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Personal Data Protection and Processing Clarification Announcement

As Voras Research and Development Ltd. Co. (Voras R&D), we respect your privacy and prioritize the security of your data. This clarification text has been prepared to inform and enlighten you within the scope of the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 ("Law No. 6098", "KVKK"), the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) ("GDPR"), and other relevant legislation.

In this context, the Clarification Text provides information on the personal data processed by Voras R&D as the data controller, the purposes for which these data are processed, the third parties with whom your data is shared, your rights, and the methods to contact us.

KVKK and GDPR were adopted to protect individuals' fundamental rights and freedoms, particularly the privacy of private life, in the processing of personal data, and to regulate the obligations of natural and legal persons processing personal data, as well as the procedures and principles they must comply with. Personal data refers to any information that identifies or makes you identifiable.

This clarification text has been prepared to inform you about the personal data processed if you accept the Membership Agreement and become a member in order to benefit from the services offered on our company's mobile and/or internet sites.


Identity of the Data Controller

As the data controller, Voras Research and Development Ltd. Co. (Voras R&D), registered with the Istanbul Trade Registry Office under number 820827 and operating at the address "DES Industrial Site 116 St. No:3 34776 Ümraniye / Istanbul," we inform you that we process your personal data in compliance with KVKK and GDPR.


Method and Legal Grounds for Collecting Personal Data

Your personal data is collected by our company through forms (such as contact and registration forms) available on our website, during bilateral meetings and correspondence if you choose to share it when necessary, and through audio and security recording systems in place during your physical visits for security purposes. This data is collected and processed in accordance with the basic principles of Article 4 of the KVKK, Articles 5 and 6 of the KVKK, Article 6 of the GDPR, and the provisions of national and international legislation, based on the personal data processing conditions listed under these laws to ensure the application and enforcement of the basic principles stipulated by these laws.

It is collected and processed for the purposes of planning and executing corporate sustainability activities, maintaining and improving effective employee management, planning and executing activities with business partners or suppliers, conducting personnel procurement processes, evaluating employee performance, executing and monitoring the company's financial reporting and risk management processes, fulfilling employer obligations under the law, conducting and following up on the company's legal affairs, planning and executing corporate communication activities, ensuring the legal and commercial security of individuals involved in business relationships, conducting corporate and partnership legal transactions, managing request and complaint processes, managing investor relations, providing information to authorized institutions as required by legislation, and creating and tracking visitor records. Your personal data is collected in physical and electronic environments for legal reasons related to the execution of our commercial activities and operational processes. The personal data collected for these legal reasons can be processed and transferred in accordance with the personal data processing conditions and purposes specified in the aforementioned laws.


Which of Your Personal Data May Be Processed

In line with our site and services, the following personal data may be processed by our company in connection with, limited to, and proportionate to the purposes specified in this article, including but not limited to those listed below.

  • Your Identity Information: Your name, surname, Turkish ID number, passport number or temporary Turkish ID number, place and date of birth, gender, and other identity data that we can use to identify you.
  • Your Contact Information: Your address, phone number, email address, and other contact details, as well as personal data obtained when you contact us via email, letter, or other means.
  • Your Financial Information: Your bank account number, IBAN number, credit card information, billing details, and other financial data.
  • Your Audio and Visual Records: Audio recordings of phone calls made with you and video recordings from cameras in shared areas for security and monitoring purposes if you visit our facility.
  • Your Transaction Security Information: Your device information, IP address, password and login details, cookie information, platform access logs, and login method (via Google/Facebook/Apple).
  • Your Application Information: If you apply for a job, other personal data provided, including your resume, and if you are employed, any personal data related to your employment contract may be processed.


For What Purpose Personal Data Will Be Processed

Your collected personal data will be processed in accordance with the purposes for which you disclose your personal data to us, including but not limited to planning and executing corporate sustainability activities, maintaining and improving effective employee management, planning and executing activities with business partners or suppliers, conducting personnel procurement processes, evaluating employee performance, conducting company brand activities, executing and monitoring the company's financial reporting and risk management processes, fulfilling employer obligations under the law, conducting and following up on the company's legal affairs, planning and executing corporate communication activities, ensuring the legal and commercial security of individuals involved in business relationships, conducting corporate and partnership legal transactions, managing request and complaint processes, managing investor relations, providing information to authorized institutions as required by legislation, and creating and tracking visitor records. This will be done in accordance with the personal data processing conditions and purposes specified in Articles 5 and 6 of the KVKK and Article 6 of the GDPR.


