Privacy Policy

Unless otherwise stated below, the provision of your personal data is neither required by law or contract, nor necessary for
entering into a contract. You are not obliged to provide the data. Failure to provide it has no consequences. This only applies insofar as no other information is provided in the following
processing operations.
“Personal data” is all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Server log files
You can visit our website without providing any personal information.
Each time you access our website, usage data is transmitted to us or our web host/IT service provider via your internet browser and stored in log data (so-called server log files).
This stored data includes, for example, the name of the page accessed, the date and time of access, the IP address, the amount of data transferred and the requesting provider.
The processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR due to our overriding legitimate interest in ensuring the trouble-free operation of our website and
to improve our offer.

Your data may be transferred to third countries outside the European Union for which there is an adequacy decision by the EU Commission.

Contact

Responsible party
Contact us if you wish. The responsible party for data processing is: Hassan Abou Ras, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Str. 27, 65197 Wiesbaden Germany, 004915560192986, datenschutz@bazario.de

Customer’s proactive contact by email
If you contact us proactively by email, we will only collect your personal data (name, email address, message text) to the extent provided by you.
The data processing serves to process and answer your contact request.
If the contact is for the purpose of carrying out pre-contractual measures (e.g. advice on purchase interest, preparation of an offer) or concerns a contract already concluded between you and us,
this data processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR.
If the contact is made for other reasons, this data processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR due to our overriding legitimate interest in processing and
answering your request. In this case, you have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to this processing based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR
of personal data concerning you.
We will only use your email address to process your request. Your data will then be deleted in compliance with statutory retention periods, unless you have consented to further
processing and use.

Collection and processing when using the contact form
When using the contact form, we only collect your personal data (name, email address, message text) to the extent provided by you. The
data processing serves the purpose of establishing contact.
If the contact is for the purpose of carrying out pre-contractual measures (e.g. advice on purchase interest, preparation of an offer) or concerns a contract already concluded between you and us,
this data processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR.
If the contact is made for other reasons, this data processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR due to our overriding legitimate interest in processing and
answering your request. In this case, you have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to this processing based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR
of personal data concerning you.
We will only use your email address to process your request. Your data will then be deleted in compliance with statutory retention periods, unless you have consented to further
processing and use.

Customer Account Orders

Customer account
When opening a customer account, we collect your personal data to the extent specified there. The data processing serves the purpose of improving your shopping experience and
simplifying the order processing. The processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR with your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time by notifying us
without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until revocation. Your customer account will then be deleted.

Collection, processing and transfer of personal data for orders
When ordering, we only collect and process your personal data to the extent necessary to fulfill and process your order and to process your inquiries.
The provision of the data is necessary for the conclusion of the contract. Failure to provide it means that no contract can be concluded. The processing takes place on the basis of
Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR and is necessary for the fulfillment of a contract with you.
Your data will be passed on, for example, to the shipping companies and dropshipping providers, payment service providers, service providers for order processing and IT service providers you have selected. In all cases, we strictly observe the legal requirements. The scope of data transmission is limited to a minimum.

Your data may be transferred to third countries outside the European Union for which there is an adequacy decision by the EU Commission.

Reviews Advertising

Data collection when writing a comment or review
When commenting/reviewing an article or a post, we collect your personal data (name, email address,

comment text) only to the extent provided by you. The processing serves the purpose of enabling a comment/review and displaying comments/reviews.

By submitting the comment/review, you consent to the processing of the transmitted data.
The processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR with your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time by notifying us without affecting the lawfulness
of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until revocation. Your personal data will then be deleted.

When your comment/review is published, only the name you provided will be published.

In addition, when submitting the comment/review, your IP address is stored for the purpose of preventing misuse of the comment or review function and ensuring the security
of our information technology systems. By submitting the comment/review, you consent to the processing of the transmitted data. The processing takes place on
the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR with your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time by notifying us without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the
consent until revocation. Your IP address will then be deleted.

Use of the email address for sending newsletters
Regardless of the contract processing, we use your email address exclusively for our own advertising purposes to send newsletters, provided you have expressly consented to this. The processing
takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR with your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until
revocation. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time by using the corresponding link in the newsletter or by notifying us. Your
email address will then be removed from the distribution list.

Shipping Service Provider

Disclosure of the email address to shipping companies to inform about the shipping status
We will pass on your email address to the transport company as part of the contract processing, provided you have expressly consented to this in the ordering process. The disclosure serves the purpose of informing you
by email about the shipping status. The processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR with your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time by notifying
us or the transport company without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until revocation.

