Last updated: 20 October 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Beyond Teknoloji Anonim Şirketi (“Beyond Guides”, “we”, “us” or “our”) processes personal data when you visit www.beyondguides.com (the “Website”), contact us or subscribe to email updates.
The Website promotes the Beyond Guides mobile application. This policy applies only to the Website. Personal data processing within the mobile application is explained in separate privacy notices provided in the application.
References to the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the rights it provides apply where the relevant processing falls within its scope.
1. Who is responsible for your personal data?
The controller responsible for the processing described in this policy is:
Beyond Teknoloji Anonim Şirketi
Nisbetiye Mahallesi, Nisbetiye Caddesi
No: 24, İç Kapı No: 17
Beşiktaş / Istanbul / Türkiye
Privacy contact: [hello@beyondguides.com]
2. Personal data we collect
Depending on how you interact with the Website, we collect:
Technical and visit information: Your IP address, device and browser information, operating system, access times, requested pages, and technical or error logs.
Contact information: Your name, email address, the contents of messages you send through our contact form, and subsequent correspondence.
Email subscription information: Your email address, subscription preferences, and records of your consent or withdrawal, including relevant dates and times.
Analytics and advertising information: Cookie identifiers and similar online identifiers, page visits, interactions with the Website, and device and browser information collected through analytics tools and advertising pixels.
Privacy request information: Information necessary to handle requests concerning your personal data and, where reasonably required, verify your identity.
Please do not include sensitive personal information, such as health information, in messages unless it is necessary for your request.
3. Why we use your data and our legal bases
Operating and securing the Website
We use technical information to deliver the Website, diagnose faults, prevent misuse and maintain security.
Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in operating a functional and secure website under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, provided that this interest is not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.
Responding to enquiries
We use your contact details and correspondence to respond to questions, suggestions and other requests.
Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in communicating with people who contact us under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.
Sending email updates
We use your email address to send the Beyond Guides launch announcements and updates you choose to receive.
Our legal basis is your consent under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. Subscribing does not create an application account or a paid subscription.
Analytics and advertising measurement
We use analytics tools and advertising pixels to understand visits and interactions and to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
For personal data processing through non-essential analytics and advertising technologies, we rely on your consent under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR.
Managing preferences and privacy requests
We use relevant records to document consent, honour withdrawal and objection requests, and respond to privacy enquiries.
Where processing is necessary to meet obligations under the GDPR or other applicable EU or Member State law, our legal basis is Article 6(1)(c) GDPR. We also retain limited preference records where necessary for our legitimate interest in respecting your choices and preventing unwanted communications under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.
Protecting legal rights
Where necessary, we use relevant correspondence and records to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in protecting our legal rights under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.
4. Cookies, analytics and advertising pixels
The Website uses technologies that support its essential functions, together with analytics tools and advertising pixels.
Non-essential analytics and advertising processing requires your consent. Visiting the Website or reading this policy does not constitute consent.
Further information about the technologies used, their providers, purposes, durations and available controls is provided in our Cookie Policy.
Advertising platforms may associate information received through their tools with other information they hold about you, depending on the tools used and your settings with those platforms. Their privacy notices explain their own processing.
5. Who receives your personal data?
We disclose relevant personal data to the following categories of recipients where necessary for the purposes described:
Hosting and technical service providers: To host, operate, maintain and secure the Website and store information submitted through its forms.
Email and communication service providers: To manage enquiries, send requested updates and maintain communication preferences.
Analytics and advertising providers: To analyse Website interactions and measure advertising performance within the scope of your consent.
Professional advisers: Where necessary to obtain legal advice or establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
Public authorities and courts: Where disclosure has a valid legal basis and is required or permitted by applicable law.
The information disclosed is limited to what is relevant to the particular service or purpose.
6. How long we retain personal data
Retention periods depend on the purpose of the processing and any applicable legal requirements.
Enquiries and correspondence are retained for the time needed to respond and complete relevant follow-up. Records necessary for legal claims may be retained for the applicable limitation period or until the matter is resolved.
Email subscription information is used while the subscription remains active and the relevant updates continue. When you unsubscribe, we stop using your email address to send those updates.
Consent, withdrawal and objection records may be retained for as long as necessary to demonstrate how your preferences were handled and ensure that your choices continue to be respected.
Technical and security logs are retained for a period proportionate to troubleshooting and security needs. Relevant records may be retained longer when necessary to investigate a specific incident or protect legal rights.
Cookie and analytics retention periods are explained in the Cookie Policy and depend on the technology and settings used.
When personal data is no longer needed, it is deleted or anonymised, unless continued retention is required by an applicable legal obligation.
7. Your choices and rights
Where the GDPR applies, you have the following rights, subject to the conditions and exceptions established by law:
Access: Obtain information about the processing of your personal data and a copy of that data.
Rectification: Have inaccurate data corrected and incomplete data completed.
Erasure: Request deletion of your personal data.
Restriction: Request that the use of your personal data be restricted.
Portability: Receive personal data you have provided in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and request its transmission to another controller where processing is automated and based on consent or a contract.
Withdrawal of consent: Withdraw consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.
You also have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to processing based on our legitimate interests.
You may object to the use of your personal data for direct marketing at any time, free of charge. This includes profiling related to direct marketing. Following such an objection, your data must no longer be processed for those purposes.
To unsubscribe from email updates, use the unsubscribe link in an email or contact us. You do not need to subscribe to marketing communications to contact us or receive a response to an enquiry.
8. How to exercise your rights
Please send privacy requests to [hello@beyondguides.com] or write to the postal address in Section 1.
We may ask for additional information where reasonably necessary to verify your identity or understand your request.
We respond without undue delay and normally within one month of receiving your request. Where permitted by the GDPR, this period may be extended by up to two further months because of the complexity or number of requests. If an extension is necessary, we will inform you within the initial month and explain why.
Requests are normally handled free of charge. Where a request is manifestly unfounded or excessive, the GDPR permits a reasonable fee or refusal to act, with an explanation.
You may lodge a complaint with a competent data protection supervisory authority, particularly in the country of your habitual residence, place of work or the alleged infringement. You do not have to contact us before lodging a complaint.
9. Whether you must provide personal data
Providing information through our contact and subscription forms is voluntary and is not a statutory or contractual requirement.
If you do not provide an email address and enough information to explain your enquiry, we may be unable to respond. If you do not provide an email address for a subscription, we cannot send you updates.
You can browse the Website without subscribing or submitting a contact form. Technical information necessary to deliver and secure the Website is processed when you access it.
10. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy to reflect changes to the Website, our processing activities or applicable requirements. The current version will be published on this page with its last updated date.
Where required, material changes will be brought to your attention before they take effect. If a new processing activity requires your consent, it will be requested separately.