Clarification Text

Personal Data Protection Law Information Text and e-Bulletin Subscription Consent

This Information Text has been prepared for the purpose of informing our members, volunteers and e-bulletin subscribers regarding the processing of your personal data by MİTRA, acting as the Data Controller, in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“LPPD”), taking into account the issues regarding the privacy of personal data we have obtained.

We use the information of our members, volunteers and e-bulletin subscribers in accordance with legal provisions to inform you about our own events, projects, news, campaigns and donation announcements. You can always object to the use of your information in this way by sending a short written notice to the address specified below.

You can be informed about our campaigns, constantly changing themed products, and our projects and studies periodically via e-mail or post from our e-bulletin. In order to benefit from this service, you must clearly declare to us that you accept the service. You can withdraw your consent for your address information or e-mail address to be used for sending e-mail newsletters at any time. You can use the registration termination link at the end of each e-bulletin sent to unsubscribe from the MİTRA e-bulletin. Alternatively, registered users can send a short text to [email protected] to unsubscribe from the e-bulletin.

We use a 3rd party application service to send our newsletters and manage newsletter subscription lists. This allows us to send you more clearly displayed, more comfortable and stable email templates that are better matched to our products. Click here for detailed privacy policies of the 3rd party application that provides the newsletter sending service.

As an e-bulletin sender, we respect the privacy of our members, volunteers and e-bulletin subscribers. This policy was written to determine the use of privacy and security of our visitors and members.

Privacy is one of the most important policies of the e-bulletin. We do not share any information about the identities and characteristics of our members directly with third parties.

Your email address is used only to send you the information you request. As part of using our email marketing software, email newsletters allow you to choose whether or not to receive certain information from the campaign messenger. We do not sell, rent or lend our contact lists (including member, volunteer, subscriber information) to any other company through email newsletters. There is an unsubscribe option in every email newsletter you request. Cancellation requests are processed within a few minutes and users who have requested not to receive the specified information will not be notified from that moment on.

Special Offers and Updates

We send each new user a welcome email to verify their account and confirm their password and username.

Our members, volunteers, and e-newsletter subscribers occasionally receive information about projects, events, campaigns, products, special offers, and a newsletter. To respect the privacy of our users, we offer them the option not to receive such communication messages. Everyone can cancel their subscription via the cancellation mechanism at the bottom of the e-newsletter.

Newsletter

When a user requests to subscribe to the newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and email address. For the privacy of our users, we provide an opt-out mechanism at the bottom of each email so that they can opt out of receiving this newsletter.

Service Announcements

Occasionally, it may be necessary to send service-related announcements. For example, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we may send an e-mail to all users about the issue. Or we may send information/information e-mails regarding our updated policies. Users may choose not to receive these e-mails, but may reactivate their e-newsletter subscription later.

Support

We communicate with users regularly to provide the services they request and respond to user requests regarding account-related matters via e-mail or telephone.

Web Page Usage Information

We evaluate your IP address to diagnose potential problems with our server, to operate our Web site, and to provide various proactive fraud measures. We do not link your IP address to any personal information. We may track activity in those areas to determine which areas our users are using. E-newsletter delivery does not track what individuals are reading, but instead tracks the number of times each page is visited. This allows MİTRA to provide you with a superior and more informative web experience.

Security Technology

In order to protect our e-newsletter sending information assets, a significant amount of investment has been made in up-to-date server, database, backup and firewall technologies. These technologies are part of a sophisticated security structure. All data is stored on our tightly controlled secure servers.

Policy Updates

We may change these privacy policies from time to time. When MİTRA makes changes to these policies, we will indicate these updates on our homepage and send an e-mail to users who have consented. We will notify you of all changes here, so be sure to check back regularly. When our policies change in the future, the personal information you provide to us will not conflict with your previous consent.

If you still have any questions, you can contact us at [email protected].

Information About KVKK

We would like to inform you about the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“LPPD”), which was enacted to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals, especially the right to privacy, in the processing of personal data and to determine the obligations of real and legal persons who process personal data.

Within the scope of the law, personal data is defined as “any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person”; and processing is defined as “any operation performed on personal data, such as obtaining, recording, storing, preserving, changing, reorganizing, disclosing, transferring, taking over, making available, classifying or preventing the use of personal data, in whole or in part, by automatic means or, provided that it is part of any data recording system, by non-automatic means”.

