Privacy Notice

As DİKBAŞ Law Office, we attach the utmost importance to the security of your personal data. Accordingly, we give importance to ensuring that all personal data of our clients, prospective clients, employees, business partners, website visitors and job applicants to our office are processed and stored in accordance with Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (“KVKK”).

Within the scope of our obligation to inform, we wish to inform you by means of this Privacy Notice about the purposes for which your personal data are processed, to whom and for what purpose they may be transferred, the methods by which they are collected, the legal grounds and your rights.

a) Data Controller

Pursuant to the KVKK, your personal data are collected and processed by “DİKBAŞ Law Office” as data controller within the scope explained below.

b) Purposes for Which Personal Data Are Processed

Your personal data are processed in accordance with the personal data processing conditions set out in Articles 5 and 6 of the KVKK for the purposes of carrying out all kinds of legal services and consultancy activities within the scope of the Attorneyship Law; providing information to authorised persons, institutions and organisations for reasons arising from legislation; conducting human resources processes; fulfilling obligations arising from employment contracts and occupational health and safety obligations; carrying out finance and accounting transactions; ensuring that data are accurate and up to date; making copies/backups to prevent data loss; and conducting system and physical security processes.

c) To Whom and for What Purpose Personal Data May Be Transferred

• For the purpose of carrying out all kinds of legal services and consultancy activities within the scope of the Attorneyship Law, your personal data may be transferred to official public institutions and organisations such as, in particular, courts and enforcement offices, as well as notaries, land registry offices and tax offices; to the banks we work with in order to send the amounts we collect within the scope of the legal service provided to you to the bank account you have notified; and to the company from which we receive finance and accounting services in order to fulfil our tax obligations;
• to authorised persons, public institutions and organisations for the fulfilment of our obligation to provide information to authorised persons, public institutions and organisations for reasons arising from legislation;
• to the Social Security Institution, to the company from which we receive finance and accounting services and to the banks we work with, for the purpose of conducting human resources processes and fulfilling obligations arising from employment contracts and occupational health and safety obligations;
• to the company from which we receive technical IT services, as required by the IT support services we receive and for the purpose of making copies/backups to prevent data loss and conducting system security processes, within the framework of the personal data processing conditions and purposes set out in Articles 8 and 9 of the KVKK.

Ç) Method of Collecting Personal Data and Legal Grounds

Your personal data are collected and processed orally, in writing or electronically — physically or by telephone during meetings and discussions held with you, and through the information and documents you submit to us physically or transmit electronically by e-mail or fax.

Accordingly, your personal data are processed, for the purpose of carrying out all kinds of legal services and consultancy activities, on the legal grounds of fulfilling obligations arising from the Attorneyship Law and other relevant legislation; processing being necessary for the data controller to fulfil its legal obligations pursuant to Article 5/2(ç) of the KVKK; processing being necessary for the establishment, exercise or protection of a right pursuant to Article 5/2(e) of the same Law; and, pursuant to Article 5/2(f), processing being necessary for the legitimate interests of the data controller, provided that it does not harm the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject.

Your personal data processed for the purpose of providing information to authorised persons, institutions and organisations for reasons arising from legislation are processed on the legal ground of being expressly provided for by law, pursuant to the relevant law regulating the obligation to provide information and Article 5/2(a) of the KVKK, and of being necessary for the data controller to fulfil its legal obligations pursuant to Article 5/2(ç) of the same Law.

Your personal data processed for conducting human resources processes, ensuring that data are accurate and up to date, making copies/backups to prevent data loss and conducting system and physical security processes are processed on the legal ground, pursuant to Article 5/2(f) of the KVKK, of processing being necessary for the legitimate interests of the data controller, provided that it does not harm the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject.

Your personal data processed for fulfilling obligations arising from employment contracts and occupational health and safety obligations are processed on the legal grounds of being expressly provided for by law pursuant to the Labour Law, the Social Insurance and General Health Insurance legislation and related legislation and Article 5/2(a) of the KVKK; of being necessary for the data controller to fulfil its legal obligations pursuant to Article 5/2(ç); and of processing being necessary for the establishment, exercise or protection of a right pursuant to Article 5/2(e) of the same Law.

d) Your Rights Listed in Article 11 of the KVKK

As a data subject under the KVKK, you have the right to:

• learn whether your Personal Data are processed,
• request information if your Personal Data have been processed,
• learn the purpose of processing of Personal Data and whether they are used in accordance with that purpose,
• know the third parties in Türkiye or abroad to whom your Personal Data are transferred,
• request the correction of your Personal Data if they are incomplete or inaccurately processed, and request that the action taken in this respect be notified to third parties to whom the Personal Data have been transferred,
• request the deletion or destruction of your Personal Data within the framework of the conditions provided for in the KVKK legislation, and request that the action taken in this respect be notified to third parties to whom the Personal Data have been transferred,
• object to a result arising against you through the analysis of the processed data exclusively by automated systems,
• request compensation for damage if you suffer damage due to the unlawful processing of Personal Data.

e) How to Exercise Your Right of Application

You may submit your request regarding the exercise of the rights set out above in writing, in accordance with the KVKK and the Communiqué on the Procedures and Principles of Application to the Data Controller, or by using the e-mail address previously notified to DİKBAŞ Law Office and registered in our system. DİKBAŞ Law Office reserves the right to request additional documents from the applicant before responding, in order to determine whether the applicant is the data subject.

In your application;

your name, surname and, if the application is in writing, your signature; for citizens of the Republic of Türkiye, your Turkish identity number; if you are a foreign national, your nationality, passport number or, if any, your identity number;

your place of residence or business address for notification purposes and, if any, your e-mail address, telephone and fax number for notification, and the subject of your request must be included, and any information and documents relating to the subject, if any, must also be attached to the application.

Applications made in writing must be delivered by hand, with the necessary documents attached, to the address “Mansuroğlu Mah. 286/4 Sk. Defne Plaza No:2 K:3 D:15-16-17 Bayraklı/İzmir”.
You may submit applications you wish to make by e-mail to info@dikbashukuk.com.

If the conclusion of such requests requires an additional cost, the fee in the tariff determined by the Board will be charged to the applicant.