dropwatch keeps as little about you as it can and nothing it does not need. Four figures say most of it; the detail follows.
Your name, email address and profile picture. Never your inbox, contacts or files.
Your session and your language. No tracking or advertising cookies; visits are counted without any.
We do not sell or share your data, and nothing follows you to other sites.
In Privacy and data you delete your account and everything attached to it, at once and for good.
When you sign in with Google we receive your name, email address and profile picture — nothing else. We never ask for access to your inbox, contacts or files.
On top of that we keep only what you set yourself: the sizes you wear, the brands you follow, the garments and top price you choose, the items on your watchlist, with any target price, and the ones you hide. If you fill in “About you”, also the name, username, shipping country, height and preferred fit you give; all optional. We never ask for an address, phone number or date of birth.
If you suggest a brand, we keep the suggestion with your account and use your email once, to tell you when that brand is added. Suggestions are reviewed without your name or email attached.
We also note which days you use dropwatch while signed in: the date only, no pages, products or times. It is how we count, in aggregate, how many people come back. It is kept for at most 400 days, included in your data download and deleted with your account.
In Privacy and data you can switch on “Personalise with my activity”. It is off unless you tick it. While it is on we keep which items appear on your screen, which ones you open and for how long, which you add to your watchlist, click through to the store, share or hide, and how you use the price chart, with the date, your language and whether you were on a phone or a computer. We use it only to order your deals better.
It is kept for 180 days at most (what appeared on screen, 90), never leaves dropwatch and is never sold. Switching it off stops us keeping anything new, and what was kept is not used while it is off. “Delete my activity” in Privacy and data deletes it at once, and so does deleting your account.
Separately, we count how many times each product is opened, added to a watchlist, clicked through to its store, looked up in “Is this sale real?” and shared, and how many visits arrive through a shared link (those links end in “?r=share”), for everyone together and without knowing who: no account, no address, no cookie. That is what “popular” can be built on.
When you paste a link into “Is this sale real?”, we don’t store it (only the server’s technical logs see the address, and they are deleted within an hour). To stop scripts from flooding the page, we count how many checks each connection makes under a code computed from its IP address and a secret key, not the address itself, which changes every day; those counts are deleted after two days.
So that a failure on our side never costs you your settings, every day we keep an encrypted copy of your account and of what you set: sizes, brands, garments and top price, watchlist, hidden pieces, “About you”, brand suggestions and your choice on personalisation. It is stored in a private space in Frankfurt (EU) that only dropwatch can read, and each copy is deleted after 30 days.
Your activity and the days you use dropwatch are not copied, and neither are Google’s access codes: after a recovery you simply sign in again.
We do not sell or share your data, show ads or track you across other sites.
Prices are read once a day from the public product feeds that stores publish. Product images load directly from each store; links take you to the store’s own page.
When a brand or store writes to us from For brands and stores, we keep its website, what it asks for, its email address and its message, only to handle the request and answer it. It is deleted a year after it was sent, and from the encrypted backups 30 days later.
We count visits with Umami, without cookies and without storing anything in your browser. For each page you open it notes the page (without the filters you pick), the site you came from or the tag on the link that brought you (for example, one from our Telegram channel), your approximate country and region, your language, browser and operating system, whether it is a phone or a computer, and the screen size.
Your IP address is used only in the moment, to tell the country and to work out an anonymous identifier that changes every month; it is not stored. Umami does not know who you are, even if you have an account: we pass it nothing about your account, your email or your activity.
Umami works on our behalf, keeps the figures in the European Union and deletes them after 6 months. We do it to know how many people use dropwatch and where they come from, without following you to other sites.
You can download everything we keep about you, and delete your account with all of it, at any time from Privacy and data. Deletion is immediate and permanent; the encrypted backups that still hold your data expire within 30 days.