Privacy Policy

We keep your information in privacy

As ARTRUG LTD. ŞTİ (hereinafter referred to as the "Company", “we”, and through similar words such as “us”, “our”, etc.), we respect your privacy and are committed to providing a safe and personalized online shopping experience through our website under the domain name of https://www.artrug.com/ (“the “Website”).

The Website (including its all subdomains, other media and their respective features and content) is a service made available by the Company.

This Privacy Policy (“the Policy”) describes Company’s practices and policies with regards to use and process of personal information while operating the Website and providing the services thereunder (the “Services”). In this regard, this Policy describes the types of personal information we collect through Website and our Services, how we use that information, our legal basis for doing so, with whom we share it, your rights and choices in this regard, how you can contact us about our privacy practices as well as your ability to control certain uses of such personal information. This Policy does not apply to third-party sites, products, or services, even if they link to our Services or the Website, and you should consider the privacy practices of those third parties carefully.

Capitalized words not defined under this Policy shall be understood as described under our Terms of Service (the “Terms”). It is of utmost importance to read the Policy provided herein in tandem with the Terms to better grasp the key concepts provided and explained therein.

By accepting this Policy, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Policy, and agree to the Terms which are incorporated by reference.

By accepting this Policy, you are familiarized yourself with this Policy, understood and are agreeing with the terms and practices described in this Policy (including new versions of this Privacy Policy when and as they come into effect), and the Terms, which governs this Policy and contains all disclaimers of warranties and limitation of liabilities. If you do not agree to this Policy, please do not further access or use the Website and the Services.

1.Definition

Within the scope of this Policy, following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them below:

The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Business

Business refers to the Company as the legal entity that collects Consumers' personal information and determines the purposes and means of the processing of Consumers' personal information, or on behalf of which such information is collected and that alone, or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Consumers' personal information, that does business in Turkey.

Company

Artrug Ltd. Şti, a limited liability company, incorporated and validly operating in Turkey and having the principal place of business at (address)…….

Consumer

A natural person who is a resident in the country where our services reaches, including (i) every individual who is in anywhere in the world for other than a temporary or transitory purpose

Data Controller

The Company as the legal person which determines the purposes and means of process of Personal Data alone

Data Subject

A natural person who can be identified or rendered identifiable through the personal data related to

Device

Any device that is suitable to access the Service such as a computer, a mobile phone or a digital tablet

Do Not Track (DNT)

A concept that has been promoted by U.S. regulatory authorities, in particular the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for the Internet industry to develop and implement a mechanism for allowing internet users to control the tracking of their online activities across websites

GDPR

The General Data Protection Regulation, enacted on May 25, 2018, by the European Union

Personal Information / Personal Data

Any information/data that relates to an identified or identifiable individual

For the purposes for GDPR, any information relating to you such as a name, identification number, location data, online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity

Personal Data Breach

A breach of security whether accidental or on purpose, resulting in accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to personal data

Sale of Data

Selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a Consumer's personal information to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration

Service Provider

Any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to Third-Party companies or individuals contracted by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used

Service Providers are considered as the Data Processors

Special Category of Personal Data

Personal Data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership and, genetic and biometric information, information concerning Data Subject’s sex life or sexual orientation

Third-Party

Any other natural or legal person that is not part of Artrug Ltd. Şti.

Third-Party Social Media Service

Any website/app or any social network website/app through which a customer can share its reviews regarding the Service

Usage Data

Data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself

User

The individual accessing or using the Website, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Website, as applicable

For the purposes of the GDPR, the User can be referred to as the Data Subject

Website

The website accessible from https://www.artrug.com

2.How We Collect Information

We collect personal information concerning you from certain sources to provide the Services and to manage the Website. We also obtain information from you and from Third Parties as detailed below.

Please note that if you decline to provide any of the required information requested by the Company, you may not be able to take full advantage of the Services and their features or make a purchase from us.

2.1.Website Users and the Services

We collect information from and about you and your transactions and other interactions with us. This may include, but is not limited to, when you visit our Website, use the Services, register for an online account, make a purchase, sign up for our catalog, interact with online customer support, sign up for newsletters or email lists, participate in sweepstakes, engage in contests or other promotions, participate in a product review, survey, or other similar programs, send a gift or virtual gift card to a person, or otherwise contact us through any channels provided by the Company for such purpose.

