Privacy Policy

BAAKO LLC

Last Updated: June 1, 2025

1. WHO WE ARE

“We”, “us” or “our” means BAAKO, LLC d/b/a BAAKO, a NEW JERSEY limited liability corporation with its principal place of business located at (116 Elizabeth Ave, Newark, New Jersey 07108). We act as controller for the personal data we gather through your use of our website (drinkbaako.com).

2. WHAT THIS IS

Your privacy is important to us, so we’ve developed this Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy” or “Policy”), which describes the types of information we collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the Website and our practices for collecting, using, transferring, maintaining, protecting, disclosing and otherwise use (collectively, “Process”) the personal data that you share with us.

This policy applies to information we collect:

On this Website.
In e-mail, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
Through mobile, tablet and desktop applications you download from this Website, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website.
When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.

It does not apply to information collected by:

Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by us or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
Any third party including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website

Please take a moment to carefully read through this Policy in its entirety to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy or our processing of your personal data or you wish to submit a request to exercise your rights as set out in Section 9, you can do so by contacting us via e-mail: hello@drinkbaako.com.

This Privacy Policy was created on June 1, 2025.

3. CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 18

Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features, register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or any screen name or user name you may use; provided, that, an individual under the age of 18 may make a purchase under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian and in accordance with our Terms & Conditions. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at hello@drinkbaako.com.

California residents may have additional rights regarding the collection and use of their personal information. Please see the California Consumer Privacy Act website for more information.

4. PERSON DATA / INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU AND HOW WE COLLECT / USE IT

Personal data is defined as any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. Identifiable refers to identifiers such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number (“personal information”); That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as your user name and password; and/or

About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details.

The personal data we collect, is collected and used for the purposes as listed hereunder:

In the event you use the contact form on our website, we will use your personal data in order to reply to your query, via e-mail or telephone.
In the event you create a profile on our website or you provide us with transaction data, we collect your personal information in order to save such information, to provide you with our services and permit us to receive your information or to contact you.
In the event you register for our newsletter, your e-mail address will be used in order to send you our newsletters, which may include invites to events, seminars, etc. organized by us.
We process your personal data for the purpose of supporting the website, mobile applications, advertising experience, and enhancing your user experience, which includes ensuring the security, availability, performance, capacity and health of these systems.
We process your personal data to enforce or exercise any rights that are available to us based on the applicable law, such as use for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
We may also use your personal data to fulfil our obligations as set out by the applicable law.

We collect this information:

Directly from you when you provide it to us.
Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies.

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

Contact data: in the event you make use of the contact form on our Website, you will be asked to provide the following information: name, address, e-mail address, phone number, and any personal data that you choose to put in the designated blank field (please do not provide us with any sensitive information, such as health information, information pertaining to criminal convictions, or credit card/account numbers). This is information that is provided directly by you. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our service, posting material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Website.
Profile data: If you create an account on our website, we collect the following data: name, telephone number, e-mail address, address, country, company name, job title, industry. This is information that is provided directly by you.
Newsletter: If you register / subscribe for our newsletter, you will be asked to provide your e-mail address. This is information provided directly by you.
Transaction data: We collect personal data relating to transactions that you make through the website, including your “contact data”, payment information and the goods and/or services purchased. This is personal data provided directly by you.

Survey data: Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
Search data: Your search queries on the Website.
We collect personal data relating to your access request to baako, lcc Customer Records Information such as credit/debit card number used to pay for goods.
Characteristics of Protected Classifications such as age to determine permitted use of our services.
Commercial Information such as your purchase history.
Internet or other Electronic Network activity information such as your Usage Data: We collect personal data regarding your activities on our website: IP address, device ID and type, referral source, language settings, browser type, operating system, geographical location, length of visit, page views, or information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. This information may be aggregated and used to help us provide more useful information regarding the use of our website. In the event the usage data is completely anonymized (and can therefore not be traced back to you as an individual), this will not be considered personal data for the purpose of this Privacy Policy. This is personal data that is automatically collected through your use of the website.
Geolocation data such as to determine the applicability of regional legislation permitting the purchase of certain products based on your device’s location.
Professional or employment-related information such as employer or workplace to determine any logistical requirements for shipping or delivery.
Inferences such as product flavor or fragrance preference.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages you may set certain privacy settings for such information by logging into your account profile, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

We will only collect and process personal data about you where we have lawful bases. Lawful bases include consent (where you have given consent), contract (where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you (e.g., to deliver the Services you have requested) and “legitimate interests”.

Data categories disclosed for business purposes:

Identifiers such as name, shipping address, or billing address. For example, if we use a 3rd party carrier to deliver your order.
Customer Records Information such as credit/debit card number used to pay for goods. For example, if we use a 3rd party payment processor.
Characteristics of Protected Classifications such as age. For example, in some cases, your age may be required to determine permitted use of our services.
Commercial Information. For example, your order detail will be required for a 3rd party logistics provider to fulfill your order.
Internet or other Electronic Network activity information such as your use of our website in terms of browsing and search history. For example, 3rd party monitoring services may be used to ensure operational effectiveness of our services.
Geolocation data such. For example, location data may be used to determine the applicability of regional legislation.
Professional or employment-related information. For example, if you place a subscription order for your work, office, etc, we may use employment-related information such as work address for delivery and logistics.
Inferences such as product flavor or fragrance preference.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies:

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). They are used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies and beacons to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and content in the future. We may also use trusted third party services that track this information on our behalf. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser’s help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you disable cookies, some features will be disabled, but it will not affect the user's experience.

