Privacy Policy

PRIVACY AND COOKIE POLICY

TØMPSEN (hereinafter referred to as the “TØMPSEN”), as a data controller, is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected while visiting the website at www.tompsen.com run by our TØMPSEN. This website privacy and cookie policy sets out (1) how personal data is processed, (2) the Cookie Policy and (3) the enforcement of the Website Privacy policy. TØMPSEN may change this website privacy and cookie policy from time to time to ensure it reflects changes in the relevant legislation.

1.PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA OF DATA SUBJECTS

The personal data collected during your visit to our website will be processed by our TØMPSEN within the framework of the Law No 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (“LPPD”).

The Purposes of Processing Personal Data

The TØMPSEN may process personal data obtained during your visit to our website for the following purposes according to the provisions of articles 5 and 6 of the LPPD:

To carry out the necessary operations and associated business processes by the relevant work units to fulfill the activities conducted by TØMPSEN,
To plan and implement Operational, Commercial and Business Strategies of TØMPSEN,
To carry out the necessary operations and associated business processes by our relevant work units in order for relevant persons to benefit from services offered by TØMPSEN,
To plan and execute the necessary activities for offering and promoting to relevant persons the products and services offered by TØMPSEN,
To ensure legal, technical and commercial-business security of TØMPSEN and the related persons in business relations with TØMPSEN,
To verify the identity of website users who places or authorizes the placing of an order,
To record the necessary contact information such as address and other details,
To communicate with our customers regarding the conditions, current status and updates of distance selling contracts we conclude under the related articles of the Law on Consumer Protection, to make the necessary notifications,
To issue all records and documents that will serve as a basis for the contemplated transaction in electronic (internet (mobile, etc.) or paper environment,
To performs the obligations assumed under of the agreements concluded pursuant to the distance selling contract and the relevant provisions of the Law on Consumer Protection,
Upon request and as required by the applicable legislation, to provide public officials with information related to public security,
To offer suggestions to our customers and to inform them about our services through our contracted entities and solution partners;
To enable TØMPSEN to fulfill our legal requirements and to exercise our rights arising from the applicable legislation;

Legal Basis for Collecting Personal Data

There are several arrangements under the legal framework regulating the collection, storage, processing and use of our customers’ personal data. In particular, the Law on the Protection of Personal Data lays down the rules and principles for the protection of personal data. Furthermore, the Law no 6563 on the Regulation of Electronic Commerce contains provisions regarding the protection of personal data. In addition to all the foregoing, the Turkish Penal Code No 5237 provides for criminal sanctions for the protection of personal data under certain circumstances through its provisions. On the other hand, we are required to collect, store, process and use our customers’ personal data in order to meet obligations under arising under the Law no 6502 Consumer Protection and Regulation on Distance Selling Contracts.

Transferring Personal Data and the Purpose of Transfer

Your personal data collected through your visit to our website may be shared with our suppliers with whom we cooperate and receive service or support for the purpose of processing your personal data and also with the legally authorized public authorities and third persons under the conditions and purposes of processing personal data set out in articles 8 and 9 of the LPPD. TØMPSEN takes the necessary technical and legal measures to prevent violation of rights during the transfer of personal data to third parties. Moreover, TØMPSEN shall not be held responsible for any accidental loss or destruction of or damage to personal data that may occur under the responsibility of the third part arising from the data protection policy of the same.

Method and the Legal Reason of Collecting Personal Data

Personal Data is any information related to identify or identifiable natural person. Your personal data are collected in compliance with the data processing requirements as prescribed by Law through the use of cookies (small text file that the website requests to store on the visitor’s computer and which contains a certain amount of information) when you visit our website.

Rights of Data Subject

Pursuant to Article 11 of the Law, you have the following rights under the applicable data protection legislation;

to learn whether or not the personal data relating to you are processed,
if processed, to request information with regard to processing,
to learn purposes of the processing and whether they are used for such purpose or not,
to request the restriction of processing under certain circumstances,
to know the third persons within or outside the country to whom the personal data are transferred,
to request correction and update of the personal data if the data is processed incompletely or inaccurately,
to request deletion or destruction of the personal data when purposes of processing cease to exist,
to request notifying third parties to whom the personal data are transferred, about deletion, destruction and correction,
to object to negative consequences about you that are concluded as a result of analysis of the processed personal data by solely automatic means, and
to claim compensation for the damage arising from the unlawful processing of your personal data.

If a data subject wishes to exercise any of his/her rights set forth above, he/she is required to complete the PDP application form obtained from the website at www.tompsen.com and submit a copy of it to TØMPSEN. Your request will be concluded within the shortest time and within 30 (thirty) days at the latest according to the nature of your request however, if the transaction requires an additional cost the fee will be charged in the tariff determined by the Personal Data Protection Board.

