This privacy policy is applicable to the websites asttourism.com, turkeyandgreece.com.tr, and devr-i.istanbul. 

1 Data Privacy Principles and Utilization of Personal Data

We, AST Tourism Travel Agency, are pleased that you are visiting our website and we would like to provide you with some information about the collection, processing and use of personal data when using this website. AST Tourism Travel Agency collects, processes, and uses personal data exclusively according to this data privacy statement and within the scope of statutory authorization. If you need further information or have any questions about how AST Tourism handles data privacy, please contact info@asttourism.com. 

2 What is personal data?

The meaning of “personal data” is defined in the Turkish Data Protection Act. This Act defines personal data as any information concerning the personal or material circumstances of an identified or identifiable individual. This includes information such as your name, your address, your telephone number, or your date of birth. 

3 General Information about Data Privacy

Unless stated otherwise in the following sections, no personal data will be collected, processed, or used while using this website. 

3.1 Contact

By using the link “Contact us”, you can send us enquiries of a general nature. To process these data, we will collect your contact details (name and email address). We will store both these data and the correspondence transferred by us and use them exclusively for the purpose for which you transferred it to us and to improve our service. 

3.2 Connection information

When you access our website, particular information is transmitted by a standard procedure, such as the IP address, type and version of the web browser used, the operating system used, the website where you came from and the time of visiting the website. As a rule, we will analyze these data only statistically in order to prevent errors and to improve our services. Only in the event of potential abuse related to bookings, we would use the connection information to facilitate the identification of the responsible person. 

3.3 Email Advertising

If you have given your separate consent to receive our newsletter, your email address will be stored and used for the purpose of email advertising until you unsubscribe from the newsletter. We employ the double opt-in method for the registration. In other words, after you have registered for the service and informed us of your e-mail address, you will receive an e-mail in return from us, containing a link that you must use to confirm your registration. Your registration and confirmation will be recorded. The newsletter will not be sent until this has been done. This procedure is used to ensure that only you yourself can register with the newsletter service under the specified e-mail address. It is possible to unsubscribe at any time. To unsubscribe, please send an email info@asttourism.com or use the corresponding link at the end of each email. 

3.4 Applications

If you apply for a job with AST Tourism, we collect, process, and use of your personal data for the purpose of processing your online application. Your online application data is sent directly to the human resources department via an encrypted connection and is of course treated as confidential. We use the relevant technical and organizational methods to ensure that your personal data is treated in a confidential manner according to legal requirements. 
If you have applied for a specific position and this has already been filled, or we consider you equally or more suitable for a different position, we would like to pass on your application within our company. Please inform us, if you do not wish for us to do so. Your personal data will be deleted immediately once the application process has ended, or after a maximum of 6 months, unless you expressly consent to your data being stored for a longer period. 

4 Cookies

The AST Tourism’s websites use cookies. Cookies are text files saved on the user’s computer when visiting a website on the Internet. We use so called ‘session cookies’, which, depending on the settings in your browser, will be deleted when the browser is closed. 
We also use cookies that are used once a session is over ('trans-session cookies'). These Cookies serve in particular to make our service more user-friendly and effective. Thanks to these files, it is possible, for instance, that you will be provided with information specifically tailored to your interests on the webpage currently being viewed. The sole purpose is to adjust our services to the users' wishes as best as we can and to make for you the use of our website as convenient as possible. 
You can prevent the use of cookies by not permitting them in your browser. You can change the relevant settings in your browser. You can find further information on the use of cookies on your website in this Cookie Policy. 

5 Social Media

On our websites, we have integrated links to various social media services (Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Instagram, Xing, YouTube, Pinterest, Linkedin). By clicking on the relevant symbol or the full name, you will be redirected to the website of the relevant service. 
If you select the symbol "Share" and select a corresponding social media service, you may publish an event (such as a specific search result) on the website of this service. 
If you go to the link of a service below the text line "Follow us", you can follow our activities on the platform of the relevant service. 
On the social media service websites, the data privacy policies, and terms of use of the relevant service apply. AST Tourism does not have any impact on the collection, processing, and use of data on these websites. 

6 Security

AST Tourism implements technical and organizational security measures to safeguard stored personal data against inadvertent or deliberate manipulation, loss or destruction and against access by unauthorized persons. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological progress. 

7 Your rights

Upon written request, we will be glad to inform you pursuant to our obligation by law if and which personal data of yours are stored with us. Under the conditions of the provisions of the Turkish Data Protection Act, you may request correction, blocking and deletion of such data, unless these requests conflict with statutory time limits for storage. Concerning your rights please contact: 

AST Tourism Travel Agency Co. 

Data Privacy 
Aydede Cd. Koray Apt. 16/2 
34437 İstanbul 
Türkiye 
info@asttourism.com 

If there are variances between the data privacy statements in various languages arising from translation, then the Turkish version shall prevail.