Data protection
Personal Data Protection Notice
How the clinic processes your personal data under Turkish Law No. 6698 (KVKK), on what legal basis, for how long, and what rights you have.
Last updated: 31.08.2026
This text is a translation of the Turkish original. In the event of any discrepancy, the Turkish version prevails. Turkish version
Data controller
Data controller: Cankat Pilavcı Saç Ekimi Kliniği. Address: Levent, Tekirler Sokak No:7, 34330 Beşiktaş, İstanbul, Türkiye. Telephone: +90 532 542 18 72. Email: info@cankatpilavci.com.
Personal data processed
- Identity data: first name, surname, age range, sex
- Contact data: telephone, WhatsApp number, email, address
- Health data (special category): history of hair loss, photographs of the scalp, medical history, medication taken
- Transaction security data: IP address, cookie records, browser information
- Visual data: before/after photographs, subject to your consent
Purposes of processing
- Assessing free preliminary analysis requests and responding to you
- Appointment planning, treatment process and follow-up
- Delivering the health service and keeping medical records
- Meeting statutory retention, reporting and audit obligations
- Where you have given explicit consent: promotional, satisfaction and communication activities
Legal grounds
Your personal data is processed under Article 5 of Law No. 6698 on the grounds of the establishment and performance of a contract, legal obligation and legitimate interest. Your special category health data is processed under Article 6/3 for the protection of public health and the delivery of diagnosis, treatment and care services, by health personnel bound by a duty of confidentiality, or on the basis of your explicit consent.
Transfers
Your data may be transferred only to the extent the service requires: to contracted laboratory and anaesthesia service providers, IT infrastructure providers, and authorised public institutions. Transfers abroad are made only with your explicit consent or where the conditions of Article 9 of Law No. 6698 are met.
Retention periods
Medical records are kept for at least 20 years as required by the applicable legislation; contact and enquiry records for 10 years from the end of the relationship; cookie records for the period stated in the cookie policy. At the end of the period the data is deleted, destroyed or anonymised.
Your rights (Article 11)
- To learn whether your personal data is processed and to request information about it
- To learn the purpose of processing and whether it is used in line with that purpose
- To know the third parties to whom it is transferred in Türkiye or abroad
- To request correction if it is incomplete or inaccurate
- To request its erasure or destruction
- To object to a result reached against you through analysis by automated systems
- To claim compensation for damage arising from unlawful processing
How to apply
You may send your requests by email to info@cankatpilavci.com or in writing to our clinic address. Applications are concluded free of charge within 30 days at the latest.
Contact
For any request relating to this text, write to info@cankatpilavci.com or call +90 532 542 18 72.