WatchDial Privacy Notice

Updated: 2026-10-11

This notice applies to the WatchDial website, Garmin watch faces and their shared trial, activation and licensing services. Features vary between watch faces. Information is processed when you use the corresponding feature.

Watch face data

Depending on your settings, watch faces may read time, activity, wellness, weather and location-related information provided by your watch to display the content you select. The shared WatchDial licensing service does not receive heart rate, steps, health records or location readings.

Trials and activation

When you register a trial or activate a watch face, it sends an application identifier, an application-specific device identifier, the activation code you enter and a request identifier. This information is used to register trial dates, validate licenses, record device bindings and restore existing licenses. Watch faces without licensing integration do not perform this registration.

Licensing requests also send available device metadata: part number (used to identify the model), firmware and Connect IQ versions, system language, screen dimensions and shape, touchscreen and burn-in protection capabilities, and client/framework versions. Fields not provided by the device are omitted. This information supports compatibility analysis, troubleshooting and version identification; it does not include wellness or location readings or Garmin account details. The request also includes a license-proof protocol version for validating the server's license response.

A permanent license saved on the watch remains usable offline. The current client may make a background licensing request to report a version after installation or an update, with backoff retries if it fails. After a successful report, watch faces without online content updates do not continue periodic licensing communication. Watch faces that explicitly enable online content updates may periodically request background, font-mapping or text configuration and send their content capabilities and installed content version; see the individual watch face's feature description. The current TerrainTrail 1.0.1 build configuration does not enable online content updates.

The server retains trial and licensing records, plus the latest device metadata, contact times and request result for each application/device, to support continued use, reinstalls, device binding management and troubleshooting. Uninstalling or reinstalling a watch face does not automatically delete these server records.

Website statistics

The website counts page views and clicks on download and purchase links, grouped by date, page and watch face to understand interest in our products. These statistics do not use cookies or visitor identifiers, store email addresses, activation codes, full referring URLs or URL query parameters, or link counts to individual orders. Aggregated counts cover the most recent 90 days; older counts are removed when a new event is received. A link click does not confirm a download or a completed purchase.

Service providers and storage

The shared licensing service is currently hosted in mainland China and uses HTTPS. The website and licensing service may use infrastructure in different regions. Hosting providers process network information needed to deliver the service. Purchase and delivery providers separately handle order information under their own privacy rules.

Contact and requests

For questions about data use, trial or licensing records, or to request deletion, use Contact Developer on the relevant watch face's Connect IQ Store page. Deleting trial or licensing records may affect license restoration and device binding management.