SONOMED Information Text on the Protection of Personal Data
1- Identity of the Data Controller
As the data controller, Vedat Günyol Cad. Ulugöl Plaza No:20 Ataşehir/Istanbul, TÜMMED SAĞLIK KONTROL MER. A.Ş. (“Sonomed”) shows great sensitivity to ensuring that all your personal data is processed and preserved in the best possible way and with utmost care. Accordingly, within the scope of our obligation to inform in order to act in compliance with the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“Law”) and relevant legislation, we present the following matters for your information.
2- Purposes for Processing Personal Data
Your personal data may be collected within the framework of carrying out our activities, ensuring the operation and improvement of our services, depending on the nature of the service, in accordance with the fundamental principles stipulated in the Law and the purposes of processing personal data set out in Articles 5 and 6 of the Law, for the reasons provided by the Law and the performance of the contractual relationship.
In order to provide you with high-standard services, your personal data processed by Sonomed may be obtained verbally, in writing, visually, or electronically, through automatic or non-automatic methods, via Call Center, internet, online services, mobile applications, physical venues, counters, and similar channels.
Your special category personal data, especially your health data, and general personal data processed by Sonomed include: your name, surname, Turkish ID number, or if you are not a Turkish citizen, your passport number or temporary or foreign Turkish ID number, place and date of birth, marital status, gender, Sonomed-specific protocol number and other identity data that can identify you; your address, phone number, email address and other contact data; your financial data such as bank account number, IBAN number, payment and billing information; laboratory and imaging results, test results, examination data, prescription information you provided for follow-up purposes in your file, and health and sexual life data obtained during the execution of medical diagnosis, treatment and care services; audio and digital data obtained electronically or non-electronically at various times; personal health data obtained during medical diagnosis, examination, treatment and care services; data regarding private health insurance and Social Security Institution for financing and planning health services; health and identity data you send through our websites; responses and comments you share for evaluating our services; CCTV footage and voice recordings taken during your visit to Sonomed and its affiliates; voice call recordings when you contact our Call Center; data regarding private health insurance and Social Security Institution for financing and planning health services; your vehicle license plate and registration data if you use parking or valet services; browsing information obtained during your use of our website and mobile application, IP address, browser information, medical documents, surveys, form information, and location data you voluntarily provide; your personal data shared when attending training, seminars, or organizations organized by Sonomed; are processed within the scope of the personal data processing conditions and purposes stipulated in the Law and other relevant legislation in force.
Your personal data, including special categories of personal data, may be processed for purposes such as protecting public health, preventive medicine, medical diagnosis, treatment and care services, planning and managing health services and their financing; informing you about your appointment if you make one; planning and managing Sonomed’s internal operations, conducting analysis to improve health services; training and developing our employees, monitoring and preventing unauthorized transactions; performing risk management and quality improvement activities; conducting research; fulfilling legal and regulatory requirements; invoicing our services; verifying your identity; verifying your relationship with institutions contracted with Sonomed; sharing requested information with the Ministry of Health and other public institutions and organizations in accordance with the relevant legislation; sharing requested information with private insurance companies within the scope of financing health services; responding to any questions and complaints you may have about our health services; taking all necessary technical and administrative measures within the scope of data security of Sonomed systems and applications; analyzing your use of health services and storing your health data for the purpose of improving and developing the health services we provide; storing health data required by law; ensuring financial reconciliation regarding health services provided with contracted institutions; including but not limited to, conducting and developing medical diagnosis, treatment and care services, planning and managing patient and health services and their financing, increasing patient satisfaction, research, and similar purposes.
The above-mentioned “Personal and Special Categories of Personal Data” may be processed within the framework of the Law and relevant legislation, the Basic Law on Health Services No. 3359, the Decree Law No. 663 on the Organization and Duties of the Ministry of Health and its Affiliates, the Regulation on Private Hospitals, the Regulation on Processing and Protecting the Privacy of Personal Health Data, Ministry of Health regulations, and other legislation provisions, and may be transferred to physical archives and information systems belonging to Sonomed and/or external service providers, and may be stored in both digital and physical environments.
Your health data such as test results, reports, x-rays, delivered to Sonomed regarding processes at other healthcare institutions, will be destroyed within three months if not collected after discharge.
