Information Regarding Your Personal Data

Last updated: 23.06.2026

Please read this Privacy Notice to learn about your rights regarding your personal data, what information we collect, and how we use and protect it.

This Privacy Notice applies to personal data that Yıldırım Yapı Grubu Uluslararası İnşaat Tic. Ltd. Şti may collect about you through its websites, applications, or other online environments it operates and controls (collectively, the "Website").

Data Controller: Yıldırım Yapı Grubu Uluslararası İnşaat Tic. Ltd. Şti

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1. Who is Kuleli Evleri?

Kuleli Evleri is a brand belonging to Yıldırım Yapı Grubu Uluslararası İnşaat Tic. Ltd. Şti (Yıldırım Yapı) and serves as a project name. With over 55 years of experience, Yıldırım Yapı develops residential and commercial projects across Istanbul.

In addition to this website, we operate www.yildirimyapigrubu.com and www.kulelievleri.com, all of which are affiliated with Yıldırım Yapı Grubu Uluslararası İnşaat Tic. Ltd. Şti.

Yıldırım Yapı operates primarily in the following fields:

• Engineering and Construction
• Real Estate
• Trade

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2. How Do We Collect Your Personal Data?

Directly: We may collect personal data directly from individuals in various ways, including receiving business cards, filling out online forms, uploading information to our Website, contacting us, subscribing to newsletters, providing feedback, attending meetings or events we host, visiting our offices, or for recruitment purposes. We may also collect personal data directly when establishing a business relationship, performing professional services under a contract, or through software applications on your device.

Indirectly: We may obtain personal data about individuals indirectly from various sources, including recruitment services, customer due diligence providers, analytics providers, and business cards. We may use such data to better serve our subscribers and individual clients, fulfil a legal obligation, or pursue our legitimate interests.

Automated technologies or interactions: When you interact with our Website, we may automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this data using cookies, server logs, and similar technologies.

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3. What Categories of Personal Data Do We Collect?

Personal data means any information about a person from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

Personal data we commonly collect to conduct our business activities includes:

• Contact information (e.g. name, company name, title, business and mobile phone numbers, email and postal addresses, IP address)
• Internet data (e.g. browsing history, search history, and information about your interactions with our Website)
• Professional details (e.g. work and career history, educational background, and professional memberships)
• Family and beneficiary information for insurance and salary planning services (e.g. names and dates of birth)
• Financial information (e.g. tax details, bank information)
• Transaction data, including details of products and/or services you have purchased from us
• Marketing and communications data, including your preferences for receiving marketing from us

Technical and usage data includes your IP address, login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technologies on the devices you use to access our Website.

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4. What Legal Bases Do We Rely On to Process Personal Data?

When we collect and use personal data to conduct our business and provide our products and services, we may rely on the following legal bases:

• Contract: We may process personal data to fulfil our contractual obligations to the individuals concerned.
• Consent: We may rely on freely given consent provided at the time you share your personal data with us.
• Legitimate interests: We may rely on legitimate interests where processing is fair, reasonable and balanced, and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests. These may include:
  • Managing and developing our relationship with you and the organisation you represent
  • Maintaining the security and integrity of our premises, Website, and other IT systems
  • Responding to and communicating with you regarding your requests, questions and comments
  • Conducting, evaluating and improving our business
  • Complying with our corporate social responsibility commitments
• Legal obligations: We may process personal data to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations or requirements.
• Vital interests: We may process personal data to protect the vital interests of an individual or another natural person.

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5. Why Do We Need Your Personal Data?

Any data and information transmitted to and collected by Yıldırım Yapı through your visit to the Website may be stored, processed or transferred for the following purposes:

• Protecting the rights, property and safety of Yıldırım Yapı or any third party
• Complying with legal or regulatory obligations
• Collecting and/or providing statistical aggregate data and information about the Website or its visitors or users

Yıldırım Yapı commits not to use, sell or rent your personal data to third parties for commercial purposes without your explicit consent.

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6. Marketing and Communications

We may use your personal data to send you updates about our products and services, including special offers, promotions or new products and services (via email, text message, phone or post).

You have the right to opt out of receiving marketing communications at any time. Please contact us to make such a request.

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7. Do We Share Personal Data with Third Parties?

We store personal data on servers located in Istanbul, Turkey.

We will not share your information with third parties for direct marketing purposes. Yıldırım Yapı entities may share personal data amongst themselves and may disclose personal data to other service providers, including technology providers and professional advisers who hold and process information on their behalf. Each entity is required to protect personal data in accordance with our contractual obligations and applicable data protection law.

Yıldırım Yapı may also disclose your personal information to courts and opposing parties in litigation, insurers, law enforcement and other authorised government authorities, where it has a good-faith belief that such disclosure is required for legal and compliance purposes.

We may need to share personal data with external auditors, law enforcement and regulatory bodies, and potential acquirers in the context of a restructuring of part or all of our business, to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.

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8. Do We Use Cookies?

Our Website may use cookies. A cookie is a small file that asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the Website.

We use Google Analytics to monitor how our Website is used so that we can make improvements. Our use of Google Analytics requires us to transmit your IP address to Google. Google uses this information to compile reports on Website usage on our behalf. If you have any questions about the cookies we use, please contact us at info@yyg.com.tr.

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9. What Are Your Data Protection Rights?

To exercise your rights as a data subject, please complete the application form and send it by post to Paşa Mah. Hasret Cad. Bomonti Apt. 65/A Şişli İstanbul/Turkey or by email to info@yyg.com.tr.

• Access: You may request that we confirm whether we are processing personal data about you and, if so, provide you with more specific information.
• Rectification: You may request that we correct our records if you believe they contain inaccurate or incomplete information about you.
• Erasure: You may request that we delete your personal data after you withdraw your consent to processing or when we no longer need it for the purpose for which it was originally collected.
• Restriction of processing: You may request that we temporarily restrict the processing of your personal data if you contest its accuracy, prefer restriction over deletion, or wish us to retain it for a legal claim.
• Data portability: In certain circumstances where you have provided personal data to us, you may request that we transfer that data (in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format) directly to another company, if technically feasible.
• Right to withdraw consent: You may withdraw any consent you have previously given for the processing of your personal data for one or more specific purposes.

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10. Personal Data Security

We have implemented appropriate technical and organisational security policies and procedures to protect personal data from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. We aim to ensure that access to your personal data is limited to those who need to access it.

Please note that data transmission over the internet is not completely secure. While we do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk.

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11. How Long Do We Retain Personal Data?

We retain personal data to provide our services, maintain contact with you, and comply with applicable laws, regulations and professional obligations. We will hold your personal data in our systems for the longest of the following periods:

• As long as necessary for the relevant activity or services
• For any retention period required by law
• Until the end of the period in which litigation or investigations might arise in relation to the services

Unless a different timeframe applies, we retain such personal data for ten (10) years.

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12. Do We Link to Other Websites?

This Website may contain links to other third-party web pages, provided solely for your convenience, which are not controlled by Yıldırım Yapı in any way. Accordingly, Yıldırım Yapı makes no representations regarding the personal data policies, privacy notices and terms of use applicable to such third-party websites.

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13. Contact

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice or how we process personal data, please direct your correspondence to: