What this website knows about you.

1. Who is responsible for your personal data

The controller responsible for the processing described in this notice is Alkan Dijital Yayıncılık Anonim Şirketi, the company that publishes Metatopics.

Controller

Alkan Dijital Yayıncılık Anonim Şirketi

Legal form

Joint stock company incorporated under the laws of the Republic of Türkiye

Istanbul Chamber of Commerce registration number

287451

Central Registry Record System number

0684-0198-7020-0015

Tax office and tax identification number

Zincirlikuyu Vergi Dairesi Müdürlüğü · 6840198702

Registered office

Esentepe Mahallesi, Büyükdere Caddesi Number 102, Floor 8, 34394 Şişli, Istanbul, Türkiye

Electronic mail

contact@metatopics.org

Telephone

+90 212 555 01 24

Website

metatopics.org

2. What this website does not do

The list below is not a promise about the future. It describes how this website is built today, and every item can be checked by opening the developer tools of any browser on any page of metatopics.org.

• It sets no cookies. Not first-party cookies, not third-party cookies, not so-called essential cookies.
• It runs no analytics of any kind, and no measurement, attribution or conversion tracking.
• It loads no tracking pixels, no beacons, no advertising technology and no consent management software.
• It loads no third-party scripts, no external fonts, no external images, no social media widgets, no embedded video and no maps. Every file the page needs comes from metatopics.org itself.
• It carries no forms. There is no sign-up, no newsletter, no comment thread, no search box, no rating control and no upload. There is nothing for you to submit.
• It creates no user accounts and stores no profiles.
• It performs no fingerprinting, no cross-site tracking, no profiling and no automated decision-making, including any decision producing legal effects concerning you.
• It sells nothing and shares nothing with data brokers, advertising networks or any similar recipient.

3. What personal data is processed

One category only: the technical record that the web server writes automatically when your browser requests a page. This is created by the server software, not by any code on the page, and it cannot be switched off without making the website impossible to operate securely.

The access record contains these fields and nothing else:

• the internet protocol address that made the request;
• the date and time of the request;
• the address requested and the request method;
• the status code the server returned and the number of bytes sent;
• the user agent string your browser sends, which identifies the browser and operating system;
• the referring address, where your browser sends one.

An internet protocol address can, in some circumstances, identify a person indirectly. It is therefore treated as personal data throughout this notice, even though Alkan Dijital Yayıncılık Anonim Şirketi makes no attempt to identify anyone from it.

4. Why it is processed

The access record is used for three purposes and no others: to deliver the pages you request, to keep the website available and secure by detecting and stopping abusive traffic, and to diagnose faults when something breaks. It is never used to build a profile, to measure audiences, to target advertising or to analyse behaviour.

5. The legal basis

Under the General Data Protection Regulation the legal basis is Article 6(1)(f), the legitimate interests of Alkan Dijital Yayıncılık Anonim Şirketi in operating a secure and functioning website. The interest is narrow, the data is minimal, the retention is short and no reader is identified, so it does not override the interests or fundamental rights of visitors.

Under the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law numbered 6698, the legal basis is Article 5(2)(f), processing that is necessary for the legitimate interests of the data controller, provided that the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject are not harmed.

No consent is requested for the access record, because consent is not the applicable basis. No consent banner is shown, because there is nothing on this website that requires consent.

6. How long it is kept

Access records are retained for 30 days and then deleted automatically by the server. Nothing is archived, exported or copied elsewhere. The only exception is a record that is already the subject of a specific security investigation or a legal obligation, which is kept until that matter is closed and then deleted.

7. Who else can see it

The website runs on servers operated by Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestrasse 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany, in Germany. That company acts as a processor: it holds the server and its logs on behalf of Alkan Dijital Yayıncılık Anonim Şirketi and is bound by a written agreement to process them only on instruction.

