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Obligations under Art. 12 et seq. EU-GDPR

Name and Contact Details of the Responsible Party

Your contact person as the responsible party in the sense of the European General Data Protection Regulation ("EU-GDPR") and other national data protection laws of the member states as well as other data protection regulations is: Vestel Ticaret A.Ş. (hereinafter referred to as "we," "us," or "our").

We, as Data Controller, make use of various technologies such as cookies, pixels, GIFs, etc., to improve your experience during your use or visit of our websites ("Website"), applications or all similar online or offline platforms (all mentioned platforms shall collectively be referred to as the "Platform") offered to your use in digital environment.

Cookies are small text files which we store on your device when you visit our website. These cookies are sent back to us every time you access our website subsequently. This allows us to recognise you, for example, or makes navigating our website easier for you thanks to the information stored in the cookies.

We do not share the information stored in the cookies with third parties without your express permission.

The use of such technologies performed in accordance with the legislation we are subject to, particularly with the General Data Protection Regulation ("Law").

With this Cookie Disclosure Policy, the usage purposes for which Cookies will be collected during the use of the Platforms and how you can control these Cookies will be explained to your side.

You can opt out of using the cookies we use on our website and in our application, change their types or functions, or add new cookies to our website. Therefore, we reserve the right to change the provisions of this Cookie Policy at any time.

Change of the data protection notice:

Any changes made to the current Cookie Policy shall become effective at the time they are published on the website, in the application or any platform open to the public. Latest update information has been provided at the end of the text.

The protection of your privacy throughout the course of processing personal data as well as the security of all business data are important concerns to us. We process personal data that was gathered during your visit of our online offers confidentially and only in accordance with statutory regulations. Data protection and information security are included in our corporate policy.

Method and Legal Grounds to Collect Cookies

Cookies which are obtained within the scope of your visit to our applications or our website and which are technically required to perform the primary functions of our website will be collected based on the legal grounds for the legitimate interest of our Company as stated under the Law. If it is decided to be used, cookies collected for preference, statistics and marketing purposes can only be collected with your explicit consent.

You can always manage the use of cookies from the Manage Cookies section.

Your collected personal data may be shared with our suppliers limited to the fulfillment of the purposes specified under this Cookie Policy and in accordance with the legislation.

We might transfer personal data to recipients located outside the UK and EEA into so-called third countries. In such cases, prior to the transfer we ensure that either the data recipient provides an appropriate level of data protection or that you have consented to the transfer.

Cookie Types According to their Duration

Principally, we store your data for as long as it is necessary to render our online offers and connected services or for as long as we have a legitimate interest in storing the data (e.g. we might still have a legitimate interest in postal mail marketing after fulfilment of our contractual obligations). In all other cases we delete your personal data with the exception of data we are obliged to store for the fulfilment of legal obligations (e.g. due to retention periods under the tax and commercial codes we are obliged to have documents such as contracts and invoices available for a certain period of time)

Session Cookies: These Cookies are temporary and they disappear upon closing the browser or the termination of the session.

Permanent Cookies: These Cookies are those that remain on your hard drive until you delete them or your browser automatically deletes them depending on their expiry date. The expiry date of Permanent Cookies are predetermined even if such vary.

Types of Cookies According to Provenance

First-Party Cookies: As the name suggests, first-party Cookies are those placed on your device by our Platforms.

Third-Party Cookies: These Cookies are those placed on your device not by our Platforms you visit, but by the advertising third parties performing analytics systems.

Data Processing on Our Website

  • Website Functions

    • Provision of the Website and Creation of Log Files

      • Description and Scope In the course of providing our website, we process your personal data to enable error-free delivery of our website to your PC or mobile device. In this context, your personal data may need to be stored for the duration of a session.

        We also temporarily store your personal data in log files to ensure the functionality of our website and the security of our IT systems. No further processing of your personal data in log files occurs.

        The following personal data will be processed to provide the website and create log files:

- IP address;

- Date of access;

- Time of access;

- If applicable, the previously visited website;

- Browser used;

- Operating system used.

  • Legal Basis

    Legitimate interest according to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) EU-GDPR.

  • Porpose The purpose of data processing lies in providing the website, ensuring the functionality of the website, and the security of the IT systems used for this purpose.

    This purpose also constitutes our legitimate interest.

  • Retention Period Your personal data will be stored within the context of providing the website only for the duration of the session.

  • Right to Object and Elimination Possibility The processing of your personal data and their storage in log files is mandatory for providing the website, ensuring the functionality of the website, and ensuring the security of the IT systems used. Therefore, you do not have the right to object.

