GOLIVE PRIVACY AND PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION POLICY
Last Updated: July 1, 2026
1. Introduction
GOLIVE YAZILIM HİZMETLERİ A.Ş ("Golive", the "Company", "we", "us", or "our") respects the privacy of its users, customers, business partners, employees, visitors, and other individuals who use its digital products and services and is committed to protecting their personal data.
This Privacy and Personal Data Protection Policy ("Privacy Policy") explains how personal data may be collected, used, processed, stored, protected, and, where necessary, shared through the services provided by Golive, including:
- Websites
- Mobile applications
- Android and iOS applications
- Web applications
- Corporate software solutions
- Customer and employee portals
- Cloud-based services
- Technical support services
- System integrations
- Digital platforms
- Other electronic and software-based services
This Privacy Policy serves as the general privacy policy for the digital products and services developed, published, managed, or operated by Golive, including mobile applications distributed through application stores such as Google Play.
Golive processes personal data in accordance with applicable data protection legislation, including the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 ("KVKK"), where applicable.
2. Data Controller
For the purposes of applicable personal data protection legislation, including KVKK, the data controller is:
GOLIVE YAZILIM HİZMETLERİ A.Ş
Address: Ataşehir, Erzincan Sk. No:26, 34758 Ataşehir/İstanbul
Website: https://golive.com.tr
Email: [email protected]
This Privacy Policy may be updated if the Company's registered name, address, contact information, services, or data processing activities change.
3. Scope of This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may apply to:
- Visitors of Golive websites
- Users of Golive mobile applications
- Users of Golive corporate applications
- Golive customers
- Employees of Golive customers
- Prospective customers
- Business partners
- Suppliers
- Individuals receiving technical support
- Individuals communicating electronically with Golive
- Users of Golive digital platforms and software products
The categories of personal data processed may vary depending on the nature and functionality of the relevant product, service, website, or mobile application.
Golive aims to process only the personal data necessary for providing its services, ensuring security, supporting business operations, and complying with applicable legal obligations.
4. Personal Data That May Be Processed
Depending on the service, product, website, or application used, Golive may process the following categories of personal data.
4.1. Identity Information
Depending on the nature of the relevant service, the following information may be processed:
- First name
- Last name
- Username
- User ID
- Employee ID
- Customer ID
- Company information
- Job title or position
4.2. Contact Information
The following information may be processed where necessary:
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Corporate contact information
- Communication preferences
4.3. User Account and Authentication Information
Where a Golive service requires a user account, the following information may be processed:
- User account information
- User ID
- Session information
- Login and logout records
- Access and authorization information
- Authentication tokens
Appropriate technical and administrative measures are implemented to protect account and authentication information.
5. Data That May Be Processed by Mobile Applications
Mobile applications developed, published, or operated by Golive may access or process certain information depending on the features offered by the relevant application.
5.1. Device and Technical Information
Mobile applications may process technical information such as:
- Device model
- Operating system
- Operating system version
- Application version
- Device language and regional settings
- IP address
- Network connection information
- Technical device or application identifiers
- Session information
- Error logs
- Crash reports
- Performance information
Such information may be used primarily for security, troubleshooting, technical support, application improvement, system monitoring, and performance optimization.
5.2. Application Usage Information
Depending on the relevant application, the following information may be processed:
- Features used within the application
- Transactions performed
- Transaction dates and times
- Application sessions
- Error records
- System activities
- Technical usage data
This information may be processed for the purposes of providing, maintaining, securing, and improving the relevant services.
6. Mobile Device Permissions
Golive mobile applications may request certain device permissions depending on the functionality of the relevant application.
Permissions that are not required for the operation of an application are not intended to be requested unnecessarily.
Camera
Camera access may be requested for functions such as:
- Scanning QR codes
- Scanning barcodes
- Taking photographs
- Capturing documents
- Creating or uploading visual content within the application
Location
Approximate or precise location information may be processed for purposes such as:
- Providing location-based services
- Supporting field operations
- Address or location verification
- Delivering location-related functionality requested by the user
Applications that do not require location information are not intended to request location access unnecessarily.
