Samsung Developers Privacy Policy
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Data
Controller) ("Samsung") knows how important privacy is to its
customers and their employees and partners, and we strive to be clear about how
we collect, use, disclose, transfer and store your information. The Data
Controller Representative of Samsung in Turkey is "Samsung Electronics Istanbul
Pazarlama ve Ticaret Ltd. Şti.". This Privacy Policy ("KVKK Notification Text") provides an
overview of our information practices with respect to personal information collected through the Samsung Developers website
and related events (collectively, the "Business Services").
Samsung
aims to process personal data of the Business Services users in accordance with
the international data protection provisions and the provisions of the Law No.
6698 on Protection of Personal Data (the "KVKK- also known as LPPD in English
abbreviation") and other legislation.
We
hereby inform you that your personal data that you have provided/will provide
to Samsung and/or are obtained externally by any means by Samsung due to your
being a Business Services user shall be processed by Samsung acting as of "Data
Controller":
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within
the framework of the purpose for which they are required to be processed and as
relevant, limited, and proportionate to such purpose,
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by
preserving the accuracy and the most up-to-date state of such personal data as
they have been provided to Samsung by you or otherwise,
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and by
complying with the conditions stipulated in the KVKK.
With
this KVKK Notification Text (Obligation to Inform Text), it has been aimed to
continue and develop the activities carried out by Samsung in accordance with
the principles contained in the KVKK.
This KVKK Notification Text may be updated periodically to reflect changes in our personal information practices with respect to the Business Services or changes in the applicable law. We will indicate at the top of this KVKK Notification Text when it was most recently
updated. If we update this KVKK Notification Text, we will let you know in advance about changes we consider to be material by placing a notice on the Business Services or by emailing you, where appropriate.
Samsung
shall process your personal data for the purposes and legal grounds specified
in this KVKK Notification Text. If there is any change in the purpose for which
your personal data are processed or in the legal grounds thereof, this KVKK Notification
Text shall be updated and re-published by Samsung.
We
will collect various types of personal information in connection with the Business
Services. Your personal data are collected through electronic media, via all
kinds of information, documents and certificates you have submitted to Samsung
and collected through the application, both before and after the establishment
of the contractual relationship and during such contractual relationship.
For example:
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We
will collect personal information that you provide, such as your Samsung
Account ID, name, email address, country, language, job-related information,
and topics you’re interested in;
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We
will collect your question details and any communications you send or deliver
to us;
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We
will collect data about your use of the Business Services, including the time
and duration of your use, information stored in cookies that we have set on
your device (such as your IP address and device type), information related to
any downloads you make on the Business Services (such as apps and download count), and information about bookmarked pages and shared pages; and
- We
will collect information about your participation events, including attendance
of events and activities within events.
You can choose not to
provide us with certain types of information, such as interested topics,
company name, occupation and job level. In some cases, this may limit your
ability to use the Business Services. We’ll do our best to explain these
limitations when we’re asking for your information so you can make an informed
decision.
We may use
information we collect for the following purposes:
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to
identify and authenticate you so you may use the Business Services;
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to
provide you with the Business Services;
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to respond
to your questions or requests made through or about the Business Services;
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to
offer better and more customized services that take into account your service
usage record and other relevant information you provide;
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subject
to your separate consent where required by applicable law, to inform you about
new products and services;
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for
assessment and analysis of our market, customers, and services (including
asking you for your opinions on our products and services and carrying out
customer surveys);
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to
understand the way companies use the Business Services so that we can improve
them and develop new services;
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to
provide maintenance services and to maintain a sufficient level of security on
the Business Services;
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to link
your Samsung Account to connected features or services, such as the Remote Test
Lab service;
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to deliver
advertising on the Business Services;
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to
protect the rights, property, or safety of Samsung, or any of our respective
affiliates, business partners, employees or customers, for example, in legal proceedings,
internal investigations and investigations by competent authorities; and
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other
purposes with your separate consent where required by applicable law or as
described at the time your information is collected.
We use and combine
the information we collect about you from our Business Services, devices, or
other sources to provide you with a better experience. For example, you can use
your Samsung Account details not only on the Business Service you registered
with, but other services which use Samsung accounts. We also use the
information you provide directly or through other sources as described above to
provide content you may like or that you’ve personalized.
