Privacy Notice

As the data controller, we would like to inform you about the details and purposes of the collection, storage, processing and transfer of certain data, and of other operations within the scope of the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“KVKK”), that take place as a result of your use of our website, in accordance with the KVKK and other applicable legislation.

General Information

Under the relevant legislation, “personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. “Special categories of personal data” means data concerning a person’s race, ethnic origin, political opinions, philosophical beliefs, religion, sect or other beliefs, appearance and dress, membership of associations, foundations or trade unions, health, sex life, criminal convictions and security measures, as well as biometric and genetic data. In this Information Notice, the term “Personal Data” is used for data of all kinds without distinguishing between special and/or general categories, and, where the circumstances so require, special categories of personal data may also fall within this term. In addition, we may use cookies, web beacons and similar technologies in order to provide you with a more effective service when you use our website. You can stop the use of cookies at any time by changing your browser settings. Stopping the use of cookies may restrict the use of certain functions of our website.

Any operation performed on data – such as obtaining, recording, storing, preserving, modifying, reorganising, disclosing, transferring, classifying or preventing the use of data – in the period from collection until erasure, destruction or anonymisation is regarded as “processing of personal data” under the KVKK.

If you share with us, as Turan Hukuk Bürosu (Data Controller), information falling within the definition of personal data or special categories of personal data, please note that by ticking the consent box you give your explicit consent to the processing of such data.

Collection of Personal Data and Legal Grounds

When you use our website, we may ask you to share certain personal data with us in our capacity as Data Controller. Such personal data may be collected physically, orally or in writing, as well as electronically. Your personal data may be collected directly by us as Data Controller, or by natural or legal persons processing data on behalf of the Data Controller, or by national/international persons and organisations from whom we obtain support as required by the work and services we perform, and by other third parties, through all kinds of communication channels including, but not limited to, our website, blog messages, contact forms, job/internship and other application forms, information forms, audio and/or video recordings that may be made during video conferences and/or online legal advisory services, audio recordings that may be made during telephone calls and/or teleconferences, text messages, WhatsApp and social media. Such data may be obtained by automated means using electronic or internet-based tools and other means, as well as through forms, contracts, notifications and decisions of judicial or administrative authorities submitted to us.

Purposes of Processing and Transfer of Personal Data

In accordance with the applicable legislation, your personal data is processed lawfully and fairly, accurately and kept up to date where necessary, for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes, in a manner that is relevant, limited and proportionate to those purposes, and is retained for the period stipulated in the relevant legislation or required for the purpose for which it is processed.

Pursuant to the KVKK, the personal data you share with us as Data Controller may be processed in accordance with the KVKK and legal regulations, in connection with and in proportion to all of our service and activity purposes and, where necessary, recruitment/internship processes, so that you can benefit from those services, so that your rights and interests are protected, and for other purposes; it may, within the scope of our services and in accordance with the relevant legislation, be transferred to judicial, administrative and similar institutions – first and foremost the UYAP (National Judiciary Informatics) system – and/or to persons or authorities they authorise, and, depending on the circumstances of the specific case, to relevant third parties and institutions regardless of whether they are located abroad, and may be stored and subjected to the necessary operations for the periods prescribed by the relevant legislation.

Web Server Log Data

As an unavoidable consequence of accessing our website, the data listed below, defined as log data, is automatically transmitted by your web browser to our web server and recorded in log files without your consent being sought:

• Date/time of access
• URL of the referring website
• Files retrieved
• Amount of data transmitted
• Browser type and version
• Operating system
• IP address
• Domain name of your internet service provider

Log data is used to provide statistical information in order to make our website more user-friendly for you, and is deleted immediately thereafter.

Client Portal

Our office provides its clients with a client portal at portal.turanhukukavukatlik.com. Portal accounts are created only by our office for the relevant client; visitors to our website cannot register for the portal themselves.

Within the portal, the following are processed: your name, surname and e-mail address; information relating to your files (docket number, court or enforcement office, opposing party, case status); records of attorney fee payments and of expenses incurred by our office; documents and notes shared with you; and records of portal logins and document downloads. This data is processed for the purpose of performing the attorney–client agreement between us and informing you about the legal proceedings being conducted, on the legal grounds set out in Article 5 of the KVKK, namely that processing is directly related to the conclusion or performance of a contract and is necessary for the legitimate interests of the data controller.

Portal data is stored on servers located in the European Union (Ireland) belonging to the cloud infrastructure providers we use, protected by technical measures such as encrypted connections, access restrictions and logging. In this context, your personal data is transferred abroad in accordance with Article 9 of the KVKK. Only you and our office can access the information in the portal, by logging in with your account; login and document download records are kept for security purposes. You may request the closure of your portal account at any time through the contact channels indicated below.

Measures Taken to Ensure the Security of Personal Data

In accordance with the relevant article of Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data, we, as the Data Controller, take the necessary technical and administrative measures to ensure the security of your personal data, to prevent its unlawful processing and unauthorised access to it, and to ensure its safekeeping.

Rights of the Data Subject

Under the KVKK, data subjects have the following rights:

• to learn whether their personal data is being processed and, if so, to request information about it;
• to learn the purpose of the processing and whether the data is used in accordance with that purpose;
• to know the third parties in Türkiye or abroad to whom the personal data has been transferred;
• to request the rectification of incomplete or inaccurate personal data and to request that third parties to whom the data has been transferred be notified of this;
• to request the erasure or destruction of personal data where the reasons for processing no longer exist, and to request that third parties to whom the data has been transferred be notified of this;
• to object to a result to their detriment arising from the analysis of the processed data exclusively by automated systems;
• to claim compensation for damage suffered as a result of the unlawful processing of personal data in breach of the KVKK.

For more detailed requests regarding the exercise of the above rights or our Information Notice in general, you may use the “Contact Form” available on our Contact page, send a request bearing your wet signature to Beşevler Mah. Yıldırım Cad. No:254B Karya Güçlü İş Merkezi K:2 D:B7 Nilüfer/Bursa, Türkiye, or send an e-mail to info@turanhukukavukatlik.com with “Personal Data Information Request” in the subject line.

If you, as a data subject, submit requests concerning your rights to Turan Hukuk Bürosu in the ways described above, your request will be concluded as soon as possible depending on its nature. If the relevant procedure involves an additional cost, the fee set out in the tariff determined by the Personal Data Protection Board will be charged to you by Turan Hukuk Bürosu.