PRIVACY POLICY
It is important for us to protect the data you share with us during your visits to the website www.dhapress.com of Demirören Ajansı A.Ş. ("DHA") as a visitor or user/customer. For this reason, we have prepared this Privacy Policy for you.
DHA may record your non-private personal data such as name, surname, date of birth, date of birth, address, telephone number, IP number, e-mail address, e-mail address on the website www.dhapress.com if you become a member in order to provide better services and products to our customers, to get to know you and to communicate better. When you use our website as a visitor, your IP address, your location is logged along with the date and time you log in to the site. This information is used to analyze your use of portals, to analyze the needs of our users and is not shared with third parties. The IP information of our website visitors is not used to identify them, but we can analyze this data.
Other confidential information, including your personal data, is not transferred to or shared with third parties outside the purpose and scope specified by this Policy.
1. Your Personal Data You Share with Us
When using our website, you share your personal data with us both as a visitor and as a member when you become a member.
1.1. Your personal data that you provide to us
You share information such as, but not limited to, your name, surname, mobile phone numbers, e-mail address with DHA when you become a member, when you contact customer service or when you benefit from any of our products or services.
1.2. Your personal data that we collect automatically
Our products and services you use, our advertisements, your frequency of interaction with us, information and data about the devices you use, your frequency of using our products and services, your transaction history, category preferences, product preferences, the content of your communications with our customer service, time, conversation records, data such as the number information or date of the calling phone; We collect data such as browser and log information collected through cookies automatically through the cookies in Article 6 of this Policy or with the help of our other programs and software or automatically. For more detailed information on cookies, please see Article 6 of this Policy.
2. Our Purposes for Using Your Personal Data
Sharing your personal information with us allows us to provide you with a range of opportunities. Sharing your information will enable us to provide you with products and services as required and to conduct market research to develop better products, provide more responsive service to our customers and improve our websites and mobile applications. The data you share with us or that we automatically collect from you includes, but is not limited to, the following;
• To communicate with you about our products and services and within the scope of our products and services (instant message, e-mail, other online and offline message channels (push notifications), to inform you about our campaigns, to offer you options in line with your preferences and tastes, to conduct customer satisfaction surveys and to deliver these surveys to you, to provide technical support to you in case you encounter technical infrastructure problems, to share with you current developments and product suggestions about the products you follow;
• To develop and improve our products and services by analyzing audience and customer experience, and to increase content and product diversity;
• Taking technical and legal measures regarding our products and services (e.g. preventing the sharing of unlawful content);
• To provide you with content or content-related advertising and services according to the region or country you are in by determining the geolocation, and to produce quick responses and solutions to your needs,
• We use it for marketing and personalizing our products to make it easier for you to place orders and make payments.
2.1. The data you share with us as a member of our website or digital platforms
You can become a member of our website by filling out the form. Your membership starts as soon as you accept the membership agreement and terms of use. Apart from membership, you can choose to share your information with us in various online ways by ordering a product, participating in surveys to measure and determine user experience, recording a purchase, participating in a promotion or subscribing to an electronic newsletter. You may also share your personal information with us by sending us a customer satisfaction survey sent to you with your purchase or by contacting one of our customer service representatives by e-mail, telephone or letter. Sometimes we may also obtain your personal information from third parties outside the DHA. We may use or process your personal information collected by one of our Demirören Group companies in the event of the acquisition of a company of which you are a customer or in cases where you have given your explicit consent to the transfer of your personal data between our Demirören Group companies.
If you do not want us to use your personal information that you have not provided personally, you can contact us at .................@............... and let us know. In this case, there may be problems with the activation of your membership and you may not be able to benefit from the advantages you have or will receive as a member.
2.2. The data you share with us as a visitor on our website
If you visit our website without being a member, we may collect information about your behavior in the digital environment (such as the number of clicks, frequency of opening tabs or topics of interest), your IP address, the device you use. We may collect this information only for analysis and statistical purposes without enabling the identification of individuals.
3. Data Sharing
Your personal information may be transferred to DHA, Demirören Group Companies and the real or legal persons with whom they cooperate, limited to the provision of products and services, and you may be contacted about our special product options or opportunities. If you do not want personalized opportunities or information to be sent to you, you can inform us about this by checking the relevant box on the registration form or response card.
As DHA, we may use your personal information for the purposes of determining customer profiles and conducting statistical studies and may share it with real or legal persons with whom we cooperate only for the purpose of conducting these studies. We collect information and data about your frequency or pattern of use of our website through Cookies. You can terminate this information sharing by changing the settings of your internet browser at any time. For more detailed information, please see Article 6 of this Policy.
