Collection of Personal Data & Information

Personal Data and Information Provided By You

We collect Personal Data and Information that you directly provide to us or to our service providers via our Services, on a voluntary basis, to provide, operate, and manage our website as well as to provide our Services in accordance with our user agreement.

For example, we collect data and information when you use or register for the Services, subscribe to notifications, post on the Service, participate in promotional activities, or communicate or transact with BC through the Services. In addition, when you interact with Third-Party Services (defined below), you may be able to provide information to those third parties.

The personal data and information we collect may include:

Personally Identifiable Information, such as your first and last name, e-mail address, phone number, address, username, password, or your device, including certain digital identifiers, such as IP address.

Non-Personal Information, such as your interests, favorites, usage behavior, and interaction with the Services as well as the content and details of messages sent or received. If you use social media single sign-on, we collect your Personal Data from the respective social media platform which you have made publicly available.

When you make a purchase through our website, your credit card information, billing information, and any other financial information necessary to complete your purchase (“Payment Information”) is processed by our third-party payment processor, and we do not collect, store, or process your Payment Information.

When we collect your Personal Data, we inform you whether the designation of certain Personal Data is compulsory or optional and of the possible consequences that arise in case of the absence of a designation.

Data and Information Collected Automatically

We, our Service Providers, and/or Third-Party Services may also automatically collect certain Usage Information about you when you access or use the Services. Usage Information may include IP address, device identifier, browser type, domain name, traffic data, web logs, operating system, information about your use of the Service, and data regarding network-connected hardware (e.g., computer or mobile device), to help us understand how you use our Services and to help us improve it.

We and our third-party partners collect Personal Data using Cookies, tracking pixels (pixel tags), embedded scripts, location identifiers, and/or similar technologies. Our third-party partners, such as Google®, and advertising partners such as Meta®, may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across different services. We may use both session cookies (which are deleted from your device after you leave the Website) and persistent cookies (which remain on your device for longer or until you delete them manually).

Please review your web browser to learn the proper way to modify your cookie settings. Please note that if you delete or choose not to accept cookies from the Website, you may not be able to utilize the features of the Website to their fullest potential.

Usage of Personal Data & Information

We may use information about your personal data and information, including the data and information we collect through our website and the Services as well as other Personal Information, for any purposes consistent with our statements under this Privacy Policy and not prohibited by applicable law, including but not limited to the following:

• Allow you to participate in the features we offer as a Service and on our website;

• Facilitate, manage, personalize, and improve your online experience;

• Process your registration and/or upload your User Generated Content ("UGC").

• Transact with you, provide services or information you request, respond to your comments, questions, and requests, serve you content and/or advertising, and send you notices;

• Improve the Service and for any other internal business purposes;

• Fulfill other purposes disclosed at the time you provide Personal Data & Information or otherwise where we are legally permitted or are required to do so;

• Determine your location and manage digital content rights;

• Prevent and address fraud, breach of policies or terms, and threats or harm.

 Legal Bases: This processing is necessary for the performance of the contract and for the purpose of our legitimate interests, (1) protection of the integrity of the website, the services, as well as our users, (2) to correspond with you, to enable us to provide you with the Services and to improve the Services, (3) to provide an optimal and meaningful user experience on the Marketplace which fulfills your expectations and needs as well as our commercial interests.

Marketing & Promotional Materials

While on the Service, you may have the opportunity to consent (which may be by opt-in or election not to opt-out) to receive information and/or marketing offers from someone else or to otherwise consent to the sharing of the collected Personal Data & Information with a third party. We will, however, not share your collected Personal Data & Information with third parties, other than our subsidiaries, for their own direct marketing purposes.

Provided that you have given us your consent, we will further use the Personal Data collected for the provision and optimization of our marketing measures via e-mail, in particular, the provision of our newsletter and other promotional messages about our products, services, news, information, events, sales, and/or special offers. You may withdraw your consent at any time with future effect.

Legal Bases: This processing is based on consent, legitimate interest where consent is not required (to enable us to provide you with an experience related to your interests)

Advertising and Third Party Services

We utilize advertising to support the Services, and we may work with advertisers and advertising networks to provide advertising through the Services. We may provide these advertisers and advertising networks with the ability to collect data about how you interact with the Services and, if applicable, your mobile device.

