Cookie Policy

1.Privacy and Information Security

a. The information provided at / is supplied “as is” and “as available”. The Company does not guarantee the accuracy, adequacy or completeness of such information and expressly disclaims liability for any errors or omissions therein. The Company can provide no warranty, whether implied, express or statutory, including but not limited to warranties that the information does not infringe the rights of third parties, and warranties as to title, fitness for a particular purpose and/or absence of computer viruses.

The Company takes all necessary security measures on its information systems, together with all technical and administrative measures, to prevent any unauthorised access to such information. In the event of the acquisition of personal data by malicious or unauthorised persons or of any technical or administrative breach, the Company shall inform the relevant users and the competent administrative authorities as prescribed by legislation.

b. Some of our electronic service environments may from time to time provide links to certain electronic environments, such as third-party websites. The undertakings and principles set out in this text apply only to the Company's own electronic service channels and do not cover other third-party environments. Other electronic environments accessed via links may have their own privacy assurances and terms of use, which may correspond to a lower level of security than those provided by the Company. The Company cannot be held liable in this respect.

The accuracy of the information provided on such sites and the qualities of the other links provided from such sites have not been investigated or verified by the Company. Accordingly, the Company cannot be held liable for the information use, ethical principles, privacy principles, quality and service quality of third-party electronic environments accessed via / for advertising, banner, content or any other purpose, nor for any material/moral damage and losses that may arise in such environments.

c. The Company and/or its employees cannot be held liable for any damage or loss, including direct or indirect damage, loss and expenses arising from any performance failure, error, omission, interruption, defect, delay in operation and/or transmission, computer virus and/or line and/or system failure occurring during the use of the Site, including but not limited to cases of force majeure or circumstances that cannot be expected of the Company beyond its fault and responsibility.

d. In your activities on the Site, you accept in advance that you will not produce or share, in any part of the Site, content that is contrary to public morality and decency, unlawful, that harms the rights of third parties, that is misleading, offensive, obscene, pornographic, that harms personal rights, that infringes copyright, or that encourages illegal activities. Otherwise, liability for any resulting damage rests entirely with you; the Site authorities may suspend or terminate such accounts and reserve the right to initiate legal proceedings.

e. In any dispute that may arise between you and the Company regarding the use of the Site, you accept that the Company's books, records and documents and its digital records shall be admitted as evidence pursuant to Law No. 6100 on Civil Procedure, and that you will not object to such records.

2.Which Types of Cookies Do We Use?

Cookies are small text files created on your device by a website, containing data in name-value format. The cookies we use upon your visit to our Site enable information about your Site visits to be stored on your device and used during your subsequent visits.

Cookies created by our Site and readable only by our Site are first-party cookies. The content offered on our Site may also be provided over domain names other than the domain name in your access address; in such cases each domain name creates its own third-party cookies.

1. Session Cookies: Cookies that are valid during your use of the website and that remain valid until the web browser is closed.
2. Persistent Cookies: Cookies stored in your browser that remain valid until deleted by you or until their expiry date. Information collected by these cookies cannot be used for marketing purposes.
3. Mandatory (Strictly Necessary) Cookies: Cookies whose use is compulsory for the proper functioning of the website and for you to benefit from the services offered. Information collected cannot be used for marketing purposes. If not permitted, various parts of the Site may become unusable.
4. Functional and Analytical Cookies: Cookies used to remember your preferences, to enable effective use of the site and to optimise it according to your requests, containing data on how you use the site. For example, cookies recording your display language preference are functional cookies.
5. Performance Cookies: Anonymous cookies that help improve the Site; used to identify the most visited pages or the errors received.
6. Tracking Cookies: First-party and third-party cookies created during your visit to our Site and to third-party domains. They enable the tracking of click and visit history and its matching across different domains. They are not used to determine your identity or to make decisions specific to you.
7. Targeting or Advertising Cookies: Generally placed by Site advertising networks; used to show relevant and personalised advertisements, to limit the number of advertisements, to measure campaign effectiveness and to remember your visit preferences.

By means of third-party cookies, we aim to provide you with a more efficient and functional experience. A Confidentiality Agreement has been concluded between these third-party service providers and our Company in accordance with legislation, and the security of your personal data obtained on behalf of our Company is guaranteed.

3.Purposes of Processing Cookies and Legal Grounds

Cookies are used to perform the basic functions necessary for the operation of the Site, to analyse the Site and improve its performance, to enhance the functionality of the Site and provide ease of use, and to carry out personalisation, targeting and advertising activities.

Technical cookies are processed on the basis of the legal ground in Article 5(2)(c) of Law No. 6698 — “processing being necessary for the personal data of the parties to a contract, provided that it is directly related to the conclusion or performance of that contract” — in order to make the Site available to you in working order. Other cookies are processed on the basis of the legal ground in Article 5(2)(f) — “processing being mandatory for the legitimate interests of the data controller, provided that it does not harm the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject” — and, in your cookie preferences, on the basis of your explicit consent under Article 5(1).

4.Storage of and Access to Cookies

Cookies created by the Site are stored on your computer by the browser you use to access the Site. The information contained in these cookies can be accessed remotely only by the Site offered under the / domain name that created the cookie, and only if you use the same browser.

5.Cookie Management and Use

Internet browsers generally accept cookies automatically. The use of cookies is not mandatory in order to use our Site; however, if you configure your browser to block all cookies, the quality of your user experience may decrease and your access to our Site or your ability to benefit from its various functions may be prevented. In particular, technical cookies enable the Site to perform its functions; if you disable them, some functions may not work properly.

You can configure your browser to block cookies for all sites or for specific sites, to warn you when a cookie is created, to block third-party cookies, or to treat all cookies as session cookies. You can also delete cookies saved on your device and view their list and values.

6.Cookie Removal Procedure

Cookies are placed into our system via the browsers you use. Depending on your browser, users may delete, block or re-consent to any of the cookies used on our site, using methods that vary by browser. Depending on the browser you use, you can carry out these operations via the links below.

If you use a browser other than those listed above, please visit your browser's developer page. To disable Google Analytics cookies across all browsers, you may use tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

7.Security of Your Personal Data

Cookies are not used for purposes other than those set out in this text, and all related operations are carried out in accordance with personal data protection legislation. Personal data obtained through cookies is processed, stored and secured by the Company in accordance with legislation. Where appropriate, privacy notices dedicated to personal data processing activities other than cookies will be made available for your review.

8.Your Right to Information

You may submit your requests within the scope of Article 11 of the Law, which governs the rights of the data subject, to the Company in accordance with the Communiqué on the Procedures and Principles of Application to the Data Controller. In this respect, you may review the KVKK Request Form drawn up for this purpose and available on the website.