DISCLAIMER

Dear Visitors,

Welcome to www.sblawoffice.com.tr, the official website of SB Law and Mediation (“SB Law and Mediation Website”).

All the content we share on the SB Hukuk ve Arabuluculuk Law Firm page has been prepared for informational purposes only. No information herein should be taken or used as a legal opinion. The information herein may lose its accuracy and currentness, depending on the changes in the legislation. Although we make sure that the information we share is as accurate and up-to-date as possible, we, as SB Hukuk ve Arabuluculuk Law Firm, declare that we cannot be held responsible for any errors, omissions, or consequences arising from the use of this information. Visitors cannot claim that they have suffered damage due to this information or due to the information on this SB Hukuk ve Arabuluculuk Website being incorrect. Legal advice should be sought before making a decision based on the information here. The content on this site or the information you have provided by using the relevant part of the SB Hukuk ve Arabuluculuk Website to contact SB Hukuk ve Arabuluculuk Law Firm is not designed to establish a lawyer-client relationship.

The property of the information on this SB Law and Mediation Website belongs to SB Law and Mediation. These cannot be copied, reproduced, translated into another language, republished, uploaded to another computer, posted, forwarded, presented, distributed, or used without the written permission of SB Law and Mediation. Similarly, actions such as creating a link to this website without the written permission of SB Law and Mediation are also prohibited.

SB Law and Mediation may change or disable all information and design on the SB Law and Mediation Website without prior notice.

Information on other sites accessed through the SB Law and Mediation Website is published by the relevant institutions, and their content and being up-to-date are not linked to SB Law and Mediation.

SB Law and Mediation Website is protected by the Laws of the Republic of Turkey. Any attempt to damage the SB Law and Mediation Website or to interfere with any data, information communication, or software codes in the system from outside is prohibited by law, and legal remedies will be applied for such actions.

All other rights of SB Law and Mediation not expressly stated here are reserved.

INTRODUCTION

This Privacy Statement describes how SB Law and Mediation collects, uses, shares, and otherwise processes personal data (as defined below) in accordance with Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (“Data Protection Law“) in relation to:

• Visitors to our Website, mobile applications and other online services
• Contact persons for our clients and/or prospective clients
• Individuals applying for job positions or contacting with us
• Contact persons for suppliers of goods and services to the SB Law and Mediation
• Any other individuals about whom the SB Law and Mediation obtains personal data

In this Privacy Statement, “Personal Data” means any information that relates to an identified or an identifiable real person.

OVERVIEW

SB Law and Mediation acts as a data controller under limited circumstances in relation to recruitment processes, provision of legal services without direct client interference, physical and electronic environment safety and sending of information messages.

In this regard, to the extent that SB Law and Mediation processes your Personal Data as a data controller, you may refer to this Privacy Notice for our processing activities. Processing activities we carry out further to our clients’ instructions and/or requests fall outside the scope of this Privacy Notice. Necessary notifications regarding such processing activities are made by the relevant clients that act as data controllers.

Collection of Personal Data

We may collect the following Personal through automated means such as our servers and electronic devices or non-automated means such as our document archives that are part of a data recording system:

Identification and contact data (Basic data): Name, phone number, mail address, e-mail address and contact details.

Special categories of data: in limited circumstances, we process special categories of data defined under the applicable law where you have provided us with such information as it is necessary for a specific service we are providing to you (e.g association membership).

Registration data: Newsletter requests, event, conference, webinar and seminar registrations.

Client service data:  Personal data relating to clients or data received from clients third parties, invoicing details and payment history, and client feedback.

Contact data: Data about individual participation in events, conferences, webinars and seminars.

Compliance data: Government identifiers, passports or other identification documents, dates of birth.

Job applicant data: Data provided by job applicants others on our website or offline means in connection with employment opportunities that may be subject to a separate privacy notice.

Device data: Computer Internet Protocol (IP) address, unique device identifier (UDID), and other data linked to a device, and data about usage of our website.

We collect your Personal Data from a number of sources, either directly from you or from our clients, suppliers, public authorities and publically available sources.

