Personal Data Protection Law Clarification Text

Personal Data Protection Statement and Disclosure Text

As SMARTES TEKNOLOJİ YAZILIM DANIŞMANLIK SAN. TIC. LTD. ŞTİ., we take the utmost care to ensure the security of your personal data. Therefore, we attach great importance to ensuring that all personal data belonging to individuals associated with our company are processed and stored in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (‘KVKK’). Fully aware of this responsibility, as the Data Controller, we take all necessary administrative and technical measures to protect your personal data in all processes involving your personal data, and process your personal data in accordance with the KVKK under the conditions explained below and within the limits set by the legislation.

Personal information recorded during your visit to our website is processed in accordance with the legislation on the protection of personal data. We recommend that you review our Privacy Policy, which is also available on our website. However, it is important to note that we cannot guarantee the data security of other websites linked to from the https://mtconnectadapter.com/ website. In this regard, the data security policy of the relevant page should be carefully reviewed.

1. Legal Nature and Scope

Your personal data may vary depending on the service, product or commercial activity provided by our Company; it may be collected by automatic or non-automatic methods, verbally, in writing or electronically through offices, branches, dealers, websites, social media channels, mobile applications and similar means.

Your personal data may be processed by being created and updated as long as you benefit from our Company’s products and services.

In addition, your personal data may be processed when you use our website with the intention of using our Company’s services, when you visit our Company or our website, and when you participate in training, seminars or organisations organised by our Company.

Article 10 of the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (‘KVKK’) requires that individuals whose data is processed be informed when their consent is obtained. The article is titled ‘The Data Controller’s Obligation to Inform.’

In accordance with the provisions of the KVKK, SMARTES TECHNOLOGY SOFTWARE CONSULTANCY INDUSTRY LTD. STI. is the ‘Data Controller.’ Within this framework, the data controller is obligated to inform data subjects about the identity of the data controller, the purposes of processing personal data, the persons to whom personal data is transferred and the purposes of such transfer, the legal grounds for collecting personal data, the persons to whom personal data may be transferred and the methods of transfer, and the rights of the data subject to request the data controller to update, delete or anonymise their personal data, as listed in Article 11 of the KVKK.

As the Data Controller, SMARTES TEKNOLOJİ YAZILIM DANIŞMANLIK SAN. TIC. LTD. ŞTİ., as the Data Controller, informs and enlightens data subjects about the processing of their personal data in accordance with the provisions of Article 10 of the KVKK, within the limits and conditions set forth in the legislation.

2. Identity of the Data Controller

In the first paragraph of Article 3 of the KVKK, the data controller is defined as ‘real or legal persons who determine the purposes and means of processing personal data and are responsible for the establishment and management of the data recording system.’ In this context, the data controller is SMARTES TEKNOLOJİ YAZILIM DANIŞMANLIK SAN. TIC. LTD. ŞTİ.

Website

Ana Sayfa

Phone

+90 (216) 706 5262

Address

Sanayi Mahallesi Teknopark Bulvarı No: 1/2C 2201 34906 / Pendik / ISTANBUL / TURKEY

Application

info@smartes.com.tr

3. Data Processor

A natural or legal person who processes personal data on behalf of the data controller based on the authority granted by the data controller is defined as a ‘Data Processor’ under Article 3 of the KVKK.

4. Purposes of Processing Your Personal Data

Your personal data is processed in accordance with the principles set forth in the KVKK;

SMARTES TEKNOLOJİ YAZILIM DANIŞMANLIK SAN. TIC. LTD. ŞTİ. to inform you about the products and services offered by SMARTES TEKNOLOJİ YAZILIM DANIŞMANLIK SAN. TIC. LTD. ŞTİ. and to improve the quality of the products/services offered by SMARTES TEKNOLOJİ YAZILIM DANIŞMANLIK SAN. TIC. LTD. ŞTİ., to customise and recommend the products/services offered by SMARTES TEKNOLOJİ YAZILIM DANIŞMANLIK SAN. TIC. LTD. ŞTİ. according to the needs, preferences and usage habits of our customers;

To inform you about our services and to enlighten you when necessary.

The best possible planning and implementation of our human resources policies; the proper planning and execution of our commercial partnerships and strategies; ensuring the legal, commercial, and physical security of our company and business partners, maintaining corporate operations, and conducting work to ensure that you benefit from the products and services we offer in the best possible way;

The personal data you provide is processed in accordance with the personal data processing conditions specified in Articles 5 and 6 of the Personal Data Protection Law for the purposes of determining our company’s strategies.

In addition to the above, ensuring the highest level of data security, creating databases, developing the services offered on our website, communicating with those who send requests and complaints to our company, the correction of errors on our company’s website and ensuring the compliance of the provisions in the Privacy Policy shared on our website are processed within the scope of the personal data processing conditions specified in Articles 5 and 6 of the KVK Law for the purposes of determining our company’s strategies.

