1. This Privacy Policy applies to all Services provided by the Company, and to all Users (”Sellers and Buyers”).
2. By registering for and/or using the Services in any manner, including but not limited to visiting or browsing Shopier, you agree to this Privacy Policy and all other operating rules, policies and procedures that may be published from time to time on Shopier, each of which is incorporated by reference and may be updated from time to time. However, you may change your privacy preferences anytime.
3. This current Privacy Policy is always available on Shopier. Upon notice published on on Shopier, it may be modified and/or amplified.
4. This Privacy Policy covers the treatment of personally identifiable information and/or personal data ("Personal Information"), and other information stated in this policy, gathered when you are using or accessing the Services, and our treatment of any Personal Information we collected. Personal Information is information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person. Shopier collects relevant personal information from Sellers and Buyers whilst using our Services.
5. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do not own or control, including any third-party websites, services and applications, such as Facebook ("Third Party Services") that you elect to access to Shopier. We encourage Sellers and Buyers to carefully review the privacy policies of any third-party services they access.
6. The Company or any third party authorized by the Company may identify and use the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the Sellers and Buyers to identify problems with the system and to resolve technical problems that may arise.
7. Sellers and Buyers share their name, surname, full address, telephone number, e-mail address and similar personal information and preferential bank and payment information while registering with Shopier. The Company may process and / or use such information provided by Users in accordance with the purpose of using for a period not exceeding 10 (ten) years after the closing of the account, without any further requirement during the contractual relationship. The personal information provided by Sellers and Buyers is, in principle, confidential and is considered as personal data in accordance with Law No. 6698 on Protection of Personal Data and EU General Data Protection Regulation. This information will be kept confidential by the Company and will not be disclosed to third parties and shared with third parties unless otherwise expressly stated.
8. The Sellers and Buyers will forward some personal information (name, surname, institutional information, telephone, postal address and / or e-mail address, etc.) about themselves to the Company by filling in the various fields on Shopier. The Company may use such information outside the purposes and scope specified by the Terms of Use and the Membership Agreement by holding the personal information anonymously by the Company or the persons with whom it is in cooperation. The Company may keep any information and data provided by Sellers and Buyers anonymized so that the personal information of the Users cannot be associated with any identifiable real person in any form, even if the other information is matched in accordance with the Law on the Protection of Personal Data No. 6698 and the secondary legislation in force, as well as EU General Data Protection Regulation, and can use this anonymized data in statistics used for evaluations, market research and similar purposes.
9. Personal information provided by Sellers and Buyers may also be used to communicate with Sellers and Buyers. In this context, the Sellers and Buyers acknowledge and declare that the Company may use the information requested by the Company to communicate with them.
10. Information provided by Sellers and Buyers or information relating to transactions made through Shopier can be used by the Company and its cooperating companies or persons outside the purposes stated in the Terms of Use and Membership Agreement without regard to the identity of the User, for the purposes of statistical assessments, market surveys and the like.
11. Information provided by Users within the scope of Shopier’s use shall be processed by the Company in accordance with Law No. 6698 on Protection of Personal Data and EU General Data Protection Regulation. In this context, the Company may share personal information provided by Sellers and Buyers with third parties providing credit card service, payment service, internet service, mobile application and website software maintenance and support services.
12. The Company may use or partner up with online services, interactive applications, email messages and advertisements, cookies and other technologies. It can compare information that you give to Shopier with the information that is open to the public with these technologies, it can detect the device’s operating system, operating system language, processor type, browser version, device location, time zone, IP address, and so on.
13. Whilst visiting Shopier, the Company may collect non-identifying information from you, your web log data, such as your IP address, user agent, referring URL, browser, operating system, cookie information, and Internet Service Provider; operating system and device type; your location, and the language option you choose in your device, and/or other relateing information on your device. Additionally, the company may utilize certain tools to confirm email addresses. Without additional legal requests or records from a third party, this information alone cannot usually be used to identify you. The information we collect from you, to the extent that it is private, is disclosed only in accordance with our Terms of Service and/or this Privacy Policy.
