Privacy Policy

1. Purpose of the Clarification Text and the Position of Data Controller of our Company

Our Company sutore Elektronik Hizmetler ve Ticaret Anonim Şirketi (“Company” and/or “sutore”) has the title of “data controller” within the scope of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data No. 6698 (“Law”) in terms of personal data related to customers and this Clarification and Consent Text aims to enlighten customers about the personal data processing activities carried out by sutore in accordance with the said Law and to provide their explicit consent.

2. For What Purpose the Personal Data Will Be Processed, To Whom and For What Purpose It Can Be Transferred 

The personal data collected are used to contact the users in accordance with the law and the purpose of the KVK Law or to improve the experience of the users on the website operated by sutore from the sutore.com address (“Site”), to make various statistical evaluations, to create a database and to conduct market researches, to make statistical evaluations provided that they are anonymized in advance, to use them in marketing campaigns of sutore and its business partners, to use commercial electronic messages may be transferred to our business partners, suppliers, consultants, Company officials, shareholders, legally authorized public institutions and private persons, limited to the purposes of sending. If the processing activity carried out for the purposes does not meet any of the conditions stipulated under the Law, your explicit consent is obtained by the Company for the relevant processing activity.
sutore will also be able to share all kinds of information belonging to users with third parties in the presence of the following conditions:

– The relevant disclosure is mandatory for the fulfillment of the obligations under the legal and/or Site Terms of Use or the Distance Sales Agreement concluded with the relevant user,

– Requesting information about the members for the purpose of investigating or investigation duly carried out by an authorized administrative or judicial institution in accordance with the law,

– The provision of information is necessary to protect the rights of the user or to ensure their safety.

3. Method of Collection of Personal Data and Legal Reason

Your personal data is collected by our Company for legal reasons such as providing you with our commercial services and carrying out our commercial activities with technical and procedural methods carried out in different channels such as website, mobile applications, call center and physical channels, fulfilling the requirements of the commercial relationship and exercising the rights mutually owned in this direction.

4. Rights of the Personal Data Owner

In accordance with the Law, data owners have the following rights: (i) to learn whether personal data related to them has been processed, (ii) to request information if their personal data has been processed, (iii) to learn the purpose of processing personal data and whether they are used in accordance with their purpose, (iv) to know the third parties to whom personal data are transferred at home or abroad, (v) to request the correction of personal data if it is incomplete or incorrectly processed and to request that the transaction carried out within this scope be notified to the third parties to whom the personal data has been transferred, (vi) to request the deletion or destruction of the personal data in the event that the reasons requiring the processing disappear despite the fact that it has been processed in accordance with the provisions of the Law and other relevant laws, and to request that the transaction carried out within this scope be notified to the third parties to whom the personal data has been transferred, (vii) object to the occurrence of a result against the person himself by analyzing the processed data exclusively by means of automated systems and (viii) request the compensation of the damage in case of damage due to unlawful processing of personal data.

Requests for the use of these rights may be submitted by the personal data owners together with the necessary information to identify them and the explanations for the right they want to use, by sending them to the electronic mail address ([email protected]) registered by our Company in “writing” in accordance with the KVK Law and the Communiqué on the Procedures and Principles of Application to the Data Controller. Our Company will evaluate these requests and conclude them within 30 (thirty) days. Our Company reserves the right to charge a fee over the fee schedule determined by the Personal Data Protection Board (if any) in relation to the requests.

5. Cookies

sutore may obtain information about users’ use of the Site through cookies, which are a technical communication file. The technical communication files are small text files that are sent to the browser of a website, member or visitor to be stored in the main memory. The technical communication file facilitates the use of the internet in this sense by storing the status and preference settings about a website. The technical communication file is designed and used to obtain statistical information about how many people use the Site in a temporal proportion, for what purpose, how many times a person visits the Site and how long he stays, and to help dynamically produce advertising and content from user pages specially designed for users. The technical communication file is not designed to retrieve any personal information other than the main memory. Most browsers are initially designed to accept the technical communication file, but users can always change their browser settings so that the technical communication file does not arrive or that the technical communication file is warned when it is sent.

To identify the problems that may arise on the site and to eliminate them immediately, sutore identifies and uses the IP address of the users under the necessary conditions. This information may also be used to identify users in a general way and to collect demographic data.

It is possible to make referrals to other applications and platforms through the site and sutore does not bear any responsibility for the privacy policies of these applications and platforms.