3- Transfer of Processed Personal Data
Your collected personal data may be shared with or transferred to suppliers, service providers, legally authorized third parties, the Ministry of Health, its affiliated subunits and family practice centers, private insurance companies (health, pension, life insurance, etc.), the Social Security Institution, General Directorate of Security and other law enforcement agencies, General Directorate of Population, Turkish Pharmacists Association, courts, medical centers, and third-party healthcare providers, healthcare institutions you are referred to or apply to yourself, your authorized representatives, your affiliated and/or employed institution, third-party consultants (lawyers, tax advisors, auditors, etc.), regulatory and supervisory authorities, official authorities, laboratories, systems, and business partners with whom we cooperate in Turkey or abroad, limited to the purposes specified in this Information Text and within the framework of Articles 8 and 9 of the Law (for more detailed information, you may apply to Sonomed in writing).
4- Method and Legal Reason for Collecting Personal Data
Your personal data may be collected by Sonomed through automatic or non-automatic means, based on legal reasons due to the performance of the contractual relationship or our legitimate interest, and with your explicit consent for conducting promotional activities specific to you if you accept the use of optional cookies. Your personal data is collected by Sonomed electronically, via our website; for the realization of the purposes specified in Article 2 of this Information Text, which are the legal reasons for disclosing your personal data to us.
However, as explicitly stated in Article 6, paragraph 3 of the Law, personal data regarding health and sexual life may be processed without the explicit consent of the data subject, by persons or authorized institutions and organizations under the obligation of confidentiality, for the purpose of protecting public health, preventive medicine, medical diagnosis, treatment and care services, and planning and managing health services and their financing.
5- Rights of the Personal Data Subject
Pursuant to Article 11 of the Law, the person whose personal data is processed may apply to Sonomed and make requests regarding the following matters:
* To learn whether their personal data is processed;
* If their personal data has been processed, to request information regarding it;
* To access their personal health data and request these data;
* To learn the purpose of processing their personal data and whether it is used in accordance with such purposes by us,
* To learn the third parties to whom their personal data is transferred in Turkey or abroad;
* To request the correction of personal data if it is incomplete or incorrectly processed;
* To request the deletion, destruction, or anonymization of personal data in case the reasons requiring its processing cease to exist;
* To request that these be notified to third parties to whom the data was transferred in such cases or in case of correction;
* To object to any result against the person arising from the analysis of processed data exclusively through automated systems;
* To request compensation for damages incurred due to unlawful processing of personal data.
6- Data Security and Right to Apply
To exercise the above-mentioned rights, you can fill in the “Application Form Under the Personal Data Protection Law” available at https://sonomed.com.tr/kvkk/kvkk-basvuru-formu-tummed.pdf, and deliver the signed copy in person to the address Vedat Günyol Cad. Ulugöl Plaza No:20 Ataşehir/Istanbul, or send it via Notary, or send it to Sonomed’s registered email address tummed@hs03.kep.tr (KEP) with a secure electronic signature, mobile signature, or by using the email address previously notified by the data subject and registered in the data controller’s system.
Depending on the nature of your request, your applications will be concluded free of charge as soon as possible and within a maximum of thirty days; however, if the process requires an additional cost, a fee may be charged by you according to the tariff determined by the Personal Data Protection Board.
Click here to download the Application Form under the Personal Data Protection Law.
Commercial Communication and Commercial Electronic Message Information Text
With the completion of any communication and information forms on the Sonomed website (sonomed.com.tr), the personal data and contact information sent to Sonomed; by approving the relevant fields, in accordance with the Law on the Regulation of Electronic Commerce and the Regulation on Commercial Communication and Commercial Electronic Messages, will be stored and processed within the scope of planning and executing marketing processes, including personal data relating to my health condition, by TÜMMED SAĞLIK KONTROL MER. A.Ş. for the purpose of customizing the products and services offered by Sonomed according to the needs and habits of the individual and creating campaigns and opportunities; and for the execution of these services, transferred to group companies, suppliers, with whom Sonomed collaborates or will collaborate, and within this scope, by sending communication forms and approving the relevant fields, you consent to the sending of commercial electronic messages such as test and examination result information, surveys, advertisements, promotions, campaigns and similar.
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