Updated as of 07/01/2026
By using the Bardot website, you are consenting to the collection of information by Bardot and accept and agree to our Privacy Policy.
Bardot may at its absolute discretion amend these terms and conditions from time to time by posting the amended terms and conditions on the website and as such, will be effective as at that date. Should you not agree with such changes, you must stop using our website and terminate your membership of Bardot by email notification to helloeu@bardot.com.
The privacy policy outlined here may be amended from time to time without notice to you and will apply to orders placed effective as at the date of amendment. Every effort is made to keep the website up and running smoothly. However, Barol Pty Ltd takes no responsibility for and will not be liable for the website being temporarily unavailable due to technical issues beyond control. Please note that nothing in the Privacy Policy shall adversely affect your statutory legal rights.
1. ABOUT THIS POLICY
This section explains how to read this policy and describes its purpose.
1.1 INTERPRETATION OF THIS DOCUMENT AND GENERAL OVERVIEW
Defining specific terms:
• “Bardot” means Barol Pty Ltd and its subsidiaries, as well as the entity that will be acting as data controller within the meaning of the GDPR, as defined by Clause 11 below.
• “EU” means the European Union.
• “GDPR” means the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (EU 2016/679).
• “Personal information” has the meaning given to that term in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and includes information that is capable of identifying an individual such as name, address and date of birth and sensitive information (if applicable) and, if the GDPR applies, includes personal data and special categories of personal data (if applicable).
• “Sensitive information” has the meaning given to that term in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and GDPR and includes information relating to health or religion, racial or ethnic origin.
• “We”, “us” and “our” refer to Bardot.
• “APPs” refer to the Australian Privacy Principles set out in Schedule 1 to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
In respect of the collection, use and disclosure of personal information, Bardot is subject to the Australian Privacy Principles and, if applicable, the GDPR. All personal information received on behalf of Bardot is at all times respected, including the protection and security of all personal records.
By interacting with us, using our services or website, you consent to the use of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
1.2 PURPOSE OF THS POLICY
The Bardot Privacy Policy explains how our organisation protects your personal information. Our Privacy Policy lays down the principles by which we collect, store, use and disclose any personal information you provide to us or we collect from other sources.
Our Privacy Policy also informs clients, prospective clients, stakeholders and anyone else whose personal information is provided to Bardot, about how they can access their personal information, correct personal information held by us, lodge complaints or make any related enquiry.
2. TYPE OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOLD
Bardot collects a range of personal information, such as your name, address, telephone number, email address, your age, date of birth, shipping currency, browser behaviour and purchasing history.
We may also collect information about you from your access to our website such as your IP address, internet service provider, the web page directing you and your activity on our website.
3. HOW WE COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION
We may collect your personal information from a variety of sources, including:
• an online order you complete and submit to us
• mail correspondence, emails or other electronic means (including by accessing our website
• publicly available sources of information; and
• Bardot point of sales systems and reports.
• analytical tracking and reporting on your browsing behaviour on the website via 3rd party tools, as per our cookie policy.
• submission of product reviews
• adding products to you wishlist on the website
We may also collect information from a friend or someone who refers our services to you, the vendor of any business we acquire, a wholesale service provider who provides services to you, a marketing bureau or third party contractor (including any of our dealers or resellers) and a credit reporting agency (where we undertake a credit check).
We collect personal information directly from you, when you register as a member on our website or enter in any competitions we may conduct and that you enter.
We collect data from our website using various technologies, including tracking tags and “cookies”. Put simply, a “cookie” is a text file that our website sends to your browser which is stored on your computer as an anonymous tag identifying your computer (but not you) to us. You can set your browser to disable cookies. However, some parts of our website may not function properly (or at all) if cookies are disabled. You can learn more about cookies by viewing our Cookie Policy here.
4. EFFECT OF NON-PROVISION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION, ANONYMITY AND PSEUDONYMITY
From time to time you may be able to deal with us anonymously or by using a pseudonym. For example, without limitation, if you have a general inquiry about us, and/or our goods and services, we may be able to respond to your inquiry on an anonymous or pseudonymous basis.
However, if the personal information we request for the provision of our goods and/or services is not provided to us, or you provide the information anonymously or pseudonymously, then we may be unable to provide the goods and/or services to you.
Further, we may need to verify your identify as part of our response to a request to access and/or correct personal information we hold about you, or as part of our complaints handling procedure. If we are unable to verify your identify, or you continue to engage with us in an anonymous or pseudonymous basis, then we may be unable to complete your request or pursue our complaints handling procedure.