2.2.Payment Processing Services

The Company may use Third-Party services to provide payment processing and associated services. Third-Party payment systems may request various payment information from Users (credit/debit card number, CVV, name-surname, region, etc.). These Payment Processing Services are prohibited from using personal information for any other purpose and are contractually required to comply with all applicable laws and requirements, which may include Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards when they are processing or transmitting payments for the Company.

2.3.Third Parties (Service Providers)

We use Third-Party Service Providers for purposes such as integrating an online interactive customer support to perform certain Services on our behalf when the information is necessary for them to perform their duties. These Service Providers are prohibited from using personal information for any other purpose and are contractually required to comply with all applicable laws and requirements.

2.4.Third Party Analytics and Advertisements

We also may use Third Party advertisements, analytics, and tracking tools to better understand who is using the Website, how people are using the Website, how to improve the effectiveness of the Services and related content, and to help us or those Third Parties serve more targeted advertising to you across our media channels. These Third Parties may use technology such as cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, log files, flash cookies, or other technologies to collect and store information. They may also combine information they collect from your interaction with the Website with information they collect from other sources, which combination may be subject to the Third Party’s control and privacy policy thereupon.

2.5.Third Party Social Media Services

We collect and obtain personal information from social media platforms and networks that you use in connection with our Website and Services, or that share or allow you to share information with us, such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. For example, if you use functionalities, plugins, widgets, or tools from social media platforms or networks in connection with our Website (e.g., to share inspiration, finds, purchases, and other content with your friends and followers on social media), we will obtain the information that you share with us, or that those social media platforms or networks share with us. Third Party Social Media Services are prohibited from using personal information for any other purpose and are contractually required to comply with all applicable laws and requirements.

For more information about social media platform and network privacy practices, please review the privacy policies and settings of such social media platforms and networks.

2.6.Cookies and Automatic Collection Methods

We may also collect information about your online activities on the Website and connected Devices over time and across Third-Party websites, Devices, apps, and other online features and services.

This collection includes automatically collected information, and generally does not include personal information unless you provide it through our Website or you choose to share it with us by other means. Methods we use are described below:

Cookies (which may be session-based or persistent, and are typically small data files that are stored on your hard drive or in connection with your internet browser as set forth thoroughly under our “Cookie Policy” section)
Web beacons or tags (small images embedded into websites or emails that send information about your Device when you visit our Website, or open an email we send to you);
Website log files (which we tend to create automatically in connection with access to and use of our Website)

3.Types of Information We Collect

3.1.Personal Information that We Collect from You

While using our Website or Service, you may provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to;

Identifiers and contact information such as your name surname, email address, phone number, account password, company name (if any);
Purchase or other commercial information such as the items you purchase, items you have altered or custom made (including measurements), shipping address, and contact information (such as for receipts or order updates);
Payment information such as payment method and billing address;
Account information which may include contact, purchase, and payment information as well as your account password, information about wish list items, items in your online shopping cart or saved for future purchase, registry information, product review information, and other information about your account;
Communications and interactions, which may include email messages, interactive customer support chat sessions, text messages, and phone calls that we exchange with you, body of contact messages, reviews, or responses, ratings and other usage data described below in detail; and
Voice recordings, including information about your call and that you share when you call us on the phone.

You may also opt-in to submitting information through other methods, including:

By participating in an offer, program, or promotion
Through our social media accounts or online forums,
In connection with a real or potential business relationship with us,
In response to your marketing or other e-mail communications,
By giving us your business card or contact information.

3.2.Information that We Collect Automatically on the Website and through the Services

Our Website uses cookies and other technologies to function effectively. These technologies record information about your usage of the Website and the Services, including:

Browser and Device Data, such as IP address, Device type, internet browser type, screen resolution, operating system’s name and version, Device manufacturer and model, language, plug-ins, add-ons, brand, model, technical specification and operating system information of the Device used, and the language version of the Website you are visiting;
Usage Data, such as time spent on the Website, pages visited, links and products clicked, the items purchased, the items added on wish list or online shopping cart, language preferences, Website usage time, communication preferences, payment amount, payment channels, approaches to in-platform notifications/offers/campaigns, favorites, preferences, search activities, segments, cookie records, cookie and ad identifiers, Device ID, and the pages that led or referred you to our Website.

