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PRIVACY POLICY

Your personal information (name, nickname, e-mail address, postal address, credit card information, purchases, etc.) is by no means shared with other persons or  organizations and is only used for your maximum benefit from the use of  /musecontemporary.com/ ("Muse Contemporary") website.  Your data is protected by the database of the Shopify system we use.

Your credit card information is used only during the transaction and will NOT be saved in our personal information database.

Only you can access and change all the information you provide while becoming a member. It is not possible for someone else to access and change information about you.

Your information is never shown to other members.

You can resign from membership at any time. The information of those who cancel their membership is deleted and not used by Muse Contemporary

 

THE COOKIE POLICY

This Cookie Policy (Policy ) is intended to inform you how the website www.musecontemporary.com uses a technology called cookies” and web server logs. This Policy is intended to assist you in making informed decisions when using our Website. Please take a minute to read and understand the Policy. This Policy should also be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy and our General Terms.

WHAT ARE COOKIES AND WHAT DO THEY DO?

A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, a computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies.

Information gathered through cookies may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed and the time spent at our Website.

For further details on cookies, please visit All About Cookies where you can find comprehensive information on cookies and similar technologies.

CONSENT TO THE USE OF COOKIES ON THIS WEBSITE

By continuing to use our Website, you are deemed to consent to our use of the cookies described in this Policy. If you do not consent to Muse Contemporary using cookies then please read the next section of this Policy entitled Blocking our Use of Cookies”.

BLOCKING OUR USE OF COOKIES

You can block our use of cookies by activating the settings in your browser. Please visit All About Cookies where you can find comprehensive information on cookie management and blocking for a wide variety of browsers.

WHAT HAPPENS IF I BLOCK COOKIES?

In order to use certain services offered through our Website, your web browser must accept cookies. If you choose to withhold consent, or subsequently block cookies, some aspects of the Website may not work properly and you may not be able to access all or part of our Website.

DIFFERENT TYPES OF COOKIES

Strictly Necessary Cookies:

We use cookies where they are essential for the operation of our Website, for example cookies are used to enable you to use our shopping basket function on the Website when purchasing goods.

Session Cookies:

We use cookies to allow the Website to uniquely identify your browsing session on our Website and allows us to coordinate this information with data from our Website server.

Analytics:

We use analytics” cookies which, in conjunction with our web servers log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our Website and which parts of our Website are most popular. This helps us gather feedback so that we can improve our Website and better serve our users. We do not generally store any personal information that you provide to us in a cookie.

Targeting:

We also use cookies to record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our advertising more relevant to your interests and we may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

The Muse Contemporary Content Management System (CMS) may use cookies for different purposes such as CMS login authentication, email campaigns, caching user roles or tracking page visits.

Most of our cookies expire within 30 days, although our analytics cookies may persist for 2 years.

 

DATA PROTECTION GUIDANCE AND COMMITMENTS OF MUSE CONTEMPORARY


Article 1. Scope of the Guidance
Through this document, Muse Contemporary explains which personal data of the Relevant Persons will be processed for which purposes, how such personal data will be used, processed, stored, protected and altered, how such personal data will be shared with which third parties for which purposes and other related issues and informs the Relevant Persons who owns such personal data about these issues in accordance with the provisions of Personal Data Protection Law numbered 6698 (“PDPL”).