This data may include the unique device or advertising identifier associated with your device and your precise location data, in order to help analyze and serve targeted advertising on the Services and elsewhere (including third-party sites and applications).

These advertisers, advertising networks, and other third parties may use cookies, pixels, and web beacons to track the actions of users online over time and across different websites or platforms in order to deliver targeted electronic advertisements to an individual user. We do not have access to or control over cookies, pixels, or web beacons that third-party partners may use.

In addition, the Services may include third-party content and links to other third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these third-party websites. You are encouraged to review the privacy policies of the different websites that you visit.

Legal Bases: This processing is based on consent, legitimate interest where consent is not required (to enable us to provide you with an experience related to your interests)

Analytics Services

We may also work with third-party analytics companies to help us understand how the Services are being used, such as data collection, reporting, ad response measurement, website, and mobile application analytics, and to assist with the delivery of relevant marketing messages and advertisements.

We use Service Providers for analytics services such as, but not limited to, Google Analytics, Databox, Socialbakers. These analytics services may use cookies and other Tracking Technologies to help us analyze Service users and how they use the Services. The information generated by these services (e.g., your IP address and other Usage Information) may be transmitted to and stored by these Service Providers on servers in the U.S. (or elsewhere) and these Service Providers may use this information for purposes such as evaluating your use of the Service, compiling statistic reports on the Service’s activity, and providing other services relating to Service activity and other internet usages.

Legal Bases: This processing is based on legitimate interest where consent is not required (to enable us to provide you with an experience related to your interests) and to optimize and improve the Services and the website.

Purchases and Payment Processors

When you make a purchase through our Website, your payment is processed by a third-party payment processor such as Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay or other third-party payment services.

This Payment Processor may collect Personal Data and Information from you, including your name, email address, billing address, and Payment Information in connection with your payment for the purposes of processing your payments, is not available to us unless you have otherwise provided this information to us in connection with your use of the Services

The use of your Personal Data by the Payment Processor is governed by the Payment Processor’s terms and conditions and privacy policy, and Personal Data we receive about you from our Payment Processor is governed by this Policy. You should review the applicable privacy policy prior to submitting any information to the applicable third-party payment service.

Legal Bases: This processing is necessary for the performance of our contract.

Information You Disclose Publicly

The Service may permit you to post or submit User-Generated Content (UGC) including, without limitation, written content, user profiles, audio or visual recordings, computer graphics, pictures, data, or other content, including Personal Information. If you choose to submit UGC to any public area of the Service, your UGC will be considered “public” and will be accessible by anyone, including us.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, Personal Data & Information included in UGC is not subject to our usage or sharing limitations, or other obligations, regarding Personal Data & Information, collected by the Services or other Personal Information under this Privacy Policy or otherwise, and may be used and shared by us and third parties to the extent consistent with this Privacy Policy or not prohibited by applicable law.

Additionally, the Service may offer you the option to send a communication to a friend. If so, we rely on you to only send to people that have given you permission to do so. The friend’s Personal Information you provide (e.g., name, e-mail address) will be used to facilitate the communication, but not used by us for any other marketing purpose unless we obtain consent from that person. Your contact information and message may be included in the communication.

With respect to your communication with other users via our message boards, chatrooms or other interactive online forums, please be aware that if you post a comment on a message board or in a chatroom, this information will be made available to the public in an online environment. Each user is solely responsible for its posted comments.

If you choose to use any such interactive area, please be aware that this environment and all Personal Data & Information posted it is publicly accessible. We encourage you to exercise caution when making decisions about what you disclose in such public areas.

Changes To This Cookie Policy

We reserve the right to revise and reissue this Cookie Policy at any time. We will notify you of material changes to this Cookie Policy by at least thirty (30) days before the effective date of the changes. Any changes will be effective upon the posting of the revised Cookie Policy unless otherwise stated in the revised sections.

Your continued use of the Service indicates your consent to the Cookie Policy then posted. If you do not agree, discontinue use of the Service and uninstall Service downloads and applications. If you have a subscription to a Service offering, material changes to this Cookie Policy will only become effective with respect to the aspect of that subscription at the end of the then-current term unless you otherwise consent.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us at support@padauk.us .

We will do our best to respond to you in a timely and professional manner to answer your questions and resolve your concerns.