SmartThings Privacy Notice

Effective Date: March 14, 2024

At Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (“Samsung”), we know how important privacy is to our customers. Samsung is the data controller for SmartThings. The Data Controller Representative of Samsung in Turkey is “Samsung Electronics Istanbul Pazarlama ve Ticaret Ltd. Şti.”. We created this Privacy Notice (“KVKK Notification Text”) to make sure you understand how we collect and use your personal information.

Samsung aims to process personal data of SmartThings users in accordance with the international data protection provisions and the provisions of the Law No. 6698 on Protection of Personal Data (the “KVKK- also known as LPPD in English abbreviation”) and other legislation. We hereby inform you that your personal data that you have provided/will provide to Samsung and/or are obtained externally by any means by Samsung due to your being a SmartThings user shall be processed by Samsung acting as of “Data Controller”:

With this KVKK Notification Text (Obligation to Inform Text), it has been aimed to continue and develop the activities carried out by Samsung in accordance with the principles contained in the KVKK.

Our Samsung Privacy Policy at https://account.samsung.com/membership/terms/privacypolicy also applies to your use of SmartThings. Our Privacy Policy contains more information about how we use your data. It also includes information about your rights and how to contact us. Please read our Privacy Policy in addition to this KVKK Notification Text. However, this KVKK Notification Text shall always prevail over the Privacy Policy in relation to how we use your information for SmartThings.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

Samsung shall process your personal data for the purposes and legal grounds specified in this KVKK Notification Text. If there is any change in the purpose for which your personal data are processed or in the legal grounds thereof, this KVKK Notification Text shall be updated and re-published by Samsung.

Through SmartThings, Samsung obtains and maintains information about you in various ways. Your personal data are collected through electronic media, via all kinds of information, documents and certificates you have submitted to Samsung and collected through the application, both before and after the establishment of the contractual relationship and during such contractual relationship.

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