Article 2. Definitions
2.1. Muse Contemporary : Ayşe Pınar Akalın
2.2. Relevant Persons : Customers, service providers and other third persons
2.3. Personal Data : Any personal information relating to the Relevant Person.
2.4. Processing of Personal Data : All operations that are carried out on personal data such as collection, recording, storage, retention, alteration, re-organization, disclosure, transfer, taking over, making retrievable, classification, processing or preventing the use thereof, fully or partially through automatic means or through non-automatic means provided that such processing will be a part of any data registry system.
2.5. Board : Personal Data Protection Board.
2.6. Making Anonymous : Altering personal data in a way that it is impossible to associate such personal data with any identified or identifiable natural person, including matching them with other personal data.
Article 3. Legal Basis of the Processing Personal Data of Relevant Person
3.1. Subject to the terms and conditions of this guidance, Relevant Person hereby agrees to the processing of his/her personal data by Muse Contemporary in accordance with PDPL.
3.2. Muse Contemporary declares, agrees and undertakes that while processing personal data of the Relevant Person in line with this guidance, it shall act in compliance with PDPL and other legal regulations enacted or to be enacted on the basis of PDPL and fulfill all legal obligations.
Article 4. Purpose of Processing the Personal Data of the Relevant Person
4.1. Legal Purposes
In order to enhance the quality of its services, Muse Contemporary demands personal data appropriate for such purpose (identity details, contact data etc.) from the Relevant Person. Such personal data will be processed by Muse Contemporary based on the explicit consent of the Relevant Person or in case of exceptions that such consent is not required under the legislation applicable for Muse Contemporary and pursuant to PDPL after all necessary information security measures are also taken, provided that personal data is not used for any purpose or scope other than those specifically defined in the personal data policy
adopted by Muse Contemporary. Muse Contemporary may obtain the information, documents and records containing personal information directly from the Relevant Person and/or indirectly from the third persons and entities and then process and store that information in order to provide products and/or services to the Relevant Person or develop its services provided or meet legal or operational requirements of its commercial relations within the scope of cooperation established with the Relevant Person. In that regard, personal data of the Relevant Person and any documents containing such information will be processed by Muse Contemporary and will be shared with various administrative or judicial authorities and with the service providers and business partners that Muse Contemporary works together when necessary.
4.2. Managerial Purposes
Personal data of the Relevant Person may be processed by Muse Contemporary in order to fulfill legal and administrative requirements and will be disclosed to the official and judicial authorities when necessary.
4.3. Statistical Purposes
Muse Contemporary may process the personal data of the Relevant Person in order to obtain statistical information so that it can more efficiently manage its business in terms of economic and administrative and perform accurate technical analyses /reporting.
4.4 Term
Muse Contemporary will keep the personal data of the Relevant Person during the period required by law in order to comply with the legal requirements and carry out necessary legal procedures or for the period required with the specific purpose of processing or for the relevant statutory periods that may be needed in
the protection or exercising of its rights arising from potential legal proceedings that might develop in the future. At the end of this period, personal data of the Relevant Person will be deleted, disposed or anonymized by Muse Contemporary.
Personal data processed within the scope of the purposes stated in Muse Contemporary’s personal data protection policy will be deleted, disposed or anonymized by Muse Contemporary when the specific purpose of processing required under PDPL ceases to exist or when the periods that stated in Turkish
Commercial Code No. 6102, the Regulation on Deletion, Disposal or Anonymization of Personal Data published in the Official Gazette of Turkey dated October 28, 2017 and No. 30224 and Turkish Criminal Code No. 5237 are expired.
Article 5. Specific Method Used in the Processing Personal Data of the Relevant Person
5.1. Muse Contemporary agrees and declares that it possesses those tools and devices having most advanced technology to ensure the security of the information of the Relevant Person. Muse Contemporary may store the personal information of the Relevant Person both in physical and electronic environments. In both cases, Muse Contemporary undertakes to take all necessary technical and administrative measures to ensure the proper security for the protection of personal data of the Relevant Person and may also outsource relevant protection services if necessary. Muse Contemporary shall also carry out/procure audits
on the security system used to protect the personal data. Personal data will be stored in Muse Contemporary’s database with maximum security measures and
based on limited access. Inspections required to validate proper operation of the security system used to protect personal data will be carried out/procured on periodic basis.
5.2. Muse Contemporary undertakes not to disclose the personal data of Relevant Person to third parties in defiance of the law and not to use it for any purpose other than the purpose of processing.
5.3. If the Relevant Person’s personal data is obtained by others by unlawful means, Muse Contemporary shall notify the Relevant Person and the Board as soon as possible.
5.4. Physical and Electronic Environment

