Dear Website Visitors, Customers and Members,
We would like to inform you about our Privacy Rules, Communications, Website Terms of Use and our practices regarding the processing of your personal data, as well as your rights under Turkish Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“KVKK”).
The Privacy Rules and Policy and the Terms of Use set out below apply to our website bnfood.com.tr (including its mobile application) with regard to the confidentiality of visitor, member and customer information; the protection, storage, processing, use and destruction of personal data; commercial electronic communications; and other matters.
Protection of Information
To ensure the security of information and transactions provided by or obtained from Visitors/Members, appropriate technical and administrative measures have been taken by our Company or the relevant institution within its systems and internet infrastructure, according to the nature of the information and transaction and within the limits of technological capabilities and cost.
Where applicable, all credit card transactions and approvals made while using our website are carried out online between you and the relevant bank or card issuer, independently of our Company. Information such as your credit card PIN is neither seen nor recorded by our Company.
Information entered for membership, purchasing products/services or updating details, as well as confidential credit and debit card information, cannot be viewed by other internet users.
Purpose of Processing and Personal Data Processing Activities
Subject to the measures required to protect confidentiality and in compliance with all legal principles on personal data processing and personal data retention and destruction policies, your website visit, shopping and contact information and any other personal or non-personal information may be processed, using the methods and procedures set out below and in the personal data legislation, by our Company BN Food Gıda Sanayi ve Ticaret Limited Şirketi and, where necessary, its group companies, shareholders, business partners, successors and service providers/suppliers. Such processing may take place where required or necessary to enable you to benefit from customer services, consumer rights and other opportunities related to products you purchase or are interested in (including via social media networks and online advertising); to fulfil related commercial, financial and legal responsibilities and obligations; to carry out product and service promotion, advertising and communications; to conduct membership, sales and card transactions and related notifications and applications; and for legitimate interests, provided that your fundamental rights and freedoms are not harmed.
Accordingly, for legal reasons, to enable you to benefit from general and personalised products, services and opportunities, and to carry out product and service promotion, advertising, communication, promotional, sales, marketing, store card, credit card and membership transactions, notifications and applications, your personal information may be obtained or taken over by automated or non-automated means and may be recorded, stored, retained, preserved, made retrievable, used, updated, modified, combined, rearranged, classified, disclosed, shared, transferred (within Türkiye or abroad) and subjected to any other processing provided for in the personal data legislation (collectively referred to as “processing”), in written/magnetic archives in Türkiye and abroad, for a period appropriate to the purpose of processing and the nature of the information, without exceeding the maximum periods permitted by law. Where required by law, your separate consent may be requested for certain activities.
Any personal or non-personal information relating to Visitors’/Members’ visits to and purchases from physical and e-commerce stores and departments of our Company, its Group Companies, dealers and contracted institutions, and the premises and sites in which they are located (including location data, products viewed and products/amounts purchased), may be collected by appropriate technical methods via Bluetooth, beacons and public/private wireless network connections if the relevant functions are enabled on your devices, and may be processed and transferred in Türkiye and abroad by the said institutions within the framework described above.
Use of Identifiers (Cookies etc.) on Our Website
Various types of cookies are used on our website bnfood.com.tr (and all its digital platforms, including mobile applications). These include session cookies, persistent cookies, strictly necessary cookies, functionality cookies, analytics cookies, commercial cookies and third-party cookies.
Cookies are small pieces of data placed on computers and mobile devices to ensure that the website visited works properly and can be improved, to personalise and enhance the user experience, to allow users to visit sites without logging in and/or to receive commercial or social notifications (which, depending on the case, may be visible even when the browser and/or mobile application is closed), and generally to present and deliver general or personalised information, advertising and promotions to site users and visitors, both on the relevant site and on third-party sites (including social media networks and online advertising networks).
Cookies are kept on computers and devices for a period appropriate to their purpose, without exceeding any maximum period prescribed by law.
Visitors (including our Members and Customers) using our website (including its mobile versions) are deemed to have accepted the practice described above, as well as the processing of the relevant identifiers for the purposes and within the scope and conditions set out here, in the personal data legislation and in the other sections of this notice (including transfer to, sharing with and use by third parties within this framework).
Visitors may at any time remove cookies and/or stop such notifications by adjusting the settings of the software, operating system and/or internet browser on their devices (please note that in this case our website, the relevant device or software may not function as intended and/or you may not be informed of notification content).
Communications
In accordance with the law, our Company BN Food Gıda Sanayi ve Ticaret Limited Şirketi may carry out social, commercial and other electronic communications with our Visitors/Members by SMS, push notifications, automated calls, computer, telephone, e-mail, fax, any notifications (if enabled on your device), Bluetooth, beacons, other public/private wireless networks and other electronic communication tools for the purposes of promotion, advertising, communication, promotional activities, sales and marketing of all kinds of products and services, as well as for store card, credit card and membership information, transactions and applications; and commercial electronic messages may be sent to our Visitors/Customers/Members.
