Privacy Policy

Privacy and Personal Data Protection Policy

This policy is published to protect the privacy of Users using the selmeraglobal.com.tr domain Website operated by Selma Karabacak Cömert (Selmera Global) (or simply “Selmera Global”). Accordingly, this Privacy and Personal Data Protection Policy (“Policy”) has been prepared to process users’ personal data in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“LPPD Law”) and to inform users. Cookie policy is an integral part of this Policy.

The purpose of this Policy is to determine the terms and conditions regarding the use of personal data shared with Selmera Global by the Website members/visitors/users (collectively referred to as “User”) or generated by Selmera Global during the operation of the Website named selmeraglobal.com.tr, which is operated by Selmera Global.

1. Personal Data Processed:

Below is a list of the data processed by Selmera Global that are considered personal data under the Law. Unless otherwise stated, the term “personal data” within the scope of the terms and conditions presented in this Policy shall include the information below.

• Identity Information

• Contact Information

• User Information

• User Transaction Information

• Transaction Security Information

• Financial Information

• Marketing Information

• Request/Complaint Management Information

Data that is rendered irreversibly anonymous in accordance with Articles 3 and 7 of the Personal Data Protection Law will not be considered as personal data in accordance with the provisions of the said law, and processing activities related to this data will be carried out without being bound by the provisions of this Policy.

2. Purposes of Processing Personal Data:

Selmera Global may process the personal data provided by the User for the purposes of creating membership registration and account and keeping records related to this, ensuring that the User benefits from the services provided through the Website, detecting system errors and monitoring performance, improving the operation of the Website, providing maintenance and support services and backup services, including carrying out the necessary work by the business units to enable the relevant persons to benefit from the products and services offered by Selmera Global and carrying out the relevant business processes, planning and executing the activities required to customize these products and services according to the tastes, usage habits and needs of the relevant persons and to recommend and introduce them to the relevant persons, carrying out the necessary work by the relevant business units to carry out the commercial activities carried out by Selmera Global and carrying out the related business processes, ensuring the legal, technical and commercial-occupational security of Selmera Global and the persons with whom it has a business relationship, and planning and executing the commercial and/or business strategies of Selmera Global.
Within the scope of the explicit consent of the User, Selmera Global may process data and share this data with the parties mentioned below for the purposes of increasing the user experience by tracking the movements of the Data Owners on the Website, creating statistics, profiling, direct marketing and remarketing, creating and communicating promotional offers specific to the User and using the data obtained within this scope in all kinds of advertising and material content.

3. Transfer of Personal Data:

Selmera Global may transfer the User's personal data and the new data obtained using this personal data to third parties from whom Selmera Global benefits in order to achieve the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy, limited to the provision of such services. Selmera Global may share the User's personal data with third parties such as outsourcing service providers, hosting service providers, law firms, research companies, call centers, including those sending SMS messages, in order to improve the User experience (including improvement and personalization), ensure the security of the User, detect fraudulent or unauthorized use, conduct operational evaluation research, eliminate errors related to the Website services, and to achieve any of the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy.
Personal data may be shared with Selmera Global and Company officials, shareholders, our business partners, suppliers, 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, and may be transferred abroad within the framework of the procedures and principles specified in Article 9 of the Law and the decisions of the Personal Data Protection Board, limited to these purposes.

4. Method and Legal Reason for Collection of Personal Data:

Personal data is collected via the Website and electronically. Personal data collected for the legal reasons stated above may be processed and transferred for the purposes specified in Articles 5 and 6 of Law No. 6698 and this Privacy Policy.

5. Personal User's Rights:

Pursuant to Article 11 of the Law, data owners,

• To learn whether their personal data has been processed, and to request information about their personal data if it 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 is transferred, either domestically or abroad,

• Request correction of personal data if it is processed incompletely or incorrectly and request notification of the action taken to third parties to whom personal data is transferred,

• Requesting the deletion or destruction of personal data in case the reasons requiring processing are eliminated, even though it has been processed in accordance with the Law and other relevant legal provisions, and requesting that the action taken within this scope be notified to third parties to whom personal data has been transferred,

• The person has the right to object to a result that is to his/her detriment as a result of the analysis of the processed data exclusively through automatic systems and to demand compensation in case of damages incurred due to the unlawful processing of personal data.

Requests regarding the use of such rights may be submitted by personal data owners using the methods specified in the Policy on the Processing and Protection of Personal Data prepared by Selmera Global within the Scope of Law No. 6698, which is available at selmeraglobal.com.tr. Selmera Global will finalize such requests within thirty days. Selmera Global reserves the right to charge a fee based on the fee schedule determined by the Personal Data Protection Board (if any) for such requests.