While using our Service, in order to provide features of our Website and Services, we may collect, with your prior permission, pictures and other information from your Device's voice recording library, camera, photo library, and files. We use this information to provide features of our Service, to improve and customize our Service. The information may be uploaded to the Company's servers and/or a Service Provider's server or it be simply stored on your Device. For example, when you interact with our online customer support through the channels provided on the Website, you may upload a photograph about product deficiency or an e-receipt regarding your purchase. You can enable or disable access to this information at any time, through your Device settings.

To learn more about the cookies that may be served through our Website and how you can control our use of cookies and third-party analytics, please see our “Cookie Policy” section.

4.How We Use Information

4.1.Our Services

We use the information that we collect/obtain to conduct our business and to provide you with the best possible products, Services, and shopping experiences. We rely upon several legal grounds to ensure that our use of the information we collect/obtain is compliant with the applicable laws. We use information to facilitate the business relationships we have with you, to comply with legal obligations, to pursue our legitimate business interests, and when you manifestly made your personal information public.

Pre-contractual, contractual, and post-contractual business relationships. We use personal information to enter business relationships with prospective Users and to perform the contractual obligations under the contacts that we have with our Users. Examples of how we use information within this condition include:

To provide you with products and Services, such as to,
Process, maintain, and service your account(s) and memberships,
Validate, confirm, verify, deliver, install, and track your order (including to arrange for shipping, handle delays, returns and refunds, maintain a record of the purchases you make),
Calculate shipping costs,
Enable the delivery of products you purchased.
To respond or communicate with you such as when you;
Place an order,
Add product to your online shopping cart but do not complete the purchase/payment,
Make a request or inquiry through contact form or any other channel dedicated for such use,
Ask a product through the channels provided you on the Website including interactive customer support chat,
Share a comment/review or concern regarding a product or the Service,
Ask for customer support through any channels dedicated fur such use.

Legal and regulatory compliance. We use personal information to verify the identity of our Users in order to comply with applicable laws. These obligations are imposed on us by the operation of law, industry standards, and by our financial partners, and may require us to report our compliance to third parties and to submit to third-party verification audits. Examples of how we use information within this condition include:

Accounting, auditing, and billing activities;
Mitigating financial loss, claims, liabilities, or other harm to our Users, the Company, our employees, property; respond to court orders, lawsuits, subpoenas, and government requests; address legal and regulatory compliance; notify you of product recalls, delays and getting your consent thereof pursuant to Mail, Internet, or Telephone Order Merchandise Rule and other related applicable legislation; and
Communications regarding payments, and related pre-sale and post-sale communications as required by the applicable law.

Legitimate business interests. We rely on our legitimate business interests to process certain personal information concerning you. The following list sets out the business purposes that we have identified as legitimate. In determining the content of this list, we balanced our interests against the legitimate interests and rights of the individuals whose personal information we process. Examples of how we use information within this condition include:

Mitigating financial loss, claims, liabilities, or other harm to Users and the Company;
Protecting the security or integrity of our Website and our business, such as by protecting against and preventing fraud, unauthorized transactions, claims and other liabilities, and managing risk exposure, including by identifying potential hackers and other unauthorized users;
Responding to inquiries, sending service notices, and providing customer support;
Personalizing your experience with us, including to remember your interests and preferences (e., your wish list items, online shopping cart items), customize the products and Services we share with you; tracking and categorizing your activity and interests on our Website,
Promoting, analyzing, modifying, and improving our products, systems, and tools, and developing new services;
Managing, operating, and improving the performance of our Website and the Services by understanding their effectiveness and optimizing our digital assets;
Improving our Website, products, and Services, customer service, and customer shopping experience;
Analyzing and advertising our products and Services;
Conducting aggregate analysis and developing business intelligence that enables us to operate, protect, make informed decisions, and report on the performance of our business;
Sharing personal information with Third-Party Service Providers that provide services on our behalf and business partners who help us operate and improve our business;
Ensuring network and information security throughout the Website and our Services.

Personal Data Manifestly Made Public by our Users. Name surname and profile picture along with the reviews and rankings about product(s), are being manifestly public by such User to be published on the Website to the extent permissible by the Terms.

4.2.Payment transactions and related services

We use Third-Party Payment Services for payment transactions regarding your purchases. The information you provide to complete the payment process is collected and processed by the Third-Party Payment Service providers.

The Company is solely the processor of personal information collected through its Website and Services and is not responsible for the collection and processing of personal information with regard to Third Party Payment Services and other payment services.

