COOKIE AND KVKK POLICY

Cookie Policy and Clarification Text Regarding Cookies

This Cookie Policy and Clarification Text (“Policy”); Due to the principles regarding the use of cookies on the www.medicalinturkiye.com website (“Website”) operated by MEDİCALİNTURKiYE (“MedicalinTürkiye”) and owned by MedicalinTurkiye and the operation of the Website by us as the data controller as MiNT; It includes our statements and explanations regarding the purpose of data processing, data categories, method and legal reason for collecting data, to whom and for what purposes it can be transferred, the duration of data processing and what your rights are regarding your data.

Which Data is Processed by MiNT?

MiNT has the right to process general and special categories of data with the explicit consent of the data subject and without explicit consent in cases stipulated in Articles 5 and 6 of the Law.

In this context, MiNT may process the following types of “personal data” within the site in accordance with the terms and conditions provided in the content of the Clarification Text:

What are the Purposes of Processing Personal Data by MiNT?

The main purposes of using cookies on our Website are listed below:

To improve the Website and to offer new features through the Website and to personalise the features offered according to your preferences;

To ensure the proper functioning of the various features and functions of our website (e.g. keeping you logged in, embedding dynamic content, etc.);

To collect non-personal, general information about how our website is used by our visitors, such as the most clicked links, the most visited pages, the number of error messages displayed, and to make faulty pages operational by analysing this information, to improve our website, to remove or improve non-preferred pages.
To determine how you are aware of the Website,

Creating traffic statistics,
Internet advertising, targeting and re-targeting, cross-selling, campaign, opportunity and product / service advertisements, such as offering opportunities for products and services specific to you, making suggestions considering your preferences.

Cookies are not used for purposes other than those specified in this policy and all related transactions are carried out in accordance with data protection legislation.

What do cookies mean?

Cookies are small text files created by a website on your device and contain data in name-value format. It stores your usage habits and preferences on the browser during the time you use any website. Cookies are used both to save time and to provide a better internet experience. Cookies created by a website are stored by the web browser you use to access the site, and remote access to the information contained in cookies is possible only by websites offered under the domain name that created the cookie (e.g. site.org.tr) and if you use the same browser. 

Cookies have become an important part of web technologies today and their main functions are to remember the visitor and his/her preferences and to recognise the device. Almost every website uses cookies. 

What are the Types of Cookies?

Primary cookies are cookies that are created by the website you are visiting and can only be read by this website. The content offered on the site visited may be provided through domains other than the domain name at the access address (for example, viewing content hosted on a video platform via a social media site); in this case, each domain name may create its own unique third-party cookies.

What are the Types of Cookies According to Their Functions?

Session Cookies: Session cookies are cookies that are valid during your use of the website and remain valid until the web browser is closed.

Permanent Cookies: Persistent cookies are used to remember your preferences on the website and remain on your desktop or mobile device even after you close your browser or restart your computer.

Mandatory Cookies: These are cookies that must be used in order for the website to function properly and for you to benefit from the features of the site and the services offered.

Functional and Analytical Cookies: These are cookies that are used for purposes such as remembering your preferences, using the website effectively, optimising the site to respond to your requests and contain data about how you use the site. Due to their nature, cookies of this type may contain your personal data. For example, cookies that save your preference for the display language of the website are functional cookies.

Tracking Cookies: Tracking cookies are primary and third-party cookies created during your visit to our website and third-party domains. These cookies enable the tracking of your click and visit history on the domains where they are created and the mapping of these records between different domains. Such cookies are used to recognise and profile users, target advertising and marketing activities and customise content. These cookies will not be used to identify you or to make personalised decisions.

Some Cookies Used on Our Site and Explanations

How to Manage Cookies?

Most browsers allow you to view, manage, delete and block cookies on websites. If you clear all cookies, you will lose all the preferences you have set. This includes the ability not to retain cookies, because for this feature to work, your device must have a cookie set for it.

