PDPA General Clarification Text

INFORMATION TEXT ON THE PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA

Our company Apec Çelik Yapı Sistemleri A.Ş. attaches great importance to ensuring the security of your personal data that you have transmitted to us while using our website (yagizefe.com.tr) or by other means. 

No. 6698 “Personal Data Protection Law” has entered into force. Within the scope of this legislation, our Company observes and respects the legal rights of the Users in all its business and transactions. 

We would like to inform you about the aforementioned legislation and some definitions specified in this legislation:

Personal data : Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person,

Processing of personal data: All kinds of operations performed on personal data such as obtaining, recording, storing, storing, preserving, modifying, reorganizing, disclosing, transferring, taking over, making available, classifying or preventing the use of personal data by fully or partially automatic means or by non-automatic means provided that it is part of any data recording system,

Data processor: The natural or legal person who processes personal data on behalf of the data controller based on the authorization granted by the data controller,

Data recording system : The recording system in which personal data is structured and processed according to certain criteria,

Data Controller : Refers to the natural or legal person who determines the purposes and means of processing personal data and is responsible for the establishment and management of the data recording system.

1. Protection of Personal Data and Our Company's Position as Data Controller:

Our Company has the title of Data Controller. Within this framework, all the responsibilities imposed by the legislation on the Data Controller are on our Company and you can directly forward any application/question to our Company as the Data Controller. 

The purpose of this Information Text is to provide you with information about the processing, protection and use of your personal data that you may share with our Company during your shopping on our website and/or when signing a membership agreement. 

Your personal data will be processed as specified in this Information Text during your shopping and/or signing a membership agreement. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that you review this Information Text thoroughly and then, if you consent to its content, make your decision on whether to give Explicit Consent or not. 

2. Purpose of Processing Personal Data of Customers:

Personal data belonging to users are processed within the framework of the personal data processing conditions and purposes specified below and in Articles 5 and 6 of the Law. 

Personal data belonging to users;

Carrying out the necessary work by the business units and carrying out the relevant business processes in order to benefit the relevant persons from the products and services offered by our website,
Carrying out the necessary work by the relevant business units for the realization of the commercial activities carried out by our website and carrying out the related business processes,
Planning and execution of the commercial and/or business strategies of our website,
Ensuring the legal, technical and commercial-business security of the relevant persons who have a business relationship with our website and planning and execution of the activities necessary for the recommendation and promotion of the products and services offered by us to the relevant persons by customizing them according to the tastes, usage habits and needs of the relevant persons,
Establishment of possible rights and receivable claims of those concerned
Providing information to authorized institutions due to legislation
Creation and tracking of user records
To ensure the fulfillment of obligations within the scope of the Law on the Protection of Consumers, the Law on the Regulation of Retail Trade and other legal legislation by our Company and our branches, call center, affiliated companies on behalf of our Company or through all kinds of channels, including but not limited to our websites and social media pages,
To provide better service to users, to provide and offer various advantages, to provide information about sales, marketing, information, promotions, to provide information about campaigns and conditions, to conduct surveys, customer satisfaction surveys, to accelerate your purchases, to receive and deliver your orders,
Creating campaigns for users, cross-selling, identifying target audiences,

