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Privacy Notice

Last updated: 11 November 2026

This notice explains how your personal data are processed when you visit www.tanmodel.com and use its contact form, in line with Article 10 of the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (KVKK) and, for visitors from the European Union and the United Kingdom, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

1. Data controller

  • Company: TANMODEL Plastik Model Kitleri Ltd. Şti.
  • Address: Adnan Kahveci Mh. Avrupa Cd. Kubist Park Rsd. 108/200, 34528 Beylikdüzü/Istanbul, Türkiye
  • Telephone: +90 212 856 01 52

You can reach us through the contact form on this website.

2. Data we process

  • Contact form: your name, email address, telephone number (optional), the subject you choose, your message, the language of the form and the time it was sent.
  • Technical records: the web server logs your IP address, browser details, the page visited and the time, for security and troubleshooting. When you send the form, an irreversible hash of your IP address is kept for 10 minutes to prevent abuse.
  • Cookies: the site uses no advertising, tracking or analytics cookies. Only records needed for the site to work are used: a cookie that remembers your language and a browser record that remembers you closed the language suggestion bar.

3. Purposes and legal bases

  • Replying to your message and your product or business enquiries: steps prior to or performance of a contract (KVKK Art. 5/2-c; GDPR Art. 6(1)(b)) and our legitimate interests (KVKK Art. 5/2-f; GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)).
  • Running the site securely, preventing spam and abuse, finding errors: our legitimate interests (KVKK Art. 5/2-f; GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)).
  • Meeting legal obligations and protecting legal claims: KVKK Art. 5/2-ç and 5/2-e; GDPR Art. 6(1)(c) and 6(1)(f).

No processing relies on your consent, so we do not ask for it.

4. How the data are collected

The data are collected electronically, through the information you enter in the contact form and the web server’s automatic records.

5. Recipients and transfers abroad

Your personal data are not sold or shared for advertising. The following providers process them only on our behalf, to run the site:

  • InMotion Hosting, Inc. (USA): website hosting and email server.
  • Google LLC (USA): the email service that receives form notifications.

As their servers are located outside Türkiye and the European Economic Area, your data are transferred to the United States as part of these services. Data may also be disclosed to authorised public bodies where the law requires it.

6. How long we keep the data

Form messages and correspondence are kept for up to 2 years after your request has been dealt with. If the correspondence relates to an order or contract, it is kept for the period required by law (for example, 10 years under the Turkish Commercial Code). Server logs are kept for a limited period on the hosting provider’s systems and are deleted automatically. Data whose retention period has ended are deleted or anonymised.

7. Security

The site runs only over an encrypted connection (https), emails are sent over an encrypted connection, and only an authorised person can access the administration panel.

8. Your rights

Under Article 11 of the KVKK, and under Articles 15–22 of the GDPR for visitors from the EU and the UK, you have the right to:

  • find out whether your data are processed and obtain information about it,
  • learn the purpose of processing and whether the data are used accordingly,
  • know the third parties, in Türkiye or abroad, to whom the data are transferred,
  • have incomplete or inaccurate data corrected,
  • have your data deleted or destroyed,
  • have the third parties who received your data informed of any correction or deletion,
  • object to a decision against you made solely by automated processing,
  • claim compensation for damage caused by unlawful processing,
  • for EU and UK visitors also: restrict processing, receive your data in a portable format, object to processing based on legitimate interests, and lodge a complaint with the data protection authority of your country.

9. How to make a request

You can send your request in one of the following ways:

  • a signed letter to the address above,
  • the contact form at the bottom of www.tanmodel.com (choose “Other” as the subject and state that it is a data protection request).

Please include your full name, your nationality and passport number (or Turkish ID number), a postal address, an email address or telephone number if you have one, and what you are asking for. Requests are answered free of charge within 30 days. If your request is refused, you find the answer insufficient or it is not answered in time, you may complain to the Turkish Personal Data Protection Board (KVKK) or, if you are in the EU or the UK, to your local data protection authority.