LAW ON THE PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA Law Number: 6698 Date of Adoption : 24/3/2016 Official Gazette Published : Date: 7/4/2016 Issue : 29677 Published Motto : Organization: 5 Volume : 57 CHAPTER ONE Purpose, Scope and Definitions Purpose ARTICLE 1- (1) The purpose of this Law is to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of persons, especially the privacy of private life, in the processing of personal data, and to regulate the obligations and procedures and principles that natural and legal persons processing personal data will comply with. Scope ARTICLE 2- (1) The provisions of this Law are applied to natural persons whose personal data are processed and natural and legal persons who process this data by means that are fully or partially automatic or by non-automatic means provided that they are part of any data recording system. Definitions ARTICLE 3- (1) In the implementation of this Law; a) Explicit consent: Consent related to a specific subject, based on information and disclosed by free will, b) Anonymization: Personal data, even by matching with other data, no