We are delighted that you have shown interest in our company and products. This privacy notice describes how we collect, use and share your personal data.
Please note that this privacy notice applies to all Beko Group Companies as defined below.
We recommend that you read this privacy notice in full to ensure you are fully informed.
We hereby inform you that, starting from 1 July 2026, European Appliances Romania S.R.L will merge with Beko Romania (a Romanian joint-stock company with its registered office in Găești, Str. 13 Decembrie, nr. 210, jud. Dâmbovița), which, as the absorbing company, becomes, by operation of law, the controller of your personal data.
Your personal data remain protected, being managed by the new controller, Beko Romania, with the same care and responsibility as before, in full compliance with all applicable legal provisions regarding confidentiality and the processing of personal data. This change is purely legal, resulting from the merger by absorption process of companies within our Beko Group.
When we refer to Beko, we or us, we are referring to Beko Romania S.A. and its affiliated companies involved in the processing of your personal data. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use certain information about you. This information may also be used by Arçelik A.S. (branded Beko Corporate) as well as its subsidiaries.
If you have questions about the processing operations of our ultimate parent company, Arçelik A.S., you can view their privacy policy here.
For any clarifications or questions regarding how we use your personal data or this notice in general, please contact us using this form.
We use different methods to collect personal data from and about you including through:
Where we talk about personal data in this privacy notice, this means any information that may be used alone or in combination with other information to identify you.
The types of information we collect are set out below:
There may be circumstances where we need to process more sensitive information about you, which is known as “special categories of personal data”. For example, we may collect certain details about your health with your consent, such as vision or hearing impairment, when we book product repairs for you, if you consider that our engineers may need this information when they visit you to carry out the repairs.
This section tells you how and why we will use your personal data and explains the lawful basis we rely on in each case.
We only use your data in case there is a legitimate legal ground for processing of personal data, such as:
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use the various categories of your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
Please remember that if you choose not to share your personal data with us, we may not be able to provide the services or products you have requested.
If you have a connected appliance, to use it effectively, you may download Homewhiz or other similar application provided by Arçelik A.S. or other entity affiliated with us, where your data may be transferred to regions outside the EEA, UK and Ireland. For further information on how your data is managed by Homewhiz and other similar applications, please refer to the application's Privacy Policy.
We may use Artificial Intelligence to help us provide a product or service you have requested. If we use AI, we will do so responsibly and, where necessary, disclose that the content has been generated by AI.
| PURPOSE | LEGAL BASIS |
| a) To allow you to register the products and smart appliances you have purchased on the website or elsewhere, also in order to allow us to notify you of any safety issues concerning the registered product or Smart Appliance. | The performance of a contract with you and our legitimate interest. |
| b) To complete the purchase of a product over the phone, or via third-party retailers and provide you with related services under the contract, including customer service, after-sales services (such as home delivery, installation, removal, procurement of spare parts, repair, replacement, etc.). | The performance of a contract with you. |
| c) To process and manage information requests related to our products and services which you send through the channels made available by us, including our customer service call centres. In the event that you voluntarily provide unsolicited personal information as part of any interaction, this personal information is automatically discarded and is not stored by us in any form (including in aggregate form) or shared with third parties. | The performance of a contract with you. Necessary for our legitimate interests to provide you information about our products. |
| d) To send you marketing communications (in electronic or non-electronic form) regarding our products and services, including those you have purchased or registered (by telephone, post, email, SMS, MMS, push notifications and banners on Meta social media platforms and Google platforms). When we are marketing through these platforms, we may also exclude you from receiving our marketing communications. Our brands include: Beko, Arctic, Whirlpool, Beko Professional. | Necessary for our legitimate interests to provide you with information about products and services we believe you may be interested in and to inform our marketing strategy (where we are lawfully able to rely on legitimate interests as a lawful basis); or Consent, having obtained your prior consent to receiving direct marketing communications. |
| e) To carry out market research. | Necessary for our legitimate interests to study how customers use our products/services and to help us improve and develop our products and services (where we are lawfully able to rely on legitimate interests as a lawful basis); or consent, having obtained your prior consent to receiving direct marketing communications. |
| f) To collect and analyse your history and interests as our consumer (including purchases made, products registered, repair history, complaints, review scores, enrolment in loyalty program, interactions with our advertisements, including those sent by email, interests, demographic data, preferences shown in our preference centre) and/or rely upon Meta's, TikTok's or Google's monitoring of your characteristics, behaviours and interests shown on Meta, TikTok or Google (including YouTube) social media platforms (for example, page visitors, age, gender, main city, interests, intent to buy) and to create targeting audiences in our internal platform and on Meta Ireland Limited's, TikTok Technology Limited's and Google Ireland Limited's social media platforms, etc., as well as to send or show you, or exclude you from, personalised marketing communications regarding our brands. For this purpose, we may also combine personal data we collected with personal data collected through tracking technologies. | Consent, having obtained your prior consent to provide you with such information. |
