| Explicit consent | Consent regarding a specific issue, based on information and expressed with free will |
| anonymise | Making personal data impossible to associate with an identified or identifiable natural person in any way, even by matching it with other data |
| personal data | Any information regarding an identified or identifiable natural person |
| Processing of personal data | Obtaining, recording, storing, preserving, changing, rearranging, disclosing, transferring, taking over, making available, classifying or using personal data by fully or partially automatic or non-automatic means provided that it is part of any data recording system. Any action performed on data, such as blocking |
| K.V.K.K. | Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 |
| K.V.K. board | Personal Data Protection Board |
| K.V.K. institution | Personal Data Protection Authority |
| Special personal data | Data regarding people's race, ethnic origin, political opinion, philosophical belief, religion, sect or other beliefs, appearance and dress, association, foundation or union membership, health, sexual life, criminal conviction and security measures, as well as biometric and genetic data |
| data processor | Natural or legal person who processes personal data on behalf of the data controller, based on the authority given by the data controller |
| Personal data owner | Natural person who is considered as a relevant person in K.V.K.K. and whose personal data is processed |
| Data controller | Natural or legal person who determines the purposes and means of processing personal data and is responsible for establishing and managing the data recording system |
| Buyer Group | It is the category of natural or legal person to whom personal data is transferred by the data controller. |
| Destruction | It is the process of deleting, destroying or anonymizing personal data. |
| Personal data processing inventory | Personal data processing activities carried out by data controllers depending on their business processes; It is an inventory that they create by associating personal data with the purposes of processing personal data, data category, transferred recipient group and data subject person group, and detailing the maximum period required for the purposes for which personal data are processed, personal data envisaged to be transferred to foreign countries, and measures taken regarding data security. |
| Electronic Media | Non-Electronic Media |
| – Servers (Internal memory, backup memory, email, database, web, file sharing, etc.) – Software (office software, portal, Electronic Document Management Systems.) – Information security devices (firewall, intrusion detection and prevention, log file, anti-virus, etc.) – Personal computers (Desktop, laptop) – Mobile devices (phone, tablet, etc.) – Optical discs (CD, DVD, etc.) – Removable memories (USB, Memory Card, etc.) | - Paper – Manual data recording systems (survey forms, visitor login book) – Written, printed, visual media |
| MEDIUM WHERE THE DATA IS RECORDED | METHOD OF DELETION OR DESTRUCTION OF DATA |
| Personal Data on Servers | For personal data on the servers whose retention period has expired, the system administrator removes the access authorization of the relevant users and deletes them. |
| Personal Data in Electronic Media | Among the personal data in the electronic environment, those whose period of storage has expired are made inaccessible and unusable in any way for other employees (relevant users) except the database administrator. |
| Personal Data in Physical Environment | For personal data kept in physical media, for which the period requiring its storage has expired, it is made inaccessible and unusable in any way for other employees, except for the unit manager responsible for the document archive. In addition, blackening is also applied by drawing/painting/erasing the surface so that it cannot be read. |
| Personal Data Contained in Portable Media | Among the personal data kept on portable media storage media that have expired, they are stored in secure environments with encryption keys, by being encrypted by the system administrator and access authorization is given only to the system administrator. |
| Personal Data in Physical Environment | Personal data stored on paper that have expired are irreversibly destroyed in paper shredding machines. |
| Personal Data Contained in Optical / Magnetic Media | Personal data contained in optical media and magnetic media whose storage period has expired are physically destroyed, such as melting, burning or pulverizing. In addition, the data on the magnetic media is rendered unreadable by passing it through a special device and exposing it to a high magnetic field. |
| PERIOD | STORAGE PERIOD | DESTRUCTION PERIOD |
| Transactions arising from the activity | 10 years from the end of the relevant activity | During the first periodic destruction following the end of the storage period |
| Preparation of contracts | 10 years following the termination of the contract | During the first periodic destruction following the end of the storage period |
| Execution of Communication Activities | 10 years following the termination of the activity | During the first periodic destruction following the end of the storage period |
| Execution of Human Resources Processes | 10 years following the termination of the activity | During the first periodic destruction following the end of the storage period |
| Log Record Tracking Systems | 2 years | During the first periodic destruction following the end of the storage period |
| Execution of Hardware and Software Access Processes | 2 years | During the first periodic destruction following the end of the storage period |
| Camera Recordings | 3 is | During the first periodic destruction following the end of the storage period |