General Information on Protection of Personal Data (GDPR Compliant)

The Law on the Protection of Personal Data (KVKK) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have been adopted to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals, especially the privacy of private life, and to regulate the obligations of natural and legal persons who process personal data.

In the capacity of Data Controller, medicatur informs its patients, employees, and candidates in the following manner and enlightens them within the scope specified in the relevant data protection regulations. The representative(s) to be appointed by the Data Controller medicatur will be announced on the official website in accordance with the legislation when the legal infrastructure is provided.

Purposes of Processing Your Personal Data, Collection Method, and Legal Grounds

Personal data is any information that makes a person identified or identifiable. This type of information may be, for example, your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, or the IP address of the computer you use when accessing our website. Any operation performed on data such as obtaining, recording, storing, preserving, changing, rearranging, explaining, transferring, taking over, making available, classifying, or preventing the use of personal data by fully or partially automatic means or non-automatic means provided that it is part of any data recording system is the processing of personal data.

Your personal data will be processed:

a) In accordance with the law and honesty rules, b) Accurately and up to date when necessary, c) For specific, clear, and legitimate purposes, d) In connection with the purpose for which they are processed, being limited and measured, e) To be kept for the period stipulated in the relevant legislation or required for the purpose for which they are processed,

by automatic or non-automatic means, provided that it is part of any data recording system.

As the data controller, your personal data is kept by our institution for the following purposes in accordance with the execution of health services and health tourism organizations:

• Creating a database, performing listing, reporting, verification, analysis, and evaluations, producing statistical information, and sharing them with experts when necessary,

• Contacting you through the communication channels you have shared directly with us for the purpose of informing you about our institution and the health services we offer,

• Using it in the processes required for personnel recruitment for our institution,

• Receiving registration requests for treatment services, using it in invoicing, and contacting you when needed,

• Using it in invoicing for accommodation and transportation organizations and contacting you when needed,

• Using it in the coordination processes of the patient and/or relevant physicians during consultancy and treatment planning stages,

• Using it in digital and printed environments for news, developments, and informative purposes about our clinics and health tourism activities.

Your data may be processed for purposes such as fulfilling our obligations stipulated by laws and regulations, other than the purposes expressed above.

Transfer of Personal Data

Your personal data will be shared with authorized public institutions and organizations such as the Ministry of Health, Social Security Institution, ministries, judicial authorities, banks from which the institution receives services, private health insurance companies, and contracted healthcare providers for the purpose of fulfilling the legal obligations of our institution.

Our institution may transfer the personal data and special quality personal data of the personal data owner to third parties (third-party companies, institutions, group companies, third real persons) by taking the necessary security measures in line with the lawful personal data processing purposes. Our institution acts in accordance with the regulations stipulated in the data protection laws in this direction. Information may be kept within the country or transferred abroad for the realization of the purposes mentioned here, provided that necessary security measures are taken.

Personal data is deleted, destroyed, or anonymized upon the request of the personal data owner or at the institution's own decision if the reasons requiring processing disappear, although it has been processed in accordance with the relevant law provisions.

Your Rights as a Personal Data Owner

It is set forth in the Constitution that everyone has the right to be informed about the personal data concerning them. In this direction, "requesting information" is also counted among the rights of the personal data owner. In this context, our institution provides the necessary information in case the personal data owner requests information.

You can submit your requests regarding your rights to medicatur in person or to our postal address in accordance with the legislation (for example, via a notary public).

Links to Other Websites

The current website contains links to other websites. We have no influence on whether the operators of these sites act in accordance with data protection provisions. The current website is not responsible for the content of the sites it links to (and the content of other sites linked by those sites) and has no authority to intervene in the contents of the sites it provides links to.

Changes to the General Information Text on the Protection of Personal Data

This "General Information Text on the Law on the Protection of Personal Data" will be changed when necessary to announce changes in our data protection-related services, for example, in the provision of new services and to fulfill the current legal requirements.