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Privacy Policy

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Last updated: Jan. 2, 2024

Privacy Policy

Made in Turkey Tours respects your privacy and is committed to protecting any personal information shared with us.

Who We Are

Made in Turkey Tours (“us,” “we,” or “our”) operates the https://madeinturkeytours.com website, the “Service” that provides a wide range of information to our site’s visitors. Like many websites, we also collect Personal Data from our visitors.

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Data when you use our Service and book with Made in Turkey Tours, including the choices available.

We use your data to provide, improve the Service, and complete bookings. By using our Service, you agree to the collection and use of information following this policy.

Definitions

Service

Service is the https://www.madeinturkeytours.com website operated by Made in Turkey Tours, a trademark of Scuzo Travel Seyahat Ticaret Limited Sirketi.

Personal Data

Personal Data is data on a living individual who can be identified from that data and/or from other information in our possession or likely to come into our possession).

Usage Data

Usage Data is data collected automatically and is either generated by using the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of data stored on your device (computer or mobile device).

Data Controller

Data Controller means the natural or legal person who (alone, or jointly, with other persons) determines the purposes for which and how any personal information is processed.

For this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.

Data Processors (or Service Providers)

Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller.

We may use the services of various Service Providers to process your data more effectively.

Data Subject (or User)

Data Subject is any living individual who is using our Service and is the subject of Personal Data.

Information Collection And Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes, including providing and improving our Service for you and complete bookings at your request and that of a travel agent.

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

Contact Forms

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with specific, personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally, identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • First name and last name
  • Gender/initials
  • Date of birth
  • Address, state, province, ZIP/postal code, city
  • Business or personal email address
  • Phone numbers
  • Passport numbers
  • Social media account(s)
  • Credit card information
  • Travel and itinerary interests
  • Number of travelers in your party
  • Desired travel time
  • Cookies and Usage Data

Also, we will communicate with you by email, over the phone, face to face, through social media, and via travel agents to create travel itineraries and book travel for you. We may collect additional Personal Data during that process, including details of the group members you are traveling with, flight and accommodation details, and any special requirements you may request.

We may also use your data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt-out of receiving any of the said materials from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send.

Sensitive Personal Data

Our policy is not to ask for any sensitive Personal Data from you. We, our service providers, and third parties providing a quote or fulfilling your travel arrangements may, however, require specific sensitive personal data. This information is requested to provide services that you have asked for or deal with your inquiries, like special health or dietary requirements or easy room access due to a disability.

Information About Other People

If you provide information to us about any person other than yourself, such as people you are enquiring, making a booking on behalf of, or people you are traveling with, please ensure that they understand how their information will be used and have given you permissions to disclose it to us and allow us and our service providers to use it.

Usage Data

We may also collect information about how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data in the comments form—the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture becomes visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, only do so if they lack embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Otherwise, other visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from the images.

Cookies

If you leave a comment, you have the option of saving your name, e-mail address, and website in cookies. These serve your convenience so that you don’t have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.

Tracking Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with a small amount of data that may include a unique anonymous identifier and are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies used include beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information while improving and analyzing our Service.

You can set your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is sent. However, if you block cookies, you may be unable to use some portions of our Service.

Examples of Cookies we use:

  • Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
  • Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

Use of Data

Made in Turkey Tours uses the collected data for various purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our Service
  • To respond to requests for travel proposals
  • To fulfill contracted travel bookings
  • To notify you about changes to our Service
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
  • To provide customer support
  • To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service
  • To monitor the usage of our Service
  • To detect, prevent and address technical issues
  • To provide you with news, special offers, and general information about goods, services, and events that we offer similar to those you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), Made in Turkey Tours’ legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.

Made in Turkey Tours may process your Personal Data because:

  • We need to perform a contract with you
  • You have permitted us to do so
  • The processing is in our legitimate interests, and your rights do not override it
  • To comply with the law

Retention of Data

Made in Turkey Tours will retain your data only for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent required to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Made in Turkey Tours will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period, except when the data is used to improve the functionality, strengthen our Service’s security, or we are legally obligated to keep it for extended periods.

Transfer of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Made in Turkey Tours will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is secure, treated per this Privacy Policy, and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place, including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Data

Business Transaction

If Made in Turkey Tours is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Disclosure for Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, Made in Turkey Tours may be required to disclose your Personal Data. These include if we are required to do so by the law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).

Legal Requirements

Made in Turkey Tours may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • To comply with a legal obligation
  • To protect and defend the rights or property of Made in Turkey Tours
  • To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  • To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
  • To protect against legal liability

Security Of Data

Your data’s security is important to us, but remember that no transmission method on the internet or means of electronic storage is 100% secure. And while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

“Do Not Track” Signals

We do not support Do Not Track (“DNT”). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites you do not want to be tracked.

You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting your web browser’s Preferences or Settings page.

Your Data Protection Rights Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. Made in Turkey Tours aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.

If you wish to learn what Personal Data we hold about you and want it removed from our systems, please contact us at info@madeinturkeytours.com or by calling +90-384-341-40-44.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

  • The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. To access, update, or request your Personal Data deletion, please contact our office at info@madeinturkeytours.com.
  • The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
  • The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
  • The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable, and commonly used format.
  • The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Made in Turkey Tours relied on your consent to process your personal information.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account logged in to that website.

