Clarification Text under the Personal Data Protection Law (KVKK)

Data controller

The data controller is TALİA SU ALTI KÜLTÜR TURİZMİ ANONİM ŞİRKETİ, trading as DiveTalia. Registered office: Söğütözü Mah. 2176 Cad. No: 7, İç Kapı No: 86, Çankaya, Ankara, Turkey. Tax office and number: Maltepe, 8170684078. The dive centre operates at Anthaven marina, Akyarlar Mah. Atatürk Cad. No: 352, Blok 20/6 E-F, Aspat Bay, Bodrum, Muğla, Turkey. Phone: +90 533 810 51 48. E-mail: info@divetalia.com. Data protection contact person: Fırat Balkan.

Personal data processed

Through the contact form on this website we process: identity data (your name), contact data (your e-mail address), and inquiry data (certification level, preferred dates, area of interest, and your message), together with the technical processing records strictly necessary for the server to receive and deliver your submission.

No other personal data is collected through this website. There are no analytics, no tracking cookies, and no third-party requests.

Purposes of processing

Your personal data is processed to receive your inquiry, to respond to it, and to carry out the related communication with you. It is not used for profiling and is not used for marketing without your separate, explicit consent.

Legal grounds

Processing rests on your explicit consent, given through the checkbox on the contact form (KVKK Article 5/1), and on our legitimate interest in responding to inquiries addressed to us, provided your fundamental rights and freedoms are not harmed (KVKK Article 5/2(f)).

Method of collection

Your personal data is collected electronically, through the contact form on this website, by automated means, when you choose to submit it.

Transfers

Your personal data is not sold and is not shared with third parties for marketing purposes without your separate consent.

The website is hosted on Google Cloud Platform in a European Union region. Because the servers are located abroad, storing your submission there constitutes a transfer of personal data abroad within the meaning of KVKK Article 9. The Personal Data Protection Board has not issued an adequacy decision for any country, so we make this transfer on the basis of your explicit consent, given by ticking the consent box on the form.

The possible risk we are required to tell you about before you consent: once your data is held on servers outside Turkey, Turkish authorities cannot enforce your rights over it as directly as they can inside Turkey, and the data is subject to the laws of the country where those servers are located. If you would prefer your data not to leave Turkey, do not use the form and telephone us instead on +90 533 810 51 48.

Retention

Your data is retained only as long as required for the purposes above and for any legal obligations. Contact-form submissions are kept for 24 months from our last contact with you. When the retention grounds expire, data is deleted, destroyed, or anonymised in accordance with the law.

Your rights under Article 11

Under KVKK Article 11, you have the right to: learn whether your personal data is processed; request information about the processing if it is; learn the purpose of processing and whether the data is used in line with that purpose; know the third parties, in Turkey or abroad, to whom the data is transferred; request rectification of incomplete or inaccurate data; request deletion or destruction of the data under the conditions of Article 7; request that rectification, deletion, or destruction be notified to third parties to whom the data was transferred; object to a result arising against you from analysis of the data exclusively by automated systems; and claim compensation for damage caused by unlawful processing.

How to apply

You may exercise these rights by sending your request to info@divetalia.com, in accordance with the Communique on the Procedures and Principles of Application to the Data Controller. Your request will be answered free of charge and no later than thirty days, unless the law permits a fee.

If your application is refused, answered insufficiently, or not answered in time, you may lodge a complaint with the Personal Data Protection Board (Kisisel Verileri Koruma Kurulu).