Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE TEXT

The purpose of this privacy policy and information disclosure text is to explain to you in detail which personal data of you are processed for which purposes in connection with the service of TABİİ. We attach utmost importance to your privacy. We would like to inform you that, while providing the service of TABİİ and collecting, using and transferring your personal data, we process and protect all your personal data that you have provided to us, in accordance with the general principles of the data protection law, particularly the Law on Protection of Personal Data no. 6698 (“LPPD”), General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the general principles of these regulations. 

Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (“TRT") is the data controller of your personal information, and it uses its best efforts to protect your data in the best manner. In case you contact us in relation to your personal data, we may require you to pass through a security and identity verification process to be determined by TRT, in order to avoid any breach of security of your data. 

To the extent not prohibited by applicable laws, group companies or affiliates of TRT may access your data (as data controllers) to use them on their own behalf for the purposes described in this policy, where they provide the services (as data processors) on behalf of data controllers.

Which Personal Data of You Do We Collect?

When you sign up to TABİİ; 

 

 

Data that You Select to Provide to Us and Allow Us to Provide You with Additional Features 

 

How Do We Collect Your Personal Data?

We may collect your personal data;

  • if you sign in and create a membership,

  • if you use our services, applications and websites,

  • if you forward your information to us through relevant forms and other means,

  • if you forward your information for any application or service of TRT previously or subsequently, 

by automated means, through our website and mobile applications. We may also obtain the aforementioned information through third parties in accordance with the following methods.

Information Provided by Third Parties

Our Purposes of Processing Personal Data, and Methods of and Legal Grounds for Collection of Personal Data

We process your personal data in accordance with the general principles in article 4 of LPPD and article 5 of GDPR and within the scope of the data processing conditions set out in LPPD and GDPR.

Transfer of Personal Data

We may transfer the personal data we process, within the scope of the Laws and other legislation, to our relevant business partners and affiliates, and public or private legal entities operating on behalf of our Corporation, that we have authorized, for the purposes that we have explained and in order to carry out business processes, in accordance with the provisions regarding the transfer of personal data that are set out in the legislation, and to authorized public institutions and organizations in order to fulfill our legal obligations.

Since the application infrastructure is provided by cloud systems, your data may be transferred abroad. Regarding the global transfer, storage and processing of your personal data, since we, as the platform of TABİİ, aim to provide you with a global service, your data may be transferred, within the scope of the purposes specified in this policy, to our affiliates and business partners located in different locations, particularly TRT, and to their affiliated third parties. We are committed to taking the most stringent measures to protect confidentiality of your personal data, regardless of where they are stored, to where they are transferred, or where they are processed. 

 

Your personal data may also be disclosed to our business partners to the extent they are fit for the purpose, limited to the following purposes: Your personal data may be disclosed to third parties, our business partners, and our suppliers with which we have a contractual relationship, for the purpose of advertising, website and application analytics, website and application testing and customization, usage, recording and display service, website and application analytics, mobile analytics, mobile notifications, advertising campaign analytics, social media posting service, target setting for app installation campaigns, conversion and monitoring, test applications distribution and collapse notifications, inapp notifications, customization of user behaviors, marketing service, solution suggestions, mobile application analysis and efficiency measurements, live broadcast monitoring, player performance development of TABİİ, analysis of errors and accuracy of the content viewed and of the user experiences, and for processing payments made by credit cards, debit cards or various gift cards for the sale of paid packages that may be provided to users in our website and/or mobile applications. 

Except for the limited conditions specified in this Privacy Policy, your personal data are not disclosed to any third party other than TRT and other business partners of us. When you prefer to disclose your personal data to third-party companies and in case you allow the disclosure of your personal data to third-party companies and forward us your instructions for the disclosure of your personal data to third-party companies after upon your request, in order to ensure the sending of offers and promotions with regard to products and services, and in case you forward an instruction for the disclosure of your personal data to transport companies, companies providing hotel and travel services, catering companies, and third-party networks, websites and platforms used, when we disclose your personal data to these third-party companies, we would like to remind you that such personal data received by those companies will be under the supervision and responsibility of those companies and will be subject to the privacy policy of those companies. 

