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Clarification Text on the Processing of Personal Data Collected via Forms

Our company requests certain personal data (such as name, surname, password, email address, mobile phone number) in order to fulfill its legal obligations arising from the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 and other relevant legislation and to carry out related processes. These personal data will be processed in a non-public environment based on your explicit consent, within the purposes and scope stated in this Personal Data Protection Law (KVKK) and Clarification Text, and will be stored in this environment without being used for any other purposes.

Purpose of Processing Personal Data

Personal data within our company are processed for purposes such as planning and executing commercial activities, providing legally required information to authorized institutions and organizations, resolving consumer complaints regarding matters not directly provided by us or outside our expertise, sending commercial electronic messages upon your explicit consent, planning and executing necessary auditing activities to ensure that operations are carried out in accordance with our company procedures and relevant legislation, planning and executing corporate sustainability activities, protecting the reputation of our company, managing request and complaint processes, and planning and executing corporate governance and communication activities. Personal data will be processed in accordance with the principles of legality, fairness, connection with the purpose, limitation, and retention for the period required by law. Personal data may be processed fully or partially through automatic or manual methods such as collection, recording, storage, retention, modification, or reorganization. The collected information will not be shared with third parties without your knowledge or contrary instruction, will not be used for commercial purposes outside of its intended activity, and will not be sold.

Transfer of Personal Data

Your personal data may be shared, to the extent necessary to fulfill the purposes mentioned above and in accordance with the principles of lawfulness, fairness, connection with the purpose, limitation, and retention period required by law, with the Ministry of Commerce, domestic/international companies, public/private institutions and organizations, companies, consultants, solution partners, other group companies, other authorized institutions and organizations, suppliers, subcontractors, persons or entities allowed by Turkish Commercial Code and other applicable legislation, legally authorized public and/or private legal entities, or other persons or entities as required or permitted by legislation, and with official authorities upon their request. Your personal data may also be transferred to third parties without your explicit consent under Articles 5 and 8 of the Personal Data Protection Law.

Method of Collecting Personal Data

Your personal data may be collected in written, verbal, or electronic form via our website.

Deletion, Destruction or Anonymization of Personal Data

In accordance with Article 7 of the PDPL, even if personal data are processed in compliance with relevant legislation, if the reasons requiring their processing cease to exist, personal data will be deleted, destroyed, or anonymized ex officio or upon the request of the data subject by our company. Procedures and principles regarding this matter will be carried out in accordance with the PDPL and the Regulation on Deletion, Destruction, or Anonymization of Personal Data published in the Official Gazette No. 30224 dated 28.10.2017. Personal data will be deleted, destroyed, or anonymized within three months following the date on which the obligation arises. When you apply to our company requesting the deletion or destruction of your personal data;

a) If all conditions for processing the personal data have ceased, your personal data in question will be deleted, destroyed, or anonymized. Your request will be concluded within 30 days and you will be informed.

b) If all conditions for processing the personal data have ceased and the personal data have been transferred to third parties, these third parties will be notified; necessary procedures will be ensured under the regulation.

c) If all conditions for processing the personal data have not ceased, your request may be rejected with a justification in accordance with the third paragraph of Article 13 of the PDPL, and the rejection will be communicated to you in writing or electronically within 30 days.

Your Rights under the Personal Data Protection Law

According to Article 11 of the Law, as the data subject, customers have the right to;

- Learn whether their personal data are being processed,

- Request information if their personal data have been processed,

- Learn the purpose of processing and whether it is used in accordance with this purpose,

- Know the third parties to whom their personal data have been transferred domestically or abroad,

- Request the correction of incomplete or inaccurate personal data,

- Request the deletion, anonymization, or destruction of their personal data,

- Request notification of third parties in case of correction, deletion, anonymization, or destruction,

- Object to the emergence of a result against themselves by analyzing processed data solely through automated systems,

- Claim compensation if they suffer damage due to unlawful processing of personal data.

Non-personal information refers to information that cannot personally identify you. This information may be used for any purpose and may be shared with third parties without consent.