Most browsers allow you to perform the following operations:

• View saved cookies and delete the desired ones
• Block all cookies
• Block cookies from certain sites
• Delete all cookies when you close your browser
• Blocking third-party cookies

Guidelines on how to control cookies in browsers are available below:

• Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome
• Enhanced Tracking Protection in the desktop Firefox version
• Manage cookies and website data in Safari on Mac
• Internet Explorer Delete and manage cookies
• Yandex Cookies
• View and delete browser history in Microsoft Edge

Clarification Text on the Protection of Personal Data

MiNT undertakes to take all necessary technical and administrative measures to ensure that personal data are protected, personal data are not processed unlawfully, personal data are not accessed unlawfully and to prevent data leaks, and to carry out all necessary audits in a timely and complete manner, in accordance with the conditions specified in the Law and this Policy.

Your personal data will be processed by taking all necessary information security measures, provided that they are not used outside the purposes and scope notified to you, and will be stored and processed for the legal retention period or, if no such period is stipulated, for the period required by the purpose of processing. When this period expires, your personal data will be removed from MiNT’s data streams by deletion, destruction or anonymisation methods.

To Which Parties are Personal Data Transferred?

Personal data processed by MiNT limited to the purposes mentioned in this clarification text and in accordance with Articles 5 and 6 of the law;

• To the companies and representatives that we have authorised and that operate on behalf and account of our Company,
• Regulatory and supervisory authorities and public institutions or organisations expressly authorised by law to request personal data,
• Business partnerships, supplier and contractor companies, banks, credit risk and financial institutions and other real or legal persons within the scope of the stated purposes,
• Tax and similar consultants, mandatory persons related to legal follow-up processes, public institutions and organisations and third parties from whom we receive consultancy, including auditors, and without limitation, business partners, third parties from whom services are received, authorised persons and organisations for the above-mentioned purposes.

Your personal data is not transferred abroad by MiNT in any way, and your explicit consent regarding the transfer will be obtained separately if necessary regarding domestic transfer processes.

How Long Personal Data is Stored?

MiNT stores the personal data in question for the period required by the processing purposes specified in this clarification text and taking into account the statute of limitations in the Law and other legislation. In the event that the periods expire, the data in question are deleted or destroyed in accordance with the Law.

What are Your Rights as a Data Subject?

You can always contact MiNT for information on the following issues within the scope of the Law;

• To find out whether your personal data is being processed,
• To learn the purpose of processing and whether it is fit for purpose,
• To know who the persons to whom personal data are transferred are,
• To request correction in case of incomplete or incorrect processing and to request the deletion of personal data if the conditions are met and to request notification of the transaction made within this scope to third parties to whom personal data is transferred,
• To object to the emergence of a result to his/her detriment by analysing the processed data exclusively through automated systems,
• To claim damages in case of loss due to unlawful processing,
• Although personal data has been processed in accordance with the law, to request the deletion or destruction of personal data in the event that the reasons requiring its processing disappear.

You can send your applications for your rights in question by filling out the data application form through a notary public or by other methods determined by the Personal Data Protection Board. Alternatively, you can send your application to kvkk@igeme.com.tr e-mail address with digital signature. 

Your request will be returned as soon as possible and within thirty (30) days at the latest in accordance with the law. However, if the transaction requires an additional cost, MiNT reserves the right to charge a fee in accordance with the Law over the tariff determined by the Personal Data Protection Board.

Personal Data Protection Law

Pursuant to the Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (“KVKK”), your personal data will be processed by our Company, as the Data Controller, depending on the business purposes, by using, recording, storing, storing, updating, transferring and / or classifying within the framework described below.  In this context, in accordance with the Laws and Regulations regulated by our Company to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals, especially the privacy of private life, and to protect personal data, our Company takes all technical and administrative measures to ensure the appropriate level of security in order to prevent unlawful processing of your personal data, to prevent unlawful access and to ensure its preservation.

