Nikel ARGE Ltd Şti. (Company), show ultimate sensitivity about the security of personal data. In this context, we attribute great importance to processing and preserving any personal data belonging to all persons or scientific research affiliated with the Company, including our customers benefiting from our products and services, in accordance with the Law on the Protection of Personal Data (LPPD) number 6698 which is aligned with GDPR and the EU‘s application of the GDPR. With full comprehension of this responsibility, we process the personal data within the limits imposed by the legislation of GDPR and LPPD as explained below:

1. Collecting and Processing Personal Data and Purposes for Processing

   Depending on the products, services or research activities provided by our Company, your personal data can be collected verbally, in written or electronically via automatic or non-automatic tools through offices, websites, mobile applications and etc. Your personal data will be collected, processed and updated, as long as you keep benefiting our Company‘s products and services. The collected personal data will be processed in accordance with the articles 5 and 6 of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data (LPPD) regulating data processing conditions.

2. How the Personal Data can be Transferred?

   The collected data will not be transferred to any third-party organization. However, the data which is collected in scope of a scientific research may be transferred to the parties who is taking part on the research officially and authorized by law in accordance with the articles 8 and 9 of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data (LPPD).

3. Methods and Legal Reason for Collecting Personal Data

   Your personal data is collected verbally, in written or electronically so that our Company can provide its products and services within the legal framework for the above stated purposes while completely and properly fulfilling its responsibilities incurring from the relevant contract and law. Your personal data that is collected for this legal reason can be processed and transferred with purposes stated in the articles (1) and (2) of this text within the scope of the personal data processing conditions and purposes determined in the articles 5 and 6 of the LPPD.

4. Rights of the Personal Data Holder Stated in the Article 11 of the LPPD

   Provided that the personal data holders submit to our Company their claims relating to their rights by the below-stated means in this Informative Text, our Company will finalize the claim within thirty days at the latest free of charge, depending on the quality of the claim. Within this scope, personal data holders are entitled:

   • To learn whether their personal data is processed,
   • To demand information in case their data is processed,
   • To learn the purpose for processing the data and whether it is used for that purpose,
   • To know about the third persons receiving the relevant personal data at home or in foreign countries,
   • To claim correction of the personal data, in case it is incompletely or incorrectly processed, and within this scope, to request notification to the third persons to whom the personal data is transferred,
   • To demand deletion or disposal of personal data and notify the third persons that have received the data of such an act, in case the reasons for processing the personal data disappear, despite the relevant data has been processed in compliance with the provisions of the LPPD and other relevant regulations,
   • To object to the results of processed data analyses made exclusively by electronic systems, if they are to the detriment of the personal data holders,
   • To claim compensation for the damages, in case any damage occurs due to processing of personal data in defiance of the law.

   As per the 1st paragraph of the Article 13 of the LPPD, you may submit your claims to our Company in written or by other means determined by the Personal Data Protection Board in order to use your rights stated above. As the Board has not determined any means of communication yet, you need to submit your application to our Company in written as required by the LPPD. Within this framework, the channels and methods to deliver your applications in written as defined by the Article 11 of the LPPD are explicated below: In order to use your above-mentioned rights, please send your application including your credentials as well as explanations for the right you claim to use from among those stated in the Article 11 of LPPD by sending the relevant claim with safe electronic signature to info@nikelarge.com