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KVKK Personal Data Disclosure Statement

KVKK Personal Data Disclosure Statement

DISCLOSURE STATEMENT ON THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

AŞK MAKARNA SANAYİ VE TİCARET LİMİTED ŞİRKETİ (“Aşk Makarna” and/or the “Company”) aims to describe the methods adopted regarding the processing and protection of personal data in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (KVKK), within the scope of all activities carried out. The Policy on the Protection, Processing, Storage, and Destruction of Personal Data includes the principles applied during the collection, use, sharing, storage, and destruction of personal data by Aşk Makarna.

This policy covers all personal data processed within the processes of our company, whether by automatic means or non-automatic means forming part of a data recording system, concerning all our stakeholders, suppliers, customers, company employees, interns, and former employees, whether affiliated or not with Aşk Makarna.

Purposes of Processing Personal Data

Your personal data, in accordance with Article 20 of the Constitution of the Republic of Turkey and Article 4 of the KVKK, may be processed by the data controller Aşk Makarna for the following purposes:

  • Carrying out management activities

  • Providing information to authorized persons, institutions, and organizations

  • Carrying out talent/career development activities

  • Carrying out investment processes

  • Ensuring the security of data controller operations

  • Carrying out product/service marketing processes

  • Carrying out supply chain management processes

  • Ensuring the security of movable goods and resources

  • Carrying out strategic planning activities

  • Carrying out sponsorship activities

  • Carrying out social responsibility and NGO activities

  • Carrying out storage and archiving activities

  • Carrying out risk management processes

  • Carrying out logistics activities

  • Ensuring business continuity

  • Receiving and evaluating suggestions for improving business processes

  • Conducting/controlling business activities

  • Planning human resources processes

  • Carrying out communication activities

  • Carrying out internal audit/investigation/intelligence activities

  • Following and carrying out legal affairs

  • Managing assignment processes

  • Ensuring physical space security

  • Carrying out activities in compliance with legislation

  • Carrying out training activities

  • Carrying out audit/ethics activities

  • Carrying out information security processes

  • Managing emergency processes

  • Creating and tracking visitor records

  • Managing foreign employee work and residence permit procedures

  • Following up requests/complaints

  • Managing contract processes

  • Carrying out customer satisfaction activities

  • Carrying out customer relationship management processes

  • Carrying out goods/services production and operation processes

  • Carrying out goods/services sales processes

  • Carrying out after-sales support services

  • Carrying out goods/services procurement processes

  • Carrying out occupational health/safety activities

  • Carrying out loyalty processes related to company/products/services

  • Carrying out finance and accounting affairs

  • Managing access authorizations

  • Managing employee benefits and entitlements

  • Fulfilling obligations arising from employment contracts and legislation for employees

  • Carrying out employee satisfaction and loyalty processes

  • Managing job application processes for candidates

  • Managing candidate/intern/student recruitment and placement processes

Methods of Collecting Personal Data and Legal Grounds

Personal data may be collected verbally, in writing, or electronically by Aşk Makarna through various means and channels, especially for purposes such as legal consultancy, litigation and legal process follow-up, preparation of legal reports, provision of legal service offers, establishment and/or performance of consultancy agreements with Aşk Makarna. Collection is based on legal grounds to ensure the Company fulfills its contractual and legal obligations completely and accurately. Such data may also be processed and transferred in line with the conditions and purposes set out in Articles 5 and 6 of the KVKK.

Processing of Personal Data

Aşk Makarna will collect personal data only for definite, explicit, and legitimate purposes and will retain them only for the duration required by the purposes explained above. Personal data will not be processed in ways incompatible with the purposes of collection. When the reasons requiring processing cease to exist, except for cases where retention is legally mandatory, the Company will delete, destroy, or anonymize the personal data either ex officio or upon the request of the data subject.

Transfer of Personal Data

Your personal data may be transferred domestically, in accordance with Article 8 of the Law, to business partners, lawyers, courts, enforcement offices, and public authorities for the purposes described in this Disclosure Statement. Additionally, in accordance with Article 9 of the Law, your personal data may be transferred abroad to third parties from whom Aşk Makarna receives or plans to receive consultancy, support, or legal services, or other services, including cloud computing service providers with servers located in various countries, as well as to legally authorized institutions and organizations.

Aşk Makarna takes all necessary technical and administrative measures for data transfers both domestically and abroad and ensures that third parties to whom data is transferred also commit to taking such measures.

Rights of Data Subjects

According to Article 20 of the Turkish Constitution and Article 11 of the KVKK, data subjects have the right to be informed regarding their personal data. Within this framework, Aşk Makarna provides necessary information upon request and informs data subjects regarding the procedures for exercising these rights. Data subjects have the following rights:

  • To learn whether personal data is processed,

  • To request information if personal data has been processed,

  • To learn the purpose of data processing and whether it is used accordingly,

  • To know the third parties to whom personal data is transferred domestically or abroad,

  • To request correction of incomplete or incorrect data,

  • To request deletion/destruction of personal data and notification of third parties where data was transferred, within the framework of Article 7 of the KVKK,

  • To object to any outcome against themselves arising from analysis of the processed data exclusively through automated systems,

  • To demand compensation for damages in case of unlawful processing of personal data.

Application of Data Subjects

Requests regarding the exercise of these rights can be submitted through the methods specified in the “Policy on the Processing, Protection, Storage, and Deletion of Personal Data” available at www.askmakarna.com.tr within the scope of Law No. 6698. Data subjects may use the Application Form available on the website containing communication information. Our Company will evaluate such requests and finalize them within thirty (30) days. The Company reserves the right to charge fees based on the tariff determined by the Personal Data Protection Board, if applicable.