This page explains how your personal data is processed when you visit cihanseven.com.tr and use its forms. In short: I only collect what I need to get back to you, I don’t use advertising or tracking cookies, and I don’t sell your data.
This is a translation of the Turkish privacy policy and applies to the whole site, including pages that are only available in Turkish.
Data controller
Cihan Seven — Antwerp, Belgium. For any privacy request: ben@cihanseven.com.tr
What data do I collect?
- Contact and collaboration forms: your name or brand name, email address, optional phone number, subject and message. When you submit a form, this information opens as a ready-made message in WhatsApp and only reaches me if you press Send in WhatsApp; it is not stored on the site. If JavaScript is disabled in your browser, the form is saved on the site (together with your IP address at the time of sending, to prevent abuse) and forwarded to my inbox as a notification so I can reply.
- When you email me: the information you share in your email.
- Server logs: the hosting provider’s servers keep technical access logs (IP address, date and time, browser information) for security and troubleshooting.
What do I use the data for?
- To answer your messages and questions,
- to assess collaboration proposals and get back to you,
- to handle e-book and consultation requests,
- to keep the site secure and prevent abuse.
This processing is based on steps taken at your request and on legitimate interest (the security of the site) (GDPR Art. 6(1)(b) and 6(1)(f); Turkish KVKK Art. 5). The weekly newsletter is only sent with your explicit consent (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a); details below); apart from that, I don’t send marketing emails.
How long do I keep it?
I keep form messages for as long as needed to handle your request and any follow-up correspondence, and delete them afterwards. If you want a message deleted, just let me know.
Weekly newsletter
If you enter your email address in the newsletter form on the site (or in the newsletter box on the e-book site) and tick the consent box, I send you a confirmation email. You are not added to the list unless you click the link in that email.
- Data collected: your email address, your name if you entered it, the time of sign-up and confirmation, and your IP address at sign-up (to prevent abuse).
- Purpose and legal basis: only to send the weekly newsletter; the legal basis is your explicit consent. The newsletter goes out at most once a week, and only if there is a new article or video that week.
- Unsubscribing: every newsletter has an “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom; one click is enough. After you unsubscribe, your address is kept as “unsubscribed” so that no more emails are sent to it; if you want it deleted completely, just write to me through the contact form.
- Sending: emails may be sent through an email service provider (Brevo, France, EU), which processes your address only to deliver them. The recipient address and subject of outgoing emails are logged for 90 days to solve delivery problems; the content of the email is not stored.
Job listings
- When you post a job: the listing text (title, company, location, required licences, pay, job description, how to apply), your name, your email address and your IP address at the time of posting (to prevent abuse) are stored. I use your email address to confirm the listing and to keep you informed about it; it is not shown in the listing. Whatever you write under “How to apply?” is published in the listing for everyone to see.
- Retention: a listing stays online for 30 days and is then taken down. Expired or rejected listings are deleted after 6 months at the latest; if you want it deleted sooner, just let me know.
- New job alerts: I store your email address and the region you chose, together with your confirmation; when there are new listings in that region you get at most one summary email a day. The legal basis is your explicit consent; you can unsubscribe with one click via the link at the bottom of every email.
- Listings are the statements of the people who post them; I am not an intermediary and your application goes directly to the advertiser. The advertiser’s privacy rules apply to the information you share when applying.
Cookies and local storage
- Session cookie (
cihan-seven-session) and security cookie (XSRF-TOKEN): strictly necessary for the site to work and to protect the forms against forged requests; they expire within 8 hours at the latest. - Theme preference: your light/dark mode choice is stored only in your browser’s local storage (localStorage) and is not sent to the server.
- I don’t use advertising, analytics or tracking cookies.
Third-party content
- YouTube: the video preview images on the Turkish home page are loaded from Google’s servers (i.ytimg.com), which passes your IP address to Google. Clicking a video takes you to YouTube. The player on the video pages is only loaded from YouTube’s cookie-free domain (youtube-nocookie.com) when you press play; from then on YouTube’s privacy policy applies.
- Google Maps: the map on the contact page is only loaded when you press the “Show map” button; Google may then use cookies.
- WhatsApp: when you submit the contact or collaboration form, your message is sent through WhatsApp (Meta); WhatsApp’s privacy policy applies.
- Fonts: loaded from the site’s own server; no request goes to a third party.
- Social media and share links: links to YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Discord, WhatsApp, X and Telegram are plain links; no data is sent to these platforms unless you click them. Once you click, that platform’s privacy policy applies.
Sharing of data
I don’t sell your data or share it with anyone for marketing purposes. Data is only shared with service providers to the extent required for technical services such as hosting the site.
Your rights
You have the right to access your personal data, to ask for it to be corrected or deleted, to object to its processing and to request its portability. Where processing is based on your consent, you can withdraw it at any time. Send your requests to ben@cihanseven.com.tr. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority (Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit / Autorité de protection des données) or, in Turkey, with the Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK).
Changes
This policy may be updated when necessary; the date of the last update is shown at the top of the page.
