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KVKK Notice

Last updated: 10 September 2026

This notice has been prepared by Davtek İnşaat Otomotiv İthalat İhracat Ltd. Şti. (“Davtek” or the “Company”) in its capacity as data controller, pursuant to Article 10 of Turkish Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (“KVKK”) and the related Communiqué on the Procedures and Principles for Fulfilling the Disclosure Obligation. Its purpose is to inform you about the personal data obtained through our website, the purposes for which it is processed and the legal grounds relied upon.

1. Identity of the Data Controller

Data controller: Davtek İnşaat Otomotiv İthalat İhracat Ltd. Şti.

Address: Yenibosna Merkez Mah. Çınar Cad. Kavak Sk. No: 17, 34197 Bahçelievler / İstanbul

E-mail: pazarlama@davtek.com.tr

2. Personal Data Processed

Only the personal data listed below is processed through our website. No special categories of personal data are collected.

  • Contact form and quotation requests: full name, company/organisation name, e-mail address, telephone number and any information you include in the message body.
  • Server logs: IP address, date and time of the request, requested address, browser and operating system information.
  • Cookie and analytics data: statistical usage data collected only where you have given explicit consent (see the Cookie Policy).

3. Purposes of Processing

Your personal data is processed for the following purposes, limited to, proportionate with and connected to those purposes:

  • Responding to and following up on the requests, questions and complaints you submit to us.
  • Preparing quotations, pricing and conducting pre-contractual negotiations.
  • Performing the works and transactions and managing the customer relationship where a contract is established.
  • Fulfilling our legal obligations (tax, commercial, retention and disclosure obligations).
  • Ensuring the security and continuity of the website and detecting misuse.
  • Where you have given explicit consent, analysing website usage to improve content and service quality.

4. Legal Grounds

Your personal data is processed on the basis of the following legal grounds set out in Article 5 of the KVKK:

  • Art. 5/2-(c): Processing is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract, provided it is directly related thereto — for quotations and pre-contractual negotiations.
  • Art. 5/2-(ç): Processing is mandatory for the data controller to fulfil its legal obligations — for statutory retention and disclosure obligations.
  • Art. 5/2-(f): Processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of the data controller, provided that it does not harm the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject — for website security, server logs and request tracking.
  • Art. 5/1: Explicit consent — solely for non-essential cookies, analytics measurement and the related transfer abroad.

5. Method of Collection

Your personal data is collected electronically, by wholly or partly automated means, when you complete the contact form on our website, reach us by e-mail or telephone, and through the records our servers keep automatically during your visit.

6. Transfer of Personal Data

Your personal data may be transferred to the parties listed below, in accordance with Articles 8 and 9 of the KVKK and only to the extent required by the purposes stated above. Your data is never sold or rented to third parties for marketing purposes.

  • Our suppliers providing server and hosting services.
  • Our e-mail / SMTP infrastructure provider (to deliver contact form messages to us).
  • Authorised public authorities and judicial bodies, upon request and to the extent required by law.
  • Transfer abroad: Only where you have given explicit consent may data be transferred, within the scope of the analytics service, to a provider whose servers are located outside Türkiye. If you do not give consent, no such transfer takes place and you may continue to use the website in full.

7. Retention Period

Your personal data is retained for as long as the processing purpose requires, without prejudice to the statutory limitation periods set out in the applicable legislation; at the end of that period it is erased, destroyed or anonymised.

  • Contact form and quotation requests: at most 2 years from the conclusion of the request.
  • Server logs: at most 1 year.
  • Where a contract is established, contractual and accounting records: for the retention periods prescribed by the applicable legislation.
  • Analytics data based on explicit consent: until you withdraw your consent; upon withdrawal, the related processing is stopped immediately.

8. Your Rights under Article 11 of the KVKK

As a data subject, you may exercise the following rights by applying to the data controller:

  • To learn whether your personal data is being processed.
  • To request information if your personal data has been processed.
  • To learn the purpose of processing and whether the data is used in accordance with that purpose.
  • To know the third parties in Türkiye or abroad to whom the data is transferred.
  • To request rectification of incomplete or inaccurate data and notification of such correction to the third parties to whom the data has been transferred.
  • To request erasure or destruction within the framework of the conditions in Article 7 of the KVKK.
  • To object to an outcome against you arising from analysis carried out exclusively by automated systems.
  • To claim compensation for damage arising from unlawful processing.

9. How to Apply

You may submit your requests using the methods set out in the Communiqué on the Procedures and Principles of Application to the Data Controller: send a written application bearing your wet signature, together with documents verifying your identity, to Yenibosna Merkez Mah. Çınar Cad. Kavak Sk. No: 17, 34197 Bahçelievler / İstanbul, or send it to pazarlama@davtek.com.tr from the electronic mail address you have previously notified to us and which is registered in our systems.

Please state the subject of your request clearly. Depending on its nature, your request will be concluded free of charge as soon as possible and in any case within 30 (thirty) days from the date it reaches us. If the process requires an additional cost, the fee set out in the tariff determined by the Board may be charged.

If your application is rejected, if you find the response insufficient or if no response is provided within the applicable period, you retain the right to lodge a complaint with the Personal Data Protection Board within 30 days of learning of the response and in any case within 60 days of the application date.

This text is for information purposes only; please confirm it with your legal counsel.