Mahmutlar Mah. Mahmutlar Ataturk Cad. Vivamus 2 No: 103 C Alanya / Antalya, Turkiye as Matesbridge Sosyal Medya Hizmeti A.S ("Company"); In accordance with the Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data ("KVKK"), a number of basic principles have been adopted in order to protect the confidentiality of all personal data belonging to our users ("User") as data controller and with our sensitive corporate policies regarding the protection of personal data. In accordance with Article 10 of the KVKK and our basic principles, this Information Notice on the Processing of Personal Data ("Information Notice") has been prepared in order to inform you about the processing and transfer of your personal data under our responsibility, the purpose, scope, anonymization or deletion of these transactions, periods and other issues in accordance with the Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data.
Pursuant to KVKK, any information belonging to you will be considered as personal data. Accordingly, your identity information, contact information, location information, biometric data and any information belonging to you, including but not limited to your identity information, contact information, location information, biometric data and all kinds of information, as stated above, will be considered as personal data during the period you are a User within the scope of the Company's social media application and www.matesbridge.com website ("Application").
We hereby inform you that your personal data will be recorded, stored, preserved, stored, reorganized for legal purposes, shared with the institutions authorized to request your personal data in accordance with the legislation, transferred to third parties under the conditions determined by the KVKK, processed, transferred, transferred, classified and processed in other ways listed in the KVKK, including but not limited to, within the framework of the purpose requiring their processing and in a limited and measured manner in connection with this purpose, by maintaining the accurate and up-to-date state of your personal data.
As the Company, your personal data and their contents, which may be subject to processing, transferring, storing, reorganizing, sharing and not limited to those in this table, are listed in a table as an example.
| Personal Data | Content |
|---|---|
| Identity Information | Name details, date of Birth, ID number etc. |
| Contact Information | Address, cell and landline, e-mail address, etc. |
| Finance Information | Credit/debit card, IBAN, other financial information |
| Location Information | Information about your location |
| Biometric Information | Information on the identity card |
1. Purposes of Processing Your Personal Data
As the data controller, we may collect and process your personal data for the following purposes and legal grounds.
- Enabling the User to benefit from the Application,
- Carrying out necessary operations by relevant departments to provide services offered by the Company,
- Planning and managing access authorizations of business partners and/or suppliers and overseeing these relationships,
- Performing operations necessary for the provision and enhancement of the services subject to the Application,
- Determining and implementing the Company's commercial and business strategies, including reporting and business development activities,
- Offering personalized recommendations to the User based on their individual preferences and interests, and carrying out related activities,
- Activating user-specific customizations upon the User's request and delivering personalized services accordingly,
- Improving the Company's services, introducing new services, and informing the User accordingly as part of efforts to build and/or enhance loyalty to the Company's products and/or services,
- Executing activities aimed at enhancing user experience (e.g., developing communication processes, conducting satisfaction surveys) and handling User requests and/or complaints,
- Planning and executing market research activities for the sales and marketing of services offered by the Company,
- Performing operations necessary for the Company's internal departments to execute relevant activities and managing related business processes,
- Planning and executing promotional, recommendation, and marketing activities to deliver the Company's services to relevant individuals,
- Managing and executing development activities related to the artificial intelligence used within the Application.
In order to provide the User with relevant content, activity, and user recommendations based on their location, activity preferences, and in-app interaction history, limited profile and location data is processed. This data is used exclusively for the functioning of matching, recommendation, and visibility algorithms within the Matesbridge application, and is not shared with third parties for commercial purposes.
2. Method of Collection and Legal Basis of Processing Your Personal Data
Your personal data is collected through the Application or through third parties based on the personal data processing conditions specified in Articles 5 and 6 of the Law in the electronic environment in line with the above-mentioned Purposes.
3. Sharing Your Personal Data with Third Parties
Your personal data collected may be transferred, within the scope of fulfilling the Purposes, to our business partners and suppliers located within the country or abroad, as well as to legally authorized public institutions and private individuals, in accordance with the personal data processing conditions and purposes specified in Articles 8 and 9 of the Law.
The Company also reserves the right to transfer personal data, limited to the fulfillment of the aforementioned Purposes and for the performance of services, to servers located anywhere in the world outside the User's country of residence (these servers may be owned by the Company itself, its affiliates, subcontractors, or external service providers).
4. Storage, Deletion, Destruction and Disposal of Personal Data
The Company will retain and store your personal data for the above-mentioned purposes for the period specified in the relevant legislation, in any case until the statutory statute of limitations. In this case, the personal data stored in this case is not accessed for any other purpose and access to the relevant personal data is provided only when it is required to be used in the relevant legal dispute. After the aforementioned period expires, personal data are deleted, destroyed or anonymized ex officio.
Although your personal data has been processed in accordance with the provisions of the relevant law as regulated in Article 138 of the Turkish Penal Code and Article 7 of the Personal Data Protection Law, in the event that the reasons requiring its processing disappear and the aforementioned periods expire, it will be deleted, destroyed or anonymized under the conditions determined by the Regulation on Deletion, Destruction or Anonymization of Personal Data published in the Official Gazette dated 28.10.2017 and numbered 30224 ex officio or upon your request; in accordance with the Company principles and KVKK legislation.
If all of the conditions for processing and transferring personal data have disappeared and the personal data subject to the request have been transferred to third parties, in other words, when there is a change in the processing or transfer of your personal data, the data controller notifies this situation to the third party to whom your personal data has been transferred and the necessary legal measures are taken by the Company for the third party to take the necessary actions such as deleting, destroying or anonymizing your personal data transferred to it.
As a matter of fact, the Company undertakes not to process your personal data unlawfully, to take the necessary technical and administrative measures to ensure the appropriate level of security in order to ensure that your personal data is not unlawfully accessed and to ensure the protection of your personal data and to carry out the necessary audits under the conditions specified in the legislation or stated in this Information Notice.
5. Rights of the Data Subject Under Article 11 of the Law
As data subjects, you may submit your requests regarding your rights to the Company, and your request will be finalized free of charge as soon as possible and no later than thirty (30) days, depending on the nature of the request. However, if the process incurs an additional cost, a fee may be charged in accordance with the tariff determined by the Personal Data Protection Board. Within this scope, you have the right to:
- Learn whether your personal data is being processed,
- Request information regarding the processing of your personal data,
- Learn the purpose of the processing and whether your data is being used for its intended purpose,
- Know the third parties to whom your personal data is transferred, whether domestically or abroad,
- Request the correction of your personal data if it has been incompletely or inaccurately processed, and request that such corrections be communicated to third parties to whom the data has been transferred,
- Request the deletion or destruction of your personal data if the reasons for its processing no longer exist, even if it has been processed in accordance with the Law and other relevant legal provisions, and request that such deletion or destruction be notified to third parties to whom the data has been transferred,
- Object to any outcome to your detriment that arises as a result of the exclusive analysis of your personal data by automated systems,
- Request compensation for damages incurred due to the unlawful processing of your personal data.
You may submit your applications regarding the rights listed above in writing to the address Mahmutlar Mah. Mahmutlar Ataturk Cad. Vivamus 2 No:103 C Alanya / Antalya, Turkiye, or by using other methods prescribed by the applicable legislation or the Personal Data Protection Board. Depending on the nature of your request, your application will be finalized free of charge as soon as possible and no later than thirty (30) days; however, if the process requires additional cost, a fee may be charged in accordance with the tariff set by the Personal Data Protection Board.