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Processing of Personal Data and Privacy Notice

Website Visitor Privacy Notice Pursuant to the Personal Data Protection Law

As DG Legal Law Firm (“DG Legal”), we give priority to the security of the personal data that we process, in our capacity as data controller, on our website https://www.dg-legal.com pursuant to Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (the “KVKK” or the “Law”); for this reason, through the information set out in this Privacy Notice, we aim to inform you about this matter.

We hereby inform you that your personal data will,

  • within the framework of the purpose for which their processing is required, and in a manner that is connected with, limited to and proportionate to that purpose,
  • while maintaining the accuracy and most up-to-date form of the personal data as notified to us by you or on your behalf,
  • be recorded, stored, retained, reorganised and shared with the institutions legally authorised to request such personal data, and may, under the conditions laid down in the KVKK, be transferred to third parties, assigned, classified and processed in the other ways listed in the KVKK.

1. Your Personal Data That We Process

The following personal data provided by visitors themselves may be processed by DG Legal:

Identity Data

First name, surname.

Contact Data:

Email address, telephone number.

Customer Transaction Data:

Request details.

Transaction Security Data:

IP address, device IMEI number, device MAC address, traffic data (connection time/duration, volume of communication, etc.), cookie information.

2. Purposes of Processing Your Personal Data

Your personal data are processed by DG Legal in accordance with the Law, the secondary legislation issued under the Law and the decisions of the Personal Data Protection Authority, for the purposes and on the legal grounds set out below:

  • Communication: Using the personal data you provide to www.dg-legal.com, we may contact you for various purposes. Responding to the messages you have sent us is one example. The processing also aims to ensure corporate communication.
  • Legal Obligations: Your personal data may be processed and transferred where required by any provision of the legislation to which www.dg-legal.com is subject, and may be retained for the period prescribed by the relevant legislation or necessary for the purpose.
  • Resolution of Disputes: In any disputes that may arise in the future, DG Legal may process your personal data and share them with the competent legal authorities in order to prove that it has acted lawfully and fulfilled its legal obligations, and to ensure the resolution of such disputes.
  • Improvement of Services and Customer Satisfaction: Your personal data are processed for the purposes of carrying out analytical studies to improve your www.dg-legal.com experience and of evaluating your requests, complaints and suggestions in order to take action to increase customer satisfaction and service quality.

3. Legal Grounds for Processing Your Personal Data

Your personal data are processed by DG Legal where at least one of the legal grounds set out in the Law exists. The legal grounds on which the purposes of processing set out above are based are as follows:

  • Communication activities and related actions are carried out on the legal grounds of the establishment or performance of a contract, as set out in Article 5(2)(c) of the Law, and of the data having been made public by the data subject, as set out in Article 5(2)(d) of the Law.
  • The data processing activities we carry out to fulfil our legal obligations are based on the legal ground that processing is mandatory for the data controller to fulfil its legal obligation, as set out in Article 5(2)(ç) of the Law.
  • Cases in which personal data are processed for the resolution of disputes are based on the legal ground of the establishment, exercise or protection of a right, as set out in Article 5(2)(e) of the Law.
  • Activities carried out for the purposes of improving services, customer satisfaction and communication are based on the legal ground of legitimate interest, as set out in Article 5(2)(f) of the Law.

4. Methods of Collecting Your Personal Data

Within the scope of the services DG Legal offers you and the data processing purposes set out above, DG Legal may collect your personal data electronically, via email channels, through all types of data entry fields, contact forms and other forms available on www.dg-legal.com, and through the relevant analytics tools. In addition, your personal data are also obtained through the cookies used on www.dg-legal.com.

5. Transfer of Your Personal Data

For the purposes of completing the transactions you carry out on www.dg-legal.com, fulfilling legal obligations, and their other evaluation and management by DG Legal, your personal data may be shared with the relevant institutions and organisations. Furthermore, within the framework of the conditions set out in Articles 8 and 9 of the Law, your personal data may be shared with DG Legal's business partners and, where requested in the context of the fulfilment of legal obligations, with the relevant public institutions and organisations.

6. Your Rights

As data subjects, should you submit requests concerning your rights to DG Legal, DG Legal will conclude them free of charge as soon as possible, depending on the nature of the request, and within thirty (30) days at the latest. However, if the process entails an additional cost, DG Legal will charge the fee set out in the tariff determined by the Personal Data Protection Board. In this context, you have the right to:

  • learn whether your personal data are being processed;
  • request information about the processing if your personal data have been processed;
  • learn the purpose of the processing of your personal data and whether they are used in accordance with that purpose;
  • know the third parties, in Türkiye or abroad, to whom your personal data have been transferred;
  • request the rectification of your personal data if they have been processed incompletely or inaccurately, and request that the action taken in this respect be notified to the third parties to whom your personal data have been transferred;
  • request the erasure or destruction of your personal data where the reasons requiring their processing no longer exist, even though they have been processed in accordance with the provisions of the Law and other relevant laws, and request that the action taken in this respect be notified to the third parties to whom your personal data have been transferred;
  • object to any outcome to your detriment arising from the analysis of the processed data exclusively by means of automated systems; and
  • claim compensation for any damage you suffer as a result of the unlawful processing of your personal data.

Pursuant to Article 13(1) of the Law, you must submit your application concerning matters relating to the processing of your personal data to our firm in writing, or by using a registered electronic mail (KEP) address, a secure electronic signature, a mobile signature, or the email address you have previously notified to us and which is registered in our records.