Your Personal Data Processed, Communications and Your Legal Rights Regarding Your Personal Data
In addition to being informed of the method of collection and legal basis, the purposes of processing and the parties to whom and purposes for which your personal information may be transferred — including your name, surname, nickname, age, gender, marital status, region of residence, education level, interests, shopping habits, preferences, tastes and likes relating to all kinds of products and services (including clothing), invoice contents, mobile phone number, device codes, identifier (cookie) information, web beacon information, IP address, e-mail address, technical advertising identifier information and location data —
— we hereby inform you that you have the right to learn whether your personal information is processed, to request information about such processing, to learn whether it is used in accordance with its purpose and to know the third parties in Türkiye or abroad to whom it is transferred; to request correction if it is incomplete or inaccurate, erasure or destruction in accordance with the legal conditions and procedures, and notification of such actions to third parties to whom the data has been transferred; to object to an outcome against you arising from analysis of your information through automated systems; and to claim compensation for damages arising from unlawful processing, and
— that you may apply to our Company BN Food Gıda Sanayi ve Ticaret Limited Şirketi, as Data Controller, regarding all of these matters.
Our Company may partially or fully destroy (erase, destroy or anonymise) personal information in accordance with the relevant legislation and at the intervals set out in its personal data retention and destruction policies. Visitors/Members may also, at any time and without giving any reason, stop the processing of their personal data and/or commercial electronic communications sent to them by contacting our Company through the channels listed below and completing the required legal and technical procedures.
In line with an explicit notice or request to this effect, personal data processing and/or communications through the channels specified will be stopped within the maximum legal period (personal data processing and communications that are possible, necessary or mandatory under the law will continue).
If the Visitor/Customer/Member so wishes, information other than that which must or may lawfully be retained will also be erased or destroyed from the data recording system, or anonymised so that it can no longer identify the person while serving the same purpose. Applications and requests on these matters will be fulfilled within the maximum legal periods, or may be rejected with an explanation of the legal grounds (relevant statutory rights are reserved).
(Information on cookies and notifications on your computer and other devices, and the steps you can take to manage them, is provided above.)
Third-Party Websites, Digital Platforms and Applications
Other websites accessed from our website (including its mobile versions) are subject to their own privacy and security policies, terms of use, communication and personal data processing terms. Our Company is not responsible for any disputes, material or non-material damages or losses that may arise from the use of information on websites accessed to view advertisements, banners, content or for any other purpose, or from those sites’ (and other digital platforms’) ethical principles, privacy and security principles, personal data retention and destruction policies, service quality, terms of use, cookies, web beacons and similar tools, notifications, recommendations and other practices.
Responsibility
Visitors/Members are responsible for the decisions they make on the basis of information obtained from our website or from other websites, mobile applications or notifications linked from it, from information, promotions and advertisements communicated to them electronically and from any recommendations, as well as for any transactions and actions they take accordingly and their consequences.
As we cannot know the legal capacity of any visitor to our website, responsibility for the use of the website by children and other minors, their information and its processing lies with their legal representatives, through whom they may also exercise their rights relating to their personal data (and, where applicable, communications).
Purchases and Other Consumer Transactions
Where Visitors/Members purchase a product or service as a result of being informed in the ways described above and/or of communications, information, notifications, promotions and advertisements sent to them, such a transaction is separately subject to the consumer contract they conclude with the relevant seller/provider in accordance with legal procedures. The consumer contract applies on its own terms and between its parties.
Where applicable, for purchases made on our website, the terms of the preliminary information form and distance sales contract presented during each transaction will apply.
Rights to Website Content
All intellectual and industrial property rights and ownership rights in all information and content on our website, and in its arrangement, revision and partial or full use, belong to our Company and/or its Group Companies, except for content belonging to third parties under agreements with our Company.
Changes
Our Company reserves the right to make any changes it deems necessary to its privacy, personal data retention, use and destruction policies and website terms of use, as well as to the products, services, opportunities and campaigns it offers to customers and members; such changes take effect from the moment they are announced by our Company on the website or by other appropriate means.
Right of Application and Procedure
Visitors/Customers/Members may submit requests for additional information, as well as any requests and complaints on all these matters, to our Company BN Food Gıda Sanayi ve Ticaret Limited Şirketi through the contact channels below. Where the law requires a request to be made following a specific procedure (method, timing or form), that procedure must be followed.
BN Food Gıda Sanayi ve Ticaret Limited Şirketi
Address: Cihangir Mah. Güvercin Cad. No: 4 İç Kapı No: 115, Avcılar, Istanbul, Türkiye
Phone: +90 507 831 30 36
E-mail: info@bnfood.com.tr