Privacy Policy - BuySellCar.online
Last updated: 21.11.2025
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Who we are (Impressum / Legal Notice)
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect and use personal data when you use the website BuySellCar.online (the “Website”) and related services (together, the “Services”).
The controller and operator of this Website is:
- Liko s.r.o.
- Registered address: Agátová 3655/9C, 841 01 Bratislava - mestská časť Dúbravka, Slovenská republika
- Company ID: 55285210
- Website: https://liko.sk
- Email: liko@liko.sk
- Representative: Sergii Liubchenko
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data protection practices, you may contact us at buysellcar@buysellcar.online.
For users located in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, the entity above is the data controller responsible for the processing of your personal data in accordance with the GDPR and applicable national laws.
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What this Privacy Policy covers
This Privacy Policy describes:
- What personal data we collect
- How and why we use it (our purposes and legal bases)
- With whom we share it
- How long we keep it
- Your rights under data protection laws
- How to contact us or a supervisory authority
This Policy applies to:
- Visitors to our Website
- Registered users who create accounts
- Users who post or view listings
- Users who contact other users through our messaging or contact forms
- Anyone who contacts us by email or other channels
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Personal data we collect
We collect the following categories of personal data:
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Data you provide to us
When you use our Services, you may provide:
- Account data: name, email address, password, country, preferred language, and any other profile information you choose to add.
- Contact details: phone number, address or region (if you choose to show them in listings or provide them in your profile).
- Listing data: information about vehicles or other items you list for sale, including description, photos, price, location, and any other details you add.
- Communication data: messages sent via our internal messaging system, via contact forms, or when you contact our support.
- Payment and billing data (if applicable): billing name, billing address, VAT ID, and limited payment information for paid services (e.g., paid listings, promotions). We do not store full card numbers; these are processed by our payment service providers.
- Other data: any other information you voluntarily provide (for example in feedback, support requests, surveys).
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Data we collect automatically
When you access our Website, we may automatically collect:
- Technical data: IP address, browser type and version, device information, operating system, language settings, and similar information.
- Usage data: pages visited, time and date of access, referral URL, clicks, search queries on the Website, and other usage information.
- Cookie data: information from cookies and similar technologies (see section 5).
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Data from third parties
We may receive personal data from:
- Login providers (if you sign in via a third-party provider, e.g. “Sign in with …”): basic profile information and email address (according to your settings with that provider).
- Payment providers: confirmation of payments, limited billing details, and transaction IDs.
- Analytics and advertising partners: aggregated or pseudonymized usage data and statistics.
- Public sources: we may verify information contained in listings using publicly available sources where necessary (for example, to prevent fraud).
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Why we use your data and legal bases
We process your personal data for the purposes and on the legal bases listed below. Under the GDPR, each processing activity must be based on a legal ground such as contract, legal obligation, legitimate interests, or consent.
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To provide and operate the Services
Legal basis: Performance of a contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR)
We use your data to:
- Create and manage your user account
- Enable you to post, edit and manage listings
- Display listings and profile information to other users, according to your settings
- Facilitate communication between buyers and sellers (contact forms, messaging)
- Process payments for paid services and send related communications (invoices, confirmations)
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To maintain the Website, improve our Services, and prevent abuse
Legal basis: Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR)
We use your data to:
- Maintain the security and performance of the Website (e.g. logs, monitoring)
- Protect our Services and users from fraud, spam, misuse, and security incidents
- Analyze how the Website is used to improve functionality, usability, and performance
- Enforce our Terms of Use and protect our legal rights
Our legitimate interests are to operate a safe and reliable marketplace, to improve our Services, and to protect our business against misuse.
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To communicate with you
Legal basis: Contract (Art. 6(1)(b)), legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f))
We use your contact details to:
- Send essential service messages (e.g. account changes, security alerts, payment confirmations)
- Respond to your requests, questions, or complaints
- Notify you about important changes to our Terms or this Privacy Policy
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Marketing communications
Legal basis: Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) and/or legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f)), depending on your location
We may use your email address to send:
- News, updates about the Website
- Offers related to our Services
Where required by law, we send marketing emails only with your consent, and you can opt out at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the email or adjusting your account settings.
