Privacy and Cookie Policy

Privacy Policy

We have created this "Privacy Policy" to set out the current rules regarding the confidentiality, protection, and other related matters concerning the information our users provide on our website at www.academyclub.co ("our Site"). Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before visiting our Site or becoming a member. Even if some of the provisions below do not suit you, as long as your membership on our Site continues, it will be deemed that you have accepted this Privacy Policy and consented to the use and sharing of the information provided on our Site.

As this Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time, we recommend that our Users and Members review it periodically.

On our Site, we collect personal and general information that our Users and Members provide to us directly.

To register on our website or to be informed about our events and news via email, you will be asked to provide personal information such as your first name, last name, address, phone number, and email address. You are not required to provide this information or register in order to browse our Site or access its content.

We also collect other content and information you provide directly, including content and information you may add to your member profile, or other information or documents you share via our Site or provide to us, as well as messages you send through our networks. We also collect information you provide when you access certain services offered by Academy Club or participate in events or surveys organized by Academy Club. Providing us with complete and accurate information is directly related to Academy Club's ability to fully provide you with its services. By signing the User Agreement to become a member of our Site and benefit from our services, you accept, declare, and undertake in advance that the information and content you provide on the Site are true, reliable, and lawful. Academy Club has no obligation to verify the accuracy of the information and content you provide on the Site.

Aggregate information includes data such as how many people visit our Site, which pages they access, what information they download to their devices, the type of web browser and operating system they use, and the name of their Internet Service Provider. When you browse our Site, we automatically collect this information and combine it with information gathered from all other visitors. By collecting this information, we learn how to best tailor our Site to our visitors in order to enrich its content and enable effective use. We do not collect aggregate information from the devices you use to access our Site directly. Depending on how you use our Site and the access permissions you have chosen for your device, we use standard internet technologies such as cookies and web beacons to collect aggregate information. For detailed information about cookies and web beacons, please visit the relevant section of our Site.

Accordingly, we collect the following information from our Users and Members:

• The type of your web browser and operating system
• IP address and device identifiers
• Your browsing behavior when visiting our Site, such as the amount of time spent browsing our Site online and the links you click on within our Site
• Websites you visited before or after visiting our Site
• Whether you open or forward our emails, or engage with the offers or links we send
• Your general or specific geographic location, such as GPS, Bluetooth, or WiFi signals, to the extent permitted by your device settings

If you use an internet connection, networks, telecommunication systems, or computing systems in connection with events organized by Academy Club, your activities and any files or messages within these systems may, in accordance with applicable law, be collected and processed at any time by Academy Club for investigative purposes or to ensure compliance with Academy Club's internal company policies.

In addition to the above, to the extent permitted by applicable legislation, Academy Club may also collect and process data beyond the personal and aggregate information listed above. In such cases, our Users and Members will be informed of the nature of the personal and aggregate information collected and processed via this legal notice page. Any changes made to this Privacy Policy will take effect from the moment they are published on our Site, and each visit to the Site will be deemed acceptance of these changes.

When purchasing services offered by Academy Club through our Site, the necessary measures for billing, payment, and the security of the information and transactions entered on our Site are taken by Academy Club and/or the relevant Card Institutions within their systems and internet infrastructure, depending on the nature of the information and transaction. All transactions and approvals related to credit cards and other payment systems are carried out online directly between you and the relevant Bank or similar Card Institutions, independently of us (information such as your credit card PIN is never seen or stored by Academy Club).

All information entered by our Users and Members for the purposes of registering on our Site, purchasing services, or updating their information—particularly confidential information related to credit and debit cards—cannot be viewed by other Users. Information belonging to our Users and Members may be disclosed to relevant institutions and organizations within the scope of our legal obligations. In addition, contact details and other information provided during registration may be recorded, stored, processed, shared, and used by Academy Club and the mentioned organizations as necessary for carrying out and updating your membership transactions, enabling various services to be provided by Academy Club's business partners and suppliers, collecting service fees and charges, and for various promotional, advertising, communication, sales, and card-issuing purposes.

