Conditions of participation and data protection

for competitions of Recaro Gaming GmbH & Co. KG

A. Conditions of participation

By entering the competition you agree to the following terms and conditions:

(1) Scope of application

These conditions of participation for competitions of Recaro Gaming GmbH & Co. KG (hereinafter: Recaro Gaming) on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the website of RECARO Gaming (hereinafter "Conditions of Participation") apply to all competitions held on an official Recaro Gaming Facebook page, in the official Twitter and Instagram channels or on the Recaro Gaming website, which are aimed at consumers in Germany and Austria and which refer to these Conditions of Participation provided on the website of RECARO Gaming provided on the website of Recaro Gaming.

(2) Organizer of the competition

The organizer of the competition is Recaro Gaming GmbH & Co. KG, Jahnstraße 1, 70597 Stuttgart, Germany, which organizes competitions from time to time, including via social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or on the RECARO Gaming website.

(3) Requirements and eligibility for participation

(a) Participants must RECARO the RECARO website and purchase a RECARO Gaming of their choice. The competition begins on February 4, 2026. The closing date for entries is February 14, 2026, at 11:59 p.m.

(b) All natural persons who are permanent residents of Germany or Austria are eligible to participate. Participants under the age of 18 require the consent of their legal guardian to participate.

(d) Legal representatives and employees of Recaro Gaming as well as associated contractors and employees of companies commissioned by Recaro Gaming in connection with the implementation of the competition, as well as the respective relatives of all such employees, are excluded from participation.

(4) How can you participate?

The competition will RECARO Gaming on the social media channels listed in (1) and on the RECARO Gaming website. To enter the competition, participants must purchase a RECARO Gaming of their choice and confirm their entry into the competition by ticking the box at checkout.

(5) Are there any costs?

In principle, there are no costs for participating in the competition. If entry tickets to events or tournaments or vouchers for e-sports training courses or similar are provided as prizes in the competition, the costs for travel, journey or overnight stay at the location of the event, tournament or training course are not included in the prize.

(6) Prices

The prizes will be marked as a gift both textually and visually on the website, website banners, and social media posts. The prizes are non-transferable. Prizes cannot be exchanged for cash or other prizes. Recaro Gaming reserves the right to award the winner an alternative prize of equal or greater value if an advertised prize is no longer available for any reason.

(7) Selection and notification of winners

(a) The number of winners is based on the prizes listed on the website banner and social media stories. The winner(s) will be determined by a draw from among all participants on March 2, 2026.

(b) Recaro Gaming will notify the winner by email. The winner(s) must respond to the email within 5 days of receiving notification from Recaro Gaming in order to confirm their prize. If the winner fails to confirm receipt of the prize, they will forfeit all rights to it. In this case, a replacement winner will be selected. If the replacement winner also fails to confirm receipt of the prize, it will be considered forfeited and will remain the property of Recaro Gaming.

(8) Exclusion from the competition

Participants who manipulate the competition in any way will be excluded from the competition by Recaro Gaming.

(9) Reservation of termination

Recaro Gaming reserves the right to cancel, terminate, suspend, postpone or modify the competition in whole or in part without prior notice in the event of unforeseen circumstances beyond the control of Recaro Gaming which prevent the competition from being carried out as planned. Liability for this is excluded towards participants, winners or towards third parties.

(10) Inappropriate comments and exemption

(a) Recaro Gaming reserves the right to delete inappropriate comments and exclude the entrant from the Sweepstakes if Recaro Gaming deems the entrant's comment to be inappropriate. In particular, the following comments are considered inappropriate:

Unlawful comments,
- which, for example, infringe copyrights, industrial property rights (such as trademark rights, registered designs or other industrial property rights of third parties), trade secrets, the right to one's own image or data protection rights of third parties or
- contain false statements of fact or abusive criticism, e.g. defamatory, indecent, insulting, sexist, obscene, abusive comments as well as hate comments or
inappropriate comments for any other reason which do not appear to be acceptable; or
Comments that are in no way related to the competition.

(b) The participant is solely liable for his/her comments and indemnifies Recaro Gaming from any liability towards third parties.

(11) Announcement of the winners

Recaro Gaming will not announce the winners.

(12) Liability

Recaro Gaming is only responsible for intent and gross negligence.

(13) Legal recourse

Legal recourse is excluded with regard to the drawing of the winners and any judging of the competition entries submitted.

(14) Choice of law / place of jurisdiction

The conditions of participation are subject to German law. Any disputes arising from this competition shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the place where the participant is domiciled.

(15) Special conditions for sweepstakes on Facebook

(a) The competition is in no way sponsored, supported or organized by Facebook. The contact person and person responsible is solely Recaro Gaming GmbH & Co. KG.

(b) The participant releases Facebook from any liability for his comments.

(16) Special conditions for sweepstakes on Instagram

(a) The competition is in no way sponsored, supported or organized by Instagram. The contact person and person responsible is solely Recaro Gaming GmbH & Co. KG.

(b) The participant releases Instagram from any liability for his comments.

(17) Special conditions for sweepstakes on Twitter

Participants are not permitted to enter the competition with more than one account in order to increase their chances of winning. Otherwise, he/she risks Twitter blocking all accounts. Furthermore, the repeated posting of the same or a very similar tweet from Twitter is prohibited. In case of violation, these participants will be filtered out of the Twitter search.

