For Bitkiden - Plant-Based Foods Association ("Association"), ensuring the privacy and security of your personal data is our first priority. This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") has been prepared to inform you about (i) your personal data we process through bitkiden.org.tr ("Site"), (ii) the purposes of our data collection and (iii) your rights regarding your data. Persons using the Site are subject to the Privacy Policy in force during their use. For this reason, you should review the terms in the Privacy Policy every time you use the Site and if you do not accept the Privacy Policy, you should not use our website.

Your personal information you provide to us will be processed and saved in a file under the responsibility of the Association and for the purposes set out in the Clarification Text below.

CLARIFICATION TEXT ON THE PROCESSING AND PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA

This Clarification Text has been written by Bitkiden, acting in the capacity of data controller, in accordance with the Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data, in order to explain and inform the users/visitors of our Association in accordance with the Law No. 6698 on the processing of Personal Data belonging to all persons associated with our Association, including those who benefit from our activities. You can access detailed information about the processing of your Personal Data that you share with our Association from the Policy on Processing and Protection of Personal Data on the website bitkiden.org.tr.

1. Personal Data Processed:

• Identity Information (Name-Surname)
• Contact Information (E-Mail Address, Cell Phone Number)
• Information on the Legal Process (Information in the Case File in Case of Dispute, Notices, Information in Correspondence with Judicial and Administrative Authorities)
• Information on Visitor Procedures (Visitor Comments)
• Information on the Website (IP Address Information, Website Login Exit Information, User Name Information, Password Information, Traffic Data (Connection Time / Duration, etc.)

2. Purpose of Processing Personal Data:

Within the scope of your legal relationship with our Association; Personal Data you have shared in accordance with the law and the purpose of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data and the purposes of processing below may be processed by our Association. In this direction, carrying out the necessary work by our Association's business units in order to benefit Personal Data Owners from the activities offered by our Association; carrying out operations with our Association's Business Partners and / or suppliers; accessing the records of Personal Data Owners created within our Association during their next visits; forwarding announcements about the activities offered to visitors by mail, e-mail, SMS and telephone; recommending and delivering the activities offered to Personal Data Owners by customizing them according to the likes, usage habits and needs of Personal Data Owners; carrying out the necessary work to deliver catalogs and announcements to the visitor/user, taking into account the continuity and continuity of visitors/users to benefit from the activities of our Association; meeting complaints or review requests regarding the activities offered and informing visitors/users in this regard; fulfilling obligations and taking necessary measures within the framework of occupational health and safety in order to carry out the human resources policies of our Association; in order to ensure the legal and commercial security of our Association and the persons who have a business relationship with our Association; Carrying out and managing the administrative and legal procedures for communication carried out by our Association, activities to ensure the physical security and control of the locations of our Association and financial affairs processes; Carrying out and managing the internal system and application management operations, communication, market research and social responsibility activities and financial operations and product/project/manufacturing/investment quality processes by our Association in order to determine and implement the commercial and business strategies of our Association; planning and/or execution of customer relationship management processes, including the planning and/or execution of user satisfaction activities; reaching users by mail, e-mail, SMS and telephone in this direction; contacting Personal Data Owners who submit requests and complaints to our Association and ensuring the follow-up and management of requests and complaints; creating and tracking visitor records and conducting advertisement/announcement processes and communication activities and sending electronic messages (telephone, SMS, MMS, e-mail (printed) or in other ways) in this context, limited to the purposes specified in Articles 5 and 6 of the Personal Data Protection Law. and 6 of the Personal Data Protection Law within the scope of the Personal Data Processing conditions specified in Articles 5 and 6.

3. Methods of Collection of Personal Data and Cookies

We process the personal data of our customers using our site in accordance with the provisions of the legislation. Bitkiden.org.tr, which belongs to our association, is a site that uses cookies. Cookies also referred to as "http cookie" refers to a system used on websites. Cookies refer to small-sized data saved by the internet browser on the computers of people using the website. Thanks to this data, for example, information such as the pages clicked is recorded. On our site, in order to provide better service to users, your browsing information is collected, processed, shared with third parties and stored securely in accordance with this Clarification Text and limited to the purpose, scope and methods herein. bitkiden.org.tr cookies; It stores your files created at the time of use and / or the information it collects through third party sources in order to determine your preferences and provide you with a suitable service. bitkiden.org.tr may monitor your browsing information and/or your usage history on the site in order to promote you individually, to offer special offers, to configure the design of the website uniquely for you and/or to highlight your requests. bitkiden.org.tr may match the information collected about you in environments with and without internet connection and may use this information together with information from other sources such as third parties.

