KVKK service

KVKK Compliance Programme

Organise Türkiye privacy responsibilities into a maintainable programme connected to real systems, teams, vendors, and customer activity.

A practical service built around your evidence

KVKK work often spans notices, inventories, transfers, vendors, requests, incidents, training, and VERBİS-related information. We help create one prioritised programme with accountable owners and evidence that can be maintained.

We adapt the service to your organisation's operations in Türkiye. It can begin with a broad baseline or focus on a specific product, local entity, foreign-controller arrangement, or commercial deadline.

Preparing for the first discussion

Start with a current account of your Turkish operations rather than a translation of a global policy. Identify the relevant legal entities, business processes, personal data categories, purposes, recipients, access locations, retention periods, and existing registry position. Nominate an internal owner who can obtain answers from HR, IT, sales, and suppliers. Where documents disagree, keep a record of the specific discrepancy and the person who will confirm the facts. That record helps separate a registration question from a notice, security, or transfer task and gives each part of the programme an accountable next step.

Service outputs

What you receive

The exact scope is confirmed before work begins. These are the core outputs normally used to turn the review into accountable action.

1

KVKK baseline

A practical view of current processing, controls, documents, responsibilities, and gaps.

2

Priority roadmap

Sequenced actions with owners, evidence, dependencies, and target dates.

3

Documentation support

Help with the notices, inventories, policies, procedures, and records included in scope.

4

Monitoring routine

Recurring reviews for changes, open actions, incidents, requests, vendors, and reporting.

How we work with your team

01

Confirm the scope

We agree the business question, processing, stakeholders, locations, deadlines, and evidence needed for a useful review.

02

Gather reliable evidence

We collect the relevant records, system and vendor information, existing documents, and input from accountable teams.

03

Complete the review

We test the current position, make assumptions explicit, resolve inconsistencies, and identify practical improvements.

04

Deliver and maintain

You receive decision-ready outputs, prioritised actions, accountable owners, and clear triggers for future review.

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 a Turkish KVKK compliance programme right for your organisation?

If your domestic or foreign organisation needs clearer ownership, documentation, registry information, notices, security, transfer, incident, and training routines for Turkish processing, this service gives you a local programme structure. It can support market entry, an existing programme, or remediation after customer or authority scrutiny.

A Turkish KVKK programme should make local processing, notices, consent or rights routes, security, transfers, VERBİS, and ownership easier to operate. It may support a foreign business entering Türkiye, a domestic organisation with fragmented records, or a group whose global policy has not been translated into Turkish processes. The service creates priorities tied to real teams and decisions.

02 · Decision

What you will be able to decide

The programme should help leadership decide what to fix first, who owns each KVKK task, which information belongs in VERBİS, what evidence is required, and how Turkish work fits with the group’s wider controls. The goal is a usable local programme, not a translated global policy.

Leadership should see which KVKK actions matter now, which evidence is missing, who can close each item, and how the programme will stay current. We sequence foundational records and notices with event-driven work such as transfers, incidents, registry changes, risk reviews, and training so the team can invest in the next useful result.

03 · Trigger

When to bring us in

A Turkish launch, VERBİS review, new vendor, transfer, notice change, data incident, customer questionnaire, acquisition, or staff turnover can expose missing local ownership. The programme is also useful when registry records and operational processing no longer tell the same story.

04 · Evidence

What we need from your team

The baseline uses the controller and representative structure, processing purposes, data and people categories, recipients, transfers, retention, notices, consent, security measures, incidents, rights, training, and registry information. Facts should be checked with the teams that operate the systems.

The programme can draw from Turkish processing records, notices, consent and rights workflows, vendor and transfer material, security and incident evidence, retention, contracts, VERBİS information, HR and customer processes, and prior decisions. We compare sources with local owners and mark where a global document does not describe the Turkish operation accurately.

05 · People

Who should join the work

Leadership sets priorities. The Turkish privacy or operations owner coordinates with IT, security, product, HR, marketing, procurement, customer, and legal teams. Each workstream needs a responsible owner and a completion test, especially where group and local responsibilities overlap.