Furthermore, article 4 of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data imposes an obligation for data controllers to keep personal data accurate and where necessary kept up to date. In this regard, TØMPSEN request its customers to provide correct and updated information to enable TØMPSEN to perform its obligations under the applicable legislation. In case of any changes in your personal data during the duration of the data processing, please be kind to forthwith inform us by sending a message to hello@tompsen.com e-mail address with “Updating My Personal Data “in the subject field. We would like to emphasize that it is important to understand that your personal data has not yet been updated until you receive a response email from us confirming that your personal data has been updated. In such a case, we kindly ask you to send us emails repeatedly until you receive a response from us.

Measures Taken to Ensure the Security of Data Subject’s Personal Data

TØMPSEN is committed to the protection of the data subject’s personal data and according to article 12 of the Law, the controller is obliged to:

prevent unlawful processing of personal data,
prevent unlawful access to personal data,
ensure the retention of personal data.

TØMPSEN, acting as a data controller, takes all necessary technical and organizational measures for providing an appropriate level of security in order to fulfil these obligations.

2. COOKIE POLICY

To improve the performance of our website and to ensure that we give you the best user experience we use cookies. If you do not wish to accept cookies in connection with your use of our website, you can delete or block cookies by changing the settings from your browser. By deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies you may continue to use our website or mobile or digital applications, but you may not be able to access certain areas or features or some of their functionalities may be affected. Unless you change your cookie settings in your browser, we will assume that you accept the use of cookies on this site.

What are Cookies and Why are they used?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device or net server by the websites you visit.

The main purposes of cookies on our website are listed below:

To improve the service provided to you by increasing the functionality and performance of the website;
To improve the website and provide new features on the Website and customize such features according to your preferences;
To ensure legal and commercial security for the website, for you and our Company.

Categories of Cookies Used on the Website

Cookies are pieces of name-value formatted text files embedded on your device by the websites you visit. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

First-party cookies are the cookies set and controlled by our website and only that website can read them.

Access to our Website content is also possible through domain names other than the one on our internet address. In such circumstances each domain name forms a specific third-party cookie.

At this point, it is key to emphasize the difference between first and third-party cookies. First-party cookies are stored when you visit our web page. On the other hand, third-party cookies are created by domains other than the one you are visiting directly, hence the name third-party. They are used for ad retargeting and behavioral advertising. By adding tags to its page, advertisers can track a user across the web as they visit different websites. This allows advertisers to build a profile of you based on your search habits so they can serve more relevant content.

Cookies we use in our Website and their purposes are as follows:

No.	Type of Cookie	Intended Purpose
1.	Session Cookies	Session cookies are valid during your visit to the Website and keep their validity until you close your internet browser.
2.	Persistent Cookies	These cookies are saved on your computer and are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser and remain on your hard drive until you erase them or they expire.
3.	Compulsory/ Essential Cookies	These cookies are essential to ensure that the website functions properly to facilitate user navigation and use of various features or services offered by the website.
4.	Functional and Analytical Cookies	These cookies are used to remember your choices during the visit, provide an effective use of the Website, optimize the Website according to the requests and store the data about how you use the Website. In compliance with its qualifications these cookies may contain your personal data. The language preference is one of the examples to the data processed via these cookies.

Through third-party cookies in our Website, we aim to provide you a more productive and functional internet experience. In order to secure your personal data, our Company has entered into data protection and confidentiality agreements pursuant to the Personal Data Protection Legislation, with all these third-party service providers.

Storing and Accessing Cookies

The cookies created by our Website are stored in your computer through the internet browser used to access our Website. The contents of these cookies are only accessible by our Website under the domain name www.tompsen.com and if you use the same browser remote access is also possible.

You have the Choice to Accept Cookies

Almost all internet browsers automatically accept cookies. Cookies are not strictly necessary for the operation of our website, but as these cookies are intended to enable enhanced and more personalized features, if you set your browser to block all cookies, this may mean you will not be able to take full advantage of the services available on our website and your user experience may be limited.

You may set your browser to reject cookies or block all cookies for a specific site or alert you when a cookie is placed on your computer, disable third-party cookies or treat all cookies as session cookies.

On the other hand, you can delete cookies stored on your device through your browser or view the list of these cookies and their values and follow them. For more information about cookie management please click on the browser’s icon below:

For further information about cookies, you can visit www.aboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu. Site contents are in English.

Security of your Personal Data

Cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described in this Website Privacy and Cookie Policy and all related processes are carried out in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Legislation. Your personal data obtained by means of cookies are processed, stored and secured by our Company in compliance with the Personal Data Protection Legislation.

3. ENFORCEMENT OF THE WEBSITE PRIVACY AND COOKIES POLICY

TØMPSEN’s Website Privacy and Cookies Policy shall be effective from … . In the case that all or part of its content is updated, the effective date of the Policy will be amended accordingly.

The Privacy and Cookie Policy is published on the TØMPSEN’s website (www.tompsen.com) and upon request of the data subject it will be made available for the use of relevant persons.

Last update date: 25.02.2021