| g) To carry out analytics across systems where we store your personal data in order to enrich, improve or gain further insight into such data and datasets. This purpose includes activities such as the development and improvement of our applications, products and/or services and their analysis to help us better understand our customers in order to offer the most relevant communications, services and experiences to them. Also, we may combine these data with data collected through tracking technologies. The personal data we use for this purpose include: products you purchased or registered, warranties or spare parts you purchased, history of repair, complaints, review scores, enrolment in loyalty program, interactions with our communications, and deliveries and installations you have received from us. | Consent, having obtained your prior consent to process this information in this way. |
| h) To send you customer satisfaction questionnaires via email or SMS and evaluate your degree of satisfaction with the product purchased or the services you have used, in order to improve the products and services offered to you (including by our suppliers). The questionnaires will be anonymous, except for the questionnaires relating to the delivery and installation service, in which you will be asked for certain data, such as order number, supplier and product line, necessary to assess the quality of the services provided by our suppliers with reference to individual products/product lines. | Necessary for our legitimate interests to study how customers use our products/services and to help us improve and develop our products and services (where we are lawfully able to rely on legitimate interests as a lawful basis); or consent, having obtained your prior consent to receiving direct marketing communications. |
| i) To allow you to participate in promotions, prize draws and competitions organised by us or by third parties on our behalf. | The performance of a contract with you. |
| j) Recording and listening to the phone calls you made to the consumer call centre, for internal training, documentation, quality control and assurance purposes of the service provided, and to ensure proper management of complaints and claims. | Necessary for our legitimate interests to monitor and improve our customer service (where we are lawfully able to rely on legitimate interests as a lawful basis); or consent, having obtained your prior consent to record the call. |
| k) To offer you the purchase of an extended warranty, by phone and on the website, if your product or smart appliance is no longer covered by warranty or is only covered by legal warranty. When such offers are made over the phone, when you call us or when you register your product, we process the data on the basis of our legitimate interest to provide you with information about our extended warranty or the extended warranty of one of our partners or, where applicable, on the basis of your consent, when we have obtained it in advance to provide you with information about our extended warranty. | Necessary for our legitimate interest to provide you with information about our extended warranty or the extended warranty of one of our partners; or consent where we have obtained your prior consent to provide you with information about our extended warranty. |
| l) To provide the extended warranty service purchased by you, including the related telephone support services, verification of the coverage period of the purchased product, repair and replacement of the product. | The performance of a contract with you. |
| m) To analyse traffic on the website, to produce aggregated and anonymous statistics for the purpose of optimising the services provided through the website, including by using tracking technologies. We may also carry out analyses across systems where we host your personal data in order to enrich, improve or gain further insight into such data and datasets. This purpose includes activities such as the development and improvement of our applications, products and/or services and their analysis to help us better understand our customers, so that we can offer them the most relevant communications, services and experiences. We may also combine these data with data collected from you. The personal data we use for this purpose includes our communications with you, including email/SMS opens, clicks and unsubscribes. | Your consent prior to the use of tracking technologies. |
| n) To analyse your behaviour on the website, preferences, interests, purchase history, browsing experiences and interactions with our advertisements, including those sent by email, in order to create targeting audiences on social media platforms and/or to personalise the marketing communications shown to you or to persons with similar interests/characteristics to you, including on third-party sites, on Meta, TikTok or when using Google services, including YouTube, as well as to understand and improve the effectiveness of our marketing strategy, including by using tracking technologies. We may also use data collected by Meta, TikTok or Google when you navigate their platforms to show you targeted advertising. In such cases, this targeting and the display of relevant marketing communications will be entirely managed by Meta, TikTok or Google on the basis of cookies used on such platforms. We may also combine data collected through tracking technologies with personal data we collected, for example when you opt in to receive marketing communications, register, purchase or register a product on the website, or when you log in to or visit Facebook, Instagram or TikTok or navigate through Google services, for example by email. For example, we may use the pixel provided by Meta, TikTok or Google tracking codes to understand your potential shopping interests displayed on the website. We may use cookies to send you marketing communications relating to those products. | Based on your consent obtained in advance to process this information in this way. |
