Privacy Policy for drtaslidere.com

1. Introduction

Welcome to drtaslidere.com (the "Website"), operated by Dr. Hasan Taslidere ("we," "us," or "our"). The Website publishes free articles and guides about dental treatment in Turkey. This Privacy Policy explains what personal data is collected when you visit the Website or contact us, how it is used, and the choices you have.

This policy is prepared in compliance with the Republic of Turkey's Law on the Protection of Personal Data No. 6698 (Kişisel Verilerin Korunması Kanunu, "KVKK"), the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") for users in the European Economic Area (EEA), and the UK GDPR for users in the United Kingdom.

2. Definitions

• Personal Data: Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
• Special Categories of Personal Data: Data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data, data concerning health, or data concerning a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation.
• Processing: Any operation performed on personal data, such as collection, recording, storage, adaptation, disclosure, or erasure.
• Data Subject: The natural person whose personal data is processed.

3. Data We Collect

We collect and process the following categories of personal data:

We do not ask for health information. Please do not send us dental records, X-rays or other health data; we do not review individual cases. If you send such information anyway, we will delete it and will not use it.

4. How We Use Your Data

• To answer messages sent through the contact form and keep a record of our correspondence.
• To understand and improve the Website, using aggregated analytics.
• To show advertising that funds the Website (see section 6).
• To keep the Website secure and to comply with legal obligations.

5. Cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device. The Website uses the following categories:

• Strictly Necessary: Required for the Website to function, including remembering your cookie choices. No consent is required for these.
• Analytics: Set by Google Analytics to collect aggregated information about how visitors use the Website (pages viewed, time on site, referral source). Only placed with your consent.
• Advertising: Set by Google and its advertising partners to serve, personalise and measure ads (see section 6). In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, these are only placed with your consent.

We use Google Consent Mode v2: analytics and advertising storage is denied by default until you make a choice in the cookie banner. You can change your choice at any time with the "Cookie preferences" link at the bottom of every page.

6. Advertising (Google AdSense)

The Website is funded by advertising served through Google AdSense. Ads are selected by Google, not by us, and are labelled "Advertisement".

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this Website or other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this Website and/or other sites on the Internet.
• You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google My Ad Center. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at www.aboutads.info or, in Europe, www.youronlinechoices.eu.
• If you do not consent to personalised advertising, Google may still show non-personalised ads, which use cookies only for purposes such as frequency capping, aggregated reporting and fraud prevention, where the law allows.

More information: How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and how Google uses cookies in advertising.

7. Legal Basis for Processing

• Correspondence: Our legitimate interest in responding to and keeping a record of messages sent to us.
• Analytics and Advertising Data: Your consent, given via the cookie banner. You may withdraw this consent at any time.
• Server Logs and Security: Our legitimate interest in operating a secure website.

8. Service Providers and International Transfers

We share personal data only with the service providers that run the Website:

• Netlify, Inc.: website hosting and contact form submissions.
• Google LLC / Google Ireland Ltd.: Google Analytics, Google AdSense, and YouTube video embeds on the Videos page.
• Our email provider, used to receive form notifications and send replies.

Some of these providers process data outside Turkey and the EEA, including in the United States. Where this happens, transfers rely on adequacy decisions, the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, or other safeguards required by KVKK and GDPR. We do not sell your personal data.

9. Data Retention

• Correspondence: up to 2 years after our last exchange, unless a longer period is required by law.
• Analytics: up to 14 months.
• Cookie choices: 6 months, after which we ask again.

10. Your Rights

Under both KVKK and GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Right of Access: To request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Right to Rectification: To request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Right to Erasure ('Right to be Forgotten'): To request that we delete your personal data, under certain conditions.
• Right to Restrict Processing: To request that we limit the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• Right to Data Portability: To request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
• Right to Object: To object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• Right to Withdraw Consent: To withdraw your consent at any time where we relied on your consent to process your personal data.
• Right to Complain: To lodge a complaint with the Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) or the data protection authority in your country of residence.

To exercise any of these rights, please use the contact form and choose "Privacy or data request". We reply within 30 days.

11. Children

The Website is intended for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16.

12. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy, for example when the Website's services change. The date at the top shows the latest version.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data protection practices, please contact us: