Personal data disclosure text
Last updated: September 17, 2026
As Güneş ABK, acting as data controller under Turkish Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data ("KVKK"), we have prepared this Disclosure Text to inform you about how your personal data is processed.
1. Data Controller
- Trade name: Güneş ABK
- Address: to be added shortly.
- Phone: +90 533 225 08 50
- Email: to be added shortly.
- Website: www.gunesabk.com
2. Personal Data Processed
In connection with your contact with Güneş ABK, booking an appointment, or receiving healthcare services, the following personal data may be processed to the extent the relevant process requires:
- Identity information
- Contact information
- Appointment and transaction information
- Patient information
- Health information and health data
- Medical procedure and treatment information
- Visual and audio records, where necessary
- Transaction security information
- Legal transaction information
- Information relating to your use of the Website and cookies
Health data is a special category of personal data under the KVKK.
3. Purposes of Processing
Your personal data may be processed for the purposes of:
- Providing healthcare services
- Carrying out examination, diagnosis, treatment, and care processes
- Planning appointment processes
- Creating and maintaining patient records
- Managing and financing healthcare services
- Carrying out billing and accounting processes
- Fulfilling legal and regulatory obligations
- Carrying out information security processes
- Ensuring patient and service safety
- Carrying out legal processes
- Responding to requests from authorized institutions and organizations
4. Legal Grounds for Processing
Your personal data is processed within the personal data processing conditions set out in Articles 5 and 6 of the KVKK. The processing of special-category personal data, such as health data, is subject to the KVKK's provisions on special-category personal data. Where processing of your personal data is required, the applicable legal ground is separately assessed for that specific processing activity.
5. Method of Collection
Your personal data may be collected electronically or physically through:
- Contact and appointment forms on the Website
- Phone calls
- Email communication
- Consultations carried out at the clinic
- Patient record systems
- Transactions carried out while delivering healthcare services
- Information received from authorized persons, institutions, and organizations
- Cookies and similar technical tools
6. Transfer of Personal Data
In accordance with the conditions set out in the KVKK, your personal data may be transferred to:
- Persons and organizations necessary for the delivery of healthcare services
- Authorized public institutions and organizations
- Legally authorized persons and organizations
- Financial and legal advisors
- Information technology and technical service providers
- Other authorized recipient groups under applicable legislation
Transfers are carried out strictly within the conditions and purposes set out in applicable legislation.
7. Special Categories of Personal Data
Because health data is a special category of personal data, the KVKK's provisions on special-category personal data apply to its processing. In connection with the delivery of healthcare services, your health data is processed to the extent permitted by applicable legislation and with the required security measures in place.
8. Retention of Personal Data
Your personal data is retained for as long as required by applicable legislation or by the purposes of processing. Once the retention period ends, your personal data is deleted, destroyed, or anonymized in accordance with applicable legislation.
9. Your Rights Under the KVKK
Under Article 11 of the KVKK, regarding your personal data you have the right to:
- Learn whether it is being processed
- Request information about it if it is being processed
- Learn the purpose of processing and whether it is used in line with that purpose
- Know the third parties to whom it is transferred
- Request correction if it has been processed incompletely or incorrectly
- Request deletion or destruction within the conditions set out in law
- Request that such transactions be notified to third parties to whom your data was transferred
- Object to a result that is to your detriment arising solely from automated analysis
- Request compensation for damage arising from unlawful processing
10. How to Apply
You may submit your requests under the KVKK directly to our clinic. Your applications are evaluated within the timeframes set out in the KVKK and related legislation.