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A. Introduction
The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what to do with your personal information.
Your consent to us using cookies under this policy on your first visit to our site allows the use of cookies every time you visit our website.
B. Source
this document was created with a template provided by Github Desktop (githubdesktop.com)
and by Website Planet (www.githubdesktop.com).
A. Collection of personal information
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored and used:
Information about your computer, including IP address, geolocation, browser type and version, and operating system;
information about your visit and use of the site, including reference source, visit time, page views, and ways to navigate the site;
information such as your e-mail address to register on our site;
information you provide when profiling on our site, such as your name, profile picture, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, education and work status;
information such as the name and e-mail address you provide when subscribing to our e-mails and/or newsletters;
information you enter when using the services on our site;
information generated when using our site, including when, how often and under what conditions you use it;
information about anything you purchase, a service you use, or a transfer you perform through our site, including your name, address, phone number, email address and credit card information;
information you submit to our site for the purpose of sharing it online using our site, including your username, profile picture and content of your post;
any communication content you send via our site or e-mail, including communication contents and metadata;
all other personal information you send us.
Before you can provide us with another person’s personal information, you must obtain their consent that the information will be shared and processed in accordance with this principle.
D. Use of your personal information
Personal information sent to us through our Site will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the site. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
manage our site and business;
personalize our site for you;
enable you to use the services on our site;
send you the products you have purchased from our site;
to provide services purchased from our site;
send you notifications, invoices and payment reminders and receive payments from you;
communicate with you non-marketing commercially;
send you the email notifications you specifically requested;
send you our email newsletter if you have requested it (you can notify us at any time if you do not want the newsletter);
send you marketing content that we think will be useful to you by our business or carefully selected third-party businesses by mail, email or similar technologies if you specifically agree (you can notify us at any time if you do not want the marketing content);
provide statistical information about our users to third parties (but these third parties may not identify any user using this information);
resolve complaints and requests made by or about you regarding our site;
keep our site secure and prevent fraud;
verify that our website is used in accordance with the relevant terms and conditions (including monitoring messages sent by the private messaging service on our site) and
for other purposes.
If you submit personal information for publication on our site, we will publish it or we may use it under the license you provide to us.
Your privacy settings may limit the publication of your information on our site and may be changed through privacy controls on the site.
We will not transmit your personal information to any third party or direct marketing departments of other third parties unless you expressly consent.
E. Sharing personal information
We may transmit your personal information to our employees, officers, insurers, professional consultants, agencies, suppliers or subcontractors for as long as it requires the purposes set out in this policy.
We may transmit your personal information to all members of our group of companies (which means our subsidiaries, our parent holding company and its subsidiaries) as long as it requires the purposes set out in this policy.
We may share your personal information if:
where legally required;
in relation to ongoing or possible legal proceedings;
to protect, enforce and defend our own legal rights (including passing information to others in order to prevent fraud and reduce credit risk);
to (or potential buyers) of all businesses and assets we sell (or intend to sell) and
if we have reasonable opinions that the court or authorized persons and institutions will decide to disclose personal information if it applies to a person we believe may apply to the court for the disclosure of personal information.
Except as set out in this policy, we do not share your personal information with third parties.
F. International data transfers
The information we collect may be transferred, stored and processed between the countries in which we operate for the purposes set out in this policy.
The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries that do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in the European Economic Area: the United States, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
The information you share or submit for sharing on our website can be accessed from all over the world through our website. We cannot prevent this information from being exploited by others.
You expressly agree to the transfer of personal information specified in Section F.
G. Storage of personal information
Section G specifies data retention policies and procedures designed to ensure that we meet our legal obligations regarding the storage and deletion of personal information.
The personal information we process cannot be stored for longer than the stated purposes or purposes require.
To avoid affecting Article G-2, we usually delete personal information from the following categories of data at the following date/time:
personal data type on {DATE/TIME} and
{ENTER ADDITIONAL DATE/TIME} will be deleted.
We store documents containing personal data (including electronic documents) without subject to other provisions in Section G:
where legally required;
documents in cases where we believe they are related to ongoing or possible legal processes and
to protect, enforce and defend our own legal rights (including transmitting information to others in order to prevent fraud and reduce credit risk).
H. Security of your personal information
We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to prevent the loss, exploitation or alteration of your personal data.
We store all your personal information on secure (password and firewall protected) servers.
All financial transfers made through our site are protected by encryption technology.
You agree that the transfer of data over the Internet is inherently unsafe and that we cannot guarantee the security of the data sent over the Internet.
It is your responsibility to keep the password you use to access our site private, we do not ask you to provide your password (except when you log in to our site).
I. Changes
We may change this policy from time to time and publish the new version on our website. You should check this page from time to time to make sure that you understand possible changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our site.
J. Haklarınız
You may request that we provide you with the information we store about you; the following information is required to provide this information:
fee payment {ENTER FEE IF NECESSARY} and
provide documents proving your identity ({ENTER TEXT REFLECTING YOUR FIRST, for this purpose we usually accept a notarized copy of your passport and an invoice showing your current address}).
We may retain the information you request to the extent permitted by law.
You may instruct us not to use your personal information for marketing purposes at any time.
In practice, you agree in advance to use your personal information for marketing purposes, or we give you the option to choose not to use your personal information for marketing purposes.
K. Third-party websites
Our site contains links and details to third-party sites. We have no control over the privacy policies and practices of third parties and cannot be held responsible for them.
L. Updating information
Please let us know if personal information about you needs to be corrected or updated.
M. Cookies
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file that contains identifiers (a sequence of letters and numbers) sent by the network server to the server and stored on the server. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be “persistent” or “session” cookies: The persistent cookie is stored by the browser and deleted on the expiration date, unless deleted by the user by the expiration date; the session cookie is deleted when the browser is closed at the end of the user session. Cookies do not contain information that may be used to identify the user,