Samsung processes
personal information for the purposes described above. Samsung’s legal basis to
process personal information includes processing:
Your personal data
are processed being limited to the use of the related service/platform; in
compliance with the legislation in force and the Law on Protection of Personal
Data; by automated or non-automated methods;
- based on your
explicit consent, for the purposes of sending commercial electronic
messages to you;
- based on Article
5, paragraph 2 of the KVKK, sub-paragraph c), which stipulates ‘if it is
necessary to process personal data of contractual parties, provided that
such processing is directly related to the establishment or performance of
the contract’, and sub-paragraph f) thereof, which stipulates ‘if it is
mandatory to process personal data for the legitimate interests of the
data controller, provided that the fundamental rights and freedoms of the
data subject are not violated’: for all collection
purposes stated above other than sending commercial electronic messages to you;
and
may be updated in line with our obligations arising from the legislation and
the company policies.
Your
personal data shall be kept for a reasonable period of time until the purpose
for which they are processed ceases to exist or until the end of the legal time
period specified in the relevant legislation, and in any case until the expiry
of the statute of limitations.
The procedures and principles to be applicable to personal data
transfers are set forth in Articles 8 and 9 of the KVKK, and the personal data
of the data subject may be transferred to third parties in Turkey and/or
abroad.
We will disclose your
information internally within our business, but only to those who need it to
further provide Services or to help with your requests.
We will also disclose
your information to the following entities, only to the extent that this will
be necessary to provide the Business Services:
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Affiliates: Other
Samsung Electronics Group companies which we control or own, such as our
affiliates who help us operate the Business Services or provide technical
support.
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Service Providers:
Carefully selected companies that provide services for or on behalf of us, such
as companies that help us with operation of the Business Services and providing
analytics. These providers are also committed to protecting your information.
- Other parties when required
by law or as necessary to protect our business: For example, it may be
necessary by law, legal process, or court order from governmental authorities
to disclose your information. They may also seek your information from us for
the purposes of law enforcement, national security, anti-terrorism, or other
issues that are related to public security.
- Other parties in connection
with corporate transactions: We may disclose your information to a third party
as part of a merger or transfer, acquisition or sale, or in the event of a
bankruptcy.
- Other parties with your
consent or at your direction: In addition to the disclosures described in this KVKK
Notification Text, we may share information about you with third parties
when you separately consent to or request such sharing.
Submissions
that you make to public areas of a website, mobile application, or other online
service, such as bulletin boards may be viewable to other users of the Business
Services. We do not control, and are not responsible for, how other users of
the Business Services may use this information. For example, personal
information that you submit in public areas could be collected and used by
others to send you unsolicited messages or for other purposes.
We take data
protection seriously. We’ve put in place physical and technical safeguards to
keep the information we collect secure. However, please note that although we
take reasonable steps to protect your information, no website, Internet
transmission, computer system, or wireless connection is completely secure.
Where do we send your data?
Your use or
participation in the Business Services may involve transfer, storage and
processing of your information outside of your country of residence, consistent
with this KVKK Notification Text. Such countries include, without limitation, the
Republic of Korea, the United States of America, Vietnam, Bangladesh, United
Kingdom, India, Brazil, Russia and Poland.
What are your
rights under KVKK?
In accordance with Article 11 of the KVKK, you may apply to Samsung
and make requests on the following issues about your personal data:
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Learning
whether or not your personal data have been processed,
- Obtaining
information on the procedure, if your personal data have been processed,
- Learning
the purpose for which your personal data have been processed and whether or not
they are used in line with such purpose,
- Obtaining
information about third parties to whom your personal data are transferred
within Turkey or abroad,
- Requesting correction of your
personal data if they have been processed incompletely or inaccurately and
requesting the notification of third parties to whom your personal data are transferred
of the correction made in this respect,
- Requesting deletion, destruction,
or anonymization of your personal data if the reasons for which they are
processed no longer exist and requesting the notification of third parties to
whom your personal data are transferred of such deletion, destruction, or
anonymization procedure,
- Objecting
to the occurrence of a result which is detrimental to you as a result of
analyzing of your processed personal data exclusively through automatic
systems,
- Requesting
indemnification for your damages which are caused by unlawful processing of
your personal data.
Samsung or our Data Controller Representative shall receive and
evaluate the data subject requests through the "Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Data Subject Application Form" available on
https://www.samsung.com/tr/info/kvkk/. Samsung or our Data Controller Representative shall conclude
your application free of charge in accordance with Article 13 of the KVKK
according to the nature of the request, and within 30 (thirty) days at the
latest. If the request is rejected, the reason(s) for rejection shall be
notified to you in writing or electronically together with the relevant
grounds.
However, requesting
the deletion of your personal information may also result in a loss of access
to the Business Services.