Payment Service Providers

Use of PayPal Express
We use the PayPal Express payment service of PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A. (22-24 Boulevard Royal L-2449, Luxembourg; “PayPal”) on our website. The data processing serves the purpose of being able to offer you payment via the PayPal Express payment service. To integrate this payment service, it is necessary for PayPal to collect data (e.g. IP address, device type, operating system, browser type, location of your device), store and analyze it when you access the website. Cookies may also be used for this purpose. The cookies enable the recognition of your browser.
The processing of your personal data takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR due to our overriding legitimate interest in a customer-oriented offer of various payment methods. You have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation , to object at any time to this processing of personal data concerning you.
By selecting and using PayPal Express, the data required for payment processing is transmitted to PayPal in order to fulfill the contract with you with the selected payment method. This processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Further information on data processing when using the PayPal Express payment service can be found in the associated data protection declaration at www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full?locale.x=de_DE#Updated_PS.

Use of PayPal Check-Out
We use the PayPal Check-Out payment service of PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l.
et Cie, S.C.A. (22-24 Boulevard Royal L-2449, Luxembourg; “PayPal”). The data processing serves the purpose of being able to offer you payment via the payment service. By selecting and using payment via PayPal, credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal or “Pay Later” via PayPal, the data required for payment processing is transmitted to PayPal in order to fulfill the contract with you with the selected payment method. This processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR.

Cookies may be stored, which enable the recognition of your browser. The data processing that takes place as a result takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR due to our overriding legitimate interest in a customer-oriented offer of various payment methods. You have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation,
to object to this processing of personal data concerning you at any time.

Credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal & “Pay later” via PayPal
For individual payment methods such as credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal or “Pay later” via PayPal, PayPal reserves the right to obtain credit information on the basis of mathematical-statistical procedures using credit agencies. For this purpose, PayPal transmits the personal data required for a credit check to a credit agency and uses the information received on the statistical probability of payment default for a balanced decision on the establishment, implementation or termination of the contractual relationship. The credit report may contain probability values (score values) that are calculated on the basis of scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical procedures and in whose calculation, among other things, address data is included. Your legitimate concerns are taken into account in accordance with the statutory provisions. The data processing serves the purpose of credit assessment for the initiation of a contract. The processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR due to our overriding legitimate interest in protection against payment default if PayPal makes advance payments.
You have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to this processing of personal data concerning you based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR
by notifying PayPal. The provision of the data is required for the conclusion of the contract with the payment method you have chosen. Failure to provide it means that the contract cannot be concluded with the payment method you have chosen.

Third-party provider
When paying via the payment method of a third-party provider, the data required for payment processing is transmitted to PayPal. This processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR. To carry out this payment method, the data may then be passed on by PayPal to the respective provider. This processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Local third-party providers can be, for example:

• Sofort (SOFORT GmbH, Theresienhöhe 12, 80339 Munich, Germany) giropay (Paydirekt GmbH,
• Stephanstr. 14-16, 60313 Frankfurt am Main)

Purchase on account via PayPal
When paying via the payment method purchase on account, the data required for payment processing is first transmitted to PayPal. To carry out this payment method, the data is then transmitted by PayPal to Ratepay GmbH (Franklinstraße 28-29, 10587 Berlin; “Ratepay”) in order to fulfill the contract with you with the selected payment method. This processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Ratepay may carry out a credit check on the basis of mathematical-statistical procedures (probability or score values) using credit agencies according to the procedure already described above. The data processing serves the purpose of credit assessment for the initiation of a contract. The processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR due to our overriding legitimate interest in protection against payment default if Ratepay makes advance payments.
Further information on data protection and which credit agencies Ratpay uses can be found at https://www.ratepay.com/legal- payment-dataprivacy/ and
https://www.ratepay.com/legal-payment-creditagencies/.

Further information on data processing when using PayPal can be found in the associated data protection declaration at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full.

Integration of Stripe as a payment service provider

We use the payment service provider Stripe (Stripe Payments Europe, Ltd., 1 Grand Canal Street Lower, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, Ireland) on our website to process payment processes. Stripe is an external provider that enables us to process payments securely and efficiently.

As part of the payment process, personal data such as name, email address, billing address, delivery address, payment information (e.g. credit card numbers, account numbers) and other data required for the payment process are transmitted to Stripe. This processing takes place exclusively for the purpose of payment processing and fraud prevention.

Stripe uses technically necessary cookies to enable the payment processes and ensure the security of the transactions. These are in particular the following cookies:

– __stripe_mid (storage period: 1 year, domain: bazario.de): Serves for user identification and fraud prevention.
– __stripe_sid (storage period: 30 minutes/session, domain: bazario.de): Enables the management of the payment session and contributes to the security of the transactions.
– m (storage period: 2 years, domain: m.stripe.network): Is used for device recognition and additional security measures.

The use of these cookies is necessary for the technical functionality of the payment processing and is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR (contract fulfillment) and Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR (legitimate interest in secure payment processing and fraud prevention).

Stripe may also process data in countries outside the European Union. Stripe ensures an adequate level of data protection through the inclusion of standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission and is a participant in the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

For more information about data protection at Stripe, please visit: https://stripe.com/de/privacy

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored in the internet browser or by the internet browser on a user’s computer system. When a user calls up a
website, a cookie can be stored on the user’s operating system. This cookie contains a characteristic string that enables a unique identification of the
browser when the website is called up again.

