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Privacy Agreement

Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality Information Notice on the Protection and Processing of Personal Data

Privacy Policy

The following information explains how Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality may collect and use your personal information when providing requested services or when you choose to share your personal information with us.

Information Collection

Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality fully respects your privacy and makes every effort to protect your personal information. In general, you do not need to provide personal information while browsing this website.

To measure the effectiveness of our online presence, some pages on this website may include cookies, which are small text files transferred to a user’s (visitor’s) hard drive or browser to provide additional functionality or monitor site usage. Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality may use cookies to log your IP address in sequence, identify users interested in our site, and detect returning visitors. However, we do not link your IP address with your personal information. If you do not wish to accept cookies, or if you want to be notified when cookies are placed, you may configure your web browser accordingly, where supported.

If you voluntarily provide your identity number, name, identity details, date of birth, contact details, requested service/information, and similar personal information for specific purposes through registrations or forms, you will be deemed to have understood and accepted the use of your personal data and to have consented to Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality using it for such purposes.

Use of Collected Information

Your personal information will be used only for business purposes of Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality, such as responding to your requests for specific documents and/or services, sending requested information, processing an application, and carrying out a transaction.

However, Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality may disclose certain parts of your personal information to legal authorities, law enforcement, and public officials when requested; and may disclose limited portions of such information to a highly restricted group of recipients when reasonably necessary to protect Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality and the public. By providing your personal information, you are deemed to have foreseen and accepted the possibility of such events.

Disclosure of Your Information to Third Parties

The Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality website contains many links to third-party websites and web addresses; Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality will not disclose your personal information to such third parties and will not be held responsible for their privacy policies.

Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality may share your personal information to better fulfill your service requests. Naturally, such sharing will only occur with your consent.

Security of Your Information

Protecting Children's Personal Privacy

Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 and does not send requests to them for personal information.

All rights reserved by Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality.

Information Notice on the Protection of Personal Data

Dear Visitor,

First, thank you for your interest in our application process. As Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality, we value the protection of your personal data and compliance with personal data protection legislation. Please read the information notice below before registering.

Your name, surname, contact details, and address information are automatically collected and processed via registration forms when you submit requests, suggestions, complaints, and similar applications. If you upload photos during application, your visual records (photos) may also be processed. Some of your personal data may be shared with relevant units and event service providers to process your service request and manage events. Personal data obtained through application forms are transferred to and stored on servers of Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality located in the Republic of Turkey for operational and service delivery purposes.

We would like to inform you that you have the following rights regarding the processing of your personal data:

  • Learn whether your personal data is being processed,
  • Request information if your personal data has been processed,
  • Learn the purpose of processing your personal data and whether it is used accordingly,
  • Know the third parties within the country to whom your personal data is transferred,
  • Request correction if your personal data is incomplete or incorrectly processed,
  • Request the deletion or destruction of your personal data,
  • Request that your correction, deletion, and destruction requests be communicated to third parties to whom your personal data has been transferred,
  • Object to any adverse result arising against you from analysis of your processed data exclusively through automated systems.

For questions regarding this information notice or requests regarding the rights stated above, you may contact us through this link. We will respond as soon as possible, and no later than thirty days.

Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality