KVKK Information Notice

Last updated: 16 October 2026

Under Turkey's Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (KVKK), MelberLabs, as data controller, informs you about how your personal data is processed. Contact: melberlabs@gmail.com

Data processed

Guest account identifier; your email address if you link one; logbook entries and fishing sessions; photos you add (location metadata removed); locations of private spots and marked points; purchase transaction identifiers. Your current location is used only, rounded, to fetch forecasts and isn't stored with your identity. In voice logging, audio and text stay on your phone and don't reach us.

Purposes and legal grounds

Providing the service and performing the contract (Art. 5/2-c), verifying purchases and legal obligations (Art. 5/2-ç), legitimate interest in service security and abuse prevention (Art. 5/2-f). Optional anonymous area statistics and species identification from photos run only with your explicit consent (Art. 5/1); you can withdraw it anytime in the app.

Transfers and abroad

Your data is stored on our server in OVHcloud's data centre in Milan (Italy). Email verification codes are sent via Resend (USA). If you turn on species identification, the chosen photo is sent to Google Gemini (USA) and not stored. No personal data is transferred to MET Norway or Copernicus for weather and sea data. Transaction details are shared with Apple/Google for sign-in and purchase verification.

Transfers abroad are carried out in line with KVKK Art. 9 as amended by Law No. 7499, using standard contracts and the notification duty to the Board. Optional transfers such as species identification also require your explicit consent.

Retention

Data is kept while your account exists; guest accounts unused for 90 days are deleted automatically. When you delete your account, your data is permanently deleted and purged from encrypted backups within 7 days.

Your rights (Art. 11)

You may learn whether your data is processed, request information, learn the purpose and whether it's used accordingly, know the third parties it's transferred to, request correction, deletion or destruction and notification of these to recipients, object to adverse results from automated analysis, and claim compensation for damage. Requests: melberlabs@gmail.com