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Legal obligations
Legal basis: Legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR)
We may process your data to:
- Comply with tax, accounting, and other mandatory legal requirements
- Respond to lawful requests from public authorities
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Cookies and similar technologies
We use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Enable basic Website functions (e.g. login, language settings, security)
- Remember your preferences
- Analyze how the Website is used (for example, through analytics tools)
- Show or measure the effectiveness of advertising (where applicable)
You can manage or disable cookies through your browser settings. Some cookies are essential for the functioning of the Website and cannot be disabled in our systems.
For more detailed information, please see our separate Cookie Policy, which forms part of this Privacy Policy.
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How we share your data
We do not sell your personal data. We share it only as necessary for the purposes described above:
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Other users
- When you post a listing, certain information you choose may be visible publicly or to registered users: listing content, photos, price, approximate location, and contact details you decide to display.
- When users contact each other through our Services, we share necessary contact or message information between them.
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Service providers (processors)
We use trusted third-party service providers who process data on our behalf, such as:
- Website hosting and maintenance providers
- Email delivery and communication providers
- Analytics providers
- Payment service providers
- Security and anti-fraud tools
These providers may only process personal data according to our instructions and must provide appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect it.
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Legal and regulatory authorities
We may disclose personal data where required by law or where we reasonably believe that such disclosure is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation
- Protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our users, or others
- Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues
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Business transfers
If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, or similar transaction, your data may be transferred as part of that transaction, in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
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International data transfers
Our servers or some of our service providers may be located outside your country, including outside the European Economic Area (EEA) or the UK.
Where we transfer personal data to countries that do not provide the same level of protection as the EEA/UK, we will implement appropriate safeguards, such as:
- Adequacy decisions by the European Commission (where applicable)
- Standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission or UK authorities
- Other lawful transfer mechanisms under applicable law
You can contact us to obtain further information about these safeguards.
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Data retention
We keep your personal data only as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Policy or as required by law. In particular:
- Account data: stored for as long as your account is active. If you delete your account, we will delete or anonymize your personal data within a reasonable period, unless we must keep it for legal obligations or to protect our rights.
- Listing data: stored while the listing is active and for a limited period afterwards (for example, for evidence of transactions, dispute resolution, or fraud prevention).
- Communication data: stored for the time necessary to manage our relationship with you and for a reasonable period for evidence purposes.
- Legal and billing data: stored for the applicable statutory retention periods (e.g. accounting, tax).
When we no longer need your data, we will delete or anonymize it.
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Your rights
If you are in the EEA, UK or Switzerland, you have the following rights regarding your personal data, subject to legal conditions:
- Right of access: to obtain confirmation whether we process your data and to receive a copy.
- Right to rectification: to have inaccurate or incomplete data corrected.
- Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”): to request deletion of your data in certain cases.
- Right to restriction of processing: to request that we limit processing of your data in certain situations.
- Right to data portability: to receive your data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format and to transmit it to another controller, where feasible.
- Right to object:
- You can object at any time to processing based on our legitimate interests, for reasons related to your particular situation.
- You can always object to processing for direct marketing.
- Right to withdraw consent: where processing is based on your consent, you can withdraw it at any time. This does not affect the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at buysellcar@buysellcar.online. We may need to verify your identity before responding.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. For example, in Slovakia this is the Úrad na ochranu osobných údajov Slovenskej republiky.
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Children’s privacy
Our Services are not intended for children under 16 years of age, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children under this age. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us so we can delete it.
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Security
We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure, or access.
However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
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Third-party links
Our Website may contain links to third-party websites, plug-ins, or services. These third parties have their own privacy policies, and we are not responsible for their practices. We encourage you to read their privacy policies before providing any personal data.
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Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the updated version on this page and change the “Last updated” date above. If we make material changes, we may also notify you by email or through the Website.
Your continued use of the Services after the changes take effect means you accept the updated Policy.
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Contact
If you have any questions, comments, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our processing of your personal data, please contact us at:
- Liko s.r.o.
- Registered address: Agátová 3655/9C, 841 01 Bratislava - mestská časť Dúbravka, Slovenská republika
- Email: buysellcar@buysellcar.online