Last updated: 31 July 2026
This Privacy Policy and Data Protection Notice describes how Menulab (“we”, “us”, the “data controller”) processes personal data through the menulab.co website and the Menulab platform (together, the “Service”).
Your personal data is processed in our capacity as data controller in accordance with the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“KVKK”) and, for data subjects located in the European Union, the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). By using the Service, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this notice.
Pursuant to Article 10 of the KVKK and Article 13 of the GDPR, the identity of the data controller is as follows:
| Data Controller | BORA ÖKSÜZOĞLU |
| Entity Type | Sole Proprietorship |
| Brand | Menulab |
| Address | Adalet Mah. Manas Bulvari No: 39 Folkart Towers B Block Floor:32 No:3201 Bayrakli / Izmir / Turkey |
| Tax Office | Karşıyaka Tax Office |
| Tax / National ID No. | 48829271416 |
| [email protected] | |
| Website | menulab.co |
The Service is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that provides digital menus and restaurant operations tools to restaurant and café businesses (“Subscribers”).
With respect to account, billing and usage data of our Subscribers and their authorized users/staff, we act as the data controller under the KVKK and the GDPR.
With respect to restaurant guests who view a Subscriber’s QR menu and any data entered by the Subscriber into its own workspace, the Subscriber is the data controller; we process such data solely to provide the Service to the Subscriber and on its instructions, acting as a data processor.
Depending on who you are and how you use the Service, we may process the following categories of personal data:
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| Identity data | First and last name; national identity number where individual invoicing is selected |
| Contact and delivery data | Email address, phone number, billing/business address; for physical orders, recipient or business, delivery address, postal code and delivery note |
| Account & authentication | Password (stored only in irreversibly hashed form), email verification status, account role and permissions, language and notification preferences |
| Customer / transaction (billing) data | Invoice type (individual/corporate), business/company name, tax office, tax number, subscription plan and status, invoice records |
| Order, personalization and shipment data | Purchased product, quantity, price and shipping fee; any logo, name, text, dimensions, colour or print requested by the customer; order status, carrier, tracking number/link, dispatch and delivery dates |
| Payment and automatic-payment instruction data (limited) | Only the last 4 digits of the card, card scheme/bank, expiry month/year and provider-generated card/user tokens; the version and immutable text hash of an automatic-payment instruction, approval/revocation time, and approved plan, period, amount and currency. We do not store full card numbers or CVV; payment data is processed by PayTR. |
| Business content | Menus, products, prices, images, campaigns, table/session records, orders, inventory and supplier records, end-of-day reports and staff records entered by the Subscriber |
| Guest / end-user data | Customer name entered at a table session, order notes and feedback (to the extent entered by the Subscriber) |
| Security & log data | IP address and source, approximate country, Cloudflare Ray ID, user-agent/browser information, irreversibly hashed device and session identifiers, successful/failed login and logout times, new-device/country risk flags, access and error logs |
| Marketing & communications | Newsletter/marketing consent status, your correspondence with us and support requests |
We collect your personal data through registration, profile, billing, delivery, personalization and payment forms; automatically while you use the Service; through shipment/delivery processes; and through your communications with us via email or support channels — by partly automated or automated means.
We process your personal data for the following purposes:
Your data is processed on one or more of the following legal bases under Articles 5 and 6 of the KVKK and Article 6 of the GDPR:
Your personal data may be shared, on a limited basis and under confidentiality obligations, with the following categories of recipients in order to achieve the purposes set out above:
| Recipient / Service Provider | Purpose |
|---|---|
| PayTR Ödeme ve Elektronik Para Hizmetleri A.Ş. | Processing payments and subscription collections and reviewing payment disputes (Turkey) |
| Card schemes, banks and authorised payment parties | Sharing records strictly necessary for payment-dispute/chargeback review, fraud prevention and the protection of legal rights |
| Carriers, couriers, logistics and personalization/production providers | Sharing delivery and order information necessary to prepare, custom-print or manufacture, ship, track, deliver and return a physical product |
| Google Cloud / Google Cloud Storage | Server infrastructure and media (image/video) hosting |
| Google (Gmail / email infrastructure) | Sending transactional and informational emails |
| MongoDB Atlas (MongoDB, Inc.) | Database hosting and backups |
| Cloudflare, Inc. | Content delivery network (CDN), custom-domain management and TLS certificates |
| Competent public authorities | Only where required by legal obligation or lawful request |
We do not sell or rent your personal data to third parties for commercial purposes.
Some of the service providers listed above (e.g. Google, MongoDB Atlas, Cloudflare) may host data outside Turkey. In such cases your personal data may be transferred abroad in accordance with the conditions set out in Article 9 of the KVKK (your explicit consent or other statutory conditions and appropriate safeguards) and, under the GDPR, using appropriate transfer mechanisms (e.g. Standard Contractual Clauses).
Your personal data is retained for as long as required by the purposes of processing and, in any case, throughout the limitation and retention periods prescribed by applicable law (e.g. statutory periods for tax and commercial records). Once these periods expire, your data is deleted, destroyed or anonymised. When you close your account, your data is deleted or anonymised within a reasonable period, except for data subject to statutory retention obligations.
Account access history — including IP address, approximate country, Cloudflare Ray ID, user agent, hashed device/session identifiers and related risk flags — is retained for two (2) years for security, fraud prevention and payment-dispute evidence. Financial records, payment transactions and automatic-payment approval/revocation evidence may be retained for longer periods required by tax, commercial, payment and limitation-period laws.
We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to prevent unlawful processing of and access to your personal data and to ensure its safekeeping. Passwords are stored in irreversibly hashed form, communications are encrypted with TLS, payment card data is not stored by us, and access is restricted on a role-based basis. Please note that no method of transmission or storage is 100% secure.
The Service uses strictly necessary cookies to maintain your session and provide core functionality. For details on our use of cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.
Under Article 11 of the KVKK, by applying to the data controller you have the right to:
Data subjects in the EU additionally have the rights under the GDPR to access, rectification, erasure (“right to be forgotten”), restriction of processing, data portability and objection to processing, and the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
To exercise the rights above, you may submit your requests by email to [email protected] or in writing to our postal address stated above. Requests are concluded as soon as possible and within thirty (30) days at the latest, depending on their nature. Your application must include information establishing your identity.
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. The current version takes effect on the date it is published on this page. We will inform you of material changes by appropriate means. The “last updated” date at the top of the page indicates the version in force.
For any questions or requests regarding our privacy practices, you can reach us at [email protected].