Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

Update Date: 16.09.2020

We are aware of how important the security of your data is to you. In this regard, safely protecting and ensuring the privacy of your data is also very important to us. As Kadooğlu Petrolcülük Taşımacılık Ticaret Sanayi İthalat İhracat A.Ş. (hereinafter referred to as "Kadoil" or "we"), established as a Joint Stock Company under Turkish Laws and acting as a Data Controller, we undertake to respect your personal data and other confidential information, to take all reasonable precautions to ensure the security of this information, and to provide the security measures required by law.

The Kadoil Privacy Policy, therefore, aims to provide you with the necessary information on for what purposes, in what manner your data will be used by Kadoil, and with whom it can be shared.

This Privacy Policy only covers the services provided over the domain name https://www.kadoil.com.tr/ (hereinafter referred to as the "Site" or "Website"). In the event that your personal data is processed by Kadoil through our website, this data will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

YOUR USE OF THE SITE WILL MEAN THAT YOU ACCEPT THE PRIVACY POLICY AND THE RELEVANT TERMS OF USE.

We recommend that you view our Privacy Policy every time you visit our website. Because this Privacy Policy may be updated by Kadoil from time to time for any reason. By using our website, you will be deemed to have read the latest version of our Privacy Policy and accepted its changed terms. Changes made to the Privacy Policy will automatically enter into force as soon as they are published on the Site. Each newly updated version will also be valid for the information already collected.

Any updates to be made to the Privacy Policy will be published on the homepage of https://www.kadoil.com.tr/, on the privacy notice page, and in other places deemed appropriate, ensuring that you are informed about how your personal information is collected, used, or shared.

Processing of Your Data and Personal Data

Data is information regarding all numerical facts such as age, height, weight, and categorical facts such as brand, channel name, country, and city, collected and analyzed for the purpose of interpreting and presenting. Data also includes your personal data.

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, such as name, address, email address, telephone number, birth date, and IP address. Such data of yours will be processed in full compliance with the Personal Data Protection Law, in addition to this Privacy Policy. In the event of a conflict between this Privacy Policy and legal legislation, the legal legislation shall prevail.

Kadoil and our contracted service providers use your data for purposes such as evaluating your job applications, fulfilling our lawful and legal obligations regarding dealers and other third parties through automation and portal systems, researching and responding to your complaints, questions, and opinions subject to your messages, carrying out the most suitable studies for your needs, conducting order tracking, conveying our offers in line with your requests, providing you with better service, facilitating the use of our website, sharing advertising and marketing activities with you, consulting your ideas, and developing special campaigns, products, or offers for you.

Certain sections on the Site may require you to share specific personal data. In this context, you may need to provide your personal data solely for the purpose of executing the service and activity in the relevant section. Sharing your personal data with us in such cases is entirely at your discretion, and if you choose not to share, you may not be able to benefit from our relevant services or activities.

Kadoil processes your personal data that you have shared and transmitted voluntarily, as well as your personal data in accordance with general principles if there are processing conditions within the scope of legal legislation.

We do not require you to provide your personal data to log in to our site; the information requested from you is at a reasonable level and does not require you to disclose further information. You may see a small red asterisk ("*") sign next to the information we mandatorily need to obtain to offer you our services. Any information without this sign is information you can provide optionally.

Within the scope of your personal data, Kadoil may process:

Kadoil, in accordance with Article 5 of the Personal Data Protection Law, may process all your non-special category personal data without seeking your consent in the following cases:

Your special category personal data (data relating to race, ethnic origin, political opinions, philosophical beliefs, religion, sect or other beliefs, appearance and dressing, membership in associations, foundations or trade unions, criminal conviction and security measures, and biometric and genetic data), on the other hand, can only be processed in cases stipulated by law. Adequate measures determined by the Board are taken in the processing of special category personal data.

Personal data relating to health and sexual life may only be processed for purposes of protecting public health, preventive medicine, medical diagnosis, treatment and care services, and the planning and management of healthcare services and financing, by persons under the obligation of secrecy or competent public institutions and organizations. Apart from these situations, it will not be processed without your explicit consent.

Kadoil will process your personal data under all circumstances by strictly complying with the rules of law and good faith; being accurate and, when necessary, up-to-date; being processed for specific, explicit, and legitimate purposes; being relevant, limited, and proportionate to the purposes for which they are processed; and being retained for the period stipulated in the relevant legislation or for the purpose for which they are processed.

