🔒 Privacy Policy
How we protect and handle your personal information
Privacy Policy
Last Updated: December 01, 2025
This Privacy Policy explains how TYBA Yacht Charter Show ("we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, discloses, and protects your personal information when you use our website and services. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring compliance with applicable data protection laws, including the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law (KVKK - Law No. 6698).
1. Introduction
TYBA Yacht Charter Show respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website, register for our events, or use our services, and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
This policy applies to all personal data collected through our website, registration forms, email communications, and any other interactions you may have with TYBA Yacht Charter Show.
2. Data Controller
The data controller responsible for your personal data is:
TYBA Yacht Charter Show
For any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or our data processing practices, please contact us using the information provided in the "Contact Us" section below.
3. Information We Collect
We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, which we have grouped together as follows:
3.1 Identity Data
Includes first name, last name, title, date of birth, gender, and any other information that identifies you.
3.2 Contact Data
Includes billing address, delivery address, email address, telephone numbers, and any other contact information you provide.
3.3 Professional Data
Includes company name, job title, professional qualifications, industry experience, yacht information, broker credentials, and other professional background information.
3.4 Financial Data
Includes payment card details, bank account information, billing information, and transaction history. Note that we use secure third-party payment processors and do not store full credit card details on our servers.
3.5 Technical Data
Includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access our website.
3.6 Usage Data
Includes information about how you use our website, products, and services, including pages visited, time spent on pages, click patterns, and navigation paths.
3.7 Marketing and Communications Data
Includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties, and your communication preferences.
4. How We Collect Your Data
We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including:
- Direct Interactions: You may give us your Identity, Contact, and Professional Data by filling in forms, registering for events, or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise.
- Automated Technologies: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data and Usage Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
- Third Parties or Publicly Available Sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources, including business partners, sub-contractors, advertising networks, analytics providers, and search information providers.
5. How We Use Your Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- To Process Your Registration: To register you for events, process payments, manage your participation, and provide you with event-related services.
- To Manage Our Relationship With You: To notify you about changes to our terms or privacy policy, to ask you to leave a review or take a survey, and to respond to your inquiries and requests.
- To Improve Our Services: To analyze how our website and services are used, to improve user experience, and to develop new features and services.
- To Send Marketing Communications: To send you information about our events, services, and promotional offers (only with your consent).
- To Comply With Legal Obligations: To comply with legal, regulatory, and tax obligations, and to respond to lawful requests from public authorities.
6. Legal Basis for Processing
Under KVKK and applicable data protection laws, we process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:
- Consent: When you have given clear consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose.
- Contract Performance: When processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.
- Legal Obligation: When processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject.
- Legitimate Interests: When processing is necessary for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, provided that your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
7. Data Sharing and Disclosure
We may share your personal data with the following categories of recipients:
- Service Providers: We may share your data with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processors, email service providers, hosting providers, and analytics providers.
- Business Partners: We may share your data with trusted business partners who help us organize and manage events, such as venues, hotels, and transportation providers.
- Legal Authorities: We may disclose your data if required by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.
- Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your data may be transferred to the acquiring entity.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
8. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
9. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the purposes for which we process it, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means.
10. Your Rights
Under KVKK and applicable data protection laws, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- Right to Access: You have the right to request access to your personal data and to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Right to Rectification: You have the right to request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
- Right to Erasure: You have the right to request deletion of your personal data in certain circumstances.
- Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request restriction of processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
- Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
- Right to Object: You have the right to object to processing of your personal data in certain circumstances, including for direct marketing purposes.
- Right to Withdraw Consent: Where processing is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information provided in the "Contact Us" section below. We will respond to your request within the timeframes required by applicable law.
11. International Data Transfers
Your personal data may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (EEA) or Turkey. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable data protection laws.
When we transfer your personal data outside the EEA or Turkey, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place, such as standard contractual clauses approved by relevant authorities.
12. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Our website uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
For detailed information about the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them, please see our Cookie Policy.
13. Children's Privacy
Our services are not directed to individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal data, please contact us, and we will take steps to delete such information.
14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date.
We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we protect your personal data.