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Privacy Notice

Information under Article 10 of Turkish Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (KVKK) on how we process the personal data of clients, applicants, inventors, designers, website visitors and anyone who contacts us.

1. Data controller

Your personal data is processed by Gözlem Marka Patent Eğt. Dan. Tic. Ltd. Şti. (the "Office") as data controller, as described below. Address: İzzettin Çalışlar Cad. No:47 D:8, Bahçelievler, Istanbul, Türkiye. Email: zaferguzey@gozlempatent.com.tr.

2. Categories of personal data

Identity: name, national ID or tax number, nationality (as required for filings and powers of attorney).
Contact: phone, email, address.
Client transactions: requests and correspondence, file and application numbers, meeting notes.
Legal transactions: powers of attorney, signature circulars, contracts, information in opposition, litigation and court-expert files.
Professional: title and employer of persons named as inventors or designers.
Financial: invoicing, payment and bank details.
Security: web server logs (IP address, date and time, browser information).

3. Purposes

Assessing your request and communicating with you;
Filing, prosecuting, opposing, renewing and recording rights before the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office;
Preparing expert opinions and technical reports;
Entering into and performing engagement agreements, invoicing and collection;
Complying with legal obligations under tax, commercial and professional legislation;
Establishing, exercising or defending legal claims;
Keeping the website secure.

4. Collection and legal bases

Data is collected through the website contact form, email, phone, in-person meetings and documents provided to us in paper or electronic form, by wholly or partly automated means.

Processing is based on KVKK Article 5/2: processing expressly provided for by law (a), necessity for entering into or performing a contract (c), compliance with a legal obligation (ç), establishing, exercising or defending a right (e), and our legitimate interests provided your fundamental rights are not harmed (f). Where none of these applies, your explicit consent is obtained.

5. Transfers

Personal data may be transferred, to the extent necessary for the purposes above, to:

the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office, courts, enforcement offices and other competent public authorities;
experts bound by confidentiality, where an expert opinion is prepared by a panel covering several fields;
accountants, banks and service providers such as email and hosting;
where protection abroad is requested, foreign attorneys and national or international IP offices (e.g. WIPO, EPO). Transfers abroad are made in accordance with KVKK Article 9.

6. Retention

Data is kept for the periods required by legislation (e.g. tax and commercial record-keeping obligations) and for statutory limitation periods for possible disputes. Contact requests that do not lead to an engagement are deleted within a reasonable time after the request is closed. Data whose retention period has expired is deleted, destroyed or anonymised.

7. Cookies

This website does not use cookies or analytics tools. All site files, including fonts, are served from our own server; no data is passed to third-party services during your visit.

8. Your rights

Under KVKK Article 11 you may apply to the Office to:

learn whether your personal data is processed;
request information about the processing;
learn the purpose of processing and whether data is used accordingly;
know the third parties in Türkiye or abroad to whom data is transferred;
request rectification of incomplete or inaccurate data;
request erasure or destruction under the conditions of KVKK Article 7;
request that rectification, erasure or destruction be notified to recipients;
object to a result against you arising exclusively from automated analysis;
claim compensation for damage arising from unlawful processing.

9. How to apply

Requests may be submitted in writing to the address above or to zaferguzey@gozlempatent.com.tr, in accordance with the Communiqué on the Procedures and Principles of Application to the Data Controller. Requests are concluded free of charge as soon as possible and within thirty days at the latest; where the action involves an additional cost, the fee set by the Personal Data Protection Board may be charged.