PRIVACY NOTICE ON THE PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA
PRIVACY RULES, WEBSITE TERMS OF USE, COMMUNICATIONS, AND INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
In order to fulfill its obligation to inform arising from Article 10 of the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (the “Law”), our Company hereby presents the following explanations to the attention of our customers and third parties who use our website and/or mobile applications. Our Company reserves the right to update this Privacy Notice on the Protection of Personal Data at any time in line with amendments that may be made to the applicable legislation.
We exercise the utmost care regarding the security of your personal data. With this awareness, we attach great importance to processing and retaining all kinds of personal data belonging to all persons associated with us in compliance with the Law. Fully conscious of this responsibility, we would like to state that our Policy on the Protection, Processing, Retention, and Destruction of Personal Data applies to the confidentiality of visitor information, the protection, retention, processing, use, and destruction of personal data, commercial electronic communications, and other matters on our website (including its mobile application).
On our website, we process personal data that you provide to us through cookies and the contact form, including but not limited to your first name, last name, e-mail address, address, telephone number, CV (résumé), and other personal data. Special categories of personal data are personal data directly related to an individual’s private sphere and are exhaustively listed in the Law, such as race, ethnic origin, political opinion, philosophical belief, religion, religious sect or other beliefs, membership in associations, foundations or trade unions, health or sexual life, clothing and attire, criminal convictions, and genetic and biometric data. Except for data relating to health and sexual life, explicit consent is required for the use of other special categories of personal data. Where the law requires the collection of such data, explicit consent is not required. Where information relating to health and sexual life is retained by healthcare institutions within the scope of the services provided, explicit consent is not required.
PROTECTION OF INFORMATION
On this website, the necessary measures for the security of information and transactions provided by or obtained from visitors have been taken by us or the relevant organization within the systems and internet infrastructure, by appropriate technical and administrative methods, taking into account the nature of the information and transaction as well as technological capabilities and cost factors.
The information you enter on our website for the purpose of submitting requests and complaints or updating information cannot be viewed by other internet users.
METHODS OF COLLECTING INFORMATION, PURPOSES OF PROCESSING AND TRANSFER, AND PERSONAL DATA PROCESSING ACTIVITIES
Provided that the necessary measures are taken to protect confidentiality and that all legal principles relating to the processing of personal data and all personal data retention and destruction policies are complied with;
- Where required by law, or by additionally requesting consent for certain practices that are not mandatory, our visitors’ physical and virtual business visit and contact details, as well as the other personal information detailed below,
- By and among us as the Data Controller and our partners, business and solution partners, successors, service providers, suppliers, and other third parties/organizations to be determined as required by the purpose of processing (including social media and online advertising operators) (as applicable, data controllers, processors, and/or recipient groups),
- In the cases stated herein and in other cases expressly provided for by law in which personal data may be processed and transferred; where the information has been made public by the data subject; where processing personal data belonging to the parties to a contract is necessary; where it is mandatory for us, as the data controller/processor, to fulfill any legal obligation; where processing and transfer are necessary for the establishment, exercise, or protection of rights; and where, provided that fundamental rights and freedoms are not harmed, processing and transfer are mandatory/necessary for the legitimate interests provided for herein and by law for us as the data controller/processor,
may be processed and transferred domestically and abroad by the aforementioned organizations within the stated framework.
USE OF IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES (COOKIES, ETC.) ON OUR WEBSITE
Various types of cookies are used on our website (including all digital platforms and mobile applications). These identification technologies include session cookies, persistent cookies, strictly necessary cookies, functionality cookies, analytics cookies, commercial cookies, and third-party cookies.
Cookies are small pieces of data placed on computers and mobile devices for the purposes of ensuring that the website visited operates properly and is improved, personalizing and enhancing the user experience, enabling websites to be visited without logging in, and/or sending commercial and social notifications to users (which, depending on the circumstances, may be visible even when the internet browser and/or relevant mobile application is closed), and, in general, presenting and delivering general or personalized information, advertisements, and promotions to website users and visitors both on the relevant website and on third-party websites (including social media networks and online advertising networks).
Cookies are retained on computers and devices for a period appropriate to their purpose, provided that any statutory maximum retention period is not exceeded.
Visitors who use our website (including its mobile versions) are deemed to have accepted the practices described above, as well as the processing of the relevant identification information for the purposes and within the scope and conditions specified herein, under personal data legislation, and in the other sections of this notice with respect to various categories of your information (including, within this framework, its transfer, sharing with, and use by third parties).
Visitors may at any time manage and delete cookies through the settings of the software and/or operating system and/or internet browser on their devices and/or stop the aforementioned notifications (in such case, it should be understood that our Website/the relevant device/software may not function as intended and/or that the user may not be informed of notification content).
COMMUNICATIONS
In compliance with the law, communications may be made with our visitors for promotional, advertising, and communication purposes relating to all kinds of products and services by us, our business and solution partners, and public institutions and organizations with which we are legally required to share data, via SMS/text message, instant notification, automated call, computer, telephone, e-mail, fax, all kinds of notifications (if enabled on your device), and other electronic communication tools, and electronic messages may be sent to visitors.
