PRIVACY NOTICE UNDER THE PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION LAW
In line with the importance we attach to the security of your personal data, Çet Çınar Eğitim ve Turizm Anonim Şirketi (“TED”) may process the personal data you provide to us in connection with, and in proportion to, the purposes of our activities and services, within Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“KVKK”) and other legislation. The purpose of this notice is to inform you as transparently as possible about how your personal data are obtained, why they are processed, with whom they are shared, the legal grounds and your rights. We reserve the right to amend this notice in line with future developments, including new regulations of the Personal Data Protection Authority.
a) Data Controller
Under the KVKK, with respect to the personal data we obtain from you in the course of our activities, the data controller is TED ÜSKÜDAR KOLEJİ (Çet Çınar Eğitim ve Turizm Anonim Şirketi, “TED”), located at Çengelköy Mah. Engin Cad. No:29 Üsküdar/İstanbul. As data controller, we may record, store and classify your personal data verbally, in writing or electronically within the framework described below, transfer them to third parties where permitted by law, and process them in other ways listed in the KVKK.
b) Purposes for Which Your Personal Data Are Processed
Personal data you provide to TED or that TED obtains may be processed within the scope of our activities, as required or mandated by law: to fulfil legal obligations; for communication, promotion, advertising and marketing of our services, information on discounts and all other information, promotions and sales; to provide personalised content when you visit our website; to follow up requests and complaints received via the website and social media; for intelligence, information research, planning, statistics and customer satisfaction; to ensure building security and keep visitor records; to fully meet commercial, financial, legal and administrative obligations and activities before public bodies and private legal entities; to carry out accounting and finance activities; to plan and implement human resources policies and processes; and for similar purposes — in accordance with the core principles of the KVKK and the conditions for processing set out in Articles 5 and 6 of the KVKK, for the maximum period specified in the relevant legislation or required for the purpose of processing, and in any case for the statutory limitation periods.
c) How Your Personal Data Are Collected and the Legal Grounds
Depending on your relationship with TED, your personal data may be collected in writing or electronically through printed media, electronic media, the website, social media, mobile applications and similar channels; through digital applications via social media and websites; through verbal applications via call centres; through your browsing on websites; and through other channels TED uses to contact you. Your personal data may also be collected when you visit TED or its website, or attend training, seminars or events organised by TED. Personal data collected in this way may be collected on the grounds set out in Articles 5 and 6 of the KVKK — the formation and/or performance of a contract, the establishment, exercise and/or protection of a right, the fulfilment of legal obligations — for the purposes stated above and, where necessary, based on your explicit consent.
d) To Whom and for What Purpose Your Personal Data May Be Transferred
Your collected personal data may be transferred — to continue TED’s educational, social and cultural activities, to ensure the internal and external physical security of the institution, its students, staff and buildings, and to ensure legal and commercial security — to Turkish Education Association institutions, TED shareholders, companies in which TED shareholders hold shares, TED officials, third parties, our business partners, our suppliers, ministries and public bodies such as the Ministry of National Education, the Ministry of Sport and the Social Security Institution (SGK), and private persons, within the conditions and purposes of processing set out in Articles 8 and 9 of the KVKK.
e) Your Rights Regarding Your Personal Data
Under Article 11 of the KVKK, you have the right to: (i) learn whether your personal data are being processed; (ii) request information if they have been processed; (iii) learn the purpose of processing and whether they are used in line with that purpose; (iv) know the third parties in Turkey or abroad to whom your personal data are transferred; (v) request correction if your personal data have been processed incompletely or incorrectly, and request that such correction be notified to third parties to whom the data were transferred; (vi) request deletion or destruction of your personal data if the reasons for processing no longer exist, even though they were collected, processed and transferred lawfully, and request that this be notified to third parties to whom the data were transferred; (vii) object to an outcome against you arising from analysis of the processed data exclusively by automated systems; and (viii) claim compensation if you suffer damage due to unlawful processing of your personal data.
You can submit requests regarding these rights by completing the TED ÜSKÜDAR KOLEJİ Data Subject Application Form available at www.teduskudar.k12.tr, or — subject to the conditions in Article 5 of the Communiqué on the Procedures and Principles of Application to the Data Controller — in writing and signed, with documents proving your identity, delivered by hand to Çengelköy Mah. Engin Cad. No:29 Üsküdar/İstanbul, or sent through a notary or by registered post with return receipt, marked “Personal Data Information Request”.
CONSENT FORM
I have read and understood the information and explanations in this Privacy Notice and the rights granted to me under the law. By approving this Privacy Notice and Consent Form, I give my explicit consent to the collection, processing, recording, updating and transfer of my personal data by TED within the framework of the legislation and the Privacy Notice. I have read and understood the Privacy Notice.