We have prepared separate clarification texts for each area where your personal data is collected regarding the processing of your personal data by Kadoil, and also for the cookies used on the Site. You can access these clarification texts from the relevant sections, as well as via the links for the Career Section Clarification Text, Questions and Suggestions Section Clarification Text, Newsletter Subscription Section Clarification Text, Dealer Login Sections Clarification Text, Kadoil Club Card Clarification Text, Kadoil Payment Systems Clarification Text, Dealer Application Form Clarification Text, Kadooğlu Financial Management Section Clarification Text, and the Clarification Text on Cookies.

Furthermore, we may also collect your personal data through the methods specified below:

Purpose of Processing Your Personal Data

Kadoil will process your data for purposes such as enabling the full and complete provision of the provided services, further improving them, and offering new services, as well as in the presence of the conditions specified in Article 5, Paragraph 2, and Article 6, Paragraph 3 of the Personal Data Protection Law.

Kadoil processes your personal data to:

Data Integrity

Kadoil attaches great importance to the collected data being accurate, complete, up-to-date, and intended for the purpose of use, and works within the framework of the principle of continuous improvement in this regard.

Sharing Your Personal Data

We are aware that it is a legal obligation that your personal data cannot be shared with third parties without obtaining consent and/or except for the exceptions specified in the legislation regarding the protection of personal data.

Kadoil reserves the right to share the personal information belonging to the users compiled on the Site with third parties in cases required by the legislation in force, by complying with the applicable laws, judicial decisions and proceedings, subpoenas, and other legal processes, and also to prevent its own interests from being damaged, and to protect the security, rights, and legitimate interests of itself and its employees, representatives, and Site users.

Kadoil may share your personal data with our employees, contracted service providers, 3rd party companies taking part in the production of products and services, our authorized dealers, suppliers and affiliates assisting us in maintaining our activities, competent administrative organizations, and other relevant persons and organizations in line with legal obligations, located at home and abroad.

These companies with which we share your data are subject to current applicable legislation and are obliged to protect the confidentiality of the information we have transmitted to them. However, Kadoil does not under any circumstances assume responsibility for the unlawful behaviors of these third parties.

Our service providers are data analysts, advertising agencies, server providers, companies providing data storage services, IT and virtual security companies, SMS or email infrastructure services, and customer service companies that are mandatory for us to perform the services we offer you or that can be beneficial to increase the quality of these services, and with which we work under strict confidentiality agreements in any case.

Commercial Transfer

In case of a transfer of assets and/or change of owners such as a possible merger, acquisition, and/or takeover of Kadoil, the personal information belonging to the Site users may be shared with the relevant third parties.

Data Transfer Abroad

The transfer of information to Kadoil and/or third parties by obtaining permission, which may include personal information, may also cover the transfer of this data from one jurisdiction to another.

Your personal data will be transferred only if there is adequate protection in the country where the data will be transferred; in case there is no adequate protection, with the written commitment of adequate protection by the data controllers in Turkey and/or the relevant foreign country, and with the permission of the Board.

Other Principles

Your Rights Over Your Personal Data

Regarding your personal data processed by Kadoil, by applying to Kadoil (personally to the data controller in cases where Kadoil is the data processor), you have the right to:

a) Learn whether your personal data is processed or not, b) Request information if your personal data has been processed, c) Learn the purpose of processing your personal data and whether they are used appropriately for their purpose, d) Know the third parties to whom your personal data is transferred domestically or abroad, e) Request the correction of your personal data in case of incomplete or incorrect processing, f) Request the deletion or destruction of your personal data within the framework of the conditions stipulated in Article 7 of the Personal Data Protection Law, g) Request notification of the operations carried out pursuant to subparagraphs (e) and (f) to third parties to whom your personal data has been transferred, h) Object to the occurrence of a result against you by analyzing the processed data exclusively through automated systems, i) Demand compensation for the damage in case you suffer damage due to the unlawful processing of your personal data.

Options / Opting Out

Users have the right to make choices and/or change their preferences by following the methods below.

Updating and Correcting Your Personal Data

If you would like to receive a copy of the information you have shared with Kadoil, or if you notice that an information published about you is incorrect and you want it corrected or deleted, please contact us via the email address kvkk@kadoil.com.

To fulfill this request of yours, before taking any action regarding the information to be added and/or deleted, our IT Department employees may ask you to verify your identity information and other details, including your personal identifying information.

