Privacy and content policy
This page explains how the website uses data, how its contact links work and the scope of its health information.
Last updated: 22 October 2026
Scope and responsible person
This website provides information about Prof. Dr. Necdet Özçay’s professional and academic background, clinical interests and general health topics. For personal-data processing within the scope of this website, the controller and contact person is Prof. Dr. Necdet Özçay. Privacy and content enquiries can be sent to necdetozcay@gmail.com.
This notice concerns use of the website. Hospital appointments, consultations, treatment, payments and patient records are covered by the relevant hospital notices. The organisation operating the hospital call centre explains any recording and retention practices that apply to calls made to that service.
How the website works
The website is a static information site. It has no membership system, user accounts, comments, uploads, payments or contact form. You are not asked to enter your name, identity number or medical information to read its pages.
Search and filtering in publication and article lists help you navigate the content already available on the page. These functions do not provide a medical assessment or create a patient record. Telephone and email links open the relevant application on your device, where you decide whether to proceed.
Technical access information
Delivering a page to your device involves communication between your browser and the web server. The hosting and security infrastructure may create standard access records, such as an IP address, access time, requested page, response status and technical browser information.
These records support operation of the site, investigation of errors or outages, and prevention of misuse. Technical visit records are not used to produce a diagnosis, a health profile or an individual treatment decision. Visits are not used for advertising targeting.
Purposes and legal grounds
Personal data is handled within the framework of Türkiye’s Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data and limited to what is relevant and necessary for the purpose. Technical records needed for secure and reliable operation may be processed on the basis of legitimate interests, subject to protection of fundamental rights and freedoms.
Responding to correspondence, exercising or protecting a right, and meeting applicable legal obligations may provide the relevant basis depending on the request. Visiting the website is not treated as blanket consent to every kind of data processing.
Email and health information
If you choose to send an email, your sender address, message and any information you include may be processed to deal with your correspondence. Avoid sending identity documents, extensive medical files or another person’s information when these are not needed for a general enquiry.
The website is not a patient-record submission service or an emergency medical advice channel. If you need to share medical information, confirm an appropriate method with the healthcare institution. Sending an email does not mean that a medical assessment has taken place or that a response is guaranteed within a particular time.
Service providers and external links
Service providers may support hosting and technical operation of the site. Technical information may therefore be processed by those providers to the extent needed for the service. Disclosure to authorised bodies is considered only within applicable legal obligations or a properly made request.
Telephone, email, hospital, social-media and directions links open separate services. Processing by those services is governed by their own terms. A link does not mean that this website controls all of the external organisation’s practices; you can consult its notices before using the service.
Retention and security
Retention depends on the time needed for the processing purpose and any applicable legal obligations. Technical access records and correspondence are assessed according to their respective purposes and obligations. When the reason for processing ends, deletion, destruction or anonymisation is assessed under the relevant rules.
The site uses HTTPS connections. Limiting unnecessary disclosure and keeping your own device secure also matters in electronic communication. If you notice a security issue or information sent to the wrong recipient, you can contact the stated address with the information needed to describe the problem.
Your rights under Law No. 6698
Under Article 11 of Law No. 6698, you may ask whether your personal data is processed, obtain information about processing and learn its purpose. You may also seek information about recipients, request correction of incomplete or inaccurate data, and request deletion or destruction where the legal conditions are met.
These rights also include requesting that corrections or deletion be communicated to recipients, objecting to an adverse result based solely on automated analysis, and seeking compensation for damage caused by unlawful processing. The exercise of each right is subject to the applicable legal conditions.
Requests and contact
You can ask about the request procedure for website-related privacy matters at necdetozcay@gmail.com. Formal requests under Law No. 6698 should follow the methods and conditions in the Communiqué on Applications to Data Controllers. When using ordinary email for a formal request, the requirement for a previously notified and registered address matters.
State your request clearly and share only what is needed to establish identity and understand the request. Properly submitted applications receive a response within the statutory period, no later than thirty days. The right to complain to the Board remains available under the legal conditions. Requests concerning hospital records should be addressed to that hospital.
Scope of health information
Condition, procedure and patient-guide pages provide general information. A symptom’s cause cannot be established from an online article or illustration alone. The content does not replace an examination, an individual diagnosis, a treatment plan or personal follow-up advice. Do not change existing treatment solely because of something read here.
Assessment of the same condition can differ with a person’s history, examination and test findings. Information about surgery or another treatment does not mean that it is suitable for everyone or guarantees an outcome. Urgent symptoms should not wait for a routine appointment or an email reply.
Sources, updates and content enquiries
Health information draws on patient resources from reliable institutions, with relevant sources listed alongside articles. Scientific citations describe research topics. An experimental study alone does not establish effectiveness in humans, and a publication count is not a measure of treatment success.
Content does not promise outcomes through claims of comparative superiority, guaranteed recovery or patient satisfaction. Update dates are displayed. For an error, outdated information or unclear wording, the site content contact is necdetozcay@gmail.com. Include the page address and the point you would like clarified.