Our website also uses a session ID cookie. The session ID cookie is automatically closed when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your hard disk for a long time. You can remove persistent cookies and reject both session cookies and persistent cookies by following the instructions provided in the "help" file of your internet browser or by visiting "www.allaboutcookies.org" or "www.youronlinechoices.eu". If you reject persistent cookies or session cookies, you may continue to use the website, mobile application, but you may not be able to access all functions of the website or your access may be limited. The following methods can be used in different browsers to refuse cookies:

In addition to the above options; to have information about all cookies and for cookie management: https://www.allaboutcookies.org, https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/, or you can use the "Privacy Badger" application (https://www.eff.org/tr/privacybadger). If you refuse persistent cookies or session cookies, you may continue to use the website, mobile application and mobile site, but you may not be able to access all functions of the website, mobile application and mobile site or your access may be limited.

Our website bitkiden.org.tr contains certain cookies related to the functioning of our website.

Some of the cookies on our website are used for you to navigate our website, to benefit from the features of our website and to access certain secure sections. The use of these cookies is essential for the website to function. For example, our cookies for user logins work during the time the user spends on the website and track the user's actions when filling in forms on many pages.

Some of the cookies on our website are also functional and remember preferences made and information provided by users. Some examples of these are user name, language and region. This allows us to shape our website according to users' preferences. For example, validation cookies (or persistent cookies if you use the "remember me" feature), which are functional during the time spent on the website, enable users to validate themselves on subsequent visits or to access content that requires validation across pages. Our functional cookies include the following:

• User-centered security cookies, such as repeated failed login attempts, which are used to detect authentication breaches within a limited period of time. These cookies are set specifically for the task of ensuring the security of the service.
• Multimedia content player session cookies (flash cookies) used to store technical data necessary for the playback of video or audio content during a session (e.g. image quality, internet link speed and buffer parameters)
• Load balancing session cookies used to identify the same server in the pool for the duration of the session so that the load balancer can route user requests appropriately
• Persistent cookies for user interface customization to save the user's preferences for a service across web pages.

Our website is focused on improving the user experience and uses many tools to improve the site and its commercial platform. For this purpose, reporting and analytics cookies are used to collect information about how you use websites like Bitkiden. These cookies collect information for statistical purposes only and work with pseudonymous cookie identifiers that cannot directly identify you. Among the performance cookies used:

• First party analytics cookies - These cookies are used to determine the total number of unique visitors, to improve our system and to determine the most searched words that lead to a page in search engines. These cookies are not used to target you with online marketing, only to enable us to make additions to improve your browsing experience.
• Third party analytics cookies - Bitkiden also uses Google Analytics and other third party analytics providers listed below to measure how users interact with Bitkiden's content. These cookies "remember" what Bitkiden users have done on previous pages and the actions they have taken on the Bitkiden site. For more information about Google Analytics Google's information page for more information. For instructions on how to opt-out of Google Analytics, you can use the information below.

Finally, Social and Content cookies are set by multiple social media plugins (e.g. the Facebook 'like' button) and other tools used to enhance content (e.g. services that play video files or create comment sections). Bitkiden uses these modules to enhance the browsing experience on its platform and to improve interaction with the website. Some of these third party services also place some cookies used for purposes such as behavioral marketing, analytics and/or market research. The following cookies are used due to the Bitkiden website software infrastructure:

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How long do cookies stay on the computer or mobile device?

The length of time a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device varies depending on whether it is "persistent" or "session-based". Session cookies persist until you terminate browsing and persistent cookies expire or are deleted. The majority of cookies we use are persistent and expire or are deleted between 30 minutes and two years after they land on your device. You can find out how to check cookies and delete them before they expire in the section below.

How can cookies be controlled?

