Privacy Policy

PRIVACY AND COOKIE POLICY

I- Entry

Balmy Consumption Products Industry Inc., hereinafter referred to as “Balmy”. cares about the privacy of visitors to the company’s balmy.com.tr website, and has adopted the principle of protecting the privacy of our visitors within the legal framework.

In this context, as Balmy, we comply with the provisions of the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“Law”), the decisions of the Personal Data Protection Board (“Board”) and the European Union Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) to the extent appropriate, in order to process personal data in accordance with the law. We take all necessary precautions and measures to ensure

We would like to inform you about what kind of information about users is processed, how this information is used, for what purpose personal information is collected and what we will do with your personal information. We will also inform you about how you can exercise your rights in this regard.

This Privacy and Cookie Policy is valid for the Balmy site that we have mentioned above, and is not valid for other websites that have a link extension from the site.

By visiting this website and requesting to benefit from the services we provide through this website, you accept the terms set forth in this “Privacy Policy”.

II –  Collection of personal information

Name of Responsible Organization: Balmy Tüketim Ürünleri Sanayi A.Ş.

Address of Responsible Organization: Cevizli Mah. Hızır Reis Sok. Dış Kapı No.6D K.1-2 Maltepe/İstanbul

Balmy uses the relevant personal data to provide this website to users, to improve the features, functions and general administrative tasks of the service, and to ensure that this site functions properly and is provided with the necessary security. Every transaction outside this scope and performed on the data is carried out on the basis of other legal obligations, permissions, situations where Balmy has a legitimate interest or within the framework of the express consent given to Balmy by the relevant user.

The following types of personal information may be collected, stored and used:

1. Information about your computer, including IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
2. Information about your visit and use of the site, including reference source, duration of visit, page views and navigation paths;
3. Data displayed in the comments form when visitors leave comments on the site, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser information to assist in spam detection;
4. Information such as your e-mail address, etc. you provide to register on our site; information you provide when creating a profile on our site, such as your name, profile picture, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, education and employment status;
5. Information you provide when subscribing to our e-mails and/or newsletters, such as your name and e-mail address;
6. The information you enter while using the services on our site;
7. Information generated while using our site, including when, how often and under what conditions you use it;
8. Information about anything you purchase, a service you use, or a transfer you make through our site, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card information;
9. Information you submit to our site for the purpose of sharing on the internet using our site, including your username, profile picture and the content of your post;
10. Any communication content you send via our site or e-mail, including communication content and metadata;
11. An anonymized text (also called a hash) generated from your email address; (This text can be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using the service. The privacy policy of the Gravatar service is at: https://automattic.com/privacy/.)
12. Any other personal information you send to us.

Before you provide us with another person’s personal information, you must obtain that person’s consent that their information will be shared and processed in accordance with this policy.

III – Processing, use and storage of your personal information

Processing and use of relevant data; necessary for the website to be offered; or where Balmy has a legitimate interest in ensuring and improving the functionality and trouble-free operation of the website, as well as ensuring that it is suitable for users’ needs, on the basis of the relevant legal provisions that allow these actions to be taken.

Personal information sent to us through our site will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the site. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:

1. Administer and personalize our site and business;
2. To enable you to use the services on our site;
3. Shipping and supply of products and services purchased from our site
4. To send you notices, invoices and payment reminders and to receive payments from you;
5. To establish non-marketing commercial communications with you;
6. To send you email notifications that you specifically request;
7. To send you marketing content that we think will be useful to you by our business, by mail, e-mail or similar technologies (if you do not want the marketing content, you can let us know at any time);
8. Provide third parties with statistical information about our users (however, these third parties cannot identify any users using this information);
9. To resolve complaints and requests made by or about you regarding our site;
10. To keep our site secure and prevent fraud;
11. Verify that our website is used in accordance with the relevant terms and conditions (including tracking messages sent via the private message service on our site)
12. and for other purposes..

Unless you have given your consent for a longer period of time through any express consent statement, we will only retain the data for the period necessary to achieve the above objective or any legal retention requirement.