No other recipient exists. Access records are not shared with advertisers, sponsors, analytics companies, marketing agencies or any other third party. They would be disclosed to a public authority only where a valid legal obligation required it.

8. Where the website is operated from

Alkan Dijital Yayıncılık Anonim Şirketi is established in Istanbul, Türkiye, and the servers that hold the website and its access records are located in Germany. This notice describes that arrangement plainly so that you can see exactly where your request is handled. Metatopics does not send personal data on to any further country.

9. Electronic mail correspondence

If you write to contact@metatopics.org, your message, your address and anything you choose to include are processed for the single purpose of reading and answering you. The legal basis is the legitimate interest of Alkan Dijital Yayıncılık Anonim Şirketi in responding to correspondence, and, where your message concerns a legal claim or a data protection request, compliance with a legal obligation.

Correspondence is kept only for as long as the matter it concerns is open, and for any period a legal obligation requires afterwards. It is never added to a mailing list, never used for marketing and never passed to anyone else. Please do not send sensitive information, credentials or recovery phrases by electronic mail to anyone, including this address.

10. Storage in your own browser

This website sets no cookies. If you choose the dark appearance, your browser saves one word — light or dark — in its own local storage on your own device. It carries no identifier, is never transmitted to Alkan Dijital Yayıncılık Anonim Şirketi and is never read by anyone else. The Cookie Policy explains this entry in full and describes how to erase it.

11. Your rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation you have the right to be informed, the right of access, the right to rectification, the right to erasure, the right to restrict processing, the right to data portability, the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests, and the right not to be subject to automated decision-making.

Under the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law numbered 6698 you have the rights set out in Article 11, which include learning whether your personal data is processed, requesting information about that processing, learning its purpose, learning the third parties to whom it is transferred, requesting correction or erasure, requesting that any correction or erasure be notified to those third parties, objecting to a result produced solely by automated analysis, and claiming compensation for damage caused by unlawful processing.

You can exercise any of these rights by writing to contact@metatopics.org. Because the access record contains no name and no account, a request that concerns a specific record must include the internet protocol address and the approximate date and time, otherwise the record cannot be located. A request is answered within one month under the General Data Protection Regulation and within thirty days under the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law.

If you believe your personal data has been handled unlawfully, you may complain to the supervisory authority of the country in which you live or work, and, in Türkiye, to the Personal Data Protection Authority.

12. Representatives, registrations and officers

Metatopics is written for readers in Japan and is published from Türkiye. It does not offer goods or services to people in the European Union and does not monitor their behaviour, so Article 3(2) of the General Data Protection Regulation does not apply to it and no representative has been appointed under Article 27. This notice nevertheless follows the transparency standard of Articles 13 and 14, because readers in Europe can and do open the website.

No data protection officer is required or appointed: the processing is neither large scale nor systematic monitoring, and Alkan Dijital Yayıncılık Anonim Şirketi is not a public authority. Alkan Dijital Yayıncılık Anonim Şirketi is exempt from registration with the Turkish Data Controllers Registry under the thresholds fixed by the Personal Data Protection Board, and it does not claim a registry number it does not hold. Both positions are reviewed each year.

13. Children

This website is written for adult general readers. It is not directed at children, it collects nothing from anyone, and it asks for no age, no name and no contact detail.

14. How the data is protected

The website is served only over an encrypted connection. It has no database, no administration area, no login and no upload path, so there is no store of reader data to breach. Server access is restricted to named administrators, the software is kept current, and the small number of files that make up the website are read-only to the web server.

15. Changes to this notice

If the way this website works ever changes, this notice is rewritten before the change goes live, and the date at the top is updated. Nothing described here is added quietly.

16. Contact

Questions about this notice, and any request to exercise a right described in it, should be sent to contact@metatopics.org, or by post to Alkan Dijital Yayıncılık Anonim Şirketi, Esentepe Mahallesi, Büyükdere Caddesi Number 102, Floor 8, 34394 Şişli, Istanbul, Türkiye.