GALATA TAŞIMACILIK VE TİCARET A.Ş. INFORMATION NOTICE ON PROTECTION AND PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

As Galata Taşımacılık ve Ticaret A.Ş (“Company”), we show maximum sensitivity to the security of your personal data. With this awareness, we attach great importance to processing and maintenance of personal data belonging to real persons with whom the Company interacts in accordance with Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“Law”), with the secondary regulations (regulation, communique, circulars) that are and will be brought into force depending on the Law and in accordance with the decisions taken and to be taken by the Personal Data Protection Authority. With the full understanding of this responsibility; we, as the “Data Controller” as defined in the Law, process your personal data as explained below and within the limits prescribed by legislation.

Information on Data Controller

Galata Taşımacılık ve Ticaret A.Ş., residing in “Kore Şehitleri Caddesi, No 47 Galata Plaza 34394 Zincirlikuyu – İstanbul”, registered to Istanbul Trade Registry Office under registration number 367414-0 in accordance with the Law, and holding MERSIS Number (Central Registration System Number) 0388010768200014 is the Data Controller.

Purposes for Processing Personal Data

Your personal data are processed by the Company in compliance with the law, good faith within the framework of the limits specified by the Law and in connection with these purposes, in a limited and prudent manner, in order for commercial activities of the Company to be conducted in accordance with the legislation, the Law numbered 5651 and the policies of the Company; for the performance of necessary studies and conduct of activities in this regard by the business units of our Company; for determining, planning and implementing the commercial policies of the Company in the short, medium and long term; for designing and execution of human resources activities of the Company; for managing customer relations and corporate communication processes by the Company and for ensuring the commercial and legal safety of real persons with whom the Company has business relations.

Transfer of the Personal Data

For the purposes stated above, your personal data are transferred primarily to the authorized public institutions and organizations, in accordance with the terms specified in Articles 8 and 9 of the Law, to judicial and administrative authorities, private legal entities and real persons permitted by the other legislation, to the institutions and organizations authorized to audit the Company, to the payment institutions contracted for the fulfillment of the payments and financial obligations, to the business partners who are cooperated with or who provide services for the conducting and development of the activities of the Company, and only if needed, to the shareholders of the Company, by taking the data security measures as specified by the Law.

Methods and Legal Grounds for Collection of Personal Data

Your personal data is collected by the competent body and employees of the Company by automatic or non-automatic means on verbal, written or electronic media. In this context, personal data included in the categories of identity, communication, internet traffic information, legal transaction, customer operations, physical space security, transaction security, risk management, finance, professional experience, marketing, visual and audio records are processed based on the legal reasons that processing of personal data of the parties of a contract in necessary, provided that it is directly related to the establishment or performance of the contract as stipulated by the second paragraph of Article 5 of the Law; that it is necessary for data controller to fulfill his/her legal obligation; that personal data have been made public by the data subject himself/herself and that processing of data is necessary for the legitimate interests of the Company, provided that this processing shall not violate the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data controller.

Your Rights Under the Law

You may apply to the Company at any time and exercise the following rights with respect to yourself;

• To learn whether or not your personal data has been processed,
• To request information, if your personal data has been processed,
• To learn the purpose of processing of your personal data and whether or not they are used in compliance with their intended purpose,
• To know any third person at home or abroad to whom your personal data is transferred,
• To request rectification in case your personal data is processed incompletely or incorrectly,
• To request deletion or destruction of your personal data pursuant to the terms set forth in Article 7 of the Law,
• To request for transactions that have been made to be notified to the third parties to whom personal data has been transferred pursuant to sub-paragraph (d) and (e) of Article 11 of the Law,
• To object to any consequences to the detriment of you that may arise from the processed data being exclusively analyzed by automatic systems,
• To claim compensation in case you incur any damage due to the illegal processing of your personal data.

You can send your requests regarding your rights and the implementation of the Law to the address “Kore Şehitleri Caddesi, No 47 Galata Plaza 34394 Zincirlikuyu – İstanbul” through a notary public by filling out the application form  that you can obtain at the website www.galpi.com.tr, with wet signature, by registered mail or by your personal application; or you can send your application form filled in electronically with your mobile signature, with your secure electronic signature to kvkk@galpi.com.tr by using your KEP (Registered Electronic Mail) address or your current e-mail address registered in data recording system of the Company. If the requests in this respect are to be replied in writing, the Company will charge no fee for up to ten pages, and charge a transaction fee of 1 Turkish Lira for each page above ten pages. In the event where the request is replied in a recording medium such as CD, flash disk, etc., the fee that may be charged by the Company may not exceed the cost of the recording medium.

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