As CHAMP Rent a Car, we value the protection of your personal data and the privacy of your private life. The purpose of this Privacy and Cookie Policy is to inform you about the personal data collected from you during your visit to the website www.champrentacar.com and the cookies we use on our site.
1: What is a Cookie?
Cookies are small text files, generally consisting of letters and numbers, that are stored on your device or network server via your browser by the website you visit. As EFOL OTOMOTİV Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Şirketi (the “Company”), we use cookies, pixels, and similar technologies to enhance our visitors’ experience during visits to our website at www.champrentacar.com and when contact forms are submitted to us through this address. In this respect, cookies are used in compliance with the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“Law”) and the regulations, communiqués, and decisions published from time to time by the Personal Data Protection Authority.
As a Company, we always reserve the right to change, amend, add to, or remove provisions of this Privacy and Cookie Policy. You can always access our Policy on the Protection and Processing of Personal Data and our Information Notice on the Protection of Personal Data at www.champrentacar.com.
2. Purpose of Using Cookies
We use the data we obtain through cookies from users who visit our website for the following purposes:
• To improve the services offered to you by increasing the functionality of the website,
• To improve the current website and offer new features through the site and personalize the features offered according to your preferences,
• To ensure the legal and commercial security of the website, you, and our Company,
• To integrate and analyze different servers on which the website operates, to increase the performance of the website, to determine the number of visitors and adjust performance settings accordingly, or to make it easier for visitors to find what they are looking for,
• To increase functionality and provide ease of use, and to share on third-party social media platforms via the website,
• To carry out personalization, targeting, and advertising activities to display advertisements related to visitors’ interests based on the pages they view.
3. Method and Legal Basis for Collecting Personal Data
Your personal data are collected by our Company electronically via our website, mobile applications, social media accounts, and e-mail; and physically via courier/post, fax, and face-to-face meetings, when you contact our Company within the scope of the sale or provision of our products or services. The data are collected on the legal grounds set out in Articles 5 and 6 of the Law, namely for the establishment or performance of a contract, legal obligation, establishment, exercise and protection of a right, and our Company’s legitimate interests, and—where our products and services are customized and offered to you according to your preferences and usage habits—based on your explicit consent.
At their request, our users can have their registrations deleted from our system. There are also links to other sites within our website. Our website www.champrentacar.com is not responsible for the privacy policies and content of other sites.
During your visit to our website, the personal data collected by our Company through cookies may be processed in accordance with Articles 5 and 6 of the Law.
4. Transfer of Personal Data
Within the scope of this Cookie and Privacy Policy, we may transfer your personal data, limited to the purposes specified below and in compliance with the relevant legislation, to our business partners, suppliers, group companies, authorized public institutions and organizations, and other private persons located domestically or abroad:
• Our business partners: Shares made to announce services that may be of interest to you in order to make them available to users visiting our site. (However, any information you personally provide to our business partner or third parties will be subject to the privacy policy provisions of the relevant partner company or person.)
• Our suppliers: Shares made with suppliers we work with in connection with our commercial activities, including e-mail delivery, data analysis, and similar operations, to improve services and customer satisfaction.
• Authorized public institutions and organizations: Shares made with law enforcement, government or public institutions, regulatory authorities, and/or other persons who have appropriate legal authority or justification to obtain your information, when permitted or required by laws or legal process, to protect the rights, interests, privacy, or security of our Company, you, or other third parties, and to respond to requests.
• Third parties: Depending on your marketing preferences, shares made for the limited purposes of licensing, selling, or otherwise sharing your personal data with selected third parties for their own commercial purposes for a fee.
5. Cookies Used on Our Site
Cookies may be used to perform the basic functions necessary for the operation of the website, to analyze the website and increase its performance, to improve the website’s functionality and provide ease of use, and to conduct personalization, targeting, and advertising activities.
• Strictly Necessary Cookies
Cookies that are minimally required for a targeted function to operate are called strictly necessary cookies. They are used for security purposes to ensure our website functions correctly. These types of cookies are necessary for site performance and are not subject to our visitors’ consent.
• Performance and Analytics Cookies
By conducting performance analysis on the use of our site, we improve the services we offer our customers. Performance and analytics cookies are used to determine the pages most frequently viewed by our visitors and whether our site is functioning properly.
• Functionality Cookies
We personalize the services on the site by remembering the preferences and selections made by our visitors on our site. Remembering the font size of texts used on the site and language options is ensured by functionality cookies.
• Advertising Cookies
Advertising cookies are used on our site to promote services. These include cookies used to track clicks on the advertisements on our pages and whether the services on the websites to which the ads lead are used, in order to monitor the effectiveness of the ads you are interested in.
• Social Media Cookies
Social media cookies are used on our website to establish connections using social media accounts, to log in, and to use your social media account information in other communication forms. Using Facebook account information to create personalized advertising content for visitors falls within this scope.
6. Use and Control of Cookies
You have the right to personalize your preferences by changing your browser settings when viewing our website. If your browser allows, it is possible to change your cookie preferences via your browser settings. Thus, depending on the capabilities offered by your browser, data subjects may block the use of cookies, choose to be warned before cookies are used, or disable or delete only certain cookies. These preferences vary depending on the browser you use, and a general explanation can be found at https://www.aboutcookies.org/. Your cookie preferences may need to be set separately for each device from which you access our website.
• Click to disable cookies managed by Google Analytics.
• Click to manage the personalized ad experience provided by Google.
• Preferences regarding cookies used by many companies for advertising activities can be managed via Your Online Choices.
• To manage cookies on mobile devices, the settings menu of the mobile device can be used.
At their request, our users can have their registrations deleted from our system. There are also links to other sites within our website. Our website www.champrentacar.com is not responsible for the privacy policies and content of other sites.
7. Your Rights as a Data Subject
As a personal data subject, we inform you that you have the following rights under Article 11 of the Law:
• To learn whether your personal data are processed,
• If your personal data have been processed, to request information regarding this,
• To learn the purpose of processing your personal data and whether they are used in accordance with their purpose,
• To know the third parties to whom your personal data are transferred domestically or abroad,
• To request the correction of your personal data if they are incomplete or incorrectly processed and to request that the transaction carried out within this scope be notified to third parties to whom your personal data have been transferred,
• Despite being processed in compliance with the Law and other relevant laws, to request the deletion or destruction of your personal data if the reasons requiring their processing no longer exist, and to request that the transaction carried out within this scope be notified to third parties to whom your personal data have been transferred,
• To object to any result arising against you by analyzing the processed data exclusively through automated systems,
• To request compensation for the damage you suffer due to the unlawful processing of your personal data.
You can submit applications regarding your rights listed above to our Company by filling out the Data Subject Application Form available on our website. Depending on the nature of your request, your applications will be concluded free of charge as soon as possible and at the latest within thirty days; however, if the transaction requires an additional cost, a fee may be charged from you according to the tariff to be determined by the Personal Data Protection Board.
