The Personal Data Protection Law Clarification Text and the Consent to Subscribe to e-bulletin.

As the Data Controller, MITRA prepared this information text in compliance with the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“KVKK”), considering the privacy concerns of the personal information we have collected for our volunteers, members, and e-bulletin subscribers, in order to enlighten them about how your personal information is processed.

To inform our own events, projects, news, campaigns, and donation announcements in compliance with the law, we use the information of our members, volunteers, and e-bulletin subscribers. By sending a brief written notice to the address listed below, you can always object to this use of your information.

You can be informed about our campaigns, constantly changing themed products, and our projects and studies periodically via e-mail or post from our e-bulletin. In order to benefit from this service, you must clearly declare to us that you accept the service. You can withdraw your consent for your address information or e-mail address to be used for sending e-mail newsletters at any time. You can use the registration termination link at the end of each e-bulletin sent to unsubscribe from the MİTRA e-bulletin. Alternatively, registered users can send a short text to [email protected] to unsubscribe from the e-bulletin.

We use a 3rd party application service to send our newsletters and manage newsletter subscription lists. This allows us to send you more clearly displayed, more comfortable and stable email templates that are better matched to our products. Click here for detailed privacy policies of the 3rd party application that provides the newsletter sending service.

As an e-bulletin sender, we respect the privacy of our members, volunteers and e-bulletin subscribers. This policy was written to determine the use of privacy and security of our visitors and members.

Privacy is one of the most important policies of the e-newsletter. Any information regarding the identity and characteristics of our members, is not shared with 3rd parties directly.

Your e-mail address is only used to send you the information you request. As part of your use of our email marketing software, e-newsletter delivery allows you to choose whether or not to receive certain information from the campaign messenger. It does not sell, lease or lend our contact lists (including member, volunteer, subscriber information) to any other company by sending an e-bulletin. Every e-newsletter you request has a subscription cancellation option. Cancellation requests are processed within a few minutes, and users who request not to receive the specified information are not sent any information from that moment on.

Special Offers and Updates

We send each new user a welcome email to verify their account and confirm their password and username.

Our members, volunteers, e-newsletter subscribers receive information about projects, events, campaigns, products, special offers and a newsletter from time to time. In order to respect the privacy of our users, we give them the option not to receive such communication messages. Anyone can cancel their subscription via the cancellation mechanism at the bottom of the e-newsletter.

Newsletter

When the user requests to subscribe to the newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and e-mail address. For the privacy of our users, we provide a revocation mechanism at the bottom of each e-mail so that they can opt out of receiving this e-newsletter.

Service Announcements

In rare cases, service announcements may be required. For example, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we can send e-mails to all users. Or, we can send information / clarification e-mails regarding our updated policies. Users can choose not to receive these emails, but can then re-activate their email newsletter subscription.

Support

We regularly communicate with users to provide the services they request, and we respond to matters related to their accounts by e-mail or telephone at the user’s request.

Web Page Usage Information

We evaluate your IP address in order to be able to diagnose potential problems with our server and to operate our website and to provide various pro-active fraud measures. We do not link your IP address to any personal information. To determine which areas our users use, we can track the movements in those areas. E-newsletter sending does not keep track of what individuals read, but instead tracks the number of times each page has been visited. This allows MITRA to provide a more superior and informative web experience for you.

Security Technology

A significant amount of investment has been made in up-to-date server, database, backup and firewall technologies in order to protect our e-bulletin sending information assets. These technologies are part of the sophisticated security structure. All data is stored on our tightly controlled secure servers.

Policy Updates

We may change these privacy policies from time to time. When MITRA makes changes to these policies, we indicate these updates on our homepage and send e-mails about the subject to users who have given permission. We will notify you of all changes here, so be sure to check regularly. When our policies change in the future, the personal information you provide to us with these policies will not contradict your previous consent.

If you still have any questions, you can contact us at [email protected].

We would like to enlighten you about the Personal Data Protection Law (“KVKK”) numbered 6698, which was enacted to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals, especially the privacy of private life, and to determine the liabilities of natural and legal persons who process personal data.

Within the scope of the law, personal data is defined as “any information regarding an identified or identifiable natural person” while processing refers to “any kind of transaction performed on data such as the acquisition, recording, storage, preservation, modification, rearrangement, disclosure, transfer, taking over, making available, classification, and preventing its usage through fully or partially automatic ways or non-automatic means on the condition to integrate them into any data recording system.

