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Privacy Notice


Adem Çağlayan attaches importance to the protection and confidentiality of personal data.

This Notice has been prepared in accordance with Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 ("KVKK") to inform individuals who visit our website or contact us through the contact form, by e-mail, telephone or post about the processing of their personal data.

1. Data Controller

Within the scope of the KVKK, your personal data may be processed by Adem Çağlayan, acting as the data controller, within the framework set out below.

2. Personal Data Processed

When you visit our website or contact us, the following categories of personal data may be processed:

Identity data: First name and surname,

Contact data: E-mail address, telephone number and, where provided by you, postal address or other contact details,

Request and communication data: Messages, requests and statements submitted through the contact form, by e-mail, telephone or post,

Online usage and security data: IP address, device and browser information, pages visited, duration of visits and information relating to your interactions with the website,

Other information provided by you: Information and documents that you voluntarily provide for the purpose of assessing your request.

You are advised to provide only the information necessary for the assessment of your request and not to submit special categories of personal data or personal data relating to third parties unless necessary.

3. Purposes of Processing Personal Data

Your personal data may be processed for the following purposes:

  • Receiving and responding to your communication requests,
  • Contacting you,
  • Managing appointment and meeting processes,
  • Conducting a preliminary assessment of your requests for legal consultancy, legal representation or mediation services,
  • Fulfilling legal and professional obligations,
  • Establishing, exercising or protecting a legal right,
  • Ensuring that the website operates securely and effectively,
  • Remembering user preferences,
  • Measuring visitor traffic, analysing the use of the website and improving website performance where you have given your explicit consent to non-essential performance and analytics cookies through the cookie preference interface.

4. Methods and Legal Grounds for Collecting Personal Data

Your personal data may be collected through:

  • The contact form,
  • Communications made by e-mail, telephone or post,
  • Information and documents submitted by you,
  • Cookies and similar technologies used during your use of the website,

by wholly or partly automated means or by non-automated means, provided that the data forms part of a data filing system.

Identity, contact, request and other information that you submit through the contact form, by e-mail, telephone or post may be processed on the following legal grounds:

  • Processing is necessary because it is directly related to the establishment of a contract in connection with the assessment of your request for legal services,
  • Processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of the data controller in responding to your communication requests and contacting you, provided that your fundamental rights and freedoms are not prejudiced,
  • Processing is necessary for the data controller to fulfil its legal obligations in connection with its legal and professional duties,
  • Processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or protection of a legal right, where applicable.

Personal data processed for the secure and effective operation of the website, the retention of user preferences and the maintenance of technical security may be processed on the legal ground that processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of the data controller, provided that your fundamental rights and freedoms are not prejudiced.

The processing of personal data through non-essential performance and analytics cookies used by Google Analytics is based on the explicit consent that you provide in advance through the cookie preference interface. Refusing consent to non-essential cookies will not prevent you from using the essential functions of the website.

5. Transfer of Personal Data

Your personal data may be transferred, to the extent limited and proportionate to the purposes of processing:

  • To legally authorised judicial and administrative authorities and relevant public institutions and organisations for the fulfilment of legal obligations,
  • To infrastructure service providers, to the extent necessary for the operation and security of the website and e-mail infrastructure,

where the conditions stipulated under Article 8 of the KVKK are met.

Data obtained through the use of Google Analytics may be processed by Google for the purpose of analysing the use of the website. In this context, the data may be processed through Google's systems located outside Türkiye.

Any cross-border transfers of personal data that may take place within the scope of Google Analytics will be carried out in accordance with the conditions set out under Article 9 of the KVKK and applicable legislation.

6. Your Rights as a Data Subject

Under Article 11 of the KVKK, you have the right to apply to the data controller and:

  • Learn whether your personal data is being processed,
  • Request information if your personal data has been processed,
  • Learn the purpose of processing your personal data and whether it is being used in accordance with that purpose,
  • Know the third parties to whom your personal data has been transferred in Türkiye or abroad,
  • Request the correction of your personal data if it has been processed incompletely or inaccurately,
  • Request the deletion or destruction of your personal data where the conditions stipulated under the KVKK are met,
  • Request that the correction, deletion or destruction of your personal data be notified to third parties to whom the data has been transferred,
  • Object to the occurrence of a result against you as a consequence of the analysis of your personal data exclusively through automated systems,
  • Request compensation for any damage suffered as a result of the unlawful processing of your personal data.

7. Cookies

Detailed information about the cookies used on our website, their purposes and how you can manage your cookie preferences is available in our [Cookie Policy].

8. Contact and Applications

To exercise your rights under Article 11 of the KVKK or to submit questions regarding the processing of your personal data, you may contact us through the following communication channels:

Data Controller: Adem Çağlayan, Attorney at Law

Email: info@ademcaglayan.av.tr

Phone: +90 534 513 70 61 

Address: Gülbahar Mah. Şehit Ertuğrul Kabataş Cd. No:6, 3rd Floor, Suite:14 Şişli, İstanbul, Türkiye