5. PURPOSE FOR WHICH WE COLLECT AND DEAL WITH YOUR INFORMATION
As a general principle, we only use personal information for the primary purposes for which we collect the information and which has been made known to you.
We will make you aware of the purpose for which we collect your information by notifying you about all the relevant matters of that collection before or at the time of collection, including by reference to this privacy policy.
We will not use your information collected and processed on the legal basis of your consent for an unrelated secondary purpose unless we obtain your written consent. Information collected on the legal basis of performance of a contract or our legitimate interests may be used for a secondary purpose, on the condition that such secondary purpose is compatible with the primary purpose and nature of the data we collected and that the further processing of your information shall be carried out with the appropriate safeguards and without any adverse effects to you.
We process personal data on the legal basis of:
- your explicit consent
- the performance of your contract with Bardot
- Bardot’s legitimate interests which are not overridden by your data protection rights
- Bardot’s compliance with obligations imposed to it by law
We collect, process retain and use personal information for the following purposes:
• fulfilling an agreement with you or a party related to you (such as your employer) for our supply of our goods and/or services;. In this case, the legal basis for processing is the performance of a contract;
• processing your transaction and administering your account, including by processing of invoices, bills, statement of accounts and related financial matters necessary for our providing of your goods and/or services. In this case, the legal basis for processing is the performance of a contract;.
• addressing queries, warranty claims or resolving complaints;. In this case, the legal basis for processing is the performance of a contract;
• advising you of developments or changes to our products and/or services as well of special offers made available on a limited basis; In this case, the legal basis for processing is the performance of a contract and/or Bardot’s legitimate interests and/or your consent;
• marketing, advertising or otherwise promoting our products and/or services, including by way of holding competitions; In this case, the legal basis for processing is your consent;
• seeking your participation (on a voluntary basis) in advertising campaigns, events, launches, customer testimonials and focus groups;. In this case, the legal basis for processing is your consent;
• undertaking market research in relation to our products and services, such as electronic surveys or product review submissions.; In this case, the legal basis for processing is your consent;
• undertaking and completing our internal business functions and operations, including, producing anonymous statistical reports based on data entered into our website, decisions on employment applications and engagement of contractors.; In this case, the legal basis for processing is Bardot’s legitimate interests;
• maintaining and developing our internal business systems;. In this case, the legal basis for processing is Bardot’s legitimate interests;
• improving our website and our products and services; . In this case, the legal basis for processing is the performance of a contract and/or Bardot’s legitimate interests;
• complying with our obligations under any regulatory, tax, insurance or other requirements and applicable laws.; In this case, the legal basis for processing is Bardot’s compliance with obligations imposed to it by law
• Investigating a complaint. In this case, the legal basis of processing is the performance of a contract and/or obligations imposed to it by law;
Creation of a consumer profile
Upon your explicit consent, which forms the legal basis for this particular data processing activity, we will create a consumer profile for you, that automatically processes your personal information and your activity on our website and more specifically, name, address, shipping currency, telephone, email address, order history, wishlist and if selected your opt-in to marketing preference, cookies and tracking tags, in order to provide you with more tailored and relevant services and products, such as retaining your details to complete your order quickly, recommendations of products based on previous purchases.
You can withdraw your consent for future processing of personal data at any time by emailing us on helloeu@bardot.com and you can also change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on this icon 
located on the bottom left hand side of your screen whilst on our website at anytime.
In case you revoke your consent, then from that point onward, we will not process your personal data in instances where your consent forms the legal basis for that particular processing activity.
We may disclose your personal information to our employees and third parties (who will be acting as data processors), such as our dealers and resellers, any marketing agency we engage to facilitate our promotions, banks, professional advisers, other companies and individuals, as well as courts, tribunals and regulatory authorities, for the purpose of:
• complying with our obligations owed to you under any contract between us and you, such as enabling our employees to provide our services to you and those third parties to perform services on our behalf, such as delivering packages, addressing warranty claims, sending correspondence and processing payments;
• undertaking credit checks and collecting debts on overdue and outstanding payments owed to us; and
• complying with any applicable legal requirements or upon request of competent public authorities.
They will have access, to the extent necessary, to your personal information required to perform these services or to the extent required by law, but we will not authorise them to use your information for any other purpose.
We may also disclose your information to third parties that provide services to us, such as auditors, financial services, our employees, officers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, subcontractors or insurance companies, to the extent necessary for them to complete their obligations owed to us under agreements that we have entered into for the purpose of undertaking our business operations and activities but we will not authorise them to use your information for any other purpose.
This information may include scrambled credit card details as a result of your use of the website’s function to save your credit card information to your account; although these will only be used with your consent for any transactions with them.