| o) In the event that you have been redirected to the website by clicking on an advertisement for our products shown on a third-party site (affiliate publishers), we assess, using tracking technologies, whether the source site belongs to one of the affiliate publishers. | Based on your consent obtained in advance to process this information in this way. |
| p) To provide you with any after-sales services, such as repairs, replacements or similar services. | The performance of a contract with you. |
| r) To carry out activities necessary for business and business unit transfers, takeovers, mergers, demergers or other transformations and for the implementation of these transactions. | Necessary for our legitimate interests in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring. |
| s) To prevent fraud and establish liability for cybercrime. | Necessary to comply with our legal obligations and for our legitimate interests (prevention of fraud). |
| t) To protect our rights, both in and out of court. | Necessary for our legitimate interests to protect our rights and business. |
| u) To fulfil our legal obligations and respond to requests from competent authorities. | Necessary to comply with our legal obligations. |
| v) To send you service-related communications required by law or necessary to inform you of updates to the services we provide. For example, updates to our privacy notice or terms and conditions. | Necessary to comply with our legal obligations. |
| w) To verify your identity or age where the law requires us to. | Necessary to comply with our legal obligations. |
| x) To process special categories of personal data about you for the purpose of booking engineer visits and performing product repairs. | With your explicit consent. |
| y) We may share your personal data with our third-party affiliates and partners where you have opted in to receiving marketing communications from them. | Consent, having obtained your prior consent to share data with such third parties. |
| z) To provide you with a repair, refund, or replacement of the product you have purchased, in case of non-conformity, latent / hidden defects or during your legal warranty period. | Necessary to comply with our legal obligations. |
| aa) For global analysis and reporting purposes. | Based on legitimate interests relating to business development and compliance with local laws and regulation. |
Your personal data is protected by appropriate security measures suitable to ensure the secrecy and security of the personal data. More specifically, we adopt the appropriate administrative, technical, personal and physical measures designed to protect personal data against any loss, theft as well as unauthorized use, disclosure or modification.
We sometimes share your personal data with third parties. The types of third parties with which we share personal data are described below:
We may share your personal data with our affiliates, who may use your personal data for purposes and in a manner consistent with the information set out in this privacy notice. Arçelik A.S. may disclose your personal data to third parties, such as service providers, agents, public authorities and institutions, where it is necessary for Arçelik A.S. to lawfully carry out its business activities in accordance with the purposes set out above and as required or permitted by applicable law.
We may disclose your personal data to companies that provide services to us and our affiliates. Examples of the types of service providers we work with include:
We may share your personal data with our business partners for their own purposes if this is necessary for providing products and services to you.We may also transfer your personal data to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes, but only where you have given your consent at the time you provided your personal data.
We may disclose personal data to professional advisors, such as lawyers, auditors and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services they provide to us.
We may disclose your personal data to a third party if this is necessary to comply with a legal obligation or the decision of a judicial authority, a public authority or a government body, or if disclosure is necessary for national security, law enforcement or other issues of significant public interest.
If we make a sale or transfer of assets or are otherwise involved in a merger or business / asset transfer, we may transfer your personal data to one or more third parties as part of that transaction. If a change happens to our business, the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.
Our service providers, who act as our processors, are required to keep your personal data confidential and are not allowed to use it for any other purpose than to carry out the services they are performing for us.
We may also share your personal data with other third parties when you consent to such sharing.
Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (“Meta Ireland”) provides us with an audience-creation service and a tracking technology (pixel) through which personalised advertisements or web forms, through which users can subscribe to commercial communications from our brands, are displayed on the social network.
Via the service known as Custom Audience, we transmit your contact details to Meta in order to create an audience of consumers to be targeted with marketing communications on the social platform.
Through the Remarketing/Retargeting services, the pixel (known as the Facebook Pixel) and the Conversions API technology track your behaviour and interests on the website, transmit this information to Meta Ireland, and display, including by combining it with information already held about you, interest-based advertising for our brands’ products (known as Website Custom Audience).
For these processing activities, we are the controller, while Meta is our data processor, and a data processing agreement has been concluded. The pixel (known as the Facebook Pixel) tracks your behaviour and interests on the website, transmits these to Meta Ireland, and displays to you, including by combining information already held about you, interest-based advertising for our products (known as Website Custom Audience) or web forms for subscribing to commercial communications (known as Lead Ads), either to you or to Meta Ireland users who share common or similar characteristics/interests to you (known as Lookalike Audience).
