Privacy Notice on the Processing of Personal Data
This notice is provided to inform you under Article 10 of the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (KVKK). We record that you have read this notice; this is not an approval or explicit consent. For processing based on explicit consent, your consent is requested separately, with its own text, when you first use the relevant feature.
1. Data controller#
Piksel Bayt Teknoloji Limited Şirketi · MERSİS: 0729131336500001 · Address: Ünalan Mah. Ünalan Cad. Kapı No: 1 Daire No: 02, Üsküdar/İstanbul · KEP (registered electronic mail): [email protected] · Email: [email protected]
2. Data processed, purposes and legal grounds#
| Data | Examples | Purpose | Legal ground |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity and contact | Name and surname, email, Apple or Google account ID | Opening an account, signing in, account security notifications, support | Establishment and performance of a contract (Art. 5(2)(c)) |
| Sign-in and session security | Encrypted digest of the sign-in code, sign-in times, device and installation ID | Verifying sign-in, keeping the account open on only one device at a time, preventing abuse | Performance of a contract; legitimate interest in the security of the account (Art. 5(2)(f)) |
| Skin, hair and style profile | Skin and hair type, appearance goals, age range, gender, ingredients you prefer to avoid (such as fragrance, alcohol) | Personal recommendations, product compatibility result, ritual and routine | Performance of a contract |
| Health data | Pregnancy, breastfeeding or pregnancy planning; menopause; medicines you use; dermatological procedures in the last 4 weeks; diagnoses made by your doctor and your health conditions (such as rosacea, eczema, psoriasis, vitiligo, keloid, PCOS, thyroid, seizures, favism); hair loss pattern; your allergies and the allergens you avoid | Filtering out ingredients that do not suit you, compatibility result, routine, safe personalization of assistant responses | Explicit consent (Art. 6) |
| Health information in the cycle tracker and diary | Period and cycle records you enter in My cycle; symptoms, period and notes in your Skin check-in | Cycle tracking, showing changes in your skin in reports | Explicit consent (Art. 6) |
| Health information in chat | Information such as symptoms, medicines, diagnoses or pregnancy that you write or say to the assistant | Generating responses, referring you to a doctor where needed | Explicit consent (Art. 6); without consent, these details are masked before they reach the AI (§4) |
| Face and hair photos | Skin and hair analysis photos; the appearance of dryness, oiliness, redness, texture, spots and pores measured from the photo; the appearance of your hair | Skin and hair analysis, tracking change | Explicit consent (Art. 6) |
| Try-on photos | Try-on photos you save in Studio and the products tried | Showing them in Your try-ons | Explicit consent (Art. 6) |
| Diary photos | Photos you add to your Skin check-in or a child's diary | Keeping the record with photos, doctor summary | Explicit consent (Art. 6) |
| Color measurement and face structure | Color measurement photo, skin tone, eye and hair color measurements, facial proportions | Color signature, shade matching, makeup recommendations | Explicit consent (Art. 6); for a signature created from questions without a photo, performance of a contract |
| Belief preference | Preference for halal-certified or vegan products | Product recommendations and filters | Explicit consent (Art. 6) |
| Dress and attire preference | Headscarf or bonnet, modest clothing | Hair care and outfit recommendations | Explicit consent (Art. 6) |
| Voice assistant | Your speech (processed in real time; no audio recording is kept) and its transcript | Generating spoken responses | Explicit consent (Art. 6), because health information may come up in conversation |
| Assistant chats | Messages you write and the assistant's responses | Generating responses, showing chat history | Performance of a contract |
| Products and usage | Your shelf, products you scan, lists, notes, ritual and routine records | Features of the app | Performance of a contract |
| Label photo | Photo of the product label and the ingredients read from it | Reading the ingredients and assessing the product | Performance of a contract |
| Location | Province and district (coordinates are not stored) | Weather, UV and tap water information | Performance of a contract; you can turn off location permission at any time |
| Preferences inferred from use | The time you open the app, makeup occasion, routine length, budget tendency, the channel you prefer | Suggesting a reminder time and ordering; visible in Profile › Assistant › "What I've noticed" | Legitimate interest (Art. 5(2)(f)); a preference you mark as "Not right" is deleted and never inferred again. Health, belief and dress are never inferred; no inferences are made for users aged 18 and under |
