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KVKK Data Privacy
Check-Up

A free KVKK readiness snapshot to help foreign and local organisations understand their Turkish privacy position before appointing a representative or compliance adviser.

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Plans and inclusions

KVKK Data Privacy Check-Up: free readiness check-up

Free for every company size, with no setup fee or commitment to purchase another service.

  • KVKK readiness snapshot
  • Gap analysis summary
  • Practical recommendations
  • No commitment required

The check-up provides a readiness snapshot and recommendations. An ongoing appointment, implementation project, or incident engagement has its own scope.

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Understand your KVKK position first

Turkish privacy law has local requirements that differ from GDPR in important ways. The KVKK Data Privacy Check-Up gives you a practical starting point for your broader KVKK Compliance Program.

We review your Türkiye-facing processing and summarise the main gaps, VERBİS Registration & Management considerations, and the right product path.

Why a Turkish check-up matters

Foreign data controllers may need to assess local representation, registry, transparency, and authority-contact duties under the applicable KVKK and VERBİS rules. Employee Privacy Training can support implementation, but it does not replace the underlying assessment. A readiness snapshot reduces guesswork before you appoint anyone.

Applicable legal framework

KVKK

  • KVKK Law No. 6698
    The primary Turkish statute governing personal data protection.
  • VERBİS
    The data controller registry system used for certain notification and representation obligations.

How the service works

A simple Turkish readiness workflow:

1

Intake

Share your Türkiye processing activities, including current Privacy Notices & Consent Mechanisms.

2

Assessment

We review your position against core KVKK obligations, including readiness for Data Breach Response and Cross-Border Data Transfer Compliance.

3

Gap summary

You receive a concise readiness report.

4

Product guidance

We recommend representative or adviser services as needed.

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Product snapshot

RolePrivacy Readiness Check-Up
RegulationKVKK
Supervisory authorityPersonal Data Protection Authority
Setup feeNone
PricingFree

How we help

See how this service fits your organisation

Use the sections below to understand what we review, what you receive, what your team provides, and how you can keep the result useful after delivery.

01 · Fit

Is the KVKK Data Privacy Check-Up right for your organisation?

If your local or foreign organisation has Türkiye-facing processing and needs a clear first view of its KVKK position, this check-up gives you a practical local assessment. It can help you choose between a representative, VERBİS support, an adviser, or a broader compliance programme.

A business can have Turkish customers, employees, or vendors while its KVKK material remains scattered across global policies, CRM settings, and a partial inventory. This check-up gives the business a local starting point. It can be used before market entry, a customer review, a VERBİS question, a notice update, or a decision about a Turkish representative or adviser.

02 · Decision

What you will be able to decide

The check-up should clarify your next Turkish privacy decision without importing a European answer unchanged. It looks at controller status, processing purposes, data categories, registry questions, notices, security, transfer, and response arrangements so you can choose the right service for your actual situation.

We separate the KVKK questions that affect the immediate choice: processing scope, controller responsibilities, notice and consent routes, registry position, transfers, incident readiness, and available internal owners. The result helps you buy the next useful piece of work instead of treating a global GDPR document as proof that Turkish requirements and operations match.

03 · Trigger

When to bring us in

A Turkish market launch, a VERBİS question, a local customer request, a data incident, a cross-border transfer, or a review of notices and consent can reveal missing ownership. It is especially useful when a foreign group has a global privacy programme but no one has mapped its Turkish operational facts.

04 · Evidence

What we need from your team

Bring the Turkish processing inventory, entity and representative information, data categories, purposes, recipients, transfers, retention, notices, consent flows, security measures, registry status, and incident route. The assessment should flag where you lack reliable facts rather than fill gaps with generic assumptions.

The review can include Turkish products and channels, data categories, processing purposes, local and overseas recipients, vendor contracts, notices, consent records, rights handling, security and incident routes, retention, and VERBİS information. We compare these sources with the people who operate the process so that a correct-looking document does not conceal an incorrect workflow.

05 · People

Who should join the work

The Turkish business or market owner, privacy contact, IT or security owner, and person responsible for VERBİS or authority correspondence should be involved. Leadership sets the deadline and risk tolerance, particularly when local representation or registration work is under consideration.

06 · Method

How we will work together

The workflow starts with applicability and evidence intake, tests the most material KVKK and registry questions, and returns a prioritised gap summary. It can point toward representation, compliance advice, VERBİS management, breach response, transfer, notice, or training support.

Findings are written for a Turkish privacy or business owner to use with IT, HR, marketing, procurement, support, and leadership. Each priority should explain the source, risk or consequence, responsible owner, and a practical next step. This makes the check-up useful for deciding between compliance, notices, transfers, training, representative, or registry support.

07 · Output

What you will receive

You receive the facts reviewed, open questions, priority actions, and recommended product path. The result is easy to hand to your Turkish owner or group privacy team and specific enough to turn compliance questions into assigned actions.

08 · Friction

What can make this harder

Many organisations lose time by assuming that GDPR automatically answers KVKK and VERBİS questions, or by treating registry information as a static form rather than a reflection of actual processing. The check-up separates those issues and identifies the owners who need to resolve them.

09 · Maintenance

How you keep it current

Maintain a small Turkish change record for purposes, data categories, recipients, transfers, systems, notices, registry information, and incidents. Revisit the snapshot after a material change, a Board development, or an authority request. The goal is a current operational view, not a one-time translation of a global policy.

