DATA CONTROLLER REPRESENTATIVE (DCR) SERVICES

Organizations located outside of Türkiye which collect or process personal data of Turkish citizens and/or Turkish and non-Turkish residents in Türkiye, are required to assign a local data controller representative (DCR). The representative must be a Turkish citizen, resident of Türkiye or a Turkish entity. Personal data protection legislation in Türkiye (KVKK) requires data controllers to notify the Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority regarding their data processing activities. The representative must complete the application in Data Controllers' Registry Information System (VERBIS). Thus, the representative must appoint a contact person who must be a Turkish citizen resident in Türkiye. The representative must complete VERBIS registration obligation; it can define itself as the contact person on the system or assign different contact persons with Turkish citizenship resident in Türkiye.

The Data Controller Representative to be appointed through our representative service will assist you to comply with the Legislation as well as implementing the following requirements for you. Within this scope, we are going to:

1) Act on your behalf as the representative with the Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority

The Data Controller Representative (DCR) to be appointed acts as a bridge between you and the authority as a point of contact. While transmitting the requests by the Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority to you, the DCR also carries out all the necessary communication with the Authority on your behalf.

2) Become the contact point on personal data processing activities for the Turkish citizens and residents in Türkiye

The appointed representative accepts any application submitted to you by a person on your behalf, and in the meantime, it also provides you the details of the application submitted in accordance with the Article 11 of KVKK and relevant legislation. Not limited to this, the representative also follows up the application if it is responded and forwarded by you to the related parties within the legal period and provides you to fulfill your legal responsibility.

3) Conduct the VERBIS registration

The DCR fulfills the necessary steps for VERBIS registration and completes the required information on VERBIS by means of the contact person appointed on behalf of your organization regarding the personal data you process in Türkiye. Providing continuity and sustainability in the scope of the relevant services, in the event of a change in your data processing activities within the processes of your organization, the representative also performs the related update on VERBIS.

4) Update you on the regulatory changes regarding the personal data protection law

The representative keeps you updated both in Turkish and English about the updates in legislation, new practices and changes in the current applications regarding the protection of personal data which is an ever-changing process that must be followed at all times. In addition, if there are requirements for you to fulfill due to a change in legislation in accordance with your VERBIS registration obligation, the representative will also check these points with you and take action accordingly.

1. Notifying or accepting notifications or correspondence made by the Authority on behalf of the data controller,
2. Forwarding the requests of the Authority directed to the data controller to them and forwarding their response to the Authority,
3. In case no other basis has been determined by the Board; receiving applications of the data subjects on behalf of the data controller and forwarding them to the data controller in accordance with the first paragraph of the Article 13,
4. In case no other basis has been determined by the Board; forwarding the response of the data controller to the data subjects in accordance with the third paragraph of the Article 13,
5. Carrying out the works and transactions related to VERBIS on behalf of the data controller.

1. Under the supervision of the Board, Data Controllers' Registry shall be kept by the Presidency in a publicly available manner.
2. Natural or legal persons who process personal data shall register with the Data Controllers' Registry before starting to process personal data. However, considering objective criteria to be stipulated by the Board such as the characteristics and the scale of data to be processed, whether or not data processing is based on any law, or whether data will be transferred to third parties, the Board may set forth exemptions to the obligation to register with the Data Controllers' Registry.
3. Registry applications to the Data Controllers' Registry shall be made with a notification including the following matters:
• a) Identity and address information of the data controller and of the representative thereof, if any.
• b) The purposes for which personal data will be processed.
• c) Data subject persons and data subject groups and explanations regarding data categories belonging to these persons.
• ç) Recipient or groups of recipients to whom personal data may be transferred.
• d) Personal data which are envisaged to be transferred abroad.
• e) Measures taken for the security of personal data.
• f) The maximum period of time necessary for the purposes for which personal data are processed.
4. Changes to the information provided as per the 3rd paragraph shall be immediately reported to the Presidency of the Board.
5. Other procedures and principles related to the Data Controllers' Registry shall be set forth by a regulation.