Privacy Policy
1. Introduction
At Biosmyrna Gıda Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. (“Biosmyrna”, the “Company”), we care about the privacy of users who visit our website and of people who contact us through digital channels.
This Privacy Policy has been prepared to explain our basic approach to privacy and the protection of personal data in the use of the https://www.biosmyrna.com website (the “Website”).
Biosmyrna carries out its personal data protection activities in accordance with the applicable legislation, above all Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (“KVKK”).
For detailed information on the purposes, legal grounds and methods by which your personal data is processed, please refer to the KVKK Privacy Notice.
2. Data Controller
Biosmyrna Gıda Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.
Kazım Karabekir Mah. Bekir Saydam Cad. B6 Blok No:104B6 İç Kapı No:17
Torbalı, İzmir — TÜRKİYE
Email: info@biosmyrna.com
Website: https://www.biosmyrna.com
3. Our Approach to Privacy
We regard the protection of personal data not only as an obligation to comply with the law, but as part of the relationship of trust we build with our users. In this context, we take care:
- to collect only the personal data that is needed,
- to use personal data for specific and legitimate purposes,
- to limit access to personal data to authorised persons,
- to ensure the security of personal data,
- to assess the third-party services used from a data protection perspective,
- not to keep personal data for longer than necessary,
- to enable users to exercise their rights over their personal data.
As a concrete expression of this approach, the Website does not create profiles, does not use advertising technology and measures visit statistics with Google Analytics only with your explicit consent. If you do not give consent, no visitor data is sent to any external service.
4. What Information May Be Collected on the Website?
On the Website, personal data is collected only through forms completed by the user. The Website has no membership, user accounts, online sales, payments, newsletter subscription or comment features.
The information that may be collected is:
- contact and request information you provide in the quotation and call-back forms,
- information provided in the job application form and the uploaded CV file,
- information you send by email or telephone,
- the session cookie that is strictly necessary for the operation and security of the Website.
- aggregate visit statistics collected through Google Analytics cookies, with your explicit consent.
For detailed information on the purposes and legal grounds for which personal data is processed, please refer to the KVKK Privacy Notice and the relevant specific privacy notices.
5. Purposes for Which Information Is Used
Depending on the nature of the transaction carried out, the information obtained is used for the purposes of:
- responding to users’ contact and information requests,
- conducting commercial communication,
- providing information about products and services,
- conducting quotation, sourcing and trade processes,
- assessing job applications,
- ensuring the operation and security of the Website,
- resolving technical problems,
- fulfilling legal obligations.
- measuring the Website’s visit statistics, with your explicit consent.
It is not used for advertising, profiling, behavioural targeting or similar purposes.
6. Sharing of Information
Biosmyrna shares personal data only where this is related to the purpose of processing, necessary and proportionate, and in accordance with the applicable legislation.
Where the work requires it, information may be shared with:
- authorised Biosmyrna employees responsible for assessing the request or application,
- hosting and email service providers,
- professional advisers providing legal, financial advisory and audit services,
- legally authorised public institutions and organisations.
- the analytics service provider (Google) for visit statistics, with your explicit consent.
As the Website does not use customer relationship software, advertising networks or an external application system, no data is shared with such providers.
7. Service Providers Located Abroad
All resources required for the Website to work, including fonts, are served from our own server; no content delivery network, security verification service, map or embedded video component is used. Only if you give explicit consent to analytics cookies is data relating to visit statistics processed by Google on servers abroad via Google Analytics.
The servers on which the hosting and email services are run are located in Türkiye.
Unless you give explicit consent to analytics cookies, your personal data is not transferred abroad. This transfer is carried out in accordance with the conditions laid down in Article 9 of the KVKK.
Where personal data is to be transferred abroad, the transfer is carried out in accordance with the provisions of the KVKK on transfers of data abroad.