3.1. Sharing personal data with cooperating natural or legal persons
As DHA, we may sell a product or provide a service to you in partnership with legal or natural persons with whom we cooperate. In such cases, you will be informed in advance that such a partnership exists and who our partner is before you register with DHA via application form, card, etc.
As DHA, we do not sell or share your personal information with other third parties in a way that allows them to use it for their own purposes. As DHA, we do not share the financial information (such as credit card information) you provide with others, except for, but not limited to, the cases stipulated by the legislation, order transactions, invoice transactions, or where necessary for the purposes of preventing or combating fraud.
4. Links Provided by Our Website to 3rd party Websites
We may provide links to 3rd party websites and portals on our website. However, we have no responsibility for the implementation of the privacy policies on these sites or subject to third parties. The privacy policies within the scope of websites or mobile applications belonging to persons other than DHA may differ from this Policy.
5. Protecting the Confidentiality of Information You Share with Us
We recognize our responsibility to protect the information you entrust to us. We take measures to keep the personal data you share with us confidential, to keep them as trade secrets and to prevent the disclosure of your data to unauthorized third parties or to the public in order to maintain the confidentiality of confidential information.
5.1. Security
As DHA, we take the widest and most appropriate preventive security measures by analyzing the current information and data values and risk situation with our information security policies in order to protect your information, including your personal data, in the light of current technological developments, including secure databases, servers, firewalls (security software) and encryption of electronic mail information. Despite our security measures, we are not responsible for damage, change, copying of data, etc. as a result of cyber attacks on the websites or systems of DHA or real or legal persons we cooperate with. However, we may use backup, archiving and appropriate storage methods to recover the data.
6. Cookies
Cookies within the scope of this Policy apply to the websites operated by DHA, third party programs or platforms accessed and used through websites.
Cookies are small data particles placed on devices (computers, phones, tablets) in order for a website to function properly, to improve user experience, to develop and optimize the site, to provide more relevant, interest-based advertising, to provide an interesting and personalized website/application and advertising portfolio for visitors.
Cookies can appear in different types according to different classification types. So-called session cookies are temporary cookies that are kept on your device until you leave the website. Persistent cookies are cookies that remain on your device's hard disk for long periods of time.
Mandatory cookies enable the website to function properly and enable users to navigate the website and utilize its features. Mandatory cookies are anonymous.
Functional and analytical cookies contain data about remembering your preferences, using the website effectively, optimizing the site to respond to user requests and how visitors use the site. Due to their nature, these types of cookies may contain your personal information such as username etc.
Commercial cookies, on the other hand, serve to increase your usage experience by offering products/content similar to the ones you target in line with your interests and preferences and by offering a more advanced, personalized advertising portfolio.
The above-mentioned session, persistent, functional and analytical and commercial cookies are kept in the background for approximately 2 (two) months and the necessary adjustments can be made in the individual internet browser settings. Removal from these settings may vary depending on the internet browser.
As DHA, we work with third-party, reliable and well-known advertisement providers for our websites/mobile websites. Third party service providers place their own cookies in order to provide you with customized advertisements. Cookies placed by the third party collect, process and analyze the browsing information of our visitors on the websites and how they use them.
By using DHA websites / mobile websites, you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with the scope of this Policy. If you do not want to accept our Cookie applications on your electronic device, you can reject the Cookie application. If you reject cookies, our website or mobile applications may not function properly or may cause disruptions during the provision of the services you have requested.
As a rule, we do not collect data through cookies from persons under the age of 18. In such a case, we are not liable for any legal disputes that may arise.
Information about the use of cookies is provided with a pop-up window on the first visit to DHA websites/mobile websites. When you close this window, you are deemed to have accepted.
You can clear the stored cookie data until you disable cookies. The location of these settings depends on the browser you are using. You can locate the relevant settings using the "Help" function in your browser.
We may make changes within the scope of cookie applications without notifying our users or website visitors.
7. The Children
We do not intentionally process the data of persons under 18 years of age. As DHA, all of our departments, including the natural and legal persons we cooperate with, are aware of the sensitivity of your children's personal data and we take the utmost care to protect this data. Sharing your child's personal data with us is the responsibility of the parent or legal representative. You can contact us at ....@dha.com.tr for your child's personal data, including personal data shared without parental consent.
We recommend that parents take an active role in supervising their children's online activities.
8. Amendments to our Privacy Policy
We publish our Privacy Policy at www.dhapress.com for easy access and information of our customers. We may unilaterally change our other policies, including this Privacy Policy, without prior notice to our users, members or visitors.
Our policy enters into force as of the date it is published on www.dhapress.com.