To Whom and for What Purpose Your Personal Data May Be Transferred

Your collected personal data may be transferred to our business partners, shareholders, affiliates, legally authorized public institutions, and private individuals, including the associations to which Voras R&D is a member, creditors, auditing firms, insurance agents, lawyers and accountants, and banks, within the scope of the purposes specified in Articles 8 and 9 of the Law No. 6698 and Articles 9 and 10 of the GDPR. This transfer is done to ensure the fulfillment of the purposes of establishing business partnerships, obtaining necessary services for our company's commercial activities from external sources, ensuring the execution of commercial activities, designing and monitoring strategies related to our company's commercial activities in accordance with relevant legislation, and ensuring the highest level of management and supervision, and is limited to the purposes specified in the Personal Data Protection and Processing Policy on this page.


Storage, Protection, and Duration of Personal Data

Voras R&D is responsible for taking software measures such as hashing, encryption, transaction logging, and access management, as well as physical security measures, to prevent unlawful processing of personal data, prevent unauthorized access, and ensure their protection, in accordance with Article 12 of the KVKK and Articles 5 and 32 of the GDPR. In the event of unauthorized acquisition of personal data by illegal means, the situation will be immediately reported to the Personal Data Protection Board in a manner compliant with legal regulations and in writing.

Your personal data will be deleted when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. However, due to retention periods and legal obligations arising from the Turkish Commercial Code, Tax Procedure Law, Turkish Code of Obligations, and applicable European laws or national laws of an EU member state, we may need to retain your data for the periods determined by legislative bodies or supervisory authorities, which may extend up to 30 years. Additionally, we may retain your data as long as necessary for the establishment, use, or defense of legal claims (up to 30 years in some cases). After this period, the relevant data will be regularly deleted.

In cases where we process your personal data for marketing purposes with your consent, we may exclude your personal data from these activities upon your request.


Rights of the Personal Data Subject

As data subjects, you can submit requests regarding your rights by filling out the Data Subject Application Form on the www.vorasarge.com website, in accordance with the methods outlined in Voras Research and Development Ltd. Co.'s Personal Data Protection and Processing Policy and the Communiqué on the Principles and Procedures for Applying to the Data Controller. You may deliver a signed copy of the form, along with identity verification documents, in person to DES Industrial Site 116 St. No:3 34776 Ümraniye/Istanbul, or send it via notary or other methods specified in the KVKK, or submit the form electronically with a secure electronic signature to info@vorasarge.com. Your request will be processed free of charge within thirty days at the latest, depending on the nature of the request. However, if the process incurs additional costs, the fee determined by the Personal Data Protection Board will be applied.

Under KVKK and GDPR, you can access, delete, or modify your personal data through the profile page on our site where you registered and/or filled out forms. You can request your personally shared data in writing, or alternatively, request changes or deletions of your data.

Cookie Policy

During your visit to our website, we or our authorized service providers use cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies to store information for the purpose of providing you with a better, faster, and more secure experience, as well as for advertising purposes.

This Cookie Policy ("Cookie Notice") has been prepared to help you better understand how we use these technologies on our website. Below you will find a summary of the key points you need to know about our use of these technologies. You can review the full content of our Cookie Notice below.

Our cookies and similar technologies serve different functions. They are necessary for the operation of our services, to help improve our performance, to provide extra functionality, or to offer you better service with relevant and targeted advertisements. We use session cookies and similar technologies that remain on your device only while your browser is active, as well as persistent cookies and similar technologies that stay on your device for a longer period of time. You can block, delete, or disable these technologies if your device allows it. You can manage your cookies and cookie preferences through your browser and device settings.
Whenever possible, we have security measures in place to prevent unauthorized access to cookies and similar technologies. A unique identifier allows only us and/or our authorized service providers to access cookie data.

Service providers are companies that assist us in various aspects of our business, such as certain on-site operations, services, applications, advertisements, and tools. We use certain authorized service providers to help deliver relevant advertisements to you on our services and elsewhere on the internet. These service providers may place cookies (third-party cookies) on your device through our services. These service providers may also collect information that helps them identify your device, such as IP address and other unique and device identifiers.


Cookie Notice

What are cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies?

Like many sites, we use technologies that allow us to store certain information when you visit or interact with our site, primarily in the form of small data files placed on your computer, tablet, mobile phone, or other devices (collectively referred to as "device").

