TERMS OF USE
- Owner and content provider of the web site, ''www.comparetheclinics.com'', which belong to AIM Limited is that is a corporation founded and maintains its entity pursuant to laws of Republic of Turkey, registered in Istanbul Trade Register (Nr. 574014) and having headquarters in Otakçılar Caddesi, No: 78 Flat Ofis Aqua Ofis Court D Blok 3. Kat NO: 103 Eyüp ISTANBUL.
- User is a real person, who visits the Site for personal use and/or becomes a member to utilize the online services of Compare The Clinics that are not related with diagnosis and treatment. The User uses the Site in line with the intents and authorizations outlined in this Terms of Use. User shall not take any action that violates relevant laws and Terms of Use specified at the Site.
- User accepts, declares and guarantees that Terms of Use and provisions of Privacy Policy have been read and understood and that User acts in line with Privacy rules.
- User clearly accepts, states and guarantees that User read and understood these terms and is also obliged to follow all laws, regulations and other legislations in force related to the Site along with these terms. User knows and accepts that access to the Site and/or User's membership can be ceased and/or legal proceedings can be pursued if User acts against this undertaking.
- User clearly accepts that costs may vary according to the physical examination and treatment plan.
- User clearly accepts and acknowledged by this clause that Compare The Clinics is an e-service company, that it is not a company that actually provides healthcare services but simply serves as an intermediating company between hospitals/clinics and patients that require healthcare services. In this context, I am aware that Compare The Clinics cannot be held responsible for any problems that may occur from any treatment/services provided, that the hospitals/clinics will take full responsibility, and the establishment providing the healthcare services is the sole addressee regarding any legal procedures that may occur.
- The only aim of providing links from the Site to various websites is to inform the patient. Compare The Clinics does not warrant or assume liability or responsibility for the contents of the web sites that the official web provides links.
- Compare The Clinics does not warrant that the information, comment, image, method and other data (Content/Information) published at the site is correct, accurate, functional, faultless and up-to-date. Site and its content are submitted “as is" and “as it stands".
-The content of the Site may contain uncertain, open-ended and risky statements. User should not use the content as an unhesitant information source. User accepts that the comment and the opinion regarding the medical data belong to the hospital/clinic.
- Data Controller and Representative AIM LIMITED, We prioritize the right to privacy in our clinical activities that we offer, and we show all care and importance to the security of your personal data. Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“Law No. 6698”), Health Services Basic Law No. 3359, Decree Law No. 663 on the Organization and Duties of the Ministry of Health and its Affiliates, Private Hospitals Regulation, Ministry of Health regulations and other legislation provisions. Your personal data within the scope of this Clarification Text, in order to collect and process your personal data that you have provided to us while using our health services and other services, including your qualified personal data, in accordance with the law; AIM LIMITED. (referred to as "Compare The Clinics") within the scope described below.Your personal data, including your personal data of special nature, are processed by Compare The Clinics as Data Controller within the scope of Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 and relevant legislation on behalf of Compare The Clinics, in connection with the purposes of processing, limited, measured, correct and in accordance with the law and honesty rule. will be processed for certain express and legitimate purposes.Data belonging to individuals and institutions receiving service from Compare The Clinics, your personal and private data, especially health data, in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Protection of Personal Data No. "6698": name, surname, T.C. Identity number and/or passport number and/or temporary TR Identity number, place and/or date of birth, gender, health insurance, insurance card number, workplace registry and/or patient identification number and other identification data that may identify you; your address, telephone number, e-mail address and other communication data and your personal data obtained when you contact us via e-mail, letter and/or other means; your financial data such as bank account number, IBAN number, credit card information, billing and billing information; your data on private health insurance for the financing and planning of health services, and your data on payer institution information such as the Social Security Institution; your data regarding all kinds of health information obtained during and/or as a result of medical services, including but not limited to patient medical reports, diagnostic data and test results, examination data, doctor analysis and comments, appointment information, prescription information; your notifications such as survey, thank you, letter of complaint, satisfaction results; You have provided service to Compare The Clinics with your images obtained from the camera recordings that are constantly recorded in the common areas as per the legislation, the data you send and/or enter through all websites and online services of Compare The Clinics, your IP address and other personal data, and other personal data. All kinds of personal data related to your personal data (“Personal Data/Personal Data”) are processed and will be processed within the scope of the personal data processing conditions and purposes specified in Articles 5 and 6 of the Law No. 6698, within the legal limits. In this context, corporate measures are taken by paying the utmost attention and care to the protection of your personal data, and the continuity of the trainings given to our personnel regarding all these issues is provided and continues.
