Insight Turkey (we, us, our) is published by the SETA Foundation. We aim to protect the privacy of the visitors and subscribers (user, you, yours) to our website www.insightturkey.com (Site) and give detailed information about the subscribers’ data that is collected while the user visits the Site.  The visitors to our Site have the chance to view various limited contents. 

In accordance with the Law No. 6698 on Protection of Personal Data we have shown the utmost concern for the safety of your personal data.

Personal Identification Information

We may collect personal identification information (PII) from Users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when Users visit our site, register/subscribe on the site, and are in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our Site. Users may be asked for information such as name, email address, mailing address. Users may, however, visit our Site anonymously. Your personal data will be collected with the declaration and approval you provide through any written, oral or electronic environments and will be processed in accordance with the requirements listed in Articles 5 and 6 of the Law on Protection of Personal Data.

Users can always refuse to supply personal identification information, except that it may prevent them from engaging in certain Site related activities. None of the PII will be shared with third parties. When the subscription/registration is deleted, all the PII will be deleted automatically. 

The processing of PII of a data subject shall always be in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and in accordance with the Law No. 6698 on Protection of Personal Data.

Non-personal Identification Information

We may collect non-personal identification information about Users whenever they interact with our Site. The non-personal identification information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about Users means of connection to our Site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider utilized and other similar information.

Web Browser Cookies

Our Site uses "cookies" to enhance User experience. User's web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them. User may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If they do so, note that some parts of the Site may not function properly.

How We Use Collected Information

Insight Turkey may collect and use Users personal information for the following purposes:

• To personalize your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
• To improve our website in order to better serve you.
• To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
• To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
• To send periodic emails regarding your order or other products and services.

How We Protect Your Information

We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information and data stored on our Site. Your personal information is contained in secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.

We implement a variety of security measures when a user places an order enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.

All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers.

Credit or debit card information and personal financial account information is considered “Sensitive Information.”  We do not collect credit card, debit card or personal financial account information when you subscribe to our content, because we use a third party vendor, Halkbank, to process our subscription billing.   When you provide payment information to subscribe to our content you provide it directly to Halkbank and not to insightturkey.com. Halkbank is a third party vendor and has its own privacy policy, which may be different from ours. To learn about Halkbank’s privacy policy, please check https://www.halkbank.com.tr/en/channel/index/3140.  

Sharing Your Personal Information

We do not share, sell, trade, or rent Users’ personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.

Third Party Websites

Users may find advertising or other content on our Site that link to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors and other third parties. We do not control the content or links that appear on these sites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our Site. In addition, these sites or services, including their content and links, may be constantly changing. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our Site, is subject to that website's own terms and policies.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

This privacy policy aims to give detailed information about the subscribers’ data that is collected while the user visits the Site. All the users are entitled to this privacy policy by entering this site.  Any information collected by us shall be used only in consistency with the information in this page.  We keep our privacy policy under regular review. This privacy policy was last updated on 15 May 2018 in line with the new GDPR guidelines.

Your Acceptance of These Terms

This Privacy Policy was last updated on December 07, 2017. We reserve the right to change the Privacy Policy without notifying our subscribers/visitors. All the users are entitled to this privacy policy by entering this site.

This privacy policy aims to give detailed information about the subscribers’ data that is collected while the user visits the Site.  We reserve the right to change the Privacy Policy without notifying our subscribers/visitors. All the users are entitled to this privacy policy by entering this site.  Any information collected by us shall be used only in consistency with the information on this page.  

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can email us at insight@insightturkey.com and we will promptly remove you from ALL correspondence.

Cancellation, Return and Refund Policy

Those who would like to have access to all the contents may register or subscribe to our site. Website memberships can be cancelled by clicking on 'Delete Account' option. Paid subscriptions will not update automatically, so the subscribers need to renew the subscription every year.  

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at:

Address: Nene Hatun Street, No: 66, GOP

06700, Çankaya/Ankara, TURKEY

Phone: +90 312 551 21 00
Fax : +90 312 551 21 90

Email: insight@insightturkey.com; editor@insightturkey.com 

This document was last updated on December 27, 2017