PRIVACY AND SECURITY POLICY

All services provided in our store are the property of, and operated and run by, our company entitled GELB BLAU ROT with its registered address at Vişnezade Mah. Süleyman Seba Cad. No:79/1 BEŞİKTAŞ/ İSTANBUL.

Our Company may collect personal data for various purposes. The paragraphs below describe the methods and ways used to collect personal data, and in what way and by which means these collected data are protected.

Our store, by the very nature of its business operations, collects certain personal data about its members (including name/ surname, company details, phone, address details, or e-mail addresses) when our members become members of our store or complete various forms and surveys.

Our Company may send promotional offers or details about new products or info about campaigns specific to its customers or members from time to time.

Such personal data that our members submit to our Company electronically in the course of approval process executed over our Store or by e-mail shall not be disclosed to third parties for any purpose and within any scope other than the ones defined in the "Membership Agreement" that we sign with our members.

Our Company saves, stores and uses IP addresses of its members in order to ensure the definition of the system-related problems or to bring a fast solution of potential problems or disputes that may arise in connection with the services provided. IP addresses may also be used to define users in a general way and to collect comprehensive demographic data about them.

We or third parties we cooperate with may use such requested data for direct marketing purposes beyond the purposes and scope defined in the Membership Agreement. Personal data may also be used to contact the user if necessary. Data that we request or is provided by the user or data in connection with transactions executed over our Store may be used by us or our collaborators to do various statistical studies and assessments, to create a database, and to make market research beyond such purposes and scope defined in the Membership Agreement.

We undertake to keep all confidential information strictly confidential and private, to deem it as an obligation to keep trade secrets and to take all necessary measures and show due care and diligence to secure and maintain such confidentiality, to prevent any or all such confidential information from being public or to block any unauthorized use or disclosure of such data to third parties.

CREDIT CARD SECURITY

Our Company gives utmost priority to the security of credit card holders shopping on our websites. Your credit card details are in no event stored in our system.

When you start to proceed with transactions, you need to pay attention to two matters to get assured that you are on a secure website. One of them is a symbol of a key or lock at the bottom line of your browser. This indicates that the website you are visiting is secure and all your data are protected by way of encryption. Such data are used only in connection with the sales transaction and the instructions you have provided. Details of the credit card that is used during shopping are delivered to the relevant bank for inquiry after they are encrypted by 128-bit SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) protocol independent of our shopping websites. After the card's availability for use is approved, the shopping resumes. As we cannot view and store any data about the card, third parties may in no event access to or capture such data.

Reliability of payments/ invoices/ delivery addresses in the case of online orders placed by using a credit card are checked by us against Credit Card Fraudulence. Therefore, the financial and address/ telephone data of our customers who shop at our website for the first time should be confirmed and verified and only after this stage is completed, their orders may move to the supply and delivery stages. We contact the customer who is the credit card holder or the relevant bank if necessary to control these data.

Only you can have access to and edit all data provided by you during your membership registration. If you securely protect your membership log-in details, it is not possible for others to have access to and change your data. For this purpose, you act within 128 bit SSL security area during the membership procedures. This is an international encryption standard that cannot be hacked or cracked.

Today, online shopping websites that offer a helpline or customer care service and where full address and telephone data are more popular than ever. Therefore, you can ask questions for detailed information about all matters that come to your mind; and get more healthy information about the reliability of the online shopping service provider.

Note: We recommend that on an online shopping website, the firm's full address and phone details should be available. If you are going to shop there, please note down all telephone/address details of the seller before you shop. If you do not trust them, call them by phone for confirmation. Our full contact details and location are available on all online shopping websites operated by us.

CREDIT CARD SECURITY IN MAIL ORDERS

Your credit card and ID details that you will send to us via credit card mail order method are to be stored by us in line with the confidentiality principle. These data are retained for 60(sixty) days in the case of potential disputes with the bank regarding money withdrawals, and are destroyed afterward. In the event that any sum is withdrawn from your card other than the mail order form cost approved by you that you will transfer to us to pay the cost of goods, it is very natural that you can call the bank to object to the withdrawal and you can block the payment of this unauthorized attempt to withdraw; so risks are effectively eliminated.

THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND APPLICATIONS

Our store may provide links to other sites on our website. Our company does not assume any liability in respect of the confidentiality applications and contents of those websites that links redirect you to. Ads published on our website are distributed to our users via our advertising business partners. Confidentiality Policy Principles set out herein are only applicable to our Store and do not extend to third-party websites.

EXCEPTIONS

In circumstances limited to the following ones, our Company may disclose user data to third parties beyond the provisions of this "Confidentiality Policy". These circumstances include, without limitation, the following:

To comply with such requirements imposed by rules of law that are in force or that are enacted by the competent legal authority under the applicable Laws, Decree Laws or Regulations, etc.
To fulfill the requirements set out in the Membership Agreement and other contracts that are signed between our store and users and to perform them;
Upon a data request from competent administrative and judicial authorities in connection with users in the course of a duly performed investigation or inquiry;
Circumstances when it is necessary to disclose data to protect user rights or security.

E-MAIL SECURITY

BROWSER COOKIES

We can collect data about users visiting our store and the way they use our website by using a technical communication file (cookies). The said technical communication files are tiny textual files sent by a website to the user's browser so that they can be stored in the main memory. This technical communication file saves the conditions and options about the website, making it more convenient to browse through the Internet.

This technical communication file helps us collect statistical data and learn about the number of visitors to our website, the purposes of a visitor and how many times he/she visits, and for how long he/she remains on the website. This file also helps generate dynamic advertisements and content from user pages specially designed for users. A technical communication file has not been designed to collect any data from the main memory, or from your e-mail or your personal data. Most browsers are designed to accommodate technical communication files initially; however, users may change, if they wish so, their settings to give off an alert in the event that a technical communication file is received or to block their access in all.

Our Company may change the provisions of this "Confidentiality Policy" to publish them on the website at any time, or to send e-mails to users or to publish them on the website.

Whenever the provisions hereof are changed, they shall become effective on the date of their publication.

Please send an e/mail to hello@gelblaurot.com for all your questions and suggestions about our confidentiality policy.