KVKK Privacy Notice

01Data controller

The data controller is SOBBE TRADE CONSULTING LTD, trading as Sobbe Consulting, a UK company registered in England & Wales under company number 16306332. Registered office: Office 10323, 321-323 High Road, Chadwell Heath, Essex, England, RM6 6AX, United Kingdom.

The company has no company, branch or liaison office established in Türkiye. We provide our services to clients in Türkiye online.

Contact: info@sobbeconsulting.com

02Categories of personal data

• Identity: name; where a service requires it, ID or passport details and documents
• Contact: email address, phone / WhatsApp number, address
• Client transactions: the services you are interested in, target markets, your requests, correspondence, proposal and agreement details
• Company and professional information: company name, shareholder and officer details, information about your business
• Finance: invoicing and payment details; for accounting and tax services, accounting records and tax information
• Legal transactions: information relating to applications to authorities, registers and trademark offices
• Transaction security: technical records such as the IP address generated when accessing the website

We do not ask for special category personal data for our services. If an identity document you share contains special category data (for example the religion field on older Turkish ID cards), please cover those fields before sharing it.

03Purposes of processing

• Receiving, assessing and responding to your requests
• Preparing proposals and entering into service agreements
• Delivering the services you request, including preparing and handling applications to authorities, platforms and service providers
• Managing client relationships, invoicing and payments
• Meeting obligations under accounting, tax and other legislation
• Verifying identity where the law requires it
• Ensuring information security and protecting rights in legal disputes

04Collection method and legal grounds

Your personal data is collected, by fully or partly automated means, through WhatsApp and email correspondence, online meetings, documents you share with us electronically and our website.

Information entered in the get-started form on our website is sent to us when you submit the form; until then it is kept only as a draft in your browser. Messages you write to the Sobbe Assistant are processed to generate replies, and website analytics is used only with your permission. The Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy have the details.

Your personal data is processed on the following legal grounds under Article 5 of the KVKK:

• It is directly related to entering into or performing a contract (Art. 5/2-c)
• It is necessary for the data controller to meet a legal obligation (Art. 5/2-ç)
• It is necessary to establish, exercise or protect a right (Art. 5/2-e)
• It is necessary for the data controller's legitimate interests, provided it does not harm your fundamental rights and freedoms (Art. 5/2-f)
• Your explicit consent where none of these grounds applies (Art. 5/1)

05Transfers of personal data

For the purposes above and only as far as needed, your personal data may be transferred to:

• Competent public authorities and registers involved in the service you request (for example Companies House, HMRC, US state agencies and the IRS, trademark offices)
• Platforms and banking and payment providers whose setup or application we support at your request (for example Amazon, Shopify, Wise, WorldFirst, Mercury, PayPal, Stripe, Shopify Payments)
• Professionals we work with where needed to deliver the service, such as accountants, registered agents, lawyers or trademark attorneys
• Technology providers we use, such as hosting, email and messaging services (for example Resend for emailing get-started form notifications, OpenAI for Sobbe Assistant replies and, with your permission, Google for website analytics)
• Persons, authorities and organisations legally entitled to receive it

06Your rights

Under Article 11 of the KVKK, you can apply to the data controller to:

• Find out whether your personal data is processed
• Request information if it has been processed
• Find out the purpose of processing and whether it is used for that purpose
• Know the third parties in Türkiye or abroad to whom it is transferred
• Ask for it to be corrected if it is incomplete or inaccurate
• Ask for it to be erased or destroyed under the conditions in Article 7 of the KVKK
• Ask for corrections, erasure or destruction to be notified to the third parties it was transferred to
• Object to a result against you arising from analysis exclusively by automated systems
• Claim compensation if you suffer damage because of unlawful processing

07How to apply

You can send your application in writing to our registered office, or by email to info@sobbeconsulting.com, with information that allows us to identify you. Please state your request clearly.

Applications are concluded free of charge as soon as possible and within thirty days at the latest, depending on their nature; if the action involves an additional cost, a fee may be charged according to the tariff set by the Turkish Personal Data Protection Board.

If your application is rejected, you find the response insufficient or no response is given in time, you can file a complaint with the Personal Data Protection Board under Article 14 of the KVKK.

08More information

Details about retention periods, security measures and the technologies used on our website are in our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. We may update this notice when needed; the current version is published on this page.