Photos, Media, and Files
Access to photos, media, documents, or other files may be requested where users need to:
- Upload photographs
- Select documents
- Attach files
- Save or retrieve application-related content
Bluetooth and Nearby Devices
Bluetooth or nearby device access may be used where a Golive application needs to communicate with devices such as:
- Barcode scanners
- RFID readers
- Printers
- Bluetooth devices
- Enterprise handheld terminals
- Other peripheral devices
NFC
Where an application provides NFC-based functionality, NFC may be used for purposes such as:
- Reading supported cards
- Reading supported tags
- Device communication
- Authentication
- Other NFC-enabled business processes
Notifications
Golive applications may request permission to send notifications such as:
- Transaction notifications
- System notifications
- Task notifications
- Security notifications
- Corporate announcements
- Operational notifications
Users may manage notification permissions through their device settings where supported by the operating system.
7. Purposes of Processing Personal Data
Personal data may be processed for one or more of the following purposes:
- Providing products and services
- Operating mobile and web applications
- Creating and managing user accounts
- Authenticating users
- Performing authorization procedures
- Managing corporate business processes
- Processing user transactions
- Responding to customer requests
- Providing technical support
- Improving application and service performance
- Identifying and resolving software errors
- Maintaining system and information security
- Preventing unauthorized access
- Preventing fraud, abuse, and misuse
- Sending necessary service-related notifications
- Improving service quality
- Ensuring business continuity
- Complying with legal obligations
- Responding to requests from authorized public authorities
- Establishing, exercising, or protecting legal rights
Personal data is intended to be processed in a manner that is relevant, limited, and proportionate to the purposes for which it is collected.
8. Methods of Collecting Personal Data
Personal data may be collected through electronic and, where applicable, physical methods, including:
- Golive websites
- Mobile applications
- Web applications
- User registration screens
- Contact forms
- Email communications
- Technical support systems
- Corporate system integrations
- Transactions performed by users
- Mobile device permissions
- Server records
- Application logs
- Security logs
- Customer support communications
The particular method used depends on the relevant service and the user's interaction with Golive.
9. Legal Grounds for Processing Personal Data
Personal data may be processed based on the applicable legal grounds set out under relevant data protection legislation, including Articles 5 and, where applicable, 6 of KVKK.
Legal grounds may include circumstances where:
- Processing is expressly required by law
- Processing is necessary for the establishment or performance of a contract
- Processing is necessary for Golive to comply with a legal obligation
- Processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or protection of a legal right
- Processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of Golive, provided that the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject are not adversely affected
Where applicable law requires explicit consent, personal data will be processed based on the valid consent of the relevant individual.
10. Sharing and Transfer of Personal Data
Golive does not unlawfully sell personal data or permit unauthorized commercial use of personal data.
Where necessary for providing services, maintaining infrastructure, performing business processes, or complying with legal obligations, personal data may be shared with or transferred to:
- Authorized public institutions and authorities
- Courts
- Judicial or administrative authorities
- Golive customers, where required for the relevant service
- Business partners
- Suppliers
- Data center service providers
- Cloud service providers
- Technical infrastructure providers
- Software service providers
- Information security providers
- Notification service providers
- Analytics providers
- Error and crash reporting providers
- Professional advisers where legally necessary
- Other parties authorized under applicable legislation
Any transfer is intended to be limited to what is reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose and carried out in accordance with applicable law.
11. Third-Party Services
Golive websites, software products, and mobile applications may use third-party technologies depending on the nature and requirements of the relevant service.
These may include:
- Cloud infrastructure services
- Mobile notification services
- Mapping and location services
- Error and crash reporting services
- Analytics services
- Authentication services
- Data storage services
- Cybersecurity services
Such third-party providers may process limited technical or personal data where necessary to provide their respective services.
Golive aims to evaluate the privacy and security practices of third-party service providers where reasonably possible and to use such services in accordance with applicable privacy and data protection requirements.
12. Google Play and Other Application Stores
Android applications developed or published by Golive may be distributed through Google Play.
Applications may also be distributed through other application stores or enterprise distribution platforms.
Google Play and other application store operators may independently process certain user, account, transaction, and device information in accordance with their own privacy policies and terms.
For applications published by Golive, this Privacy Policy also applies to personal data processing activities performed by Golive in connection with those applications.
Information provided in the Data Safety section of Google Play is declared separately for each application according to the data collection, sharing, storage, and security practices applicable to that particular application.
Where the privacy requirements of a particular application differ from this general Privacy Policy, Golive may provide additional application-specific privacy notices or disclosures.
