Your information comes to me, and to nobody else.
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There are three forms on this site — the level test, the contact form and the review form — and I read everything that arrives through them myself. Here is what I ask for, why I ask for it, where it sits, and how to have it removed.
- I am the only person who reads what the forms collect.
- Nothing is sold, rented, shared with anyone else or used for advertising.
- It is stored on servers in the EU (Frankfurt, Germany), over an encrypted connection.
- Ask me to delete it and I will. You don't have to give a reason.
- For a child, a parent or guardian should be the one filling the form in.
What each form collects
Only what you type into it. There is no visitor tracking on this site, no analytics tool and no advertising cookie.
Your name, e-mail address, age group, what you want to work towards and how much time you can give a week. Then the answers to the 30 questions, the short piece of writing at the end, and the marks you give yourself for speaking.
Why: so the first lesson starts in the right place. The test never shows a score — we talk the level through together.
Your name, an e-mail address or a phone number, the subject you picked, and your message.
Why: it is the least I need in order to write back.
A name — as much or as little of it as you like, “Elif K.” is fine — how you know me (student, parent, colleague) and the review itself.
A review is invisible until I approve it — and once I do, that name and text are public. So please don't put a child's full name, school or phone number in a review.
No address, no ID number, no payment details — nothing about payment goes through this site at all.
Separately from the forms, my database provider keeps short-lived technical server logs that can include an IP address; I don't read them. The site's fonts load from Google Fonts, which means your browser makes a request to Google's servers.
Who reads it
I do. Only me. What the forms collect lands in a separate, password-protected panel that only I can sign in to; it cannot be read through this website by anyone. I have no assistant, no agency and no partner, so there is nobody else with access.
Your information is not sold, not rented, not handed to advertisers, and you are not added to any mailing list. I use it to answer you and to teach you well — nothing else.
Where it is stored
In a database service called Supabase, on servers in the European Union — Frankfurt, Germany. The connection between your browser and those servers is encrypted (HTTPS).
A little is also kept in your own browser: which language you chose, and — so that a finished 30-question test isn't lost if the connection drops while it's being sent — a copy of what you submitted. That copy never leaves your device, and clearing your browser's site data removes it.
How long it is kept
- Level test results
- Up to 12 months. If lessons don't start, I usually delete them long before that.
- Contact messages
- Up to 12 months after we last spoke.
- Published reviews
- Until you or I take them down.
Those are upper limits, not targets. Any reason to delete something sooner is reason enough.
If the student is a child
Some of my students are between 6 and 10, and many are at middle school. If a form on this site is about a child, the parent or legal guardian should be the one filling it in: your child can absolutely answer the test questions, but please enter the name and contact details yourself and read what they wrote before pressing send.
You can ask me to delete everything about your child at any time — no reason needed, no form to fill in. One message is enough, and I will confirm when it's done.
Deleting, correcting, asking
Write to me and you can ask what I hold about you, have something wrong corrected, or have all of it deleted. Türkiye's data protection law (KVKK) gives you those rights; as far as I'm concerned you don't need to invoke it — a WhatsApp message is enough.
I'll do it within a week at the latest, and write back to say it's done.
Getting in touch about your data
Either of these reaches me directly:
Putting “data” in the subject line helps me spot it quickly. The form on the contact page works just as well.
This page is not a contract drafted by a lawyer — it is my attempt to describe, as plainly as I can, what actually happens to what you send me. If any of it changes, the date at the top changes with it.