Where our Site provides links to other websites, all use and transactions on those sites are subject to their own privacy/security policies and terms of use; Academy Club cannot be held responsible in any way for the use of information from other websites accessed via advertisements, banners, content, or for any other purpose from our Site, nor for those sites' ethical principles, privacy/security practices, service quality, or other practices.

For additional information regarding privacy rules on the protection of personal data, site terms of use, communications, and cookies and web beacons, you may contact Academy Club through the communication channels specified on our Site.

Personal Data

Dear Members and Users,

We would like to inform you about Academy Club's Privacy and Security Principles, Communications, Site Terms of Use, and our practices regarding the processing of your Personal Data, as well as your rights under Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data and related legislation.

The Privacy Policy and Site Terms of Use set out below apply to our company AZS Eğitim ve Teknoloji Hizmetleri A.Ş. and our website www.academyclub.co regarding the confidentiality, security, processing, and transfer of information belonging to our Users and Members, commercial electronic communications, and other related matters.

The necessary measures for the security of the information and transactions provided by our Members and Users are taken by our Company or the relevant institution within their systems and internet infrastructure, depending on the nature of the information and transaction. All transactions and approvals related to credit cards and other payment systems are carried out online directly between you and the relevant Bank or similar Card Institutions, independently of us (information such as your credit card PIN is never seen or stored by Academy Club).

All information entered by our Users and Members for the purposes of registering on our Site, purchasing services, or updating their information—particularly confidential information related to credit and debit cards—cannot be viewed by other Users.

In any case, in order to take the necessary measures to protect confidentiality and to comply with all legal requirements regarding the processing of personal data, all your information—whether personal or not—including membership purchases, contact details, and other data, may be processed by AZS Eğitim ve Teknoloji Hizmetleri A.Ş. and its business partners, successors, service providers and suppliers, and third parties or organizations designated by them, where necessary or required for the exercise of consumer rights and other rights and/or for the fulfillment of related commercial, financial, and legal responsibilities and obligations, and/or for the pursuit of legitimate interests, provided that your fundamental rights and freedoms are not harmed. Accordingly, your personal data may be collected—automatically or non-automatically—stored, hosted, or archived in digital or physical form domestically or abroad (within the legal maximum retention periods), organized, viewed, used, modified, combined, rearranged, disclosed, shared, transferred domestically or abroad, and otherwise processed by the aforementioned persons and organizations, for legal reasons, to enable you to benefit from general and personalized services and opportunities, and for the purposes of all kinds of promotion, advertising, communication, marketing, sales, credit card and other payment infrastructures, and membership transactions, notifications, and practices. Where legally required, your explicit consent may also be requested for certain practices.

In compliance with applicable legislation, Academy Club may send our Members and Users SMS/text messages, push notifications, automated calls, computer, telephone, email, fax, (where enabled on your device) Bluetooth and other wireless network communications, and other electronic communication tools, as well as social, commercial, and other electronic communications, for the purposes of advertising, promotion, communication, sales, and marketing of all kinds of products and services, and for credit card and other payment infrastructure and membership notifications, transactions, and practices, and may send commercial electronic messages to our Members and Users.

Where our Site provides links to other websites, all use and transactions on those sites are subject to their own privacy/security policies and terms of use; Academy Club cannot be held responsible in any way for the use of information from other websites accessed via advertisements, banners, content, or for any other purpose from our Site, nor for those sites' ethical principles, privacy/security practices, service quality, or other practices. Our Members and Users are solely responsible for any decisions they make and any transactions or actions they take, and their consequences, based on information obtained from our Site or linked sites, as well as based on informational communications, promotions, advertisements, or recommendations sent to them electronically.

If our Members purchase a product/service as a result of being informed through and/or having received the aforementioned communications, notifications, promotions, or advertisements, such transactions will additionally be subject to distance sales contracts in accordance with legal procedures. Distance sales contracts apply under their own terms and between their own parties. When you purchase membership or services through our Site, the preliminary information form and the terms and conditions of the Distance Sales Agreement presented to you during each transaction will apply.

