Personal Data Protection Law

In your business relationships and investment processes held with our Institution, the security of your personal data and the principle of confidentiality are among our top priorities that start with the establishment of such relationship. This is of great importance for us in our legislation, infrastructure and other product development works, and is included into structural planning. In accordance with the PDPL, which is designed to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms and personal data of individuals; information about an individual’s identity, contact, assets, financial products, investment products, distribution of products, risk profile and consumer habits (balance sheet, trial balance, use of credits, rating, scoring, EFT and money transfer records, periodic and non-periodical payments, other expenses etc.), information about the methods used to access to investments and all financial products provided by us (access times, access frequency, movements and preferences on the screens, IP, mobile phone brand-model, browser type, version, social media information, etc.), information in the form of audio and/or video in the camera/phone records available in our head office and non-central organizations; and all types of information and documents obtained as a result of the transactions conducted within the scope of the framework agreements signed with our clients – which are mandatory under the legislation as part of the know-your-client rule – and which identify or are used to identify the clients are all recognized as personal data. 

Your personal data is processed by our business departments for the purposes of enabling you to benefit from each product and service provided by Tacirler Asset Management; customizing the products and services provided by our company according to your preferences, usage habits and needs; establishing a legal/commercial relationship with you as our client regarding a product or service and fulfilling the requirements of the signed framework contract; identifying the product groups that appeal to you and making developments that cater for your investment needs; making suggestions to you in line with the purposes prescribed/limited by the laws; contacting you about the products and services that you have purchased/will purchase from us, and also – in case you grant a permission to us for this purpose – using your personal data in marketing activities; proposing products/services, modeling, reporting, scoring, risk monitoring, intelligence; determining and implementing the commercial and business strategies of our company, executing the existing or new product studies of our company and our affiliates and identifying potential clients etc., within the scope of investment and capital market activities and in line with the personal data processing conditions and purposes prescribed by the Law No. 6698. 

Upon your declarations; your personal data is collected through the applications made via our head office and non-central organizations, our affiliates, all our mobile applications, electronic trading platforms and websites, social media, visits and meetings of our client representatives, SMS channels, written/digital applications made to direct sales teams as well as other channels which our Company has used or will use to contact our clients due to legal relationships, and your personal data is stored within the legal periods prescribed in the relevant legislation. Your personal data, which must be processed in accordance with the obligations described in legal regulations and within the scope of the contracts concluded to enable our Institution to continue its activities, or which is required to be processed for the legitimate interests of Tacirler Asset Management, is collected and processed by us in the capacity of Data Controller upon your explicit consent, without prejudice to your fundamental rights and freedoms.

Tacirler Asset Management, which acts in the capacity of Data Controller within the scope of PDPL No. 6698, processes your personal data that you provide to our company or obtained by our company through various channels in order to receive investment services/obtain product-information. On the other hand, you can visit www.tacirler.com.tr and our other websites whenever you want without sharing your personal data. During your visit to our websites, your personal data is collected only with your knowledge. Your personal data, which is recorded as a result of your consent, is protected by Tacirler Asset Management by using the security methods and technical measures that are most appropriate in terms of technological developments and needs for the purpose of preventing unlawful processing.

To ensure compliance with the regulations and requirements such as the Capital Markets Law, Banking Law, Commercial Law, Tax Procedure Law, MASAK legislation - regarding the determination and retention of access information such as the client's identity and address etc. within legal periods – and the information retention, reporting and information obligations prescribed by legal authorities such as TSPB, BİST, CMB, MASAK, BDDK, CBRT, Undersecretariat of Treasury; personal data is recorded, stored, protected, classified, updated and disclosed by Tacirler Asset Management to third parties according to the legal limitations in the capacity of Data Controller and by the methods described in the PDPL. Your personal data kept by Tacirler Asset Management can be transferred to the legally-authorized administrative and official authorities, direct and indirect shareholders and domestic subsidiaries of our Institution, our business partners, suppliers, domestic third parties to which we provide support services or from which we receive services under the legislation, independent audit companies, organizations authorized to receive personal data in accordance with the Capital Market Law, electronic channels and platforms used for Capital Market activities and the websites of our Institution, Official authorities and legal entities that are legally authorized to request client information such as Capital Markets Board, Borsa Istanbul A.Ş., Turkish Capital Markets Association, Merkezi Kayıt Kuruluşu A.Ş., Central Bank of Republic of Turkey, Takasbank and Investor Compensation Center - due to legal obligations and within the framework of legal limitations. In addition, personal data can be disclosed to cooperation organizations, program partners, joint branding partners and their third party cooperation partners, domestic /overseas banks and financial institutions according to certain limitations.

According to the Article 11 of the PDPL; you are entitled to ask whether your personal data has been processed or not, if your personal data has been processed, to ask for information about processing of your data, to learn the purpose of processing of personal data and whether such data is used in accordance with the purpose, to know the third parties inland or abroad, to whom your personal data has been disclosed, if the personal data has been processed incompletely/wrong, to ask for correction of it, to ask for provision of correction information to third parties to whom your personal data has been disclosed, to ask for deletion/disposal of personal data after the reasons for processing of such personal data have disappeared as prescribed in the Article 7 of the PDPL except for the legal limitations, to request a notification to be sent to third parties, to whom your personal data has been disclosed, in connection with your deletion/disposal request, to object to the occurrence of any negative results against you through analysis of the processed data exclusively by automatic systems and to ask for the indemnification of the loss suffered by you due to the processing of your personal data in violation of the law.

Best Regards.