Study Finders Privacy Policy
This privacy policy for STUDY FINDERS BILISIM INTERNET TEKNOLOJILERI VE YAZILIM ANONIM SIRKETI (“Study Finders,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), a company incorporated under the laws of Turkey, with a registered address at Harbiye Mah. Cumhuriyet Cad. No: 30/4 Şişli, Istanbul, describes how and why we collect, store, use, and/or share (“process”) your information when you use the Studyfinders.com website (“Website” or “Service”) and any of its related products and services (collectively, “Services”).
At Study Finders, accessible from www.studyfinders.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains the types of information that are collected and recorded by Study Finders and how we use it. This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regard to the information that they share and/or collect on Study Finders. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
Information we collect
The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.
If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/ or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, website, address, email address, telephone number, job title, username, password, and credit card numbers.
How we use your information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- Facilitate account creation, authentication and otherwise manage user accounts
- Set up a contract
- Facilitate delivery of services to the users
- Respond to your inquiries, requests
- Send you emails (administrative information, feedbacks)
- Manage you subscription orders, payments and returns
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
- Find and prevent fraud
- Log Files
Study Finders follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
When and With Whom We Share Your Personal Information
We may share information in specific situations described in this section and/or with the following categories of third parties. Vendors, Consultants, and Other Third-Party Service Providers. We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents (‘third partiesʼ) who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. We have contracts in place with our third parties, which are designed to help safeguard your personal information. This means that they cannot do anything with your personal information unless we have instructed them to do it. They will also not share your personal information with any organisation apart from us. They also commit to protect the data they hold on our behalf and to retain it for the period we instruct. The categories of third parties we may share personal information with are as follows:
- Payment Processors
- Ad Networks
- Cloud Computing Services
- Data Analytics Services
- Retargeting Platforms
- Data Storage Service Providers
We also may need to share your personal information in the following situations:
Business Partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honour this privacy notice. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Like any other website, Study Finders uses “cookies”. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Study Finders.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Study Finders, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Note that Study Finders has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Third Party Privacy Policies
Study Finders’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:
- Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
- Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
- Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
GDPR Data Protection Rights
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
- The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
- The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
- The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain
- The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
How Long We Keep Your Information
We retain your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy notice, unless otherwise required by law. We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes stated in this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice will require us to retain your personal information for longer than six (6) months after the termination of the user’s account. When we no longer have a legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it. If deletion is not possible (for example, due to personal information stored in backup archives), we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
How We Keep Your Information Secure
We strive to protect your personal information through a combination of organizational and technical security measures. We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to safeguard the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security measures and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. While we will make every effort to protect your personal information, the transmission of personal information to and from our Services is done at your own risk. It is advisable to access the Services within a secure environment.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.
Contacting us:
If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints regarding our Privacy Policy, we encourage you to contact us using the details below:
This document was last updated on June 14, 2023