The specific names and types of cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies we use may change over time. Therefore, to help better understand our Cookie Policy and the technologies we use, we provide the following limited terminology and definitions below:

Cookies: These are short text files (usually consisting of letters and numbers) placed in your browser or device’s memory when you visit any website or view any message. There are several types of cookies:

  • Session cookies expire when your browser session ends and allow us to link your actions during a particular browser session.
  • Persistent cookies are stored on your device between browser sessions, allowing us to remember your preferences and actions across multiple sites.
  • First-party cookies are set by the site you are visiting.
  • Third-party cookies are set by a third-party site separate from the page you are visiting.
  • Cookies can be disabled or removed using tools that are available in most browsers. Preferences must be set separately for each browser you use, and different browsers provide different functionalities and options.

Web beacons: These are small graphic images that may be included on our site and generally work in conjunction with cookies to identify our users and their behaviors (also known as "pixel tags" or "clear GIFs").

Similar technologies: These are technologies such as Flash cookies, HTML5 cookies, and other web application software methods that store information in your browser or device using local shared objects or local storage. These technologies can operate across all of your browsers and, in some cases, may not be managed entirely through your browser and may require management directly through your installed applications or device. We may use these technologies to store information collected for advertising targeting purposes both on and off our Site.

We may use the terms "cookies" and "similar technologies" to refer to all technologies that store data in your browser or device and collect information or help us identify you as described above, without being limited to the technologies mentioned above.


Purposes of Using Cookies

1. Operationally Necessary: We may use cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies that are necessary for the operation of our site. These include technologies required to provide access to our site, detect abnormal site behavior, prevent fraudulent activities, and improve security, as well as technologies that enable functions such as shopping carts, saved searches, or similar features.

2. Performance-Based: We may use cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies to evaluate the performance of our site, including understanding how visitors use our site, determining whether you interact with our communications, detecting whether you view any products or links, and improving the content, applications, services, and tools of our websites, including as part of our analytical applications.

3. Functionality-Based: We may use cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies that allow us to provide enhanced functionality when you access or use our site. These may include technologies that help us identify you when you log in to our site, or track your preferences, interests, and previously viewed products to improve the presentation of content on our site.

4. Advertising or Targeting-Based: We may use first-party or third-party cookies and web beacons to deliver content, including advertisements relevant to your interests, on our site or third-party sites. This includes the use of technologies to understand the effectiveness of the ads and content presented to you, such as whether you clicked on any advertisements.

As explained below, rejecting first-party advertising cookies or third-party advertising cookies and web beacons does not mean you will not see our ads, but it means these ads will not be targeted to you using first-party or third-party cookies, web beacons, or related technologies.

If you wish to reject all other types of technologies we use on our site, you can block, delete, or disable them as allowed by your browser or device.


Use of These Technologies by Service Providers

With your consent, we may work with third-party companies, known as service providers, that are authorized to place third-party cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies on our site for the purpose of storing information. These service providers help us deliver a better, faster, and more secure experience.

These service providers may use the technologies to assist us in delivering content and ads and compiling anonymous site measurements and analytics. We do not permit these service providers to collect your personal data from our site or services, applications, or tools for their own purposes. These service providers are subject to privacy agreements and other legal restrictions regarding the processing and collection of personal data. Third-party cookies are subject to the privacy policies of the third parties.


Cookies We Use

To provide you with personalized and interest-based advertising and to analyze how you use our site, we may use cookies from our service providers or the technologies mentioned above. In this context, we use the third-party cookies or technologies listed below for purposes such as presenting you with advertisements that may interest you, enhancing the ease of use of our site, and generating usage statistics:

Google Analytics: Used to analyze how visitors use our site. Information about your use of this site (including your IP address) is sent to Google and stored on Google servers. Google uses this information to evaluate your use of our site, compile site activity for the company, and provide other services related to internet use, but will not match your IP address with other data stored by Google. For more information about the use of Google Analytics (including opt-out options), you can visit: Google Privacy.

Google Ads: Used to remember your secure search preferences, show you more relevant ads, determine the number of visitors to a page, help you sign up for our services, protect your data, or remember your ad settings. This cookie helps remember information about your visit to our site (such as your preferred language and other settings). Information about your usage (including your IP address) is sent to Google and stored on its servers. Google uses this information to evaluate your use of our site, compile site activity for the company, and provide other services related to internet use, but will not match your IP address with other data stored by Google. For more information about the use of Google Ads cookies (including opt-out options), you can visit: Google Privacy.