Third-Party Payment Services are bound by their own use and privacy policies, and the Company cannot be held responsible for behaviors of the Third-Party Payment Services that violate any right arising from personal data protection legislation.

If we need to use your personal information in other ways, we will make a specific notice at the time of collection and we will get your consent if the applicable laws require.

4.3.Marketing and Advertising Activities

We may send you marketing and advertising communications about the Company, the Website, the Services, and our products; invite you to participate in our events or surveys, or otherwise communicate with you for marketing purposes; and to customize the marketing and advertising that we provide to you (we offer choices about marketing and advertising as set forth under "Your Communication Choices" section below); provided that we do so in accordance with the consent requirements that are imposed by applicable laws. When we collect your contact details through our participation at trade shows or other events, we may use the information to follow-up with you regarding an event, send you information that you have requested on our products and Services, and with your permission, include you on our newsletter.

Interest-based Advertising. When you visit our Website, both certain Third Parties and we collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites to provide you with advertising products and services tailored to your individual interests (“interest-based advertising”). These Third Parties may place or recognize a unique cookie or other technology on your browser. Where required by applicable laws, we will obtain your consent prior to processing your information for the purposes of interest-based advertising.

Since we also participate in advertising networks, you may see our ads on other websites or mobile apps. Ad networks allow us to target our messaging to users based on a range of factors, including users’ inferred interests, and browsing context (i.e., time and date of your visit to our Website, pages that you viewed, and the links/products that you clicked on). This technology also helps us track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts and understand if you have seen one of our advertisements.

We work with advertising networks (Google AdWords, Facebook, etc.). To learn more about managing your privacy and storage settings and opting out from receiving Network Advertising Initiative member companies ‘cookies, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page. If you wish to prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics, Google has developed the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on available at here. If you opt-out from interest-based advertising, you may see advertising that is not relevant to you.

To learn more about managing your privacy and storage settings and opting out from receiving other Third Parties’ cookies, please see our “Exercising of Your GDPR Privacy Rights” section.

We do not guarantee that all of the Third Parties we work with will honor the elections you make using those options, but we strive to work with Third Parties that do.

5.How We Share Information

We may share your personal information to (i) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; (ii) enforce this Policy and our Terms, including investigation of potential violations hereof; (iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues; (iv) respond to your requests; (v) protect our rights, property or safety, our Users, and the public; or (vi) fulfill our obligations arising of or in connection with the contracts with Users.

We share personal information with a limited number of our Service Providers. We have Service Providers that provide services on our behalf, such as website hosting, data analysis, information technology, and related infrastructure, customer service, email delivery, product shipment, and auditing services. These Service Providers may need to access personal information to perform their services. We authorize such Service Providers to use or disclose personal information only as necessary to perform Services on our behalf or comply with legal requirements. We require such Service Providers to contractually commit to protect the security and confidentiality of personal information they process on our behalf. Our Service Providers are predominantly located in the European Union and the United States of America.

We may disclose information in the aggregate form to Third Parties in cases such as to help with auditing interactions and transactions with you, addressing security, fixing errors, helping us with advertising or marketing, maintaining accounts and providing interactive customer service, shipment companies, helping with our internal research, verifying service quality or safety, and performing any of the other actions or activities allowed under this Policy.

We may share personal information with Third Parties we work with for our purposes, though in general we do not share personal information about you with Third Parties for Third-Party marketing or advertising purposes. For information about the choices you have about the online advertising practices described in this section, please see the " Exercising Your GDPR Privacy Rights” section below.

Third Parties are prohibited from using personal information for any other purpose and are contractually required to comply with all applicable laws and requirements.

We will encourage Third Parties we collaborate with to adopt and post transparent privacy policies. However, the use of your personal information by Third Parties is governed by their privacy policies and is not under our control. You acknowledge that we are not responsible for the violations caused by Third Parties.

In the event that we enter into, or intend to enter into, a transaction that alters the structure of our business, such as a reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, change of control, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock, we may share personal information with third parties for the purpose of facilitating and completing the transaction.

We share personal information as we believe necessary: (i) to comply with applicable laws, or payment method rules; (ii) to enforce our contractual rights; (iii) to protect the rights, privacy, safety, and property of the Company, you, or others; and (iv) to respond requests of the courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, and other public and government authorities, which may include authorities outside your jurisdiction.

