Privacy Notice
Privacy Notice on the Processing of Personal Data
Last updated: September 2026
1. Purpose of this Notice and Our Role as Data Controller
Processing, storing and protecting personal data in line with the applicable legislation is an important matter for İMES SPOR DIŞ TİC. A.Ş.. As the data controller, and in order to comply with the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (the “KVK Law”), İMES SPOR DIŞ TİC. A.Ş. aims with this Privacy Notice to inform customers about the personal data processing activities it carries out under that Law, and makes this Notice available to the natural persons whose personal data is processed (the “Data Subject”).
Data Controller: İMES SPOR DIŞ TİC. A.Ş. — Address: Maslak Mah. Büyükdere Cad. Noramin İş Merkezi No: 237 İç Kapı: 501 Sarıyer/İstanbul — Email: info@imesspor.com
Definitions
The terms used in this Privacy Notice mean the following:
- Personal Data:
- any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person;
- Personal Data Protection Law (“KVKK”):
- the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698, published in the Official Gazette and entered into force on 7 April 2016;
- Data Controller:
- the natural or legal person who determines the purposes and means of processing Personal Data and who is responsible for establishing and managing the data filing system;
- Data Processor:
- the natural or legal person who processes Personal Data on behalf of the data controller, based on the authority granted by the data controller.
Processing of personal data means any operation performed on data, such as obtaining, recording, storing, retaining, altering, reorganising, disclosing, transferring, taking over, making available, classifying or preventing the use of personal data, whether wholly or partly by automated means or by non-automated means provided that it forms part of a data filing system.
2. Purposes of Processing Customers’ Personal Data
In order to serve you better, and within the framework of its legal obligations arising primarily from the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698, as well as Law No. 5651 on the Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Combating Crimes Committed by Means of Such Publications and its secondary legislation, Law No. 6563 on the Regulation of Electronic Commerce and its secondary legislation, and the Turkish Criminal Code No. 5237 and related legislation, our company requests from you the personal data that will enable it to fulfil these purposes and legal obligations.
Based on your explicit consent, this personal data is processed within the personal data processing conditions and purposes set out in Articles 5 and 6 of the Law for the following purposes: providing and selling the products and services offered by our company and performing contracts; planning, monitoring and improving marketing, promotion and after-sales support processes; advertising, promotion, sales, marketing, event management, information and customer relationship management; designing and/or carrying out advertising, promotion and/or marketing activities in digital and/or other channels; corporate communication activities, customer relationship management processes, surveys and customer satisfaction research, and all kinds of communication for the provision of related services; ensuring the legal and commercial security of persons in a business relationship with our company; and job applications and human resources practices. Data is processed lawfully and fairly, accurately and, where necessary, kept up to date, for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes, in a manner that is relevant, limited and proportionate to those purposes, and retained only for the period stipulated in the relevant legislation or required for the purpose of processing.
3. To Whom and for What Purposes Processed Personal Data May Be Transferred
Customers’ personal data may be shared with natural persons or private legal entities, our business partners, our suppliers and legally authorised public institutions and organisations, within the personal data processing conditions and purposes set out in Articles 8 and 9 of the Law, including for the business units to carry out the work necessary for data subjects to benefit from the products and services offered by İMES SPOR DIŞ TİC. A.Ş., to run the related business processes, and to plan and execute commercial and/or business strategies.
4. Method and Legal Basis of Collecting Personal Data
Your Personal Data may be collected verbally, in writing or electronically, by automated or non-automated means, within the scope of our company’s commercial activities, through our website, our social media channels, parties with whom we have a business relationship and/or from whom we receive services complementary to our activities, contracted organisations and other similar channels. Your personal data may also be processed and shared within the personal data processing conditions and purposes set out in Articles 5 and 6 of the Law and in line with the legal grounds and purposes set out in Section 2 of this Privacy Notice.
5. Your Rights Under Article 11 of the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698
By applying to İMES SPOR DIŞ TİC. A.Ş., you have the right to:
- a) learn whether your personal data is processed,
- b) request information if it has been processed,
- c) learn the purpose of processing and whether it is used in line with that purpose,
- ç) know the third parties to whom it is transferred domestically or abroad,
- d) request correction if it has been processed incompletely or inaccurately,
- e) request its deletion/destruction under the conditions set out in Article 7 of the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698,
- f) request that the operations carried out under items (d) and (e) above be notified to the third parties to whom it has been transferred,
- g) object to an outcome against you arising from analysis exclusively by automated systems,
- ğ) request compensation for damage you suffer as a result of unlawful processing.
Pursuant to Article 11 of the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698, together with information/documents proving your identity, you may submit your requests regarding your personal data:
- in writing, by a petition sent to our company address for the attention of the Human Resources department,
- by sending an email from your Registered Electronic Mail (KEP) address to our company’s KEP address listed on our website,
- by email to kisiselverilerim@imesspor.com, signed with a secure electronic signature or sent from the email address you have notified to our company and that is registered in our system.
Your application must be made in accordance with paragraph 2 of Article 5, titled “Application Procedure”, of the Communiqué on the Procedures and Principles of Application to the Data Controller. Our company will evaluate your application and conclude it free of charge within 30 (thirty) days at the latest, depending on the nature of your request; however, if the operation requires an additional cost, a fee may be charged according to the tariff determined by the Personal Data Protection Board.
6. Measures for the Protection of Personal Data
Protecting personal data is a valuable matter for İMES SPOR DIŞ TİC. A.Ş.. İMES SPOR DIŞ TİC. A.Ş. takes the necessary measures to protect personal data against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, disclosure, alteration or destruction, and undertakes to keep your personal data confidential, to take all necessary technical and administrative measures to ensure confidentiality and security, and to exercise due care. Despite taking the necessary information security measures under this undertaking, if personal data is damaged or obtained by third parties as a result of attacks on the website or system, İMES SPOR DIŞ TİC. A.Ş. will immediately notify you and the Personal Data Protection Board.
7. Keeping Your Personal Data Accurate and Up to Date
Users acknowledge and declare that they are aware that the accuracy and up-to-date maintenance of the information they share on the website is important for exercising their rights over their personal data under the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 and under other relevant legislation, and that all liability arising from providing false information rests entirely with them.
8. Deletion, Destruction or Anonymisation of Your Personal Data
Your personal data processed for the purposes set out in these “Terms of Use and Privacy/Personal Data Protection Policy and Privacy Notice” may be deleted/destroyed by us, or anonymised and continue to be used, once the purpose requiring its processing ceases to exist pursuant to Article 7/1 of Law No. 6698 and the periods set by other legislation have expired.
9. Changes to the Privacy/Personal Data Protection Policy and Privacy Notice
İMES SPOR DIŞ TİC. A.Ş. may amend this “Privacy Notice on the Processing of Personal Data”. Such changes take effect immediately once the amended text is published at https://www.imesspor.com/.
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