Following the evaluation of your request within the framework of the principles of proportionality, data quality, and reasonableness, transactions such as modification, correction, or deletion of erroneous data will be carried out on this information. In this context, all requests you direct to the Site will be tried to be fulfilled in the most appropriate time and in the manner most suited to your request.

In order for these requests to be realized faster and to assist you better, you can use our KVKK Application Form that we have prepared for you.

Security of Your Personal Data

Kadoil attaches importance to protecting the confidentiality of your data. Kadoil uses appropriate security systems to prevent the loss, alteration, and use for different purposes of the data under its control, and also our forms where you submit data are protected with 128-Bit SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), an encrypted communication channel during transmission, which encrypts information entries as an additional security application.

When the said data reaches Kadoil, this data is protected in accordance with our security and privacy standards. In order to benefit from SSL, your Internet browser must support SSL, and the SSL options in your browser must be kept active.

Furthermore, we also take all administrative measures that we believe are necessary to protect and preserve your personal data. Only authorized employees are allowed access to your personal data to perform their duties related to our services. In this context, our personnel also receive the necessary training and start their duties after the necessary information process.

However, as with any online data transfer, due to the nature of the information technology sector; Kadoil's establishment of a security level meeting the standards may not prevent unauthorized access.

For this reason, Kadoil is not responsible for any damage and/or loss arising from security breaches or technical problems and occurring as stipulated in this Privacy Policy. Kadoil is not responsible for any damages arising from information disclosures that will occur due to unwanted and/or unforeseen reasons.

The commitment of Kadoil at this point is to provide an information security policy determined by the Personal Data Protection Board and suitable in any case, not less than a generally accepted level of security. This situation is not any preventive guarantee commitment.

When you have reason to believe that there has been any breach of the Site's security, please contact us via kvkk@kadoil.com.

Cookies

Kadoil may use cookies on the website to improve your experiences. No information is collected from your system and/or hard drive through the cookies used. You are not identified by name and email address on our site; however, numbers and indexes are assigned upon your first login.

Cookies are small data files placed on your computer by the internet network server through your browser. When a connection is established between your browser and the server, the site recognizes you through cookies. The purpose of using cookies is to provide convenience to the user visiting the website. There are four types of cookies according to their intended use: Session Cookies, Performance Cookies, Functional Cookies, and Advertising and Third-Party Cookies.

Kadoil uses session cookies, performance cookies, functional cookies, and advertising and third-party cookies on its website. Session cookies are temporary cookies kept in the user's browser until they leave the website. Other cookies are cookies that remain in the user's browser unless deleted by the user. The lifespan of cookies varies depending on the browser settings made by the user.

You have the possibility to accept or reject cookies by changing the settings in your internet browser. Please refer to your browser's instructions to learn how to change your browser settings or how to delete cookies. Please note that some features of the site will not be available when cookies are disabled.

For more detailed information, you can review the Kadoil Cookie Practices Policy.

You can learn information about blocking third-party cookies from the following websites:

Contact

You can share all your opinions and questions about this Privacy Policy and/or Kadoil's general privacy practices with us through the following methods:

Email: kvkk@kadoil.com

or

Mail: DÜNYA TİCARET MERKEZİ A.Ş. A1 BLOK KAT.10 BAKIRKÖY/İSTANBUL KADOOĞLU PETROLCÜLÜK TAŞIMACILIK TİCARET SANAYİ İTHALAT VE İHRACAT ANONİM ŞİRKETİ. MERSIS: 0486015939500011

Attention: Privacy Policies

Contractual Integrity

Site users accept and undertake that if any provision of this Privacy Policy is deemed invalid by a competent court, the valid provision that best suits the regulation in the said provision and creates the effect closest to the actual intention of the parties will be valid, and this situation will not eliminate the enforcement and effect of the other provisions under this Privacy Policy.

Dispute Resolutions

Regarding all kinds of possible disputes to arise between the Site users and Kadoil, our company policy is to ensure that these disputes are resolved with the agreement of the parties and the satisfaction of the user. You can submit your complaints and requests regarding any issue from the relevant section on the website.

Additionally, if you wish, you can apply to resolve your applications regarding the dispute through mediation. Your right to mediation does not in any way prevent your right to apply to other legal remedies.

In this context, you can make your legal applications to the Civil Courts of First Instance Commercial (Asliye Ticaret Mahkemesi) in your province or district depending on the subject of the application, or to the Civil Courts of First Instance (Asliye Hukuk Mahkemesi) if there is no Commercial Court in your province or district.