06 · Method

How we will work together

We establish a local baseline, separate registry and programme tasks, prioritise risk, assign actions, and create a review cadence. We can begin with VERBİS, your priority product, a notice set, or a high-risk transfer and grow from there.

A maintainable programme needs a local owner map, action register, approval route, review triggers, and a reporting format managers can use. We can help connect the work to product, IT, security, HR, procurement, support, and registry routines. The organisation remains responsible for implementation, truthful records, and decisions about its processing.

07 · Output

What you will receive

Outputs may include a roadmap, role model, processing and registry improvements, documentation plan, incident and request workflow, transfer actions, training, and management reporting. Scope should explain what is delivered and what the organisation must implement.

08 · Friction

What can make this harder

Programmes stall when GDPR language is copied into KVKK work without checking local facts, when registry information is not maintained with the inventory, or when one adviser is expected to operate every control. Clear separation of roles and actions prevents that confusion.

09 · Maintenance

How you keep it current

Use a Turkish change log, action register, review dates, and triggers for purpose, recipient, transfer, system, notice, incident, and registry changes. Revisit the programme after Board developments or material changes in the organisation’s Türkiye-facing activities.

Use Turkish change events to keep the programme current: new purpose, system, vendor, transfer, product, workforce process, incident, VERBİS update, notice, or authority contact. A recurring review should test owner capacity and evidence quality. Change the rhythm as the business grows rather than leaving local work as a once-a-year exercise.

10 · Boundaries

What stays with your organisation

A KVKK programme does not certify the controller or replace local legal, security, employment, or technical advice. The organisation remains responsible for lawful processing, registry accuracy, safeguards, notices, responses, and implementation.

11 · Scope

What to prepare before you start

Bring the Turkish entities, controller and representative details, current VERBİS position, priority products, documents, open findings, customer or authority deadline, and senior sponsor. Decide whether the first phase is baseline, remediation, or ongoing support.

  • Turkish processing scope and local owner map
  • Notices, consent, rights, security, transfers, and VERBİS
  • Priority sequence connected to business capacity
  • Integration with product, IT, HR, procurement, and support
  • Review rhythm tied to Turkish change events

12 · Buyer brief

What your first working brief should contain

Build the Turkish programme brief from real local work: products, customers, employees, systems, vendors, purposes, data categories, notices, consent and rights routes, transfers, security, incidents, retention, contracts, VERBİS, and management concerns. Mark what is supported by evidence and what is copied from a global policy. Add the business trigger and local owners. This makes it possible to sequence KVKK work around capacity instead of presenting one large checklist that no team can maintain.

Use a Turkish action register that spans product, IT, security, HR, procurement, support, registry, and leadership. Give each item a source, owner, completion signal, and review trigger. Reopen the programme after a new purpose, vendor, transfer, product, incident, notice, VERBİS change, or authority contact. A programme improves accountability and consistency, but it does not transfer the controller’s responsibility for truthful records, resources, implementation, or final decisions.

13 · First test

What we will test first

The first Turkish programme period tests local products, customers, employees, systems, purposes, categories, notices, consent and rights routes, transfers, vendors, security, incidents, retention, contracts, VERBİS, and management priorities. We separate Turkish facts from global assumptions and agree the sequence that current owners can sustain. Track actions in product, IT, security, HR, procurement, support, registry, and leadership routines. Reopen after a purpose, vendor, transfer, product, incident, notice, VERBİS, or authority change. The programme strengthens local accountability without transferring the controller’s final responsibility.

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.

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Frequently asked questions

Can the programme cover a foreign company?

Yes. The scope can address processing connected with Türkiye and coordinate with local representatives or advisers where relevant.

Can we begin with a gap assessment?

Yes. A focused baseline is often the best way to identify urgent work and build a realistic delivery sequence.

Do you support implementation as well as review?

Yes. The service can include drafting, stakeholder coordination, action tracking, training, and recurring programme reviews.

Discuss the scope before you commit

Tell us what changed, what evidence you already have, and which decision or deadline the work needs to support.

Contact our team

Service information is general and does not replace advice based on the facts of a specific matter. Final scope, responsibilities, and deliverables are confirmed in the service documentation.

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