1. The Purpose of the Clarification Text, the Position of the Data Supervisor of our Association and Economic Enterprise:

MİTRA presents the following explanations to the attention of our visitors and third parties who use our website and/or mobile applications in order to fulfill the obligation to inform under Article 10 of the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“LPPD”) regarding personal data related to visitors. MİTRA reserves the right to update this Personal Data Protection Explanation text at any time within the framework of changes that may be made in the current legislation.

2. Purpose of Processing and Transfer of Personal Data Belonging to Our Visitors:

Your personal data are used for the following purposes:

• To record the address and other necessary information for communication,
• To arrange all records and documents that will be the basis for processing in electronic (internet / mobile etc.) or paper environment,
• To be able to provide information to public officials on public security issues upon request and in accordance with the legislation,
• To provide our visitors with a better browsing experience and to provide information to our visitors about topics that may be of interest to them,
• To be able to use it in visitor environment analysis, to use it in various marketing and advertising activities and to organize surveys electronically and/or physically through contracted organizations within this scope,
• To be able to offer suggestions to our visitors through our contracted institutions and solution partners and to inform our visitors about our services,
• To evaluate visitor complaints and suggestions regarding our services,
• To be able to fulfill our legal obligations and to use our rights arising from the current legislation,
• To prevent fraud and other illegal activities.

The sharing of our visitors’ personal data with third parties is carried out with the permission of our visitors, and as a rule, our visitors’ personal data is not transferred to third parties without their consent.

However, due to and limited to our legal obligations, personal data is shared with the courts and other public institutions upon request.

Necessary technical and legal measures are taken to prevent violations of rights during data transfer to third parties.

Your personal data may be shared with our direct/indirect domestic/international affiliates, program partner institutions and organizations with which we cooperate in order to carry out our activities, domestic/international persons and organizations from which we receive data storage services in the cloud environment, domestic/international organizations with which we have agreements regarding sending commercial electronic messages to our visitors, the Interbank Card Center, banks with which we have agreements, and various domestic and international agencies, advertising companies and survey companies and other domestic/international third parties and relevant business partners within the scope of various marketing activities in order to provide you with better service and to ensure visitor satisfaction.

3. Collection Method of Personal Data and Legal Reason:

Personal data is processed by MİTRA in accordance with the data provided by our visitors who make transactions through the www.mitraudit.com.tr website, the consent of our visitors and the provisions of the legislation. Personal data collected for the legal reasons stated above can be processed and transferred for the purposes specified in Articles 5 and 6 of the Law and this Information and Consent Text.

4. Rights of Visitors as Personal Data Owners:

Pursuant to Article 11 of the Law, data owners;

1. To learn whether personal data about them is processed,
2. To request information regarding whether personal data has been processed,
3. To learn the purpose of processing personal data and whether they are used appropriately for their purpose,
4. To know the third parties to whom personal data are transferred domestically or abroad,
5. To request correction of personal data in case of incomplete or incorrect processing and to request notification of the transaction made with third parties to whom personal data have been transferred within this scope,
6. To request the deletion or destruction of personal data and to request the notify third parties to whom the personal data has been transferred, although it has been processed in accordance with the provisions of the law and other relevant regulations, in case the conditions requiring its processing are eliminated,
7. To object to the emergence of a result against the person by analyzing the processed data exclusively through automated systems and (viii) to demand the compensation of the damage in case of emergence of harm due to unlawful processing of personal data.

Requests regarding the use of such rights may be submitted by personal data owners using the methods specified in the Policy on the Processing and Protection of Personal Data within the Scope of Law No. 6698 by MİTRA, which can be found at www.mitraudit.com.tr. MİTRA will evaluate such requests and finalize them within 30 days. MİTRA reserves the right to charge a fee based on the fee schedule determined by the Personal Data Protection Board (if any) for such requests.

You can reach us at any time for any questions or comments regarding your personal data at [email protected]. If you still wish to unsubscribe, you can use the “Unsubscribe” button at the bottom of the e-mail we sent you. If the buttons do not work, you can send an e-mail to [email protected] with your name, surname, and e-mail address, along with a sentence stating that you wish to unsubscribe.