KVKK privacy notice

Last updated: 29 October 2026

This text has been prepared to inform you under Article 10 of Türkiye's Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (KVKK).

Data controller

Elsewhere Academics Email: hello@elsewhereacademics.com Phone: +90 501 566 08 08

What data do we collect and how?

The name, contact details and message content you share when you reach us by phone, WhatsApp or email.
The full name, phone, email, program you are interested in and message that you write when you fill in the contact form on the site.
The name, phone, email and answers you give when you take the My Place test.
When you visit the site, the IP address that GitHub, which hosts the site, records for security.

This data is collected electronically.

For what purposes do we process it?

To answer your questions and contact you
To plan the consulting meeting you ask for
Assessing the countries, schools and fields that suit you in the My Place test
To keep the site secure
Understanding how the site is used through aggregate statistics
To fulfill our legal obligations

Legal grounds

Your data is processed on the following grounds in paragraph 2 of Article 5 of the Law: it being directly related to the making or performance of a contract, it being necessary for us to fulfill our legal obligation, and it being necessary for our legitimate interests, provided that it does not harm your fundamental rights and freedoms.

Who do we transfer it to?

Your data may be transferred, only for the purposes above, to the communication and hosting providers we use (WhatsApp, our email provider, Formspree which runs the contact form, GitHub, and Cloudflare for visit statistics) and to public authorities authorised by law. These providers' servers may be located abroad.

Your rights

Under Article 11 of the Law, you have the right to: learn whether your data is processed; request information if it has been processed; learn the purpose of processing and whether it is used in line with that purpose; know the third parties it is transferred to; request correction if it is incomplete or wrongly processed; request deletion or destruction under the conditions in the Law and request that these actions be notified to the parties it was transferred to; object to a result against you that comes from analysis exclusively by automated systems; and request compensation for the damage if you suffer harm because of unlawful processing.

You can send your requests to hello@elsewhereacademics.com.