5. Our Principles Regarding the Processing of Personal Data

 

As SMARTES TEKNOLOJİ YAZILIM DANIŞMANLIK SAN. TIC. LTD. ŞTİ., we have adopted the following principles:

a) Processing in accordance with the law and principles of good faith,

b) Striving to ensure accuracy and timeliness,

c) Processing for specific, clear and legitimate purposes,

d) Processing that is relevant, limited, and proportionate to the purpose for which it is processed,

e) Retention for the period required by applicable legislation or necessary for the purpose for which it is processed.

6. Methods of Processing Personal Data and Legal Basis

Your personal data is collected through any verbal, written or electronic means for the purposes specified above, in order to provide the products and services offered by the Company within the defined legal framework and to enable the Company to fulfil its contractual and legal obligations in a complete and accurate manner. Your personal data collected for this legal reason may be processed and transferred within the scope of the personal data processing conditions and purposes specified in Articles 5 and 6 of the Personal Data Protection Law for the purposes specified in this text.

7. To Whom and for What Purpose Your Personal Data May Be Transferred

Your personal data collected may be transferred to the following parties: To enable our departments to carry out the necessary work to provide you with the products and services offered by our Company, to customise the products and services offered by our Company according to your preferences, usage habits and needs and to recommend them to you, to improve the quality of the products/services, to ensure the legal and commercial security of our Company and persons with whom our Company has a business relationship (administrative operations carried out by our Company for communication purposes, ensuring the physical security and supervision of locations belonging to the Company, evaluation processes of business partners/customers/suppliers (authorised persons or employees), informing you about our services and, where necessary, providing you with clarification Our personal data may be transferred to our business partners, suppliers, shareholders, legally authorised public institutions and private individuals for the purposes of determining and implementing our company’s commercial and business strategies and ensuring the implementation of our company’s human resources policies, within the framework of the personal data processing conditions and purposes specified in Articles 8 and 9 of the Personal Data Protection Law.

8. Method and Legal Basis for Collecting Your Personal Data

Your personal data may vary depending on the service, product or commercial activity provided by our company; in accordance with Articles 4, 5 and 6 of the KVKK, may be collected, updated and processed by automatic or non-automatic means, verbally, in writing or electronically, through offices, call centres, websites, social media platforms, mobile applications and similar means.

Your personal data is obtained in any verbal, written or electronic environment for the purposes specified above, in order to provide the products and/or services offered by our company within the legal framework and to enable our company to fulfil its contractual and legal obligations completely and accurately. Your personal data collected for this legal reason may be processed and transferred within the scope of the personal data processing conditions and purposes specified in Articles 5 and 6 of the Personal Data Protection Law and for the purposes specified in this Disclosure Text.

9. Data Protection Method

SMARTES TEKNOLOJİ YAZILIM DANIŞMANLIK SAN. TIC. LTD. ŞTİ. takes all necessary technical and administrative measures to protect personal data collected by it and to prevent such data from falling into the hands of unauthorised persons, thereby ensuring that our customers and potential customers are not harmed. In this context, we ensure that software complies with standards, third parties are carefully selected, and our Privacy Policy is adhered to within our company.

10. Rights of Personal Data Owners and Applications

As personal data owners, if you submit your requests regarding your rights listed in Article 11 of the Personal Data Protection Law to our company using the methods set out below in this Disclosure Text, our company will respond to your request free of charge within thirty days at the latest, depending on the nature of the request. However, if the Personal Data Protection Board has set a fee, the fee determined by our company will be charged. Additionally, in accordance with the applicable legislation, applications regarding personal data must be made by the data subject themselves, so only the part of your application related to you will be responded to, and applications regarding your spouse, relatives, or friends will not be accepted.

In this context, personal data subjects have the following rights:

  • To learn whether personal data has been processed,
  • To request information about the processing of personal data,
  • To learn the purpose of the processing of personal data and whether it is used for its intended purpose,
  • To know the third parties to whom your personal data has been transferred within or outside the country,
  • To request the correction of your personal data if it has been processed incompletely or incorrectly, and to request that this correction be communicated to the third parties to whom your personal data has been transferred,
  • Requesting the deletion or destruction of personal data if the reasons for processing no longer exist, despite the processing being carried out in accordance with the provisions of the KVK Law and other relevant laws, and requesting that the third parties to whom the personal data has been transferred be informed of this action,
  • Object to the analysis of processed data exclusively by automated systems resulting in a decision against the individual,
  • Request compensation for damages incurred due to the unlawful processing of personal data.

11. Filing an Application