My website address is: https://www.ozyurtberkay.com. This is the personal portfolio and professional branding site for Berkay Özyurt, a UI/UX and Product Designer.
When you use the contact form on my portfolio https://ozyurtberkay.com/en/contact/I collect the following information to arrange meetings or respond to inquiries:
Your Name
Your Email Address
Subject
Your Message
This information is strictly used for customer service and communication purposes. I do not use the information submitted through these forms for marketing purposes unless you explicitly opt-in.
Spam Protection: To protect this site from spam and abuse, I use Google reCAPTCHA v3. Your use of the contact forms is subject to Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
I use cookies to improve your browsing experience and to understand how visitors interact with my portfolio.
Analytics: I use Google Analytics (via MonsterInsights) to collect anonymous data such as the number of visitors, most popular projects, and session duration. This helps me improve the User Experience (UX) of my portfolio.
Language Preferences: Since this site is multilingual (English/Turkish), the Polylang plugin uses a cookie to remember your selected language for your next visit.
Popups & Marketing: I use OptinMonster to manage newsletter signups. A cookie may be stored to ensure you don’t see the same popup repeatedly.
Articles and project pages on this site may include embedded content, specifically:
Design Files: Prototypes embedded from Figma.
Videos: Promotional videos hosted on YouTube.
3D Models: Interactive models embedded from Sketchfab.
Documents: Files shared via Adobe or Google Drive.
Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged in to that website (e.g., if you are logged into your Figma or Google account).
In the future, I may offer a newsletter to share updates and design insights. If you choose to subscribe, your email address will be stored securely for the sole purpose of sending you these updates. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link in the footer of any email.
I treat your data with respect and do not sell it to third parties. However, necessary data is processed by the following third-party services to keep the website running:
Hostinger: My web hosting provider.
Google Analytics: For website traffic analysis.
Google reCAPTCHA: For spam protection on contact forms.
Contact Form Entries: I keep contact form entries for a specific period for customer service purposes (usually 6 months to 1 year), but I do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes.
Analytics Records: User-level and event-level data stored by Google Analytics is automatically retained for a standard period (e.g., 14 months) before being automatically deleted.
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.