6.Accessing And Updating Information

If you have registered for an online account, you may access and update certain personal information that you provided to us by logging into your online account and using the features and functionalities available therein. Once logged in, you can view or update your name, address, telephone number, password, or email address. Unless alternate procedures are noted for your jurisdiction in the " Exercising of Your GDPR Privacy Rights” section, you may also make a request for access to personal information by sending an email or contacting our customer service via email at info@artrug.com to access or update any of this information.

We are not able to grant all access requests, and we may request additional information from you to verify your identity before accommodating an access request.

Residents of certain countries, including European Union member states (and the United Kingdom), may have additional rights listed under the sections of " Your Rights and Choices Under the GDPR".

7.European Union Privacy Information

7.1.Your Rights and Choices Under the GDPR

We undertake to respect the confidentiality of your Personal Data and to guarantee you can exercise your rights properly.

You have the right under this Privacy Policy, and by law if you are within the EU, to:

Right of Access: You have the right to obtain confirmation from us as to whether Personal Data concerning you is processed, and, where that is the case, you have the right to request and get access to such Personal Data.

Right to Rectification: You have the right to request rectification by us of inaccurate Personal Data and you have the right to provide additional Personal Data to complete any incomplete Personal Data as required by the Company.

Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): In certain cases, you have the right to request from us the erasure of your Personal Data. For the avoidance of any doubt, we may not be able to grant this right to you in certain cases, due to our obligations to fulfill certain legal requirements.

Right to Restriction of Processing: You have the right to request from us restriction of processing, for a certain period and/or for certain situations.

Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive your Personal Data from us in a structured format and you have the right to (let) transmit such Personal Data to another controller.

Right to Object: In certain cases, you have the right to object to the processing of your Personal Data including with regards to profiling. You have the right to object to the further processing of your Personal Data in so far as such data has been collected for direct marketing purposes.

Right to be Not Subject to Automated Individual Decision-Making: You have the right to not be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing.

Right to Filing Complaint: You have the right to file complaints with the applicable data protection authority on our processing of your Personal Data.

Right to Compensation of Damages: In case we breach applicable legislation on processing of your Personal Data, you have the right to claim damages from us for any damages such breach may cause to you.

7.2.Exercising of Your GDPR Privacy Rights

You may exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by simply contacting us. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. If You make a request, we will try our best to respond to you as soon as possible.

You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, if you are in the European Economic Area (the “EEA”), please contact your local data protection authority in the EEA.

8.Your Wish List Communications

We may offer the ability to create a wish list on the Website. To update your wish list privacy settings, you may select "private" (not searchable) to help protect your wish list information from being publicly searched on our sites or you may select "public" (searchable). To help protect your privacy, we initially set your wish list account to a "private" setting.

9.Your Communications Choices

You may receive marketing and advertising communications about the Company, the Website, the Services, and our products if you provide clear consent. To receive marketing and advertising communications from the Company, you can sign up on our newsletter, contact our customer service, or give your clear consent in the applicable areas. We provide our Users with the opportunity to "opt out" of receiving marketing and advertising communications other than those for purposes directly related to placement, processing, fulfillment or delivery of a product order or your transactions with us. We provide you with the following options if you prefer to "opt out" of receiving information or materials that we think may be of interest to you:

At all times, you have the option of "opting out" of receiving marketing and advertising emails from the sender only by clicking the "unsubscribe" link in any of the marketing and advertising emails you receive. In addition, if you have an online account, you may change your email preferences regarding email from us by logging into your account.
In all cases, you may email us at info@artrug.com.

10.Security

We are making reasonable efforts to provide you with an appropriate level of security at the risk associated with the processing of your personal information. We take organizational, physical, technical, and administrative measures to safeguard your personal information against unauthorized access, destruction, loss, alteration, or abuse. Your personal information may only be accessed by a limited number of personnel who need access to such information in order to perform their duties. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have a reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you think your account is compromised), please contact us immediately.

11.Retention

Your personal information may be retained for as long as is reasonably necessary to perform the purposes listed under "How We Use Information" section. For example, if you register an online account with us, we will store any personal information associated with your account for as long as you remain a customer or we believe we may be in a position to provide Services to you. If you make a purchase, we will store any personal information associated with that purchase as long as required to fulfill the order, process any returns, provide customer service and support an enhanced shopping experience, remember your preferences for future interactions, or be able to provide you with offers or Services as well as to be able to fulfill our legal obligations.