You can control and manage cookies in many ways. Please note that removing cookies may adversely affect your member experience and may prevent you from fully accessing some parts of our website.

Many browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can directly choose whether or not to accept cookies. We recommend that you review the information we provide in Section 3.

You can also opt out of some of the advertising systems used on the Site by exercising your right to opt out of the advertising system of the Digital Advertising Association on this page: http://optout.aboutads.info

4. To whom and for what purpose personal data may be transferred:

Within the scope of the Personal Data Transfer conditions specified in Articles 8 and 9 of the Personal Data Protection Law To ensure the fulfillment of the purposes of the establishment of the business partnership established for the purposes of carrying out various projects and receiving services while carrying out the activities of our Association within the scope of the Personal Data Transfer conditions specified in Articles 8 and 9 of the Personal Data Protection Law; to carry out the activities carried out within the scope of legislation, event management and corporate communication processes; to design strategies for commercial activities, to ensure management and supervision at the highest level; to notify users of announcements by mail, e-mail and/or SMS, telephone, to print and deliver catalogs, to Association Business Partners, Association Stakeholders, Association Officials and/or third parties/organizations to be determined by them. In addition, if requested by the relevant public institutions and organizations within their legal authority and if requested by the relevant private law persons within their legal authority in accordance with the provisions of the legislation; Our Association may transfer Personal Data to legally authorized Public Institutions and Organizations and legally authorized Private Law Persons and / or third parties / organizations to be determined by them.

In the event that the processing activities carried out for the aforementioned purposes do not meet any of the exceptions stipulated under the Law, your explicit consent is obtained by our Association regarding the relevant processing process.

5. Legal Grounds for Collecting Personal Data:

Your personal data may be collected by the Association for the purposes set out in Article 5 of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data in order to achieve the purposes listed in Article 2:

• Explicitly stipulated in the law,
• Provided that it is directly related to the conclusion or performance of a contract, it is necessary to process personal data of the parties to the contract,
• It is mandatory for the data controller to fulfill its legal obligation and
• Provided that it does not harm the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject, it is processed depending on the legal reasons that data processing is mandatory for the legitimate interests of the data controller.

6. Rights of the Personal Data Owner in accordance with the Law on the Protection of Personal Data:

Pursuant to Article 10 of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data, our Association informs you of your rights as a Personal Data Owner; provides guidance on how to exercise such rights and carries out the necessary internal functioning, administrative and technical arrangements for all these. Pursuant to Article 11 of the Law, our Association informs the persons whose Personal Data is received; to learn whether Personal Data has been processed, to request information if Personal Data has been processed, to learn the purpose of processing Personal Data and whether they are used in accordance with their purpose, to request information if Personal Data has been processed domestically and abroad, to request correction of Personal Data in case of incomplete or incorrect processing, to request correction of Personal Data within the framework of the conditions stipulated in Article 7 of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data. To request the deletion or destruction of Personal Data within the framework of the conditions stipulated in Article 7 of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data, to request notification of the transactions made pursuant to subparagraphs (d) and (e) of Article 11 of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data to the third party to whom Personal Data is transferred, to object to the occurrence of a result to the detriment of the person himself/herself by analyzing the processed data exclusively through automated systems, to demand the compensation of the damage in case of damage due to unlawful processing of Personal Data.

Personal Data Owners can submit their requests regarding their rights listed below to our Association free of charge by filling out and signing the Application Form in the Annex with the information and documents that will identify their identity and the methods specified below or other methods determined by the Personal Data Protection Board:

• The completed and wet-signed copy of the form may be submitted by hand, through a notary public or by registered letter with return receipt requested to Fenerbahçe Mah. Op. Cemil Topuzlu Cad. Hoşver Apt. No:16/6 K:3 Kadıköy-Istanbul address,
• Following a method prescribed/to be prescribed by the Personal Data Protection Board.

In order for third parties to make an application request on behalf of Personal Data Owners, there must be a special power of attorney issued by the Personal Data Owner through a notary public on behalf of the person who will make the application. Our Association will finalize the request free of charge as soon as possible and within 30 (thirty) days at the latest, depending on the nature of the request. However, if the transaction requires an additional cost, our Association reserves the right to charge a fee over the tariff determined by the Personal Data Protection Board.