Service Providers

We may enlist third-party companies and individuals to help deliver our Service (“Service Providers”), provide the Service on our behalf and perform Service-related services, or help us analyze how our Service visitors use our Service.

The Service Providers have access to your data only to perform these tasks on our behalf. They are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

Google Analytics

This website uses functions of the web analytics service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies,” text files stored on your computer to allow for an analysis of your website usage. The cookie-generated information on your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA for storage.

Google Analytics cookies are stored based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize its website and advertising.

Browser Plugin

You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, note doing this may prevent you from fully using all the website features. Also, you may prevent the collection by Google of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of this data by Google by downloading the browser plug-in available under the following link and install: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Opposition to Data Collection

You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. It will set an opt-out cookie that prevents the collection of your data on future visits to this website: disable Google Analytics.

For more information on how to handle user data on Google Analytics, please refer to the Google Privacy Policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

Demographics in Google Analytics

This website uses the demographics feature of Google Analytics. As a result, reports containing statements on the age, gender, and interests of the site visitors can be produced. This data comes from interest-based advertising from Google and third-party visitor data and can not be assigned to a specific person. You can disable this feature at any time through your Google Account’s ad settings or generally prohibit the collection of your data by Google Analytics as outlined in the section “Opposition to Data Collection.”

E-mail Marketing

We may use third-party Service Providers to provide you with news, special offers, and general information about our goods, services, and events.

Facebook Ads Conversion Tracking

Facebook Ads conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects data from the Facebook advertising network with actions performed on this Service. For more information on the privacy policy practices of Facebook Ads, please visit the Facebook Privacy Terms web page: https://www.facebook.com/policies

Mailchimp

MailChimp is an online marketing platform that enables members to send and manage email campaigns and serve advertisements. They also provide real-time data analytics. Made in Turkey Tours utilizes Mailchimp to store Personal Data and deliver emails to provide you with news, special offers, and general information about our goods, services, and events.

You can opt-out of receiving any or all communications from Made in Turkey Tours by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send.

For more information on the privacy policy practices of Mailchimp, please visit the Mailchimp Privacy Terms web page: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

Social Sharing Buttons

Our website contains social sharing buttons, which are links to external networks that allow you to share content on our website within these networks. These buttons do not transmit any data to these networks unless clicked. Once you click one of these buttons, you will be redirected to a sharing form on the respective social network with pre-filled information.

Behavioral Remarketing

Scuzo Travel Seyahat Ticaret Limited Sirketi uses remarketing services to advertise on third-party websites to you after visiting our Service. Our third-party vendors and we use cookies to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to our Service.

Google AdWords Remarketing (Google Inc.)

AdWords Remarketing is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Google Inc. that connects the activity of this Website with the Adwords advertising network and the Doubleclick Cookie.

Twitter Remarketing (Twitter, Inc.)

Twitter Remarketing is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Twitter, Inc. that connects this website’s activity with the Twitter advertising network. For more details, please check Twitter Privacy Policies at https://twitter.com/en/privacy.

Facebook Custom Audience (Facebook, Inc.)

Facebook Custom Audience is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects this website’s activity with the Facebook advertising network.

Hotjar

We use Hotjar to understand our users’ needs better and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users’ experience (e.g., how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices. This includes a device’s IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile. Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf. For further details, please see the ‘about Hotjar’ section of Hotjar’s support site. https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/categories/115001323967-About-Hotjar

Customer Relationship Management Tool

We may use third-party Service Providers to securely store and maintain your Personal Data of a business nature.

You can request to access, update, or delete the information we have on you, subject to applicable regulations, by contacting us at info@madeinturkeytours.com.

Google Web Fonts

For a uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser.

This browser has been designed to connect directly to Google servers letting google know when our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in an attractive and attractive presentation of our website.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.

Further information on handling user data can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and for more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Itinerary Builder

We may use third-party Service Providers to build itineraries and create quotes that you or your travel agent request for our products and services.

Tour Master

Tour Master is software used by travel agencies and other travel providers to create custom leisure and group trips. Made in Turkey Tours will utilize and store your Personal Data in Tour Master to work on quotes and fulfill your travel bookings.

You can request to access, update, or delete the information we have on you, subject to applicable regulations, by contacting us at info@madeinturkeytours.com.

For more information on the privacy policy practices of Tour Master, please visit the Goodlayers Privacy Terms web page: https://goodlayers.com/privacy-policy/

Payments

We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g., payment processors).

We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors, whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of leading brands like VISA, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, etc. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

The payment processors we work with are:

Links To Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that we do not operate. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from any minor unless provided by their parent to fulfill a travel booking. If you are a parent or guardian and are aware that your child(ren) has provided us with Personal Data for any other reason, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verifying parental consent, we will remove their information from our servers.

Changes To Our Privacy Policy

We may periodically update our Privacy Policy and will notify you of the changes by posting the revised Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let you know via e-mail and/or a prominent notice on our Service before the change becomes effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

E-mail: info@madeinturkeytours.com
Website: https://madeinturkeytours.com/contact/
Phone: +90.384.341.40.44
Mail: Scuzo Travel, Temenni, Tevfik Fikret Cad., No:32, Urgup/Nevsehir, TURKEY