Privacy Policy

**PRIVACY POLICY**
**Your Privacy and Data Protection Matter to Us**

At the Artificial Intelligence Policies Association (“AIPA”), safeguarding the privacy of your personal data and private life is of paramount importance. As part of our information security policy and/or communication with users via our website or internet channels, the information of our users is treated as confidential.

As the data controller, the Artificial Intelligence Policies Association aims to inform you through this Privacy Policy about which of your personal data will be processed, the purposes for which the data will be processed, with whom and why the processed data may be shared, our data processing methods and legal bases, and what rights you have regarding the processed data.

First and foremost, we would like to emphasize that we process your collected personal data in compliance with the Personal Data Protection Law (“KVKK”) and relevant current legislation. Your personal data will be stored for the duration required by the purpose of the processing activities, while observing the periods prescribed by the KVKK and other relevant legislation. We would like to inform you about the collection, processing, transfer of your personal data to our association, and your legal rights regarding these.

**Collected Personal Data, Collection Method, and Legal Basis**
Your IP address and user agent information are collected, recorded, stored, and updated through automatic or non-automatic methods, and sometimes obtained from third parties such as analytical providers, advertising networks, search information providers, technology providers, via technologies such as cookies, only for analysis purposes. Your personal data will be processed, updated, and stored during our service and contract relationship, in line with the necessity of our services, to ensure that our services are accessible and maximally beneficial to you, to develop our services according to your needs, and to connect you with wider service providers within legal frameworks and for the fulfillment of legal obligations (sharing personal data upon request by judicial and administrative authorities).

**Purpose of Processing Your Personal Data**
The personal data you share with us is processed solely for analysis purposes; to perform the requirements of the services we provide in the best possible manner, to ensure accessibility to these services by you, to maximize benefit from these services, to develop our services according to your needs, and to connect you with broader service providers within legal frameworks. Your personal data will be processed proportionately and updated during the contract and service period.

**Recipients to Whom and Purposes for Which Your Personal Data May Be Transferred**
Your personal data shared with us may be transferred, within the framework of technical and administrative measures taken and in compliance with the KVKK legislation, to third parties, domestic and foreign, with whom we have contractual relationships, collaborate, or have cooperated, and to judicial and administrative authorities upon request.

**Rights of Data Subjects Whose Personal Data Is Processed**
Pursuant to Article 11 of the KVKK, everyone has the right to exercise the following rights by applying to the data controller:

- To learn whether personal data is processed,
- To request information if personal data has been processed,
- To learn the purpose of processing personal data and whether they are used appropriately,
- To know the third parties to whom personal data is transferred domestically or abroad,
- To request correction of incomplete or inaccurate data,
- To request deletion or destruction of personal data,
- To request notification of transactions made pursuant to subparagraphs (e) and (f) to third parties to whom personal data has been transferred,
- To object to the occurrence of a result against oneself through analysis of personal data solely by automated systems,
- To request compensation in case of damage due to unlawful processing of personal data.

You can contact us via aits@aipaturkey.org to exercise your aforementioned rights.

**Contact**
For the purpose of providing services to you and conducting analyses, your personal data, only those necessary, will be processed in accordance with this privacy and personal data processing policy. You are entirely free to accept or reject. By continuing to use the site, it will be assumed that you accept it. For more detailed information, please do not hesitate to contact us via aits@aipaturkey.org email address.

This Privacy Policy is subject to change at any time. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will update the date of the last revision. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will take effect immediately upon us publishing the revised Privacy Policy on this website. We recommend that you review this Privacy Policy regularly to see if there have been any changes.