Protection of Personal Data

Our Data Policy
 
As Şenova Tekstil İç ve Dış Ticaret Sanayi Anonim Şirketi ("Company"), we attach utmost importance to the lawful protection and processing of Personal Data in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 ("Law"), and we act with this diligence in all our planning and activities. With this awareness, as the Company, we take all administrative and technical measures for the protection and processing of Personal Data.
 

1. Scope of the Policy
 
This Policy has been prepared for the company's shareholders, business partners, company officials, job applicants, visitors, customers, potential customers, and third parties, provided that they are real persons, and will be applied to the processing of data belonging to these specified persons.
 
2. Definitions
 
The concepts of personal data and data processing used in this policy are based on the definitions made in the Law. The term "personal data" in the Law refers to any information relating to an identified or identifiable real person; the term "processing of personal data" refers to any operation performed upon personal data, such as obtaining, recording, storing, preserving, altering, reorganizing, disclosing, transferring, taking over, making available, classifying, or preventing the use of data, wholly or partly by automatic means or by non-automatic means as part of any data recording system.
 
3. Our Purposes for Processing Your Data

 
3.1 Our Purpose for Processing the Data of Job Applicants
 
The personal data of job applicants who apply to our Company are processed within the scope of the personal data processing conditions specified in Articles 5 and 6 of the Law, limited to the purposes of: researching the job applicant, evaluating the application for suitable positions that may open in the future in line with the candidate's explicit consent, communicating with the candidate about the application and recruitment process, or, if the person has explicit consent, communicating with the candidate for any position that opens later in accordance with the candidate's qualifications, and fulfilling the requirements of relevant legislation or the demands of authorized institutions or organizations.
 
3.2 Our Purposes for Processing the Personal Data of Our Employees
 
The personal data of our Company's employees are processed within the scope of the personal data processing conditions specified in Articles 5 and 6 of the Law, limited to the purposes of: managing employees and ensuring order in the workplace, fulfilling legal, administrative, or contractual obligations, fulfilling obligations within the scope of minimum living allowance, ensuring compliance with Company policies such as security and internet usage conditions, fulfilling operational requirements such as training and quality control, carrying out orientation programs to ensure employees' adaptation to work, organizing sports activities, organizing events, making necessary reservation transactions for this purpose, inviting employees to events and monitoring their participation, arranging domestic or international travel for employees, making hotel reservations, carrying out visa procedures, checking references, tracking, controlling, and supervising company assets or vehicles assigned to employees, tracking employees' working hours, tracking all documents related to activities carried out within the company, keeping records of who obtained, borrowed, archived, destroyed, and similar activities, enabling the deduction of union membership fees from salaries due to source deduction practices of unions, fulfilling the Company's obligations within the framework of occupational health and safety legislation, performing employee performance evaluations, distributing internal duties, determining job descriptions, notifying changes in duties, fulfilling the Company's obligations within the framework of occupational health and safety legislation, organizing internal trainings, tracking participation in trainings, determining suitable employees to attend trainings, determining employee expenses, issuing travel allowances, controlling expenses, making necessary payments to employees, tracking expenses and payments, monitoring compliance with health conditions required by the position, performing periodic health checks, examinations, and supervisions of employees, making administrative arrangements in the workplace for employees to work in positions suitable for their health, clarifying health-related legal processes that may arise after the termination of the employment relationship, resolving disputes, making necessary notifications to the Social Security Institution and fulfilling legal obligations, determining employees' promotions, salaries, bonuses, leaves, and similar rights, giving gifts or promotions, including them in lotteries or competitions, celebrating birthdays or carrying out similar other events in favor of employees or their relatives or providing assistance, obtaining employee opinions through surveys and polls, creating and developing company promotions and advertisements, investigating, detecting, preventing, examining, and reporting contractual and legal violations to relevant administrative or judicial authorities; checking references, ensuring safe working practices, controlling and managing employee system logins and absenteeism, resolving disputes that may arise between the Company and employees in the future, ensuring the proper execution of operations such as mergers, demergers, changes of type, changes of control or restructuring of the Company, obtaining employee opinions for business development and remedying deficiencies in implementation in case of separation from employment.
 
