Privacy Policy and Personal Data Text

Update Date: 05.09.2022

1. Objective

We aims to process the personal data of users in accordance with general principles of privacy and the provisions of the Law on Personal Data Protection No. 6698 (“PDP Law”) and other applicable legislation.    

Your personal data, which you provided/will provide to us and/or obtained by us by any external means, may be processed by us as “Data Controller”;

• In the context of the objective of processing your personal data and in connection with this purpose, in a limited and measured manner,

• By maintaining the accuracy and up-to-date version of the personal data as reported or notified to us,

• May be recorded, stored, preserved, reorganized and be transferred to the institutions authorized to request such personal data by law and shall be transferred, classified and shared with third parties within the country or abroad under the conditions stipulated by legislation, and they may be processed by other means listed under the legislation and be subject to other procedures set forth in the legislation.

This Privacy Policy is adopted for the continuance and improvement of the activities carried out by Codeway in line with the principles set forth in the PDP Law.

This Privacy Policy describes which data we collect, how we intend to use, store, protect and share the data we collect, how you can withdraw your consent for the processing of these data and how you can correct and revise the data.

2. Collection of Personal Data and Method

We may process your personal data for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy.

The personal data of users collected and used by us in particular, are as follows: your name and surname, e-mail address, phone number which we will receive once you contact us, and identifier for advertisers designated in your mobile device used in accessing our services (The Identifier for Advertisers-IDFA), identifier for vendors/developers designated your mobile device (The Identifier for Vendors-IDVF) and Internet Protocol Address-IP Address) when you use Great Cleaner application (Great Cleaner).

We do not reach or process any Google user data when you use our services through Google API. Our use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Data Categories and Data Types

Identity Information：Name and surname

Contact Information：E-mail address, phone number

Process Security：Internet traffic data (network movements, IP address, visit data, time and date information), general location data such as                                 country and/or city,device name, log data, In-app purchase history, identifier for advertisers designated in your mobile                                        device used in accessing our services (if you give a permission, the Identifier for Advertisers-IDFA), identifier for                                                vendors/developers designated your mobile device (The Identifier for Vendors-IDVF)

Customer Transaction：Order information

Marketing Data：IDFA, IDVF

We do not reach or process any Google user data when you use Google API through Cleanup. Therefore, it is not possible for us to use any Google user data obtained via Google APIs for marketing purposes such as serving ads, including retargeting, personalised, or interest-based advertising.

We may collect your above mentioned data directly from you through electronic or physical mediums, your mobile device, third party applications or third party sources which you can access our application through these mediums such as Apple App Store for the purposes of compliance with legal obligations, enhancing  our services, administering  your use of our services, as well as enabling  you to enjoy and easily navigate our services.

We may collect your log data generated while you are using our services/applications (through our products or third-party products). This Log Data may include information such as your device’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, device name, operating system version, the configuration of the app when utilising our service/application, the time/date of your use of the service/application, and other statistics.

General Principles Regarding Personal Data Processing

In accordance with this Privacy Policy, personal data are processed by us as a data controller in line with the basic principles named here: (i) being in accordance with law and good faith, (ii) being accurate and, where necessary, up-to-date, (iii) being processed for specific, explicit and legitimate purposes, (iv) being limited for the purpose for which they are processed and data minimization; and (v) being stored for the period stipulated in the relevant legislation or required for the purpose for which they are processed.

3. Purposes of Processing Personal Data and Legal Reasons

Your personal data will be processed via automatic or non-automatic means for the purposes stated below, in accordance with the applicable legislation and articles 5 and 6 of the PDP Law where it is expressly permitted by the laws, the establishment of a contract or direct relation to the execution or performance of the contract and for the legitimate interests of us provided that your fundamental rights and freedoms are protected.

•   Purposes of Processing Personal Data

In accordance with this text, your personal data is processed for the following purposes in accordance with the above general conditions:

Identity Information                              execution of activities in compliance with legislation

Contact Information                             execution of company/product/service commitment operations

                                                                                                         execution of communication activities

                                                                                                         execution/auditing of business activities

                                                                                                         conducting after-sales support services for goods/services

                                                            execution of goods/services sales processes

                                                            conducting storage and archive activities

                                                            execution of agreement processes

Process Security                                 execution of information security processes

                                                            conducting audit/ethical activities

                                                             execution/audit of business activities

                                                            conducting activities to ensure business continuity

                                                            providing information to authorised persons, institutions and organisations

Customer Transaction                         execution/auditing of business activities

                                                            conducting after-sales support services for goods/services

                                                            execution of goods/services sales processes

                                                            conducting activities for customer satisfaction

                                                             execution of agreement processes

Marketing Data                                    conducting marketing analysis studies

