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Pati Emanet

Privacy Notice (KVKK)

Version: 2026-10-08.1. The Turkish version is the binding one.

1. Data controller

Pati Emanet is a volunteer pet-sitting community for Atılım University students. Data controller under the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 ("KVKK"): Omar. Contact: patiemanet.app@gmail.com.

2. Personal data we process

  • Identity and contact: full name, university email, (optional) phone number and address.
  • Profile: department, area of Ankara, home type, bio, profile photo.
  • Pets: photos, species, age, personality and feeding notes, health notes and vet details.
  • Usage: sitting requests and dates, offers, messages, handover checklist, photos shared during a stay, ratings given, posts you share (a pet photo and text), likes you give, comments you write and the students you follow, adoption listings (the animal's photos and details) adoption application messages, missing pet posts (the animal's photo and the area, place and day it was last seen) and the sightings you send (note, area, time and an optional photo), plus the messages you exchange with the post owner under a sighting.
  • Google sign-in (only if you use it): if you use "Continue with Google" with your Atılım Google account, Google sends us your name, email address and the address of your profile photo. The name and email are used for your account; the Google profile photo is not used or shown on your profile.
  • Technical: session cookies and security logs.
  • Notifications (only if you turn them on): for each device, the push subscription your browser creates (a delivery address and encryption keys) and the browser/device name (user agent).

Photos are re-encoded on your device before upload; all metadata, including GPS location, is removed.

3. Purposes and legal bases

  • Creating your account and limiting the community to Atılım students (KVKK Art. 5/2-c: performance of a contract).
  • Publishing requests, matching owners and sitters, messaging, handover and photo updates (Art. 5/2-c).
  • If you turn them on, notifications on your device about new offers, messages, photos and similar events (Art. 5/2-c). You can turn them off at any time. You are also notified when a pet goes missing in your area (your area is used for this).
  • Community safety, preventing misuse and technical security (Art. 5/2-f: legitimate interest).
  • Your explicit consent for processing on servers abroad and for data such as pet health notes (Art. 5/1, Art. 9).

4. Who can see what

  • Other verified students: your name, profile photo, department, area, pet profiles, open requests and the posts you share (with like counts; who liked is never shown), your comments under posts, and how many students you follow and follow you (the lists are never shown; a student you follow is notified that you followed them).
  • Anyone with the link (without logging in): the photo and description of an open lost or found post, and whether it is lost or found, when the post is shared or put up as a poster. The poster’s name and profile, the pet’s name, the area, the place, the date and the replies are never shown; the page closes when the post closes. Do not write a phone number or address in the description.
  • Only the owner of a missing pet post: the sightings you send for it (note, area, time, photo). The messages between the post owner and the person who sent a sighting are visible only to the two of them. Other students and admins cannot see any of these.
  • Only the person you match with: your phone number, pet health notes, vet details, chat, handover checklist and stay photos.
  • Admins, only when there is a report: when you report someone or someone reports you, admins may review the messages between the two of you (photos included) while the report is open. Every review is logged. They may also remove posts that break the rules.
  • Nobody: your address (only you) and individual ratings (profiles only show an average after at least 3 ratings).

5. Transfers abroad and service providers

To run the service, data is stored and processed by: Supabase (database, file storage and authentication; servers in Frankfurt, Germany), Vercel (website hosting) and Brevo (sending account confirmation emails). If you use "Continue with Google", Google verifies your sign-in. We ask for your explicit consent to this transfer under KVKK Art. 9. When bot protection is switched on, the sign-up and login forms use Cloudflare Turnstile, which processes technical data such as your IP address to tell people from bots. Vercel Web Analytics counts page visits without cookies (the page address without names or ids, the referring site, country, browser and device type); it does not identify you and a visit cannot be linked to your account.

If you turn on notifications, their short text (for example "Ayşe sent you a message") is delivered end-to-end encrypted through your browser maker's push service: Google (Chrome, Android), Apple (Safari, iPhone), Mozilla (Firefox) or Microsoft (Edge). Message contents are never included.

6. Retention

Your data is kept while your account is open. When you delete your account, your profile, pets, requests, offers, messages and photos are permanently deleted. One exception: if your account is suspended when it is deleted, a one-way hash of its email address and the date of the suspension are kept so that the same address cannot register again; nothing else of the account is kept. If you think the suspension was a mistake, write to patiemanet.app@gmail.com and ask for a review. Records we must keep by law may be kept for that period. A device's push subscription is deleted when you turn notifications off or log out on that device, when the browser reports it expired, or when you delete your account.

7. Your rights under KVKK Art. 11

You can learn whether your data is processed, request information, learn the purpose, know third parties it is transferred to, ask for correction or deletion, object, and claim compensation. In the app, you can download your data and delete your account on the My account page. For other requests, write to patiemanet.app@gmail.com; we reply within 30 days.