Privacy Notice
Your personal data may be processed by Copartners Danışmanlık Hizmetleri A.Ş. (“CoPartners”) as the data controller in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“Law No. 6698”) within the scope specified below.
Method and Types of Collection of Personal Data
Based on your relationship with our company, your personal data may be collected directly from you or from our clients (e.g. your employer company), suppliers, public authorities and publicly available sources. Personal data types that we may collect through these channels can be summarized as follows:
Category of Personal Data | Personal Data |
Identity data | Name, surname, identification number, identity cards and passports |
Contact data | Phone number, mail address, and e-mail address |
Registration data | Newsletter, articles and legal news subscriptions, contact form data, event, conference, webinar and seminar registration and attendance information |
Client service date | Personal data relating to clients or data received from clients, third parties, invoicing details and payment history, and client feedback data. |
Device data | IP address, unique device identifier, other data linked to a device, and data about usage of our website |
Human resources data | Data provided by job applicants on our website or offline means in connection with employment processes, such as name, surname, contact information, education, training or career development related information, information obtained from your referees and from carrying out security/credit checks to assess your suitability for employment with us, any personal data you provided on within your CV or other application documents, any other information we may request from you in the scope of assessing your job application |
Processing Purposes of Personal Data and Applicable Legal Grounds
Your personal data may be processed by CoPartners for the following purposes and legal grounds, based on the personal data processing conditions specified in Article 5 of the Law No. 6698.
Category of Personal Data | Processing Purposes of Personal Data | Legal Grounds |
Identity data, contact data, registration data, and client service data | To register you or your organization as a client of ours or as a registered audience of our insight contents; To provide and administer services or solutions, as instructed by you or your organization; To represent our clients as instructed | Based on the legal grounds that (i) processing of personal data of the parties of a contract is necessary, provided that it is directly related to the establishment or performance of the contract; (ii) processing of data is necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by the data controller, provided that this processing shall not violate the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject |
Identity data, contact, registration data, client service data, and device data | To provide our consultancy services; To manage our business operations (including analysing and improving our services and communications with our clients and to monitor compliance with our policies and standards); To operate our business relations with our clients; To deliver our insight contents to you; To manage billing and payments operations | Based on the legal grounds that (i) processing of personal data of the parties of a contract is necessary, provided that it is directly related to the establishment or performance of the contract; (ii)processing of personal data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the data controller is subject to; (iii) processing of data is necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by the data controller, provided that this processing shall not violate the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject |
Identity data, contact data, registration data, and device data | To ensure the security and effectiveness of our website and information technology systems; To protect the security of our technical infrastructure and communications to prevent and detect security threats, frauds or other criminal or malicious activities; To make our website more intuitive and easier to use | Based on the legal ground that processing of data is necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by the data controller, provided that this processing shall not violate the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject |
Identity data, contact data, and registration data | To provide information on legal updates | Based on the legal ground that processing of data is necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by the data controller, provided that this processing shall not violate the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject |
Identity data, contact data, and human resources data | To communicate with job applicants, to evaluate job applications, to consider individuals for employment and contractor opportunities and manage on-boarding procedures | Based on your explicit consent, and the legal grounds that (i) the data subject (i.e. you) have publicized the personal data; (ii) processing of data is necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by the data controller, provided that this processing shall not violate the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject |
Recipient Parties and Purposes for Transferring Personal Data
Your personal data may be transferred in accordance with the rules regarding the transfer of personal data specified in Articles 8 and Article 9. During the transfer of your data, we take all necessary measures to use, share and protect that data as described in this Privacy Policy.
Recipient(s) | Purpose(s) of Transfer |
Our business partners (such as global law firms and business associates with whom we cooperate) | To provide you with consultancy services and to manage our relationship with you |
Our suppliers and service providers (such as infrastructure and IT services providers, and providers of accounting systems and HR systems, translators, couriers or other necessary enterprises) | To manage and administer our business operations, to execute our services to you |
The Turkish Competition Authority, other regulatory and supervision authorities, government officials or attorneys | To establish, exercise or defence of a legal claim, to execute our representation and proxy services for you, to protect your interests |
Data Subject’s Rights Specified under Article 11 of the Law No. 6698
Data subjects are entitled to the below-listed rights under Article 11 of the Law No. 6698:
- Learn whether data relating to him/her are being processed;
- Request further information if personal data relating to him have been processed;
- Learn the purpose of the processing of personal data and whether data are being processed in compliance with such purpose;
- Learn the third-party recipients to whom the data are disclosed within the country or abroad,
- Request rectification of the processed personal data which is incomplete or inaccurate and request such process to be notified to third persons to whom personal data is transferred.
- Request erasure or destruction of data in the event that the data is no longer necessary in relation to the purpose for which the personal data was collected, despite being processed in line with the Law No. 6698 no. 6698 and other applicable laws and request such process to be notified to third persons to whom personal data is transferred.
- Object to negative consequences about him/her that are concluded as a result of analysis of the processed personal data by solely automatic means,
- Demand compensation for the damages he/she has suffered as a result of an unlawful processing operation.
You may exercise your aforementioned rights by communicating with [email protected] e-mail address in writing. We will process and respond to such requests thirty days. In principle, the requests shall be concluded free of charge. Nevertheless, CoPartners reserves its right to demand a fee from as per the Communiqué on Procedures and Terms Regarding Applications to the Data Controllers or other relevant legislation.