Privacy Policy:
This agreement was last updated August 10th, 2024.
This is an agreement between the software application known as “Watchla”, referred to in this document as “Watchla”, which is owned by Villegas Ventures LLC, referred to in this document as “The Owners", and the end user in Watchla, referred to in this document as “The User”. In this document, Tesla, Inc. may be referred to as “Tesla”. This document shall be followed by all parties where applicable under US and/or local law.
Watchla is a registered and authorized 3rd party app for Tesla. It is authorized by Tesla to securely handle Tesla users’ account data, including but not limited to vehicle product data if the user consents to sharing their Tesla data with Watchla.
Once The User has authorized Tesla to share data with Watchla, Watchla can then retrieve and receive data from Tesla pertaining to The User. The User can limit which data Tesla shares with Watchla and can revoke Watchla’s permission to access their Tesla data at any time from within their Tesla account which can be accessed via https://www.tesla.com.
Watchla, and thus The Owners do not share user data with any third party entities except to verify and/or process necessary data with Tesla and their API.
Watchla may store or process The User’s data on its privately owned and/or controlled databases, cloud services or servers to facilitate app functionality across devices within The User’s Watchla experience and track errors or exceptions within Watchla or other analytics. These remote entities are secure and owned and/or controlled by Watchla. Only Watchla has authorized access to these entities.
Tesla account authorization credentials are used by Watchla to verify authorization with Tesla during API calls to Tesla Servers and Tesla Products and/or Devices. Tesla account authorization credentials contain a standard JWT access token and refresh token along with other relevant authorization information provided by Tesla to Watchla. Tesla account authorization credentials do not contain The User’s Tesla account email or password. Watchla will never access, process, or store The User’s Tesla account email or password in Watchla versions later than 2.95. (please see “Version 2.95 & before” paragraph for more info). Each Tesla account credential submitted to Watchla by Tesla is specifically for use with Watchla and cannot be used with any other app or service. Watchla receives Tesla account authorization credentials from Tesla after The User successfully signs in with Tesla and authorizes Watchla to access their Tesla account info. Sign in with Tesla is a secure, industry standard OAUTH method of authentication that allows The User to sign in on Tesla’s website, instead of on a Watchla generated form or interface, so that The User’s Tesla account email and/or password is only processed by Tesla–not Watchla.
Tesla account authorization credentials are stored on The User’s device’s secure Keychain and may also be stored on Watchla’s secure server to facilitate essential multi device app functionality (such as sharing auth credentials between The User’s iPhone and Apple Watch).
When The User signs out of Watchla, Watchla revokes their Tesla account credentials so they cannot be used anymore and deletes their Tesla account authorization credentials from the Keychain and Watchla’s secure server (if applicable).
Version 2.95 & before (not supported, no longer available for sale): Versions 2.95 and earlier are considered deprecated and not supported by Watchla and The Owners. If the user wishes to use Remote Start in Watchla (version 2.95 or earlier), then Watchla will have to send The User’s Tesla account password to Tesla for account verification. This was a past requirement by Tesla for Remote Start and there is no way around this in Watchla (version 2.95 or earlier). If The User wishes for Watchla to save their Tesla account password for easier, faster use of Remote Start (in version 2.95 or earlier), voiding the need to enter a password each time Remote Start is used, Watchla will secure said password on the User’s device, via Apple’s secure Keychain technology. If The User signs out, the password will be erased from the Keychain and the User will have to repeat the process if they wish to use Remote Start without entering their password each time. Passwords are only saved and used for Remote Start in versions 2.95 and earlier, and Watchla explicitly REFUSES to, And Will Not Under Any Circumstances, Save or Use, or even accept a password for any other purpose other than to verify Remote Start in version 2.95 or earlier of Watchla. Watchla no longer supports versions 2.95 and earlier (which are years old) and The User understands that they should stay up to date with the latest Watchla version within a reasonable amount of time after Watchla updates are released.
Data collection: Watchla retrieves and receives some data from The User and Tesla and that data can be accessed, stored or saved temporarily. This data is limited to, Tesla account authorization data, given directly from Tesla, Inc that includes but are not limited to: an account token for future secure Tesla API authorization, The User’s vehicle data for the vehicles that are associated with the account, other Tesla products owned by The User and associated with the account, and other data that may be received pertaining to The User by Tesla and any meta data generated by Watchla. Upon in-app approval by The User, location data of the User’s device for which they are using to access Watchla can be accessed and temporarily stored in the Watchla app or Watchla servers and sent to Tesla, Inc where appropriate for the facilitation of Tesla product commands and other location dependent tasks that are deemed location data sensitive by Tesla or Watchla. An example case of this is when The User wishes to use Watchla to send a command to trigger their Homelink device that is paired with their Tesla vehicle. Tesla requires that their location be within a certain physical proximity to the car so that The User can safely oversee the Homelink-related operation. Watchla also collects some analytics data. This analytics data is not shared with Tesla or any other 3rd parties. The analytics data is subject to but not limited to: error logs, action logs, device info, and anonymized user statuses.
Sign in using Authla: Authla is owned by The Owners, but for the purposes of this agreement a completely separate app than Watchla and it is subject to its own user agreements and privacy policy. Sign in with Authla is no longer offered and Authla is not a part of the Watchla ecosystem. Earlier, outdated versions of Authla and Watchla may utilize Sign in with Authla, however this functionality is no longer supported and is not guaranteed to work. The User understands that the use of outdated services like these is no longer supported by Watchla and is not and was never guaranteed or warrantied by Watchla or Authla or the Owners.
In the event that Tesla servers or Watchla itself or the communications between Tesla and Watchla is breached, intercepted or other, The User agrees and understands here forth per this agreement that they cannot hold Watchla or The Owners liable in anyway, shape or form, and Releases both The Owners and Watchla of any liability where applicable under US and/or local law. The User understands that they use Watchla completely at their own risk and nothing that The Owners offers, including Watchla, is guaranteed or warrantied to work as intended. The User also agrees to not litigate or sue Watchla or The Owners in any court of law. This Policy and the agreements it sets forth are subject to United States law and any applicable laws that may have jurisdiction over this document. If any applicable, valid law by a government with legal jurisdiction over this document conflicts with any part of this document, rendering that part illegal or void–that part, only, should not apply and be null and void.