If you request deletion of
personal information, you acknowledge that you may not be able to access or use
the Business Services and that residual personal information may continue to
reside in Samsung's records and archives for some time in compliance with
applicable law, but Samsung will not use that information for commercial
purposes. You understand that, despite your request for deletion, Samsung
reserves the right to keep your personal information, or a relevant part of it,
in line with our data retention policy and applicable laws, if Samsung has
suspended, limited, or terminated your access to the website for violating the
Samsung Terms of Use or any other applicable Samsung policy or applicable law,
when necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of
Samsung, or any of our respective affiliates, business partners, employees or
customers.
We won’t keep your
personal information for longer than is necessary for the purpose for which it
was collected. This means that information will be destroyed or erased from our
systems when it’s no longer required.
We take appropriate
steps to ensure that we process and retain information about you based on the
following logic:
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At least the
duration for which the information is used to provide you with a service;
- As required under
law, a contract, or with regard to our statutory obligations;
- Only for as long
as is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, is processed, or
longer if required under any contract, by applicable law, or for statistical
purposes, subject to appropriate safeguards.
What
third-party services do we use?
Our Business Services
may link to third-party websites and services that are outside our control. We
are not responsible for the security or privacy of any information collected by
websites or other services. You should exercise caution, and review the privacy
statements applicable to the third-party websites and services you use.
Cookies,
Beacons and Similar Technologies
We, as well as
certain third parties that provide content, advertising, or other functionality
on our Business Services, may use cookies, beacons, and other technologies in
certain areas of our Business Services.
Cookies
Cookies
are small files that store information on your device. They enable the entity
that put the cookie on your device to recognize you across different websites,
services, devices, and/or browsing sessions.
Cookies serve many useful purposes. For example:
- Cookies can remember your
sign-in credentials so you don’t have to enter those credentials each time you
log on to a service.
Cookies
help us and third parties understand which parts of our Business Services are the most popular
because they help us to see which pages and features visitors are accessing and
how much time they are spending on the pages. By studying this kind of
information, we are better able to adapt the Business Services and provide you with a
better experience.
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Cookies help us and third
parties understand which ads you have seen so that you don’t receive the same
ad each time you access our Business
Services
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Cookies help us and third
parties provide you with relevant content and advertising by collecting
information about your use of our Business Services and other websites and
apps.
When
you use a web browser to access the Business Services, you can configure your browser to
accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is sent.
Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn
how to change your cookie preferences. The
operating system of your device may contain additional controls for cookies.
Please note, however, that some Business Services may be designed to work
using cookies and that disabling cookies may affect your ability to use those Business Services, or certain parts of
them.
Other Local Storage
We,
along with certain third parties, may use other kinds of local storage
technologies, such as Local Shared Objects (also referred to as "Flash
cookies") and HTML5 local storage, in connection with our Business Services. These technologies are
similar to the cookies discussed above in that they are stored on your device
and can be used to store certain information about your activities and
preferences. However, these technologies may make use of different parts
of your device from standard cookies, and so you might not be able to control
them using standard browser tools and settings. For information about
disabling or deleting information contained in Flash cookies, please click here.
Beacons
We,
along with certain third parties, also may use technologies called beacons (or
"pixels") that communicate information from your device to a server.
Beacons can be embedded in online content, videos, and emails, and can allow a
server to read certain types of information from your device, know when you
have viewed particular content or a particular email message, determine the
time and date on which you viewed the beacon, and the IP address of your device.
We and certain third parties use beacons for a variety of purposes, including
to analyze the use of our
Business Services
and (in conjunction with cookies) to provide content and ads that are more
relevant to you.
Your Choices
We
offer you certain choices in connection with the personal information we obtain
about you.
The
Business Services may offer choices related to the collection, deletion and
sharing of certain information and communications about products, services and promotions.
You can access the settings of the Business Services to learn about choices
that may be available to you when you use the Business Service. If you
decline to allow the Business Services to collect, store or share certain
information, you may not be able to use all of the features available through
the Business Services.
To
exercise your choices, please contact us as indicated in the Contact Us
section of this Privacy Policy.
You
can contact us to update your preferences, correct your information, submit a
request, or ask us questions.
You
can contact us at:
Data Controller
Samsung
Electronics Co., Ltd.
129,
Samsung-ro, Yeongtong-gu,
Suwon-si,
Gyeonggi-do 16677, Republic of Korea
Data Controller Representative
Samsung
Electronics Istanbul Pazarlama ve Ticaret Ltd. Şti.
Defterdar Mah.Otakçilar Cad. Sinpaş Flatofis
Apt.No.78/46 Eyüpsultan