For What Purpose Personal Data Will Be Processed
Your personal data may be processed by Compare The Clinics for the following purposes:
- Fulfilling our legal obligations in the Health Services Basic Law No. 3359, Decree Law No. 663 on the Organization and Duties of the Ministry of Health and its Affiliates, Law on the Protection of Personal Data No. 6698, Regulation on the Processing and Privacy of Personal Health Data and other relevant legislation .
- Identification and verification in order to prevent your Personal Data/Personal Data from being captured by others.
- Protection of public health, preventive medicine, medical diagnosis, execution of treatment and care services, planning and management of health services and financing.
- Supply of medicines and/or medical supplies and/or devices specific to you.
- Informing you about the appointment, providing information and/or reminding you of the appointment if you make an appointment.
- Planning and management of the internal functioning of the company, development of services, analysis, risk management and evaluation of quality processes.
- Fulfillment of legal and regulatory requirements.
- Sharing and responding to the information obtained with the Ministry of Health and other public institutions and organizations in accordance with the legislation.
- Questioning your entitlement with the institutions/organizations that have an agreement with the company or providing a financial agreement with these institutions regarding the health services offered to you.
- Sharing information and identity verification requested by contracted institutions/organizations, especially private insurance companies, within the scope of financing health services.
- Issuing invoices for the services we provide.
- Taking all necessary technical and administrative measures within the scope of data security of clinical systems and applications.
- Monitoring and prevention of abuse and unauthorized transactions.
- Analyzing your use of health services and storing your health data, responding to your questions or complaints about our services, in order to develop and improve the health services we provide to you.
- Providing the necessary information in line with the requests and inspections of regulatory and supervisory institutions and official authorities.
- Preserving information about your health data, which must be kept in accordance with the relevant legislation.
- Compliance with internal policies and principles.
- Measuring patient satisfaction and increasing patient satisfaction after receiving health services.
- To carry out promotional and information activities specific to you and to ensure that you benefit, to contact you for information about our services.
- Without being limited to these, conducting medical care services, increasing patient satisfaction, researching and related causes.
- In order to ensure that the human resources policies of our company are carried out; The data of our employees will be processed for the purposes of increasing the performance level and employee satisfaction, and ensuring occupational safety and work peace, in addition to the obligations stipulated by the Labor Law, labor and social security legislation and other applicable legislation.
Your Personal Data/Personal Data obtained and processed pursuant to the relevant legislation can be transferred to the physical archives and/or information systems of Compare The Clinics, and can be kept in both digital and physical environment.
Pursuant to Articles 5 and 6 of the KVKK, it will be possible to process your personal data without your explicit consent in the following cases:
- In cases expressly stipulated in the laws,
- If you, as the data owner, are unable to express your consent due to actual impossibility, or in cases where your consent is not legally valid, it is necessary to process your personal data in order to protect your own or someone else's life or physical integrity,
- It is necessary to process your Personal Data of the parties to the contract, provided that it is directly related to the establishment or performance of a contract,
- It is mandatory for the data controller to fulfill its legal obligations,
- Your Personal Data has been made public by you,
- Data processing is mandatory for the establishment, exercise or protection of a right,- Data processing is mandatory for the legitimate interests of the data controller, provided that it does not harm the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject.
