PRIVACY AND COOKIE POLICY AND PERSONAL DATA PROCESSING ENLIGHTENMENT TEXT

Privacy Policy:

As “Umut Halicilik Limited Company” (“Company”) we strive to protect the privacy of our customers who use our site in order to ensure that our users benefit from our services safely and completely. In this respect, this Privacy Policy (“Policy”) has been prepared in order to process the personal data of our customers in full compliance with the Law on Protection of Personal Data (“Code”) numbered 6698 and to inform our users in this context. Company’s cookie policy is an integral part of this Policy.

The purpose of this Policy is to determine the conditions regarding the personal data shared with the company via the Umutcarpet.com (hereinafter reffered to as “Platform”) by visitors / users (collectively referred to as the “Data Owner”) during the operation of the Umutcarpet.com operated by the Company or that the Company generates while the Data Owner is using the Platform.

Purposes of Personal Data Processing:

Company will be able to process the personal data provided by the Data Owner for the following purposes.

  • To ensure the Data Owner to benefit from the services provided through the Platform,
  • To detect system errors and monitoring performance and improving the operation of the platform, providing maintenance and support services and backup services,
  • To carry out the necessary work by business groups in order to benefit the relevant people from the products and services offered by the company and carrying out the relevant business processes, carrying out the necessary work by the relevant business units in order to carry out the commercial activities run by the company
    and execution of related business processes,
  • To ensure the legal, technical and commercial-business security of the company and the people with whom it has business relations, and to plan and execute the commercial and / or business strategies of the company.


Personal Data to be Processed with the Data Owners’ Explicit Consent and Processing Purposes:

Within the scope of the Data Owner’s explicit consent, the Company will be able to use it for the purposes of increasing the user experience, creating statistics, profiling, direct marketing and remarketing by following the actions of the Data Owners on the Platform.
In addition, The Company will be able to process and share data in order to use the data obtained in this context in all kinds of advertising and material content.


Transfer of Personal Data:

The Company will be able to transfer the personal data of the Data Owner and the new data obtained by using this personal data to the third parties who provide services to the Company in order to achieve the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy, limited to the provision of such services.


The Company, in order to improve the Data Owner experience (including improvement and personalization), to ensure the security of the Data Owner, to detect fraudulent or unauthorized use, to investigate operational evaluation, to eliminate errors related to Platform services and to realize any of the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy. It will be able to share with third parties such as outsourcing service providers, hosting service providers, law firms, research companies, call centers, including those who send SMS.

Personal data may be shared with Company officials, shareholders, business partners, legally authorized public institutions and organizations and legally authorized private institutions within the framework of the personal data processing conditions and purposes specified in Articles 8 and 9 of the Law.
In addition, limited to these purposes, it can be transferred abroad within the framework of the procedural principles indicated in Article 9 of the Code and the decisions of the Personal Data Protection Board


Collection Method of Personal Data and Legal Reason:

Personal data is collected on the Platform and in electronic environment. Personal data collected for the legal reasons stated above can be processed and transferred for the purposes specified in Articles 5 and 6 of Law No. 6698 and this Privacy Policy.

Legal Rights of  Personal Data Owner:

In accordance with Article 11 of the Law, data owners have the following rights;

  • To learn whether personal data is processed about them and to request information if their personal data has been processed,
  • To learn the purpose of processing personal data and whether they are used in accordance with their purpose and to know the third parties to whom personal data are transferred at home or abroad,
  • To request correction of personal data if it is incomplete or incorrectly processed, and to request notification of the transaction made within this scope to third parties to whom personal data are transferred,
  • Although it has been processed in accordance with the provisions of the code and other relevant codes, to request the deletion or destruction of personal data in the event that the reasons for its processing disappear, and to request notification of the transaction made within this scope to third parties to whom personal data has been transferred,
  • To object to the emergence of a result against the person herself/himself by analyzing the processed data exclusively through automated systems and to request the compensation of the damage in case of damage due to the illegal processing of personal data

Requests for the use of these rights can be made by personal data owners using the “Application Form” on the Website.

The applications, along with the documents that will determine the identity of the relevant data owner, can be sent to the company address by hand or through a notary public or by other methods specified in the Law or signed with a secure electronic signature regulated under the Electronic Signature Law No 5070 by sending mail to Company’s KEP Address or by sending an e-mail from the e-mail address previously notified to our Company and registered in our Company’s system. If a method other than the aforementioned methods is stipulated by the Personal Data Protection Board, applications can also be submitted by this method. Data subject requests submitted by one of the methods mentioned above are evaluated and answered by our Company within a maximum of thirty (30) days.
Our company reserves the right to request additional information and documents from the applicant in order to evaluate whether the applicant is the relevant data owner.
As a rule, data owner applications are evaluated by our Company free of charge.
However, if a fee has been determined by the Personal Data Protection Board for the request of the data subject, our company will have the right to demand payment over this fee.

Cookie Policy:

As a company, we strive to protect the privacy of those who use our site in order to ensure that our users benefit from our services safely and completely.

As with most websites, cookies are used on the Umutcarpet.com to show personal content and advertisements to visitors, to perform analytical activities on the site and to track visitor usage habits.