Processing of Personal Data  

The purposes for which we collect and process your Personal Data, and the legal bases for such processing are as follows:

• To provide legal advice we use basic data, registration data, client service data and device data. We process your data (i) to perform our obligations under our contracts with our clients and, (ii) to the extent such processing is necessary, for our legitimate interests provided that such interests are not overridden by data subjects’ fundamental rights and freedoms, (iii) and in connection with the conclusion or performance of a contract where processing of contracting parties’ data is necessary and (iv) where data subject made their data public.
• To manage our business operations and administer our client relationship we use basic data, registration data, client service data, compliance data and device data. This processing is necessary (i) in order to perform our obligations under our contracts with our clients (e.g. issuing and processing invoices) and suppliers (e.g. managing the supply of goods and services to SB Law and Mediation) and (ii) for our legitimate interests provided that such interests are not overridden by data subjects’ fundamental rights and freedoms. We also use such data in connection with the conclusion or performance of a contract where processing of contracting parties’ data is necessary and where data subject made their data public.
• To make our website more intuitive and easy to use we use device data. In cases where processing necessary for our legitimate interests provided that that such interests are not overridden by data subjects’ fundamental rights and freedoms, we use such data to monitor how our website is used to help us improve the layout and information available on our websites and provide a better service to our website users.
• To protect the security and effective functioning of our website and information technology systems we use basic data, registration data, transaction data, and device data. In cases where processing is necessary to comply with our legal obligations and for legitimate interests provided that such interests are not overridden by data subjects’ fundamental rights and freedoms, we use such data to monitor how our website is used to detect and prevent fraud, other crimes and the misuse of our website. This helps us to ensure that you can safely use our website.
• To provide information and updates such as providing you with information about events, conferences, webinars, seminars, legal alerts and legal updates, we use basic data and registration data. Further to your explicit consent if necessary, or where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests provided that such interests are not overridden by your fundamental rights and freedoms, we process this information in order to provide you with tailored and relevant information, updates and invitations.
• To address compliance and legal obligations, such as checking the identity of new clients and to prevent money laundering and/or fraud we use basic data, registration data, transaction data and device data. We process such data in cases where (i) the processing is necessary for the purposes of complying with legal requirements to which we are subject, (ii) the processing is provided for by the laws, and (iii) the processing is necessary for our legitimate interests provided that such interests are not overridden by your fundamental rights and freedoms.
• To consider individuals for employment and contractor opportunities and manage on-boarding procedures we use job applicant data and compliance data. The processing is necessary for the purposes of recruitment and on-boarding and for complying with legal obligations to which we are subject. If these data is made public by the data subject themselves for such purposes, we process these data to comply with our legal obligations and for legitimate interests provided that such interests are not overridden by your fundamental rights and freedoms. Candidate Privacy Notice in relation to employee candidates is available online here.

Transfer of Personal Data

We may share personal data with the following categories of recipients:

• Business Partners: SB Law and Mediation operates in cooperation with other law firms and business partners around the world. We may share personal data with our global business partners and other global law firms in order to provide you with legal services and in order to administer our relationship with you or otherwise as necessary for the purposes described above, provided that you request us to do so or give consent for such transfer.
• Suppliers and service providers: We share personal data with suppliers and service providers to enable such parties to perform functions on our behalf and under our instructions in order to carry out the purposes identified above.  These include: infrastructure and IT services providers, for example, the providers of our client intake system, our finance systems and our customer relationship management databases; third party consultants who provide us with support in respect of business analytics; and the providers of external venues where we host conferences and events.

We require such parties by contract to provide reasonable security for personal data and to use and process such personal data on our behalf only.

• Financial institutions: We share personal data with financial institutions in connection with invoicing and payments.
• Buyer companies: If SB Law and Mediation is subject to transactions such as merge, acquisition, transfer of assets, transfer of services to another provider, or become insolvent, go bankrupt or become subject to liquidation procedures, to the extent permitted by law, we may share your Personal Data with a buyer or a prospective buyer company.
• Mandatory disclosures and legal claims: We share personal data in order to comply with any subpoena, court order or other legal process, to comply with a request from our regulators, governmental request or any other legally enforceable demand.  We also share personal data to establish or protect our legal rights, property, or safety, or the rights, property, or safety of others, or to defend against legal claims. We may share Personal Data with government officials and other persons if it is (i) necessary for the transfer or sale of a business or (ii) required by legal or administrative requirements or a court order.

As personal data owners, you can send your above-mentioned requests regarding your rights, objections to the processing of your data and/or your request to withdraw your explicit consent to the processing and/or transfer of your data (by filling out the Application Form) and sending it to info@sblawoffice.com. Applications that do not meet the conditions determined by the Personal Data Protection Authority within the scope of the relevant legislation will not be evaluated unless the additional information that may be requested from you to meet the conditions is completed.

SB Law and Mediation will finalize the request free of charge as soon as possible and/or within thirty days at the latest, depending on the nature of the request. However, we would like to remind you that if an additional cost arises due to the fulfillment of your requests, the fee in the tariff determined by the Personal Data Protection Board may be requested.