Conducting activities to increase user experience by tracking user movements and improving the functioning of the website and mobile application of our shopping site and personalizing them according to customer needs, conducting direct and non-direct marketing, personalized marketing and remarketing activities, conducting personalized segmentation, targeting, analysis and internal reporting activities, market research,
For the purposes of planning and execution of customer satisfaction activities and planning and execution of customer relationship management processes, including the planning and execution of the sales and marketing processes of the products and / or services of our shopping site, planning and execution of the processes of creating and / or increasing loyalty to the products and / or services offered by our shopping site, it may be processed in accordance with the consent of the Customer and may be shared with the parties specified in this Personal Data Protection Text.
Name, surname, address, contact phones, bank information, billing information, tax records, TCKN, mersis numbers, IP addresses, log records can be processed in order to fulfill the purchases made by the users on our website, to establish and execute contracts, to fulfill mutual debts and obligations arising from the purchase / sale contract, to make deliveries, to issue invoices, to open current account records, to fulfill tax obligations, to collect payments and to fulfill other undertaken obligations. These personal data are destroyed upon the execution of the contract and the expiration of the contractual / legal statute of limitations. 
Our Website has the right to associate the behavior of the user who comes to the site with a cookie in the browser, even if they are not a member, and to define remarketing lists based on metrics such as the number of pages viewed, the duration of the visit and the number of target completions in order to perform online behavioral advertising and marketing. This user may then be shown targeted advertising content on the site or on other sites in the Display Network based on the interests of users. During the redirection of Google AFS ads to our Shopping Site, Google may place cookies on users' browsers or read the cookies contained therein or use web beacons to collect information.
4. Processing and Transfer of Personal Data of Customers:

Personal data belonging to customers, carrying out the necessary work by the business units to benefit the relevant persons from the products and services offered by our website and carrying out the relevant business processes, carrying out the necessary work by the relevant business units for the realization of the commercial activities carried out by our website and carrying out the related business processes, Within the framework of the personal data processing conditions and purposes specified in Articles 8 and 9 of the Law, including the planning and execution of the commercial and/or business strategies of our website, ensuring the legal, technical and commercial-business security of our website and the relevant persons who have a business relationship with our website, and the planning and execution of the activities necessary for the recommendation and promotion of the products and services offered by our website to the relevant persons by customizing them according to the tastes, usage habits and needs of the relevant persons. Within the framework of the personal data processing conditions and purposes specified in Articles 8 and 9 of the Law, it may be shared with Company officials, our affiliates, business partners, suppliers, shareholders, legally authorized public institutions and organizations and private institutions.

The User's Name and Contact Information may be shared with payment institutions in order to perform identity verification in accordance with the payment institution framework agreement that the User will approve at the payment stage and in accordance with the Regulation on Measures to Prevent Laundering of Proceeds of Crime and Financing of Terrorism published in the Official Gazette dated January 9, 2008 and numbered 26751.

Our website may transfer personal data to third parties within the country as well as abroad for the purposes stated above, provided that the conditions stipulated in Law No. 6698 are met. In this context, personal data may be shared with cargo/courier companies, banks, tax offices, financial consultancy firms, internet service provider companies, hosting service companies when necessary. 

5. Method and Legal Reason for Collection of Personal Data:

Personal data is collected from customers electronically. 

6. Retention Period of Personal Data: 

Our website stores personal data for the period specified in the relevant legislation if stipulated in the relevant laws and regulations.

Within this framework, personal data are stored for the duration of the contract, if there is a contractual relationship, and for the maximum legal/statutory statute of limitations after the termination of the contract. 

We would like to provide the following information regarding the application of the statute of limitations; 

If the purpose of processing personal data has ended and the relevant legislation and explicit consent storage periods have expired; 

personal data will be stored only for the purpose of constituting evidence in possible legal disputes or to assert the relevant right related to personal data or to establish a defense. In the establishment of the periods here, the retention periods are determined based on the statute of limitations for the assertion of the right in question and the examples in the requests previously addressed to us on the same issues despite the expiration of the statute of limitations. In this case, the stored personal data is not accessed for any other purpose and access to the relevant personal data is provided only when it is required to be used in the relevant legal dispute. After the aforementioned period expires, personal data are deleted, destroyed or anonymized.