All kinds of documents containing the personal data of the Relevant Person shall be kept in a secure environment by [.] Department in such a way to prevent unauthorized access of any third parties. Muse Contemporary gives utmost importance to the protection of personal data. Therefore, Muse Contemporary takes all necessary security measures against prevent unauthorized access to personal data or loss, misuse, disclosure, alteration or destruction of such information. Every year, Muse Contemporary will ensure the performance of an audit in connection with information systems security containing several measures such as firewalls, access on limited authorization and physical security and create awareness among its personnel about the information systems security. Muse Contemporary will take any and all necessary technical and administrative measures required to ensure confidentiality and updated status of personal data. In the event of any harm given to or any unauthorized disclosure to third persons of personal data as a result of the attacks made to the web site or to the system in spite of the information security measures taken by Muse Contemporary, Muse Contemporary will immediately inform the Relevant Persons and Personal Data Protection Board about this breach.
6. Entities which Personal Data of the Relevant Person will be Transferred and Purpose of Transfer
6.1. Muse Contemporary may transfer the personal data of the Relevant Person within the scope of activities carried out by those public institutions and organizations delegated and authorized by law in order to fulfill its legal obligations or meet operational requirements arising from the areas of activity pursued by Muse Contemporary or fulfill the requirements of judicial or administrative proceedings notified to Muse Contemporary or protect its legal rights. Subject to the statutory limitations, personal data may be transferred to the administrative and official authorities to whom that personal data should be transferred legally and to the legal entities such as shareholders of Muse Contemporary operating within and outside of the country and independent audit
firms having relations with Muse Contemporary.
6.2. In order to create a productive and profitable economic enterprise, Muse Contemporary may share the personal data of the Relevant Person with its business partners including but not limited to consulting firms from which Muse Contemporary obtains services or with which Muse Contemporary enters into cooperation in connection with taxation, accounting and finance as well as law firms, IT firms, independent audit firms from which security and inspection services are obtained and marketing firms, transport companies and other financial institutions.
6.3. Muse Contemporary shall take all necessary security measures to ensure the confidentiality of the personal data in relation to the persons and companies stated in 6.2 which it cooperates with. For that purpose, confidentiality agreements and undertakings shall be signed between Muse Contemporary and
the third persons to whom personal data of the Relevant Person was transferred in order to regarding the protection and confidentiality of the personal information.
7. The Relevant Person’s Rights on his/her Personal Data
7.1. The Relevant Person has rights of requesting information on whether his/her personal data is processed; if his/her personal data is processed, requesting information on the purpose of the processing activity and whether the personal data is processed in accordance with the specified purpose; being informed on the third parties who received such personal data, within the country or abroad; requesting corrections if the personal data has been processed in an incomplete or incorrect manner; requesting deletion and disposal of such data if the purpose of processing disappears; requesting notifying third parties whom the his/her personal data has been transferred to on the action of correction, deletion and
disposal of the personal data; objecting to adverse outcomes to be occurred when personal data processing undergoes automatically; claiming compensation in case the Relevant Person suffers damages due to unlawful personal data processing.
8. Application, Complaint and Update

8.1. Relevant Person may send his/her requests about his/her personal data to Muse Contemporary in writing at the address [Harbiye Mah. Cumhuriyet Cad. Kervansaray Ap. No:54 İç Kapı No:16 Şişli - İstanbul] or by using the registered electronic mail address (REM) [*] or the e-mail [info@musecontemporary.com],
secure electronic signature, mobile signature or electronic mail address that relevant person notified before to Muse Contemporary and recorded in the system of Muse Contemporary or via a developed software or application for the specific purpose of application by attaching necessary documents and information to this
application, including application form for the processing of personal data which could be obtained from Muse Contemporary.
The following shall exist in the application;
• Name, Surname and, if application is in writing, signature,
• Turkish ID Number for the citizens of the Republic of Turkey, nationality, passport number or, if any, ID number for foreign natural persons,
• Notification address of place of settlement or workplace,
• If provided, notification e-mail address, telephone and fax number,
• Subject of request
8.2 Muse Contemporary will finalize the request made by the Relevant Person at latest within 30 days. In case that Muse Contemporary notifies Relevant Person in writing, no fee of up to 10 pages shall be charged. Muse Contemporary may charge the relevant person a fee of TL 1 for each page exceeding 10 pages. In case that Muse Contemporary notifies Relevant Person by a CD or flash memory, the fee to be charged to him/her will not exceed the cost of that CD or flash memory. If Muse Contemporary refuses to fulfill the request stated in the application filed by the Relevant Person, it will provide its response in writing
or via an e-mail. Relevant Person is also entitled to file a complaint to the Personal Data Protection Board within 30 days as of the date he/she has been informed on the response of Muse Contemporary or within 60 days as of the application date in any case when his/her application is rejected; the response given is found unsatisfactory or the response is not given within 30 days. If Muse Co Muse Contemporary accepts the request of the application, it shall fulfill the requirements and the application fee received from Relevant Person should be refunded.

 

APPLICATION FORM REGARDING THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

/musecontemporary.com/ (“Muse Contemporary”)  gives utmost importance to the privacy of private life and security of personal data of its customers, internet site visitors, employees and other real persons whose personal data was processed by Muse Contemporary. Personal data owners (“Applicant”) defined as relevant persons under Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“PDPL’’) are entitled to make requests in connection with the processing of their personal data in accordance with Article 11 of PDPL.

Pursuant to Article 13/1 of PDPL and the Communiqué on the Procedures and Principles of  the Application to Data Controller (“Communiqué”), applications to Muse Contemporary as the data controller in connection with these rights should be presented in writing and manually delivered to the address of Muse Contemporary or delivered by post or should be sent  by using the registered electronic mail address (REM, Registered Electronic Mail) or electronic e-mail address previously notified to Muse Contemporary and registered in Muse Contemporary’s system. In case that Personal Data Protection Board (“Board”) changes or makes additions to these application methods in time, the applications to us may be filed by means of these changed or additional methods.