  • Technically Necessary Cookies

    • Description and Scope In the context of technically necessary cookies, we process your personal data because many functions and services of our website that facilitate or even enable your use of our website do not function properly without cookies (so-called "technically necessary cookies").

      Using these technically necessary cookies, we partially store your personal data, but these are only used to enable these functions and services. Further processing of your personal data does not take place.

A list of the technically necessary cookies we use, their purpose, retention period, and additional information :

Name Purpose Party Expiry
__RequestVerificationToken Used to hold the unique key information generated for the forms filled in by the user. This key ensures that no request other than the user is sent to the server. 1.party Oturun süresince
_GRECAPTCHA This cookie is set by Google reCAPTCHA, which protects the site against spam queries in contact forms. 3. party 6 monhts

The following personal data are processed within the scope of the use of technically necessary cookies:

- IP address;
- Language settings of your browser;
- Browser used.

Legal Basis

Legitimate interest according Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) EU-GDPR.

Purpose

The purpose of data processing is to provide the functions and services of our website.

The purpose also constitutes our legitimate interest.

Retention Period

As a rule, for the duration of the respective session, unless otherwise stated in the detailed information of the list of technically necessary cookies used by us.

Right to Object and Elimination Possibility

Technically necessary cookies are stored on your PC or mobile device and transmitted from there to our website. Therefore, you have full control over the use of technically necessary cookies. By changing the settings in your browser, you can disable or restrict the transmission of cookies. Already stored cookies can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically. If cookies are deactivated for our website, it may no longer be possible to use all functions of the website fully.

Performance And Analysis Cookies.

Description and Scope

Performance and analysis cookies are used to gather data on how visitors interact with the website, including information on which pages are visited and how users navigate the site. These cookies help in assessing the performance of the website and are essential for optimizing the user experience by identifying areas for improvement. They include First-party cookies and remain on your device for varying durations, typically up to 2 year.

A list of the performance and analysis cookies we use, their purpose, retention period, and additional information:

Name Description Party Expiry
_ga Google Analytics is Google's free analytics tool that helps website and app owners understand what visitors are doing on their websites and apps. 3.party 1 year 1 month 4 days
_ga_P7NR02YMEP Google Analytics is Google's free analytics tool that helps website and app owners understand what visitors are doing on their websites and apps. 3. party 1 year 1 month 4 days

Legal Basis

Consent according to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a) EU-GDPR. You also consent to the transfer of your personal data to countries outside the EU and EEA.

Purpose

The purpose of data processing is to collect data on user interactions with the website to assess its performance and optimize the user experience.

Retention Period

As a rule, for the duration of the respective session, unless otherwise stated in the detailed information of the list of performance and analysis cookies used by us.

Right to Object and Elimination Possibility

You have the option to withdraw your consent at any time.

Third Country Transfers

In the course of processing your personal data, it may happen that we transfer your personal data to trusted service providers or group companies in third countries. Third countries are countries outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA).

In this process, we only work with such service providers who provide us with adequate guarantees for the security of your personal data and can guarantee that your personal data will be processed according to strict European data protection standards. A copy of these appropriate safeguards can be viewed at our premises.

If we transfer personal data to third countries, this is done based on a so-called adequacy decision of the European Commission or, if such a decision does not exist, based on so-called standard contractual clauses, which have also been issued by the European Commission.

External links

Our online offers may contain links to internet pages of third parties, in particular providers who are not related to us. Upon clicking on the link, we have no influence on the collecting, processing, and use of personal data possibly transmitted by clicking on the link to the third party (such as the IP address or the URL of the site on which the link is located) as the conduct of third parties is naturally beyond our control. We do not assume responsibility for the processing of personal data by third parties.

Security

Our employees and the companies providing services on our behalf, are obliged to confidentiality and to compliance with the applicable data protection laws. We take all necessary technical and organizational measures to ensure an appropriate level of security and to protect your data that are administrated by us especially from the risks of unintended or unlawful destruction, manipulation, loss, change, or unauthorized disclosure or unauthorized access. Our security measures are, pursuant to technological progress, constantly being improved.

How can You Control the Use of Cookies?

The preferences of our visitors and users regarding the use of cookies and similar technologies are essential the basis for us. However, cookies which are essential for the Platform to operate must be used. Furthermore, we would like to remind you that in the case some Cookies are turned off, certain functions of the Platform may not partially or completely work.

You can always manage your preferences in the "Manage Cookies" section.