                                                            execution of advertising/campaign /promotion processes

The purposes of processing personal data may be updated in line with our obligations arising from our policies and legislation; in particular,

•  Creating user accounts for the service recipients/application users,

•  Customising our Services, understanding our users and their preferences to enhance user experience and enjoyment using our Services and improve our users’ experience,

• Informing about new products, services and applications and delivering you information regarding advertisements and promotions,

• Carrying out a digital subscription and In-app purchase processes of service recipients,

• Carrying out the auto-renewable subscriptions for giving users access to content, services, or premium features in our service,

• Carrying out the processes of information security,

• Conducting activities in accordance with legislation,

• Fulfilling the demands of competent authorities,

• Conducting the processes of finance and accounting transactions,

• Conducting communication activities,

• Conducting the processes of contracts,

• Carrying out strategic planning activities,

• Following up requests and complaints,

Legal Reasons

Identity Information            It is necessary to process your personal data, provided that we establish a contractual relationship with you, or                                                  that it is directly related to our performance obligation arising from this contract

Contact Information           We have to process data in order to establish a right for you, to exercise and protect this right

Customer Transaction      The law explicitly stipulates the process by which we process your personal data

Process Security              Conditions that are necessary in order to fulfil our legal obligation

Marketing Data                 Your explicit consent (acquired via Apple and/or Google)

We does not reach, collect, or store any of your personal data when you use Gmail API services through Cleanup. If you reach any Gmail services through us; We will only use access for you to read, write, modify, or control Gmail message bodies (including attachments), metadata, headers, and settings to provide a web email client that allows users to compose, send, read, and process emails and since we do not process these data we will not be able to transfer this Google user data to others.

Third Party Websites and Applications

Great Cleaner; may contain links to other websites that are unknown to us and whose content is not controlled. These linked websites may contain terms and conditions other than us texts. We cannot be held responsible for the use or disclosure of information that these websites may process. Likewise, We shall not have any responsibility for any links from other sites provided to Great Cleaner owned by us.

We collect information by fair and lawful means, with your knowledge and consent. We also let you know why we’re collecting it and how it will be used. You are free to refuse our request for this information, with the understanding that we may be unable to provide you with some of your desired services without it.

Cookies

Cookies are little text files that are stored on the browser or hard drive of your computer or mobile device when you visit a webpage or application.  Cookies allow a website to run more efficiently in addition to ensuring the presentation of personalised web pages in order to make you live a faster visit experience which is more fit for your specific personal needs and demands. Containing only data on your website visit history via the internet, cookies do not collect any information, including your personal data/files stored on your computer or mobile device. We may use cookies when it is necessary for operating our services, to enhance our service performance and functionality, and to deliver content, including ads relevant to your interests, on our sites, or third-party sites. You can delete cookies which are already present on your computer and prevent the recording/location of cookies on your internet explorer.

Internet browsers are predefined to automatically accept the cookies as default. As the management of cookies varies from browser to browser, you may look at the help menu of the browser or application to get detailed information.

Push Notifications

We may occasionally send you push notifications via its mobile applications regarding application upgrades or notifications about our services. You can always edit such communication and notifications through the settings on your device and stop receiving such communications and notifications.

Your data will be stored for the duration specified in the applicable legislation or for a reasonable time until the purpose of processing cease to exist, or during legal periods of limitation.

We may continue to store your personal data, even after the expiry of the purpose of its use provided that it is required by other laws or a separate granted by you in this regard. 

In cases that you allow us to store your personal data for additional time by giving your consent, such data shall be immediately deleted, destructed or anonymized upon the expiry of such additional time or once the purpose of processing no longer exists.

Technical and Administrative Measures

We stores the personal data it processes in accordance with relevant legislation for periods stipulated in relevant legislation or required for the purpose of processing. we undertakes to take all necessary technical and administrative measures and to take the due care to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and security of personal data. In this context, it takes the necessary measures to prevent unlawful processing of personal data, unauthorised access to data, unlawful disclosure, modification or destruction of data. Accordingly, we takes the following technical and administrative measures regarding the personal data it processes:

User identifications. We employees' authorization to our systems is limited only to the extent necessary by job descriptions; in case of any change of authority or duty, systemic authorizations are also updated.

Information security threat and event management. Events that occur on our servers and firewalls, are transferred to the “Information Security Threat and Event Management” system. This system alerts the responsible staff when a security threat occurs and allows them to respond immediately to the threat.

Encryption. Sensitive data is stored with cryptographic methods and if required, transferred through environments encrypted with cryptographic methods and cryptographic keys are stored in secure and various environments.

Logging. All transaction records regarding sensitive data are securely logged.

Two-factor authentication. Remote access to sensitive data is allowed through at least two-factor authentication.

