Information Notice
Many websites use "Cookies" for several reasons such as leveraging its technical or functional quality or improving user experience. How we use "cookies," and how users can manage cookies in various environments is explained below. Information provided herein constitutes an integral part of Privacy Notice and Disclaimer, which is accessible through our website pursuant to Personal Data Protection Law.
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a kind of descriptive file downloaded onto your computer by a certain website. Cookies contain login information and similar other data. When you visit a site that uses cookies, a request is sent to browser to download cookies onto a local drive. Cookies do not contain visitor's personal information such as name, age, address, sex. For more information about cookies, please go to following websites: www.aboutcookies.org and www.allaboutcookies.org.
What are the types of Cookies?
Cookies are classified by their purpose and duration of use or by who created them. According to who created and downloaded them, either website cookies or third-party cookies are used. Third-party cookies can be managed by various companies depending on service providers and business partnerships. There are also session cookies and persistent cookies defined according to duration of their use. Session cookies are deleted at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Persistent cookies, on the other hand, remain stored on user's device at the end of the user session for a time period depending on the purpose of cookie use. Depending on the purpose, a website may use advertising and targeting cookies, cookies for personalized user experience, verification cookies, analysis cookies and technical cookies.
Why we use cookies?
A website may use cookies for following purposes.
- Personalization of visit and user experience, targeting, targeted and relevant advertising and promotional activities
- Ensuring correct, easy, and more efficient functioning of a website and its components
- Improving performance and user experience by analyzing the website, sourcing, access information, number of visitors and which platforms were used to access the site
- Fulfilling the requirements necessary for proper functioning of a website.
How to Manage your Personal Preferences about Cookies?
When you chose to disable some cookies required for correct functioning of our website, the website may not function properly. If you change your preferences about these types of cookies, we can not guarantee that your access to our website and information therein would be uninterrupted.
Natural persons, whose personal data is processed, are entitled to the following as per Article 11 of Personal Data Protection Law:
- Learning whether personal data is processed or not,
- Requesting related information if their personal data is processed,
- Learning the purpose of personal data processing and whether the said data is used for the intended purpose or not,
- Learning which third parties the personal data is transferred to within the country and abroad,
- If the personal data is processed incompletely or wrongly, requesting correction, or requesting that the related correction is notified to the third parties, whom the personal data was transferred to.
- Requesting deletion or disposal of personal data and requesting that this process taken was notified to the third parties, whom the personal data was transferred to, in case the processing of personal data is no longer required even if it was processed in compliance with Personal Data Protection Law and other applicable provisions.
- Objecting to auto - analysis of processed data individually by certain systems if the result of the related analysis is against the interest of the data subject.
- Requesting compensation of the damages if the data subject incurs any damage due to processing of their personal data in a manner contrary to the law.