42The Court deduced therefrom that only contracts concluded outside and independently of any trade or professional activity or purpose, solely for the purpose of satisfying an individual’s own needs in terms of private consumption, are covered by the special rules laid down by the regulation to protect the consumer as the party deemed to be the weaker party (judgment of 25 January 2018, Schrems, C‑498/16, EU:C:2018:37, paragraph 30 and case-law cited).
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