KVKK Privacy Notice
INFORMATION ON THE PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA
As Piraziz Dış Ticaret A.Ş., with the aim of protecting your fundamental rights and freedoms, we attach importance to processing and retaining all personal data belonging to all persons associated with our Company in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“KVKK”), which entered into force on 07.04.2016. In our capacity as Data Controller, we process your personal data in the manner explained below and within the limits prescribed by the legislation. Our aim is to inform you within the framework of Article 10 of the KVKK.
Data Controller
Pursuant to the KVKK, your personal data will be collected and may be processed by Piraziz Dış Ticaret A.Ş., as data controller, within the scope explained below.
What is the purpose of processing your personal data?
Your personal data are processed for the purposes of offering you better products and services, providing our Company’s products and services, drawing up records and documents, complying with the information retention, reporting, notification, tax and other obligations laid down by local and international legislation, carrying out information research, planning and statistical studies, analysing and archiving our customer portfolio, contacting our customers, evaluating customer complaints and suggestions, obtaining your opinions and suggestions regarding new services and products, offering you personalised advertisements, campaigns, advantages and other benefits within the scope of sales, promotion and marketing activities aimed at improving the quality of services and products, and fulfilling our information retention, reporting and notification obligations prescribed by judicial and administrative authorities.
What are the permissions relating to personal data under the KVKK?
Within the scope of the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698, Piraziz Dış Ticaret A.Ş., in its capacity as data controller, may record your personal information physically or electronically and store, update, classify and process it within the limits of the said law; and may disclose and transfer it to third parties within the limits permitted by the legislation and limited to the purposes stated above.
To whom and for what purpose personal data may be transferred
In order to achieve the purposes stated above, your personal data may be disclosed and transferred, within the framework of the personal data processing conditions and purposes set out in Articles 8 and 9 of the KVKK, to domestic and foreign business partners, group companies, shareholders, affiliates, natural or legal persons with whom we cooperate, cargo companies, banks, natural or legal persons from whom we receive services in relation to products and services, and official institutions.
What do the “personal data” we are obliged to protect include?
Identity information, access and contact information, and all kinds of information and documents obtained as a result of transactions carried out under any contract which serve to make identifiable the identity of our suppliers, the officers and employees of suppliers, our business and solution partners, our subcontractors, our customers, our prospective customers, our employees, our job applicants, our interns, our scholarship holders, our shareholders and partners, and the natural persons who trade with our Company by reason of any legal relationship as well as the officers and employees of private-law legal entities, fall within the scope of personal data pursuant to Article 3/d of the KVKK.
How are personal data collected?
Your personal data may be collected in writing, verbally or electronically through our website, our points of sale, our company, branch and factory addresses, our call centre, our social media accounts, our employees, our contracts, our quotation forms and various other channels.
Our Company will retain the personal data it obtains, in a manner that does not harm your fundamental rights and freedoms, for the periods laid down in the legislation to which it is subject; where no such period is laid down, for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which they are processed, and will thereafter erase, destroy or anonymise them. You can access the retention periods our Company has notified to VERBİS via the VERBİS query page.
What are the rights of the personal data subject under the KVKK?
With regard to your personal data, you have the right to:
- learn whether they are processed,
- request information if they have been processed,
- learn the purpose of the processing and whether they are used in accordance with that purpose,
- know the persons to whom they are transferred,
- request their rectification if they have been processed incompletely or inaccurately,
- request their erasure or destruction within the framework of the conditions laid down in Article 7 of the KVKK,
- request that these operations be notified to the third parties to whom the data have been transferred,
- object to the occurrence of a result to your detriment by reason of their being analysed exclusively by automated systems,
- claim compensation for the damage if you suffer damage because they have been processed unlawfully.
These are the rights you hold.
Personal Data Subjects may submit their requests concerning these rights to our Company by means of petitions prepared with information and documents that establish their identity, using the methods stated below or other methods determined by the Personal Data Protection Board. Our Company will conclude the requests contained in the application free of charge as soon as possible, depending on the nature of the request, and within thirty days at the latest. If the operation requires an additional cost, the fee in the tariff determined by the Board may be charged.
- For a request for information, a wet-signed copy of the application form available on our web page must be delivered, together with a photocopy of the identity card or passport establishing the applicant’s identity, in person by hand or through a notary public to the address Güzelyalı Mah. İstasyon Cad. Egemen Sok. No.13/1 Pendik/İstanbul.
- After the application form has been signed with a secure electronic signature within the scope of the Electronic Signature Law No. 5070 or with a wet signature, it must be sent, together with a photocopy of the identity card or passport, to [email protected] using the e-mail address previously notified by the applicant to the data controller and registered in the data controller’s system.
- In order for third parties to apply on behalf of personal data subjects, there must be a special power of attorney issued by the data subject through a notary public in the name of the person who will make the application.
Download the KVKK Application Form
