What information does this Fethiye website process?
This notice applies to visitors to yanatmalaw.com and to people who contact Av. Seyfullah Yanatma through the routes shown on the site. The data controller for enquiries received by Av. Yanatma is Av. Seyfullah Yanatma, an independent lawyer registered with the Muğla Bar Association. His office is Akarca Mah. 878. Sk. No:55/1/2, 48300 Fethiye/Muğla; phone and WhatsApp: +90 531 507 41 44; e-mail: info@yanatmalaw.com. See the legal notice and contact page for context.
The browser-side enquiry form displays fields for your name, phone number, optional e-mail address, topic and note. JavaScript checks the fields and prepares a message in your browser. It does not submit a form, call a website endpoint, or store the message on yanatmalaw.com. The required checkbox confirms that you have read this notice; its value is not included in the prepared message.
What happens when you use WhatsApp, e-mail or phone?
The WhatsApp button opens a wa.me address with the prepared message. WhatsApp is a Meta service. If you send the message, the enquiry reaches Av. Yanatma through WhatsApp, and Meta may process it under its own terms and privacy information. The e-mail button opens your own e-mail programme with a prepared message addressed to info@yanatmalaw.com; your e-mail provider may process the message before it reaches the lawyer. The website does not receive a copy through either route.
A phone call goes directly to +90 531 507 41 44; the site does not record or receive it. Avoid unnecessary passport, health, criminal or other sensitive information in an initial message.
What technical data and cookies are involved?
Cloudflare Pages delivers and protects this static site. Cloudflare can process technical request data such as an IP address, browser or system information, traffic-routing data, requested URL and security information while providing its service. This processing is by the hosting and security provider, not by an analytics script operated by this site. Cloudflare’s Privacy Policy explains its own processing and retention approach.
The public pages set no analytics, advertising or tracking cookies. Fonts use the site’s own /fonts/ files. The only cookie is functional oauth_state for private /admin/ GitHub OAuth: Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite=Lax, short-lived and cleared on callback. It is not tracking. /admin/ is owner-only, not a public enquiry route; its CMS script loads from unpkg.
Why is personal data used, and what is the Article 5 legal ground?
Purposes are answering an enquiry, communicating through the chosen route, assessing whether Turkish legal help is relevant, conducting an engagement, protecting rights, meeting legal obligations and securing the site. Av. Yanatma may receive identity and contact data, supplied facts and documents, and records needed for a legal matter. Enquiries may include special-category data, such as health or criminal-conviction information; send only what is necessary.
Under Article 5 of Law No. 6698, a ground may be pre-contract or contract necessity, a legal obligation, establishment, exercise or protection of a right, or a legitimate interest that does not override fundamental rights. Explicit consent is used where required. The form checkbox acknowledges this notice; it is not consent for every activity.
Can personal data leave Türkiye under Article 9?
When you choose WhatsApp or your own e-mail service, a message may be processed by providers outside Türkiye. The current Article 9, amended in 2024, states:
“Kişisel veriler, 5 inci ve 6 ncı maddelerde belirtilen şartlardan birinin varlığı ve aktarımın yapılacağı ülke, ülke içerisindeki sektörler veya uluslararası kuruluşlar hakkında yeterlilik kararı bulunması halinde, veri sorumluları ve veri işleyenler tarafından yurt dışına aktarılabilir.”
Without an adequacy decision, Article 9 provides safeguards including approved binding company rules, standard contracts or written undertakings, and limited incidental transfers under paragraph 6. The actual provider, destination and transfer mechanism must be assessed; this notice does not claim that every provider has the same status.
What rights do you have under Article 11?
You may ask the controller whether your personal data is processed; request information about processing; learn its purpose and whether it is used consistently with that purpose; learn the domestic or overseas third parties to whom it is transferred; request correction of incomplete or inaccurate data; request deletion or destruction where Article 7 conditions apply; ask that correction or deletion be notified to recipients; object to an adverse result produced solely by automated analysis; and claim compensation for damage caused by unlawful processing.
How can you apply to the controller?
The Communiqué on application procedures allows a written application or permitted electronic route such as KEP, secure or mobile signature, a previously notified and recorded e-mail address, or a purpose-built application. Applications are made in Turkish. Include the required identity, foreign-nationality/passport details, service address, e-mail or phone, request and supporting documents.
Send a signed written application to Av. Seyfullah Yanatma at Akarca Mah. 878. Sk. No:55/1/2, 48300 Fethiye/Muğla. The published e-mail is info@yanatmalaw.com; formal electronic applications must follow the Communiqué. Article 13 requires an answer within 30 days. Article 14 sets the conditions and periods for a complaint to the Personal Data Protection Board.
What does lawyer confidentiality mean?
Article 36 of Attorneys Act No. 1136 prohibits a lawyer from disclosing matters entrusted to or learned through legal work. This confidentiality does not turn every website visit into an engagement. Do not send unnecessary sensitive data before representation is agreed.
How long is information kept?
The website has no enquiry database and keeps no form-message copy. Records reaching the controller by WhatsApp, e-mail or phone are kept only for the relevant enquiry, engagement, legal or professional duty, or establishment, exercise or defence of rights. The period varies by matter and law; when the reason ends, data is deleted, destroyed or anonymised where required. Cloudflare’s technical-data retention follows its own terms.
Av. Yanatma’s professional background is set out on the About page, and practical information for people instructing from abroad is on the foreign-client page. This notice should be read with the site’s legal notice.