Personal data refers to any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, such as name, surname, date of birth, or phone number.
Your personal data is processed by KAIZEN PATENT (Company), registered with the Istanbul Trade Registry Office with Trade Registry/Dosva No: 13566 and located at Barbaros Mah, Mor Sümbül Sok., Teknik Yapı Deluxia Palace, Floor: 9, Apartment: 261, Istanbul, Ataşehir, as the data controller, within the scope of the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (KVKK) and relevant legislation regulations and decisions/announcements of the competent authority, and within the framework of this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy text contains information about which categories of your personal data are collected through the channels specified below, for which processes and purposes they are processed, to which recipient groups they are transferred, your rights regarding the protection of your personal data, and other explanations that the Company is obliged to inform you about within the scope of its illumination obligation as a data controller.
Information that will be used and processed for a specific person is only possible if
the person voluntarily enters the data or explicitly consents to this. Entering data
or explicitly consenting to this indicates that the person agrees with the
conditions specified below. When visiting the website, some information is stored on
the web servers.
These data may include:
- Name
- Surname
- Address
- Postal code
- Email
- Phone/Fax number
- Credit card number
- Identity number
- Gender
- Date of birth
Based on this data, certain conclusions can be drawn about the site user. However, this personal data can only be used anonymously. If this data is transferred to an external service provider, necessary actions are taken to ensure that it is transferred within the framework of existing legal regulations regarding data security.
If personal information is voluntarily provided, the Company undertakes to use this information within the limits stipulated by law or the user's declaration of acceptance and to process or transfer it within this framework.
The purposes of using personal data and cookies are listed below:
- Customizing user experiences
- Access to websites
- Ensuring communication with users
- Managing and recording the website
As part of the service provided, the Company can obtain and transfer information about the service recipients within the scope of this Privacy Policy. Such information transfers are made in accordance with the conditions determined by third parties and existing contracts with third parties and applicable legal regulations. This Privacy Policy does not reflect the privacy practices of third parties to whom information is transferred, and the Company is not responsible for their privacy policies or practices. This Privacy Policy does not cover information collected by applications outside the control of the Company, information collected by third-party websites and platforms, information collected by third parties through links on the Company's website, or titles, campaigns, and other advertisements or promotions on third-party websites sponsored or participated by the Company. The Company is not responsible for the operations of third parties concerning the personal data collected, stored, and used by third parties through their websites.
There is content on our website directed towards children under the age of 18. In this context, any data that may be collected from children is gathered with the consent of the child's parent or guardian.
The Company may obtain some of the mentioned personal data using a technical communication file (Cookie). These technical communication files are small text files sent by a website to the user's browser to be stored in the main memory. The technical communication file makes it easier to use the Internet by storing the status and preferences about a website. The technical communication file helps to obtain statistical information about how many people use the website, for what purpose, how many times a person visits the website, and how long they stay, and to dynamically generate advertisements and content for specifically designed user pages. The technical communication file is not designed to retrieve data or any other personal information from the main memory or e-mails. Most browsers are designed to accept the technical communication file initially, but users can change the settings to block the technical communication file or to receive a warning when a technical communication file is being sent if they prefer. Any malfunction resulting from this setting change should not be attributed to us.
The cookies used on the website are as follows:
- Names of other sites visited while on the site
- Keywords used to find the website
- Name of the internet service provider
- IP address and/or location
- Operating system of the accessing computer
The Company prioritizes your security when you purchase products or services through the website. Therefore, your credit card information is only used during the order process and is not stored in the database.
The Company's website may contain links to third-party websites, and this Privacy Policy does not apply to these websites. The Company does not accept any responsibility for these websites.
The Company's website provides embedded links to some social media networks to allow the sharing of services and products on social media networks. These linked services only operate if approval is given, and the purpose of these social media links is to view the site content and share it with your friends and relatives if desired. Data sharing related to these directed social media networks is subject to the privacy policies they publish on their sites. It is important to review these privacy policies.
The Company may change the content of this Privacy Policy at any time to keep privacy and data protection principles up to date and to comply with relevant legislation. The updated Privacy Policy will be announced on the Company's website. You can always access the current version of the Privacy Policy at www.kaizenpatent.com. If you continue to use the Company's services or applications after the Privacy Policy has been changed, it is assumed that you have accepted the changes. The provisions of the Privacy Policy that have been amended come into force on the date they are published on the website.
The shared personal data will be processed in accordance with the requirements of the services provided to customers, the requirements of the contract and technology; in matters related to public security and in legal disputes, to provide information to prosecutors, courts, and relevant public officials upon request and as required by legislation; to offer a wide range of opportunities to our members or to share these opportunities with individuals and institutions that can offer them within the legal framework; to analyze advertising preferences, in accordance with the Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (KVKK) and related secondary regulations.
Data shared directly during membership registration or when purchasing a product or service is retained for the duration of the membership or the sales transactions. Data shared for subscription to newsletters to stay informed about campaigns is retained as long as the subscription continues.
In accordance with the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (KVKK), personal data shared with KAIZEN PATENT can be processed by us in any way, fully or partially, automatically or non-automatically, by obtaining, recording, storing, changing, rearranging, in short, by performing any kind of processing on the data as part of any data recording system. Any processing on the data carried out within the scope of KVKK.
For the purposes mentioned above, the persons and institutions to which the personal data shared with KAIZEN PATENT can be transferred include main shareholders, shareholders, advertisers, our direct or indirect domestic/foreign affiliates; primarily member companies using the KAIZEN PATENT infrastructure and, without being limited to these, the persons and institutions related to the services provided; the organizations with which we cooperate, program partner institutions, domestic/foreign organizations, and other third parties and institutions that we receive services from to carry out our activities or with whom we collaborate as Data Processor. In response to binding requests from courts, your data may be exceptionally shared with official institutions within the scope of our legal obligations.
There is no personal data stored on the KAIZEN PATENT website before the effective date of KVKK, which is 07.04.2016.
The data subject can always exercise the right to access their data. In addition, if the relevant conditions are met, the rights regulated in Article 11 of KVKK and the rights listed below can be exercised.
- Right to rectification
- Right to erasure
- Right to restriction of processing
- Right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection supervisory authority
- Right to data portability
In cases where personal data is processed on the basis of the Company's legitimate
interest, the data subject has the right to object to the processing of personal
data due to reasons arising from their particular situation. The Company will stop
processing the data unless it can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the
processing that override the interests, rights, and freedoms of the data subject, or
for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
In case of consent given for the processing of personal data, it is possible to
withdraw the consent.
Our address:
Barbaros Mah, Mor Sümbül Sok., Teknik Yapı Deluxia Palace, Floor: 9, Apartment: 261, Istanbul, Ataşehir.