PRIVACY PRINCIPLES AND POLICY

What Does This Policy Cover?

This Privacy Policy applies to information that we Foton Yazılım Teknolojileri ve Enerji Danışmanlık Hizmetleri A.Ş.  (“Foton”) collect about you when you use the website irec.ist This Privacy Policy also applies to information we collect when you apply for a job at Foton.

Our company undertakes to keep confidential information strictly private and confidential, to ensure and maintain confidentiality, to take all necessary measures and to show the necessary care to prevent unauthorized use of all or any part of confidential information or disclosure to a third party.

 Information We Collect

Information You Provide to Us

• Identity Data: It is the data group that contains information about the person's identity (Name, surname)
• Communication Data: It is the data group that can be used to reach the person (phone, address, e-mail).
• Legal Data: This data category refers to data such as information contained in correspondence with judicial authorities and consumer arbitration committees, information in the case file.
• Transaction Security Data: It is the data group that contains the digital traces formed as a result of processing the personal information. (IP address information, website login and exit information, cookie information)
• Marketing Data: It is the data group used for marketing and sales purposes, where digital traces are formed as a result of processing personal information. (IP address information, website navigation information, marketing cookie information)
• Finance Data: It is the data group that contains the financial information of the person. (Bank Account Number, IBAN)

Information We Collect Automatically

• Log information: Like most online service providers, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, including the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information. We collect log information when you use our Services — for example, when you create or make changes to your profile. 
• Usage information: We collect information about your usage of our Services. 
• Location information: We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. 

Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information

A note here for those in the European Union about our legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, which is that our use of your information is based on the grounds that:

Contract: The use is necessary in order to fulfill our commitments to you under the applicable terms of service or other agreements with you or is necessary to administer your account — for example, in order to enable access to our website on your device or charge you; or

Legal Obligations: The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or

Legitimate Interest: We have a legitimate interest in using your information — for example, to provide and update our Services; to improve our Services so that we can offer you an even better user experience; to safeguard our Services; to communicate with you; to measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising; and to understand our user retention and attrition; to monitor and prevent any problems with our Services; and to personalize your experience; or

Consent: You have given us your consent — for example, before we send you marketing e-mails or use marketing cookies we will ask for consent

Storing and Transferring Personal Data

We store your personal data in our servers located in (.).[MY1]   Foton does not disclose, sell, share or misuse the e-mail addresses and other personal information of its members and customers under any name, for any reason and without prejudice to legal obligations.

Foton uses the e-mail addresses of its members and customers for the purpose of the service to be provided, especially membership transactions, as explained in detail in the below.

Foton, analyzes and interprets information about general site usage using cookies in order to make Foton's own services more efficient and effective by monitoring visitor movements, to provide more specific and more effective service to its customers. In this regard, it acts within the scope of the GDPR and applicable local laws. For more detailed information you can visit our cookie policy[MY2] . Your personal data will not be shared or transferred to third parties without explicit consent - although the periods specified in the law are reserved.

Personal information will be used for our users to log into the system and, when necessary, to verify the identity of the person.

We share information about you in limited circumstances, and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy. 

Subsidiaries and independent contractors: We may disclose information about you to our subsidiaries and independent contractors who need the information to help us provide our Services or process the information on our behalf. 

Legal and regulatory requirements: We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request.

Business transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. 

With your consent: We may share and disclose information with your consent or at your direction. 

How Long We Keep Information

Your personal data, limited to the purposes specified in our Privacy Policy; will be processed in accordance with the data processing and limitation periods specified in the relevant laws to which our company is affiliated. In the event of changes in the laws regarding data processing times, the new periods determined will be taken as basis.

Children’s Personal Data

Our website and app are intended to be available to people aged 18 or over, and you should not use our site unless you are at least 18 years old. If we become aware that we are processing personal data belonging to those under the age of 18, we will delete this personal data immediately. If parents or legal guardians have any suspicions that children under their custody have provided Foton with information about any person, we request that they contact us immediately at the address below if such information is requested to be deleted. In such a case, the information in question will be deleted immediately.

Your Rights

If you are located in certain parts of the world, including California and countries that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (aka the “GDPR”), you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, like the right to request access to or deletion of your data.

European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are located in a country that falls under the scope of the GDPR, data protection laws give you certain rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:

• Request access to your personal data;
• Request correction or deletion of your personal data;
• Object to our use and processing of your personal data;
• Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and
• Request portability of your personal data.

You also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) requires us to provide California residents with some additional information about the categories of personal information we collect and share, where we get that personal information, and how and why we use it.

The CCPA also requires us to provide a list of the “categories” of personal information we collect, as that term is defined in the law. The following categories of personal information will be collected from California residents, depending on the Services used:

• Identifiers (like your name, contact information, and device and online identifiers);
• Commercial information (your billing information and purchase history, for example);
• Internet or other electronic network activity information (such as your usage of our Services, like the actions you take as an administrator of a WordPress.com site);
• Geolocation data (such as your location based on your IP address);
• Professional or employment-related information (for example, your company and team information if you are a Happy Tools user, or information you provide in a job application); and

If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the CCPA, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the right to:

• Request to know the categories of personal information we collect, the categories of business or commercial purpose for collecting and using it, the categories of sources from which the information came, the categories of third parties we share it with, and the specific pieces of information we collect about you;
• Request deletion of personal information we collect or maintain;
• Opt out of any sale of personal information; and
• Not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your rights under the CCPA.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

We are not a "Covered Entity" in the United States. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA"). HIPAA privacy rules and regulations apply to health care plans, health care clearinghouses, and any health care provider that electronically transmits health care information in connection with transactions that the Secretary of HHS has adopted in accordance with HIPAA standards (collectively referred to as "Covered Entities"), and their service providers ("Business Partners"). This means that the personal information you provide to us is not protected by the HIPAA Privacy Rules and Regulations.

Other Things You Should Know

Links To Other Websites

Our website also has links to other web sites. Foton is not responsible for the privacy policies and content of other sites. Before sharing your data with third party websites, you should read their privacy policies.

Security

Foton does not store your credit card information in any way for your security and therefore does not ask or want such information within the framework of membership information. During shopping, nobody, including Foton employees, can see your Credit Card information, your Credit Card information is transmitted to the relevant banks by binary links in accordance with the highest security standards. The parts of the order stages containing personal information are secured with 256 bit encryption technique provided by … SSL.[MY3] 

Additionally, you should check our Terms of Services.

Contacting Us About These Rights

Official Title: Foton Yazılım Teknolojileri ve Enerji Danışmanlık Hizmetleri A.Ş.

Address: Ebulula Mardin Cad. D Blok No: 8 İç Kapı No: 8 Beşiktaş / İSTANBUL     

E-mail:  irec@foton.energy