Data Privacy - Ozturk Legal & Strategies

CLARIFICATION TEXT ON THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

Ozturk Legal Strategies, as the data controller, present herein clarification text in order to inform you, which is prepared for the protection of personal data of our clients, business partners and other parties with whom it is involved and for providing data security and data privacy.

Purposes of Processing Personal Data

Your personal data shall be processed for the following purposes by Ozturk Legal Strategies as data controller:

Providing the services that you demand according to your needs; planning commercial and /or legal business strategies; client meetings held within our law firm; consultancy proposals, preparation of legal reports and examination of proposals for other legal services; conducting the information security process; conclusion and/or fulfilment of legal consultancy agreements; conducting client relations processes; conduct of contract processes and determination and control of the signatory powers of the parties signing the relevant documents; registration of identity, address, tax number and other information required for the identification of the owners and business partners of all kinds of works and transactions; giving information to the competent court, the enforcement office, institutionsor organizations; evaluation of candidates in recruitment processes.

The Methods and Legal Reasons of Collection of Personal Data

Personal Data are collected by Ozturk Legal Strategies on the basis of the ability of our firm to fulfill its obligations arising from contracts and laws accurately and for the purposes which is relating to the litigation process, legal consultancy services, preparation of the legal reports and proposals on the other legal services, conclusion and/or fullfilment of the consultancy agreements through the all kinds of channels in oral, written or electronic.

Processing of Personal Data

Ozturk Legal Strategies shall protect personal data only for definite, clear and legal purposes and will be able to store it for the periods required for the purposes of processing of the personal data described above in the relevant section. Our firm shall not process the personal data in a manner incompatible with the purposes for which they are collected within the framework of this clarification text and Personal Data Protection Law and shall erase, destruct or anonymize ex officio or upon demand by the data subject, upon disappearance of reasons which require the process erasure or destruction or anonymizing.

Transfer of Personal Data

Your Personal Data shall be transferred by Ozturk Legal Strategies to its business partners, lawyers and competent courts and/or enforcement offices and public institutions and organizations for the purpose of legal and financial audits in Turkey in accordance with article 8 of the LPPD, in order to realize the purposes of processing the Personal Data herein clarification text. We take all the necessary technical and administrative measures in case your personal data is transferred to home or abroad. In addition, a commitment is taken from the third parties who transfer data to ensure that they take the necessary technical and administrative measures.

Rights of Data Owner

Pursuant to Article 11 of Personal Data Protection Law, the rights of the personal data owner include the right to “request information”.

In this context, Ozturk legal Strategies provides the necessary information if the personal data owner requests information, and our firm give information to the personal data owner about how to use the right to request such information and how to evaluate the issues related to the request information.

Personal Data owners have the following rights under Personal Data Protection Law:

to learn whether his/her personal data are processed or not,
to request information if his/her personal data are processed,
to learn the purpose of his/her personal data processing and whether this personal data is used for intended purposes,
to know the third parties to whom his/her personal data is transferred at home or abroad,
to request the rectification of the incomplete or inaccurate data, if any,
to request the erasure or destruction of his/her personal data under the conditions designated in Article 7 of LPPD and in this context, to request notification to third parties to whom his/her personal data has been transferred,
to object to the processing, exclusively by automatic means, of his/her personal data, which leads to an unfavourable consequence for the personal data subject,
to request compensation for the damage arising from the unlawful processing of his/her Personal Data.

You may submit your requests regarding your rights mentioned above at info@eozturklegal.com or send your application to Çeşme Meydanı Sok. No.5 D.4 Vişnezade Mah. Beşiktaş-İstanbul in written form.