Privacy Policy

1. Scope and contact

This policy applies to everyone who creates an account, searches for trips, makes a booking, uses the Fishing Map or community features, posts to the fishing map, applies as a host, or contacts support. Privacy and deletion requests can be sent to support@teknedeyim.com.

2. Data we collect

Depending on the features you use, we may process the following categories:

• Personal information: full name, email address, phone number, user ID, and sign-in method information such as Google or Apple. You create your account by verifying a one-time SMS code (OTP) or by signing in with Google or Apple. Depending on the service you select, a transfer pickup address, coordinate, and directions may also be processed.

• Transaction information: the trip, date, seat or boat you selected, payment status, refunds, disputes, and support records. Where required, passenger-manifest data may include a name, phone number, Turkish national ID number, and IBAN; host applications may include business, tax, bank-account, and verification-document information. Teknedeyim does not store card details on its servers.

• Location: an approximate region Firebase Analytics may derive from IP and device signals; approximate or precise device location you separately permit for features such as Nearby and My location; and coordinates you choose to share in a fishing post or group chat.

• User content: in-app messages, group messages, fishing spots, notes, comments, photos, reports, and moderation requests.

• Photos and camera: accessed only when you attach a photo to a post or comment — either picked from your gallery or, if you prefer, taken with the camera; never for any other purpose.

• App activity: viewed screens, search and filter choices, likes, favorites, reports, and similar actions.

• App and device data: Firebase installation/device identifiers, push token (a unique token assigned to your device via Google Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) so we can send app notifications), app version, operating system, device model, network type, country, language, time zone, crash logs, and diagnostic data. Usage statistics are collected via Google Firebase Analytics and crash/error reports via Firebase Crashlytics.

3. How we use data

We process data to create, verify and manage accounts, provide the map and location features you select, run booking and payment flows, provide messaging and community features, send service notifications, measure performance, diagnose errors, prevent abuse and fraud, provide support, and meet legal obligations. We do not sell or use personal data for third-party advertising.

4. Location and public content

Precise device-location permission is optional, requested only for a location feature you initiate, and your location is never tracked in the background. While Firebase Analytics is enabled, it may automatically derive an approximate region from the IP address and device signals. Map providers receive the connection IP and visible map area; depending on the zoom level, that area may reveal an approximate or precise location. Nearby uses the location you permit to position the map and show nearby results. If you create a fishing spot, the coordinate you select is stored with the post; the exact location is visible only to you, while the location shown to other users is limited in precision, rounded to an area of roughly 100 metres to protect your privacy. A location shared in a trip-group chat is shown only to that trip's participants, unless you separately enable Share with everyone to publish it on the Fishing Map.

5. Service providers and transfers

Teknedeyim does not sell or share your data with third-party ad networks or marketing analytics brokers. Only where necessary to provide the service, your data may be processed by:

• Cloudflare: hosting and infrastructure (Workers, D1, R2), acting as a processor.

• Google Firebase: Analytics, Crashlytics, Cloud Messaging, and Remote Config.

• Apple and Google: social sign-in and platform services.

• MapTiler/OpenStreetMap and Nominatim-based map and location services.

• Open-Meteo: weather and marine forecasts.

• Email or SMS delivery providers.

• iyzico: payment processing.

• Booking information may be provided to the relevant host; content you choose to share is provided to the relevant users; and data may be disclosed to competent authorities where legally required.

6. Payments

Card details are collected on iyzico's secure payment page and are not stored on Teknedeyim servers. Teknedeyim retains records such as transaction status, amount, and provider reference to operate bookings, display payment/refund status, and meet legal duties.

7. Security

Data transmitted between the app, our servers, and our service providers is encrypted using HTTPS/TLS. We use technical and organizational safeguards including authorization checks, limited access, private-media access rules, and activity records. No internet transmission or storage method can provide absolute security.

8. Retention periods

We keep data only as long as it is needed:

• Profile, contact, sign-in, push, and user-content data is kept while your account or the relevant content remains active; a valid deletion request is normally completed within 30 days.

• One-time sign-in-code rows follow a 24-hour automatic-deletion schedule and email/SMS delivery metadata follows a 30-day schedule; deletion may be briefly delayed by backlog or a temporary technical issue.

• Records of deletion, destruction, or anonymization operations are retained for at least 3 years under the applicable KVKK regulation.

• Booking, payment, refund, and accounting records may be retained for the applicable statutory retention and limitation periods.

• Within a legally retained booking record, limited fields supplied for the passenger manifest — such as name and contact details and, where provided, national ID/passport information — or an IBAN supplied for payment/payout may remain as part of that record for the same period.

• A pseudonymous deleted-user ID that cannot access the account may remain linked to these records for transaction integrity.

• Limited records connected to a dispute, safety review, or lawful authority request may be retained until the process and applicable limitation period end.

• Data retained for legal reasons is access-restricted and is not used to provide the service or for marketing.

• Aggregated or de-identified analytics and crash statistics that cannot be linked directly to the account may remain.

9. Deletion choices

Without deleting your account, you can delete your own fishing post, comment, photo, or group message from that content's menu. To keep your account while requesting deletion of some or all other attributable data, email support@teknedeyim.com from your registered contact address. You can delete the full account under Profile > Delete my account or through support; this cannot be undone, and your profile, sign-in methods, notifications, and fishing map posts are deleted. We may request identity verification, and records that must be kept by law may be excluded.

10. Cookies and local storage

teknedeyim.com only uses the session tokens needed to keep you signed in and the local-storage entries that remember preferences such as language and theme; no advertising or tracking cookies are used.

11. Your rights under KVKK

Under article 11 of Turkish Personal Data Protection Law no. 6698 (KVKK), you have the right to learn whether your data is processed, request information about it, learn the purpose of processing and whether it is used accordingly, know the third parties your data is transferred to (domestically or abroad), request correction of incomplete or inaccurate data, request deletion or destruction, request that these actions be notified to third parties your data was transferred to, object to a result that is against you arising solely from automated analysis of your data, and request compensation for damages arising from unlawful processing. You may exercise these rights by emailing support@teknedeyim.com.

12. Changes

We may update this policy due to changes in our service or in the law. We will announce material changes through appropriate channels.