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Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) applies to the collection, use and disclosure of an individual customer’s Personal Data (hereinafter defined) arising from goods and/or services offered by bizimuhit (collectively referred to as “bizimuhit”).

1. General


1.1 This Policy statement provides information on the obligations and policies of bizimuhit in respect of an individual customer’s Personal Data. bizimuhit undertakes to use reasonable efforts in applying, where practicable, those principles and the processes set out herein to its operations.

1.2 bizimuhit’s officers, management, and members of staff shall use reasonable endeavours to respect the confidentiality of and keep safe any and all Personal Data collected and/or stored and/or disclosed and/or used for, or on behalf of, bizimuhit. bizimuhit shall use reasonable endeavours to ensure that all collection and/or storage and/or disclosure and/or usage of Personal Data by bizimuhit shall be done in an appropriate manner and in accordance with the Act and this Policy.

1.3 By interacting with us, submitting information to us, or signing up for any products or services offered by us, or signing up to the bizimuhit.com, you agree and consent to bizimuhit as well as to its respective representatives and/or agents (“Representatives”) (collectively referred to herein as “bizimuhit”, “us”, “we” or “our”) collecting, using, disclosing and sharing amongst themselves your Personal Data, and disclosing such Personal Data to bizimuhit’s authorised service providers and relevant third parties in the manner set forth in this Privacy Statement.

1.4 This Policy supplements but does not supersede nor replace any other consents you may have previously provided to us in respect of your Personal Data, and your consents herein are additional to any rights which we may have at law to collect, use or disclose your Personal Data.

1.5 For the purposes of this Policy, in line with the provisions under the Turkiye (Turkey) Personal Data Protection Act 6698 (the “Act”), “Personal Data” shall mean data, any information regarding an identified or identifiable natural person. Such Personal Data shall also refer to that which is already in the possession of bizimuhit or that which shall be collected by bizimuhit in future.

2. Contacting the Data Protection Officer


2.1 Where you legitimately request access to and/or correction of Personal Data relating to you, such Personal Data which is in the possession and control of bizimuhit, bizimuhit shall provide and/or correct that data within 30 days and in a manner in accordance with its standard procedures as stated hereinafter.

2.2 In accordance with the Act, bizimuhit has established a process for receiving and responding to any query or complaint that may arise with respect to the application of this Act. To ensure that bizimuhit receives your complaints and enquiries, please send the same via email to the Data Protection Officer (the “DPO”) of bizimuhit at the following email address: info@bizimuhit.com.

2.3 Please note that if your personal data has been provided to us by a third party (e.g. a member via a referral process), you should contact that individual to make such queries, complaints, and access and correction requests to bizimuhit on your behalf.

2.4 Should you not wish bizimuhit to use your Personal Data for any of the purposes listed in Clauses 3.2 to 3.4, or not to receive promotional materials from bizimuhit, you may opt out by sending a clearly worded email to the DPO via the email address provided in Clause 2.2. Your request shall be processed within 30 days. Please note however that this may affect our ability to attend to your needs in the event where there is already an existing business relationship.

3. Statement of Practices


Types of Personal Data Collected:


3.1 As part of its day-to-day activity, bizimuhit may collect from you, through various means, including via our websites, marketing events such as lucky draws and contests, social networking sites and any forms used by bizimuhit from time to time, used by bizimuhit from time to time, some or all of the following Personal Data:

  • IP Addresses

  • Personal contact information such as names, email addresses, mailing addresses, passport details and contact numbers

  • Photographs and images

Cookies

We use cookies on our websites to track website visitorship and experience. Most web browsers are designed to accept cookies. If you do not wish to receive any cookies, you may set your browser to refuse it.

Purpose of Collection of Personal Data

3.2 The above Personal Data mentioned in Clause 3.1 is collected for the purposes of:, amongst others, conducting data/market research, analysis and evaluation, providing benefits and/or compensation, processing payment, providing you with any goods and/or services, marketing and communication, delivery of products and services, accounting and auditing, investigating complaints, claims and disputes, responding to inquiries and provide customer services, as well as verification of identity of clients.

Disclosure of Personal Data

3.3 In order to carry out the functions described above, bizimuhit may, from time to time, disclose your Personal Data between bizimuhit’s companies.

3.4 Without derogating from any of the above, bizimuhit may also disclose the data subject’s Personal Data to third parties such as accounting firms; embassies; service providers; lawyers; credit, debit and charge card companies, banks and other entities processing payment; potential buyers or investors of bizimuhit or any of bizimuhit’s companies; and any agent or subcontractor providing services on bizimuhit’s behalf for the provision of bizimuhit’s services.

3.5 bizimuhit may disclose your Personal Data to the abovementioned parties also in the occurrence of any of the following events:


• To the extent that bizimuhit is required to do so by the law;
• In connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;
• To establish, exercise or defend bizimuhit’s legal rights;
• To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset which bizimuhit is (or is contemplating) selling;
• To any person and/or entity for the purpose of processing such information on bizimuhits behalf;
• To third parties who provide services to bizimuhit or on its behalf;
• To any third party that purchases bizimuhit or bizimuhit’s business or any part of bizimuhit or bizimuhit’s business;
• With your consent; and
• For the purposes of disaster recovery.