14. The Company shares certain personal information with third parties who help us to detect and prevent fraudulent transactions. The information we share with those third parties includes some of the information that you share with us (such as, your email address), and some of the information from your online interactions (such as the IP address of your device). That information is used to determine whether a transaction could be fraudulent.
15. The Company may obtain information about the use of Sellers’ and Buyers’ Shopier using as technical communication file. The files called cookies are small text files that a user of a website sends to his browser to be stored in main memory. A cookie makes it easy to use a website by storing states and preferences. Cookies help to obtain statistical information about site visits and generate customized ads and other dynamic content for Sellers and Buyers. Cookies are not designed to collect personal information in any way.
16. In certain cases, the Company may disclose to third parties the information about Buyers and Sellers, other than the circumstances and / or persons explicitly stated in this Privacy Policy. These cases are, including, but not limited to, to comply with the obligations imposed by the applicable legislation, with the Terms of Use and Membership Agreement and its annexes, where it is necessary to inform the competent authority in order to request information about users for research conducted pursuant to relevant legislation and other exceptional cases set out in Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data and EU General Data Protection Regulation.
17. The Company undertakes to take all necessary precautions to prevent the entry of all or part of confidential information belonging to Seller and Buyers into the public domain, unauthorized use or disclosure to third parties.
18. Passwords for Seller accounts should not be shared with third parties and must be formulated so that third parties cannot predict. Seller shall be responsible for all transactions made on behalf of the account in case he / she share with third parties any information regarding the passwords and accounts of the Sellers. The Seller is obliged to immediately contact the Company in the event of any security breach related to the security of the account and / or the password.
19. As a Turkish legal entity, the Company is subject to Law numbered 6698 on Data Protection (“KVKK”), hence it acts accordingly to the regulations on data protection. As a rule, Sellers and Buyers personal data shall be processed by the Company with data owner’s explicit consent as stated in the Law, other than the exceptions stated in the Law. By approving this Privacy Policy, data owners will be deemed as given explicit consent per se. Users have the right to; learn whether or not their personal data have been processed; request information as to processing if their data have been processed; learn the purpose of processing of the personal data and whether data are used in accordance with their purpose; know the third parties in the country or abroad to whom personal data have been transferred; request rectification in case personal data are processed incompletely or inaccurately; request deletion or destruction of personal data; request notification of the operations to third parties to whom personal data have been transferred; object to occurrence of any result that is to her/his detriment by means of analysis of personal data exclusively through automated systems; request compensation for the damages in case the person incurs damages due to unlawful processing of personal data by applying to Shopier, as stated in KVKK. You are expected to apply in writing to the Company’s address with the documents proving your identity in order to benefit from your rights arising from KVKK.
20. Additionally, the Company complies with EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). The Company respects Users’ right to access, correct, request deletion or request restriction of our usage of their personal information as required by GDPR. The Company also takes steps to ensure that the personal information is collected is accurate and up to date. Users have the right to know what personal information the Company maintains about them. The Company will provide Users with a copy of their personal information in a commonly used format on request. If your personal information is incorrect or incomplete, you may ask the Company to update it. You have the right to object to our processing of your personal information, and you can also ask us to delete or restrict how we use your personal information. Nevertheless, if you request us to delete or restrict your personal information use, this may impact your access to Services.
21. Users’ personal information cannot be sold, rented or shared with third parties for use in third party marketing activities without the User’s consent. However, this information may be used by the Company in various forms during campaigns and promotions. Users agree to message.
22. The Company may change the terms of this Privacy Policy at any time. The Company’s amended Privacy Policy provisions will take effect on the date posted on Shopier.
23. Should you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or privacy issues arising from using the Services, please send us a detailed message to: hello@shopier.com