7. Rights of Customers as Personal Data Owners:

Pursuant to Article 11 of the Law, data subjects 

to learn whether personal data about them is being processed or not, 
request information if personal data has been processed, 
to learn the purpose of processing personal data and whether they are used in accordance with their purpose, 
to know the third parties to whom personal data are transferred domestically or abroad, 
to request correction of personal data in case of incomplete or incorrect processing and to request notification of the transaction made within this scope to third parties to whom personal data is transferred, 
Although it has been processed in accordance with the provisions of the Law and other relevant laws, to request the deletion or destruction of personal data in the event that the reasons requiring its processing disappear and to request notification of the transaction made within this scope to third parties to whom personal data is transferred, 
object to the occurrence of a result to the detriment of the person himself/herself by analyzing the processed data exclusively through automated systems,
In the event that personal data is damaged due to unlawful processing of personal data, it has the right to demand the compensation of the damage.
In order to exercise these rights, you can submit your request to our Company in accordance with the procedures and principles set out in Article 5 of the Communiqué on the Procedures and Principles of Application to the Data Controller. 

Our mailing address for the transmission of your requests is : Selvilitepe osb, 2004.cd, 45400 Turgutlu/Manisa
Our e-mail address : yagizefe@yagizefe.com.tr
Depending on the nature of the request, our company will finalize your request within (30) days from the date of receipt of the request and will notify you electronically. 

In order to ensure the security of personal data and to prevent unlawful data sharing, we may request information from you for identity verification and we may also ask you questions about your application in order to ensure that the application is finalized in accordance with the request. If the request requires an additional cost, the fee in the tariff to be determined by the Board may be charged to you (Communiqué on the Procedures and Principles of Application to the Data Controller - Article 7). In the event that your information regarding the requests you submit in your application is not correct and up-to-date or if you make an unauthorized application, our Company will not be liable for any claims arising from such application. 

You can always get information about your personal data by sending an e-mail to yagizefe@yagizefe.com.tr e-mail address.

Our Company will destroy, delete or anonymize all your personal data after the expiration of the statutory contractual statute of limitations, provided that the term of the Agreement expires and mutual debts and obligations are fully and definitively terminated. 

Regarding the issues on this form, there may be changes in line with legal and technological developments.

COMMERCIAL ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION INFORMATION AND CONSENT TEXT
INFORMATION TEXT:
Pursuant to the Law on the Regulation of Electronic Commerce, the Regulation on Commercial Communication and Commercial Electronic Messages and other legislation, commercial electronic message; refers to messages containing data, audio and video content sent for commercial purposes and sent electronically using means such as telephone, call centers, fax, automatic dialing machines, smart voice recorder systems, electronic mail, short message service. Commercial electronic messages can only be sent to recipients with their prior consent. This consent may be obtained in writing or through all kinds of electronic communication tools or through the Message Management System (“IYS”). Recipients may refuse to receive commercial electronic messages at any time, without stating any reason, and may withdraw their consent. Therefore, even if you consent to the sending of commercial electronic messages to you, you can always refuse to receive commercial electronic messages at any time, without stating any reason, by entering the link in the message or via IYS. In this context, we hereby submit for your information this information letter regarding the sending of commercial electronic messages by our Company to you within the scope of marketing and communication activities, informing you about our Company, its activities, products, services, advertising, promotion and commercial activities, celebration, our Company's organizations, projects. Only if you give your consent, commercial electronic messages will be sent to you.

CONSENT TEXT:
Pursuant to Law No. 6563 on the Regulation of Electronic Commerce, the Regulation on Commercial Communication and Commercial Electronic Messages and other legislation, I accept that I have been informed, that I have read and understood this information form and that the following declaration received in this way is valid. 

E-mails are sent to me by Apec Çelik Yapı Sistemleri Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Şirketi or by third parties who provide services under confidentiality obligation on behalf of Apec Çelik Yapı Sistemleri Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Şirketi in order to provide me with various promotions, advertisements, promotions, sales and marketing, celebrations, wishes, information about your Company's organizations and all kinds of communication with me in accordance with the laws, I hereby give my informed, explicit consent to send commercial electronic messages and other messages via SMS/text message, instant notification, social media and other online advertising networks, automatic search, computer, telephone, fax, e-mail/email, bluetooth and other wireless networks and other electronic communication tools, with the knowledge that I can always refuse to receive commercial electronic messages at any time without any justification.