Applicant Privacy Notice

Job and Internship Applicant Privacy Notice
Version 1.1 — Effective date: 25 October 2026

This notice explains how we process the personal data of people who apply for jobs and internships, in line with Article 10 of the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 ("KVKK") and, where applicable, Articles 13 and 22 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"). The Turkish version is the legally binding text; this English version is provided for information.

1. Data controller

MET İleri Teknoloji Sistemleri Mühendislik İmalat İthalat ve İhracat Ticaret Ltd. Şti. ("MET")
Address: Gülbahçe Mah. Gülbahçe Cad. Teknopark İzmir A12 Binası No: 1/42, Urla / İzmir, Türkiye
Email: info@metltd.net — Phone: +90 232 502 00 31

2. Personal data we process

  • Identity and contact: name, email address, phone number, city of residence.
  • Education and professional information: school, department, year, graduation; work experience, projects, skills, tools, language skills, certificates.
  • Application content: CV, portfolio, links such as GitHub/LinkedIn, answers to form questions, internship dates and availability, salary expectation if asked.
  • Assessment data: technical task outputs, interview notes, assessment scores and outcomes, correspondence with you.
  • Interview recordings: video/audio recordings of online interviews, only if you give explicit consent.
  • Consent records: your privacy acknowledgement in the application form and your data-retention/talent-pool choice.

We do not ask for special categories of data (health, religion, ethnic origin, criminal records, biometrics) at the application stage. Please do not send such data, national ID numbers or bank details, and do not send confidential documents or drawings belonging to a previous employer or its clients.

3. Purposes

  • Receiving, recording and assessing job and internship applications;
  • Assessing your fit for roles and project needs; planning and conducting interviews and technical assessments;
  • Matching general and discipline-specific internship forms;
  • Communicating with you and informing you of the outcome;
  • Preparing an employment or internship relationship if you are selected;
  • If you consent, considering your application for suitable future positions (talent pool);
  • Complying with legal obligations and establishing, exercising or defending legal claims.

4. Legal bases

  • Processing directly related to entering into a contract (KVKK Art. 5/2-c; GDPR Art. 6(1)(b)): assessing your application and establishing an employment/internship relationship;
  • Our legitimate interest (KVKK Art. 5/2-f; GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)): selecting suitable candidates and keeping assessment records;
  • Legal obligations (KVKK Art. 5/2-ç; GDPR Art. 6(1)(c)) and establishing, exercising or defending rights (KVKK Art. 5/2-e);
  • Your explicit consent (KVKK Art. 5/1; GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)), collected separately in the application forms, for (i) keeping your application in our talent pool for future positions and (ii) recording online interviews. You may withdraw consent at any time; not consenting to the talent pool or recording does not affect the assessment of your current application.

5. How we collect data

Through the online application forms linked from the careers page (Google Forms), email, online or in-person interviews and technical tasks — electronically and partly by automated means.

6. AI-assisted tools

AI-assisted tools may be used to summarise application answers and prepare information for reviewers. These tools do not make decisions and do not eliminate candidates; all assessments and decisions are made by authorised MET staff. You may nevertheless object to any unfavourable result you believe was produced exclusively by automated systems (KVKK Art. 11/1-g; GDPR Art. 22).

7. Recipients and transfers

  • Within Türkiye: authorised MET employees and managers involved in recruitment; public authorities where legally required; lawyers and courts in case of disputes.
  • Service providers and transfers abroad: application forms and answers are stored on Google Forms / Google Drive provided by Google LLC, and emails on our email provider's servers. These servers may be located outside Türkiye. Transfers abroad are carried out in accordance with the procedures and safeguards set out in Article 9 of the KVKK.

8. Retention

In line with Article 4 of the KVKK, we keep your data only as long as necessary for the purpose:

  • Without talent-pool consent: no more than 1 (one) year after the application process ends.
  • With talent-pool consent: no more than 3 (three) years from the application date. During this period your application may be reconsidered for suitable new positions. If you wish to stay in the pool afterwards, we will ask for your consent again.
  • Interview recordings: deleted no later than 1 (one) year after the related application process ends.
  • If you are hired or accepted as an intern: your data becomes part of your personnel/intern file and is kept for the periods required by law.

When consent is withdrawn or the period expires, your data is deleted, destroyed or anonymised; however, if a dispute or legal claim is ongoing, it may be kept until that process is concluded.

9. Your rights

Under Article 11 of the KVKK you have the right to learn whether your data is processed and request information about it; to learn the purpose of processing and whether it is used accordingly; to know the third parties in Türkiye or abroad to whom it is transferred; to request correction of incomplete or inaccurate data and deletion or destruction under Article 7, and notification of these actions to recipients; to object to an unfavourable result produced exclusively by automated systems; and to claim compensation for damage caused by unlawful processing. Where the GDPR applies, you also have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection, the right to withdraw consent at any time, and the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

Please send your request in writing to the address above, or from the email address you used in your application to info@metltd.net, with information that allows us to identify you. We respond free of charge within 30 days at the latest.

10. Updates

We may update this notice when needed; the current version is always published on this page.

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