Privacy Policy for TulipScript Atelier
At TulipScript Atelier, we are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and share information when you visit or make use of our online platform and services, including calligraphy workshops, traditional Ottoman script courses, modern lettering design, custom calligraphy commissions, and both online and in-person classes.
1. Information We Collect
We collect various types of information in connection with the services we provide, which may include:
- Personal Information You Provide: This includes information you voluntarily provide when you register for a course, make a purchase, subscribe to our newsletter, contact us, or participate in surveys. This may include your name, email address, postal address, phone number, and payment information.
- Information from Your Use of Our Online Platform: We automatically collect certain information when you access or use our online platform. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, access times, and pages viewed. We may also collect information about your interactions with our online platform, such as the workshops you view or courses you enroll in.
- Information from Third-Party Sources: Occasionally, we may receive information about you from third-party partners, such as payment processors, to facilitate your purchases or registrations.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:
- To Provide and Manage Our Services: This includes processing your registrations for workshops and courses, fulfilling custom calligraphy commissions, and delivering the services you have requested.
- Communication: To send you confirmations, invoices, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages. We may also use your information to respond to your comments, questions, and requests.
- Marketing and Promotion: With your consent where required, to send you promotional communications about new courses, workshops, special offers, and other news about TulipScript Atelier.
- Improving Our Online Platform and Services: To understand and analyze how you use our online platform and services and to improve their functionality, content, and user experience.
- Security and Fraud Prevention: To detect, prevent, and address fraudulent or illegal activity and to protect the security of our online platform and our users.
- Compliance with Legal Obligations: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, and legal processes.
3. Disclosure of Your Information
We do not share, sell, rent, or trade your personal information with third parties for their own marketing purposes without your explicit consent. We may share your information in the following circumstances:
- Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, website hosting, data analysis, customer service, and email delivery. These service providers are obligated to protect your information and use it only for the purposes for which it was provided.
- Legal Compliance and Protection: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law, in response to a court order, subpoena, or other legal process, or if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, your safety, or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request.
- Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
- With Your Consent: We may share your information with your explicit consent or at your direction.
4. Your Data Protection Rights
In accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and local Turkish laws, you have certain rights regarding your personal information:
- Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below.
5. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure. However, no internet transmission is ever completely secure or error-free, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information.
6. International Data Transfers
Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction. By using our online platform, you consent to the transfer of your information to Turkey and to the processing of your information in Turkey.
7. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Effective Date" at the top. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:
TulipScript Atelier
4502 Sakarya Street,
Floor 3, Unit 12,
Istanbul, Marmara, 34096
Turkey
Phone: +90 (212) 578 4639