The Yücel Cultural Foundation may request a full name, date of birth or age, contact details, areas of interest and other information required for the relevant application in order to provide better services to scholarship recipients, donors, members, volunteers and other stakeholders.

The information requested is limited to what is necessary to provide the relevant service or carry out the relevant process.

Personal information collected through membership, application, donation, event and contact forms is not used for commercial purposes outside the stated purposes and the Foundation’s activities, and is not sold.

Personal data may be shared, to the extent necessary, with authorised service providers, relevant public authorities or other authorised parties in order to provide services, maintain information security, comply with legal obligations or respond to the data subject’s request.

Technical usage data such as IP addresses, device and browser information and pages visited may be processed to ensure the website operates securely and efficiently, identify technical issues and improve the user experience.

Where cookies and similar technologies are used, users can manage their preferences for non-essential cookies.

Members can access their accounts using their login details and password and update information in the permitted fields. Members are responsible for keeping their account information confidential and not sharing their password with third parties.

Authorised Foundation employees or service providers may access account information only to the extent necessary for support, security, system administration and compliance with legal obligations.

Promotional, campaign and announcement emails can be stopped using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of those messages.

Essential notices directly related to membership, applications, donations, payments, security or service delivery may continue to be sent for as long as the relevant process remains active.

Full credit card details entered on donation and payment pages are not stored on the Yücel Cultural Foundation’s servers. Payments are processed over a secure connection by the relevant bank or authorised payment service provider.

The Foundation may retain limited transaction information, such as the amount, date, transaction number and payment status, for payment tracking and accounting purposes.