Privacy Policy - Metaprivate

The short version. This website has no user accounts, no forms, no cookies, no newsletters, and no analytics or advertising trackers. The only personal data the publisher processes from readers is what a reader chooses to send by email, together with the routine technical logs that every web server keeps.

1. Who is responsible for your data

The data controller for Metaprivate is DELİKTAS KURUMSAL İÇERİK AJANSI ANONİM ŞİRKETİ, a company registered in İstanbul, Türkiye with trade registry number 941596-0 and MERSİS number 0879120126000621. Its registered office is at Altunizade Mah. Beştelsiz Cad. No 6 Kat 1 Daire 2
34500 Büyükçekmece / İstanbul.

For anything in this policy, contact contact@metaprivate.org. Under Turkish law the publisher acts as the data controller (veri sorumlusu) within the meaning of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data No. 6698 (KVKK); under European Union law it acts as the controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

2. Personal data that is processed

Server logs

Like every website, this one runs on a web server that records technical access logs: the IP address a request came from, the page requested, the date and time, and the browser's technical identification string. These logs exist to keep the service secure and available — to diagnose faults and to detect abuse — and they are the only data processing that happens simply by reading the site.

The legal basis is the publisher's legitimate interest in operating a secure service (GDPR Article 6(1)(f); KVKK Article 5(2)(f)). Logs are kept only as long as security and fault diagnosis require, and Turkish law on internet publications may require certain traffic records to be retained for the statutory period. Logs are not used to profile readers and are not combined with any other data.

Email correspondence

If you email the journal, the publisher processes what your message contains: your email address, your name if you give it, and the content you wrote. This data is used solely to read and answer your message and to keep a record of the exchange where that is needed — for example, when a correction you reported is applied to an article.

The legal basis is the publisher's legitimate interest in corresponding with readers (GDPR Article 6(1)(f); KVKK Article 5(2)(f)) or, where a message leads to an agreement such as a sponsorship arrangement, the steps needed to enter into that agreement (GDPR Article 6(1)(b); KVKK Article 5(2)(c)). Correspondence is deleted when it is no longer needed, unless a legal obligation requires keeping it longer. A telephone call to the publisher's office is treated the same way: what the caller shares is used to deal with the call, and nothing more.

Please do not send sensitive credentials of any kind by email. The journal never asks for them and deletes unsolicited sensitive material on sight.

3. What this website does not do

It sets no cookies of any kind, as the Cookie Policy explains in full.
It loads no analytics, advertising, or social media trackers, and it embeds no third-party scripts, fonts, or media.
It has no forms, no comment sections, no user accounts, and no newsletter, so it collects nothing through the pages themselves.
It does not profile readers, makes no automated decisions about anyone, and does not sell, rent, or trade personal data — full stop.

4. The theme preference stored on your device

If you switch between the light and dark reading themes, your browser saves a single word — the name of the theme you chose — in its local storage so the choice survives your next visit. That value stays on your device, is never transmitted anywhere, and identifies nothing about you. The Cookie Policy describes it in detail, including how to remove it.

5. Who receives data

The server logs are processed on the hosting infrastructure the publisher uses, and email is handled by the publisher's email provider; both act on the publisher's instructions as processors. Beyond that, personal data is disclosed only if a competent authority lawfully requires it. If correspondence or logs are ever processed outside your own country, the publisher relies on the safeguards that the GDPR and KVKK require for such transfers.

6. Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask the publisher for access to the personal data it holds about you, for rectification or erasure, for restriction of processing, for a portable copy, and you can object to processing based on legitimate interest. Under KVKK Article 11 you have closely corresponding rights, including the right to learn whether your data is processed, to request correction or deletion, and to compensation for unlawful processing.

To exercise any of these rights, email contact@metaprivate.org. Requests are answered without undue delay and at no cost. You can also complain to a supervisory authority: in Türkiye, the Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK Kurumu); in the European Union, the data protection authority of the country where you live or work.

7. Information notice under Turkish law

This section is the information notice (aydınlatma metni) required by Article 10 of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data No. 6698, stated on its own so that readers in Türkiye can find every element in one place.

Data controller. DELİKTAS KURUMSAL İÇERİK AJANSI ANONİM ŞİRKETİ, MERSİS number 0879120126000621, Altunizade Mah. Beştelsiz Cad. No 6 Kat 1 Daire 2
34500 Büyükçekmece / İstanbul.
Data processed and how it is collected. Technical server logs recorded automatically when a page is requested, and the content of email a reader chooses to send. Nothing is collected through cookies, forms, or trackers, because the website has none.
Purposes. Operating and securing the website, and reading and answering correspondence.
Legal grounds. Article 5(2)(f) of Law No. 6698 — processing necessary for the controller's legitimate interests, provided the reader's fundamental rights are not harmed — and Article 5(2)(c) where correspondence concerns entering into an agreement.
Transfers. Data is handled by the hosting and email providers acting on the controller's instructions, and is disclosed beyond them only where the law requires it. Where a provider processes data outside Türkiye, the safeguards of Article 9 of Law No. 6698 apply.
Rights under Article 11. You may learn whether your data is processed, request information about the processing and its purpose, know the parties it has been transferred to, request correction or deletion and have recipients notified of it, object to a result produced by exclusively automated analysis, and claim compensation for damage caused by unlawful processing. Applications go to the controller at contact@metaprivate.org or the postal address above, and complaints may be taken to the Personal Data Protection Board.

8. Children

The website is a general-audience publication and is not directed at children. It knowingly collects no data from anyone, children included; the only way personal data reaches the publisher is when someone chooses to write in.

9. Changes to this policy

If the way the website works ever changes — for instance, if a sponsored placement is introduced that involves any data processing — this policy will be updated before the change takes effect, and the review date at the top of the page will show when that happened.