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14 November 2026 · v2026-11-14

Privacy notice / KVKK

Controller and collection

Adanory is an early-stage startup in Istanbul, Turkey. Controller: [COMPANY LEGAL NAME]; MERSIS/tax number: [MERSIS / TAX NUMBER]; registered address: [REGISTERED ADDRESS]; VERBIS: [VERBIS STATUS]. EU representative, if required: [EU REPRESENTATIVE / APPLICABILITY]. Contact us only through the contact form. We collect data electronically through forms, account actions, browser requests and voice/text conversations.

Data, purposes and legal bases

We do not seek special-category data or identify speakers biometrically. Avoid sharing health or other sensitive details. Voice and inferred emotions may nevertheless be sensitive depending on context. KVKK article 6 and GDPR article 9 require an applicable special-category condition, such as valid explicit consent, before such processing; [SPECIAL-CATEGORY ASSESSMENT / LEGAL BASIS]. The ordinary service notice is not explicit consent for sensitive data.

Recipients and international transfers

Authorised Adanory operators handle accounts and requests; hosting/infrastructure processors support storage: [HOSTING PROCESSOR / COUNTRY]. The AI provider receives audio (including live-caption segments), text, recent conversation context, emotion context used for replies, and reply text as needed: [AI PROVIDER LEGAL NAME], [PROVIDER COUNTRY / PROCESSING LOCATIONS], [PROVIDER RETENTION / TRAINING POLICY]. Providers do not receive your account password. Optional social sign-in uses Google, GitHub or Microsoft: they may share name, e-mail and provider ID; Ada retains only e-mail and provider ID, and does not store the provider name/profile photo or access/ID tokens. The provider sees the sign-in and applies its own privacy policy. [SOCIAL PROVIDER COUNTRIES / TRANSFER TERMS]. We may disclose data to competent authorities when legally required.

API processing and sign-in may transfer data outside Turkey and the EEA. KVKK article 9 transfer mechanism: [KVKK ART. 9 SAFEGUARD / ADEQUACY / STANDARD CONTRACT AND NOTIFICATION]. GDPR chapter V mechanism: [GDPR TRANSFER SAFEGUARD / ADEQUACY / SCCs AND ASSESSMENT]. The operator must establish an applicable mechanism before international processing; acceptance of this notice or training consent does not itself authorise routine international transfers.

Retention

Account details, linked identities, acceptance evidence and saved text history remain until account deletion. Deletion immediately removes these, sessions, account-linked consent records and linked recordings from active storage; only an anonymous consent count remains. Necessary account sessions expire after 30 days of inactivity; the admin session lasts 12 hours; OAuth state lasts 10 minutes and re-authentication evidence is valid for 5 minutes. Temporary audio files are deleted in processing cleanup even on errors. The external provider's retention is [PROVIDER RETENTION].

Consented recordings and their consent evidence: 24 months (RETENTION_MONTHS; default 24). Contact messages: 24 months (CONTACT_RETENTION_MONTHS; default 24). Waitlist entries and marketing evidence: 24 months (WAITLIST_RETENTION_MONTHS; default 24). A startup cleanup and daily worker enforce these periods. Withdrawal removes technically linked recordings sooner. Guests should keep the displayed recording IDs and request withdrawal via the contact form; without a technical link we may need those IDs to locate recordings. Non-identifying operational counts contain no voice or chat text. [RETENTION PERIODS / BACKUP POLICY OWNER APPROVAL]. Browser preferences remain until cleared; see Cookies and storage.

Your rights and requests

KVKK article 11 gives you rights to learn whether data is processed; request information, purposes and recipients; correct incomplete/inaccurate data; request erasure where conditions apply and notification to recipients; object to an adverse result based solely on automated analysis; and seek compensation for unlawful processing. GDPR articles 15–22 additionally cover access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection and protections for significant automated decisions, as applicable. Ada estimates are not used to make decisions about people. You may withdraw consent prospectively without affecting prior lawful processing.

Use Privacy request in the contact form (access, correction, deletion, objection or consent withdrawal). We may ask for proportionate identity verification. We answer within 30 days. Accounts also have download and immediate deletion controls. Guardians may request a child's deletion through the form. You may complain to the Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK Kurumu), following applicable complaint procedures, or your EU supervisory authority. This notice is separate from consent; reading it is not agreeing to marketing or recording retention.

Sources: KVKK information duties, GDPR, IYS.