Protection of Personal Data
INFORMATION AND CONSENT TEXT REGARDING THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA
1. Purpose of the Information Text and Our Company’s Status as Data Controller:
Our company, Karaköy Makina, acts as a “data controller” under the Law on the Protection of Personal Data No. 6698 (“Law”) regarding customers’ personal data. This Information and Consent Text aims to inform customers about the personal data processing activities carried out by Karaköy Makina in accordance with the Law and to obtain their explicit consent for the situations specified in Article 3 below.
2. Purpose of Processing Customers’ Personal Data:
Customers’ personal data are processed within the framework of the conditions and purposes of personal data processing set out in Articles 5 and 6 of the Law. This includes, but is not limited to: carrying out necessary activities by relevant business units to provide products and services to customers, conducting commercial activities, planning and executing Karaköy Makina’s commercial and/or business strategies, ensuring legal, technical, and commercial-business security of Karaköy Makina and relevant individuals in business relations, and planning and executing activities for recommending and promoting Karaköy Makina’s products and services tailored to customers’ preferences, usage habits, and needs. Detailed information about the processing of personal data by Karaköy Makina can be found in the Policy on the Processing and Protection of Personal Data under Law No. 6698 at https://www.karakoymakina.com/
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3. Personal Data to Be Processed Based on Customers’ Explicit Consent and Purposes of Processing:
For the situations where the personal data processing conditions in Articles 5/2 and 6/3 of the Law are not met, Karaköy Makina requires the explicit consent of customers. In this context, customers’ personal data may be processed and shared with the parties specified in this Information and Consent Text for purposes including, but not limited to: creating campaigns for customers, cross-selling, identifying target audiences, tracking customer activities to enhance user experience, improving and personalizing Karaköy Makina’s website and mobile application according to customer needs, direct and indirect marketing, personalized marketing and remarketing, personal segmentation, targeting, analysis, internal reporting, market research, planning and executing customer satisfaction activities, and planning and executing customer relationship management processes. These activities support the planning and execution of sales and marketing processes for Karaköy Makina’s products and/or services and aim to establish and/or increase customer loyalty.
4. Transfer of Customers’ Personal Data:
Customers’ personal data may be shared, within the framework of the conditions and purposes stated in Articles 8 and 9 of the Law, with company officials, subsidiaries, business partners, suppliers, shareholders, legally authorized public institutions and organizations, and private entities. This is to ensure the provision of services and products, execution of commercial activities, planning and execution of business strategies, ensuring legal, technical, and commercial-business security, and recommending and promoting Karaköy Makina’s products and services tailored to customers’ preferences and needs.
5. Methods and Legal Basis for Collecting Personal Data:
Personal data are collected from customers electronically. Personal data collected for the legal reasons mentioned above may be processed and transferred for the purposes stated in Articles 5 and 6 of the Law and in this Information and Consent Text.
6. Rights of Customers as Personal Data Owners:
Under Article 11 of the Law, data owners have the right to:
(i) learn whether their personal data are being processed,
(ii) request information if their personal data have been processed,
(iii) learn the purpose of processing and whether the data are used in accordance with this purpose,
(iv) know the third parties to whom personal data are transferred, domestically or abroad,
(v) request correction of incomplete or inaccurate personal data and to have this correction communicated to third parties to whom the data have been transferred,
(vi) request deletion or destruction of personal data if the reasons requiring processing have ceased, and have this action communicated to third parties to whom the data have been transferred,
(vii) object to outcomes arising against them through exclusive analysis of processed data by automated systems, and
(viii) request compensation for damages if they suffer losses due to unlawful processing of personal data.
Requests regarding the exercise of these rights can be submitted by data owners via the methods specified in the Policy on the Processing and Protection of Personal Data under Law No. 6698, available at https://www.karakoymakina.com/
. Karaköy Makina will evaluate and finalize such requests within 30 days. Karaköy Makina reserves the right to charge a fee in accordance with the (if any) fee schedule determined by the Personal Data Protection Board for such requests.