NEWSLETTER
MEMBER INFORMATION NOTICE
The
principles concerning the processing of your personal data, within this website
by the Yunus Emre Institute, affiliated to the Yunus Emre Foundation as the data
controller (“Institute”) in
accordance with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), Turkish Law on Protection of
Personal Data no. 6698 (“Law”) and
other applicable legislation are provided in detail in this Information Notice.
1. Data Controller
Your
personal data are processed by employing the methods specified below by the Yunus
Emre Institute affiliated to Yunus Emre Foundation, with its headquarters located at “Anafartalar Mahallesi, Atatürk Bulvarı No: 11 0605 Altındağ, Ankara,
Turkey” as the data controller and in accordance with the requirements of
the latest technology available.
2. Processed Data Categories
Only
the email addresses of the individuals who become a member to our newsletter
through writing down their email address to the respective section in our
website, but do not form any other membership relationship with our website,
are being collected. Processing of personal data other than email address is
carried out in line with the procedures set forth in the Privacy Policy, Cookie
Policy and Terms of Use, which are applicable to all of our website visitors.
3. Purpose and Legal Grounds for
Processing Personal Data
Your
personal data that is collected in the event that you register to our
newsletter list are being processed to provide you with informatory content,
pursuance and analysis of the business development projects in the respective
field and ensure member satisfaction. Other than these information, collective
statistical data that are not personal data such as visiting frequency and time
of our web site are being collected, in order to analyze and understand the
behaviors and choices of the web site visitors.
Personal
data collected on our website are processed in order to; (i) improve Turkey's academic and scientific cooperation, (ii) contribute to the economy, (iii) transfer the know-how, (iv) improve the quality of human
resources, (v) carry out scientific
diplomacy activities, (vi) organize
value added activities and programs, (vii)
provide positive contribution to the perception of Turkey on international
platforms, (viii) use global
expertise and human resources to achieve development targets, (ix) announce scientific developments
and efforts taking place in Turkey to the world, (x) ensure the active participation of the Turkish academic world
to the international decision making processes, (xi) enable Turkish and foreign academicians and scientists to take
advantage of the academic and scientific studies carried out in Turkey, (xii) to grant you access to our
services, (xiii) inform you of the
academic content, news and events, industrial,
commercial, scientific and technological developments, products, works
and collaborations, (xiv) deal with
your questions and requests, (xv)
maintain, operate, develop and improve our services, (xvi) obtain information about our service users and analyze how
you interact with our services and carry out logical analyzes (e.g. for
accounting, audit, finance, legal requirements and other requirements) in order
to improve our operations, (xvii)
fulfill our relevant legal obligations and cooperate with administrative and
executive institutions, (xviii) manage
your account on our website and (xix)
customize information and commercial electronic messages sent to you, in order
for them to be more compliant and relevant. Our legal obligation to process
your personal information arises from the European Union General Data
Protection Regulation, Turkish Law on Protection of Personal Data no. 6698, Turkish
Penal Code no. 5237, other secondary legislation and laws of the member
countries at which our website is used.
4. Locations to which Processed
Personal Data are Transferred and Purpose of Transfer
Your
personal data may be transferred to other academicians who are members of our
website, partner institutions, higher education institutions, science
consultants, employees and our business partners, suppliers, tax consultants,
subcontractors, relevant official authorities and private individuals who are
not members to our website in accordance with the applicable legislation.
The
purpose of transferring the data is in line with the purpose of processing
personal data. The Institute may share
personal data with institutions and organizations with which it has a business
relationship, real persons and institutions in Turkey or abroad from which it
procures cloud services, institutions in Turkey and abroad with which it has
executed contracts concerning the sending of commercial electronic messages,
with assistants as part of various promotional activities, agencies and advertising
companies in Turkey or abroad, third parties in Turkey or abroad, public institutions
if demanded and its business partners in order to carry out its
activities.
Your
personal data will be shared with these institutions in accordance with the
applicable legislation in order to enable such institutions to perform their
duties and we would like to inform you that such institutions do not have the
right to use these data for any other activity.
5. Method of and Legal Grounds for
Collection of Your Personal Data
Your
personal data are collected through various methods by our Institute in order
to carry out our activities, particularly by means of internal networks, by
partially automated means, as a part of the data recording system, electronically.
Your personal data may be processed or transferred in accordance with the basic
principles, data processing conditions and exceptions under the applicable
legislation, for the purposes specified in this Information Notice, Privacy
Policy, Cookie Policy, Terms of Use and Frequently Asked Questions, in line
with all procedures and rules on the website.
6. Application to the Data Controller
and Your Rights
As
per the Article 11 of the Law and Articles
12 through 23 of GDPR, you are entitled to a) learn whether your personal data
are being processed, b) if they are, request information, c) obtain information
on the purpose of processing and find out whether personal data has been used
as fit for the purpose d) obtain information about the third persons in Turkey
and abroad, to whom personal data are transferred, e) request rectification of
personal data that may have been incompletely or inaccurately processed, f)
request the deletion or destruction of personal data as per the Article 7 of
the Law and the Article 17 of GDPR, g) request notification of the operations
made as per indents (e) and (f) to third parties to whom personal data have
been transferred, h) object to
occurrence of and detrimental result by means of analysis of personal data
exclusively through automated systems, i) request restriction of the processing
of personal data, j) request your personal data in a structured, commonly used
and machine readable format and k) request compensation for the damages due to unlawful
processing of personal data. In addition, you can exercise your right to opt
out from the email list free of charge, by clicking the respective ink in the
email.
Please
fill out the application form
provided in the link with your information and application requests and submit
it to the address Anafartalar Mahallesi
Atatürk Bulvarı No: 11 06050 Çankaya, Ankara Turkey via registered letter
or in person or you can submit your application request by e-mail to
info@tabip.global address.
Our
Institute shall fulfill your request as soon as possible and within thirty days
at the latest and your initial request, depending on the nature of your
request, shall be fulfilled free of charge. However, fees may be charged for
subsequent requests on the same issue or if the initial request requires
performance of a transaction for an additional cost. Our Institute may accept
and process the request or may reject by indicating the reasons in writing.
You
are entitled to file a complaint to the Turkish Board of Personal Data
Protection (“Board”) within thirty
days as of the notification of the reply and in all cases within sixty days if
the application is rejected after carrying out the procedure mentioned above,
the reply is deemed to be insufficient or the requests are not responded in a
timely manner. However, the complaint cannot be filed without exhausting this
application process.
The
Board may conduct the necessary inspections within its field of duty upon
receiving a complaint or ex officio upon detecting a breach. The complaint
shall be examined by the Board and answers shall be provided to those
concerned. If no replies are given within sixty days as of the date of the
complaint, the request shall be deemed to be rejected. If, as a result of
inspections upon receiving a complaint or ex officio investigation, a breach is
detected, the Board shall rule the identified contraventions of law to be
eliminated by the data controller, and shall notify those concerned
accordingly. This decision shall be taken without delay but no later than
within thirty days as of the notification of the decision. The Board is
authorized to halt data processing or international transfer of data if damages
that are hard or impossible to compensate occur and if there is explicit
infringement of the law.
We
would like to emphasize that your data is protected with care by our Institute
and thank you for the trust that you place in us.
