01Who we are

WatchQuest is operated by [legal entity name], [registered address]. Contact us at [privacy contact email] about anything in this policy.

02What we collect

Account: your email address, your display name and, if you add one, your mobile number. If you sign in with Google or Apple we receive the name and email those services share with us.

Preferences: your currency, your favourite brands and the notification choices you make.

Your collection: the watches you record, with any notes, purchase details and photos you add. These are visible only to you.

Identification photos: photos you upload to identify a watch. They are kept in a private store for your account.

Offers and enquiries: when you make an offer or ask a seller a question, the message, amount and any contact details you choose to share with that seller.

Technical records: sign-in and security logs, and counters that limit how often login codes and AI features can be used. Limit counters are stored as hashes, not as your email address or IP address.

03How we use it

To run your account, keep your collection, show you your notifications, and deliver offers and replies between you and sellers.

To identify watches and answer horology questions when you ask us to. Photos and questions you send to these features are processed by AI providers (currently OpenAI and Anthropic) to produce the answer.

To keep the service secure and to prevent abuse.

We do not sell your personal information and do not use it for advertising.

04When others see your information

Sellers see your name and the details of an offer or enquiry you send them. They see your email address and mobile number only if you tick the box to share them.

A seller's phone number, email and website are shown to you only after the seller accepts your offer. Contact details are never shown in listing text.

Collection records are private to you unless you choose to submit a watch to the WatchQuest catalogue (see below).

05Submitting a watch to the WatchQuest catalogue

If a watch in your collection is not yet in the WatchQuest catalogue, we may ask whether you would like to submit it so that other people can learn about it. You choose whether to submit.

A submission keeps the watch's details (brand, model, reference and any description you add) so that we can review and publish it in the catalogue. Your collection photos, notes and purchase details are not included. We do not publish your name or account details with a catalogue entry.

Once a watch has been submitted, the watch data remains in the WatchQuest catalogue even if you later delete your account or the collection entry. Only the link back to your account is removed. Please do not submit anything you are not entitled to share.

[Owner to confirm: whether submitted photos are licensed to WatchQuest, and the licence wording.]

06Payments and memberships

Buyers pay nothing to browse, make offers or acknowledge accepted offers. Sellers pay for seller privileges. Payments are recorded with the amount, currency and a payment reference. Card details are not stored by WatchQuest. [Owner to confirm the payment provider when one is connected.]

07Storage, location and transfers

Your data is stored with our database and file-storage provider, Supabase, [region to confirm]. Email login codes are sent through an email delivery provider. AI features send only the content needed for the request.

08How long we keep it

Your account and everything you own in WatchQuest are kept while the account is active.

You can delete your account from your profile. Deleting it removes your profile, collection, preferences, notifications and identification photos. Some records are kept for a limited time where the law requires it, for example payment and security records.

Catalogue submissions are kept as described above, without your account details.

09Your choices and rights

You can view, correct and export your information, change your notification choices and delete your account from your profile.

You can ask us for a copy of the personal information we hold about you, or ask us to correct or delete it, by emailing [privacy contact email]. We will reply within [timeframe, e.g. 30 days].

Depending on where you live, you may have further rights under local data protection law, including India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

10Children

WatchQuest is not intended for anyone under [minimum age, e.g. 18]. Tell us if you believe a child has given us information and we will remove it.

11Changes to this policy

We will post changes here and, where they matter, tell you in the app. The date at the top shows when this policy was last updated.