The target audience of this text is all real persons whose personal data are processed by our Company, except for the employees of our Company or employee candidates who have applied for a job to our Company.

The personal data processed in the capacity of data controller include, but are not limited to, the following;

• First and last name,
• Turkish ID number,
• Address,
• Telephone number,
• Email address,
• Signature,
• Physical space/security video recording,
• Call centre/service quality audio recording,
• Bank account number,
• Cookie logs

Purposes and Legal Reasons for Processing Personal Data

Your personal data shared by you:

• To enable you and/or the institutions and organisations you represent to benefit from the products and services offered by our Company,
• Carrying out the necessary work, including but not limited to determining and implementing the commercial and business strategies of our Company, carrying out marketing activities, carrying out business development and planning activities,
• Carrying out administrative operations for communication carried out by our company,
• Ensuring the physical security and supervision of our company’s locations in use,
• Establishing business partner/customer/supplier (authorised or employees) relationships,
• Ensuring the contractual requirements and financial reconciliation regarding the products and services offered together with our business partners, suppliers or other third parties,
• Execution of our company’s human resources policies,
• Calling our company’s call centre or using the website,
• It will be processed in order to participate in trainings, seminars or organisations organised by our Company.

Method of Collection and Storage of Personal Data

Your personal data that you share with our Company may be collected verbally, in writing or electronically by automatic or non-automatic methods, offices, branches, call centre, website, social media channels, mobile applications and similar means. Your personal data will be stored in electronic and/or physical environments. In order to ensure that your personal data provided and stored by our Company are not subject to unauthorised access, manipulation, loss and damage in the environments where they are stored, the design of the necessary business processes and technical security infrastructure developments are implemented.

Your personal data will be processed by taking all necessary information security measures, provided that they are not used outside the purposes and scope notified to you, and will be stored and processed during the legal retention period or, if no such period is stipulated, for the period required by the purpose of processing. When this period expires, your personal data will be removed from our Company’s data flows by deletion, destruction or anonymisation methods.

Transfer of Personal Data

Your personal data, within the scope of the Laws and other legislation and for the purposes described:

• MiNT,
• The companies we have authorised, operating on behalf and account of our Company, our representatives,
• Regulatory and supervisory authorities, public institutions or organisations that are expressly authorised to request your personal data in the laws to which they are subject,
• Business partnerships, supplier and contractor companies, banks, credit risk and financial institutions and other real or legal persons within the scope of the stated purposes,
• It may be transferred to tax and similar consultants, mandatory persons, institutions and organisations related to legal follow-up processes, institutions and organisations and third parties from whom we receive consultancy, including auditors, and, without limitation, business partners, third parties from whom services are received, authorised persons and organisations for the above-mentioned purposes, domestically and abroad.

By applying to our company within the framework of Article 11 of the KVKK, your personal data

• Learning whether it is processed or not,
• Do not request information if it has been processed,
• To learn the purpose of processing and whether it is used in accordance with its purpose,
• Knowing the third parties to whom it is transferred domestically / abroad,
• Request correction if incomplete / incorrectly processed,

By applying to our company within the framework of the conditions stipulated in Article 7 of the KVKK, your personal data:

• Do not ask to be deleted/destroyed,
• To request notification of the transactions made in accordance with subparagraphs (e) and (f) above to the third parties to whom it is transferred,
• Object to the occurrence of a result that is to your detriment as a result of being analysed exclusively by automated systems,
• You have the right to demand compensation for the damage in case you suffer damage due to unlawful processing.

Pursuant to paragraph 1 of Article 13 of the KVKK, you can submit your request to exercise your rights mentioned above to our Company in writing or by other methods determined by the Personal Data Protection Board.

In order to exercise your rights mentioned above, you can deliver your petition with the necessary information identifying your identity in person, send it through a notary public or other methods determined by the Personal Data Protection Board, or send it to kvkk@igeme.com.tr with a secure electronic signature.