or your last contact with us.
Personal data collected to prevent fraud and other prohibited or illegal activities will be kept for the duration necessary for protecting ourselves in the event of a legal claim but no longer than 10 years from the last processing.
Data processing records related to the management of your request for access to, rectification, or deletion of your Personal Data will be kept for the duration necessary for protecting ourselves in the event of a legal claim but no longer than 5 years from the last event.
In accordance with applicable data protection legislation, you have the right to ask for the deletion of your Personal Data at any time, to the extent compatible with legal obligations that may impose longer data retention periods on us.
At the end of these data retention periods, your Personal Data will be permanently deleted or fully anonymized.
9. COOKIES
On our Website, we use cookies. Cookies are small files that are saved on your computer when you visit or use our Website. Cookies save certain settings via your browser as well as data regarding information exchanged with the Website via your browser.
Most of the cookies that we use are temporary, exist only while your browser is open and are deleted automatically once you close your browser. We also use permanent cookies which remain stored after your browser is closed, which can be used to recognize your computer when you open your browser and browse the internet again. Depending on the type of permanent cookies, they remain on your computer or device for a certain period of time and are then automatically deactivated after the programmed period has expired.
9.1 WHY DO WE USE COOKIES?
Cookies help us to make a number of functions on our Website available. For example, cookies will enable the Website to remember your preferences such as language or product preferences so that you do not have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the Website or browse from one page to another.
By using cookies, we can also analyze how our visitors use our Website, navigate and complete purchases on our Website. This includes the number of visitors to our Website, the platforms that referred them to our Website and the pages that they visited on our Website. This information enables us to create a more user-friendly and effective Website, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on our Website.
Also, we use cookies for a more efficient use of advertising. Those cookies enable us to display advertising that is more likely to relate to your areas of interests based on the usage information we have collected from your visits to the Website.
9.2 WHAT KIND OF INFORMATION IS STORED IN COOKIES?
Cookies capture usage information such as the date and time of your visit, the IP address of your device and the operating system you use. Additionally, cookies may store information with regard to the sites you came from before you arrived on our Website. Also, cookies may allow us to track the topics you were researching on our Website.
Once a cookie is activated, it is given an ID number, which is used for internal reference and is not used to identify the user or access any Personal Data.
9.3 MANAGING YOUR COOKIE PREFERENCES
If you do not want to use cookies, this will not prevent you from accessing the Website. Please note, however, that if you decline cookies, you may not be able to see certain information on our Website and some functions on the Website may be limited or unavailable.
You can also configure the opt-in setting of the cookies used on our Website via our .
9.4 WHICH COOKIES DO WE USE?
We may use analytics cookies such as Google Analytics, for the purpose of evaluating how people use our Website. Typically, these tools are provided by third parties. As a general rule, the information required for this analysis is captured by cookies and other tracking technologies on an anonymous basis and sent to a third-party server. Thus, depending on where the server is located, the information may be sent abroad.
As mentioned above, you may refuse the use of cookies and therefore the use of web analysis tools by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. You can also prevent your data (incl. IP address) from being used by Google Analytics by downloading and installing the Google Analytics browser add-on, which is available here.
10. YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS
Under applicable data protection laws (including the GDPR and Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection), you have rights regarding the processing of your Personal Data, such as access, rectification, objection, erasure, and restriction. Exercising these rights is free of charge. Please contact us by email at dataprivacy@gallet.com if you wish to make a request in relation to:
Accessing your Personal Data.
Correcting inaccurate or incomplete Personal Data.
Erasing your Personal Data.
Restricting processing of your Personal Data.
Objecting to processing, if your Personal Data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests and if grounds for this relating to your particular situation exist.
Receiving your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format or having such transmitted to another controller.
Withdrawing consent, for instance, to the processing of your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes. If you have opted-in to receive a newsletter from us, you can request to stop receiving such by simply clicking the “Unsubscribe” button at the bottom of the communication you received from us. You request will be satisfied in line with legal obligations.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. This period may be extended by two further months where necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of the requests.
If you are dissatisfied with the way we manage your Personal Data, we encourage you to contact us first at dataprivacy@gallet.com so that we can attempt to resolve your concerns. You can always reach out to the competent data protection supervisory authority at your normal place of residence.
11. SECURITY
Keeping your Personal Data secure is important to us. Whilst we are unable to guarantee 100% security, we will do our best and put in place measures to prevent your Personal Data from being accessed by unauthorized third parties.
12. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted here and, if appropriate, notified by email. Please check back regularly for any updates or changes.
13. CONTACT US
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at the address provided below. You must also use this address if you wish to exercise your rights pursuant to Section 10 above.
E-Mail: dataprivacy@gallet.com
Address: Breitling SA, Léon Breitling-Strasse 2, CH-2540 Grenchen, Switzerland.
Latest update: March 18, 2025