SB Law and Mediation reserves the right to unilaterally update this Clarification Text in case of business and legal requirements. We recommend that you visit the relevant page of the site regularly to reach the most up-to-date version of this text.

You can send your requests by filling out the Application Form and sending it to Soğanlık Yeni, Bumerang Kartal Rezidans, Aliağa Sk. No:8 Kat:19 D:96, 34880 Kartal/İstanbul via a notary public or by registered mail with a return receipt.

You can choose other methods specified in the Communiqué on Application Procedures and Principles of Data Controller.

PRIVACY POLICY

Welcome to https://www.sblawoffice.com.tr   (“SB Law and Mediation Website”). As SB Law and Mediation, we pay special attention to the protection of your privacy. Protection of your data and information security is an integral part of our policy. We would like to point out that links on the SB Law and Mediation Website that lead to other pages are not within the scope of this privacy policy. When using such links, the privacy policies of the relevant pages should be followed.

Your personal data, which we save and share electronically, by automatic or non-automatic methods during your visit to the SB Law and Mediation Website, can be used first to ensure that your requests are fulfilled, and then to provide you with a better service by SB Law and Mediation. In addition, in line with the provisions of the SB Law and Mediation Privacy Policy, we take the necessary care regarding the protection and security of your personal data.

We ensure that the organizations from which we receive support, comply with our privacy standards and terms.

Accordingly, protecting all information shared with us on the SB Law and Mediation Website from unauthorized access, misuse and modification, corruption, and destruction; and ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and usability of the information is our basic approach.

The commitments in this policy are valid for the information shared on this SB Law and Mediation Website, for websites visited from the links on this site and other websites, the privacy principles, ethical principles, and terms of use of these websites will be valid, we are not responsible for any material/moral losses that may be incurred on these websites.

COOKIES AND WEBSITE TRAFFIC

Cookies are text files sent by the website server to your device when you visit a website. These files store some information about your web page browsing. Thus, when you access the web page again from the same devices, your devices will remember this information. Cookies are collected through your devices from which you access the SB Law and Mediation Website. Cookies are used so that we can provide you with better page navigation, better services, products or offers.

Cookies, depending on their types, generally collect data about your browsing and usage preferences on the device from which you access the website. This data includes all information about the pages you access, the products you view, and your navigation on our website in general.

SB Law and Mediation Website basically uses two types of Cookies; “session cookies” and “persistent cookies”. Session cookies are temporary cookies that are kept on your device until you leave the SB Law and Mediation Website. Persistent cookies are usually kept until they are deleted by you. How long the cookie will be kept on your device may vary depending on the duration of that cookie and your browser settings.

When you visit the SB Law and Mediation Website, you may also receive cookies from other websites or domains. Detailed information about these cookies may be available on the relevant third-party websites. Such cookies are not covered by this privacy statement.

You can control cookies at your own discretion, prevent them from being collected or saved, or delete them entirely. Internet browsers and mobile devices often allow this. However, these settings may differ for each browser and mobile device. You can access the necessary information regarding this issue in the settings section of your internet browser and mobile device. If you choose to block Cookies completely, there is a possibility that the SB Law and Mediation Website may not work correctly on your device, as this will cause some functional Cookies to not work.

Below are some explanations regarding the purposes of the use of Cookies.

Operational reasons: We use cookies that we deem necessary for the management and security of the SB Law and Mediation Website. Examples of cookies used for operational reasons are technologies that allow the use of the features of the SB Law and Mediation Website and cookies used to detect irregular behavior on the website.

Functionality reasons: We use some Cookies in order to enable the SB Law and Mediation Website to be used more efficiently and to facilitate users’ visits to the page. Cookies that enable us to remember user information and preferences are examples of Cookies that are used for functionality.

Performance-oriented reasons: We use Cookies to increase and measure the overall performance of the SB Law and Mediation Website. Examples of Cookies used for this purpose are Cookies that enable us to understand how visitors use the SB Law and Mediation Website and to analyze user behavior.

As per  Law No. 5651 on “Regulation of Broadcasts Made on the Internet and Fighting Against Crimes Committed Through Broadcasts”, “Hosting Providers” shall be obliged to keep the traffic information of their web pages for at least one year. Traffic information consists of the IP address you use to access the SB Law and MediationWebsite and the information of the page you access. This specified information alone does not make your identity identifiable. However, your identity becomes identifiable by matching the IP address allocated to you with the IP address in the traffic information kept on the SB Law and MediationWebsite. For this reason, as a Hosting Provider, your traffic information, which shall be kept by us, is securely stored by us in an electronic environment for an appropriate period of time, subject to the provisions of the Personal Data Protection Law No 6698.