| Usage records | Screens opened and features used, session and installation ID, account ID while signed in; free text you type is not included | Improving the product, fixing errors, support | Legitimate interest (Art. 5(2)(f)); you can turn this off in Profile › Privacy & data |
| Device and error records | Device model, app version, language, crash reports (without account ID) | Security and fixing errors | Legitimate interest (Art. 5(2)(f)) |
| Traffic information | Account ID, source IP address, connection time, type of service | Hosting provider obligation under Law No. 5651 | Expressly provided for by law and legal obligation (Art. 5(2)(a), (ç)) |
| Missing product and error reports | Product information you report (non-personal information such as name, brand, ingredients) | Correcting the catalog | Legitimate interest (Art. 5(2)(f)) |
| Support requests | Correspondence and your attachments | Providing support | Performance of a contract |
| Child profile (age 0–15) | The profile, diary, photos and health information a parent enters for their child | Care, ritual and diary suitable for the child | For special categories of data, the parent's explicit consent; for the rest, performance of the contract concluded with the parent |
| Co-parent | Invitation to a child profile, the parents' roles, who wrote each record | Management of the child profile by two parents | Performance of a contract; for sharing the child's special category data with the second parent, the explicit consent of the inviting parent |
| Consent to commercial electronic messages | Email, name and surname, date and channel (email or notification) of consent or refusal | Campaign and news messages | Consent under Article 6 of Law No. 6563; legal obligation for notification to the İYS (Message Management System) |
| Personalized advertising | Skin type, appearance goals, age range | Advertising selected for you | Explicit consent; not offered to users aged 18 and under. Health, belief, dress and attire, photos and color measurements are never used in advertising |
| Consent and acknowledgement records | Which version of which text you approved or read, and when | Proving compliance with obligations | Legal obligation; establishment, exercise or protection of a right (Art. 5(2)(ç), (e)) |
Health data, belief and dress and attire come only from your own statement; they are not inferred from your behavior, the products you scan or your photos. When you turn off pregnancy, breastfeeding or pregnancy planning mode, this statement is deleted within 30 days.
3. Method of collection#
Your data is collected electronically through the app and partly by automated means: the questions you answer, the photos you take, what you write and the records created while you use the app. When you sign in with Apple or Google, identity information is obtained from these services. Support and application correspondence is received by email or KEP.
4. Artificial intelligence and automated assessment#
- Product result: A product's compatibility with you and its compatibility score are calculated by Cliq's rule engine. AI reads the ingredients in the label photo; the score is not given by AI.
- Photo analysis and assistant: Skin and hair photo analysis and written and voice assistant responses are generated at an AI service provider in the USA. The connection is made only through the Cliq server; your identity is not sent to the provider. For each analysis, photos are sent only within the request and are stored in your Cliq account.
- Retention at the provider: The provider processes requests only to generate the response, does not retain them and does not use them for model training. Images assessed as containing child abuse may be retained under the provider's legal obligations and reported to the competent organizations.
- Assistant and health data: If you have given consent for health data, your health information is added to the assistant request. If you have not, or have withdrawn it, it is not added; health details in your message and chat history (medicine names, pregnancy, breastfeeding or pregnancy planning, diagnoses, symptoms) are masked as "[health information]" before they reach the provider, and the assistant gives general information. Masking is word-based and may not catch every expression. The original version of your message is stored in your chat history on the Cliq server; emergency and doctor-referral checks are performed on the original text.
- In the voice assistant, speech cannot be masked; for this reason, the voice assistant is turned on with separate explicit consent.
- The assistant says that it is AI. Try-on images carry an "Edited with AI" label.
- Results are for information; they are not medical diagnosis or advice.
- If you believe a product result is to your detriment, you can object using "Object to this result" on the result screen (§7, Art. 11(1)(g)).
5. Transfers#
Your data is transferred to the recipient groups and countries below, only for the stated purpose. The names of the service providers are disclosed on request; how to apply is set out in §7.
