Privacy Policy

Introduction

Fotografest ("we", "our", or "us") is a digital marketing agency based in Istanbul, Turkey. We are committed to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our website or engage with our services.

Data We Collect

When you interact with Fotografest, we may collect the following categories of personal data:

**Contact form submissions:** When you submit an inquiry through our contact form, we collect your name, email address, phone number (if provided), and the content of your message.

**Usage data:** We collect information about how you interact with our website, including pages visited, time spent on pages, browser type, device type, operating system, and referring URLs.

**Analytics cookies:** We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to understand website traffic patterns and improve user experience. These include session cookies and persistent analytics cookies.

How We Use Your Data

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

• Responding to inquiries: Contact form submissions are used solely to respond to your questions and provide information about our services.
• Improving our services: Aggregated usage data and analytics help us understand how visitors interact with our website and improve its content and performance.
• Analytics: We use anonymised and aggregated data to measure the effectiveness of our content and marketing activities.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data to third parties for their marketing purposes.

Third-Party Services

We use the following third-party services that may process your data:

**Google Analytics:** We use Google Analytics to collect anonymised data about website traffic and user behaviour. Google Analytics uses cookies to track interactions. You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the [Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on](https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).

**Resend:** We use Resend as our email delivery service. When you submit a contact form, your message and contact details are transmitted through Resend's infrastructure to reach our team. Resend processes this data solely for delivery purposes.

Data Retention

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected:

• Contact form data is retained for 2 years from the date of submission, after which it is securely deleted.
• Analytics data is retained in aggregated, anonymised form and is not subject to deletion requests.

Your Rights Under GDPR

If you are located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Right of access: You may request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Right to rectification: You may request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Right to erasure: You may request deletion of your personal data, subject to certain conditions.
• Right to data portability: You may request your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
• Right to object: You may object to processing based on legitimate interests.
• Right to restrict processing: You may request that we limit how we use your data.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details below.

Contact

For all privacy-related enquiries, requests, or concerns, please contact our designated privacy contact:

**Email:** privacy@fotografest.com

We aim to respond to all privacy requests within 30 days. If you are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection authority in your country.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be published on this page with an updated revision date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.