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This Privacy Policy and Privacy Notice has been prepared, in accordance with Turkish Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data ("KVKK"), to explain the scope, purposes and legal grounds under which your personal data is processed through the Website and the membership system, forms and services connected to it, and to inform you, as required under Article 10 of the KVKK, in Teknokol's capacity as Data Controller.

1. Categories of Personal Data Processed

Depending on the nature of the services offered through the Website, the following categories of personal data may be processed:

• Identity and Contact Information: Name, surname, e-mail address, phone number, company/dealer information, country and city — collected through membership registration, the contact form, career applications and product inquiry forms.
• Account Information: Your password (stored encrypted) when you create a membership account, account approval status, your role, and your last login date.
• Request and Message Content: The content of messages you submit through the contact form, job application, internship application and product inquiry forms; CV files or attachments you upload with your applications.
• Product Interest and Usage Data: Products you save/favorite, your search history, and the products/categories you view — linked to your member account or to your guest browser session (guest key).
• Capacity Calculation Data: The technical parameters you enter when using the capacity calculator; if you are not a member, your e-mail, company and country information for contact purposes.
• Order/Configuration Information: Contact and order details submitted through the product configurator. This data is managed through a separate configuration system and is not permanently stored in the Website's database; it is only viewed for the purpose of carrying out order processes.
• Transaction Security Information: IP address, device/browser information, log records, access date and time information, and account activity records.
• Marketing and Consent Information: Your record of having been informed and consenting to the processing of your personal data, your explicit consent record for commercial electronic messages, and your cookie preferences.

2. Method of Collecting Personal Data

Your personal data is collected electronically and through automated means via the membership registration form, contact form, job and internship application forms, product inquiry/quotation form, capacity calculator tool, cookies and server logs.

3. Purposes of Processing Personal Data

Your personal data collected may be processed for the following purposes:

• Creating your membership account, carrying out the approval process and managing your account,
• Evaluating and responding to requests submitted through the contact, quotation, job application, internship application and product inquiry channels,
• Generating capacity calculation results and delivering them to you,
• Providing you with a personalized experience by storing your saved products and search history in your account/session,
• Fulfilling order requests submitted through the configurator and carrying out order processes,
• Ensuring the security of the Website and your account, and preventing misuse, spam and unauthorized access attempts,
• Fulfilling legal obligations and responding to requests from authorized institutions,
• Where your explicit consent exists, sending campaign, announcement and commercial electronic messages.

4. Legal Grounds

Your personal data is processed based on the following legal grounds set out in Article 5 of the KVKK:

• Being directly related to the establishment or performance of a contract: Creating and managing your membership account, fulfilling your product/service requests.
• Fulfilling a legal obligation: Statutory retention and notification obligations.
• The data controller's legitimate interest: Ensuring the security of the Website and your account, improving service quality, and preventing fraud and misuse.
• Explicit consent: For sending commercial electronic messages and for cookie uses that require explicit consent.

5. Transfer of Personal Data

Your personal data may be shared, to the extent necessary to achieve the purposes set out above, with business partners providing hosting, security, e-mail, form management, analytics and technical infrastructure services, the service provider operating the product configuration system, and authorized public institutions and organizations. Where the servers of certain technical infrastructure and analytics services are located abroad, your data may be transferred abroad in accordance with applicable legislation and with the necessary security measures in place.

6. Data Security

The Website encrypts data transmission with an SSL certificate and applies reasonable technical and administrative measures against unauthorized access, brute-force attacks and misuse risks, using server-level firewalls, malware scans and technical security software. Your membership password is stored in encrypted (hashed) form.

7. Data Retention and Deletion Rights

Your personal data is retained for the period required by the purposes of processing, taking into account the legal retention periods set out in applicable legislation. When the purpose ceases to exist or the retention period expires, your data is deleted, destroyed or anonymized. You may contact us at info@teknokol.com to delete your membership account or to request that your data be updated or deleted.

8. Rights of the Data Subject (KVKK Art. 11)

Pursuant to Article 11 of the KVKK, you have the right to: learn whether your personal data is being processed; request information if it has been processed; learn the purpose of processing and whether it is used accordingly; know the third parties to whom your data is transferred domestically or abroad; request correction if your data has been processed incompletely or incorrectly; request deletion or destruction within the conditions set out in the KVKK; request that correction, deletion or destruction be notified to third parties to whom your data was transferred; object to a result against you arising solely from automated analysis of processed data; and request compensation for damages arising from unlawful processing. You may exercise these rights by contacting the Data Controller at info@teknokol.com; your applications will be concluded within the periods stipulated by applicable legislation.