The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from

third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies (or browser cookies): A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
Flash Cookies: Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
Web Beacons: Pages of our the Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies:

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

How We Use Your Information:

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

To present our Website and its contents to you;
To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us or our affiliates;
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it;
To provide you with notices about your account, including expiration and renewal notices;
Develop, enhance, and market our products and services or the products and services of our affiliates and third parties;
Provide you with promotional materials, offers, and personalized information;
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection;
To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it;
To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website;
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information; or
For any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data (the order form or adjust your user preferences in your account profile.

We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

Disclosure of Your Information:

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

To our subsidiaries and affiliates;
To contractors, services providers, and other third-parties who we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them;
To companies or organizations with whom we have a marketing relationship, or who offer services or products that, we believe, you may have an interest in;
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of BAAKO’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Website users is among the assets transferred;
To third parties to market their products or services to you;
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; or
With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our Terms of Service and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information:

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

Tracking Technologies and Advertising: You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Promotional Offers from the Company: If you do not wish to have your contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data or at any other time by logging into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes.
We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.
California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see California Consumer Privacy Act website for more information.

Where we rely on your consent to process personal data, you have the right to withdraw or decline your consent at any time and where we rely on legitimate interests, you have the right to object. If you reside in the designated countries and have any questions about the lawful basis upon which we collect and use your personal data, please contact hello@drinkbaako.com with specific attention to the Data Protection Officer.

Your personal data will solely be used for the purposes as set out in this section.

5. ACCESSING AND CORRECTING YOUR INFORMATION

You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.

You may send us an e-mail at hello@drinkbaako.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Service.

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see California Consumer Privacy Act website for more information.

6. DATA SECURITY

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

7. THIRD PARTY WEBSITE AND LINKS

You may be presented with an opportunity to receive information and/or marketing offers from third parties in connection with this Website. All information you disclose to such third parties will be subject to the privacy policy and practices of such third parties. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of such third parties and, therefore, you should review the privacy policies and practices of such third parties prior to disclosing information to them. If you later decide that you no longer want to receive communications from a third party, you will need to contact that third party directly.

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website in the form of advertisements.

These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

We use Google AdSense Advertising, as well as advertising and marketing features from Instagram, Facebook, MailChimp and Pinterest on our website.

We along with third-party vendors, such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions, and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.

Opting out:
Users can set preferences for how Google, Instagram, Facebook, MailChimp and Pinterest advertise to you using their respective ad settings page.

8. YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your California privacy rights, visit the California Consumer Privacy Act website.

California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Website who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to hello@drinkbaako.com

9. YOUR RIGHTS

This section lists your principal rights under data protection law. We have tried to summarize them for you in a clear and legible way.

To exercise any of your rights, please send us a written request in accordance with Section 1 of this Privacy Policy. We will respond to your request without undue delay, but in any event within one month of the receipt of the request. In the event of an extension of the term to respond or in the event we do not take action on your request, we will notify you.

The right to access

You have the right to confirm as to whether or not we Process your personal data and, in the event we do so, you have the right to access such personal data, together with certain additional information that you also find listed in this Privacy Policy.
You have the right to receive from us a copy of your personal data we have in our possession, provided that this does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others. The first copy will be provided free of charge, but we reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee if you request further copies.

The right to rectification:

If the personal data we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete, you have the right to have this information rectified or, taking into account the purposes of the processing, completed.

The right to erasure (right to be forgotten):

In some circumstances, you have the right to the erasure of your personal data without undue delay. Those circumstances include:

The personal data are no longer needed in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed;
You withdraw your consent, and no other lawful ground exists;
The processing is for direct marketing purposes;
The personal data have been unlawfully processed; or,
Erasure is necessary for compliance with EU or California law.

There are certain exclusions to the right to erasure. Those exclusions include where processing is necessary:,

for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information;
for compliance with a legal obligation; or,
for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

The right to restrict processing:

You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data (meaning that the personal data may only be stored by us and may only be used for limited purposes), if:

You contest the accuracy of the personal data (and only for as long as it takes to verify that accuracy);
The processing is unlawful and you request restriction (as opposed to exercising the right to erasure);
We no longer need the personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you require personal data for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; or,
You have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection.

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We will inform you before we lift the restriction of processing.

The right to data portability:

To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal data is consent, and such processing is carried out by automated means, you have the right to receive your personal data from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. However, this right does not apply where it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
You also have the right to have your personal data transferred directly to another company, if this is technically possible, and/or to store your personal data for further personal use on a private device.

The right to object to processing:

You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, but only to the extent that the legal basis for the processing is that the processing is necessary for:

The performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of any official authority vested in us;
The purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party.

If you make such an objection, we will cease to Process the personal information unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes (including profiling for direct marketing purposes). If you make such an objection, we will cease to Process your personal data for this purpose.

The right to Non-Discrimination

BAAKO will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.

The right to complain to a supervisory authority

If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection.

10. CONTACT US

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us via email: hello@drinkbaako.com.

11. AMENDMENTS TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

From time to time, we have the right to modify this Privacy Policy. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.