For the processing carried out jointly in order to show you the above-mentioned advertisements or web forms, we and Meta Ireland act as joint controllers, and for this purpose we have concluded a joint controller agreement setting out our respective responsibilities for compliance with our obligations under the GDPR. Under this agreement, we are responsible for providing you with the information referred to in Articles 13 and 14 of the GDPR, while Meta Ireland is responsible for responding to your requests to exercise the rights referred to in Articles 15–20 of the GDPR in relation to the personal data stored by Meta Ireland after processing. In any case, you may direct your access requests or the exercise of your rights in relation to processing carried out as joint controllers to either joint controller.
Beko and Meta Ireland act as independent controllers of your personal data that you provide via the web form through which you subscribe to commercial communications (Lead Ads Service). In addition, Beko uses Meta Ireland’s Meta Ads Manager service, through which we send targeted marketing communications on Meta’s social media platforms based on selected criteria made available by Meta Ireland. For transparency purposes, we note that we have no access to the identity or other information of Meta users to whom the marketing communications are displayed. The contact details of Meta Ireland and its data protection officer, as well as further information on how Meta Ireland processes your personal data, can be found at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy.
Google LLC, or its subsidiaries, provides Beko, within the scope of Google Ads services, with tracking technologies through which personalised advertisements or web forms for subscribing to commercial communications are displayed by Google LLC within its services.
These tracking technologies, such as the remarketing pixel and Google Analytics integrated with Google Ads, track your behaviour and interests on the website and transmit the relevant information to Google LLC. Google LLC may show you, including by combining information it already holds about you, advertisements for our products personalised based on your interests, known as Remarketing, or web forms through which you can subscribe to commercial communications, known as Lead Form, either to you or to Google LLC users who have characteristics and/or interests similar to yours through audience expansion services and similar/lookalike audiences.
For the processing described above, including the processing of your personal data that you provide via the web forms, known as the Lead Form Service, Beko and Google LLC act as independent controllers. The contact details of Google LLC and its data protection officer, as well as further information on how Google LLC processes your personal data, can be found in Google’s privacy policy.
Our website uses the remarketing function “Bing Ads” of Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA (“Microsoft Advertising”). To calculate conversion ads, Microsoft Advertising places a cookie on your computer when you have accessed our website via a Microsoft Bing Ad. This allows Microsoft Advertising and us to recognise that someone has clicked on an advertisement, been redirected to our website, and reached a previously defined landing page (conversion page). We only learn the total number of users who clicked on a Bing Ad and were then directed to the conversion page. If you do not wish for information about your behaviour to be used by Microsoft, you can decline the placement of cookies. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website, as well as the processing of such data by Microsoft, by following the opt-out option made available by Microsoft. Further information on data protection and the cookies used by Microsoft and Bing Ads can be found in Microsoft’s privacy notice regarding the processing of personal data.For remarketing services, our website collects and stores data using Bing Ads technologies, from which usage profiles are created under pseudonyms. This is a service provided by Microsoft Advertising. This service enables us to track the activities of users on our website who have arrived via Bing Ads advertisements. When you reach our website via such an advertisement, a cookie is placed on your computer. Our website integrates a Bing Universal Event Tracking (UET) tag, a piece of code that, in conjunction with the cookie, stores, among other things, the time spent on the website, which sections of the website were visited and which advertisement led the user to the website. You can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website, as well as the processing of such data, by disabling the placement of cookies.
Our website uses a pixel (Pinterest Tag) provided by Pinterest Europe Ltd. (“Pinterest”). The pixel enables information about your browsing behaviour to be collected, stored and analysed in pseudonymised form. This information may be attributed to you with the help of additional information that Pinterest has stored about the user, for example, by virtue of holding an account on the “Pinterest” social network.Pinterest analyses browsing behaviour using an algorithm and can subsequently display targeted product recommendations in the form of personalised advertising banners in the user's Pinterest account. Pinterest may also combine the information collected via the pixel with further information collected by Pinterest from other websites and/or in connection with use of the “Pinterest” social network, thereby creating pseudonymised usage profiles.For remarketing services, our website uses Pinterest's conversion tracking technology, the “Pinterest Tag”. If you have arrived at our website from a Pin on Pinterest, we place a cookie on your device that interacts with a likewise implemented tag in the form of JavaScript code from Pinterest. When a user is redirected from a Pin on Pinterest to our website, the Pinterest Tag records certain user actions predefined by us and can track these, for example, leads, search queries on the website and views of product pages. As a result of our collaboration, we also process your personal data as joint controllers. To safeguard your rights and in compliance with the requirements of the GDPR, we have concluded an agreement that establishes rules for the processing of your personal data. We address the most important questions for you below. Further details can be found in the joint controller agreement concluded between Pinterest and us. Your point of contact for rights such as access or erasure is Pinterest. We have jointly agreed on how we ensure your rights and have specified in detail which obligations each party fulfils in order to meet the requirements of the GDPR. This concerns in particular the exercise of data subjects' rights and the fulfilment of information obligations under Articles 13 and 14 of the GDPR. You may contact each company involved individually regarding the processing of your data and assert your rights. Further information on data processing by Pinterest is available from Pinterest Europe
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https://policy.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy.
