TÜRGEV Personal Data Protection Clarification Text

Turkey Youth and Education Service Foundation ("TÜRGEV" or "Foundation") places importance on the confidentiality of your personal information and is committed to keeping your personal data secure.

This clarification text has been prepared by TÜRGEV pursuant to the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 ("Law") and the Communiqué on Procedures and Principles to be Followed in Fulfillment of the Clarification Obligation, to inform dormitory students, prospective students, scholarship recipients, scholarship candidates, donors, business/project partners, visitors, users visiting the https://www.turgev.org/ website, internal solution partners/suppliers, employees and officials of cooperating institutions and organizations, and other third parties about the personal data collected and processed within the scope of activities carried out for the Foundation’s purposes.

1. Data Controller and Representative

Turkey Youth and Education Service Foundation (TÜRGEV)
Address: Kısıklı, Küçük Çamlıca Neighborhood, Şht. İsmail Moray Street No:13, 34692 Üsküdar/Istanbul

1. Methods and Legal Grounds for Collecting Personal Data

TÜRGEV collects personal data directly from scholarship recipients, scholarship candidates, dormitory students, prospective dormitory students, donors, visitors, online visitors, and internal solution partners/suppliers themselves, as well as from CCTV, log records, physical and other communication channels in audio, electronic, or written form, in compliance with the personal data processing conditions set forth in the Law. The data are collected proportionally to the purposes of maintaining and improving Foundation activities and in accordance with the legal grounds specified in Articles 5 and 6 of the Law.

1. Purpose of Processing Personal Data

TÜRGEV may process your personal data in accordance with the fundamental principles set forth by the Law and within the scope of personal data processing conditions and purposes in Articles 5 and 6 of the Law, for the following purposes:

• Conducting necessary work by relevant units to carry out Foundation activities and managing associated business processes

• Planning and/or execution of effectiveness/efficiency and/or appropriateness analyses of Foundation activities

• Planning and/or execution of business continuity activities

• Planning, auditing, and execution of information security processes

• Monitoring Foundation finance and accounting operations

• Planning and execution of Foundation operational processes

• Planning and execution of internal and external training activities of the Foundation

• Managing relationships with business partners and/or suppliers

• Tracking requests and/or complaints

• Monitoring Foundation legal affairs and fulfilling legal responsibilities

• Planning and execution of operational activities to ensure that Foundation activities comply with Foundation procedures and/or relevant legislation

• Providing legally required information to authorized institutions

• Planning and execution of Foundation audit activities

• Ensuring the security of Foundation campuses and/or facilities

• Ensuring the security of Foundation operations

• Procurement of Foundation campuses and movable assets

• Ensuring the security of Foundation fixed assets and/or resources

• Creating visitor records

Detailed information about the purposes of processing personal data by TÜRGEV can be found in the TÜRGEV Personal Data Protection and Processing Policy available on our website.

1. Recipients and Purposes of Personal Data Transfer

Collected personal data may be transferred to our business partners, suppliers, legally authorized public institutions, and legally authorized private institutions, in compliance with fundamental principles of the Law and within the personal data processing conditions and purposes set forth in Articles 8 and 9 of the Law, for the realization of the purposes mentioned above.

Detailed information regarding personal data transfer by TÜRGEV can be accessed in the TÜRGEV Personal Data Protection and Processing Policy available on our website.

1. Rights of Data Subjects under Article 11 of the Law

As a data subject, you have the following rights under Article 11 of the Law:

• To learn whether personal data is processed,

• To request information if personal data has been processed,

• To learn the purpose of processing personal data and whether it is used accordingly,

• To know the third parties within or outside the country to whom personal data has been transferred,

• To request correction of incomplete or inaccurate personal data,

• To request deletion or destruction of personal data under the conditions stipulated in Article 7 of the Law,

• To request notification of third parties to whom personal data has been transferred regarding the corrections or deletions,

• To object to any negative result arising from analysis made exclusively through automated systems,

• To claim compensation in case of damage due to unlawful processing of personal data.

1. Application to Exercise Rights of Data Subjects

To exercise your rights concerning your personal data, you may submit requests for changes, updates, deletions, and other related matters through the "KVKK Application Form" accessible on the TÜRGEV website.