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.