Data Protection Information Notice

Personal Data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

Processing of personal data means any operation which is performed on personal data, wholly or partially by automated means or non-automated means which provided that form part of a data filing system, such as collection, recording, storage, protection, alteration, adaptation, disclosure, transfer, retrieval, making available for collection, categorization, preventing the use thereof.

I. Data Controller

This information notice was created by ‘Müjdeci & Arslan Law Firm’ as the data controller in accordance with article 10 of the Turkish Data Protection Law (“Law”) and the provisions on the procedures and principles for fulfilling the information obligation. Your personal data can be processed by ‘Müjdeci & Arslan Law Firm’ to the extent described below.

II. Processed Data Categories

III. The Purpose of Processing Personal Data

The personal data mentioned above are subject to your approval of the data via our website and are in direct proportion to the purposes stated below. They are in accordance with paragraph 4, 5 and 6 of the conditions for processing personal data established by Law. Our purposes of processing are as follows: to carry out communication activities, to take and evaluate measures to improve business processes, to follow up requests/complaints/comments, creation and tracking of visitor data and the implementation of information security processes.

IV. To Whom and for Which Purposes the Processed Personal Data May Be Transferred

The data collected from website visitors may be transferred and processed domestically, in accordance with paragraph 8 and 9 of the Law, in particular to their authorized lawyers and representatives, to authorized public/private institutions and private individuals or organizations as well as to authorized third parties appropriately with the implementation of the above-mentioned purposes and limited to the fulfillment of these purposes.

V. The Method and Legal Basis of Collection of Personal Data

We collect personal data auditorily, electronically or written from website visitors themselves, by mail, post, the website, the form sent via the website, fax, notifications from administrative and judicial authorities and other communication channels. These data are collected in accordance with the following legal reasons stated in paragraph 5 and 6 of the law:

  • Your explicit consent (if a certain type of collection/processing is not permitted by law),
  • If the law expressly prescribes the process after we process your personal data (e.g., the entry/storage of the explicit consent through log data in the event of contact search via our website),
  • The voluntary sharing of your personal data (e.g., by communicating with our office),
  • To process your personal data (if necessary), provided that we enter a contractual/power of attorney relationship with you or causally related to our legal performance obligations from this contractual/power of attorney relationship (e.g., that we need your personal data to be able to provide our legal power of attorney),
  • If it is necessary for the fulfillment of our legal obligations (e.g., passing on information to authorized public institutions),
  • We must process data to establish your right, to exercise this right and to protect it (e.g., collection of your personal data by our office in order to be able to respond to your requests and comments).
  • Provided that your fundamental rights are not impaired and we are obliged to process your data (e.g., processing of log data).

VI. Other Rights of Data Subjects Referred to in Article 11

Each data subject has the right; (a) to learn whether his/her personal data are processed or not, (b) to demand for information as to if his/her personal data have been processed, (c) to learn the purpose of the processing of his/her personal data and whether these personal data are used in compliance with the purpose, (ç) to know the third parties to whom his personal data are transferred up country or abroad, (d) to request the rectification of the incomplete or inaccurate data, if any, (e) to request the erasure or destruction of his/her personal data under the conditions referred to in Article 7, (f) to request reporting of the operations carried out pursuant to sub-paragraphs (d) and (e) to third parties to whom his/her personal data have been transferred, (g) to object to the occurrence of a result against the person himself/herself by analyzing the data processed solely through automated systems, (ğ) to claim compensation for the damage arising from the unlawful processing of his/her personal data.

As the data subject you have the above-mentioned rights, you can send necessary changes, rectification and/or erasure/destruction and related requests to us via our e-mail address mail@mujdeciarslan.av.tr .