Battal Group, including its affiliates, is committed to protect and respect your privacy in compliance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. It is our commitment that personal data will be collected and used only for the purposes for which it was originally submitted or in accordance with your preferences.
The purpose of this Privacy Notice is to explain why we collect personal data, how we use it, when would we share it with third parties, how we keep it and your rights about protection of your privacy. This Privacy Notice applies to the use of Battal ’s websites (individually called “Website”), including your subscription of any services via our Website(s) and when you are leaving any information (e.g. message) at our Website.
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Notice so to ensure our compliance with the applicable data protection and privacy laws. Please review this Privacy Notice from time to time for any amendments.
Contact details
We have appointed a data protection team which is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this Privacy Notice. If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Notice or the use of your personal data, please contact the data protection team using the details set out below:
Full legal entity name: Battal Marine Gemi İşletmeciliği A.Ş.
Postal address: Emirgan Yaver Selahattin Sokak No:4 34467 Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkiye
Data Protection Team email: legal@battal.com.tr
Data Protection Officer:
Mr Arman Zenginpedük
E-mail: legal@battal.com.tr
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified.
We shall collect from you the personal data relevant and necessary for conducting the type of Activity (defined below) you requested. Further, information about your usage of the Website shall be collected using cookies. Before collecting these personal data and information, we would explain to you the purpose of collecting them and obtain your consent.
Data provided by you
In connection with registration to our services, the circumstances in which you may need to provide us personal data include: inquiries, subscriptions, surveys and responding to your other requests (generally referred to as “Activity”). , We will only collect relevant personal data (to the extent and type(s) necessary) for the purpose of conducting the Activity, for examples:
Observed data about your online usage
When visiting the Website, observed data about your online usage would be collected. The data is collected using cookies and other similar technologies. Such data may include:
The purpose of processing your personal data is to:
Legal basis for processing your personal data:
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us. You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing messages sent to you or by contacting us at any time.
Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a solution or service purchased, and will not affect continuous business relations, etc.
We handle your personal data that you have provided to us separately from observed data about online service use (for example, details you provided to us when subscribing to the online Wallem magazine) and derived data, in separate databases. Observed or derived data about service usage is always stored in a way that users cannot be personally identified from the identifiers as the identifiers are generated randomly.
Your personal data is stored as long as necessary in relation to the purposes for which the personal data was collected, unless there is a legal obligation to retain the personal data longer (e.g. in case of an ongoing legal proceeding).
If you object to further contact from us, we will keep some basic information about you in order to avoid sending you unwanted communications in the future. We will confidentially dispose of or permanently delete your personal data if (i) your personal data is no longer necessary for the Activity, (ii) we are no longer lawfully entitled to process it or (iii) you validly exercise your right of erasure.
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we authorize access to your personal data to those employees, agents and contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know (for example, Marketing department will utilize your data to send out marketing materials you opted in to receive). They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
Battal Group uses the services of Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. Data collected by cookies about your use of our Websites, solutions and services, including your IP address, will be transmitted to and stored by Google on behalf of Battal Group. Battal Group uses such analytics services for the purpose of evaluating website performance, usage, and providing other services relating to website activities and internet usage.
According to Google, they will in no event connect your IP address with other of Google’s data.
To prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics, you can opt out by following the instructions provided here https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
We use third-party services to display online advertisements on behalf of Battal Group across the Internet. These service providers may use cookies to collect information about your visits to our Websites in order to display ads while you are visiting other websites. This information cannot be used to identify you individually, the information is anonymous, however your IP address may be collected.
Our Websites may contain links to other websites and ‘share’ and/or ‘like’ buttons, such as Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms, that are not operating on Battal Group’s behalf. Such websites, service or application providers may place their own third-party cookies on users’ computers and other devices, collect data, or solicit personal information.
Issuers of such third-party cookies have their own privacy policies. You should refer to any privacy policies from such websites, service or application providers to better understand how your information may be collected and used.
When you visit our Websites, cookies that contain information used to track your usage of our Websites are stored on your device, provided that you have accepted the use of cookies in your browser. This enables our systems to recognise your browser and tell us how, when and which pages in our Websites are visited and by how many people, and also enables us to recognise a return visitor as a unique user. Cookies placed by the Websites cannot access, read or modify any other data on your device.
We use the following cookies on our Websites:
Analytical cookies
We use website analytics for the purpose of evaluating usage, count the number of visitors and see how visitors navigate on our Websites when using them. More information about how Google Analytics use cookies can be found at https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
Targeting cookies
These cookies record your visit to our Websites, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Websites and the content displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
Electronic marketing
If you have a professional relationship with us or have given your consent to receive marketing messages from Battal Group, we may use your e-mail address to send you electronic marketing information.
How do you disable cookies?
You can control the use of cookies when you visit our Websites. You can block use of cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our Websites, or fully access the services or their features. Read more about disabling cookies in your browser.
Please note that if you have consented to the usage of cookies, you can withdraw your consent at any time by clearing your browser’s data. Read more about clearing your browser’s data here.
At Battal llem we handle your personal data only according to the defined purposes of processing.
Personal data can be disclosed to the following third parties:
In some cases, the recipients of personal data may be located outside of EU/EEA, in which case we will ensure that sufficient level of data protection is maintained through appropriate safety measures, e.g. by using EU commission’s standard contractual model clauses.
Under certain circumstances, you have the following rights:
We would however appreciate the chance to deal with your concern before you approach them, so please contact us in the first instance.
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Notice or the use of your personal data in Battal, please contact us at legal@battal.com.tr