As the Data Controller, Prof. Dr. Erdem Tezel processes and protects the confidentiality of the personal data of visitors ("visitor") to the website operated at www.erdemtezel.com in accordance with Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (the "Law").
This Website Privacy and Cookie Policy (the "Policy") sets out the processing of visitors' personal data, the cookie policy, and the website privacy principles. Cookies are small text files that store small pieces of information. Cookies are stored on your device or network server through your browser by the websites you visit. When a website loads in your browser, cookies are stored on your device. Cookies enable the website to function properly, to be made more secure, and to provide a better user experience. Session and local storage areas are used for the same purpose as cookies. Our website does not contain cookies; session and local storage areas are active.
Cookies are used so that visitors can benefit from our website in the most efficient way. If cookies are not preferred, they can be deleted or blocked through browser settings. However, this may negatively affect the performance of our website. Unless the visitor changes the cookie settings in their browser, they are assumed to have accepted the use of cookies on this site.
1. Purpose of Processing Personal Data
Your personal data obtained as a result of visiting our website is processed by Dr. Tezel in accordance with Articles 5 and 6 of the Law for the purposes listed below:
2. Parties to Whom Personal Data Is Transferred and the Purpose of Transfer
Your personal data obtained as a result of visiting our website may be transferred to legally authorized public institutions and to the organizations with which we cooperate and from which we receive contracted services, in line with the purposes of processing your personal data and within the scope of the personal data processing conditions and purposes specified in Articles 8 and 9 of the Law.
3. Method of Collecting Personal Data
Cookies are small text files stored on the device or network server through browsers by the websites visited. When our website is visited, with the visitor's consent, cookies are applied not only to our website but also to the domains google.com, facebook.com, twitter.com, and instagram.com.
4. Purpose of Using Cookies
Our website uses first-party and third-party cookies. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function correctly and do not hold your personal data. Third-party cookies are used to provide a better service by enhancing the performance, interaction, security, and advertising of our website. They help speed up the user experience and future interactions with our website. In this context, cookies:
Statistics: These cookies store information such as the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website are visited, the source of the visit, and so on. This data helps us analyze how well the website is performing.
Marketing: These cookies are used to personalize the advertisements we show you so that they are meaningful to you. These cookies also help us track the efficiency of these advertising campaigns. The information stored in these cookies may also be used by third-party advertising providers to show you advertisements on other websites in your browser.
Functional: These are cookies that assist certain non-essential functions on our website. These functions include embedding content such as videos or sharing website content on social media platforms.
Preferences: These cookies help us save your settings and determine your browsing preferences, such as language preferences, so that you have a better and more efficient experience on your future visits to the website.
The types of cookies technically used on our website are shown in the table below.
Session Cookies: Session cookies are temporary cookies used during our visitors' visits to our website and are deleted after the browser is closed. Their purpose is to ensure that the website functions properly during your visit.
Persistent Cookies: Persistent cookies are types of cookies used to enhance the functionality of the website and to provide our visitors with faster and better service. Such cookies are used to remember your preferences and are stored on your device through browsers.
Mandatory/Technical Cookies: Technical cookies enable the website to operate and identify non-functioning pages and areas of the website.
Functional Cookies: Functional cookies are cookies used to facilitate visits to the website and improve your browsing experience. They allow certain settings, such as your preferred language, layout, or color scheme, to be remembered.
Flash Cookies: These are types of cookies used to enable the image or audio content on the website.
Customization Cookies: These are cookies used to remember users' preferences, such as language, when visiting different pages of different websites.
Analytical/Performance Cookies: These are cookies that track analytical results such as the number of website visitors, the identification of viewed pages, visit times, and page scrolling movements.
Targeting/Advertising Cookies: Advertising and personalization cookies are used to collect information about the browsing behavior of visitors to our websites in order to customize our advertising and website content.
First-Party Cookies: These are cookies defined by the visited website and readable only by that site.
Third-Party Cookies: These are cookies defined by organizations other than the visited website and that enable reporting to the site regarding the service for which they are defined.
The main purposes of using cookies on our website are listed below:
5. Controlling Cookie Preferences
Different browsers offer different methods for blocking and deleting cookies used by websites. To block/delete cookies, browser settings must be changed. To learn more about how to manage and delete cookies, you can visit www.allaboutcookies.org. Visitors have the option to personalize their cookie preferences by changing their browser settings. At our clinic, no log records are kept other than those by Google. Records kept by Google are stored for a period of 1 year.
6. Rights of Data Subjects
As a personal data subject under Article 11 of the KVKK, you have the right to:
If you wish to exercise your rights under Article 11 of the Law, you may submit your request containing your explanations by filling out the application form available at www.erdemtezel.com and delivering a signed copy of the form, together with your identification documents, in person to the address Ümit Mah. 2494/2 Sok. No:6 Osmanağa Konakları Şişli/İstanbul, or by sending it via a notary. You are required to submit your requests regarding the rights specified in Article 11 of the Law to us first.
If the personal data subject submits their request regarding their rights to us in accordance with the procedure, the request will be concluded 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 process requires an additional cost, a fee may be charged in accordance with the tariff determined by the Personal Data Protection Board. In the event that the application is rejected, the response is found insufficient, or no response is given to the application within the specified period, you may file a complaint with the Personal Data Protection Board within thirty days from the date you learn of our response and, in any case, within sixty days from the date of application.
7. Entry into Force of the Policy
This Policy enters into force on the date it is published. In the event that the entire Policy or certain articles are renewed, the effective date of the Policy will be revised. You can access Prof. Dr. Erdem Tezel's Personal Data Protection and Processing Policy and the Personal Data Retention and Destruction Policy from our Clinic Center, and the Personal Data Application Form from www.erdemtezel.com.
Respectfully,Prof. Dr. Erdem TezelAesthetic, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon