KVKK information notice

This notice is given under Article 10 of Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (“the Law”) to visitors of www.niyanayachts.com and to people who contact us through it.

1. The data controller

The data controller is Niyana Yachts:

Trade name: NİYANA YAPI TURİZM DENİZCİLİK VE CAM SANAYİ LİMİTED ŞİRKETİ (“Niyana Yachts”)
MERSIS number: 0631-0636-0930-0001
Address: DAP Royal Center A:110, Maltepe 34843, İstanbul, Türkiye
Telephone: +90 (216) 449 32 97
E-mail: info@niyanayachts.com

2. The personal data we process, why, and on what legal ground

Enquiries and requests

Data: identity (name); contact (e-mail address, telephone number); customer transaction (your message, the yachts or services you ask about, charter dates and the number of guests, details of a yacht you would like to sell, the page you wrote from, how you reached our website (the site that linked to it and any campaign reference or advert click code in its address; with your consent to advertising cookies, also the first page of your visit), the date and time, the country your connection comes from); transaction security (technical checks against spam).
Purposes: answering you; preparing the viewings, proposals and valuations you ask for; passing your enquiry to the right person in our team; keeping a record of our communication.
Legal grounds: Article 5(2)(c) of the Law, where processing is necessary and directly related to establishing or performing a contract with you; Article 5(2)(f), our legitimate interest in answering enquiries that are not about a contract and in keeping records of our correspondence, provided this does not harm your fundamental rights and freedoms; Article 5(2)(ç), where the law requires us to keep records; Article 5(2)(e), where processing is necessary to establish, exercise or protect a right.

Data: identity (first and last names); contact (e-mail address); marketing (your consent, with its date and the page where you gave it, and whether our newsletters are opened and their links clicked).
Purposes: reviewing sign-ups; sending news about new yachts, price reductions and Niyana Yachts; keeping proof of your consent and of any unsubscribing.
Legal grounds: your explicit consent (Article 5(1)) and, for commercial electronic messages, your approval under Law No. 6563 on the Regulation of Electronic Commerce. You can withdraw both at any time.

Analytics and advertising cookies

Data: online identifiers stored in cookies, IP address, device and browser information, the pages viewed and actions on the website, such as viewing or saving a yacht or starting an enquiry.
Purposes: understanding how the website is used; measuring whether our adverts lead to visits and enquiries.
Legal ground: your explicit consent (Article 5(1)), given in the cookie choice. Nothing for these purposes loads before you accept.
Proof of your choice: we keep a record of each cookie choice (a random consent id, the choice, the version of its words, the page and its language, the time), under Article 5(2)(ç), to show the consent the law requires.

Security and operation of the website

Data: transaction security (IP address, browser information, the date and time of requests, security cookies).
Purposes: delivering the website, and protecting it and its forms from attacks, abuse and spam.
Legal ground: Article 5(2)(f), our legitimate interest, provided it does not harm your fundamental rights and freedoms.

The Shortlist and your display preferences stay in your browser’s storage; we do not receive them.

3. How we collect personal data

By automated and non-automated means: through the enquiry forms on our website (or the e-mail they open in your own e-mail program), by e-mail, telephone and WhatsApp, and through the cookies and similar technologies our cookie policy lists. Cookies for analytics and advertising are used only after you accept them.

4. Who receives personal data, and why

In Türkiye (Article 8)

Our professional advisers, such as lawyers and accountants, for advice and to meet our legal duties.
Public institutions and courts, when the law requires it.
The people involved in what you ask about, such as a yacht’s central agent or another broker acting for her, only as far as your request needs.

Abroad (Article 9)

Our service providers, which process data for us for the purposes above: Cloudflare (website hosting and security), Google (e-mail and records on Google Workspace), Meta (WhatsApp, if you write to us there), Mailchimp (the newsletter) and the providers that host our client records system. Their servers are in the United States and other countries.
If you accept analytics or advertising cookies, the companies behind those tools, which our cookie policy names.
The people involved in what you ask about when they are abroad, such as a shipyard, a central agent or a partner broker, only as far as your request needs.

We transfer personal data abroad only on a ground that Article 9 allows. A one-off transfer is made only where it is necessary to perform a contract with you or to take steps you ask for before a contract (Article 9(6)).

5. Your rights under Article 11

You have the right to:

learn whether personal data about you is processed;
request information about it if it is;
learn the purpose of the processing and whether the data is used for that purpose;
know the third parties, in Türkiye or abroad, to whom it is transferred;
ask for it to be corrected if it is incomplete or wrong;
ask for it to be erased or destroyed under the conditions of Article 7;
ask for a correction, erasure or destruction to be notified to the third parties to whom the data was transferred;
object to a result against you that arises only from the analysis of your data by automated systems;
claim compensation if you suffer damage because your data was processed unlawfully.

6. How to apply

Send your request in writing to our address above, by e-mail to info@niyanayachts.com from an e-mail address you have given us before, or by another method the Personal Data Protection Board accepts, such as registered electronic mail (KEP) or a secure electronic signature. Please include your name and surname; your Turkish identity number or, if you are not a Turkish citizen, your nationality and passport or identity number; your address; an e-mail address or telephone number; and what you are asking for.

We will answer as soon as possible and within 30 days at the latest, free of charge. If answering causes an extra cost, we may charge the fee set by the Board. If we refuse your request, if you find our answer insufficient, or if we do not answer in time, you may complain to the Personal Data Protection Board within 30 days of learning our answer, and in any case within 60 days of your application (Article 14).

7. Changes to this notice

We update this notice when our processing changes. The date of the current version is shown on this page.