INFORMATIVE TEXT UNDER THE LAW ON PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA

As Turkuvaz Haberleşme ve Yayıncılık A.Ş., we are processing your personal data, and at the same time, using our best efforts to protect your data by taking the technical and administrative measures prescribed by laws. With this text, we would like to inform you in detail of the processes for processing of your personal data.

1. DEFINITIONS

The following terms mentioned in this text shall refer to the meanings specified below:

Personal Data: Any information relating to an identified or identifiable real person,

Processing of Personal Data: Any activity carried out in the period to elapse from collection of personal data to their deletion, destruction or anonymization, including their acquisition, recording, storage, protection, alteration, re-arrangement, disclosure, transmission, transfer, availability, classification and prevention of their use.

Law on the Protection of Personal Data (“LPPD”): Law on the Protection of Personal Data No. 6698,

Turkuvaz: Turkuvaz Haberleşme ve Yayıncılık A.Ş and its companies and group companies,

Data Supervisor: Real or legal person who determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data, and who is responsible for establishment and management of the data recording system.

2. COLLECTION AND PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

The data supervisor in respect of your data processed on the website Tdp.com.tr is Turkuvaz Haberleşme ve Yayıncılık A.Ş. Turkuvaz processes your personal data within the frame of the limits stipulated by all the legislation in relation to protection of personal data, Constitution of the Republic of Turkey and the international conventions to which our country is a party and LPPD being in the first place.

Although it differs depending upon the services provided and activities carried out on the website Tdp.com.tr, your below-specified data may be collected in electronic environment in accordance with your statement or within your knowledge:

  • In case you make contact from the tab of “contact us”, your name and e-mail address and phone number that you have provided to us, content of your communication and device information,
  • Due to legal requirement; date and time of access/exit, resource and target information and location information in respect of your visit to the website Tdp.com.tr,
  • Data collected by cookies for the purpose of ensuring that you can use the website Tdp.com.tr more efficiently, easily and fast, customizing the services and activities of the website according to your needs, and ensuring that the third party websites can provide more convenient services and offers.

As stipulated by LPPD, your personal data collected shall be processed;

  • In accordance with the law and principles of integrity,
  • In an accurate manner, and up-to-date when necessary,
  • For specific, clear and legitimate purposes,
  • in a way that is relevant, limited and proportionate to purpose of their processing, and
  • In accordance with the principles of being retained for a period specified in the relevant legislation or required for the purpose of processing thereof.

3. PURPOSES OF PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Your personal data can be processed for the purposes of;

  • Performing the endeavors necessary for you to benefit from our services and activities,
  • Carrying out and making widespread the service measurements for the purpose of developing and improving our services and activities,
  • Taking all the necessary technical and administrative measures within the scope of data security,
  • Procuring the necessary information in accordance with the requests and audits of regulatory and auditing institutions and official authorities, and carrying out the administrative operations,
  • Performing our legal obligations as stipulated and required by legal regulations, such as processing in accordance with the relevant legislation of the online visitor data,

and as specified in articles 5 and 6 of LPPD, on condition that;

  • It is explicitly stipulated by the relevant laws,
  • It is compulsory for Turkuvaz to fulfill a legal obligation of it,
  • It is made public by the related person himself/herself,
  • Processing of data is necessary for the legitimate interests of Turkuvaz, provided that the fundamental rights and freedoms of the related person are not infringed,
  • Explicit consent is obtained if necessary

4. TRANSFER OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Your personal data can be transferred to;

  • Our business partners, supplier companies, group companies and shareholders with which we cooperate or from which we procure services for provision and promotion of our services and activities,
  • Lawyers, auditors, tax consultants and other third persons from which we procure consultancy and service,
  • Your agents and representatives authorized by yourself,
  • Regulatory and auditing institutions and other public institutions such as courts and execution offices, and other public institutions and organizations authorized to require your personal data,

under the personal data processing terms and conditions and purposes specified in articles 8 and 9 of LPPD.

5. YOUR RIGTHS REGARDING THE PROTECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

With regard to your personal data, you have the right to;

  • a) Come to know whether or not your personal data have been processed,
  • b) Request information on the procedure, if your personal data have been processed,
  • c) Come to know the purpose of processing your personal data and whether they have been used as fit for the purpose.
  • ç) Come to know the third persons to whom your personal data have been transferred within or outside the country.
  • d) Request for the correction of your personal data that may have been processed incompletely or inaccurately.
  • e) Request the deletion or destruction of personal data within the scope of the provisions set forth in Article 7 of LPPD,
  • f) Request that the third parties to whom personal data are transferred are informed about the transactions carried out pursuant to sub-paragraphs (e) and (f),
  • g) Make an objection to the processing, exclusively by automatic means, of your personal data, which leads to an unfavorable consequence against the data subject,
  • ğ) Request compensation for damages in the event that you suffer damages as a result of the unlawful processing of personal data

You may forward your requests within the scope of your above-specified rights, by registered mail return receipt requested or in person or through a notary in written, or by registered electronic mail (REM) address, secure electronic signature, mobile signature, or if you have an electronic mail that you have previously notified to us which is registered in our system, by using your electronic mail address. Your requests will be finalized without any charges within thirty days at the latest from the date when they are forwarded to us by the above-specified means.

As specified in the “Communiqué on Procedures and Principles for Application to Data Supervisor” which was published by the Personal Data Protection Authority on the Official Gazette no 30356 dated March 10, 2018, your requests specified in your application are replied at no cost, however, in case the reply to your request is made in written, a fee of TL 1 for each of the first ten pages and in case the reply is made in a recording environment such as a CD or flash disc, a fee which will not exceed the cost of the recording environment can be charged. In case your application has arisen from a fault of us, such fee shall be returned to you.

Your application shall be replied in accordance with the relevant provisions stipulated by LPPD, and for the purpose of confirming that the applicant is the correct person, Turkuvaz may request certain confirmatory information from you; such information may be requested only for the sake of identifying the identity of the real data owner and sharing the outcomes of the application with the correct person.

As Turkuvaz, we would like to remind you that, Tdp.com.tr contains links to other websites, and the privacy principles of Turkuvaz shall apply only on our platform of Tdp.com.tr and we have no responsibility in respect of the other websites, links of which are contained.