Turkey

Last Updated: May 28, 2025

For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, personal information shall have the meaning of “personal data” as referred to in the Turkish Data Protection Law No. 6698.

If you are located in Turkey, we may collect your government-issued ID or other identity documents (e.g., your passport) to help us meet our compliance and legal obligations. We may also collect additional information and documents (e.g., the Occupational Certificate of Activity (Mesleki Faaliyet Belgesi in Turkish), the Tradesman and Craftsman Certificate of Registry (Esnaf ve Sanatkâr Sicil Tasdiknamesi in Turkish), the Trade Registry Gazette (Ticaret Sicili Gazetesi in Turkish) and/or the Certificate of Activity (Faaliyet Belgesi in Turkish)) from you to verify your registration information to the extent applicable. However, in any case, we do not utilize facial recognition technology to verify your identity, and therefore Our Face Verification Processing notice is not applicable to you.

Legal Basis

The legal basis for the processing and transfer of your personal data (including personal data collected through cookies and similar technologies) provided above is as follows:

  • Performance of a contract: when we provide our Services, or communicate with you about them. This includes when we use your personal data to develop, improve, support, and provide the Service, allowing you to use its features while fulfilling and enforcing our Temu Seller Services Agreement.

  • Our legitimate business interests and the interests of third parties and/or our customers: when we optimize features, analyse performance metrics, fix errors, and improve the Service and our business, when we detect and prevent fraud and abuse in order to protect the security of our customers, ourselves, or others.

  • Your consent: when we ask for your consent to process your personal data for a specific purpose that we communicate to you. When you consent to our processing your personal data for a specified purpose, you may withdraw your consent at any time and we will stop processing of your data for that purpose.

  • Compliance with a legal obligation and establishment, use or protection of a right: when we use your personal data for compliance purposes and to comply with the applicable law, laws, lawful requests, and legal processes (e.g., responding to subpoenas or requests from government authorities) associated with your country of residence; to protect our, your, and other users' rights, privacy, safety, or property (including introducing and defending legal claims); audit internal processes to ensure compliance with legal and contractual requirements and our internal policies; enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Service; prevent, identify, investigate, and deter fraudulent, harmful, unauthorised, unethical, or illegal activities, including cyberattacks and identity theft.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Please see Seller Cookie Policy for further details on cookies and similar technologies.

Your Rights

Pursuant to Article 11 of the Turkish Data Protection Law No. 6698, in respect of your personal data processed by Temu, and to the extent Temu is processing your personal data as a data controller, you have the right:

  1. to learn whether any of your personal data is subject to processing;

  2. to request information regarding the processing activities;

  3. to learn the purposes of the processing and whether or not it is used for the purposes intended;

  4. to know the third parties within or outside the country, to whom your personal data are transferred;

  5. to request correction of incomplete or inaccurate personal data;

  6. to request deletion or destruction of your personal data under the conditions set forth in Article 7 of the Turkish Data Protection Law No. 6698;

  7. to ask for notification to the third parties to whom your personal data have been transferred about the correction, deletion and/or destruction of your personal data pursuant to the above-mentioned clauses (e) and (f);

  8. to object to negative consequences which arise as a result of the analysis of your personal data processed solely by automatic means; and

  9. to request indemnification if you suffer damage as a result of illegal processing of your personal data.

To exercise your rights, you may contact us at our dedicated Contact us (Last Section). We endeavor to resolve your requests as soon as possible according to the nature of your request and in any case, within thirty days - as required by Turkish Data Protection Law No. 6698.

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