Privacy policy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 12, 2026

Alexander Lindner (Carrerabayern) operates this store and website, including all related information, content, features, tools, products, and services, in order to provide you, as a customer, with a personalized shopping experience (the “Services”). Our store is powered by Shopify, which enables us to provide the Services to you. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, or disclose personal data when you visit or use the website, make a purchase or other transaction using the Services, or otherwise communicate with us. If there is a conflict between our Terms and Conditions and this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy shall prevail with regard to the collection, processing, and disclosure of your personal data.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing or using any of the Services, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy and agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your data as described in this Privacy Policy.

What Personal Data Do We Collect or Process?

When we use the term “personal data,” we mean information that identifies you or another person or can be directly linked to you. Personal data does not include information that has been collected anonymously or anonymized in such a way that it cannot be used to identify you or be associated with you. Depending on how you interact with the Services, where you live, and as permitted or required by applicable law, we may collect or process the following categories of personal data, including inferences drawn from such personal data:

  • Contact details, including name, postal address, billing address, shipping address, telephone number, and email address.
  • Financial information, including credit and debit card details, financial account numbers, payment card information, financial account information, transaction details, payment method, payment confirmation, and other payment details.
  • Account information, including username, password, security questions, configurations, and settings.
  • Transaction information, including items you view, add to your shopping cart or wishlist, purchase, return, exchange, or cancel, as well as information about your previous transactions.
  • Communications with us, including information you provide when communicating with us, for example when submitting a customer support inquiry.
  • Device information, including information about your device, browser, or network connection, IP address, and other unique identifiers.
  • Usage information, including information about your interaction with the Services, such as how and when you interact with or browse the Services.

Sources of Personal Data

We may collect personal data from the following sources:

  • Directly from you: We collect data, among other things, when you create an account, access or use the Services, communicate with us, or otherwise provide us with your personal data.
  • Automatically through the Services: We collect data, among other things, from your device, when you use our products or Services or visit our website, and through the use of cookies and similar technologies.
  • From our service providers: We collect data, among other things, when we engage service providers to enable certain technologies and when they collect or process your personal data on our behalf.

How Do We Use Your Personal Data?

Depending on how you interact with us or which of the Services you use, we may use personal data for the following purposes:

  • Providing, customizing, and improving the Services: We use your personal data to provide the Services to you. This includes, among other things, fulfilling our contract with you, processing your payments, fulfilling your orders, storing your configurations and items you are interested in, sending notifications related to your account, creating, maintaining, and otherwise managing your account, arranging shipping, facilitating returns and exchanges, enabling you to submit reviews, and providing you with a personalized shopping experience, for example by recommending products based on your purchases. This may also include using your personal data to better customize and improve the Services.
  • Marketing and advertising: We use your personal data for marketing and advertising purposes, for example to send marketing and promotional communications by email, SMS, or post and to display online advertisements for products or services on the Services or other websites, including based on items you have previously purchased or added to your shopping cart and other activities relating to the Services.
  • Security and fraud prevention: We use your personal data to authenticate your account, provide a secure payment and shopping experience, detect, investigate, or take action regarding potentially fraudulent, illegal, unsafe, or malicious activities, protect public safety, and maintain the security of our Services. If you choose to use the Services and register an account, you are responsible for safeguarding your account credentials. We strongly recommend that you do not share your username, password, or other login credentials with anyone else.
  • Communicating with you: We use your personal data to provide customer support and effective Services, respond to your inquiries in a timely manner, and maintain our business relationship with you.
  • Legal purposes: We use your personal data to comply with applicable law or respond to lawful legal processes, including requests from law enforcement or regulatory authorities, to investigate or participate in civil investigations, potential or actual litigation, or other adversarial proceedings, and to investigate potential violations of our terms or policies or enforce those terms and policies.

How Do We Disclose Personal Data?

Under certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal data to third parties for legitimate purposes in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Such circumstances may include:

  • Shopify: We disclose data to Shopify, service providers, and other third parties that provide Services on our behalf, such as IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfillment, and shipping.
  • Disclosure to shipping providers (DHL & UPS): In order to fulfill our contract with you, we disclose your address details, email address, and telephone number to our logistics partners DHL and UPS (United Parcel Service) so that they can carry out the delivery, customs clearance, and tracking of your ordered watches.
  • Disclosure to payment service providers (PayPal / Shopify Payments): To process your payments, your payment information is disclosed to the payment service provider you select. When paying via PayPal, the data is disclosed to PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A. The respective privacy policies of the payment service providers apply.
  • Business and marketing partners: We disclose personal data to partners that provide marketing services and display advertisements to you. For example, we use Shopify to support personalized advertising through third-party services based on your online activities across different merchants and websites.
  • Consent and request: If you explicitly ask us to do so or otherwise provide your consent, we disclose data to selected third parties to the extent requested or authorized by you.

Use of Cookies

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored in a user's internet browser or by the internet browser on the user's computer system. When a user accesses a website, a cookie may be stored on the user's operating system. This cookie contains a characteristic string that enables the browser to be uniquely identified when the website is accessed again.

Cookies are stored on your device. You therefore 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 cookies from being stored and the data they contain from being transmitted. Cookies that have already been stored can be deleted at any time. Please note, however, that doing so may prevent you from being able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.

You can find information on how to manage cookies, including how to disable them, in the most commonly used browsers at the following links:

  • Chrome: google.com
  • Microsoft Edge: microsoft.com
  • Mozilla Firefox: mozilla.org
  • Safari: apple.com

Use of Social Media Profiles (Facebook and Instagram)

We maintain online profiles on social networks (Facebook and Instagram) in order to communicate with customers, prospective customers, and users who are active on these platforms and to provide them with information about our high-quality watches and services.

Users' personal data is processed on the basis of our legitimate interests in effectively providing information to and communicating with users (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). When you access our profiles on Facebook and Instagram, user data is processed by Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland, for market research and advertising purposes.

For the operation of our Facebook and Instagram pages, we have entered into an agreement with Meta regarding joint controllership (Joint Controller Addendum pursuant to Art. 26 GDPR). This agreement determines which data processing activities are our responsibility and which are Meta's responsibility. Meta has primary responsibility under the GDPR for providing information about data processing and enabling data subjects to exercise their rights.

Use of the Meta Pixel and Data Sharing

If you have given your explicit consent via our cookie consent banner (Consent Tool) (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), we use the “Meta Pixel” and data-sharing tools provided by Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. on our website.

This makes it possible to track the behavior of website visitors after they have been redirected to our website by clicking on a Facebook or Instagram advertisement. This enables us to evaluate the effectiveness of advertisements for statistical and market research purposes and to optimize future advertising activities. The data collected is anonymous to us and does not allow us to draw any conclusions about the identity of individual users.

Data Controller

If you have any questions regarding data protection or wish to exercise your rights, you may contact the data controller at any time:

Alexander Lindner
Finkenweg 5
95111 Rehau
Germany
Telephone: +49 9283 8170135
Email: info@carrerabayern.de