This privacy notice is provided by the Landscape Sector Association (PEYSED) as data controller under Article 10 of the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (KVKK).
1. Data controller
Peyzaj Sektörü Derneği (PEYSED) — Yusuflu Mah. Yusuflu Küme Evler, Dış Kapı No: 308, İç Kapı No: 1, 35840 Bayındır / İzmir, Türkiye. Our contact details are at the end of this page.
2. Personal data processed and purposes
Membership applications
Name, contact details (e-mail, telephone, province, website), profession/title, organisation or university, a short introduction; for corporate applications, the company/organisation name; declarations and consents given in the application. Once your application is accepted, the identity details required by law for the member register are requested separately in writing; they are not collected on this website. Purpose: assessing the application, establishing and managing membership, keeping the member register and reporting to DERBİS under the Associations Law No. 5253 and the Associations Regulation, fee collection, General Assembly invitations.
Member Directory
Only if you give explicit consent in your application: name or company name, title, province and fields of activity; and, if you separately ask for it, your website and business contact details. You may withdraw consent at any time.
Contact and dispute forms
Name, e-mail, telephone, organisation and message; for dispute requests, information about the other party and the dispute. Purpose: answering requests and conducting the mediation process.
E-newsletter
E-mail address, preferred language, subscription and confirmation dates. Purpose: sending the newsletter after double opt-in.
Certificate records
Holder’s name or company name, certificate number, type, scope and validity dates. Purpose: allowing third parties to verify certificates.
Technical data
To prevent abuse of our forms, a one-way hash derived from your IP address is kept for at most one hour. The hosting provider’s server logs (IP address, date and time, requested page) are kept for security purposes for the provider’s retention period.
3. Legal grounds
Under KVKK Art. 5/2: (a) expressly provided for by law (member records under the Associations Law and Regulation), (c) necessary for entering into or performing a contract (membership, training and certification), (ç) compliance with a legal obligation, (e) establishing, exercising or protecting a right, (f) legitimate interest, provided your fundamental rights are not harmed (form security). Publication in the Member Directory and sending the newsletter are based on your explicit consent (Art. 5/1).
4. Transfers
Your data may be transferred, only to the extent required, to competent public authorities under legal obligations (Provincial Directorate of Civil Society Relations / DERBİS and, on request, judicial and administrative authorities), to banks for fee payments, and to the service providers that host this website and its e-mail. If hosting servers are located outside Türkiye, transfers are made in accordance with Article 9 of the KVKK. Your data is never sold or shared with third parties for marketing.
5. Method of collection
Data is collected electronically through the forms on this website and provided directly by you.
6. Retention
- Member records: for the duration of membership and the period required by law.
- Rejected or withdrawn applications: up to 1 year from the decision.
- Contact messages: up to 2 years after being answered.
- Dispute requests: up to 5 years after the process ends.
- E-newsletter: until you unsubscribe; unconfirmed sign-ups are deleted within 7 days.
- Certificate records: during validity and for as long as verification remains necessary.
7. Your rights (KVKK Art. 11)
You have the right to learn whether your personal data is processed and to request information about it; to learn the purpose of processing and whether data is used accordingly; to know the third parties to whom it is transferred; to request correction of incomplete or inaccurate data; to request erasure or destruction under Art. 7; to request that such actions be notified to third parties; to object to an adverse result arising solely from automated analysis; and to claim compensation for damage caused by unlawful processing.
You may submit requests in writing, or from the e-mail address you have previously given us, in accordance with the Communiqué on the Procedures for Applications to the Data Controller. Requests are answered free of charge within 30 days.
8. Contact
- Address
Yusuflu Mah. Yusuflu Küme Evler
Dış Kapı No: 308, İç Kapı No: 1
35840 Bayındır / İzmir
Official details
- Official name
- Peyzaj Sektörü Derneği (PEYSED)
- Legal status
- Association subject to the Associations Law No. 5253
- Date of foundation
- 14 July 2026
- Associations registry no.
- 35-090-050
- Tax office / tax no.
- Bayındır V.D. 729 137 8186
- MERSİS no.
- 0729137818600001
- Head office
- Yusuflu Mah. Yusuflu Küme Evler, Dış Kapı No: 308, İç Kapı No: 1, 35840 Bayındır / İzmir