YOUR PERSONAL DATA PROCESSED AND TRANSFERRED, AND YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS REGARDING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
In addition to hereby informing you about the method and legal basis for collecting your first name, last name, e-mail address, address, telephone number, CV (résumé), and other personal information that you provide to our organization through cookies and the contact form, including but not limited to such information, the purposes for which such data will be processed, and to whom and for what purposes it may be transferred, you have the right to learn whether your personal information has been processed; to request information about such processing if it has been processed; to learn whether it has been used in accordance with its purpose; to know the third parties to whom it has been transferred domestically or abroad; and to request information regarding all such matters. You also have the right to request the correction of incomplete or incorrectly processed data; to request its deletion or destruction in accordance with the statutory conditions and procedures and notification of such action to third parties to whom the data has been transferred; to object to any result arising against you through the analysis of your information exclusively by automated systems; and to claim compensation if you incur damage due to unlawful processing, without prejudice to our rights arising from the applicable legislation and this form. We hereby inform you that you may apply to us, as the Data Controller, regarding all these matters.
We would like to state that we reserve the right to reject requests that are unreasonably repetitive, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or are otherwise excessively difficult to fulfill.
While the matters above are presented for your information in fulfillment of our obligation to inform you regarding personal data, we kindly ask you to note that permission is obtained for all personal data processing activities other than those for which the applicable legislation permits processing (including transfers) without obtaining the explicit consent of the data subject, and that no unauthorized processing is carried out.
Within this framework, in cases where your consent is requested, you may provide such consent face to face or, where available, through the relevant section of our website and, likewise where available, digitally (with the same legal nature and value as written and signed consent). Accordingly, after reviewing the personal data processing information on our website and examining the consent text presented to you in printed form or through a link sent by text message to the mobile phone number you provide, if you find it appropriate, your consent/approval process will be completed after you verbally confirm the accuracy of your information or confirm it on-screen or digitally. In addition, where such functionality is available, you may access our relevant website at any time and complete the consent/approval procedures.
Our organization may partially or fully destroy personal information (by deletion, destruction, or anonymization) at the intervals determined under the applicable legislation and its personal data retention and destruction policies. Visitors may also, at any time and without stating any reason, contact our organization through the communication channels specified below and, by completing the required legal and technical procedures, stop the processing of their personal data and/or the sending of commercial electronic communications to them. In accordance with their explicit notices and requests in this regard, personal data processing and/or communications through the channels specified by them will be stopped within the statutory maximum period (while personal data processing activities and communications that are permitted, required, or mandatory under the law will continue).
At the visitor’s request, information other than that which must and/or may lawfully be retained will also be deleted or destroyed from the data recording system, or anonymized so that the individual cannot be identified while achieving the same purpose. Applications and requests relating to these matters will be fulfilled within the statutory maximum periods or may be rejected by explaining the legal grounds to the applicant.
THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES, DIGITAL PLATFORMS, AND APPLICATIONS
Other websites accessed through our website (including its mobile versions) are subject to their own privacy and security policies, terms of use, communications, and personal data processing conditions. We are not responsible for any disputes, pecuniary or non-pecuniary damages, or losses that may arise from the use of information obtained from websites accessed for the purpose of viewing advertisements, banners, or content, or for any other purpose, or from the ethical principles, privacy and security principles, personal data retention and destruction policies, service quality, terms of use, cookies, web beacons and similar technologies, notifications, recommendations, and other practices of such websites (and other digital platforms).
LIABILITY
Visitors are responsible for the decisions they make, all transactions and actions they carry out based on such decisions, and the consequences thereof, within the framework of information obtained from our website or other websites/mobile applications/all types of notifications linked from our website and from other units and channels belonging to our organization; information, promotions, and advertisements electronically communicated to them; and all types of recommendations.
As we cannot know the legal or actual capacity of any visitor to our website, responsibility for the use, information, and processing activities of children and other minors rests with their legal representatives, and they may exercise rights relating to the minors’ personal data (and, as applicable, communications) through their legal representatives.
RIGHTS IN WEBSITE CONTENT
All intellectual and industrial property rights and ownership rights relating to all information and content on our website and their arrangement, revision, and partial or complete use belong to us and our organization, except for those belonging to other third parties pursuant to our agreements.
AMENDMENTS
We reserve the right to make any changes we deem necessary regarding privacy, personal data retention, use and destruction policies, website terms of use, and the products, services, opportunities, campaigns, and similar offerings we may provide. Such changes become effective from the moment they are announced by us on the website or through other appropriate methods.
You may notify us of your requests for additional information and any requests or complaints regarding all these matters by contacting us through the communication channels below. Where the relevant request must be submitted in accordance with a specific procedure required by law (in terms of method, timing, or form), such procedure must be followed.
Respectfully,