3.3 Purposes of Processing Personal Data of Our Customers
 
The personal data of our Company's customers are processed within the scope of the personal data processing conditions specified in Articles 5 and 6 of the Law, limited to the purposes of: fulfilling obligations related to contracts made with our Company and other legal, administrative, or contractual obligations, responding to questions, requests, and claims to provide effective customer service, identifying and resolving problems related to customer accounts, promoting and notifying our Company's applications and services, investigating, detecting, preventing, examining, and reporting contractual and legal violations to relevant administrative or judicial authorities, issuing invoices to our customers due to the services provided by our Company, inviting our customers to organizations, creating invitation lists, planning organizations, communicating with our customers during this process, carrying out business development activities, conducting market analysis and creating a customer portfolio, obtaining customer opinions through surveys and polls within the principles determined by their requests and relevant legislation, resolving disputes that may arise between the Company and the customer in the future, exercising and protecting the Company's legally granted rights, and ensuring the proper execution of operations such as mergers, demergers, changes of type, changes of control or restructuring of the Company.
 
3.4 Purposes of Processing Personal Data of Our Suppliers
 
The personal data of real persons who provide any product or service to our Company are processed within the scope of the personal data processing conditions specified in Articles 5 and 6 of the Law, limited to the purposes of: establishing and fulfilling the contract with the supplier, supervising whether the supplier complies with contractual obligations, especially checking the quality and other characteristics of the service or product provided by the supplier, tracking payments to suppliers, controlling financial situations, managing pricing, invoicing, etc. transactions, managing the company's service/product procurement policies and processes, investigating, detecting, preventing, examining, and reporting contractual and legal violations to relevant administrative or judicial authorities, resolving disputes that may arise between the Company and the supplier in the future, providing references, indicating that services can be obtained from the supplier by our group companies or business partners, and ensuring the proper execution of operations such as mergers, demergers, changes of type, changes of control or restructuring of the Company.
 
4. Purposes of Personal Data Transfer
 
Your Personal Data is transferred within the scope of the conditions specified in Articles 8 and 9 of the Law, limited to the purposes of: planning and implementing our human resources policies in the best way, correctly planning and executing our commercial partnerships and strategies, ensuring the legal, commercial, and physical security of our Company and our business partners, ensuring the corporate functioning of our Company, carrying out efforts to ensure you benefit optimally from the products and services offered by our Company; customizing and recommending the products and services offered by our Company according to your demands, needs, and wishes, ensuring the highest level of data security, creating databases, developing the services offered on our Company's website, communicating with those who submit requests and complaints to our Company, and remedying errors occurring on our Company's website.
 
5. Persons to Whom Personal Data Will Be Transferred
 
Your Personal Data may be transferred to our shareholders, business partners, suppliers, group companies, affiliates, companies and institutions with which we cooperate, companies from which we receive external services (on matters such as security, health, occupational safety, law, etc.) to fulfill our contractual or legal obligations, and authorized institutions and organizations.
 
6. Personal Data Retention Period
 
As a fundamental principle, the Company bases the retention of personal data for the period specified in the relevant laws and regulations if foreseen by those regulations. If no period is stipulated in the legislation regarding how long personal data should be retained, personal data is processed for the period required by the Company's practices and commercial customs or the statute of limitations periods foreseen in the relevant laws, in connection with the activity carried out by the Company while processing that data, and then deleted, destroyed, or anonymized.
If the purpose of processing personal data has ended, and if the retention periods in the relevant legislation have also come to an end; personal data may only be retained for the purpose of constituting evidence in possible legal disputes or for the assertion of a related right connected to personal data or for the establishment of defense. In determining these periods, the statute of limitations periods for the assertion of the aforementioned right are taken as a basis. In this case, the stored personal data is not accessed for any other purpose and is accessed only when it is necessary to use it in the relevant legal dispute. After the period mentioned here ends, personal data is deleted, destroyed, or anonymized.
 
7. Rights of the Personal Data Subject
 
Data subjects, by applying to the Company acting as data controller, have the right to; learn whether their personal data has been processed, request information if their personal data has been processed; learn the purpose of processing their personal data and whether it is used in accordance with its purpose; be informed about third parties to whom their personal data has been transferred domestically or abroad; request correction of their personal data if it is incomplete or incorrectly processed; request the deletion or destruction of their personal data within the conditions stipulated in Article 7 of Law No. 6698; request that the operations carried out pursuant to paragraphs (d) and (e) of Article 11 of the Law be notified to third parties to whom their personal data has been transferred; object to the emergence of a result against the person by analyzing the processed data exclusively through automated systems; request compensation for damages in case of suffering damage due to unlawful processing of personal data.

In addition, you can submit your requests regarding your rights listed in Article 11 of Law No. 6698 to our company through the channels specified in the Data Subject Request Form, by filling out the form.

The accuracy and up-to-dateness of the personal data we hold about you are important, and it is important that you inform our company if there is any change in your personal data.

Click here to download the PERSONAL DATA SUBJECT REQUEST FORM…