Privacy Policy

Data Controller

The data controller responsible for your personal data is BW International Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (Companies House registration number 14710927), with its registered office at 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom.

For any questions about this policy or your personal data, you can contact us at contact@bwintl.co.

Personal Data We Collect

We collect personal data that you provide directly and data that is collected automatically when you use the website:

• Contact form data: your name, email address, company (optional) and the content of your message.
• Technical data: IP address, browser and device information, and data collected through cookies and analytics tools.
• Any other information you choose to provide in your communications with us.

Purposes and Legal Bases (GDPR Article 6)

We process personal data on the following legal bases:

• To respond to your inquiries and take steps at your request before entering into a possible engagement — performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures (Art. 6(1)(b)) and/or your consent (Art. 6(1)(a)).
• To operate, secure and improve the website, including analytics — our legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f)).
• To send communications where you have opted in — your consent (Art. 6(1)(a)).
• To comply with legal and regulatory obligations — compliance with a legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c)).

Your Rights under the GDPR

If you are located in the EU or the UK, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Right of access to your personal data.
• Right to rectification of inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Right to erasure (the ‘right to be forgotten’).
• Right to restriction of processing.
• Right to data portability.
• Right to object to processing based on legitimate interests.
• Right to withdraw consent at any time.
• Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (in the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office).

Your Rights under the KVKK (Article 11)

If you are located in Türkiye, under Article 11 of the KVKK you have the right to:

• Learn whether your personal data is being processed.
• Request information about the processing if your data has been processed.
• Learn the purpose of processing and whether your data is used in accordance with that purpose.
• Know the third parties to whom your data is transferred, in Türkiye or abroad.
• Request correction of incomplete or inaccurate data.
• Request deletion or destruction of your data within the framework of the KVKK.
• Object to any outcome that results from the exclusively automated analysis of your data.
• Claim compensation for damage arising from unlawful processing.
• You may also lodge a complaint with the Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority (Kişisel Verileri Koruma Kurumu).

Data Retention

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, including to satisfy any legal, accounting or reporting requirements. Inquiry data is kept for a reasonable period needed to handle your request and is then deleted or anonymised.

Service Providers and Data Sharing

We do not sell your personal data. We share data only with trusted service providers (processors) acting on our instructions under appropriate data processing agreements, including:

• Hosting and infrastructure (Vercel).
• Email delivery (Resend).
• Website analytics providers.
• Professional advisers and authorities where required by law.

International Data Transfers

Your personal data may be processed in the United Kingdom, the European Union, Türkiye or other countries where our service providers operate. Where data is transferred outside your jurisdiction, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as adequacy decisions or standard contractual clauses.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies. For details on the cookies we use and how to manage them, please see our Cookie Policy.

Contact and Complaints

To exercise your rights or raise a concern, contact us at contact@bwintl.co. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority — the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK, your local data protection authority in the EU, or the Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) in Türkiye.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The ‘last updated’ date at the top of this page indicates when it was last revised.