We may also disclose personal information if there is a change of control in our business, to prospective investors in or purchasers of some or all of our business or our assets. We reserve the right to transfer to the extent permissible at law our user databases, together with any personal information and non-personal information contained in those databases.
In addition, we may provide statistics (with personal identifiers removed) about our customers, readers, sales, traffic patterns and related site functions to reputable third parties primarily for the purpose of assisting us to improve our service offering.
You have the right to tell us that you do not wish us to send information to you other than for the primary purpose for which we collect your personal information. We will always attempt to ensure our disclosure of personal information to other organisations is carried out in a manner which does not personally identify individuals.
We may hold your personal and non-personal information for the duration required by regulatory, tax, insurance or other requirements in accordance with applicable laws.
6. DIRECT MARKETING
We may directly market our products and services to you on the basis of your explicit consent, where we have collected your personal information from you already. We may directly market to you by post, email, sms or other electronic means. Where we collect your personal information from a third party, we will not use your personal information to directly market to you without your consent.
Please note that we will also comply with other laws that are relevant to marketing in Australia, including the Spam Act 2003 (Cth), the Do Not Call Register Act 2006 (Cth) and the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth).
You can change your marketing communication preferences at any time, by logging into My Account and unticking the opt-in for marketing website’s relevant field. All direct marketing communications you receive will also include an easy opt-out procedure if at any time you wish us to cease sending you information.
7. THE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT PROVIDING US WITH PERSONAL INFORMATION
Your withholding of personal information from us might mean we are unable to perform some essential functions related to our products and/or services, including one or all of the purposes listed above in section 5.
8. CROSS BORDER TRANSFER OR DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
We may also disclose, store, process and/or transfer your personal information to our affiliates in China, overseas suppliers and our technology infrastructure may make use of cloud infrastructure or servers located in Asia Pacific.
In the event we disclose, store, process and/or transfer your personal information overseas or in general out of the European Economic Area (EEA), in cases where the GDPR is applicable to the processing of your data, we will ensure that reasonable adequate security mechanisms are in place to protect your information, this may include data protection clauses with that third party.
We will only disclose, store, process and/or transfer your personal information for the purposes in this Privacy Policy or to provide you with requested services or products. For example, we will disclose your information for the purpose of our affiliate packing and sending your orders to your nominated address if you buy online.
You acknowledge that your personal information for publication through our website or services may be available, via the internet, around the world if you were to: a) win a competition, with your name being announced on our website as per that competition’s terms and conditions that have already been accepted by you, or b) provide a product review. We cannot prevent the use (or misuse) of such personal information by others.
9. MAINTAINING THE INTEGRITY, CURRENCY AND SAFETY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION.
This section explains how Bardot holds your personal information, how you can access and update your personal information, complain about an alleged breach of the APPs or make any related enquiry.
9.1. MAINTAINING CURRENCY OF YOUR INFORMATION
Bardot relies on accurate and reliable information to deliver necessary and effective services. If we are satisfied that any of the information we have about you is inaccurate, out-of-date, irrelevant, incomplete or misleading, or you request we correct any information, we will take reasonable steps to ensure the information held by us is accurate, up-to-date, complete, relevant and not misleading.
The practical measures by which Bardot avoids having an incorrect record of an individual’s information include asking you to complete the appropriate forms and requesting that you periodically update this information in writing.
If we disclose your personal information that is later corrected, we will, or else you may ask us to, notify the entity that received the incorrect information about that correction.
Should we refuse to correct the information, we will explain the reasons for refusal. We will also provide you with information about our complaint procedure if you wish to lodge a formal complaint about our refusal.
9.2. SAFETY OF YOUR INFORMATION
All personal information is securely stored using appropriate physical and/or electronic security technology, settings and applications, managerial procedures and by ensuring staff dealing with personal information are trained in our privacy policies and procedures.
These policies are designed to protect personal information from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure; and from misuse, interference and loss.
Our website may from time to time have links to other websites not owned or controlled by us. These links are meant for your convenience only. Links to third party websites do not constitute sponsorship or endorsement or approval of these websites. Please be aware that Bardot is not responsible for the privacy practices of other such websites. We encourage our users to be aware, when they leave our website, to read the privacy statements of each and every third party website that collects personal information.
We reserve the right to amend or change this Privacy Policy at any time. You are encouraged to check back on this policy from time to time.