- It may be processed by persons or authorized institutions and organizations under the obligation of secrecy for the purpose of protecting public health, preventive medicine, medical diagnosis, carrying out treatment and care services, planning and management of health services and their financing.
- The Parties to which Personal Data may be Transferred and the Purpose of Transfer
Your collected personal data; In line with the realization of the above-mentioned objectives; It can also be transferred to legally authorized public institutions and private individuals, our suppliers and, again, limited to these purposes and to financial institutions to the extent permitted by the relevant legislation, limited to the purposes specified within the framework of the personal data processing conditions and purposes specified in Articles 8 and 9 of the Law No. 6698, can be processed at home or abroad.
- Method and Legal Reason for Personal Data Collection
Your personal data is collected by our Company for the above purposes, based on different channels and different legal reasons. Your personal data collected in this process; in physical or electronic environment; It is collected for legal reasons to realize the purposes specified in this clarification text and to fulfill our related obligations. Your personal data collected for these legal reasons can be processed and transferred within the scope of the personal data processing conditions and purposes specified in Articles 5 and 6 of the Law No. 6698.
- Data Processing Time and Retention Time
The Personal Data you have shared with Compare The Clinics through the channels mentioned in the Clarification Text will be processed in compliance with the data processing and statute of limitations in all relevant laws and other legal regulations, especially the Law on Protection of Personal Data, and in any case, as long as the above legitimate purposes exist. In case of changes in the laws regarding data processing periods, the new determined periods will be taken as basis.As a requirement of the purpose-limitation principle, your personal data is processed for a limited period of time that requires the fulfillment of the purposes described in this Clarification Text and in any case in accordance with the practices of private health clinics and the practices in the service relationship, and after the expiry of the deadlines, they are deleted, destroyed or anonymized.
- Rights of Personal Data Owners Enumerated in Law No. 6698
As personal data owners, if you submit your requests regarding your rights to our Company using the methods set out in the Data Subject Application Form available from our company and shared with the public, the Company will conclude the request as soon as possible and free of charge within thirty days at the latest, depending on the nature of the request. However, if the process requires an additional cost, the fee in the tariff determined by the Personal Data Protection Board will be charged by the Company. In this context, personal data owners;
• Learning whether personal data is processed or not,
• If personal data has been processed, requesting information about it,
• To learn the purpose of processing personal data and whether they are used in accordance with the purpose,
• Knowing the third parties to whom personal data is transferred in the country or abroad,
• Requesting correction of personal data in case of incomplete or incorrect processing and requesting notification of the transaction made within this scope to the third parties to whom the personal data has been transferred,
• Requesting the deletion or destruction of personal data in the event that the reasons requiring processing are eliminated, although it has been processed in accordance with the provisions of the Law No. 6698 and other relevant laws, and requesting the notification of the transaction made within this scope to the third parties to whom the personal data has been transferred,
• Objecting to the emergence of a result against the person himself by analyzing the processed data exclusively through automated systems,
• In case you suffer damage due to unlawful processing of personal data, it has the right to demand the compensation of the damage.
- Informing about third parties or organizations to which your personal data can be transferred
Persons / organizations to whom your personal data that you shared with our company can be transferred for the above-mentioned purposes; our main shareholders, our direct or indirect subsidiaries, including but not limited to persons and organizations related to the service provided, program partner organizations and other 3rd parties from which we receive service, cooperate with us, in order to carry out our activities and/or as Data Processors.
In addition, your personal data is contracted to send the messages we send to our customers, to the program partner institutions, organizations, banks, financial institutions, providers or companies, from which we receive services for product / service comparison and application, and to people and institutions from whom we receive services for storing data in the cloud environment. It can be transferred to the institutions we are affiliated with and to other third parties within the framework of our relevant cooperation.
- Compare The Clinics has the right to update, change, delete and edit the Information published at the Site. Compare The Clinics assumes no responsibility for User or third parties regarding possible mistakes, deficiencies or changes that may occur while all those procedures are done.