8. Cookies and Similar Technologies
The Website uses a session cookie necessary for the operation and security of the site and, only with your explicit consent, Google Analytics cookies that measure visit statistics. No cookies are used for advertising or retargeting.
Detailed information on the type, purpose and duration of the cookie used, and on the preferences stored in browser storage, is provided in the Cookie Policy and Cookie Notice.
9. Website Security
Biosmyrna endeavours to take appropriate technical and administrative measures to ensure the security of the Website and to protect personal data against the risks of unauthorised access, loss, misuse or unlawful processing.
The technical measures actually applied on the Website include forgery protection for form submissions, multi-layered checks against automated bot submissions, server-side field validation, extension and content checks on uploaded files, keeping CV files in a secure directory that cannot be downloaded by address, and storing application records only in the administration panel accessible to authorised users.
Obligations relating to personal data security are assessed separately under the KVKK.
10. Data Retention
Personal data is retained for as long as necessary for the relevant processing purpose, taking into account the periods set out in the applicable legislation.
When the purpose of processing no longer applies and the relevant legal retention periods have expired, personal data is deleted, destroyed or anonymised in accordance with the legislation. Retention periods are set out in the KVKK Privacy Notice.
11. Third-Party Websites and Services
The Website contains links to other websites. These belong to Biosmyrna’s social media accounts and content sharing links.
In addition, the map area on the Contact page links to Google Maps, and the “Online Shopping” link on the Bioyem pages links to the Bioyem brand’s own website (bioyem.com). The map area appears on the page as a static image; the map service is accessed only when the link is clicked.
These links work only when the user clicks them; as long as they are not clicked, no data is sent to the platforms concerned.
The linked third-party sites are not under Biosmyrna’s control and may have their own privacy policies, cookie practices and data processing procedures. Users are advised to review the privacy and data protection texts of those sites before using them.
12. Children’s Privacy
The Website is not designed as a service specifically aimed at children. Biosmyrna does not intend to operate a dedicated user account for children or to carry out any activity of collecting personal data from children through the Website.
13. Job Applications
Where job applications are received through the Website, the processing of candidates’ personal data is explained separately in the Job Application Privacy Notice.
Operations that separately require explicit consent, such as keeping candidates in a candidate pool for future job opportunities, are assessed under the Candidate Pool Explicit Consent Form.
As a principle, candidates should not share unnecessary or special categories of personal data in the course of a job application.
14. Your Rights Regarding Your Personal Data
The rights you have under the KVKK in relation to the processing of your personal data, and the methods for exercising these rights, are explained in detail in the KVKK Privacy Notice.
Biosmyrna assesses personal data requests submitted to it within the procedures and time limits set out in the applicable legislation.
15. Relationship of the Privacy Policy with Other Texts
This Privacy Policy should be read together with:
- the KVKK Privacy Notice,
- the Cookie Policy and Cookie Notice,
- the Job Application Privacy Notice,
- the Candidate Pool Explicit Consent Form,
- the Terms of Use
and the other relevant legal texts published on the Website. Each of these texts serves a different legal or informational purpose.
This Privacy Policy cannot, on its own, be interpreted as replacing the obligation to inform under Article 10 of the KVKK.
16. Updates to the Policy
Biosmyrna may update this Privacy Policy due to changes in the structure of the Website, the services it offers, the technologies it uses or the relevant legislation. The current text takes effect from the date it is published on the Website.
If the Policy contains significant changes, information may be provided on the Website, where appropriate, to draw users’ attention to the update.
17. Contact
For questions about privacy, the protection of personal data or this Policy, you can contact Biosmyrna through the following channels:
Biosmyrna Gıda Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.
Kazım Karabekir Mah. Bekir Saydam Cad. B6 Blok No:104B6 İç Kapı No:17
Torbalı, İzmir — TÜRKİYE
Email: info@biosmyrna.com
Telephone: +90 232 502 61 60
Website: https://www.biosmyrna.com