Privacy notice

The data controller is Aydın Çelik Ajans, trading as Aydın Çelik Studio, based in Bursa, Türkiye. For anything in this notice, write to sales@aydincelik.com.tr.

• Enquiry form (name, work email, company, website, services, budget, timeline, brief). Used to reply to you and prepare a proposal. Basis: steps at your request before a contract, and our legitimate interest in answering business enquiries.
• Booking a call (name, email, chosen time, via Calendly). Used to schedule and hold the meeting. Basis: steps at your request before a contract. Calendly loads only after you click “Load calendar” or accept cookies.
• WhatsApp. If you message us, WhatsApp shares your number and message with us. We use it only to reply. Basis: legitimate interest in answering you.
• Website analytics (pages viewed, approximate location, device and browser, via Google Analytics 4). Used to understand which pages help visitors. Basis: your consent, given through our cookie banner. You can withdraw it at any time.
• Essential storage. We store your cookie choice in your browser. Basis: necessary to respect your preference.

We do not sell personal data, and we do not use it for automated decisions or profiling.

• Resend (email delivery of enquiries to our inbox).
• Calendly (scheduling), only if you use the calendar.
• Google (analytics), only if you accept analytics cookies.
• Our hosting provider (Netlify or equivalent) and email provider, who process data on our behalf.

Each acts under a data-processing agreement or equivalent terms. We may disclose data where the law requires it.

We operate from Türkiye, and some providers above are based in the United States. Where data moves outside the UK or the EEA we rely on the safeguards the law allows, such as the UK International Data Transfer Agreement or Addendum, standard contractual clauses, or an adequacy decision. Ask us for details at sales@aydincelik.com.tr.

• Enquiries that do not become a project: deleted after 24 months.
• Client records and contracts: kept for the period tax and accounting law requires.
• Analytics data: held by Google for 14 months, then deleted automatically.

Under UK GDPR (and Article 11 of KVKK) you can ask us to: confirm whether we hold your data and give you a copy; correct it; erase it; restrict or object to our use of it; and move it to another provider. Where we rely on consent you can withdraw it at any time, as easily as you gave it, using “Cookie settings” in the footer. Email sales@aydincelik.com.tr and we will respond within one month.

If you are unhappy with how we handle your data you can complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk, or to Türkiye’s Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK). We would appreciate the chance to put things right first.

The site is served over HTTPS, enquiries are sent to us by encrypted email delivery, and access to our inbox is restricted. No method of transmission is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable measures to protect your data.

Details of the cookies we use are in our Cookie policy. We will update this notice when our practices change and show the date at the top.