Reopen the snapshot after a Turkish launch, new processing purpose, vendor or transfer change, incident, VERBİS update, notice revision, or change in representative or controller details. If the operation stays stable, an annual review can confirm the original picture. Keep Turkish-specific assumptions visible rather than hiding them behind a global policy folder.

10 · Boundaries

What stays with your organisation

The check-up is a readiness snapshot and not a certification, formal opinion, or substitute for implementing KVKK obligations. The controller remains responsible for its processing, records, security, notices, registry information, and response decisions.

11 · Scope

What to prepare before you start

Prepare the Turkish entity or foreign-controller details, current VERBİS status, data flows, notices, transfer locations, internal contact, and deadline. If you are unsure whether representation and advisory work are both needed, make that a stated intake question.

  • Turkish processing, entity, and market facts
  • KVKK notices, consent, rights, and security routes
  • VERBİS and cross-border transfer questions
  • Local owner, deadline, and priority action
  • Boundary between a readiness snapshot and advice

12 · Buyer brief

What your first working brief should contain

Give the KVKK review a Turkish operating brief. Include the local or foreign controller, Turkish products and channels, data categories, processing purposes, recipients, overseas routes, notices, consent and rights channels, incident contacts, security owner, VERBİS position, and the event that prompted the check-up. If a global policy is being reused, list the Turkish process that should be tested against it. A clear deadline helps separate an urgent customer or market-entry decision from work that can be sequenced.

Take the result to the person who can coordinate Turkish product, IT, security, HR, procurement, support, and registry owners. Close small gaps with a named action and use larger findings to choose the next paid service. Keep the snapshot distinct from an assurance statement: it does not certify KVKK compliance or implement controls. Reopen it after a new purpose, vendor, transfer, incident, notice, VERBİS entry, or representative change so local assumptions do not disappear inside a global programme.

13 · First test

What we will test first

The first review tests Turkish products and channels, controller details, notices, consent and rights routes, transfers, vendor access, security and incident contacts, VERBİS position, and local ownership. We mark differences between global material and the way Turkish teams actually operate. The buyer should receive a priority that can be discussed with product, IT, HR, procurement, support, or leadership, depending on the finding. Keep the Turkish trigger and source list with the snapshot, especially when a customer or market deadline drove the work. Reopen it after a new purpose, vendor, transfer, incident, notice, registry entry, or representative change. That gives the organisation a local decision record without claiming that a short check-up certifies the wider KVKK programme.

14 · Working record

How the result stays usable

A useful result has a home after delivery. Keep the source evidence, decision, owner, scope, open actions, and next review together in a register, project record, contract file, or management routine that your team already uses. The format can be short; it just needs to make the next action and the reason for reopening the question visible. That is how professional input stays connected to the business instead of becoming a document that no one can find when the facts change.

15 · Progress

How you can judge progress

Judge progress by what your team can use and explain. Look for a supported decision, an owner who understands the action, a route that works in practice, and evidence that the agreed output reached the right system, notice, contract, ticket, or meeting. A large document or a high-level score is not enough on its own. The stronger signal is fewer repeated questions, clearer escalation, and a review date that responds to actual change.

16 · Proportion

What a proportionate scope looks like

A proportionate scope should leave you with enough detail to act and enough clarity to know what remains outside the work. We will ask for the facts that can change the answer, explain material uncertainty, and keep specialist dependencies visible. You should be able to tell a manager what was reviewed, an operating owner what to do next, and a future reviewer what event would reopen the question. That balance protects your budget and makes the result more likely to stay useful after delivery.

17 · Handoff

What remains with your organisation

Your organisation remains responsible for the processing, resources, implementation, and final business decision. We can review the supplied facts, provide professional direction, prepare agreed outputs, and make open issues easier to act on. Bring in security, technical, employment, communications, or specialist legal expertise when the question needs it. Before you buy, name the decision, evidence, owner, deadline, and boundary so the selected scope is proportionate and easy to judge.

In practice

See what you can expect

Each view shows a different part of the buyer journey: the evidence, decision, working route, safeguards, and review point behind the service.

Editorial still life showing a Turkish KVKK readiness review with a shoreline map, assessment cards, and magnifying glass
Editorial still life showing a Turkish KVKK readiness review with a shoreline map, assessment cards, and magnifying glass; evidence view for this page
Editorial still life showing a Turkish KVKK readiness review with a shoreline map, assessment cards, and magnifying glass; decision view for this page
Editorial still life showing a Turkish KVKK readiness review with a shoreline map, assessment cards, and magnifying glass; workflow view for this page
Editorial still life showing a Turkish KVKK readiness review with a shoreline map, assessment cards, and magnifying glass; safeguard view for this page
Editorial still life showing a Turkish KVKK readiness review with a shoreline map, assessment cards, and magnifying glass; review view for this page

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about the KVKK Data Privacy Check-Up.

Is the KVKK check-up free?

Yes. It is free with no setup fee.

Does it cover VERBİS?

We flag VERBİS-related issues where relevant, although full registration work sits in paid products.

Can foreign companies use the check-up?

Yes. It is designed for both foreign and domestic organisations active in Türkiye.

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Disclaimer: This content is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice or create a solicitor-client relationship. Data protection regulations are subject to change and specific application depends on the context of your processing activities. Please consult directly with our legal team for advice tailored to your organization.

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