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Privacy Policy

Last updated: December 2024

1. PURPOSE AND SCOPE

This Privacy Policy defines the responsibilities and rights of Melike Kaya (hereinafter referred to as "we", "our", "QUANTA") and the data subjects who are the other parties to the business relationship (hereinafter referred to as "Customer" or "Data Subjects") regarding the collection, retention, processing, use or sharing of personal data within the scope of the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 dated 24/3/2016 (hereinafter referred to as "KVKK").

The Law (KVKK) regulated by the Personal Data Protection Board aims to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals, especially the privacy of private life, in the processing of personal data, and to regulate the obligations of natural and legal persons who process personal data.

QUANTA updates this Privacy Policy to comply with the Personal Data Protection Law (KVKK) and business processes. When necessary, it may add specific instructions, articles and conditions to the Privacy Policy. The latest version of the policy will be available on the QUANTA official website (https://www.qfinance.tech); thus all parties can learn their rights and responsibilities. Changes to our privacy policy will be announced to you through in-app notifications, email or our website.

2. DEFINITIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS

Explicit consent: Consent on a specific subject declared with informed and free will.
Personal data: Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Processing of personal data: Any operation performed on data such as obtaining, recording, storing, preserving, altering, reorganizing, disclosing, transferring, acquiring, making available, classifying or preventing the use of personal data, provided that it is part of any data recording system, completely or partially automatically or completely non-automatically.
Board: Personal Data Protection Board.
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.
Customer / Data Subject: Natural person whose personal data is processed.
KVKK: Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 dated 24/3/2016.

3. COLLECTION OF EXPLICIT CONSENT TEXT

QUANTA obtains Explicit Consent Text from its customers and/or authorized persons of customers and third parties/parties within the scope of the above-mentioned reasons and data controllership. The text is also necessary to fulfill the responsibilities, rights and obligations arising from the business relationships entered into with the relevant persons and organizations and to provide products and services in full compliance with the relevant laws and regulations.

Personal data collected can be processed and shared within the scope of the mentioned methods, within the framework of the conditions, terms and conditions regarding the processing of personal data in the Personal Data Protection Law (KVKK).

If Customers and/or Data Subjects select the "I Accept" option at the end of the Explicit Consent Text, they accept and undertake to consider all information as a trade secret, to disclose this information to third parties and/or organizations or to the public within the framework of KVKK, and to avoid possible problematic behaviors. Even if the contract is terminated for any reason, these confidentiality provisions remain valid indefinitely.

QUANTA also offers its Customers and/or Data Subjects the "I Do Not Accept" option at the end of the Explicit Consent Text. If they choose not to approve the explicit consent text, i.e., choose the right to reject, QUANTA will provide limited services within the scope of contracts signed by them before entering into business relationships, except for the principles stated in the explanation text.

You can access QUANTA's Explicit Consent Text from the following link:

https://qfinance.tech/declaration-of-explicit-consent

To withdraw your consent, you can send an email to info@qfinance.tech or use the privacy settings in your user panel.

4. COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL DATA

According to the Personal Data Protection Board, processing of personal data means any operation performed on data such as obtaining, recording, storing, preserving, altering, reorganizing, disclosing, transferring, acquiring, making personal data completely or partially automatic, provided that it is part of a data recording system completely or partially automatically. It includes all kinds of operations on data such as retrieving, transferring, classifying or preventing the use of data.

QUANTA processes, collects, stores and shares the personal data that needs to be collected to the extent permitted by applicable laws and regulations in order to provide the best services and products to its Customers and/or Data Subjects. In this context, personal data may be processed by QUANTA for the purpose of communicating with customers and/or relevant persons about products and services within the scope of established commercial activities and informing the customer, conducting sales and marketing activities, acquiring new customers and conducting customer-oriented studies.

Apart from these, personal data may also be processed and stored for the purpose of increasing customer satisfaction, sharing offers related to products and services, further improving service quality, making developments according to risk analysis, customer needs and requirements, sending necessary notifications, and conducting all kinds of analysis, examination and reporting work within the scope of business processes.

QUANTA may share the processed personal data with domestic and/or foreign controlling shareholders, subsidiaries and group companies and other financial institutions from which it receives services such as independent audit, to the extent permitted by relevant laws and regulations.

QUANTA is obliged to keep all records and documents related to transactions made with its customers for a certain period in accordance with laws or regulations. QUANTA also determines its processes for the deletion, destruction or anonymization of personal data processed completely or partially automatically or non-automatically, provided that they are part of any data recording system, in accordance with the "Regulation on the Deletion, Destruction or Anonymization of Personal Data" which came into force on October 28, 2017 in accordance with Article 7 of the Personal Data Protection Law.

Your data is stored on our servers in Germany (Frankfurt). If your personal data is transferred from Turkey to the EU or other countries, all necessary legal safeguards and user consents will be provided within the scope of KVKK and GDPR. When you dispute the accuracy of your data or want to restrict its processing for legal reasons, you can request the restriction of processing in accordance with KVKK and GDPR. Personal data is stored only for the period necessary to achieve the processing purposes. When this period expires, the data is deleted, destroyed or anonymized, except for legal storage obligations.

In addition, QUANTA uses limited cookies for user experience improvement and security purposes. Your explicit consent is obtained for advertising, analysis and marketing cookies. You can always manage your cookie preferences from your browser settings.

https://qfinance.tech/cookie-policy

Legal Basis

QUANTA processes your personal data based on the following legal grounds:

  • Performance of service contract (GDPR Article 6(1)(b))
  • Compliance with legal obligations (GDPR Article 6(1)(c))
  • Explicit consent (GDPR Article 6(1)(a))
  • Protection of our legitimate interests (GDPR Article 6(1)(f))

5. RIGHTS OF THE DATA SUBJECT

Customers and/or data subjects may request any of the rights specified below about themselves by making a written application to us. The customer request in question will be evaluated and answered by us in accordance with the necessary laws and regulations.

  • Learning whether personal data is processed
  • Requesting information about processed personal data
  • Learning the purpose of processing personal data and whether personal data is used in accordance with its purpose
  • Learning about third parties to whom personal data is transferred domestically or abroad
  • Requesting correction or completion of personal data
  • Requesting deletion or destruction of personal data
  • Requesting that such operations be notified to third parties to whom personal data has been transferred in case of correction, completion, deletion or destruction of personal data
  • Objecting to results that may be obtained due to the analysis of processed data exclusively or through automatic systems
  • Requesting compensation for damages suffered due to unlawful processing of personal data

You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time for data processing activities carried out with explicit consent. Withdrawing your consent does not affect the legal validity of previously conducted operations.

If you experience problems while exercising your rights regarding the processing of your personal data, you can file a complaint with the Personal Data Protection Board (KVKK) in Turkey or the data protection authority of the country you are in within the European Union.

Within the scope of KVKK and GDPR, your personal data will be provided to you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format upon your request. You can also transfer this data to another data controller.

6. CONTACT INFORMATION

If you would like to contact QUANTA, provide feedback or obtain information about our application, you can send your request or application as a written and signed document or through a notary or with a secure electronic signature. Your written requests or applications will only be accepted and taken into consideration by us after your identity is verified.