Storage and Destruction of Personal Data

As TABİİ, Our Corporation TRT stores personal data in line with and proportional to their purpose of processing. Maximum level of technical and administrative measures stipulated under LPPD and GDPR is taken to ensure the security of the personal data that are stored. When the purpose of and/or the grounds for processing of personal data ceases to exist, they are stored until the end of the storage period prescribed by the applicable legislation, by also observing our legal obligations. When the purpose of and the grounds for processing of personal data ceases to exist, personal data shall be destroyed once the lapse of time periods required for fulfillment of our obligations arising from the relevant legislation expires.

Issues Exclusive to Children

TABİİ pay utmost attention to the protection of personal data of children. Taking into consideration the actual difficulty to monitor children on the internet, the internet use by children should be supervised by their parents/guardians and the express consent should be obtained from parents/guardians where express consent is required for processing of data.

Rights of the Data Subject

Everyone has the following rights pursuant to article 11 of LPPD:

1. To learn whether or not their personal data have been processed,

2. To request information on the procedure, if their personal data have been processed,

3. To learn the purpose of processing of personal data and whether or not such data are used in line with their intended purpose,

4. To obtain information about third persons to whom their personal data have been transferred domestically or abroad,

5. To request the correction of their personal data that may have been processed incompletely or inaccurately, and to request that the third parties to whom their personal data have been transferred be notified of the procedure carried out in this context,

6. In case, although they have been processed pursuant to the provisions of LPPD and other relevant laws, the reasons requiring them to be processed have ceased to exist, to request the deletion or destruction of personal data and to request that the third parties to whom their personal data have been transferred be notified of the procedure carried out in this context,

7. To object to the emergence of an outcome which is to the detriment of the data subject as a result of the analysis of data processed, exclusively through automated systems,

8. To request compensation for any damage incurred due to unlawful processing of personal data.

 

You may forward to us your requests under article 11 of LPPD, “which sets out the rights of data subjects”, in accordance with the Communiqué on the  Procedures and Principles for Application to the Data Controller. Requests will be evaluated and decided upon free of charge as soon as possible and in any case within thirty (30) days at the latest. In the case that the evaluation and decision procedure requires an additional cost, the fee specified in the tariff designated by the Personal Data Protection Board will be taken as a basis.

 

Your Rights under GDPR

As an individual, you have certain rights in connection with our processing of your personal data, including the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority.

Under GDPR, you have the following rights:

Your right to access: You are entitled to request copies of your personal data. This right will enable you to take a copy of your personal data stored by us about you and to check whether or not we lawfully process your data.

Your right to correction: You are entitled to request correction of any information that you think is incorrect. You are also entitled to request completion of incomplete/missing information.

Your right to destruction: You are entitled to request us, under certain circumstances, to destroy your personal data. This right will enable you to request us to delete or remove your personal data unless there is a valid reason to continue the processing of such personal data. You are also entitled to raise an objection to the processing of your personal data for the purpose of deletion or destruction. (Please see below for these circumstances.)

Your right to object to the processing: Under certain circumstances, you are entitled to object to the processing of your personal data (when we process them on the basis of a legitimate interest or interests of a third party and there is a consideration related to your special case, that is the reason for your objection to the processing on that ground). You are also entitled to raise an objection to our processing of your personal data directly for commercial purposes.

The right to restrict the processing of your data: Under certain circumstances, you are entitled to consult us in order to restrict the processing of your personal data.

Your right to data portability: Under certain circumstances, you are entitled to request us to transfer the information that you provided to us, to another entity or to you.

You do not need to pay any fee in order to exercise your rights. If you send us any request, we have one month to provide you with a response.

 

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As an individual you have certain rights regarding our processing of your personal data, including a right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority.

Under GDPR, you have rights including:

  • Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. This enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

  • Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

  • Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).

  • Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances (where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground.). You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.

  • Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your information in certain circumstances.

  • Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

 

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Identity of Data Controller

Title: Türkiye Radyo ve Televizyon Kurumu/TRT

Website: Tabii.com

Email Address: support@tabii.com

Address: TRT Genel Müdürlüğü Turan Güneş Bulvarı TRT Sitesi 06550 Oran ANKARA

 

Amendments to the Privacy Policy 

We may amend this privacy policy from time to time in order to adapt to the new technologies, sector practices, legal conditions or other purposes. We will notify you when these amendments are essential and we will also obtain your consent if this is required under the applicable laws. We may serve notifications, by sending an e-mail to the e-mail address that you provided to us or publishing the aforementioned amendments on our website and applications, or through other means in accordance with the applicable laws.

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