13. Data Security
Golive applies appropriate technical and administrative measures designed to protect personal data against:
- Unauthorized access
- Unlawful processing
- Unauthorized disclosure
- Alteration
- Accidental loss
- Destruction
- Misuse
Depending on the relevant service, these measures may include:
- HTTPS/TLS encrypted data transmission
- Authentication mechanisms
- User authorization systems
- Role-based access control
- Network security measures
- Server security
- Security logging
- Prevention of unauthorized access
- Software updates and security patches
- Database security
- Restriction of access privileges
- Backup systems
- Business continuity measures
- System monitoring
Golive aims to ensure that access to personal data is limited to individuals who require such access for legitimate business purposes.
No method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage, however, can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
14. Data Retention and Deletion
Personal data is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was processed and in accordance with applicable legal retention requirements.
The applicable retention period may depend on:
- The purpose of processing
- The duration of the relevant service
- Contractual obligations
- Statutory retention requirements
- Information security requirements
- The establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims
When the purposes requiring processing cease to exist and there is no separate legal requirement to retain the relevant information, personal data may be:
- Deleted
- Destroyed
- Anonymized
in accordance with applicable law and Golive's data retention procedures.
15. User Account Deletion
Where a service or application provided by Golive allows users to create an account, users may request deletion of their account and associated personal data in accordance with applicable legislation and the functionality of the relevant application.
Where applicable, an account deletion request may be submitted through:
- An account deletion function available within the relevant application
- An account deletion webpage provided by Golive
- Email sent to [email protected]
Following a valid account deletion request, personal data associated with the relevant account will be deleted or anonymized, except for information that Golive is legally required or otherwise legally permitted to retain.
Information that must be retained for legal, regulatory, security, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, or similar legitimate purposes may be retained for the applicable period.
Merely suspending or deactivating an account does not necessarily constitute account deletion.
16. International Transfers of Personal Data
Certain service providers used by Golive may operate infrastructure, servers, or data centers outside Türkiye.
Such services may include:
- Cloud infrastructure
- Data center services
- Mobile notification systems
- Analytics services
- Error and crash reporting systems
- Authentication services
- Other technical infrastructure providers
Where personal data is transferred outside Türkiye, Golive intends to conduct such transfers in accordance with applicable data protection legislation and any applicable requirements governing international transfers.
Appropriate safeguards may be implemented where required by applicable law.
17. Children's Privacy
Unless a particular Golive product or service is specifically designed for children, Golive does not intentionally seek to collect personal data from children through its general business applications and services.
If a Golive application is specifically designed for or directed toward children, applicable legal requirements and relevant application store policies relating to children, families, privacy, advertising, and data protection will be applied separately.
If Golive becomes aware that personal data relating to a child has been processed without an appropriate legal basis, reasonable steps may be taken to delete or otherwise appropriately handle the relevant data.
18. Rights of Data Subjects
Under Article 11 of the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 and other applicable data protection laws, individuals may have the right to:
- Learn whether their personal data is being processed
- Request information regarding the processing of their personal data
- Learn the purposes for which their personal data is processed
- Learn whether their personal data is being used in accordance with those purposes
- Learn the third parties to whom personal data has been transferred domestically or internationally
- Request correction of incomplete or inaccurate personal data
- Request deletion or destruction of personal data where the applicable legal conditions are satisfied
- Request notification of correction, deletion, or destruction procedures to third parties to whom the personal data has been transferred, where applicable
- Object to certain results arising from processing carried out exclusively through automated systems where permitted by applicable law
- Request compensation where the individual suffers damage due to unlawful processing of personal data
The availability and scope of these rights may depend on applicable law and the circumstances of the relevant processing activity.
19. Requests and Contact Information
For questions, requests, or applications relating to this Privacy Policy or the processing of your personal data, you may contact Golive.
GOLIVE YAZILIM HİZMETLERİ A.Ş
Address: Ataşehir, Erzincan Sk. No:26, 34758 Ataşehir/İstanbul
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://golive.com.tr
Requests will be evaluated and responded to in accordance with applicable legal requirements and statutory time periods.
20. Changes to This Privacy Policy
Golive may amend or update this Privacy Policy from time to time due to:
- Changes in applicable legislation
- Technological developments
- Changes in Golive products or services
- Introduction of new mobile application features
- Changes in data processing activities
- Information security requirements
- Google Play policy updates
- Changes in other application store requirements
The most current version of this Privacy Policy will be made available through the Golive website and, where appropriate, through relevant applications or digital services.
Where required by applicable law or where changes are material, users may also be informed through appropriate communication channels.
Users are encouraged to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
21. Effective Date
This Privacy Policy is effective as of July 1, 2026.
This Privacy Policy is intended to serve as Golive's general privacy policy covering its websites, software products, web services, mobile applications, and other digital services.