LINGODEMIA PERSONAL DATA PROCESSING INFORMATION TEXT
This Information Text has been prepared by Lingodemia (“Company”) to inform the customers of the Company about the processing of their personal data by the Company within the scope of the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“Law”).
a) Methods of Obtaining Personal Data and Legal Grounds
Your personal data is collected in electronic or physical environments. Your personal data collected with the legal grounds specified in this Information Text can be processed and shared within the framework of the personal data processing conditions specified in Articles 5 and 6 of the Law. The data processed by the Company includes personal information such as name, surname, email address, phone number, age, profession (if contacted through the contact form), IP address, logs such as traffic data, and cookie records.
b) Purposes of Processing Personal Data
Your personal data is processed by the Company within the framework of the personal data processing conditions specified in Articles 5 and 6 of the Law for the customization, promotion, and introduction of Ürüns and services offered by the Company according to the preferences, usage habits, and needs of relevant individuals, planning and execution of activities necessary for the benefit of individuals from the Ürüns and services offered by the Company, conducting necessary studies by business units, carrying out relevant business processes, conducting necessary studies by relevant business units for the realization of commercial activities carried out by the Company, planning and execution of the Company’s commercial and/or business strategies, and ensuring legal, technical, and commercial security of individuals in a business relationship with the Company.
c) Parties with Whom Personal Data May Be Shared and Purposes of Sharing
Within the framework of the personal data processing conditions and purposes specified in Articles 8 and 9 of the Law, your personal data may be shared with the business partners, suppliers, legally authorized institutions and organizations, and legally authorized private legal entities of the Company for the customization, promotion, and introduction of Ürüns and services offered by the Company according to the preferences, usage habits, and needs of relevant individuals, conducting necessary studies by business units for the benefit of individuals from the Ürüns and services offered by the Company, conducting relevant business processes, conducting necessary studies by relevant business units for the realization of commercial activities carried out by the Company, planning and execution of the Company’s commercial and/or business strategies, and ensuring legal, technical, and commercial security of individuals in a business relationship with the Company.
d) Rights of Data Subjects and Exercise of These Rights
As data subjects, after you have submitted your requests regarding your rights mentioned below to the Company through the methods specified under the heading “Exercise of Rights by Data Subjects,” your requests will be evaluated and concluded by the Company as soon as possible and, in any case, within 30 (thirty) days.
As data subjects under Article 11 of the Law, you have the following rights:
- Learning whether your personal data is processed,
- Requesting information if your personal data has been processed,
- Learning the purpose of processing your personal data and whether it is used in accordance with its purpose,
- Knowing the third parties to whom your personal data is transferred, domestically or internationally,
- Requesting correction of your personal data if it is incomplete or incorrectly processed and requesting notification of this correction to third parties to whom your personal data has been transferred,
- Requesting the deletion or destruction of your personal data in case the reasons requiring its processing cease to exist, despite being processed in accordance with the Law and other relevant laws, and requesting notification of this deletion to third parties to whom your personal data has been transferred,
- Objecting to the emergence of a result against you by exclusively analyzing your processed data through automated systems,
- Demanding compensation for damages in case your personal data is processed unlawfully and causes damage to you.
In cases listed in the second paragraph of Article 28 of the Law, data subjects do not have the right to request:
- Processing personal data is necessary for the prevention of committing a crime or for the investigation of a crime,
- Personal data processed by the data subject himself/herself has been made public,
- Processing personal data is necessary for the exercise of the duties and powers of authorized public institutions and organizations and professional organizations with public institution status, for the conduct of supervision or regulation duties, or for disciplinary investigations or prosecutions,
- Processing personal data is necessary for the protection of the State’s economic and financial interests in terms of budget, tax, and financial matters, data subjects cannot exercise the rights specified above regarding the relevant data.
According to the first paragraph of Article 28 of the Law, in the following cases, requests of data subjects will not be processed for the data that falls outside the scope of the Law:
- processing of personal data by real persons themselves or their family members living in the same residence, within the scope of activities related to themselves, without being given to third parties and subject to compliance with data security obligations,
- Processing of personal data for purposes such as research, planning, and statistics by anonymizing personal data with official statistics,
- Processing of personal data for purposes such as art, history, literature, or science or for freedom of expression, provided that it does not violate national defense, national security, public security, public order, economic security, the privacy of private life, or personal rights, and does not constitute a crime,
- Processing of personal data within the scope of preventive, protective, and intelligence activities carried out by public institutions and organizations authorized by law for the purpose of ensuring national defense, national security, public security, public order, or economic security.
Exercise of Rights by Data Subjects
Data subjects can use the “Personal Data Subject Application Form” available at [www.lingodemia.com] to make requests related to their rights mentioned above. Applications will be made by one of the following methods, along with documents identifying the identity of the relevant data subject:
- By filling out the form and delivering the wet-signed copy in person, through a notary, or by sending it by registered mail to our mailing address,
- By signing the form with a secure electronic signature within the scope of Law No. 5070 on Electronic Signature and sending it by electronic mail to the registered email address (KEP),
- By following a method prescribed by the Personal Data Protection Board.
Within the limits set by the Law, the Company responds to data subjects who wish to exercise these rights within a maximum of thirty (30) days in accordance with the Law. For third parties to apply on behalf of data subjects, a special power of attorney prepared through a notary must be present.
While applications by data subjects are generally processed free of charge, fees may be charged according to the fee schedule determined by the Personal Data Protection Board. The Company may request information from the relevant person to determine whether the applicant is the data subject and may ask the data subject questions regarding their application to clarify the matters specified in the application.