Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy has been prepared to explain the types of cookies used by the Website, their purposes, retention periods, and how they can be managed by users. Essential cookies used on the Website are necessary for the secure and proper operation of the Website. Non-essential analytics, performance, marketing, and targeting cookies are used in accordance with user preferences and cookie consent settings.

1. What Is a Cookie?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device through your browser when you visit a website. Cookies may be used for purposes such as ensuring the operation of the website, remembering user preferences, measuring website performance, and improving user experience.

2. Types of Cookies Used and Their Purposes

The Website may use cookies in the following categories according to their purposes:

• Essential and Technical Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the Website to perform its core functions. Security authentication, session management, form security, remembering your cookie preferences, and ensuring technical performance may fall within this scope. If these cookies are disabled, certain parts of the Website may not function properly.
• Functional Cookies: These cookies may be used to remember user preferences and make the Website more convenient to use. Language selection, display preferences, and similar user settings may fall within this category.
• Analytics and Performance Cookies: These cookies may be used to understand how visitors use the Website, identify which pages are visited most frequently, and measure how the Website's performance can be improved. These cookies are activated based on user preferences.
• Marketing and Targeting Cookies: These cookies may be used for advertising, remarketing, conversion tracking, or providing content tailored to users' interests. Such cookies should only be used with the user's consent.
• Third-Party Cookies: Third-party service providers may use cookies due to maps, videos, social media links, security tools, analytics tools, or embedded content available on the Website. These cookies are subject to the respective service providers' own privacy and cookie policies.

3. Technologies That May Be Used on the Website

Depending on the technical infrastructure, security, analytics, performance measurement, advertising, mapping, and embedded content technologies used on the Website, different cookies may be utilized.

• Cookie Preference Management: May be used to save users' cookie preferences and remember previously selected choices.
• Website Security: May be used to protect the Website against spam, abuse, unauthorized access attempts, malicious traffic, and security threats.
• Form Security: May be used to ensure the secure operation of contact and request forms and to prevent spam submissions and automated bot activities.
• Analytics and Performance Measurement: May be used to measure website traffic, understand visitor behavior, and improve Website performance.
• Advertising and Conversion Measurement: May be used to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, conduct remarketing activities, or provide content based on user interests.
• Maps and Embedded Content: May be used for displaying maps, playing videos, providing social media links, or displaying third-party content.

Not all of the technologies listed above may be active on every Website. The cookies and technologies used may vary depending on the Website's technical requirements, the services utilized, and users' cookie preferences.

4. Management and Control of Cookies

Users may manage their cookie preferences through the cookie consent banner displayed when first visiting the Website. Since essential cookies are necessary for the operation of the Website, they may not be disabled. Analytics, performance, marketing, and targeting cookies may be accepted, rejected, or customized according to user preferences. Users may also block, delete, or modify cookie settings through their browser settings. However, disabling all cookies through browser settings may cause certain features of the Website to function improperly.

5. Cookie Retention Periods

Cookie retention periods may vary depending on the type and purpose of the cookie. Some cookies are stored only for the duration of a session, while others may remain on your device for a longer period to remember user preferences, ensure security, or carry out analytics processes. If you change your cookie preferences or delete cookies through your browser settings, the relevant cookies may be removed. Retention periods for cookies used by third-party service providers may vary according to their own policies.

6. Third-Party Cookies and External Services

Some third-party services used on the Website may use their own cookies for purposes such as displaying maps, playing videos, providing security, analytics, advertising, or performance measurement. The use and management of these cookies are subject to the privacy and cookie policies of the relevant third-party service providers. The Website is not directly responsible for data processing activities carried out by third-party service providers on their own platforms. Users are encouraged to review the privacy and cookie policies of the relevant service providers separately.

7. Changing Cookie Preferences

Users may change their previously provided cookie preferences through the cookie preference panel available on the Website. Users may also delete cookies or block their use through browser settings. If a cookie preference panel is active on the Website, users may update their preferences regarding non-essential cookie categories at any time through this panel.

8. Policy Changes

The Website reserves the right to update this Cookie Policy in line with technological requirements, changes in services used, or legal regulations. Any changes made shall become effective as of the date they are published on this page.