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Clarification Text On Personal Data Processing

As the ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND AID MOBILIZATION (“the Association”), we pay utmost care and attach significant importance to ensure that all your personal data are kept confidential and secure, and we make all the efforts required to process and retain data of the individuals associated with the Association in conformity with the Law no. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (“the PPD Law/the Law”).

Within this framework, the Association processes all the personal data as explained below and within the limits prescribed by the legislation in accordance with the PPD Law in its capacity as “Data Supervisor”.

1. Purposes of Processing Personal Data

Your personal data may be processed by the Association (data supervisor), or by legal/natural persons it will assign, in compliance with the PPD Law for the following purposes:

Identity authentication and creating records; fulfillment of all necessary procedures in order to provide opportunities such as benefiting from the services, invitations and events offered and organized by the Association and to ensure that they are made available to the data owner; being able to provide information on the services to be offered and contents thereof; making use of personal data and information in statistical studies to improve the services without disclosing identities of data owners; identifying the needs and preferences of the data owner and shaping and updating the services to be provided to the data owner accordingly; informing the Association’s sponsors/supporters of contents, opportunities and new developments concerning the activities; informing the data owner about the information, activities and services that s/he will request; being able to process complaints or applications that might be filed by the data owner; being able to suggest new services that might be of interest to the data owner as per his/her preferences; being able to remind the data owner of the contents and opportunities that s/he likes, might wish to have access to once again, and would be pleased to be reminded of, depending on her choice; conducting researches on the profiles, interests and behaviors of the data owner based on the information provided by the data owner and producing anonymous, exhaustive and statistical information as a result; improving the content of the Association such as specific age groups, percentage of female-male visitors, etc. by combining such information with that of other members; conducting researches on the profiles, interests and behaviors of the data owner on the basis of the information provided and creating contents and opportunities specific to the profiles to be developed; being able to analyze and inspect the services offered so as to improve their quality and develop new services;

Identification through matching with other data that belong to the Beneficiaries and were obtained from various channels outlined in the “Methods and Legal Grounds of Personal Data Collection section below, and ensuring that such data are used in line with the purpose for which they were obtained;
Transferring data so as to be stored, copying/backing up data to prevent any data loss;
Being able to notify the data owner of the activities which the Association conducts, or supports, or wishes to make announcement of, and sending electronic messages in that regard;
Being able to send commercial electronic messages by way of obtaining a separate consent in accordance with the relevant legislation;
For other purposes to be notified to the data owner while obtaining information; and
Fulfilling legal obligations stipulated in the PPD Law and ensuring that legal obligations are fulfilled in a manner necessitated or entailed by legal regulations.

 

Your personal data shall be processed for the above-mentioned purposes as per the terms and purposes of personal data processing specified in Articles 5 and 6 of the PPD Law.

 

2. To Whom and for What Purpose the Processed Data Can Be Transferred

Your personal data may be transferred/disclosed to our business partners, donors sponsoring projects, affiliates, institutions we cooperate with, third parties with which we have business relationships and therefore signed confidentiality agreements to secure the protection of personal data, including companies that we outsource services from to fulfill our contractual or legal obligations (in matters concerning security, health, occupational safety, law, etc.), and competent official institutions and organizations SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSES STATED HEREIN in line with the terms and conditions set out in Articles 8 and 9 of the Law.      

3. Methods and Legal Grounds of Personal Data Collection

As per Articles 4, 5, and 6 of the PPD Law, your personal data can be collected verbally, in writing or electronically by means of automatic or non-automatic methods, in offices, call center, internet site, social media channels, mobile applications and similar mediums, and your data can be collected, updated and processed in accordance with the law and principle of good faith; in an accurate, and when necessary, up-to-date manner; for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes; in a manner that is relevant, limited and proportionate to the purposes for processing; and, in compliance with the rules of being stored only for the duration as prescribed in the applicable legislation or as necessitated by the purposes for which they are processed.

Your personal data are obtained in line with the purposes cited above in all kinds of verbal, written or electronic media and for the purposes of ensuring that the Association can fulfill its responsibilities arising from contracts and the law in full and in an accurate way. Your personal data collected for this legal purpose can be processed and transferred for the purposes specified in the (1) and (2) sections of this text within the scope of the personal data processing conditions and purposes stipulated in Articles 5 and 6 of the PPD Law.

4. Data Owner’s Rights Listed under Article 11 of the PPD Law

As personal data owners, in cases where you send your requests as regards your rights to the Association through the methods listed below in the Explanatory Statement, the Association shall conclude the requests, free of charge, within a period of thirty days at the latest, depending on the nature of requests. In this connection, personal data owners shall have the right:

To learn whether their personal data have been processed, and if processed, to request information about such processing,
To inquire the reason for why their personal data are processed and whether their data have been used for the intended purposes,
To know the third persons to whom their personal data have been transferred in Turkey or abroad,
To request correction if there is anything incomplete or incorrect regarding their personal data, and to request that any such correction be notified to the respective third parties to which the personal data have been transferred,
To have such data erased, or deleted in a case where the reasons for the processing such data are no longer valid, even if such data have been processed in accordance with the provisions of the PDD Law and other relevant laws, and to request that any such action be notified to the respective third parties to which the personal data have been transferred,
To object to any adverse consequences that might arise out of or in connection with an analysis performed on the processed personal data via exclusively automated systems, and
To request compensation for damages in cases where they incur damages due to the unlawful processing of their personal data.

As per paragraph 1 of Article 13 of the PPD Law, you may submit your request to the Association via kvkk@sgdd-asam.org, either in writing or by using the e-mail address, which you have previously notified to the Association and which is registered on our system, in order to exercise your above-mentioned rights.

The application is required to include your name and surname; if the application is in writing, your signature; if you are a citizen of the Republic of Turkey, your TR identification number; if you are a foreigner, your passport number or, if any, ID number; your correspondence address; e-mail address, if any, for notifications; your phone and fax numbers; and, finally the subject matter of your request. Information and documents relevant to the subject matter must be attached to the application.