B. Information on data processing for competitions on our website As of August 2024.

Below you will find the information required by law under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) on the processing of your personal data and the rights to which you are entitled in this respect. This data protection information applies to data processing for competitions via our website:

(1) Name and contact details of the controller and the company data protection officer

Responsible:

RECARO Gaming GmbH & Co. KG
Jahnstraße 1

70597 Stuttgart

Phone: +49 (0)711 504 376 44
E-mail: business@recaro-gaming.com

(hereinafter: "RECARO Gaming" or "we" or "us").

You can reach our data protection officer at:

RECARO Gaming GmbH & Co. KG

Jahnstraße 1

70597 Stuttgart

E-mail: business@recaro-gaming.com

(2) Personal data processed

If you take part in one of our competitions, we process the following information entered by you during the ordering process:

First and last name
E-mail address
If you win, we will collect your first name, last name, postal address, and telephone number if we send you the prize by mail.
If applicable, further data (first name, surname, e-mail address, other voluntary details if applicable) if you send us a message and IP address and time if this message is an e-mail.

(3) Purposes of the data processing

The collection of this data takes place

to be able to identify the winners;
to be able to notify the winners and send them the prize (e.g. sending merchandise items by post)
to contact the participants in the context of the administration of the competition or to reply to your message

(4) Legal basis

The data processing is carried out on the basis of your participation in the competition and is necessary for the appropriate organisation and implementation of the competition as well as the dispatch of the prizes in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b) DS-GVO for the purposes stated.

If you send RECARO Gaming email or other messages, the legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR, if and to the extent that you have given your consent.
The legal basis for the processing of data transmitted in the course of sending an email or other message is also Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. If the message is aimed at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR.
The processing of personal data from an email sent to us serves solely to process the contact request. This also constitutes the necessary legitimate interest in the processing of the data if it is processed on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

(5) Duration of the storage of personal data

The personal data collected for the organization and implementation of the competition and the dispatch of the prizes by RECARO Gaming will be stored until the expiry of the statutory retention period and then deleted, unless you have consented to further storage in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR or there is another basis for storage in accordance with the GDPR. In individual cases, a longer retention period may be required for evidence purposes (e.g. in the context of a legal dispute).

The data from a message that you have sent us will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required to achieve the purpose for which it was collected. This is the case when the respective conversation with you has ended. The conversation is ended when the circumstances indicate that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified.

After a revocation or objection (cf. section (8) Data subject rights and section (9) Information on your right to object pursuant to Art. 21 DS-GVO), your personal data will be deleted within 7 days. RECARO Gaming will then no longer send you any further information, regardless of whether you contact us in the context of other competitions or in response to further enquiries.

(6) Disclosure of data to third parties; processors

Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those mentioned below:

Insofar as this is necessary for the organisation and processing of the competition in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. b) DS-GVO, your personal data will be passed on to third parties. This includes, in particular, the forwarding of your address and telephone number to shipping service providers for the transmission of the prize won. This data may only be used by the third party in question to carry out the competition. If we use a processor, we will ensure that the processor is contractually bound to protect your personal data in the same way as we are.

Generally, no data is transferred to recipients in countries outside of the European Union.

(7) No automated decision making and no profiling

Exclusively automated decision-making - including profiling - in accordance with Art. 22 GDPR means that data processed by automated means leads directly to a computer-based decision, i.e. a decision made by data processing systems, which is not subject to even partial evaluation by a natural person. According to Art. 4 No. 4 GDPR, profiling means any form of automated processing of personal data intended to evaluate personal aspects relating to a natural person.

RECARO Gaming neither uses automated decision-making in this sense nor carries out profiling. RECARO Gaming profiling.

(8) Data subject rights

You have that right:

In accordance with Art. 7 (3) DS-GVO, you may revoke your consent at any time. This can be done formally and without notice. It is sufficient to send an e-mail to: business@recaro-gaming.com. The revocation of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing of your data carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation. The only consequence of the revocation is that the data processing, which was based exclusively on this consent, may no longer be continued in the future;
You have the right to request information about your personal data processed by us in accordance with Art. 15 DS-GVO. In particular, you can request information about the processing purposes, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of complaint, the origin of your data if it has not been collected by us, as well as the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information about its details;
to immediately request the correction of incorrect or incomplete personal data stored by us in accordance with Art. 16 DS-GVO;
to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us in accordance with Art. 17 DS-GVO, unless the processing is necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims;
in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data if the accuracy of the data is disputed by you or the processing is unlawful, but you refuse to delete it and instead demand the restriction of the use of the personal data or the data is no longer required, but you need it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or you have lodged an objection to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR;
in accordance with Art. 20 DS-GVO, to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request the transfer to another controller; and
complain to a supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 77 DS-GVO. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence.

In the event of a complaint, you are welcome to first contact the responsible person named in point (1) above by sending an e-mail to business@recaro-gaming.com, who will process your complaint quickly.

(9) Information about your right to object according to Art. 21 DS-GVO

Right of objection

(a) You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data on the basis of Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) DS-GVO for direct marketing purposes at any time without giving reasons. We will then no longer process your personal data for these purposes.

(b) You may also object to other processing derived from a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) DS-GVO for reasons arising from your particular situation, stating these reasons. Your personal data will then no longer be processed unless compelling reasons for the processing can be demonstrated that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims.

(c) Any objection can be made form-free. It is sufficient for this purpose, for example, an e-mail to: business@recaro-gaming.com

(10) Reservation of the right to amend

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy in order to keep it in line with current regulations, as well as our offers on the website and our social media pages.

Our data protection information applies.