SECURITY & PRIVACY

Privacy Statement Elmas Is

is determined to protect your privacy. This privacy statement describes the data collection and processing practices of the www.elmasis.com website. By accessing the site, you are deemed to have accepted the data collection and processing practices described in the privacy statement.

- Collection of Your Personal Information

Such information will be requested during purchasing, uploading or registering to Elmas İş products, or when information on your identity (personal information) is needed in order to enable you to complete an action you wish, such as receiving information on Elmas Is products and services, attending contests, ordering e-mail bulletins, participating in restricted-access websites or services, registering for an event or training, etc. The personal information we collect may include your name, title, name of your company or institution, business e-mail address, business phone number, business or home address and business definition, as well as information on your company and credit card.

The website may also collect certain information on your visit, such as the name and Internet Protocol (IP) address of the service provider you use to access the website, the date and time of access, the pages you accessed during your visit and the web address of the website which enabled you to directly connect to our website. Such information are used for the purpose of improving the website, analyzing trainings and managing the website. Some of our services collect information on your hardware and software in order to provide a requested service.

Elmas Is warns you not to disclose your real e-mail address or other personal information in newsgroups, chats or other general forums in order to prevent your e-mail address and other personal information from being collected by others and used for inappropriate or , harmful purposes.

- Use of Your Personal Information

The personal information collected by the website is used to operate the website and to provide the services you have requested or authorized, or to complete transactions.

In order to support such uses, Elmas Is may use personal information to provide more effective services to its customers, to improve the website and other related Elmas Is products, and to facilitate the use of the website by eliminating the need to re-enter the same information or to customize the website based on your special preferences and areas of interest. In order to maintain the balance of your relations with Elmas Is, the information used by www.elmasis.com may be combined with the information collected by the other Elmas Is services.

Your personal information, including notifications, may be used for the purpose of providing important information on the products or services you use. Moreover, you may be sent information on other Elmas Is products and services, subject to your permission.

Data on website visits may be combined with anonymous demographic information for research purposes, and such combined information may be used to offer more useful content. Website visit data may be combined with your personal information, upon your approval, in order to offer personalized content in certain limited-access sections of www.elmasis.com. If you deny permission, your personal information will not be combined with your website visit data and you will not be provided personalized services.

When you register for a news bulletin or accept to receive promotional e-mails, www.elmasis.com may utilize specialized links or similar technologies in order to track e-mails. Such information may be associated with your personal information for the purpose of sending you more relevant e-mails or sales information. Each e-mail will include a ______, that would enable to stop receiving such messages. Elmas Is may disclose your personal information if such information is requested as a legal obligation, or (a) in order to comply with legal requirements or to act in accordance with the legal proceedings notified to Elmas Is or the website; (b) to protect and defend the rights and property of Elmas Is; and (c) in cases where it concludes, in good faith, that such information is necessary to be able to act in urgent situations for the safety of Elmas Is employees or agents, users of Elmas Is products or the general public.

- Security of Your Personal Information

Elmas Is has adopted protection of the security of your personal information as a principle. Various security technologies are utilized in order to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, use or release. The information you provide are stored in servers located in controlled facilities with restricted access. In addition, when sensitive personal information such as credit card numbers are submitted via the Internet, these are protected using encryption methods such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. Your credit card information are not stored in our systems. The credit cards used are encrypted using special ‘Crypto’ methods and transferred to the relevant bank.

- Amendments to this Privacy Statement

This privacy statement may be updated from time to time by Elmas Is. When an important update is made on this privacy statement, you will be informed by a notification placed on the home page of the website or a notification directly sent to your e-mail. We recommend that you regularly check out this privacy statement in order to receive up-to-date information on which methods we utilize to protect the personal information we collect. Your continuous use of the service means that you have accepted this privacy statement, as well as any updates thereto.

- Security Statement

Elmas Is enables you to set your own user information such as username, password, etc. If you forget your password, you will be allowed to create a new password via a verification code to be sent to your e-mail address. Elmas Is utilizes the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) protocol in the sections where private information is requested, applying AES-256 256-bit encryption on such information in order to prevent them from being accessed by third parties.