We also retain personal information to comply with our tax, accounting, and financial reporting obligations, where we are required to retain the data due to our contractual commitments to our financial and business partners, and where data retention is mandated by the payment methods that we support, or by the applicable laws.

The servers and databases in which information may be stored may be located outside the country from which you accessed the Services and, in a country, where the data protection and other laws may differ from your country of residence. Your personal information may be disclosed in response to inquiries or requests from government authorities or to respond to judicial process in the countries in which we operate.

Where we retain data, we do so in accordance with any limitation periods and records retention obligations that are imposed by applicable laws.

12.Cookie Policy

Cookies are small text files stored in a Device’s web browser memory. They help website providers with things like understanding how people use a website, remembering a user’s login details, and storing website preferences. This article explains how we use cookies and other similar technologies to help us ensure that our Services function properly, prevents fraud and other harm, and analyze and improve the Services in accordance with our Policy.

12.1.How We Use Cookies

Cookies play an important role in helping us provide personal, effective, and safe Services. We use cookies on our Website. We change the cookies periodically as we improve or add to our Services, but we generally use cookies for the following purposes:

To Operate Our Website: Some cookies are essential to the operation of our Website and Services. We use those cookies in several different ways, including:

Authentication

To Analyze and Improve Our Services: Cookies help us understand how to make our Website and Services work better for you. Cookies tell us how people reach our Website, and they give us insights into improvements or enhancements we need to make to our Website and Services.

For Better Advertising: Cookies can help us provide more effective advertising on our Website. For example, we might use a cookie to help to prevent you from seeing same advertisement multiple times or to measure how many times an advertisement is viewed or clicked on.

12.2.How We Use Other Technologies

Third Party Analytics: We use Google Analytics which uses cookies and similar technologies, to collect and analyze information about the use of the Services and report on activities and trends. This service may also collect information regarding the use of other sites, apps, and online resources. You can learn about Google’s practices on its website. First Party Cookies

12.3.How to Manage Cookies

Your web browser may allow you to change your cookie preferences, including to delete and disable cookies. Please consult “help” section of your web browser to understand your options, but please note that if you choose to disable the cookies, some features of our Website or Services may not operate as intended.

13.International Data Transfer

We are a global business. Personal information may be stored and processed in any country where we have operations or where we engage Service Providers. We may transfer personal information that we maintain about you to recipients in countries other than the country in which the persons information was originally collected, including to the United States. Those countries may have data protection rules that are different from those of your country. However, we will take measures to ensure that any such transfers comply with applicable data protection laws and that your personal information remains protected to the standards described in this Policy. In certain circumstances, courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, or security authorities in those other countries may be entitled to access your personal information.

14.Use By Minors

The Services are not directed to individuals under the age of 18 (eighteen), and they shall not provide personal information through the Website or the Services. If you have reason to believe that anyone under the age of 18 has provided us with any personal information, please contact us. If we learn that an individual under the age of 18 has provided personal information to the Website, we will use reasonable efforts to remove such information from our files.

15.Updates To This Policy And Notifications

We may change this Policy from time to time to reflect new services, changes in our personal information processing practices, or applicable laws. The “Last Updated Date” legend at the top of this Policy indicates when this Policy was last revised. Any changes are effective when we post the revised Policy on the Website. If we change our practices in a way that requires revising this Policy in a material way, we will provide appropriate notice to you. We may provide you with disclosures and alerts regarding the Policy or personal information collected by posting them on our Website and, if you are a User, by contacting you through your email address.

16.Links To Other Websites

The Services or Website may provide the ability to connect to other websites. These websites may operate independently from us and may have their own privacy notices or policies, which we strongly suggest you to review. If any linked website is not owned or controlled by us, we are not responsible for its content, any use of the website, or the privacy practices of the operator of the website.

17.Juridications

The Company focuses on multinational compliance regulations including but not limited to Turkey and, the GDPR to make sure privacy is a “go-to” rather than a thing to be worried. You have the right to request further information on our personal information processing activities based on your country's jurisdiction.

18.Contact Us

We welcome you to reach out if you have any questions or concerns regarding our privacy practices or to request a copy of this Policy in another format. Please feel free to contact us via the channels provided to you on the Website and under this Policy.