- Compare The Clinics does not warrant that the Site provides continuous service, and it may temporarily suspend the function of current system or cease it at any time. Compare The Clinics does not guarantee that the site does not contain virus or pollutant or destructive features and that your computer will not be infected due to downloading from the Site. Compare The Clinics assumes no responsibility for User and third parties regarding these problems.
- Compare The Clinics is no means liable for User or third parties due to suspending a part of or the whole Site temporarily or ceasing the publication of the Site.
- Compare The Clinics does not make a commitment to the User regarding the information on portal or web sites accessed through the links in or on the Site. The User is solely responsible for all discretions and acts about the said information. User shall not claim against Compare The Clinics due to unauthorized use of information published at the Site, making decisions or acting in line with the content or suffering from loss or damage due to use of Information accessed through the Site. MP assumes no responsibility for losses or damages that occurred or will occur due to the Site as claimed by the User.
- All the information available on Site includes general knowledge that are issued to protect, prevent and improve the health and to raise awareness of the public. It can be no means regarded as an advice for the specific condition of the User.
- Any information on Site does not carry diagnostic or therapeutic meaning. Do not use the information available on the Site to select method of diagnosis and treatment. You should always and necessarily consult your doctor for diagnosis and treatment. Everyone may have different and special conditions and it is only your physician who can assess such conditions.
- The informative Content of the Site has no advertisement or demand-conditioning aim and it does not intend guiding someone to diagnosis and treatment.
You need to follow below written stages to become a member for utilizing the online services of the Site:
- The User should personally enter name, surname, mobile number and email address that will be needed to get qutations from hospitals/clinics. User should not share their details and confirmation mail link with third parties and follow all the security and privacy rules to hinder access of third parties. User accepts, declares and guarantees in advance that the processes performed using his/her details shall be deemed as actions performed by the User and that all resultant responsibility shall be undertaken by the User.
- User may receive support on following issues through the online services.
- If the User shares personal information during the use of the Site, the User accepts and guarantees that the said information is true, accurate and safe personal detail.
- If a User younger than 18 schedules appointment at one of the hospitals/clinics using E-Appointment application, it is necessary that the User presents to the appointment with parents or should submit written consent of guarding parents.
-User cannot use the Site illegally, unethically and dishonestly. User shall not use the Site for amending, damaging or reverse engineering the Site or a part of it or for collecting data stored at the Site. User cannot do anything to damage the Site, such as infecting the site with virus etc.
- User cannot use the Site, infrastructure of the Site and/or the Content for tracking, copying or otherwise modifying the User data of the Site.
- User shall not use any information published at the Site, including but not limited to any name, title, brand, logo, visual, document, database, method, technique etc. of Compare The Clinics (all referred to as “Content") without consent of Compare The Clinics. Compare The Clinics has primarily the moral rights based on the Code of Intellectual and Artistic Works No. 5846 and rights to process, copy, distribute, represent and publish (financial) and all other rights based on other legislations. All unauthorized uses by the User, that is without consent of Compare The Clinics, will clearly imply breach of the Compare The Clinics's rights and the provisions of this Terms of Use, regardless of whether the use causes a damage or not.
- User accepts to compensate all positive and negative loss, including profit loss of Compare The Clinics and third parties, if she/he breaches the copyrights of Compare The Clinics or uses the Site in violation of this Terms of Use.
- Compare The Clinics declares, guarantees and accepts that cookies are used in the system of the site, the cookies are pieces of information that are transferred to the cookie file of the User's computer and that these help collecting information about User of the Site and to design and develop more appropriate and beneficial Content.
- Your IP address is registered every time you visit our site, as well as your details may also be saved.
- You may communicate your complaints, recommendations, information demands to the mail address support@comparetheclinics.com You may seek support through Customer Services at +90 554 694 64 31.
- You can access the occupational ethics and affiliated legislation of physicians at http://www.ttb.org.tr.
- All disputes arising out of the Site shall be governed by relevant legislation of Republic of Turkey at Istanbul (Çağlayan) courts and execution offices.
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