This Privacy and Cookie Policy explains how the personal data you share with us — when you visit our website and make use of the information and services offered to you — will be collected, processed, stored, destroyed, anonymized, and transferred. The personal data you share electronically while visiting our website will be recorded through automated or non-automated methods, and will primarily be used to fulfill your requests and, subsequently, by Tahancı Hukuk Bürosu (Tahancı Law Firm) to provide you with better service. By visiting this website and making use of the services offered through it, you are deemed to have accepted the terms set out in this Privacy and Cookie Policy.
Personal data refers to any information that identifies or renders identifiable a natural person. This includes information such as name and surname, date of birth, telephone number, and e-mail address. In addition, data concerning race, ethnic origin, political opinion, philosophical belief, religion, sect or other beliefs, appearance, membership of an association, foundation or trade union, health, sexual life, criminal conviction, and security measures are classified as special categories of personal data.
The personal data you share will not be used beyond the procedures and principles set out in this Privacy and Cookie Policy; it will only be transferred where the explicit consent of the data subject exists, or where the conditions set out by law are met.
In line with requests and notifications received from administrative or judicial authorities, your personal data may be shared with such authorities in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Privacy Notice on the Processing of Personal Data
This Privacy Notice has been prepared in order to inform data subjects about the processing of their personal data by Tahancı Hukuk Bürosu, acting as data controller, in accordance with the “data controller’s obligation to inform” set out in Article 10 of the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“KVKK”) and the Communiqué on the Procedures and Principles to Be Followed in Fulfilling the Obligation to Inform. Tahancı Hukuk Bürosu acts with due care, within the framework of applicable legislation and other international regulations, to ensure the security of the personal data of data subjects.
Since its establishment, given the sensitivity of the services and information provided by Tahancı Hukuk Bürosu, the personal data of every person who has contacted our Firm has been kept confidential and has not been shared with third parties. The protection of personal data is one of our Firm’s most fundamental policies, and all of our colleagues exercise the utmost diligence in this regard. As Tahancı Hukuk Bürosu, we undertake to comply with all responsibilities and obligations imposed under the Personal Data Protection Law. The principles we adopt when collecting personal data are set out below.
Identity of the Data Controller
As Tahancı Hukuk Bürosu, the responsibility for determining the purposes and means of processing personal data, and for establishing and managing the data recording system, belongs to us, acting as data controller.
Purpose of Processing Personal Data
Tahancı Hukuk Bürosu processes and transfers the personal data you share solely for basic purposes such as communicating with you in line with your views and requests, fulfilling your requests, the establishment or performance of a contract, fulfilling due-care and evidentiary obligations, and fulfilling other legal obligations.
In line with these stated purposes, your personal data is processed, stored, and transferred in compliance with the law and the principle of good faith, accurately and, where necessary, kept up to date, for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes, connected with, limited to and proportionate to the purposes for which it is processed, and retained for the period stipulated in the relevant legislation or required for the purpose for which it is processed.
Data concerning race, ethnic origin, political opinion, philosophical belief, religion, sect or other beliefs, appearance, membership of an association, foundation or trade union, health, sexual life, criminal conviction and security measures, as well as biometric and genetic data, belonging to you or to third parties, are classified as special categories of personal data under Article 6 of the KVKK. We kindly ask that such data not be shared with our Firm unless necessary; where it is shared, you will be deemed to have given your explicit consent to the processing of such data. Tahancı Hukuk Bürosu will not process such special categories of personal data and will destroy them.
Your personal data may be processed within the scope of studies such as research, planning, and statistics, by being anonymized together with official statistics.
Transfer of Personal Data
Your personal data may be transferred to relevant parties, within the framework of applicable legislation and limited to the purposes of processing personal data, for the provision of necessary technical services, the fulfillment of your requests, and the conduct of business and service relationships, in accordance with Articles 8 and 9 of the KVKK concerning the domestic and cross-border transfer of personal data.
Tahancı Hukuk Bürosu is authorized to transfer personal data domestically and abroad in compliance with the conditions set out in the KVKK and, where explicit consent is required, on the basis of the explicit consent of the data subject.
Method and Legal Basis for Collecting Personal Data
The personal data you share with our Firm through our website or by other means is provided by you. Your personal data is processed in accordance with Article 5 of the KVKK, on the basis of your explicit consent. Personal data may be collected, stored, and processed on legitimate grounds — without the explicit consent of the data subject, provided that fundamental rights and freedoms are not violated — where: it is expressly provided for by law; it is mandatory for the protection of the life or physical integrity of the person or of another person who is unable to disclose their consent due to actual impossibility or whose consent is not legally valid; it is directly related to the establishment or performance of a contract, provided that it concerns the processing of personal data belonging to the parties to the contract; it is mandatory for the data controller to fulfill its legal obligation; the data has been made public by the data subject; data processing is mandatory for the establishment, exercise, or protection of a right; or data processing is mandatory for the legitimate interests of the data controller, provided that this does not harm the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject.
Rights of the Data Subject
You may exercise the following rights set out in Article 11 of the KVKK by applying to us. Depending on the nature of your request, it will be resolved free of charge as soon as possible and within thirty days at the latest. However, where the transaction requires an additional cost, a fee may be charged in accordance with the tariff to be determined by the Personal Data Protection Board. The rights of the data subject are as follows:
a) Learning whether personal data is being processed,
b) Requesting information where personal data has been processed,
c) Learning the purpose of processing personal data and whether it is used in accordance with such purpose,
ç) Knowing the third parties to whom personal data has been transferred, domestically or abroad,
d) Requesting the correction of personal data where it has been processed incompletely or incorrectly,
e) Requesting the deletion or destruction of personal data within the framework of the conditions set out in Article 7,
f) Requesting that the actions taken under (d) and (e) be notified to the third parties to whom the personal data has been transferred,
g) Objecting to a result to their own detriment arising from the analysis of processed data exclusively through automated systems,
ğ) Requesting compensation for damages suffered as a result of the unlawful processing of personal data.
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When you visit our website, data such as your IP address, the name of your internet service provider, your software version, and the keywords you used to find our website are automatically recorded and anonymized, and used for statistical purposes in order to provide you with better service.
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