1. Purpose of the Information Text, Our Company’s Data Controller Position:

MİTRA, ziyaretçilerilere ilişkin kişisel veriler bakımından 6698 sayılı Kişisel Verilerin Korunması Kanunu (“KVKK”) 10. maddesinden aydınlatma yükümlülüğünü yerine getirmek amacıyla aşağıdaki açıklamaları ziyaretçilerimizin ve web-sitemizi ve/veya mobil uygulamalarımızı kullanan 3. kişilerin dikkatine sunar. MİTRA işbu Kişisel Verilerin Korunması Hakkında Açıklama metnini yürürlükteki mevzuatta yapılabilecek değişiklikler çerçevesinde her zaman güncelleme hakkını saklı tutar.

2. Purpose of Processing and Transfer of Personal Data Belonging to Our Visitors:

Your personal data is used for the following purposes:

• Recording the address and other necessary information for communication,
• To prepare all records and documents that will form the basis of the transaction in electronic (internet/mobile etc.) or paper format,
• To provide information to public officials on public security matters upon request and as required by law,
• To provide our visitors with a better browsing experience and to provide information to our visitors about topics that may be of interest to them,
• To be able to use it in visitor environment analysis, to use it in various marketing and advertising activities and to organize surveys electronically and/or physically through contracted organizations within this scope,
• To be able to offer suggestions to our visitors through our contracted institutions and solution partners and to inform our visitors about our services,
• To evaluate visitor complaints and suggestions regarding our services,
• To fulfill our legal obligations and exercise our rights arising from the current legislation,
• To prevent fraud and other illegal activities.

The sharing of our visitors’ personal data with third parties is carried out with the permission of our visitors, and as a rule, our visitors’ personal data is not transferred to third parties without their consent.

However, due to and limited to our legal obligations, personal data is shared with the courts and other public institutions upon request.

Necessary technical and legal measures are taken to prevent violations of rights during data transfer to third parties.

Your personal data may be shared with our direct/indirect domestic/international affiliates, program partner institutions and organizations with which we cooperate in order to carry out our activities, domestic/international persons and organizations from which we receive data storage services in the cloud environment, domestic/international organizations with which we have agreements regarding sending commercial electronic messages to our visitors, the Interbank Card Center, banks with which we have agreements, and various domestic and international agencies, advertising companies and survey companies and other domestic/international third parties and relevant business partners within the scope of various marketing activities in order to provide you with better service and to ensure visitor satisfaction.

3. Method and Legal Reason for Collection of Personal Data:

Personal data is processed by MİTRA in accordance with the data provided by our visitors who make transactions through the www.mitraconsultancy.com website, the consent of our visitors and the provisions of the legislation. Personal data collected for the legal reasons stated above can be processed and transferred for the purposes specified in Articles 5 and 6 of the Law and this Information and Consent Text.

4. Rights of Visitors as Personal Data Owners:

Pursuant to Article 11 of the Law, data owners;

1. To learn whether personal data about them is being processed,
2. To request information regarding the processing of personal data,
3. To learn the purpose of processing personal data and whether they are used in accordance with their purpose,
4. To know the third parties to whom personal data is transferred, either domestically or abroad,
5. To request correction of personal data if it is processed incompletely or incorrectly and to request notification of the action taken to third parties to whom personal data is transferred,
6. Requesting the deletion or destruction of personal data in case the reasons requiring processing are eliminated, even though it has been processed in accordance with the Law and other relevant legal provisions, and requesting that the action taken within this scope be notified to third parties to whom personal data has been transferred,
7. The person has the right to object to the emergence of a result against him/her by analyzing the processed data exclusively through automatic systems and (viii) to demand compensation in case of damages incurred due to the unlawful processing of personal data.

Requests regarding the use of such rights may be submitted by personal data owners using the methods specified in the Policy on the Processing and Protection of Personal Data by MİTRA within the Scope of Law No. 6698, which can be found at www.mitraconsultancy.com. MİTRA will evaluate such requests and finalize them within 30 days. MİTRA reserves the right to charge a fee based on the fee schedule determined by the Personal Data Protection Board (if any) for such requests.

You can reach us at any time for any questions or comments regarding your personal data at [email protected]. If you still wish to unsubscribe, you can use the “Unsbscribe” buttons at the bottom of the e-mail we sent you. If the buttons do not work, you can send an e-mail to [email protected] with your name, surname, and e-mail address, along with a sentence stating that you wish to unsubscribe.