PRIVACY POLICY
Dear Site Visitors, Customers, and Members,
We would like to inform you about our Privacy Rules, Communications, Site Terms of Use, practices regarding the Processing of Your Personal Data, and your rights under applicable personal data protection legislation.
The following Privacy Rules, Policy, and Terms of Use apply to our company Sarıkalem Yazı Gereçleri San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti. and our website www.sarikalem.com (including its mobile application) with respect to the confidentiality of visitor, member, and customer information (hereinafter collectively referred to as "Visitor(s)"), the protection, storage, processing, use and destruction of personal data, commercial electronic communications, and other related matters.
Protection of Information
Necessary measures have been taken by our Company or the relevant organization, within the scope of technological capabilities and cost considerations, using appropriate technical and administrative methods in systems and internet infrastructure, to ensure the security of information and transactions provided by and obtained from Visitors, in accordance with the nature of such information and transactions.
All credit card transactions and approvals during your use of our Site (where applicable) are carried out online between you and the relevant Bank or Card Organization independently of our Company. Information such as credit card "passwords" is neither seen nor recorded by our Company.
Information entered for the purposes of membership, purchasing products/services, and updating information on our Site, as well as confidential information related to credit and debit cards, cannot be viewed by other internet users.
Methods of Data Collection, Purpose of Processing and Transfer, and Personal Data Operations
With all necessary measures taken to protect their confidentiality and in compliance with all legal principles regarding the processing of personal data as well as personal data retention and destruction policies, and with separate consent requested where legally required; the personal data of our Visitors, including their physical and virtual establishment visit, shopping and contact information, and other personal information detailed below,
may be collected, received, transferred, and processed by and between our Company Sarıkalem Yazı Gereçleri San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti. as Data Controller, as well as your company, their partners, business partners, successors, service providers, suppliers, and other third parties/organizations to be determined (including social media and online advertising operators) acting as data controllers, processors, and/or recipient groups, for legal reasons related to customer experience, consumer rights, customer/member services, and related commercial, financial, and legal obligations; to enable customers to benefit from general and personalized products, services, and opportunities; and for the purposes of product/service promotion, advertising, communication, promotions, sales, marketing, store card, credit card, and member/customer notifications and transactions, through partially or fully automated and non-automated collection methods (including information provided verbally or in writing to our Company and the aforementioned organizations, visits to physical and virtual stores and websites including mobile applications, membership and transaction data on social media and advertising networks, payment, collection, delivery, complaint, campaign, and survey transactions and their legal financial and other records, as well as written, verbal, visual, and technical data generated during the use of fixed and mobile internet and communication devices and/or mobile applications in various environments), and retained for a period appropriate to the purpose of processing without exceeding the legally permitted maximum retention periods.
In addition to being informed about the methods and legal basis for the collection of your personal data, the purposes for which it will be processed, and the parties to whom it may be transferred and for what purposes, you are hereby notified that you have the right to learn whether your personal data has been processed and, if so, to request information about it; to learn whether it has been used in accordance with its purpose; to learn the third parties to whom it has been transferred domestically and abroad; to request correction if it has been processed inaccurately or incompletely; to request deletion or destruction in accordance with legal requirements and procedures; to request notification of such correction or deletion to third parties to whom the data has been transferred; to object to any outcome arising against you as a result of analysis of your data through automated systems; and to request compensation in the event of damage caused by unlawful processing. You may submit all such requests to our Company, Sarıkalem Yazı Gereçleri San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti., as the Data Controller. Please note that all personal data processing operations requiring consent have been carried out with the relevant consent obtained, and no processing is performed without consent, except in cases where applicable law permits processing without explicit consent.
Our Company may partially or fully destroy (delete, erase, or anonymize) personal data in accordance with applicable legislation and at the intervals specified in its personal data retention and destruction policies. Visitors may at any time, without providing any reason, contact our Company through the communication channels listed below and, by completing the required legal and technical procedures, request that the processing of their personal data and/or commercial electronic communications directed at them be stopped. Upon receipt of such a request, communications to the Visitor through the specified channels will be stopped within the legally permitted maximum period (processing and communications that are legally required, permitted, or obligatory will continue). If the Visitor so wishes, information that is not legally required to be retained and/or technically possible to delete will be removed from the data recording system, destroyed, or anonymized in a way that prevents identification. Requests and applications in this regard will be fulfilled within the legally permitted maximum periods, or may be declined with a legal explanation provided to the applicant (Relevant legal rights are reserved).
(Information regarding cookies and notifications on your computers and other devices, as well as the steps you can take to manage them, are set out above.)
Third-Party Sites, Digital Platforms, and Applications
Other websites accessible through our Site (including mobile versions) are governed by their own privacy and security policies, terms of use, communication practices, and personal data processing conditions. Our Company is not responsible for any disputes, material or moral damages or losses arising from the use of information on websites accessed for advertising, banner, content viewing, or any other purpose, or from the ethical principles, privacy and security policies, personal data retention and destruction policies, service quality, terms of use, cookies, web beacons, notifications, recommendations, and other practices of such websites and digital platforms.