10. ACCESSING YOUR INFORMATION OR LODGING A COMPLAINT
10.1 ACCESSING AND CORRECTING INFORMATION
You are entitled at any time, upon request, to access your personal information held by us. We will respond within a reasonable time after the request is made and give access to the information in the manner requested by you, unless it is impracticable to do so. We are entitled to charge you a reasonable administrative fee for giving you access to the information requested.
Should you be refused access to your information, we will explain the reasons for refusal - any legal basis relied upon as the basis for such refusal – and, if you wish to lodge a formal complaint about our refusal, we will explain the complaint procedure.
10.2 LODGING A COMPLAINT
If you wish to complain about an alleged breach of the privacy of your personal information, the complaint should be made by emailing helloeu@bardot.com.
We will acknowledge receipt of your complaint, and we will endeavour to deal with your complaint and provide you with a response within a reasonable time following our receipt of your complaint (generally 30 days of our receipt of your complaint). Where a complaint requires a more detailed investigation it may take longer to resolve and/or to respond. If this is the case, we will provide you with progress reports.
We will verify your identify and seek, where appropriate, information from you in connection with the complaint.
Where required by law, we will acknowledge your complaint in writing and provide information in writing on how we will deal with your complaint. Further, if required to do so by law, we will provide our determination on your complaint to you in writing.
We may refuse to investigate and deal with a complaint or request if we cannot identify you, or consider your complaint or request to be manifestly unfounded or excessive.
If you are dissatisfied with the outcome of your complaint, you may seek an internal review of our decision, which will be completed by an officer not previously involved in your complaint. You may also submit your complaint to the national data protection supervisory authority of your jurisdiction.
PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
If you are a resident of the European Union the processing of your personal data, as mentioned above, is performed according to the provisions of Regulation (EU 2016/679) (the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Terms used in this policy have the same meaning attributed to them under the GDPR.
Regarding the processing of your personal data that are collected through this website, as described above, the Data Controller shall be the company:
Barol Pty Ltd
ABN 75 640 079 992
Ground Floor
38 Mollison St
Abbotsford 3067
E: helloeu@bardot.com
(hereinafter referred to for the purposes of this section as “Bardot”)
Bardot will comply with the principles of data protection set out in the GDPR for the purpose of fairness, transparency and lawful data collection and use. By consenting to this Privacy Policy Bardot is able to processes your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You can contact us directly via e-mail at: helloeu@bardot.com.
We do not collect or process any personal information from you that is considered "Sensitive Personal Information" under the GDPR, such as personal information relating to your sexual orientation or ethnic origin unless we have obtained your explicit consent, or if it is being collected subject to and in accordance with the GDPR.
You must not provide us with your personal information if you are under the age of 16 without the consent of your parent or someone who has parental authority for you. We do not knowingly collect or process the personal information of children.
Where we employ data processors to process personal information on our behalf, we only do so on the basis that such data processors comply with the requirements under the GDPR and that have adequate technical measures in place to protect personal information against unauthorised use, loss and theft.
When processing is performed upon the legal basis of your consent, we retain your personal information until you revoke your consent. When processing is performed upon the legal basis of performance of a contract, We retain your personal information for as long as you have an open account with us or as otherwise necessary to provide you with services and/or products. In some cases, we retain personal information for longer, if doing so is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes or collect fees owed, or is otherwise permitted or required by applicable law, rule or regulation. Afterwards, we may retain some information in a depersonalized or aggregated form but not in a way that would identify you personally. Finally, when processing is performed upon the legal basis of Bardot’s legitimate interests, we retain your personal information for as long as it is necessary to serve our interests and for as long as your rights to refuse data processing do not override our legitimate interests, all the while maintaining the necessary safeguards and upholding all applicable laws.
11.1 YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE GDPR
If it is applicable, Bardot complies with your rights under the GDPR as to how your personal information is used and controlled. Except as otherwise provided in the GDPR, you have the following rights:
(a) to be informed how your personal information is being used;
(b) to access your personal information (we will provide you with a free copy of it, in a portable and machine readable form);
(c) to correct or update your personal information if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
(d) to delete your personal information and account (also known as "the right to be forgotten");
(e) to restrict processing of your personal information;
(f) to retain and reuse your personal information for your own purposes;
(g) to object to your personal information being used;
(h) to object against automated decision making and profiling;
(i) to request that we share your personal information with a third party;
(j) to revoke your consent to the processing of personal information and to the receipt of any communications by us, including communication for marketing purposes.
(k) the right to file a complaint to the competent data protection supervisory authority of your jurisdiction.
Please contact us directly via e-mail: GDPRrepresentative@bardot.com at any time to exercise your rights under the GDPR.
GDPR Representative
Basil Artemides
Xenofanous 12
Athens Attikis 11636
Greece