Cookies are stored on your computer. Therefore, you have full control over the use of cookies. By selecting the appropriate technical settings in your
internet browser, you can be notified before cookies are set and decide individually whether to accept them, as well as prevent the storage of cookies and the transmission of the data they contain.
Cookies that have already been saved can be deleted at any time. However, we would like to point out that you may then not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent.

Under the following links you can find out how to manage (and also deactivate) cookies in the most important browsers:
Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=de
Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/microsoft-edge/cookies-in-microsoft-edge-lB6schen-63947406-40ac-c3b8-57b9- 2a946a29ae09
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen
Safari: https://support.apple.com/de-de/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac

Technically necessary cookies
Unless otherwise stated in the privacy policy below, we only use these technically necessary cookies for the purpose of making our offer more user-friendly, effective
and secure. Furthermore, cookies enable our systems to recognize your browser even after a page change and to offer you services. Some functions of our
website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. For these, it is necessary that the browser is recognized even after a page change.

The use of cookies or comparable technologies is based on § 25 Para. 2 TDDDG. The processing of your personal data is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit.
f GDPR from our overriding legitimate interest in ensuring the optimal functionality of the website and a user-friendly and effective design of our offer.
You have the right to object to this processing of personal data concerning you at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation.

Use of the Cookie Consent Manager “Real Cookie Banner”
We use the consent management tool “Real Cookie Banner” from devowl.io GmbH, Tannet 12, 94539 Grafling, Germany on our website. With the help of this tool, we manage the consents of our users for the use of cookies and comparable technologies (e.g. tracking pixels, web beacons). Further information on how “Real Cookie Banner” works can be found at: https://devowl.io/de/rcb/datenverarbeitung/.

The legal basis for the processing of personal data in connection with the management of consents is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. c GDPR in conjunction with § 25 TTDSG and our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR in a legally compliant and user-friendly management of cookies and comparable technologies.

The provision of your personal data is neither required by law nor by contract. You are not obliged to provide this data. Without the provision, however, we cannot manage your consents.

Plug-ins and Other

Use of All In One WP Security & Firewall
We use the security plug-in “All In One WP Security & Firewall” from Tips and Tricks HQ on our website.
The data processing serves the purpose of increasing the security and protection of our website and identifying security gaps. Cookies may be used for this purpose, through which user data such as
your IP address can be collected. The data is only stored on our servers. The data will not be passed on to third parties.
The use of cookies or comparable technologies takes place with your consent on the basis of § 25 Para. 1 S. 1 TDDDG in conjunction with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. The processing of your
personal data takes place with your consent on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis
of the consent until revocation.
Further information on data processing when using the plug-in can be found at https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp- security-and-firewall/ and at https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-security-and-firewall-plugin.

Use of Google Fonts
We use Google Fonts from Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland; “Google”) on our website.
The data processing serves the purpose of the uniform presentation of fonts on our website. To load the fonts, a connection to Google’s servers is
established when the page is called up. Cookies may be used in this process. Among other things, your IP address and information about the browser you are using are processed and transmitted to Google. This data
is not linked to your Google account.
Your data may be transferred to the USA. An adequacy decision of the EU Commission is available for the USA, the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework
(TADPF). Google has certified itself according to the TADPF and has thus committed itself to complying with European data protection principles.
The use of cookies or comparable technologies takes place with your consent on the basis of § 25 Para. 1 S. 1 TDDDG in conjunction with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. The processing of your
personal data takes place with your consent on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis
of the consent until revocation.
Further information on data processing and data protection can be found at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/ and at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq.

Rights of Data Subjects and Storage Period

Duration of storage
After complete contract processing, the data is initially stored for the duration of the warranty period, then taking into account legal, in particular tax and
commercial law retention periods and then deleted after the deadline, unless you have consented to further processing and use.

Rights of the data subject
If the legal requirements are met, you have the following rights according to Art. 15 to 20 GDPR: Right to information, to correction, to deletion, to restriction of processing,
to data portability.
You also have the right to object to the processing based on Art. 6 Para. 1 f GDPR and to the processing for the purpose of direct advertising pursuant to Art. 21 Para. 1 GDPR.

Right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority
According to Art. 77 GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your personal data is not lawful.

You can lodge a complaint, among other things, with the supervisory authority responsible for us, which you can reach using the following contact details:
Hessian Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Postfach 3163
65021 Wiesbaden
Tel.: +49 611 14080
Fax: +49 611 1408900 or +49 611 1408901
E-mail: poststelle@datenschutz.hessen.de

Right to object
If the personal data processing listed here is based on our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR, you have the right to object to this processing at any time for reasons
arising from your particular situation with effect for the future.
After an objection has been lodged, the processing of the data concerned will be terminated, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that outweigh your interests,
rights and freedoms, or if the processing serves the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims.

last updated: 2025-06-25