TikTok Technology Limited provides our company with tracking technologies (TikTok Pixel) and advertising, remarketing, targeting and audience expansion services (Lookalike Audiences), through which personalised video advertisements are displayed on the TikTok social media platform based on your interests and browsing behaviour on our website. Through the TikTok Pixel technology, information relating to your actions on the website, such as product views, is transmitted to TikTok in order to optimise our marketing campaigns, measure their effectiveness and display Remarketing/Retargeting advertisements for our brands’ products. We may also use Custom Audience services, through the secure transmission of contact data, and Lead Ads services, web forms used to subscribe to our commercial communications, which may be displayed either to you or to TikTok users who share common or similar characteristics and interests with you, services known as Lookalike Audience. For the purpose of collecting and transmitting data through TikTok Pixel, we and TikTok Technology Limited act as joint controllers and have entered into a specific agreement that defines each party's responsibilities in accordance with the GDPR. TikTok is responsible for ensuring your rights in relation to the data stored on its platform after transmission. We also use TikTok Ads Manager services to deliver targeted advertising content based on demographic and interest-based criteria made available by the platform, acting as independent controllers for the subsequent processing activities. Detailed information about how TikTok processes your personal data can be found in TikTok’s privacy policy.
When we share your personal data with our affiliated companies or other companies with whom we contract, as described in “Who do we share your personal data with?”, these companies may be located outside the UK and the EEA. In particular, your personal data may be transferred to our affiliates located in Turkey. If we transfer your personal data outside the UK or EEA we will take steps to ensure that your data will receive the same level of protection as if it was being processed within the UK or EEA, as applicable. For example, we may ensure there is an adequacy regulation in the country to which we transfer your data to ensure you will have the same data protection rights as in the UK or the EEA, we may agree with the entity we transfer your data to, to follow the same set of rules when processing your personal data (these rules are called “binding corporate rules”) or we may include standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission in our contracts with third parties or our group companies to ensure there are safeguards in place to protect your personal data. Please contact us using the details in How to contact us for more information about the specific measures we have taken.
This website, our apps and smart appliances are not addressed to persons under the age of 18, nor are we knowingly collecting personal data from persons under the age of 18..
To improve our customer service and reduce waiting times, we may use an AI-powered voice assistant when you contact our Customer Service. When you are interacting with the AI Service Assistant, you will be informed at the beginning of the call that you are communicating with an AI system acting on behalf of Beko.
The AI Service Assistant may process the personal data you provide during the call understand your request, provide initial assistance and direct you to the appropriate service team member.
The AI Service Assistant is used solely to support the handling of your request and does not make decisions regarding your rights or obligations. You may request to speak with a human agent at any time during your interaction with the AI Service Assistant.
When using the AI Service Assistant, please provide only the information necessary to handle your request and avoid sharing any special categories of personal data (such as health, biometric or other sensitive information) unless this is strictly necessary
We will only keep your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice and in accordance with applicable laws. This may include satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements.
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data that we process, subject to conditions set out in the applicable laws:
To exercise your rights, please contact us using the contact details listed in How to contact us.
Supervisory authorities are independent public bodies with investigative and corrective powers to ensure compliance with data protection legislation. They provide advice and guidance on data protection matters and examine, investigate and adjudicate complaints concerning alleged infringements of the relevant legislation.
As a general principle, the competent supervisory authority for data protection matters is the authority of the Member State in which the relevant controller or processor is established. However, where a controller or processor carries out cross-border processing activities or forms part of an undertaking established in multiple jurisdictions, the competent or lead supervisory authority may be determined in accordance with applicable legal frameworks and may be located in another Member State.
The national supervisory authorities of European Economic Area (EEA) Member States can be accessed via the following link.
Third parties, whose sites you may visit after clicking on a link from this website, may have less stringent privacy policies. We do not have control over these policies and urge you to read their privacy statements before providing any personal data to such sites.
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Our privacy notice is subject to continuous review and may be updated from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you by sending you a notice to your last known email address prior to its effective date.
This privacy notice is current as of 26.06.2026.