Privacy notice

Prepared under art. 10 of the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (KVKK). The Turkish version is the reference text.

Draft: this page is awaiting review by a lawyer and is not yet published.

Data controller

TODO: OPEN — name or title of the data controller, address and contact details.

What this site processes

  • When you visit: the site sets no cookies, keeps no visitor statistics and loads nothing from third parties. The hosting provider may keep server logs (IP address, date and time, page requested, browser details) to run the service securely.
  • When you contact the practice: the name, contact details, message and any documents you send by e-mail, phone or WhatsApp.
  • Calculators: what you enter is processed only in your browser; it is not sent to the practice or stored.
  • Your language choice: if you click the language switch, the choice is stored only in your own browser and is never sent to the practice. See cookies and storage.
  • Replying to you, checking for conflicts of interest and, if you instruct the practice, providing legal services: necessary to enter into or perform a contract (KVKK art. 5/2-c).
  • Meeting obligations under the law governing lawyers and other legislation: legal obligation (art. 5/2-ç).
  • Establishing, exercising or defending a right (art. 5/2-e).
  • Keeping the site secure: legitimate interest (art. 5/2-f).

Please do not send special-category data, such as health information or criminal records, until it has been agreed how documents will be exchanged; such data is processed only under the conditions of KVKK art. 6.

Who receives it

TODO: OPEN — hosting provider, e-mail provider and, if used, WhatsApp; where a provider is outside Türkiye, the transfer basis under KVKK art. 9.

Data may be shared with courts, notaries and competent authorities to the extent the legal service requires and the law permits.

How long it is kept

TODO: OPEN — retention period for each category (server logs, enquiries that do not lead to an engagement, client files).

Your rights

Under KVKK art. 11 you may ask whether your data is processed and request information about it; learn the purpose and whether it is used accordingly; know the third parties it is transferred to; ask for correction, and for deletion or destruction under the conditions of art. 7, and for those steps to be notified to recipients; object to an adverse result produced solely by automated analysis; and claim compensation for damage caused by unlawful processing. Write to the contact details above; requests are answered within thirty days (art. 13).

If you live in the UK, UK GDPR may also apply, and you may complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Getting in touch

Write or call in English or Turkish with a short account of what happened and the dates that matter. You will be told whether this practice can take the matter on.

Contact details