Facebook: Facebook cookies are used when you use Facebook products, including sites and applications, if you have a Facebook account or visit sites or applications that use Facebook products (including the Like button and other Facebook Technologies). Cookies enable Facebook to deliver Facebook products to you and understand information about you, including your use of other websites and applications, regardless of whether you are logged in or registered. Cookies are used for identity verification, security, site integrity, ads, recommendations, measurement, analytics, and reporting.

Additionally, to provide ads that might interest you on social media platforms and to create custom audiences, your personal data such as your email address is shared with these platforms. Your email address is transferred via secure channels and environments provided by these platforms. Social media platforms use your hashed email address solely for the purpose of matching. Your email address is not shared with third parties or other advertisers and is deleted from the systems of social media platforms as soon as possible after the matching process is completed. For example, Facebook (a) will protect the security and integrity of your personal data while it is in Facebook systems and (b) will implement technical and physical security measures to protect your hashed email address and Facebook User ID collection that make up your custom audience (“custom audience”) against accidental or unauthorized access, use, modification, or disclosure. Furthermore, Facebook will not provide third parties or other advertisers with access to or information about your custom audience without your consent or as required by law, will not add your custom audience information to information about our users, will not create interest-based profiles, or use your custom audience for purposes other than providing you with services. For the conditions of Facebook custom audiences, you can visit Facebook Custom Audiences, and for Facebook Privacy Principles, you can visit Facebook Privacy.

Twitter (X): Twitter(X) cookies are used to analyze your interactions, content likes, shares, and overall behavior on the social media platform. These cookies enable the analysis of collected data to show you relevant content and ads, personalize your user experience, and improve the platform's use. Additionally, Twitter(X) cookies are used to measure advertising and content interactions by people outside of Twitter users and to assess the effectiveness of ad campaigns. Twitter shares this data with third-party advertisers to help deliver more relevant ads. For more information on Twitter(X)'s cookie usage, you can visit the Twitter Privacy Policy page.

Third-party cookies used may match the data collected on our site with their own data and process the obtained personal data according to their own privacy policies. You can review the privacy policies of these platforms using the links provided.

Except for the use of these technologies by our service providers and other authorized third parties, we do not permit third-party content on our site (such as product listings, inter-member communications, series listings, comments, reviews) to contain or use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies for tracking purposes or to collect your personal data. If you believe that any listings or other third-party content on our site is collecting personal data or using tracking technologies, please inform us through customer service.


Controlling and Deleting Cookies

To change your preferences regarding the use of cookies, or to block or delete cookies, you only need to adjust your browser settings. Most browsers offer options to accept or reject cookies, accept only certain types of cookies, or be notified when a website requests to store cookies on your device. It is also possible to delete cookies that have been previously saved in your browser. The procedures for controlling or deleting cookies may vary depending on the browser you use.

The method for changing your cookie preferences depends on the browser type and can be learned from the relevant service provider.


Contact Us

To send us any questions or feedback regarding our policy, please visit our Contact page.

Privacy Policy

All content on our site is protected under the provisions of the Law No. 5846 on Intellectual and Artistic Works and the Decree-Law No. 556 on the Protection of Trademarks.

All materials, trademarks, and other intellectual property and copyright of texts on our site belong to Voras Research and Development Ltd. Co. (Voras R&D), and all rights are reserved. Unauthorized modification, copying, renting, transmitting, publishing, or distributing of this information, documents, texts, images, and logos is prohibited. Materials obtained from this site may not be sold or otherwise distributed for commercial purposes.

Voras R&D takes all necessary measures with the utmost care to protect the privacy of the information you share on our website and stores this information with strict security and confidentiality measures. Ensuring the confidentiality and security of collected customer information and using it according to customer requests is our primary approach. Customer information cannot be shared with any individuals, institutions, or organizations, except in cases required by law. You always have the right to request the correction, modification, or deletion of your personal information, and you can reach us at info@vorasarge.com.

Despite all precautions, Voras Research and Development Ltd. Co. cannot be held responsible for the unauthorized or unlawful acquisition and/or use of information on the website by third parties. In the event of such an occurrence, we will make the necessary reports to the relevant authorities.

Users of this site and those who fill out content on the site are deemed to have read and accepted the above legal responsibilities. Users must accurately represent themselves in our systems. The responsibility here entirely rests with you, our valued customers.

Voras Research and Development Ltd. Co. may allow access to or use of this site by any third party involved in its creation, production, or transmission. Voras R&D cannot be held responsible for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising from the use of the site by third parties without the explicit permission or approval of Voras R&D.