9. Third-Party Services

The Website may make use of third-party services such as Google Analytics/Google Tag Manager to measure visitor traffic, Google reCAPTCHA for form security, and Google Maps to display location on contact pages. Analytics and marketing tools are only activated in accordance with your cookie consent; see the Cookie Policy page for details.

10. Commercial Electronic Messages

Commercial electronic messages regarding campaigns, announcements, promotions and marketing are only sent to you if you give your explicit consent on the relevant form. You may withdraw your explicit consent at any time. See the Explicit Consent Text page for details.

11. Cookies

The Website may use necessary, functional, analytics and marketing cookies. Necessary cookies are required for the Website to function securely and correctly; other cookies are used in accordance with user preferences and the cookie consent mechanism. See the Cookie Policy page for details.

12. Policy Updates

The Website reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy and Privacy Notice in line with technological developments, changes in services or legal regulations. Updates take effect as of the date they are published on this page.

This text has been prepared to obtain your explicit consent, under Turkish Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data ("KVKK") and Law No. 6563 on the Regulation of Electronic Commerce, to send you campaign, announcement, promotion, informational and marketing-related commercial electronic messages and to process your personal data within this scope.

This explicit consent is not mandatory in order for you to send an information, quotation, communication or application request through the Website. Not granting consent to commercial electronic messages does not prevent you from using the forms on the Website or submitting your request.

This consent checkbox appears on the membership registration, contact, job application, internship application and product inquiry forms. Your consent is recorded together with the form type, date and IP address, and may be used as evidence where necessary.

1. Scope of the Explicit Consent and Processing Purposes

If you check the relevant consent box on the Website or otherwise give your explicit consent, your name, surname, phone number, e-mail address, communication preferences and commercial electronic message consent records may be processed by the Data Controller for the following purposes:

• Delivering campaigns, announcements, newsletters, promotions and advertisements regarding products and services,
• Providing you with special offers, advantages and informational content,
• Sharing announcements about events, fairs, launches, new products or new services,
• Carrying out satisfaction, feedback and customer experience processes,
• Planning and carrying out marketing, advertising, promotion and commercial communication activities,
• Recording and managing commercial electronic message consent and opt-out records.

2. Commercial Electronic Communication Channels

If you give your explicit consent, commercial electronic messages may be sent to you through channels such as e-mail, SMS, phone calls, WhatsApp, mobile notifications or similar electronic communication channels.

Commercial electronic messages sent to you may contain content such as campaigns, announcements, promotions, informational content, advantageous offers, events, or product or service promotions.

3. Transfer of Personal Data

Your personal data may be shared, only to the extent necessary, with service providers, business partners and authorized public institutions and organizations that provide services such as sending commercial electronic messages, e-mail/SMS delivery infrastructure, customer relationship management, marketing activities, technical support, security and reporting, in order to carry out the purposes set out above.

Where the servers of certain technical infrastructure, message delivery, analytics or marketing services used are located abroad, your personal data may be transferred abroad in accordance with applicable legislation and with the necessary security measures in place.

4. Right to Withdraw Consent and Object

You may withdraw your explicit consent and your commercial electronic message permission at any time, without stating any reason.

You may exercise this right by using the opt-out, unsubscribe or withdrawal link included in the commercial electronic messages sent to you, or by submitting your request to the contact e-mail address specified above.

If you withdraw your explicit consent, the sending of marketing and commercial electronic messages to you will be stopped. Withdrawal of explicit consent does not affect the lawfulness of data processing activities carried out prior to the date of withdrawal.

5. Retention Period

Your commercial electronic message consent and explicit consent records may be retained for as long as the consent remains valid and taking into account the retention periods set out in applicable legislation.

If you withdraw your explicit consent or remove your commercial electronic message permission, the relevant records may be retained for periods compliant with applicable legislation in order to manage your opt-out record and fulfil legal obligations.

6. Declaration

By checking the relevant consent box on the Website, you accept that you have read and understood this text, and that you freely and explicitly consent to the processing of your personal data and the sending of commercial electronic messages to you within the scope set out above.