Privacy Policy for TCExist
Last updated: March 22, 2025
At TCExist (Turkish Cypriots Exist), we respect your privacy and are 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 and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
1. What Data We Collect
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
- Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
- Contact Data includes email address, telephone numbers, and postal address.
- 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 this website.
- Profile Data includes your username and password, your interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
- Usage Data includes information about how you use our website and services.
2. How We Collect Your Data
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
- Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise.
- Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns.
- Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:
- Technical Data from analytics providers such as Google Analytics;
- Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services.
3. 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:
- Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
4. 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.
5. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.
6. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:
- Request access to your personal data.
- Request correction of your personal data.
- Request erasure of your personal data.
- Object to processing of your personal data.
- Request restriction of processing your personal data.
- Request transfer of your personal data.
- Right to withdraw consent.
7. Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you browse websites. Our website uses cookies 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.
7.1 What cookies we use
We use the following types of cookies:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. These cookies don't collect any information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you've been on the internet.
- Analytical/Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you and remember your preferences.
- Targeting Cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We use this information to make our website and the information displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
7.2 Managing cookies
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
7.3 Cookie consent
When you first visit our website, we will ask for your consent to use cookies. You can choose to accept all cookies, only necessary cookies, or customize your preferences. You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the "Cookie Settings" link in the footer of our website.
7.4 Third-party cookies
Some of the cookies on our website are placed by third parties, such as Google Analytics, which we use to help us understand how visitors engage with our website. These third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
TCExist (Turkish Cypriots Exist)275 New North Road
London, N1 7AA
United Kingdom
Phone: 020 3769 2654
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.TCExist.com