This Cookie Policy is an integral part of the Umutcarpet.com Privacy Policy.

The Company has prepared this Cookie Policy (“Policy”) to explain which Cookies are used on the Site and how users can manage their preferences in this regard.
For more detailed information about the processing of your personal data by the company, we recommend that you review the Umutcarpet.com Privacy Policy.

What is Cookie? :

Cookies are small text files stored by websites you visit on your device or network server via browsers. Cookies are created by servers associated with the website you visit. Thus, the server can understand when the visitor visits the same site.

Cookies do not contain personal data such as name, gender or address of visitors. For more detailed information about cookies, you can visit www.aboutcookies.org and www.allaboutcookies.org.


Which Cookies Are Used? :

Cookies can be categorized in terms of ownership, lifetime and purpose of use:

  • Platform cookies and third party Cookies are used according to the party placing the cookie. While platform cookies are created by the Company, third-party cookies are managed by different companies in cooperation with the Company.
  • Session cookies and persistent cookies are used depending on the time it is active. While session cookies are deleted after the visitor leaves the Platform, permanent cookies can remain on the visitors’ devices for various periods depending on the area of ​​use.
  • According to the purposes of use, technical cookies, verification cookies, targeting / advertising cookies, personalization cookies and analytical cookies are used on the Platform.

Why Are Cookies Used? :

Cookies are used for the following purposes:

  • To realize the basic functions required for the platform to work.
  • Analyzing the Platform and increasing the performance of the Platform. For example, the integration of the different servers that the Platform works on, determining the number of visitors to the Platform and adjusting the performance accordingly or making it easier for visitors to find what they are looking for.
  • Increasing the functionality of the Platform and providing ease of use.
    For example, sharing to third-party social media channels on the Platform and remembering the user name information or search queries on the next visit of the visitor to the Platform

How Can You Manage Your Cookie Preferences? :

The company attaches great importance to the users’ ability to use their preferences on their personal data. However, preference management is not possible for some Cookies that are mandatory for the site to work. In addition, we would like to remind you that various functions of the Site may not work if some Cookies are turned off.

Information on how to manage preferences for Cookies used on the platform is as follows:

  • Visitors have the opportunity to customize their preferences for cookies by changing the browser settings on which they view the Platform.
    If the browser in use offers this opportunity, it is possible to change the preferences for Cookies through the browser settings. Although it may differ according to the possibilities offered by the browser, data owners have the opportunity to prevent the use of cookies, to choose to receive a warning before the cookie is used, or to disable or delete only some Cookies. Cookies preferences may need to be made separately for each device on which the visitor accesses the Platform.
  • The settings menu of the mobile device can be used to manage Cookies on mobile devices.

Which Legal Rights Do You Have? :

Pursuant to Article 11 of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data No.6698, visitors can apply to the Company and make the following requests regarding themselves:

  • To learn whether personal data is processed or not,
  • To request information if personal data has been processed,
  • To learn the purpose of processing personal data and whether they are used appropriately for their purpose,
  • To know the third parties in the country or abroad to whom personal data have been transferred,
  • To request correction of personal data in case of incomplete or incorrect processing and to request notification of the transaction made within this scope to third parties to whom personal data are transferred,
  • To request the deletion or destruction of personal data in the event that the reasons requiring its processing disappear, although it has been processed in accordance with the provisions of the law and other relevant laws and to request notification of the transaction made within this scope to third parties to whom personal data has been transferred,
  • Objection to the emergence of a result against the person herself/himself by analyzing the processed data exclusively through automated systems,
  • To request the compensation of the damage in case of damage due to the illegal processing of personal data.

Requests for the use of these rights can be made by data owners using the “Application Form” available on the Umutcarpet.com.

The applications, along with the documents that will determine the identity of the relevant data owner, can be sent to the company address by hand or through a notary public or by other methods specified in the Law or signed with a secure electronic signature regulated under the Electronic Signature Law No 5070 by sending mail to Company’s KEP Address or by sending an e-mail from the e-mail address previously notified to our Company and registered in our Company’s system. If a method other than the aforementioned methods is stipulated by the Personal Data Protection Board, applications can also be submitted by this method. Data subject requests submitted by one of the methods mentioned above are evaluated and answered by our Company within a maximum of thirty (30) days.
Our company reserves the right to request additional information and documents from the applicant in order to evaluate whether the applicant is the relevant data owner.
As a rule, data owner applications are evaluated by our Company free of charge.
However, if a fee has been determined by the Personal Data Protection Board for the request of the data subject, our company will have the right to demand payment over this fee.

Changes in Consent and Privacy Policy:

With its Privacy Policy (“Policy”), the Company aims to provide its users with a detailed explanation about the scope and purposes of the use of Cookies and to inform users about their Cookie preferences. In this regard, it is accepted that consent is given to the use of Cookies if the Cookie notification warning on the Platform is closed and the use of the Site is continued. The ability of users to change their Cookie preferences is always reserved.

The Company may change the Policy provisions at any time. The Current Policy takes effect on the date it is published on the Platform.