In that regard, applications to Muse Contemporary may be filed after completing this application form by means of: 

  • Application made by the Applicant visiting the address of Muse Contemporary in person,
  • Sending a post to the address of Muse Contemporary,
  • Sending an e-mail to the registered electronic mail address (REM) of Muse Contemporary,
  • Sending an e-mail to the electronic mail address previously notified to Muse Contemporary by the Applicant and registered in Muse Contemporary’s system.

You may find below information specific to written application channels regarding the ways in which the written applications can be sent to us:

Application Method 

Application Address

Information to be Specified in the Submission of  the Application

Application in Person

[Harbiye Mah. Cumhuriyet Cd. Kervansaray Ap. No:54 İç Kapı No:16 Şişli - İstanbul]

Following note must be written on the envelope: “Request for Information under Personal Data Protection Law”.

Notification via post

[Harbiye Mah. Cumhuriyet Cd. Kervansaray Ap. No:54 İç Kapı No:16 Şişli - İstanbul]

Following note must be written on the envelope: “Request for Information under Personal Data Protection Law”.

Via REM address

[]

Following note must be written on the subject section of the e-mail to be sent to REM address: “Request for Information under Personal Data Protection Law”.

Via e-mail

[info@musecontemporary.com]

Following note must be written on the subject section of the e-mail: “Request for Information under the Personal Data Protection Law”.

 

Furthermore, in case that other methods will be determined by Board in time, the information regarding the applications received through these methods will be announced by Muse Contemporary.

Pursuant to Article 13/2 of PDPL, applications submitted to us will be replied within thirty days as of the date that we receive your request in line with the nature of the request. Our responses will be provided to you in writing or via electronic means pursuant to Article 13 of PDPL.

  1. The Applicant’s Personal Information and Contact details:

Name:

 

Surname:

 

Turkish ID No:

 

Nationality:

(if Applicant is not a Turkish citizen)

 

Passport No or (if any) Identification No:

(if Applicant is not a Turkish citizen )

 

Phone Number:

(Optional. If you specify, we will be able to respond your application faster in case of   lack of information or unclear matter in your application or the information you had provided.)

 

Fax Number:

(Optional. If you specify, we will be able to respond your application faster in case of lack of information or unclear matter in your application or the information you had provided.)

 

E-mail:

(Optional. If you specify, we will be able to respond your application faster.)

 

Address (residence address or work address):

 

 

  1. Please indicate your relationship with Muse Contemporary (such as customer, business partner, candidate employee, former employee, employee of a third-party company, shareholder etc.)

Customer

Visitor

Business Partner

Other: ……………………………………………………………..

Department/Person

with whom you can contact in Muse Contemporary:………………….…………………………………………………………

Subject: ………………………………..…………………………………….……………...…………………………………………………

 

 

I’m a former employee

Years of Service: ………………………………………….

Other: …………………………………………………..

Date on which I made a job application/shared CV: …………………………………………………………………..

I am an employee of third-party company

Please indicate your company and your position

………………………………………………………………………………

 

  1. Please give the details of your request in accordance with PDPL:

…………………..…………….……………………………….……………………………….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…………………..…………….……………………………….……………………………….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…………………..…………….……………………………….……………………………….……………………………………………………………………..…………….……………………………….……………………………….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

D. Other explanations regarding the application form and your application:

This application form has been issued in to enable us timely and accurately respond to your application by determining your specific relation with Muse Contemporary and if any, detailing all of your personal data processed by Muse Contemporary. Muse Contemporary reserves the right to request additional documents and information (identity card, driving license etc.) for identification and authorization in order to eliminate legal risks that may arise from illegal and unjustified sharing of your personal data and especially to ensure the security of your personal data. Any information presented in the documents requested within the scope of additional documents and information that is not directly related to authentication process may be concealed by the Applicant. Otherwise, relevant person shall be deemed to have granted his/her explicit consent to provide such information presented in the documents that is not concealed in this way and not directly related to the authentication process. In case that the information provided to us regarding your requests submitted under this application form is not accurate or up-to-date or if the application was made without authorization, Muse Contemporary does not accept any liability from requests that may arise due to inaccurate information or unauthorized application. 

  • If Applicant’s application will be responded in writing, no fee of up to 10 pages shall be charged. It may be received 1 Turkish Lira for each page exceeding 10 pages.
  • If the reply to the application needs to be provided by Muse Contemporary on a recording medium such as CD, flash memory, the applicant will be charged for the fee of that recording medium.
  • You may file a complaint with the Board within thirty days as of the date you have been informed on the response of Muse Contemporary, or within 60 days as of the application date in any case, when the application to Muse Contemporary is rejected; the our response is found unsatisfactory or the response is not given within 30 days.
  • However, a complaint may not be filed to the Board unless a complaint is filed to Muse Contemporary first.

Applicant’s

 

 

Name Surname

:

 

Application Date

:

 

Signature

: