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PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION POLICY AND CLARIFICATION TEXT

  • OBJECTIVE

The objective of this Personal Data Protection Policy and Clarificiation Text is to explain the rules adopted for personal data processing, and the protection of personal data that are conducted by UÇAR LAW|CONSULTING , in accordance with the Law on Protection of Personal Data (“LPPD”) numbered 6698 and related legislation. In this respect, this policy aims to enlighten the persons whose personal data has been processed and, in particular, our employees, prospective employees, suppliers and visitors, as well as the employees, shareholders and officials of the institutions that we are in collaboration with, clients, prospective clients and other third parties.

  • SCOPE

This policy includes explanations regarding the content, categories, means of use, and the processing means of personal data, its maintenance conditions, the rights of data subjects, and precautions taken to protect personal data.

  • THE PURPOSE OF PROCESSING OF THE PERSONAL DATA

UÇAR LAW|CONSULTING undertakes that it shall process all personal data pursuant to the principles that are determined within the scope of Article 4 of the LPPD, and in accordance with the purposes stated, below:

a) For our clients and business partners:

i. Rendering every type of advocacy and legal consultancy services, client meetings held within our law firm, consultancy proposals, preparation of legal reports and examination of proposals for other legal services,

ii. Supplying information with regard to various legal developments and providing newsletters,

iii. Providing legal trainings organized by UÇAR LAW|CONSULTING, related documents and informing on future trainings that wil be made byUÇAR LAW|CONSULTING,

iv. Conservation of the data that is obtained in this respect, in order to be able to preserve them for future processing.

b) For employees:

i. Exercising the rights vested in the laws and regulations, such as the labor law, social security law, and tax law, etc., and fulfilling the obligations arising from the latter of these,

ii. Taking out private health insurance,

iii. Adding Personal Data onto our web site for informational purposes,

iv. Resolution of disputes arising from the labor law,

v. Corporate planning,

vi. Ensuring the order, control, security, administration, and harmonization in the workplace,

vii. Archiving the data, such as camera recordings, video recordings, and photographs that are obtained from office events,

viii. Implementing our recruitment process.

  • Processing of Personal Data and Data Collection Method

Personal Data shall be protected only for definite, clear and legal purposes and will be stored for the periods required for the purposes of processing of the Personal Data described above in the relevant section.  

Personal Data shall not be processed in a manner incompatible with the purposes for which they are collected within the framework of this Personal Data Protection Policy and Clarification Text and LPPD and shall be erased, destructed or anonymized ex officio or upon demand by the data subject, upon disappearance of reasons which require the process erasure or destruction or anonymizing. 

UÇAR LAW|CONSULTING & Erdem may collect Personal Data through the medium of verbal communication, e-mails, faxes, telephone, post, couriers, and deliveries by hand, etc.

  • Transfer of Personal Data

Personal Data shall be transferred by UÇAR LAW|CONSULTING to its business partners, lawyers and competent courts and/or enforcement offices and public institutions and organizations for the purpose of legal and financial audits in Turkey in accordance with article 8 of the LPPD, in order to realize the purposes of processing the Personal Data herein Personal Data Protection Policy and Clarification Text and in addition to the data processing purposes stated below. 

In addition, your personal data may be transferred directly or indirectly to any third party (including cloud service providers that may have servers in various countries) whom has received or intends to receive or will receive consultancy, support or legal services, competent institutions and organizations within the framework of specified personal data processing conditions and purposes. 

All the necessary technical and administrative measures are taken in case your personal data is transferred to home or abroad. In addition, a commitment is taken from the third parties who transfer data to ensure that they take the necessary technical and administrative measures.

  • Protection of Rights of the Data Subject

Data Subjects may make use of their below-stated rights by application to UÇAR LAW|CONSULTING:

a. Ascertaining whether any personal data is processed or not,

b. Requesting information related to the processing of personal data, if processed,

c. Ascertaining the purpose of the processing of personal data, and whether or not the use of Personal Data is in compliance with this purpose,

d. Identifying third parties to whom the personal data is transferred within the country and abroad,

e. Requesting rectification if personal data is processed in an unsatisfactory or incorrect manner,

f. Demanding deletion or destruction of personal data within the framework of Article 7 of the LPPD,

g. Demanding the notification of adjustment, deletion and destruction to third parties to whom the personal data had been transferred,

h. Objection to the result of the analyzation (exclusively by means of automatic systems) of the processed personal data, and which is to the detriment of the person, and

i. Claiming compensation for damages that he/she suffered due to the illegal processing of the personal data.

For the exercise of these rights as stated, above, it is required for Data Subjects to send their requests in written to dilara.ucar@ucar-hukuk.com.

It is obligatory for the Data Subjects’s application to include, name, surname, signature (if the application is written), identity number for Turkish Republic Citizens, nationality, passport number and identity number (if applicable) for the foreigners, place of residence or work to be used in the notifications, electronic mail address to be declared (if applicable), telephone and fax numbers and the subject of request.

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