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Legislative Updates
Here you can access most recent articles on legislative updates regarding Personal Data Protection Law, Social Security Law, Taxation Law, Occupational Health and Safety Law, Code of Obligations, Labor Law, Turkish Commercial Code, Law on Protection of the Value of Turkish Currency, Foreign Exchange Legislation, and Immigration Law in Türkiye.
Bilateral Treaties
You can access the dates of the most recent international bilateral social security and double taxation treaties made between Türkiye and other countries and relevant documents here.
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CottGroup® offers unique and new generation solutions for the payroll outsource needs of its customers
with its experienced staff in the field of Human Resources and payroll.
Payroll processes performed quickly and
in a timely manner to meet all your reporting needs
Expert team with full knowledge of
Labor Law, Income Tax, Social Security
High-level technology to carry out integrated
and hygienic payroll processes
Secure data sharing infrastructure
in compliance with the protection of personal data
Self-service system Informasoft®
designed by HR Professionals
The most current legislation both in English and Turkish with a team of expert staff in the related field
CottGroup® offers payroll and human resources services to many companies of different sizes in its portfolio. Payroll processes in Türkiye cover Labor Law, Social Security Law, Income Tax Law, Obligations Law, and other relevant legislation. In addition, because of the confidential and personal data they contain, payroll processes have a complex structure that is also associated with the Protection of Personal Data (KVKK) and the European Union Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We give utmost priority to keep privacy and security at the highest level with our high technological infrastructure and continuous training that we provide to our teams while carrying out our processes in all areas where we offer services in accordance with legal regulations.
CottGroup® is a holistic service organization that provides consultancy, outsourcing, technology, and training services to produce practical solutions suitable for all business models to manage various operations of companies. Unlike traditional global payroll outsourcing companies, CottGroup® offers the most suitable and innovative solutions to its clients in every field it operates including payroll outsource services with the unique power of global networks and partnerships that are leading in their field across the world. Our clients benefit from the combined knowledge and experience of these strong networks and partnerships, which have been carefully selected because of long years of experience. Companies can receive the most suitable services for their needs from CottGroup®, which has become a turnkey solution center.
With Informasoft® SaaS solutions supported by TÜBİTAK, you can benefit from many online services such as online payroll viewing, online leave tracking along with self-service applications, from employee record management to training. Your employees can access the payrolls we calculate through the portal.
Notifications to the Social Security Institution for the start and termination of employment and other legal notifications are part of our payroll services.
CottGroup® secures the risks with a high budget indemnity insurance that may arise due to any payroll error caused.
All your payroll processes, transactions and sensitive data you direct us are stored in our own data center in Istanbul. In this way, we offer you a separate security layer. CottGroup® has the following quality certificates: ISO 9001 Quality Management System, ISO 27001 Information Security Management, ISO 22301 Business Continuity Management, and ISO 10002 Customer Satisfaction and Complaint Management. Among these documents, ISO 27001 is provided to ensure that all confidential information can only be accessed by authorized persons, is continuously backed up, and available when required. With the ISAE 3402 Type II certification, which is exceptionally rare among service providers in Türkiye, our services are monitored and provided under the guarantee of the relevant standards in the international arena.
With our advanced incentive applications and related consultancy services, we examine your current payroll structure without the need for you to use an additional system or interface. Our incentive calculation software allows you to benefit from the maximum incentive that may be granted to companies by analyzing the appropriate incentives and recommending the most appropriate combination. We provide detailed reports with breakdowns based on the workplace, person, and incentives applied.
With our team of expert staff in Teknokent and R&D payrolls, we prepare a report set suitable for the changing applications of different R&D centers.
We offer secure and fast self-service features to our global and local clients with our own flexible software Informasoft® HRMS that can be designed according to their needs regardless of their sectors and is ranked fourth among local Human Resources software in Türkiye.
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Privacy Policy
CottGroup® companies' network ("CottGroup®") includes independent companies with separate legal entities that provide various sections of this website and other websites in the CottGroup® member network; and this Personal Data Protection and Processing Policy applies separately for each CottGroup® member company.
Thank you for visiting our website and reading our privacy and security statement.
Basic Information About Our Approach to Data Security and Privacy
CottGroup®'s network of companies (CottGroup®) has dedicated itself to ensuring the security of your personal data in all of its information systems. For CottGroup®, privacy and security matters form the basis of the relation between us and our customers. CottGroup® understands your particular concern about your confidentiality and security and place utmost importance on that matter.
CottGroup® consists of multiple independent members which provide various sections of the websites in CottGroup®'s network of members. Please click here to see our current member companies. New members to be added to the CottGroup®'s network of members in future will also be viewable by clicking the same link.
Information that you will be disclosing when using this website may also be controlled by any other firm among the members of CottGroup®'s network in order to enable us to secure the control, inspection and security of the said data at the utmost level. Each independent member shall be legally liable for any data controlled and inspected by it.
CottGroup® Privacy Statement is applicable to all data processed by CottGroup®, including Personal Data collected or transmitted via our websites in CottGroup®'s network, our software and self-service applications, mobile applications or social media accounts and other online or off-line channels.
Protection of Personal Data
CottGroup® acts in the capacity of a data controller and data processor in line with the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law (KVKK) no. 6698 and provisions of any other legislation applicable to the protection of personal data. Accordingly, personal data shall be processed only by CottGroup® personnel authorized to implement any privacy and security policy as well as services falling within the scope of duty of CottGroup®'s management office and the personnel named in the privacy and security authorization matrices, and those natural/legal persons authorized by CottGroup® for such purpose by fulfilling the condition of informing the data subjects. For details, please click the Personal Data Protection and Processing Policy.