Optional Provision of Personal Data

3.6 In some instances, you may also be requested to provide certain Personal Data that may be used to further improve bizimuhit’s products and services and/or better tailor the type of information presented to you. In most cases, this type of data is optional although, where the requested service is a personalised service, or provision of a product or dependent on your providing all requested data, failure to provide the requested data may prevent bizimuhit from providing the service to you. This type of data includes, but is not limited to:

 

  • Your age;

  • Gender;

  • Education and Profession;

  • Other related products and services subscribed to

3.7 Under certain circumstances, telephone calls and any conversation through the channels such as email and WhatsApp made to any of bizimuhit’s companies to order and/or service hotlines and/or inquiry telephone numbers may be recorded for the purposes of quality control and training. In such an event, by agreeing to this Policy, you hereby give your consent for the collection, use and disclosure of such Personal Data for the purposes of our records, following up with your enquiry and/or transaction, and for quality control and training purposes.

4. Transfer of Personal Data Overseas


Your Personal Data may be processed by bizimuhit, its affiliates, agents and third parties providing services to bizimuhit, in jurisdictions outside of Republic of Turkiye (formerly Republic of Turkey). In this event bizimuhit will comply with the terms of the Act.

5. Accuracy of Personal Data


Where possible, bizimuhit will validate data provided using generally accepted practices and guidelines. This includes the use of check sum verification on some numeric fields such as account numbers or credit card numbers. In some instances, bizimuhit is able to validate the data provided against pre-existing data held by bizimuhit. In some cases, bizimuhit is required to see original documentation before we may use the Personal Data such as with Personal Identifiers and/or proof of address. To assist in ensuring the accuracy of your Personal Data in the possession of bizimuhit, please inform us of any updates of any parts of your Personal Data by sending a clearly worded email to the DPO at the email address provided at Section 2.2.

6. Protection of Personal Data


bizimuhit uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your Personal Data and will not knowingly allow access to this data to anyone outside bizimuhit, other than to you or as described in this Policy. However, bizimuhit cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to bizimuhit and you do so entirely at your own risk. In particular, bizimuhit does not warrant that such information may not be accessed, altered, collected, copied, destroyed, disposed of, disclosed or modified by breach of any of bizimuhit’s physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.

7. Access and Correction of Personal Data


7.1 In accordance with Clause 2.1 of this Policy, you have the right to:


a) check whether bizimuhit holds any Personal Data relating to you and, if so, obtain copies of such data;
and

b) require bizimuhit to correct any Personal Data relating to you which is inaccurate for the purpose for which it is being used.

7.2 bizimuhit reserves the right to charge a reasonable administrative fee in order to meet your requests under Clause 7.1(a). Upon payment of the requisite fee under Clause 7.1(a) and/or receipt of your request under Clause 7.1(b), your request shall be processed within 30 days.

7.3 If you wish to verify the details you have submitted to bizimuhit or if you wish to check on the manner in which bizimuhit uses and processes your personal data, bizimuhit’s security procedures mean that bizimuhit may request proof of identity before we reveal information. This proof of identity will take the form of full details of name, membership number and a copy of your official ID. You must therefore keep this information safe as you will be responsible for any action which bizimuhit takes in response to a request from someone using your [membership] details.

Our customers can submit their requests and complaints to bizimuhit.com in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 and relevant legislation. In this context, you can submit your requests regarding your rights listed together with documents identifying your identity, using the methods specified below.

(i) To our mailing address below, which may be updated over time, with a wet signature or via a notary public,

Address: Adnan Menderes Mahallesi Adnan Kahveci Caddesi Demirel Apartmanı 37/2 Ankara (VAT: 9490501385)

(ii) To our e-mail you send to us from the e-mail address you have previously notified us and registered in our system (please check your registered e-mail address) or with a secure electronic signature or mobile signature,

Email address: info@bizimuhit.com

(iii) Other methods that may be determined by the Personal Data Protection Authority in the future.

8. Storage and Retention of Personal Data

bizimuhit will delete, as reasonably possible, or otherwise anonymous any Personal Data in the event that the Personal Data is not required for any reasonable business or legal purposes of bizimuhit and where the Personal Data is deleted from bizimuhit’s electronic, manual, and other filing systems in accordance with bizimuhit’s internal procedures and/or other agreements.

9. Contacting You

From the moment you contact Bizimuhit using various means of communication, you expressly and unambiguously authorise Bizimuhit to contact you. For the purposes set out in Paragraph 3.2 above, this means that you provide this consent to Bizimuhit, including by using voice calls, Whatsapp or other similar communication applications or methods.

10. Change Policy

bizimuhit reserves the right to alter any of the clauses contained herein in compliance with local legislation, and for any other purpose deemed reasonably necessary by bizimuhit. You should look at these terms regularly. If you do not agree to the modified terms, you should inform us as soon as possible of the terms to which you do not consent. Pending such notice, if there is any inconsistency between these terms and the additional terms, the additional terms will prevail to the extent of the inconsistency.

11. Governing Law

This Policy is governed by and shall be construed in accordance with the laws of Turkiye (Turkey). You hereby submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Ankara / Turkiye courts.

12. Miscellaneous

 

12.1 This Policy only applies to the collection and use of Personal Data by bizimuhit. It does not cover third party sites to which we provide links, even if such sites are co-branded with our logo. bizimuhit does not share your Personal Data with third party websites. bizimuhit is not responsible for the privacy and conduct practices of these third party websites, so you should read their own privacy policies before disclosure of any Personal Data to these websites.

12.2 bizimuhit will not sell your personal information to any third party without your permission, but we cannot be responsible or held liable for the actions of third party sites which you may have linked or been directed to bizimuhit’s website.

12.3 bizimuhit’s websites do not target and are not intended to attract children under the age of 18 years old. bizimuhit does not knowingly solicit personal information from children under the age of 18 years old or send them requests for personal data.

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