Information Security Management System (ISMS). At the ISMS meetings made within us, the topics contained in the control forum are audited monthly by the director of information technology and the director of financial operations.

Training. In order to increase the awareness of our employees against various information security violations and to minimise the impact of the human factor in information violation incidents, training is provided to employees at regular intervals.

Physical data security. It ensures that personal data on papers is necessarily stored in lockers and accessed only by authorised persons. Adequate security measures (for situations such as electric leakage, fire, deluge, thievery etc.) are taken based on the nature of the environment where sensitive data is stored.

Backup.  We periodically backs up the data it stores.  As a backup mechanism, it uses the backup facilities provided by the cloud infrastructure providers, as well as the backup solutions it develops when deemed necessary, provided that it is in compliance with relevant legislation and provisions of this Policy.

Non-disclosure agreement. Non-disclosure agreements are concluded with employees taking part in sensitive personal data processing.

Transfer of sensitive personal data. If transfer of sensitive personal data is required through email; such transfer is done through (i) encrypted corporate email or (ii) Registered Email.

In the event that the personal data is damaged as a result of attacks on Great Cleaner or on the our system, despite us taking the necessary information security measures, or the personal data is obtained by unauthorised third parties, we notifies this situation to users immediately and, if necessary, to relevant data protection authority and takes necessary measures.

4. Transferring Personal Data to Third Parties

The procedures and principles to be applied for transferring of personal data are regulated in articles 8 and 9 of the PDP Law, and the personal and special categories of data of the supplier may be transferred to third parties within the country or abroad, since we may use servers and cloud systems located abroad.

Your personal data may be transferred for the following reasons:

• Conducting storage and archive activities 

• Conducting business activities

• Conducting after-sales support services for goods/services

• Managing customer relationship management processes

We may also transfer your personal data to services providers of us, third parties such as Facebook SDK, Adjust and Firebase Analytics which are embedded into our service for the following purposes:

• Sharing communication and transaction security information with authorised public institutions and organisations for the purpose of execution of activities in compliance with legislation, monitor and execution of legal affairs, informing authorised persons, institutions and organisations.

• Sharing contact information to manage after-sales support services, conduct business activities and manage customer relationship management processes.

5. Your Rights as the Data Subject

Pursuant to Article 11 of the PDP Law, you may request the following regarding your personal data by applying to us:

• Learn whether or not your personal data have been processed;

• Whether or not your data have been processed;

• Learn the purpose of the processing of personal data and whether data are used in accordance with their purpose;

• Know the third parties in the country or abroad to whom your personal data have been transferred;

• In case the personal data is processed incompletely or inaccurately; requesting notification of the transactions made under this scope to third parties to whom personal data have been transferred;

• Request deletion, destruction or anonymization of personal data if the reasons for the processing have disappeared and request notification of the transactions made under this scope to third parties to whom personal data have been transferred;

• Object to occurrence of any result that is to your detriment by means of the analysis of personal data exclusively through automated systems;

• Request compensation for the damages in case you incur damages due to unlawful processing of your personal data.

Where General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is applicable, data subjects have the following rights:

• Right of access - Learning whether personal data is being processed and, if so, accessing your personal data and the information regarding the processing of your personal data,

• Right to correction -To request the correction of information that you believe is inaccurate or the completion of information that you believe is incomplete by us,

• Right to delete – To request deletion of personal data under the conditions stipulated in GDPR,

• The right to restrict processing - To request the restriction of the processing of personal data under the conditions stipulated in the GDPR,

• Right to object to processing - To object to the processing of personal data under the conditions stipulated in the GDPR,

• Right to data portability - To request the data collected by us to be transferred directly to another organisation or under certain conditions,

• Objection to the occurrence of a result against the person himself/herself, by analysing the processed data exclusively through automatic systems, including profiling.

In the application that includes your explanations about the right you have as the data subject and exercise your rights stated above and that you request to exercise; your request must be explicit and understandable, if the subject of your request is related to you or if you are acting on behalf of someone else, you must be specially authorised in this regard and your authority must be documented, the application must contain identity and address information and documents proving your identity must be attached to the application.

We will enable you to file such requests through the “Data Subject Application Form”In our app- Contact Us. In accordance with Article 13 of the PDP Law, our Company will finalise your requests, free of charge, within 30 (thirty) days at the latest depending on the nature of the request. In case the request is rejected, the reason or reasons for the rejection will be notified in writing or electronically along with its justification.

If you believe that we or someone with whom we have transferred your data is violating your rights, you can file a complaint to the data protection authority in your country and to other competent supervisory authorities. This Privacy Policy may be revised by us when deemed necessary. If you continue to access Great Cleaner and use or access Great Cleaner without benefiting from the Services offered by us after the notification period, you shall be deemed to have allowed the changes in this Privacy Policy.