Our Members and Users may, at any time and without providing any justification, contact Academy Club through our Site or the communication channels specified below to stop the processing of their personal data and/or the commercial electronic communications between themselves and Academy Club. Following the explicit request of our Members and Users in this regard, all processing of personal data and/or commercial electronic communications through the specified channels will be stopped within the legal maximum period; however, transactions and communications permitted under applicable legislation will continue. Our Members and Users may also, if they wish, request that any information—other than what must legally be retained or is permitted to be retained—be deleted from the data recording system or anonymized so that it can no longer be associated with them. Our Members and Users may at any time apply to our Company to request information regarding the processing of their personal data. Such applications and requests will be fulfilled within the legal maximum period or may be declined, with the legal justification explained to the applicant.

Accordingly, we hereby inform you about the collection method and legal basis of your personal data—such as your first name, last name, nickname, age, gender, marital status, region of residence, education level, areas of interest, invoice details, mobile phone number, device code, IP number and address, email address, and location data—the purposes for which it is processed, and to whom and for what purposes it may be transferred. You also have the right to learn and be informed whether your personal data has been processed, and if so, to obtain related information; to learn whether it has been used in accordance with its intended purpose; to learn about third parties, domestic or foreign, to whom it has been transferred; to request correction if it has been processed incompletely or incorrectly; to request its deletion or destruction in accordance with the legal conditions and procedures, and to request that this be notified to third parties to whom your data has been transferred; to object to the emergence of a result against you through the analysis of your data by automated systems; and to request compensation in the event of damage caused by unlawful processing under applicable legislation. For all such matters, you may apply to our Company, AZS Eğitim ve Teknoloji Hizmetleri A.Ş., as the data controller. Your applications and/or requests will be fulfilled within the legal maximum period (if you request the deletion or destruction of your personal data, it may instead be anonymized in a way that no longer identifies you, in order to serve the same purpose), or your application and/or request may be declined with the legal justification explained to you, in which case you may apply to the competent legal authorities. In any case, the processing of personal data that is legally required, permitted, or obligatory will continue.

All intellectual and industrial property rights and copyrights relating to all information and content on our Site, and their arrangement, modification, and partial or full use, belong to Academy Club, except for agreements Academy Club has made with other third parties.

Academy Club reserves the right to make any changes it deems necessary regarding the above matters and the services offered to its Members; such changes will take effect from the moment they are announced by Academy Club via the Site or other appropriate means.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or would like to share any feedback, you can reach us at the addresses and phone number provided on our Site, or send us an email. We would be happy to answer your questions and hear your feedback.

Cookies

We use "cookie" technology on our Site. Cookies are small pieces of information transferred by our Site for the purpose of keeping records on the computers or other devices belonging to Members and Users. When you visit our Site, we may place a "cookie" on your computer or other devices. This allows your preferences to be saved when visiting our Site, improving your online experience. Cookies do not collect any personal data about you, do not transmit any personal data enabling Academy Club to contact you, and do not transfer any information from your computer or other devices. Cookies are used to identify the sections of our Site that interest you most, so that we can offer you more of that content, and to help us learn how to best tailor our Site to our visitors in order to enrich its content and enable effective use.

Temporary cookies are used to determine how many times you have visited our Site and are deleted when you close your internet browser. A persistent cookie, on the other hand, is saved to your computer or other devices via your internet browser and is used to indicate whether you have previously visited the Site when you return.

You may object to the use of cookies. When using a web browser to access our Site, you can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is sent. Click on the "Help" menu of your browser for more information on changing your cookie preferences. Your device's operating system may include additional cookie controls. Please note that disabling cookies may affect your ability to access and use certain features of our Site.

Web Beacons

Web beacons and similar technologies are small pieces of code embedded in web pages, advertisements, and emails that communicate with third parties. For example, web beacons may be used to determine the number of users visiting a particular web page, to distribute cookies, or to communicate and understand usage habits. Web beacons may also be used in emails to determine whether commercial electronic messages have been opened, processed, or forwarded.

Third-party advertisers who advertise on our Site may use cookies or web beacons in their advertisements. Academy Club has no control over these cookies and web beacons used by third parties. In addition, Academy Club may use cookies or web beacons when placing advertisements on the websites of other companies. All information collected in this manner is handled in accordance with the Academy Club Privacy Policy.