KVKK - Privacy & Security
A. Introduction
The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what we will do with your personal information.
By consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website, you permit us to use cookies each time you visit our site.
B. Collecting personal information
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:
- 1. Information about your computer including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system,
- 2. Information about your visit to and use of this website including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths,
- 3. Information such as your name, surname, phone number, and email address that you provide to us when filling out forms such as contact or recruitment on our website,
- 4. Information generated while using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it,
- 5. Before disclosing another person's personal information to us, you must obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.
C. Using your personal information
Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information to:
- 1. Administer our website and business,
- 2. Personalize our website for you,
- 3. Enable your use of the services available on our website,
- 4. Send you non-marketing commercial communications,
- 5. Provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information),
- 6. Deal with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website,
- 7. Keep our website secure and prevent fraud and other purposes.
D. Disclosing personal information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information:
- 1. To the extent that we are required to do so by law,
- 2. In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings,
- 3. In order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights,
- 4. To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling and if we believe that the court or relevant authorities would order such disclosure,
- 5. Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
E. International data transfers
Information that we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section E.
F. Retaining personal information
- 1. This Section F sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
- 2. Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
- 3. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section F, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
- a. To the extent that we are required to do so by law,
- b. If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings and to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights.
G. Amendments
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.
H. Your rights
You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity.
We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
I. Third party websites
Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third-party websites. We have no control over and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
J. Updating information
Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
K. Cookies
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: A persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies typically do not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. We use both session and persistent cookies on our website.
The names of the cookies that we use on our website, and the purposes for which they are used, are set out below:
- 1. When a user visits our website: tracking users as they navigate the website, improving the website’s usability, analyzing the use of the website, administering the website, personalizing the website for each user,
- 2. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. For example:
- a. In Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy", and then "Advanced",
- b. In Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options", "Privacy", selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu, and unchecking "Accept cookies from sites",
- c. In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, and clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings", and "Content settings", and then selecting "Block sites from setting any data" under the "Cookies" heading.
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
- 3. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer. For example:
- a. In Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835),
- b. In Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options", and "Privacy", then selecting "Use custom settings for history", clicking "Show Cookies", and then clicking "Remove All Cookies",
- c. In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, and clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings", and "Clear browsing data", and then selecting "Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data" before clicking "Clear browsing data".
Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
L. Want to ask about your personal data on our site?
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal data, please contact us using the email or mailing address provided below.
Mail Address: Once Upon a Time in Çanakkale
İsmetpaşa Mahallesi Atatürk Caddesi No:39 Çanakkale Türkiye
E-Mail Address: canakkale.belediyesi@hs01.kep.tr
Last updated date: 01/10/2025
