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Turkish Data Protection & Privacy Legal Services
Türkiye is keeping abreast of the rapidly evolving digital environment through continual changes to its domestic data protection regulations. Business owners and data controllers need to stay ahead, informed, and compliant.
We understand how valuable data is to you and can help implement the most strategic processes and programmes to avoid breaches of domestic legislation. If you are an international player, we will seek to align Turkish data strategies with any cross-border and international goals you may have.
Lexist commonly advises on the following data protection and privacy issues:
- Sector-specific data protection rights and obligations
- Collection, processing, storage, and transfer of individuals’ data
- Notification of data collection, individuals’ choice, right to be forgotten, and access to data
- Data transfer within Turkey and internationally
- Best practice for handling personal and sensitive data
- Contractual obligations, protection, and assurances
- Data-driven decision-making
- Mandatory disclosures required by regulatory authorities
- Legislation governing the requesting,
- Granting, usage, and protection of trade, banking, and customer confidential data
- Security breaches and the contractual implications for vendor, client, and employee relationships
- Anti-money laundering and protection of personal data
- Regulatory barriers concerning marketing, particularly telemarketing and via the internet
- Development of privacy strategies and policies
- Employee data protection policies and procedures
- Information and cybersecurity
- Internal investigations
- GDPR in Turkey
- Litigation and external investigations
We provide support with compliance and pursuing licenses, permissions, permits, and applications from the relevant Turkish authorities on behalf of our clients.