This is a translation for information purposes only; the Turkish version prevails.
Makbim Teknoloji Ltd. Şti.
PRIVACY NOTICE ON THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA
a) Data Controller and Representative
Pursuant to Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (the “KVKK”), your personal data may be processed by Makbim Teknoloji Ltd. Şti. (“Makbim”), as the data controller, within the scope described below.
We would like to inform you that the personal information you may have provided to Makbim in its capacity as Data Controller may be recorded, stored, updated, disclosed/transferred to third parties where permitted by legislation, classified and processed in the other ways listed in the KVKK, subject to the conditions and limits described below. You can find our detailed explanations of these elements below.
b) Purposes for Which Personal Data Will Be Processed
Your collected personal data will be processed for the purposes of ensuring the legal and commercial security of Makbim and of persons in a business relationship with Makbim; ensuring the implementation of Makbim’s human resources policies; and determining and implementing Makbim’s commercial and business strategies, within the personal data processing conditions and purposes set out in Articles 5 and 6 of the KVKK.
c) To Whom and for What Purposes Processed Personal Data May Be Transferred
Your collected personal data may be transferred to our business partners, suppliers, shareholders, legally authorized public institutions and private persons for the purposes of ensuring the legal and commercial security of Makbim and of persons in a business relationship with Makbim; ensuring the implementation of Makbim’s human resources policies; and determining and implementing Makbim’s commercial and business strategies, within the framework of the personal data processing conditions and purposes set out in Articles 8 and 9 of the KVKK.
d) Method and Legal Basis of Personal Data Collection
Your personal data are collected by Makbim through different channels and on different legal grounds in order to carry out our activities. Your personal data collected on these legal grounds may also be processed and transferred for the purposes specified in items (b) and (c) of this Privacy Notice, within the scope of the personal data processing conditions and purposes set out in Articles 5 and 6 of the KVKK.
e) Personal Data Processed Through Our Website and Contact Form
Data processed: When you fill in the contact form, we process the name and surname, organization/company, e-mail address, telephone number, subject of interest and message you enter, together with the language in which the form was sent, the date/time and your IP address. The organization and telephone fields are optional. Please do not share special categories of personal data (health, criminal convictions, biometric data, etc.) in your message.
Purposes: To evaluate your request, question or cooperation proposal and to respond to you; to send you the information and documents you request; to prevent misuse of the form (automated/bulk submissions, unsolicited messages) and to ensure the security of the website.
Legal grounds: Your data are collected by automated means when you submit them through the form and are processed under Article 5/2-c of the KVKK (processing is directly related to the establishment or performance of a contract) and Article 5/2-f (the legitimate interests of our company, provided that your fundamental rights and freedoms are not harmed).
Transfers: Form messages are delivered to the relevant employees through our company’s corporate e-mail service. Since the servers of our corporate e-mail service (Google Workspace) and of our website’s content delivery and security service (Cloudflare) may be located abroad, your data may be transferred abroad to these service providers in accordance with the conditions set out in Article 9 of the KVKK. Otherwise, your data are shared only with competent public authorities upon request and within the scope of our legal obligations.
Retention period: Form messages are kept for as long as is necessary to conclude your request and for the limitation periods set out in the relevant legislation in respect of possible disputes; at the end of this period they are deleted, destroyed or anonymized. To prevent misuse, an irreversible hash value derived from your IP address is kept on our server for no longer than 1 hour.
Cookies: Our website uses only one functional cookie, which remembers the language you have chosen; see our Cookie Policy for details.
f) Rights of the Data Subject Listed in Article 11 of the KVKK
As data subjects, if you submit your requests regarding your rights to Makbim using the methods set out below in this Privacy Notice, Makbim will conclude the request free of charge as soon as possible and within thirty days at the latest, depending on the nature of the request. However, if a fee is prescribed by the Personal Data Protection Board, Makbim will charge the fee set out in that tariff. In this context, data subjects have the right to:
- learn whether their personal data are processed,
- request information if their personal data have been processed,
- learn the purpose of the processing of their personal data and whether the data are used in accordance with that purpose,
- know the third parties in Türkiye or abroad to whom their personal data are transferred,
- request the correction of their personal data if processed incompletely or inaccurately, and request that the operation carried out in this context be notified to third parties to whom the personal data have been transferred,
- request the deletion or destruction of their personal data if the reasons requiring the processing no longer exist, even though the data were processed in accordance with Law No. 6698 and other relevant laws, and request that the operation carried out in this context be notified to third parties to whom the personal data have been transferred,
- object to any result to their detriment arising from the analysis of the processed data exclusively by automated systems,
- request compensation for damages if they suffer damage due to the unlawful processing of their personal data.
Pursuant to paragraph 1 of Article 13 of the KVKK, you may submit your request regarding the exercise of the rights listed above to Makbim in writing or by the other methods set out in the Communiqué on the Procedures and Principles of Application to the Data Controller (registered electronic mail (KEP), secure electronic signature, mobile signature, or the e-mail address you have previously notified to Makbim and that is registered in our systems). The channels and procedures through which you may submit your application are explained below.
To exercise the rights listed above, you may send your request, together with the information necessary to identify you and your explanations regarding the right you wish to exercise, stating which of the rights set out in Article 11 of the KVKK your request concerns, by registered mail with return receipt to Güzelyalı, 81181. Sk. Fazilet Kibritoğlu Apt K.1 D.1, 01120 Çukurova/Adana, or by e-mail with confirmation of receipt to info@makbim.com.