Liability
Information obtained by Visitors through our Site, linked third-party sites, mobile applications, any notifications, and other channels belonging to our Company may be processed and transferred through written or magnetic archiving, storage, retention, retrieval, use, updating, modification, combination, reorganization, classification, disclosure, sharing, transfer, and destruction (erasure, deletion, or anonymization) operations, as well as other legally compliant methods, both domestically and internationally, in relation to the persons and organizations mentioned above (hereinafter collectively referred to as "processing" or "processing operations").
(*) Companies affiliated with Sarıkalem Yazı Gereçleri San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti. and its current and future subsidiaries.
All personal and non-personal information related to Visitors' visits to physical and e-commerce stores, sections, and premises of our Company, Sarıkalem Yazı Gereçleri, its dealers, and any affiliated organizations, including location data, products viewed, and shopping details, may also be collected via Bluetooth, beacon, and general or private wireless network connections through appropriate technical methods if the relevant functions are enabled on their devices, and may be processed and transferred domestically and internationally by the aforementioned organizations within the framework described above.
Use of Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies on Our Site
Various types of cookies are used on our website www.sarikalem.com (including all digital platforms such as mobile applications). These include session cookies, persistent cookies, strictly necessary cookies, functionality cookies, analytics cookies, commercial cookies, and third-party cookies.
Cookies are small pieces of data placed on computers and mobile devices to ensure the proper functioning and improvement of visited websites, to personalize and enhance the user experience, to allow users to visit sites without logging in, and/or to send commercial or social notifications (which may be visible even when the internet browser and/or relevant mobile application is closed), as well as to deliver general or personalized information, advertisements, and promotions to site users and visitors both on the relevant site and on third-party sites (including social media networks and online advertising networks).
Cookies are retained on computers and devices for a period appropriate to their purpose, without exceeding the legally permitted maximum retention period where applicable.
Visitors who use our Site (including mobile versions) are deemed to have accepted the above-described practices, as well as the processing of the relevant tracking data for the purposes and under the conditions set out herein, in personal data legislation, and in other sections of this information notice (including transfers to and use by third parties within this scope).
Visitors may at any time manage, remove, or disable cookies through the settings of their device's software, operating system, or internet browser, and/or stop the aforementioned notifications. (Please note that in such cases, our Site and/or the relevant device/software may not function as intended and/or you may not be informed of notification content.)
Communications
Our Company, Sarıkalem Yazı Gereçleri San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti., may conduct social, commercial, and other electronic communications with our Visitors in accordance with applicable laws, for the purposes of promotion, advertising, communication, promotions, sales, and marketing of all kinds of products and services, as well as for store card, credit card, and member/customer notifications and transactions, via SMS/text messages, instant notifications, automated calls, computer, telephone, email, fax, all types of notifications (if enabled on your device), Bluetooth, beacon and other wireless network connections, and other electronic communication tools.
Your Processed and Transferred Personal Data and Your Legal Rights
Dear Visitor, demographic member/user/customer information such as name, surname, username, age/date of birth, gender, marital status, wedding date, parental status, mode of transportation, region of residence, address and delivery address, education level, occupation, cultural, artistic, sporting, holiday, and other areas of interest, hobbies and habits, official and private identification details and tax information, photographs, visual records (for security purposes), call center voice recordings, and shopping habits related to all types of products and services including clothing; Visitors are solely responsible for the decisions they make in response to information, promotions, advertisements, and recommendations provided to them, as well as for all transactions, applications, and their outcomes.
Since we are unable to verify the legal capacity of any Visitor to our Site, responsibility for the use, information, and data processing of children and other minors rests with their legal representatives, who may also exercise their rights regarding personal data (and communications where applicable) on their behalf.
Purchases and Other Consumer Transactions
If a Visitor purchases a product or service as a result of being informed through the methods described above and/or through communications, notifications, promotions, or advertisements directed at them, such transaction is additionally subject to a consumer contract to be concluded with the relevant seller/provider in accordance with applicable law. The consumer contract applies under its own terms and between its parties.
Where applicable, the preliminary information form and distance sales contract terms displayed during each transaction on our Site shall govern your purchases.
Rights Over Site Content
All intellectual, industrial, and property rights relating to all information and content on our Site, including their arrangement, revision, and partial or full use, belong to our Company, except for content belonging to third parties pursuant to agreements with our Company.
Changes
Our Company reserves the right to make any changes it deems necessary to matters such as privacy, personal data retention, use and destruction policies, and Site terms of use, as well as to the products, services, opportunities, campaigns, and similar offerings it provides. Such changes take effect from the moment they are announced by our Company via the Site or other appropriate means.
You may submit any additional information requests, inquiries, or complaints regarding all of the above matters to our Company, Sarıkalem Yazı Gereçleri San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti., through the communication channels listed below. Where applicable law requires that a specific request be made in a particular manner, timeframe, or format, the relevant procedure must be followed.
Address: Hançerli, Yalı Cami Sk. No: 3/10-11, 55020 İlkadım/Samsun, Turkey, Phone: +90 530 867 32 55, [email protected] (Website: www.sarikalem.com)
Sarıkalem Yazı Gereçleri San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti.