Privacy Policy
This privacy policy explains how Armoni Design Studio collects, uses, and protects your personal information when you use our online platform and services. Armoni Design Studio is committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data in an open and transparent manner.
Who We Are
We are Armoni Design Studio, a creative design and branding studio providing services including Graphic Design, Branding Strategy, Web Design & Development, Packaging Design, Interior Design Consultation, and Architectural Visualization. Our registered address is 250 Bagdat Caddesi, Floor 3, Istanbul, Istanbul, 34728, Turkey. For the purposes of applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Armoni Design Studio is the data controller responsible for your personal information collected through our site.
Information We Collect
We may collect various types of information when you interact with our site or services, including information that can identify you as an individual or relates to you as an identifiable individual ("Personal Data"). This may include:
- Information you provide directly to us, such as your name, company name, email address, phone number, and details about your project or requirements when you contact us, request a quote, or subscribe to communications.
- Information collected automatically when you visit our site, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and dates/times of visits. This is often collected through cookies and similar technologies.
How We Collect Information
We collect information through:
- Direct interactions: When you fill out forms on our site, communicate with us via contact forms or other means.
- Automated technologies or interactions: As you navigate through our site, we may automatically collect data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. This data is collected using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
Legal Bases for Processing Your Data
We will only process your Personal Data where we have a lawful basis to do so. The legal bases for processing your data may include:
- Your consent: Where you have given clear consent for us to process your Personal Data for a specific purpose (e.g., subscribing to a newsletter). You can withdraw your consent at any time.
- Performance of a contract: Where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract (e.g., providing services you have requested).
- Legal obligation: Where processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation that applies to us.
- Legitimate interests: Where processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. Our legitimate interests include operating our site, providing and improving our services, managing our business, and communicating with you.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:
- To provide, operate, and maintain our site and services.
- To communicate with you, respond to your inquiries, and provide customer support.
- To understand how you use our services and improve our offerings.
- To send you updates, security alerts, and administrative messages.
- To send you marketing communications, if you have consented to receive them.
- To detect and prevent fraud and other illegal activities.
- To comply with legal obligations.
Data Retention
We retain your Personal Data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the Personal Data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your Personal Data, the purposes for which we process your Personal Data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
Data Security
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any Personal Data we process. However, please be aware that no security system is impenetrable and we cannot guarantee the security of our systems 100%.
Sharing Your Information
We do not sell your Personal Data. We may share your information with third parties only in the following circumstances:
- With service providers: We may share your data with trusted third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, and auditing services. These third parties are required to use your Personal Data only as necessary to provide these services to us.
- For legal reasons: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
- Business transfers: In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company.
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 from your jurisdiction. If we transfer your data internationally, we will take steps to ensure that your privacy rights are protected as required by applicable law. For transfers of Personal Data out of the European Economic Area, we may rely on standard contractual clauses or other mechanisms approved by the European Commission.
Your Data Protection Rights (Applicable under GDPR)
Under applicable data protection laws, you have certain rights regarding your Personal Data. These include the right to:
- Request access to your Personal Data.
- Request correction of your Personal Data.
- Request erasure of your Personal Data.
- Object to processing of your Personal Data.
- Request restriction of processing your Personal Data.
- Request the transfer of your Personal Data.
- Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your Personal Data.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your Personal Data (or to exercise any of your other rights).
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our site uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our site and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.
Children's Privacy
Our services are not directed to individuals under the age of 16, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 16. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from a child under age 16 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
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. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us by writing to:
Armoni Design Studio
250 Bagdat Caddesi, Floor 3
Istanbul, Istanbul, 34728
Turkey