Electronic Messages
Subject to communication consents provided by you during your communication with us regarding electronic (e-mail) messages and through any other CottGroup® channel, you will be deemed to have accepted to receive e-mail messages through your contact details, for the promotion of services offered by CottGroup® and its business partners, information on new products and services, announcements on issues regarding legislation, and other matters that may be of interest for you. In this respect, you may contact CottGroup® to request that messages are no longer sent to you through one or more than one communication channel.
Log Data, Cookies and Web Beacons
Cookies are program bits that are usually in the form of text files that may be embedded in laptops, desktop PCs and mobile devices, which collect various data.
Cookies may be used to collect the following data:
Please click Cookie Policy for details.
Purpose of Using Your Data
We may use your personal data which we record during your visits to our website, via automated or non-automated means, or which you may disclose to us in communication forms, e-mails or via other electronic transactions, primarily for the purpose of satisfying your requests and subsequently for ensuring improvement of the services offered to you. Overall purposes of use of such data may be listed as follows:
Please do not disclose such data that you would not want us to collect for the purposes above. Please remember that unless you provide such data, we will be unable to contact you, and that your certain data may still be collected by means of cookies during your visit to this website.
Data Security
CottGroup® places utmost importance on the security of your data. CottGroup® places utmost importance on the security of your data. We take measures conforming to sector standards to prevent unauthorized collection and use of your data. Exchange of information on the İnternet is not generally secure. Therefore, we recommend you exercise due care by user when exchanging information through our websites and online systems. If you do not take this care, CottGroup® cannot guarantee you about security of your information and communication on the website or capture them by third parties.
When your information arrives at CottGroup®, it is protected in accordance with our security and privacy standards. Your data are stored for the purposes set out above and only for the durations required by the needs of our business process or as prescribed by law.
Data Transfer
We may transfer the personal information we collect about you to other countries different from the country we collect the data, as we use their services of the internet service providers, hosting companies, e-mail providers, domain providers (for example: Microsoft 365). Data protection laws and regulations applied in these countries may differ from the laws applicable in Türkiye.
Hereby, we will protect your information in accordance with the applicable law as described in this Privacy Policy while transferring to other countries.
Protection for Children's Online Activities
We support parents willing to supervise and control online activities of their children. In no event do we ask children on purpose to share their personal data. If we come to know that a person whose personal data are collected by us is younger than 13 years old, we may use such data to try to promptly inform his/her parents. This rule shall be applicable for age 16 under the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Designing New Processes in Line with Privacy Rules
CottGroup® takes the most appropriate technological and organizational measures to ensure confidentiality when developing new systems and applies necessary developments for the processing of personal data in line with their intended purposes (Privacy by design).
Should you have any queries about this Privacy Policy, please click the link.
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Online Visitor Clarification Text On The Processing Personal Data
Data Controller: Boss Yönetişim Hizmetleri A.Ş.
Address: Astoria Towers Büyükdere Cad. No: 127 B Kule Kat: 8 34394 Şişli, İstanbul, Türkiye
Boss Yönetişim Hizmetleri A.Ş. ("Company") prepared this Clarification Text as the data controller to inform you, our valuable online visitors, about your personal data that we process in accordance with the Law on the Protection of Personal Data (hereinafter referred to as "KVKK") and the relevant legislation.
1. Your Personal Data Processed and The Scope of The Processing
Personal data is any data that identifies you or makes you identifiable. For example, your name, surname, eye color, phone number or bank account information are considered personal data. On the other hand, processing your personal data refers to all kinds of processes such as obtaining, amending, registering, storing, retaining, deleting, disclosing, and transferring your data. We have provided the following information about the personal data we process:
ID Data
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Customer Transaction Information
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Transaction Security Information
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2. Our Retention Period for Storing Your Personal Data
We store your personal data for a period of time stipulated in the relevant legislation or for the periods of time required by the processing purposes. We will delete, destruct or anonymize your data by ex officio or upon your request, if legal reasons requiring data processing disappear.
3. Your Rights Regarding Your Personal Data
Data subject refers to the natural persons whose personal data are processed. As a data subject, you, our valuable online Visitors, have the following rights regarding your personal data processed under KVKK:
4. Methods To Follow to Exercise Your Rights
You can share your application and requests regarding your personal data with Boss Yönetişim Hizmetleri A.Ş. via Data Subject Application Form,
You, as a data subject, should include your name and surname, your signature if the application is in written form, your Turkish ID Number if you are a Turkish citizen, your nationality and passport number (or if you have an ID number) if you are foreigner, place of residence or business address for notifications, your e-mail address and fax number if you have one, and lastly, the subject of the request in your application with respect to legal requirements regarding the applications to data controllers. In addition, you should add documents and information confirming your identity to your application.
In order for us to operate the process in the most effective way for you, you should clearly and understandably indicate in your request which right you want to use and the details of the transaction you request.
We would like to emphasize that the request should concern the data subject itself. If the application is made on behalf of someone else, the person making the request should rely on a specially documented authorization for the requested transaction (power of attorney). Unauthorized applications will not be evaluated.
5. Evaluation of Your Application
By evaluating your applications, we respond to you as soon as possible and within 30 days of receipt as of the date of your application.