- Service providers (data processors): hosting (Germany, backup Ireland); email delivery (USA); AI service provider in the USA (photo analysis, label reading, written and voice assistant); edge network; Apple and Google (sign-in and notifications; only the identity token and device token, and the notification text does not carry personal or health information); Google Firebase (USA; crash reports and usage events, without account ID and advertising ID); server error monitoring (EU); Google Analytics (USA; on the website only, and only if you accept cookies, §8).
- Transfers abroad: Made with standard contracts under Article 9 of the KVKK and notified to the Personal Data Protection Authority. The processing of special category data is additionally based on your explicit consent; for a child profile, consent is given by the parent.
- Message Management System (İYS): if you have consented to commercial messages, your consent and refusal records.
- Brands: No data is shared other than aggregate and anonymous statistics that do not include your identity. Ads do not affect scores, rankings or recommendations.
- Competent authorities and institutions: in case of a legal obligation and only to the extent requested.
6. Retention periods#
| Data | Period |
|---|---|
| Analysis, try-on, diary and color measurement photos | Until you delete them, withdraw the relevant consent or your account is deleted. Deleting a photo does not delete the analysis results |
| Health answers, cycle, child diary | Until you delete them, withdraw your health data consent or the profile is deleted. When pregnancy, breastfeeding or pregnancy planning mode is turned off, the statement within 30 days |
| Chats | Until you delete them. In voice chat no audio recording is kept; the transcript for the same period as the chat |
| Label photo | 90 days |
| Audit copy of AI responses | 30 days; immediately when the related analysis, chat or account is deleted |
| Usage records and analytics | 13 months; when the account is deleted, the link to the account is removed |
| Application logs (IP address only in hashed form) | 14 days |
| Traffic information (5651) | 1 year, in a separate encrypted record |
| Sign-in records (email only in hashed form) | 1 year |
| Backups | 35 days; the data of a deleted account in backups cannot be read because the encryption key is destroyed |
| Consent and acknowledgement records | 10 years in pseudonymized form after the account is deleted |
| Commercial message consent and refusal records | 3 years from the end of the consent |
| Support requests | 2 years from closure; deleted together with the account when it is deleted, or kept until resolved if there is an open legal dispute |
| Data copy file | 7 days |
- Account deletion: You can change your mind within 14 days of your request. When this period ends, your account and your data are deleted; deletion is completed no later than 30 days from your request. Consent records and usage statistics that remain undeleted are pseudonymized, not anonymous.
- Inactive account: If you do not sign in for 24 months, we will notify you by email and notification; if you do not sign in within 30 days, your account is deleted.
- Data whose retention period has expired is deleted or anonymized by a job that runs every day.
7. Your rights (KVKK Art. 11)#
By applying to Cliq, you have the right to:
- a) learn whether your personal data is processed,
- b) request information about it if it has been processed,
- c) learn the purpose of processing and whether it is used in line with that purpose,
- ç) know the third parties in Turkey or abroad to whom it is transferred,
- d) request correction if it is processed incompletely or inaccurately,
- e) request its deletion or destruction under the conditions in Article 7 of the KVKK,
- f) request that the operations under (d) and (e) be notified to the third parties to whom the data has been transferred,
- g) object to a result to your detriment arising from analysis exclusively by automated systems,
- ğ) request compensation if you suffer damage due to unlawful processing.
In the app: Profile › Privacy & data (manage permissions, delete my data, copy of my data, consent history, delete account, object to usage records); "Object to this result" on a product result.
How to apply: [email protected] · KEP: [email protected] · in writing to Ünalan Mah. Ünalan Cad. Kapı No: 1 Daire No: 02, Üsküdar/İstanbul. Your identity is verified with a code sent to your account's email or with the Apple or Google account linked to your account. Your application is concluded free of charge within 30 days at the latest.
8. Website and cookies#
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how the site is used only if you accept them; if you don't, no request is sent to Google.
- Data processed: pages visited, browser and device type, approximate location (country and city), time of visit. Your IP address is truncated by Google; advertising and personalization features are off.
- Legal ground: explicit consent (KVKK Art. 5/1). The transfer to the USA is made under Article 9 of the KVKK.
- Retention: cookies for up to 13 months; event data in Google Analytics for 2 months.
- Your choice: you can withdraw consent at any time with the "Cookie preferences" link at the bottom of the site; the cookies are deleted when you do. Your choice is kept in your browser for 6 months.