This Privacy, Security and Cookies Policy includes the definition of the information and data of the persons (“Users”) who subscribe and become members through the Platform taking place in the website www.kidswearworld.com, which will be shared with SF DANIŞMANLIK REKLAM TURİZM İÇ VE DIŞ TİC. LTD. ŞTİ. (“Company”) in order to utilize the digital backbone of the Platform; the purpose of using such information and data and the methods of use; storing, access, deletion processes; terms and conditions related o cookies and privacy and the security measures being taken.

Information and Data shared by the User and Collection Methods

While becoming member of the Platform in www.kidswearworld.com, the user/member (Manufacturer/Seller) information are directly and automatically collected by the user. The collected information and data are as following:

• Membership Transactions: e-mail, telephone, user name, country-city
• User Profile: name-surname, e-mail, telephone, occupation, photograph, user’s employee’s name-surname, user’s employee’s e-mail, user’s employee’s telephone, user’s employee’s occupation, user’s employee’s photograph,
• Membership Requirement: tax board, photograph, chamber registration certificate etc.

In addition, personal data may be collected through cookies in the website (for detailed information, please refer to the heading Cookies.).

Processing Procedures of Personal Data and Purposes

The company may anonymize the usage and transaction information of the User in the Platform and may store, process and transfer to its business partners such information as long as required by the purposes such as statistical evaluations, performance evaluations, marketing campaigns of the company and its business partners, annual reports and similar reports.

Personal Data may be processed and stored for contacting the User and improving the User’s Platform experience (such as maintenance and support of the services, improving existing services, developing new services and providing tailor made services) as well as for crating a database, maintaining memberships and achieving other activities which are necessary to provide the services by the company to the user

Transferring of Personal Data and sharing with 3rd Parties

The content uploaded by the User to the Platform (the personal data which have been described in details above) are under the ownership of the User. The company cannot disclose or sell such content without prior consent of the User.

The company cannot disclose the content electronically transferred through the Platform to third parties for purposes and scopes other than those purposes and scopes specified by the Contract of Use concluded with the Users. In this scope, the company guarantees to keep such contents strictly private and confidential, to assume this act as a confidentiality obligation, to take all necessary actions and measures to ensure and maintain privacy, to prevent the entry of such confidential information in part or in full into public domain or any unauthorized access or disclosure to third parties and to show due diligence.

Also, the company may anonymize the usage and transaction information of the User in the Platform and may store, process and transfer to its business partners such information as long as required by the purposes such as statistical evaluations, performance evaluations, marketing and donation campaigns of the company and its business partners, annual reports and similar reports.

Besides, the User’s information may be shared with third parties in case of the existence of following conditions:

• If information of the Users is requested by an authorized administrative and legal institution for the purpose of duly carrying out an investigation or proceeding according to the respective legislation,
• If the disclosure of the information is necessary to safeguard the Users’ rights or securities. For the purpose of defining and settling technical problems related to the system, the company may be forced to identify and use the Users’ IP addresses if necessary. IP addresses may also be used to generally identify users and to collect extensive demographic information.

Transferring Personal Data Abroad

The company may mandatorily transfer the related data to its servers located in any place of the world other than country where the User resides (the servers may be affiliated to the company, its affiliates or subcontractors) upon the received services in order to achieve the aforementioned purposes. In cases of transferring data abroad, the company shall follow the security measures regulated in the respective provisions of the Personal Data protection Law-KVKK.

Providing links to other sites and applications via the website is possible and the company assumes no responsibility for the privacy procedures and contents of such other sites and applications.

Retention Periods of Personal Data

The retention period of personal data provided by the user and having been collected automatically depends on the type of data and our purpose of data processing. The personal data which are collected/shared by the user are stored according to the binding laws; and are stored for the period as required in order to fulfill the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention periods is required or not permitted by law.

Child Rights

Users of age under 18 do not take place among the target audience for the application services provided in the website www.kidswearworld.com. Excluding the states where the binding law requires to do so, the company does not request and collects with intention personal data of children via websites. Besides, the photographs of children taking place in the website and used for advertising and promotion purposes consist of visuals which their rights of use have been purchased lawfully.

Further, the intellectual property rights and legal obligations of the photographs of children used for promoting purposes and uploaded by the User to the Platform in respect with the provided service are under the ownership of the user and the company assumes no responsibility in respect with the said data, their use and supply processes.

Use of Cookies

The company may collect some of the aforementioned personal data by suing Cookies (technical communication file). These technical communication files are small text files sent by a website to the user’s browser for storage in the main memory. A technical communication file stores the status and preferences of a website and facilitates the use of the Internet. A technical communication file helps to obtain statistical information of the number of users of the website, the purpose and number of visits of a person to the website and the duration of visits and to produce dynamic advertising and content from user pages specially designed for users. A technical communication file is not designed to collect personal data or any other data from the main memory or from your e-mail. Most of the browsers are designed to accept such technical communication files first however, user may change their settings to prevent acceptance of such technical communication files or to receive alerts of such technical communication files is sent.

Security - Backup

While we, as the company, provide services under an environment where security of network, data and physical security is ensured at highest level, necessary updates are carried out periodically. The SSL used in the Platform servers ensures the coding of the data between our users and system and thus, ensures a secure data transfer. The users are expected to create strong passwords where as they also are informed in the Contract of Use that they will be responsible for the confidentiality of the passwords.

As the company, we ensure that the data are backed up on a daily basis against any potential technical problems and each backup is stored for a period of 1 year.

The data obtained via the application available in the Platform are not stored in the user’s computer. By this, the data security is not jeopardized even if the user’s computer breaks down, is stolen or lost.

Respective Person Rights arising from the Personal Data Protection Act –KVKK, clause11

According to clause 11 of the Personal Data Protection Act-KVKK, the rights of persons whose personal data are processed are as following;

• Knowing whether his/her personal data is processed,
• If the personal data are processed, requesting information in this respect,
• Knowing the purpose of processing personal data and whether they are used for such purpose,
• Knowing the third parties inland and abroad who the personal data have been transferred to,
• Requesting the correction of personal data if the personal data have been processed incomplete or incorrect and, in this scope, requesting the notification of such correction process to third parties who the personal data have been transferred to,
• Requesting the erasure or destruction of personal data if the causes for processing personal data do not exist anymore even if such personal data have been processed in compliance with the KVKK Law and provisions of other Arrangements and, in this scope, requesting the notification of such process to third parties who the personal data have been transferred to,
• To raise objection if, upon the analysis of the processed data by exclusively automatic systems bring forward a result which is against the respective person,
• To request the remedy of any loss and damage if the respective person is exposed to any loss and damage due to processing the personal data in contradict with the Law.

You can send your applications related to your aforementioned rights by using the Respective Person Application Form which is available at the website www.kidswearworld.com. Depending on the nature of the request, the company will finalize the request free of charge as soon as possible but not later than thirty (30) days. However, if the transaction requires an additional cost, a fee will be charged which is enlisted in the tariff defined by the Personal Data Protection Council.

The company may amend this Privacy Policy at any desired time, by publishing in the website www. kidswearworld.com. The provisions of the Privacy Policy which the company has amended shall come into effect on the date of publication at www.kidswearworld.com.