Policy on the Processing and Protection of Personal Data
As a basic principle, ADDICTA: The Turkish Journal on Addictions is highly sensitive over the processing and protection of personal data of any individual, who comes into contact with the journal, in accordance with the Law on the Protection of Personal Data numbered 6698.

Accordingly, our journal identified as “Data Controller” within the scope of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data processes your personal data according to the principles explained below and within the boundaries of the Law.

The privacy policy of ADDICTA: The Turkish Journal on Addictions may change due to the adjustments on the Law or any other reasons.  Any changes will be posted on our website with an updated revision date and announced via e-mail.

It is possible to browse ADDICTA: The Turkish Journal on Addictions website without entering any personal information. However, we will collect your personal information when you require a specific service/transaction (e.g., contact forms, e-mail alerts, demands for subscription, etc.).

ADDICTA: The Turkish Journal on Addictions makes announcements on published issues, news about the journal, and the latest developments in academic publishing via e-mail. When preparing the list of recipients for these announcements, the user information is collected from the open-access articles. This information may include the individual’s name, contact details, and field of expertise. You may update this information and/or request to be removed from the list at any time.

ADDICTA: The Turkish Journal on Addictions accepts no liability for the privacy policies of third parties that are linked to our website.

ADDICTA: The Turkish Journal on Addictions will process your personal information for determining the subscriber and client profiles, while responding to your questions/comments, providing appropriate services, and expanding business development. All of the data collected by ADDICTA: The Turkish Journal on Addictions will be kept private, and third parties will not be allowed to access/edit this information.

In accordance with the Article 11 of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data, you have the right to learn whether your personal data are processed or not, to request information if your personal data are processed, to learn the purpose of your data processing and whether this data is used for intended purposes, to know the third parties to whom your personal data is transferred at home or abroad, to request the rectification of the incomplete or inaccurate data (if any), to request the erasure or destruction of your personal data, to request notification of the operations carried out to whom your personal data has been transferred, to object to the processing, exclusively by automatic means, of your personal data, which leads to an unfavourable consequence for the data subject, to request compensation for the damage arising from the unlawful processing of your personal data. You may contact the data controller, ADDICTA: The Turkish Journal on Addictions, through [email protected] to convey your requests upon exercising your rights in this regard.