About this notice
This notice explains, under Turkish Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“KVKK”), how your personal data is processed in the Kulvar app and on the kulvar.unichat.dev site. The Turkish version prevails.
UniChat, which builds Kulvar, is responsible for processing this data. For anything about your personal data, you can reach us at support@unichat.dev.
What data we may process
Depending on how you use the Service, we may process:
- Identity and contact: your name, email address, and age or date of birth; where needed, a parent’s email address.
- Account and preferences: your role (student, parent, teacher), the exam you’re preparing for, your language and other preferences.
- Study data: your resources, test and practice exam results, targets, tasks, notes, Defterim and flashcard content, study time, and the statistics and estimates derived from them.
- Content you upload: photos of questions and similar files.
- Messages: comments, tasks and feedback in the app, and the messages you send us.
- Access request details: your email address, role, exam and optional note.
- Usage and technical data: sign-in records, IP address, device and browser information, records of how the app is used, and error logs.
- Third-party sign-in: for example, if you sign in with your Google account, the basic profile information that service shares with us.
Please don’t enter special categories of personal data (such as health, religion or ethnic origin) in the app.
Why we process it
We may process your personal data to:
- open your account, sign you in and provide the Service;
- keep your study data and work out your statistics and estimates;
- share your data with the parent or teacher you opened it to;
- get a parent’s approval where needed;
- review access requests;
- keep the Service secure and prevent abuse;
- improve the Service, fix errors and produce usage statistics;
- contact you about the Service;
- meet legal obligations and protect our rights.
Legal bases
Your personal data is processed on the legal bases listed in Article 5 of KVKK, mainly the conclusion and performance of a contract, our legitimate interests, our legal obligations and establishing, exercising or defending a right. Where none of these applies, we rely on your explicit consent if needed.
How we collect it
Your data is collected electronically, by automated or partly automated means: from what you enter when opening an account, requesting access and using the app; from the third-party sign-in service you use; and from the records created as you use the Service.
Who we may share it with
- People you choose: your data is shared with the parents and teachers you or your parent invited to Kulvar, to the extent of the permissions they’re given. Students never see each other’s data.
- Service providers: the infrastructure, hosting, data storage, authentication, email and similar providers we use to run the Service.
- Authorities: competent public authorities, where the law requires it.
- Advisers: legal and other advisers, where needed to protect our rights.
We don’t sell your personal data to third parties for purposes other than those in this notice.
Transfers abroad
Some of the service providers we use may operate outside Türkiye, so your personal data may be transferred abroad. Such transfers are made in line with the conditions in Article 9 of KVKK.
How long we keep it
We keep your personal data for as long as needed for the purpose it was processed for, and for the periods set by the relevant legislation or needed for possible disputes. When those periods end, your data is deleted, destroyed or anonymised. When you ask us to delete your account, your data, apart from what we’re legally required to keep, is deleted within a reasonable time.
Security
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data. However, no transfer or storage over the internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Children’s data
Kulvar is for students preparing for exams and may be used by people under 18. We ask for a parent’s approval for students below a certain age. Parents can send requests about their child’s data to support@unichat.dev.
Your rights
Under Article 11 of KVKK, you have the right to learn whether your personal data is processed and, if so, to ask for information about it; to learn the purpose of processing; to know the third parties it’s transferred to; to ask for it to be corrected or deleted, and for those changes to be passed on; to object to a result against you that arises from automated analysis; and to claim compensation for damage caused by unlawful processing.
You can send your requests as described on the Data requests page.
Cookies
Information about cookies and similar technologies is in the Cookie Policy.
Changes
We may update this notice from time to time. The current version is always on this page.