KVKK privacy notice

Data controller and contact

Data controller: Trends Türkiye. Website: trendsturkiye.com. For data requests and enquiries, contact [email protected] for enquiries.

Data processed and purposes

Pollster names, dates, samples and aggregate party shares from sourced research are published for information. During voluntary participation, your party preference is sent to the server and added to day/party and day/province/party counters. The application does not request identity, phone, email or precise location; it uses a self-declared province for the map and does not store an IP address or device fingerprint linked to your response. To support preference changes, the latest party and province, update time and next change date are retained under a digest of the random key.

Optional email newsletter

Newsletter requests use your email address, language, request time and consent-text version solely to handle the request and send the newsletter you requested. Requests are forwarded to [email protected] through the existing Google Workspace service. You are added to the active list only after a positive reply to a manual confirmation email. Newsletter records are not linked to votes, provinces, participation keys or chart preferences. Reply to an email to unsubscribe. The operator removes unconfirmed requests within 30 days and removes withdrawn addresses from the active list before the next send. Only the necessary opt-out record is retained to prevent accidental resubscription. A separate security store holds a global counter valid for up to one hour and a daily-keyed email digest valid for 15 minutes; expired records are cleaned on the next request. The application does not log raw addresses. Mailbox and hosting services may process data abroad. Delivery is manual, without individual open or click tracking.

Collection method and legal assessment

Data are processed electronically through the website and participation form. Participation is optional; information and an acknowledgement are presented before submission. Political opinions are sensitive personal data if they can be associated with an identified or identifiable person. Not collecting names or aggregating results does not by itself remove this consideration. The data controller must determine applicable processing conditions, information duties and explicit-consent procedures for the actual service and infrastructure. The form acknowledgement alone is not a declaration of legal adequacy.

Retention and publication

Unused participation keys are valid for one day. Used keys and preferences are retained after 30 days. A preference change from the same browser, permitted every 30 days, replaces the previous preference. The participation cookie is retained for 400 days and refreshed on participation-page visits. The browser cooldown lasts 30 days. Party preferences are not stored in the browser. Daily aggregate counters that are not linked to identity are retained for statistical purposes. Results are published for provinces with at least 5 responses; only these provinces enter the overall distribution. There is no minimum per party. This threshold does not guarantee anonymity.

Service providers and transfers

The application is hosted on Render in Oregon, USA; Cloudflare provides domain and network services. These services may process IP addresses and technical connection information for delivery and security. Participation databases are held by the hosting service; the selected party is not sent to Google's advertising service. When advertising is enabled and you allow it, Google and advertising partners may process technical data for ad delivery, measurement and invalid-traffic detection. These services may involve data processing abroad. Provider information: Render, Cloudflare and Google. Advertising providers and required regional consent options appear in the Google consent message.

Optional visit measurement retains aggregate counters only by day and page; party preferences, IP addresses and visitor identifiers are not stored in the measurement database. Totals are retained for 400 days and expired records are deleted on the next measurement request. Consent preferences are stored in the browser for up to 180 days, and the last activity time for the tab session. Infrastructure access logs are separate from these counters and subject to provider settings. Google Analytics is not used.

Measurement and advertising preferences

Optional measurement and advertising have separate choices. You can withdraw permission using “Change cookie preferences” at the bottom of the site. Withdrawing advertising permission stops new advertising loads; the page reloads to stop code already loaded. Withdrawal does not retrospectively erase previous processing. Google advertising code does not load when ads are disabled. Storage details are on the Cookie policy page.

Your rights

Under Article 11 of the Law, you have rights to learn whether data are processed, request information, learn the purposes and recipients, request correction and deletion or destruction where applicable, request notification to recipients, object to adverse outcomes from automated analysis, and seek compensation for damage. The current preference is associated with a digest of the random participation key and can be changed from the same browser every 30 days. Legacy aggregate records cannot be matched to a browser. Use our contact channel for other data requests.

Official information and preferences

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