Last Modified: 01.01.2020

The following describes the 32bit, Inc. (“32bit” the “Company”, “we,” “us,” or “our”) privacy policy and the manner in which 32bit collects, uses, shares and secures the personal information that it collects or receives via its website www.32bit.com.tr, any sub-domain, other 32bit website and mobile applications (collectively, the “Sites”), or through your use of the services we provide to you. It also describes your choices regarding use, access and correction of your personal information. In this context, we attribute great importance to processing and preserving any personal data belonging to all persons affiliated with the Company, including our customers benefiting from our products and services, in accordance with KVKK (Law on the Protection of Personal Data) number 6698. 

What is Personal Information?

As used in this policy, “personal information” means any information that may be used, either alone or in combination with other information, to identify an individual. When we combine any non-personal information with personal information (e.g., technical information, such as the type of browser or operating system that you use), we treat the combined information as personal information.

1. Collecting and Processing Personal Data 

Depending on the products, services or business operations provided by our Company, your personal data can be collected verbally, in written or electronically via automatic or non-automatic tools through offices, branch offices, dealers, call centers, websites, social media channels, 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. In addition, 32bit may collect certain personal information when you voluntarily send a direct mail inquiry, an email or online registration, register to download documents from the Sites, participate in seminars or webinars, request Company information at tradeshows, apply for a job via the Sites or request information.

The collected personal data will be processed in accordance with the articles 5 and 6 of KVKK (Law on the Protection of Personal Data) regulating data processing conditions and purposes with a view to: ensuring that our business units carry out the necessary works for you to benefit from our products and services; providing customized products and services according to your discretion, usage habits and needs; assuring legal and commercial security of our Company as well as of the persons in business relationship with our Company (administrative operations relating to communications within the Company, ensuring physical security and supervision at the Company premises, assessment processes for business partners/customers /suppliers – authorized officials or employees- as well as legal compliance process and financial affairs, etc.); determining and implementing commercial and business strategies of our Company; and finally, executing the Human Resources policies of 32bit.

2. Transferring of Personal Data

The collected personal data may be transferred to our business partners, suppliers, public institutions and private persons authorized by law in accordance with the articles 8 and 9 of KVKK (Law on the Protection of Personal Data) regulating data processing conditions and purposes with a view to: ensuring that our business units carry out the necessary works for you to benefit from our products and services; providing customized products and services according to your discretion, usage habits and needs; assuring legal and commercial security of our Company as well as of the persons in business relationship with our Company (administrative operations relating to communications within the Company, ensuring physical security and supervision at the Company premises, assessment processes for business partners/customers /suppliers – authorized officials or employees- as well as legal compliance process and financial affairs, etc.); determining and implementing commercial and business strategies of our Company; and finally, executing the Human Resources policies of 32bit.

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 KVKK (Law on the Protection of Personal Data).

4. Personal Data Holder’s Rights Stated in the Article 11 of KVKK

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. Yet in case the Personal Data Protection Board imposes a price, a payment will be collected as per the tariff determined by our Company. 

Within this scope, personal data holders are entitled:

• To learn whether their personal data is processed or not,

• 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 KVKK (Law on the Protection of Personal Data) 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 KVKK (Law on the Protection of Personal Data), 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. You may submit your application to our Company via e-mail as defined by the Article 11 of KVKK (Law on the Protection of Personal Data) 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 KVKK (Law on the Protection of Personal Data) with safe electronic signature to kvkk@32bit.com.tr.

32bit reserves the right to change the terms and conditions in this document at any time without prior notice.

This  policy  is written and published as of 01.01.2020 and 32bit shall not be liable for not updating this document if any change in KVKK (Law on the Protection of Personal Data) is made after this date.