Explicit Consent Form
This is a translation provided for information. In case of discrepancy, the Turkish version prevails.
When does this form apply?
On our website we process most of your personal data without your explicit consent, relying on other legal grounds listed in the law; these are explained in the KVKK Privacy Notice. We ask for your explicit consent only in the two situations below. Giving consent is optional. If you do not give it, this does not affect your ability to contact us, book an appointment or be seen in any way.
Situations not covered by this form
- Processing of health information you write in the contact form or in your messages in order to assess your request and to provide diagnosis, treatment and care. Because this processing is carried out by a physician bound by professional secrecy, it is based on KVKK Art. 6/3-e and does not require your explicit consent.
- Cookies that are strictly necessary for the website to work, and technical logs kept for security purposes.
- Regular transfers abroad to hosting, email and similar service providers. These are based not on explicit consent but on the safeguards in KVKK Art. 9 (primarily standard contractual clauses notified to the Board).
1. Analytics, marketing and external media cookies
When you switch on a category in the cookie panel, you give explicit consent to the data processing needed for the tools in that category to work:
- Analytics: processing of usage data for statistical purposes through Google Analytics 4 and, where active on the website, Microsoft Clarity. This includes which pages are visited, length of visit, device and browser type, approximate location, and clicks and scrolling within pages.
- Marketing: measuring the performance of adverts, showing adverts to people who have visited the website and matching form submissions to advert clicks, through Google Ads, Meta Pixel and, where active on the website, TikTok Pixel. In this context, if you submit the contact form, the Google Ads click identifier (gclid) and UTM parameters are stored with your form record. The content of your form (your message and health information) is not sent to advertising platforms.
- External media: loading content from external sources such as YouTube videos, Google Maps, the Instagram feed (Elfsight) and, where used, Google reviews. When this content loads, your IP address and browser information are sent to the provider concerned, which may use its own cookies.
These providers' servers may be located abroad. Such transfers are made on the basis of the safeguards set out in KVKK Art. 9, such as an adequacy decision or standard contractual clauses.
2. Sharing with a healthcare provider abroad at your request
If you tick the optional box on the contact form, your full name, contact details and the health information in your message may be shared with that healthcare provider in line with your request (for example, when you want to be seen at the Medicana hospital in Sarajevo), to the extent needed to arrange your appointment and carry out the assessment. Each such sharing depends on you and happens once; it is not a regular transfer.
Risks you should be aware of
- The Personal Data Protection Board may not have issued an adequacy decision for the country to which the data will be transferred, and the level of protection there may not be the same as in Turkey.
- Once your data reaches the receiving organisation, the foreign legislation that applies to that organisation governs it, and exercising your rights there may be harder than in Turkey.
- The receiving organisation is a separate data controller for its own patients.
How can you withdraw your consent?
You can withdraw your cookie permissions at any time using the "Cookie Preferences" link at the bottom of the website, and your consent to sharing abroad by writing to info@drsenadkalkan.com. Withdrawal applies from that date onwards; it does not make processing carried out earlier on the basis of your consent unlawful.