Balmy, for the purposes stated above, deletes the data and anonymizes it without delay if it is determined that the said data is no longer needed.

IV – Sharing personal information

We may transmit your personal information to our employees, officers, insurers, professional and legal advisers, suppliers or subcontractors as long as the purposes set out in this policy require it.

We may pass your personal information on to all members of our group of companies (meaning our affiliates, our parent holding company and its affiliates) as long as the purposes set out in this policy so require.

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

1. Where legally required;
2. Regarding ongoing or potential legal processes;
3. To protect, enforce and defend our own legal rights (including passing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);
4. Existing shareholders of companies or in case of sale, merger or acquisition;
5. If we have reasonable opinions that the court or authorized persons and institutions will decide to disclose personal information to a person we believe can apply to the court for the disclosure of personal information.

Except as stated in this policy, your personal information will not be shared with any third party unless you give your express consent, and it will remain confidential within the scope of our company’s policy.

V – Security of your personal information

All reasonable technical and organizational measures will be taken by our company to prevent the loss, abuse or alteration of your personal data.

All your personal information is stored on secure (password and firewall protected) servers, and all financial transfers made through our site are protected by encryption technology.

Despite all these measures, you agree that data transmission over the internet is not secure due to the nature of the internet and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

It is your responsibility to keep the password you use to access our site confidential, you should not share your password with anyone when you log in to our site.

VI – Changes

We may change this policy from time to time and publish the new version on our website. You should check this page from time to time to make sure you understand possible changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or via the private messaging system on our site.

VII – Your rights

If you have an account or comments on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including data you have provided to us. Documentation proving your identity is required to obtain this information. You can always exercise your right to access your data. In addition, if the relevant conditions are met, you can exercise the following rights:

1. Right of rectification
2. Right to delete
3. Right to restrict processing
4. Right to raise a complaint through the competent data protection supervisory authority

VIII – Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) sent to and stored on the server by the network server. Then the identifier is sent back to the server every time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies: the persistent cookie is stored by the browser and deleted on the expiration date, unless deleted by the user by the expiration date; session cookie is deleted when the browser is closed at the end of the user session. Cookies do not contain information that can be used to identify the user, but the information we store about you may be associated with the data in the cookies. Technically necessary cookies will be used automatically. Other cookies (or similar technologies) will only be applied upon your prior consent.

There are different types of cookies. First-party cookies are placed by the website visited and can only be read by that website. Third-party cookies, on the other hand, are placed by other organizations from which we receive services for various services we use. As an example, we use external analytics service providers that place cookies on our behalf in order to identify liked or disliked content on our website. In addition, the website you visit may contain embedded content from a source such as YouTube, for example, and cookies may be placed by that source.

If you leave a comment on our site, you can choose to save your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so you don’t have to fill in your information again when you leave another comment. These cookies stay for one year.

If you have an account and are logged into this site, a temporary cookie is set by us to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will save a few cookies to save your login information and screen view selection. Login cookies stay for two days and screen options cookies stay for one year. If you choose the “Remember me” option, your login will last for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is saved in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data and only shows the post ID of the article you are editing. It expires after 1 day.

Articles on this site may contain embedded content (eg, videos, images, articles, etc.). Content embedded from other websites behaves exactly the same as if the visitor had visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to this website.

To change your preferences for the use of cookies or to block or delete cookies, simply change your browser settings.

IX – Right of Objection

You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data at any time due to the reasons arising as a result of the special situation you are in. Balmy will stop the processing of the data if your objection to the processing is not malicious and if you have justifiable grounds for your objection.

If you have given your consent to the processing of your personal data, you can withdraw your consent with effect from now on.

Within the scope of the law, you can send all kinds of requests, complaints and suggestions regarding your personal data to the address below, with documents proving your identity and your petition containing your request, or to the registered e-mail address of our company info@balmy.com.tr by using a secure electronic signature.

Address: Cevizli Mah. Hızır Reis Sok. Dış Kapı No.6D K.1-2 Maltepe/İstanbul