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Medical disclaimer
BestDoctorTurkey does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment recommendations. Content on this site — including our guides, clinic rankings, and scores — is for general informational purposes only and must not be used as a substitute for professional medical consultation. Always seek the advice of a qualified healthcare provider before making decisions about your health or any medical procedure, including procedures performed abroad. A high ranking score is not a guarantee of a good outcome, and a clinic’s appearance in a ranking is not an endorsement of that clinic.
Data provenance
Each clinic’s entry in a guide — its Google rating, accreditations, years in operation, and, when available, a Trustpilot rating — is compiled from publicly available sources: the clinic’s own website, public business registries, Google Business Profiles, Trustpilot, and public accreditation registries. We do not independently verify medical credentials beyond what is publicly disclosed by these sources. Ranking scores are calculated using the fixed formula published at /how-we-rank, and no clinic can pay for inclusion, for a higher score, or for a better position.
Correction & removal requests
If you are affiliated with a clinic featured in one of our guides, or believe any information published here is inaccurate, out of date, or should be removed, contact us with the guide URL, the clinic’s name, and the change you’re requesting; we review every request. Email contact@bestdoctorturkey.com.
Data controller
The data controller for BestDoctorTurkey — the party that decides why and how personal data on this site is processed, as KVKK and the GDPR use the term — is:
- Name:
- Alper Çapanoğlu
- Address:
- Fuaye Deniz — Turkuaz Sitesi, Zümrütevler, Akkayalar Sok. No: 243, 34852 Maltepe/İstanbul
KVKK & GDPR
BestDoctorTurkey does not require visitors to create an account. A clinic’s entry in a guide contains only professional information already publicly available. If you are affiliated with a clinic and wish to exercise a data protection right under Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Law (KVKK, Law No. 6698) or the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), address your request to the data controller named above: email contact@bestdoctorturkey.com.
Cookies, what we store on your device, and how visits are counted
This site sets no cookies. Not one — not for analytics, not for advertising, not for preferences. You will not be asked to accept any, because there is nothing to accept, and a banner offering a choice that changes nothing is worse than no banner.
Two small things are written into your own browser, and never sent anywhere as a profile of you. When you open a guide, a single session key records that this visit already counted, so refreshing the page does not inflate the read count shown at the foot of it; it disappears when you close the tab. If you answer whether a guide was useful, one further key remembers that you already answered, so you are not asked twice. Clearing site data in your browser removes both, and nothing on this site stops working without them.
Visits are counted with Vercel Web Analytics, from Vercel, which also hosts this site and therefore handles the server logs behind every page, including your IP address. The analytics itself uses no cookies, sets nothing on your device, and does not follow you to other websites; it records that a page was viewed, roughly from where, and on what kind of device.
Enquiry form data
When you open the enquiry panel next to a clinic’s entry inside one of our guides to request more information, we collect the name, email address, country, and (if you choose to provide them) phone number and message that you enter, along with the treatment and clinic you enquired about. We also record, automatically, the page you submitted the enquiry from and your browser’s user agent string. The bot-verification check we use (Cloudflare Turnstile, described below) runs on every page of this site, not only the enquiry form, so Cloudflare receives your IP address on every page you visit, whether or not you ever open the form. Separately, when you submit the form, we use your IP address ourselves for a few minutes: it is checked against a short-lived, in-memory rate limit — capped at a small number of submissions per IP address within a 10-minute window, to slow down automated abuse — and is discarded automatically once that window passes; we do not otherwise store your IP address or write it to our database. We use the details you provide to respond to your enquiry, to verify the submission is not automated, and, if you choose to proceed, to share your contact and enquiry details with the clinic you asked about — the clinics featured in our guides are based in Turkey, which is outside the European Economic Area (EEA), so that sharing is an international transfer of your data.
If the message you write describes a symptom, a diagnosis, a procedure you have had or one you are considering, that is health data — a special category under Article 9 of the GDPR and özel nitelikli kişisel veri under Article 6 of KVKK, protected more strictly than the rest. The only basis we rely on for it is your explicit consent, given by ticking the box before you send. You are never required to describe your condition: naming the treatment you are asking about is enough, and the less you write about your health the less of it we hold. It is stored, transferred and deleted exactly as the rest of the enquiry is, on the terms set out below.
To operate this form we use three external service providers, each of which processes a limited part of your data on our behalf. Cloudflare(Turnstile), a bot-verification service, receives your IP address (on every page view, as described above) and your interaction with the verification challenge, to confirm your submission is not automated. Resend, our email delivery service, receives your name, email address, phone number, country, treatment, clinic, source page and message so that a notification email can be sent to our team. Supabase, our database provider, receives and stores the entire enquiry — every field listed above, plus the consent version and timestamp — as the system of record for your submission; see below for where it is hosted and how long we keep it. Cloudflare and Resend are both US-based companies, so sending your data to them is an international transfer outside the EEA. We do not sell your details. Other than the clinic you asked about (if you choose to proceed) and the three service providers named here — Cloudflare, Resend, and Supabase — we do not share your enquiry details with any other third party.
That Supabase database is hosted in Frankfurt, Germany (EU). We keep enquiry records for up to 24 months from submission, after which they are deleted; this period can be shortened on request. To request access to, correction of, or deletion of your enquiry details at any time, email contact@bestdoctorturkey.com.