Privacy Policy

This Clarification Text has been prepared by PickPhotos in order to enlighten the Company's customers regarding the processing of their personal data by the Company within the scope of the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698.

PickPhotos Privacy Notice

Your privacy is important to us. This privacy notice explains what personal data is collected from you by PickPhotos through our interactions with you and through our products, and how that data is used.

As a service, PickPhotos enables photographers to manage the photo sharing and selection processes with their customers. In this context, we collect personal information as described below.

PickPhotos Products and Services

Personal Data We Collect

We collect the personal data we need to provide you with the service, regardless of whether the service is free or paid. In order to provide you with the service, we need to record and store your contact information, including your name, telephone number, e-mail address and business address. We may also record other contact information, such as your names in messaging systems.

How We Use Personal Data

We use personal data to contact you to provide the services you have subscribed to, including to inform you about service upgrades or service-related issues, and to provide implementation, replacement and support services. These services may be paid or free of charge, and a formal contract may or may not exist.

For What Reasons We Share Personal Data

We may share your personal data with our partners who help us provide products or services to you. In addition, where required by law or to respond to legal process; to protect our customers; to protect human life; to ensure the safety of our products; and with suppliers working on our behalf to protect our rights or property.

Legal Basis

Our legal basis for processing your information is legitimate interests: We need to obtain this information in order to provide you with the services you have subscribed to or contracted to use free of charge. Without this information, we may not be able to provide the service as you expect or as described in the relevant documentation.

Storage

All contact information related to the service is kept on file for two years after termination of the contract (if there is a contract in place), as the information may be needed for legal/official reasons. If there is no contract in place, we may keep your information indefinitely unless you request us to delete it.

Marketing

Personal Data We Collect for Direct Marketing

We collect basic contact information such as name, e-mail address, phone number, and other contact information such as contact information for other messaging systems.

How We Use Personal Data

We do not send mass advertising emails to customers or potential customers, we only send emails with focused information that we believe will be of interest to you, and if you request, we will delete you from our database without question and within a reasonable period of time.

We will use your contact information to provide you with updates about your current systems or services you are using or systems and services that we believe you would be interested in based on the information we have about you. We may also use your contact information to invite you to seminars, presentations and other events that PickPhotos organizes or participates in some way.

Sharing of Your Personal Data

We also share your personal data where required by law or to respond to legal process; to protect our customers; to protect human life; to ensure the safety of our products; to protect our rights or property.

Legal Basis

Our legal basis for ongoing communication is legitimate interests or consent.

For existing business relationships, such as services we offer, subscription packages offered, the legal basis is legitimate interests.

We will obtain your consent before we send you any marketing information for the activities we carry out with your contact information through our websites, social media accounts or other marketing activities.

Storage

Unless you request deletion, we will retain your information indefinitely so that we can inform you about new products and services that may be of interest to you.

PickPhotos Website and Cookies

Cookies

The PickPhotos website uses "cookies" (small text files stored on your device) to save your preferences and settings to help log you in and analyze site operations.

There are various tools you can use to control cookies, web beacons and similar technologies, including browser controls to block and delete cookies and controls from some third-party analytics service providers to disable data collection through web beacons and similar technologies. Your browser and other choices may affect your experience with our products.

Personal Data We Collect Through the PickPhotos Website

We collect personal information to ensure that we provide the best user experience of our products and services and to operate effectively. Some of this data, for example when you create an account on the website, the information we collect is basic contact information such as first name, last name, phone number, e-mail address. The retention period differs depending on whether the information you provide relates to service provision or marketing information.

How to Access the Personal Data We Store about Users

Users may ask us for the following information;

  • Tell us what personal information we hold about you;

  • Stop processing your information;

  • Correction of errors or omissions in the information;

  • Deletion of all your information;

  • Restriction of processing;

  • Make the information we hold about you available for you to transfer to another party;

You can send us these requests by sending an e-mail to info@pick.photos or by calling +90 553 369 33 86. In order for your request to be processed, you must verify your identity by providing copies of official documents showing your name and address.