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Privacy and personal data

Our privacy notice and cookie policy, prepared under the Personal Data Protection Law (89/2007) in force in North Cyprus.

Last updated: 1 March 2026

Travma Afet Kriz Derneği (TAKDER) takes the security of your personal data seriously. This notice explains which of your data we process, for what purpose, and on what legal basis, in each kind of relationship you may have with us.

Data controller

The data controller is Travma Afet Kriz Derneği (TAKDER), an association based in Nicosia under the Associations Law (23/2016).

Personal data we process

Depending on your relationship with us, we process the following:

Donors

  • Identity: first name, surname
  • Contact: email address, phone number
  • Financial: donation amount, date and payment method (card details never reach us at any stage)

Volunteers and members

  • Identity and contact details
  • Education and professional background
  • Unit assignment, training and shift records
  • A criminal record declaration for units working with children

People receiving support

  • Name, contact details and reason for contact
  • Records relating to the psychosocial support process — these count as special category data and are processed only with your explicit consent, accessible to a limited number of authorised staff

Website visitors

  • Transaction security: IP address, browser and device information, visit time

Purposes of processing

  • Handling donations, issuing receipts and complying with financial legislation
  • Keeping volunteer and member records, planning training and assignments
  • Delivering and following up psychosocial support
  • Meeting reporting obligations under associations legislation
  • Responding to requests and complaints
  • Maintaining site security

We rely on the grounds set out in the Personal Data Protection Law:

  • Where expressly provided for by law (the Associations Law and North Cyprus tax legislation)
  • Where directly related to the conclusion or performance of a contract
  • Compliance with a legal obligation
  • Legitimate interests
  • Explicit consent for special category data and marketing communications

Who we share it with

Your data may be shared, only for the purposes above, with authorised public bodies, our payment service provider and our hosting supplier. We never sell or transfer your data to third parties for marketing purposes.

Retention

  • Financial records: 10 years, as required by law
  • Membership records: 10 years after membership ends
  • Volunteer records: 3 years after the assignment ends
  • Psychosocial support records: 5 years after the service ends
  • Server logs: 2 years

When the period expires, data is deleted, destroyed or anonymised.

Your rights under the law

Under the Personal Data Protection Law you have the right to:

  • Learn whether your personal data is being processed and request information about it
  • Learn the purpose of processing and whether it is used accordingly
  • Know the third parties to whom it is transferred, at home or abroad
  • Request correction if it is incomplete or inaccurate
  • Request deletion or destruction within the conditions set by law
  • Request that correction, deletion and destruction be notified to third parties
  • Object to an adverse outcome produced solely by automated analysis
  • Claim compensation for damage caused by unlawful processing

Send requests to info@tak-der.org. We respond free of charge within 30 days at the latest.

If you are not satisfied with the outcome, you retain the right to complain to the North Cyprus Personal Data Protection Board.

Cookie policy

This site uses only the cookies strictly necessary for it to work. We use no advertising, profiling or third-party tracking cookies, which is why we do not ask for cookie consent.

  • Strictly necessary cookies: used for language preference and form security; deleted when you close your browser, or after 12 months at the latest.
  • Analytics: visit statistics are measured with IP truncation and without identifying individuals.
  • Fonts: the typefaces used on this site load from an external provider, and your browser's IP address is transmitted to that provider in the process.

You can delete or block cookies in your browser settings. If you block strictly necessary cookies, forms may stop working.

Changes to this notice

We may revise this notice as legislation and our processing activities change. The current version is always published on this page; the date at the top shows the last update.

Sources

Where the information on this page comes from

The methods and standards below are adapted from international humanitarian and mental health literature; anything specific to the TRNC comes from official government sources. The association's own programme decisions — training hours, follow-up periods, team ratios, fee policy — are not listed here: those are choices, not citations.

Data protection law applied
Personal Data Protection Law (89/2007), TRNC. Official text. PDF
Complaints and applications
TRNC Personal Data Protection Board — applications and complaints. kvkk.gov.ct.tr
Retention of association records
Associations Law (23/2016), TRNC. Official text: TRNC Courts Legislation Information System. mevzuat.mahkemeler.net
Protection principles for affected people's data
Sphere Association (2018). The Sphere Handbook: Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response, 4th edition. Geneva. spherestandards.org
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (2019). Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS), 2019 edition. alliancecpha.org

Links go to the publisher of each source; last checked 10 September 2026. If you spot an error in a citation, tell us and we will fix it.