General Information About the Personal Data Law

The Law on Protection of Personal Data No. 6698 (hereinafter referred to as KVKK) was adopted on March 24, 2016 and published in the Official Gazette No. 29677 on April 7, 2016. Some of the KVKK entered into force on the date of publication, and some on October 7, 2016.

Information as Data Controller

As the Washington English Club, whose detailed corporate information is published below, in accordance with the KVKK No. 6698 and in the capacity of Data Controller, your personal data is within the framework explained on this page; It will be recorded, stored, updated, disclosed to third parties, classified and processed in the ways listed in KVKK, where the legislation allows.

How Your Personal Data Can Be Processed

Pursuant to the KVKK No. 6698, your personal data that you share with Washington English Club is obtained, recorded, stored, modified, rearranged, completely or partially, automatically, or by non-automatic means provided that it is a part of any data recording system, in short, all kinds of activities performed on the data. may be processed by us as the subject of processing. Any operation performed on data within the scope of KVKK is considered as “processing of personal data”.

Purposes and Legal Reasons for Processing Your Personal Data

Personal data you share;

In order to fulfill the requirements of the services we provide to our customers in accordance with the requirements of the contract and technology, and to improve our products and services;
The Law on the Regulation of Electronic Commerce No. 6563, the Law No. 6502 on the Protection of Consumers and the Regulation on Service Providers and Intermediary Service Providers in Electronic Commerce published in the Official Gazette dated 26.08.2015 and numbered 29457, which was prepared on the basis of these regulations, RG numbered 29188, dated 27.11.2014. To record the identity, address and other necessary information in order to identify the information of the transaction owner within the scope of the Distance Contracts Regulation and other relevant legislation published in;
To prepare all records and documents that will be the basis of payment systems, electronic contracts or paperwork, which are obligatory in the field of Banking and Electronic Payment; To comply with the information retention, reporting and disclosure obligations stipulated by the legislation and other authorities;
In order to provide information to prosecutors’ offices, courts and relevant public officials, upon request and in accordance with the legislation, on matters related to public security and legal disputes;
It will be processed in accordance with KVKK numbered 6698 and related secondary regulations.

Informing about third parties or organizations to which your personal data can be transferred
For the above-mentioned purposes, the persons / organizations to which your personal data you shared with Washington English Club can be transferred; our main shareholders, our direct or indirect domestic / foreign subsidiaries; Particularly Member companies using Washington English Club e-commerce infrastructure and persons and organizations related to the service provided, including but not limited to, program partner organizations, domestic / international organizations, from which we receive services, cooperate with, to carry out our activities and / or as a Data Processor. organizations and other third parties.

How Your Personal Data Is Collected

Your personal data,

With information such as name, surname, TR identity number, address, telephone, business or private e-mail address through the forms on the Washington English Club website and mobile applications and/or the websites of Member Firms using the Washington English Club E-Commerce infrastructure; In the form of location data, data including preferences on the pages logged in using the user name and password, IP records of the transactions performed, cookie data collected by the browser, and browsing time and details;
Through our channels such as sales and marketing department employees, agents, dealers, forms on paper, business cards, digital marketing and call center, verbally, in writing or electronically;
In a physical or virtual environment, face-to-face or distance, verbal or written, received from people who share their personal data with business cards, CVs, bids and other ways, for purposes such as establishing a commercial relationship with the Washington English Club, applying for a job, making an offer. or electronically;
In addition, data obtained from (micro) websites and social media indirectly obtained from different channels, used for websites, blogs, contests, surveys, games, campaigns and similar purposes, e-bulletin reading or click movements, data provided by public databases. from profiles and data that are open to sharing from social networking sites such as social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Google, Instagram, Snapchat, etc.);
can be processed and collected.

Storage and Protection of Personal Data

Your personal data is stored in the database and systems of the Washington English Club.