Data Processing Notice

This notice explains how MUHAMMET EMİN ÜSTÜN ("Badim"), as data controller, processes your personal data under Türkiye's Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 ("KVKK") and, where applicable, the EU/UK General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR").

1. Personal data processed

• Identity: name, username, date of birth (for age verification), optional gender.
• Contact: email address.
• Profile: photos, bio, city and country, interests, activity preferences, availability, what you're looking for.
• Location: approximate location (~1 km) only if you allow it; the meeting point you choose for listings.
• User activity: listings, participation, messages, ratings, reports, blocks.
• Security: device/notification tokens, sign-in records, app error logs.
• Finance: store purchase references (your card details are never processed by Badim; payments are taken by Google Play / App Store), Badim Coin transactions.
• Marketing: marketing communication preferences, only with your explicit consent.

2. Purposes

• Creating your membership, enforcing the 18+ policy and providing the service,
• Activity matching and personalized suggestions,
• Delivering messages, notifications and reminders,
• Keeping the community safe and preventing fake accounts, spam and abuse,
• Handling subscriptions, purchases and refunds and keeping legal records,
• Measuring and improving service quality.

3. Legal bases

Performance of a contract, compliance with legal obligations and legitimate interests (KVKK Art. 5/2 (c), (ç), (f); GDPR Art. 6(1)(b), (c), (f)); explicit consent for marketing messages and personalized ads (KVKK Art. 5/1; GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)).

4. Transfers

Your data may be transferred to our infrastructure providers to deliver the service (Google Firebase / Google Cloud — servers in the United States, Google AdMob, Google Play, Apple App Store). Transfers abroad are made with the safeguards required by KVKK Art. 9 and, where the GDPR applies, the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses. Data may be shared with competent public authorities where required by law.

5. Retention

When you delete your account, your profile, photos and personal data are deleted. Financial records that must be kept by law are retained in pseudonymised form for the statutory period.

6. Your rights

You have the right to learn whether your data is processed, to request information, access, correction, deletion or a copy of your data, to object or restrict processing, to withdraw consent and to claim compensation for damages (KVKK Art. 11; GDPR Arts. 15–22). In the app you can download your data and delete your account in Settings → Account & data. For other requests: mueminustun@gmail.com. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.