Cookie policy
This Cookie Policy describes how Seiko U.K. Limited located at First Floor, Building 1, Concorde Park, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 4BY and Seiko Watch Corporation located at 26-1, Ginza 1-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8118, Japan ("SEIKO", "our", "we" or "us", which may include affiliates of Seiko Watch Corporation depending on the contexts) uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and store information when you visit our websites. For additional information on our privacy practices, please visit our Website Privacy Policy at https://www.grand-seiko.com/uk-en/privacy.
About Cookies
Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to increase a user's operability on the websites. The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this website. For all other types of cookies, we need your permission. This website uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third party services. Users who have provided consent to us can at any time change or withdraw their consent on our websites. Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Website Privacy Policy.
Purposes of Cookies
We use cookies on our websites to collect anonymous and aggregated information for the purpose of understanding how you use our websites and improving the structures and contents of our websites. Cookies are also used to create statistical materials regarding the operation of our websites and investigate the causes of unauthorised access.
Types of Cookies
Cookies we use are categorised as "session cookies" or "persistent cookies". Session cookies are stored in your computer only temporarily while you are browsing our websites. Persistent cookies are stored even after you stop browsing our websites and remain on your computer until they expire or you delete them. Cookies are classified into the following types depending on their functions and providers.
Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential for the websites to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the websites will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
Performance cookies: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our websites. They help us to know which webpages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the websites. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our websites and will not be able to monitor their performance.
Social Media cookies: These cookies enable you to make it easier to access social networks and online social tools by sharing comments, ratings, webpages, bookmarks, and help.
Targeting cookies: These cookies may be set on our websites by us or our partner companies and service providers. They may be used by those partner companies or by us to build, by combining with other information as necessary, a profile of your interests and show adverts relevant to you on our websites or other websites. They do not store directly personal information, but function based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
Functional Cookies: These cookies enable the websites to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our webpages. If you do not allow these cookies, then some or all of these services may not function properly.
Third Party Cookies
Whether a cookie is a first or third party cookie depends on which websites the cookie comes from. First party cookies are those set by or on behalf of the websites visited. All other cookies are third party cookies. Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be performance and analytical cookies.
Storage Period of Cookies
Except for strictly necessary cookies, each cookie will expire after the storage period specified in the table in the “Cookies used on our websites” section below.
Cookies Used on our Websites
The following table lists the cookies that we use on our websites.
| Cookie Type | Description | Personal data | Storage Period | Example |
| Strictly Necessary | These cookies are essential for the normal functioning of our websites, and they make it possible for you to browse and use our websites. | These cookies do not process personal data as they do not identify you as an individual. | ー | |
| Performance | These cookies collect information on how you use this website in anonymised form, which enables us to help analyse browsed webpages and the duration of visits and improve our websites. | Cookies relating to your interaction with the websites do not identify you as an individual, as such data is collected and aggregated anonymously. | It expires two years from a set date | Google Analytics: Please see here for the details |
| Social Media | These cookies enable you to make it easier to access social networks and online social tools by sharing comments, ratings, webpages, bookmarks and helps. | These cookies do not process personal data as they do not identify you as an individual. | Determined by a third-party provider of each cookie | Facebook: Please see here for the details. Twitter: Please see here for the details. Instagram: Please see here for the details. YouTube: Please see here for the details. |
| Targeting | These cookies record users' online activities such as visiting websites, browsing webpages, clicked links or advertisements. We may send online advertisements which are relevant to your interests in cooperation with third party partner companies and service providers (e.g. if you check a webpage on this website, we may display advertisements of products or services which are referred to on this website or similar products or services on another website). | These cookies do not process personal data as they do not identify you as an individual. | Determined by a third-party provider of each cookie |
Yahoo: Please see here for the details. Google: Please see here for the details. |
| Functional Cookies | These cookies enable the websites to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our webpages. If you do not allow these cookies, then some or all of these services may not function properly. | These cookies do not process personal data as they do not identify you as an individual. |
Management of Cookie Preferences
The browsers of most computers (which means a device that can be connected with the Internet such as a PC, smartphone and tablet) are typically set up to accept cookies. If you wish to amend your cookie preferences for our websites, you can do this through your browser settings. Your browser's 'help' function or the following websites (please click each link) will tell you how to do this.
Contact us
For further information on our use of cookies and similar technologies, please contact us via email at privacy@seiko-watch.co.jp . As we will collect your personal information including your email address, name, and address and use such information to respond to your inquiry, please send us an email after reading our Website Privacy Policy and this Cookie Policy and agreeing to provide your personal information.
