KVKK Privacy Notice and Cookie Policy

This notice has been prepared under Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 ("KVKK") to inform persons who visit the website pehlivanguvenhukuk.com, operated by Pehlivan & Güven Law Firm, and persons who contact our firm.

1. Data Controller

Your personal data is processed by Pehlivan & Güven Law Firm, as data controller, within the scope described below.

• Address: Macun Mah. 184. Cad. Gimathan Plaza No: 78/72, Yenimahalle / Ankara
• Phone: 0312 231 99 40
• E-mail: pehlivanguvenhukuk@gmail.com

2. Personal Data Processed

If you contact our firm, the following data may be processed:

• Identity data: first name and surname.
• Contact data: e-mail address, telephone number.
• Content of the request: information in your message describing your legal request.
• Transaction security data: cookie records and visit statistics relating to use of the website.

The contact form on our website turns the information you enter into a ready message in Gmail's compose window (or, if you prefer, in your own e-mail application); the message reaches our firm only when you choose to send it, and from your own e-mail account. Form data is not stored on the website and is not transmitted to us via a server.

Please do not share health data, criminal convictions, religion or other special categories of personal data in your first contact; if such information is needed, it will be requested through secure channels once an attorney-client relationship has been established.

3. Purposes of Processing Personal Data

• Responding to contact requests and answering questions,
• holding a preliminary consultation and assessing the request for legal services,
• providing legal services once an attorney-client relationship has been established,
• checking whether there is a conflict of interest,
• ensuring the security and proper functioning of the website.

4. Legal Grounds

Your personal data is processed under Article 5 of the KVKK on the following legal grounds:

• processing is directly related to the conclusion or performance of a contract (Art. 5/2-c),
• processing is necessary for the data controller to fulfil its legal obligations (Art. 5/2-ç) — Attorneyship Law No. 1136 and related legislation,
• processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or protection of a right (Art. 5/2-e),
• legitimate interest (Art. 5/2-f),
• where none of these apply, your explicit consent (Art. 5/1).

5. Method of Collection

Data is collected, partly by automated means, through the contact form on the website, e-mail, telephone, WhatsApp and face-to-face meetings.

6. Transfer of Personal Data

Subject to the attorney's duty of confidentiality, your personal data may be transferred only to the extent necessary and only in the following cases: to public authorities and judicial/administrative bodies authorised by law, to the opposing party's attorneys where required by the legal dispute, and to the IT infrastructure providers whose services we use. Your data is not shared with or sold to third parties for marketing purposes.

7. Retention Period

Requests that do not lead to an attorney-client relationship are deleted within a reasonable period after the request has been concluded. If an attorney-client relationship is established, case files and data are retained for the periods set out in the Attorneyship Law and related legislation and for the limitation periods; when these periods expire, they are deleted, destroyed or anonymised.

8. Rights of the Data Subject

Under Article 11 of the KVKK, you have the right to:

• learn whether your personal data is being processed,
• request information about it if it has been processed,
• learn the purpose of processing and whether it is used in accordance with that purpose,
• know the third parties in Türkiye or abroad to whom it has been transferred,
• request correction if it has been processed incompletely or incorrectly,
• request its deletion or destruction where the conditions are met,
• request that correction, deletion and destruction be notified to the third parties to whom the data has been transferred,
• object to a result against you arising from analysis carried out exclusively by automated systems,
• claim compensation for damage suffered as a result of unlawful processing.

You may exercise these rights by applying to our firm.

9. How to Apply

You can submit your requests, together with documents proving your identity, in writing to the address above or to pehlivanguvenhukuk@gmail.com. Your applications will be concluded within thirty days at the latest. If your application is rejected, your right to lodge a complaint with the Personal Data Protection Board is reserved.

10. Cookie Policy

Two types of cookies are used on our website:

• Essential cookies: records kept in your browser's local storage to remember your language preference (Turkish/Persian/English) and that you have closed the cookie notice. The site does not work properly without them.
• Statistics cookies: used via Google Analytics for aggregate statistics such as the number of visitors and which pages are viewed. This data is not used to identify you.

You can delete or block cookies in your browser settings; in that case some functions of the site may not work.

11. Changes

This notice may be revised in line with changes in legislation or updates to our firm's data processing procedures. The current version is always published on this page.