Please note that using the tools might include transfer of your data to recipients outside of the EEA where there is no adequate level of data protection pursuant to the Law (e.g. the USA). Also in that third there might not be a supervisory authority and/or data processing principles and/or data subject rights might not be provided for in the third country. Please note that using the tools might include transfer of your data to recipients outside of the EEA where there is no adequate level of data protection pursuant to the GDPR (e.g. the USA).

The information on how you can manage your preferences for cookies used in the Platform is as follows: 

Visitors have the ability to customize their preferences for cookies by changing the browser settings where they display the Platform. If the browser used offers this option, it is possible to change the Cookie preferences through browser settings. Thus, even though it may vary depending on the options offered by the browser, data subjects have the option to block the use of cookies, choose to receive notifications before the cookie has been used or simply disable or delete some Cookies.

While preferences may vary depending on the browser used, it is possible to find the general explanation about this issue at the address https://www.aboutcookies.org/ The cookie preferences may be needed to be adjusted separately for each device that the visitor accesses the Platform

Click here to turn offthe Cookies managed by Google Analytics. 

Click here to manage  the personalized advertisement experience provided by Google. 

Preferences in terms of the cookies used by many companies for their advertising activities can be managed through Your Online Choices

The mobile device settings menu can be used to manage Cookies over mobile devices.  

You can customize your preferences regarding cookies by changing your browser settings.

Adobe Analytics https://www.adobe.com/uk/privacy/opt-out.html
AOL https://help.aol.com/articles/restore-security-settings-and-enable-cookie-settings-on-browser
Google Adwords https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en
Google Analytics https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Google Chrome http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647
Internet Explorer https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Mozilla Firefox http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Cookies
Opera http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/
Safari https://support.apple.com/kb/ph19214?locale=tr_TR

Your Rights

You have the following rights with respect to us:

Right of Access

You have the right to know whether and which personal data we process about you. In such a case, we will also inform you about:

the purpose of the processing;
the categories of data;
the recipients of your personal data;
the planned retention period or the criteria for determining the planned retention period;
your further rights;
if we did not obtain your personal data directly from you: All available information about their origin;
if applicable: The existence of automated decision-making, as well as information about the logic involved, the scope, and the intended effects of the processing.

Right to Rectification

You have the right to have your personal data rectified and/or completed if the data we process about you is incorrect or incomplete.

Right to Restrict Processing

You have the right to restrict processing if:

we are checking the accuracy of your personal data processed by us;
the processing of your personal data is unlawful;
you need your personal data processed by us for the purpose of legal prosecution after the purpose has ceased to exist;
you have objected to the processing of your personal data and we are reviewing that objection.

Right to Erasure

You have the right to have your personal data erased if:

we no longer need your personal data for the original purpose;
you withdraw your consent and there is no other legal basis for processing your personal data;
you object to the processing of your personal data and - unless it is direct marketing - there are no overriding reasons for the further processing;
the processing of your personal data is unlawful;
the deletion of your personal data is required by law;
your personal data were collected as a minor for information society services.

Right to Notification

If you have exercised your right to rectification, erasure, or restriction of processing, we are obliged to inform all recipients to whom your personal data have been disclosed about the rectification, erasure, or restriction of processing unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort.

Right to Data Portability

You have the right to receive your personal data, which we process based on your consent or for the purpose of contract execution, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transfer it to another controller. If technically feasible, you have the right to have us transfer this data directly to another controller.

Right to Object

You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data based on special reasons. In such a case, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing.
If your personal data is processed for the purpose of direct marketing, you have the right to object to this processing at any time.

Right to Withdraw Consent

You have the right to withdraw your consent given to us at any time. The legality of the processing carried out based on the consent up to the point of withdrawal remains unaffected.

Right to lodge complaint with supervisory authority

Regardless of any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority, if you believe that the processing of your personal data by us violates the provisions of the GDPR.

Your Point Of Contact For All Questions Relating To Data Protection

If you have any questions relating to data protection or exercising your rights, you can use the following contact information to get in touch with our data protection officer directly:

Vestel Ticaret A.Ş. is the controller responsible for the processing of your data; exceptions are outlined in this data protection notice.

Vestel Ticaret Anonim Şirketi ; is responsible for processing your data.

Our contact details are as follows:

Levent 199 Büyükdere Caddesi No:199 34394 Şişli/İSTANBUL
vestelticaret@hs03.kep.tr
kvk@vestel.com.tr

The protection of your personal data is considered a high priority for us. Detailed information is accessible at https://www.vestel.com.tr/content/kisiselverilerinislenmesi

Last Updated on: 02.09.2024