Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy has been prepared to explain the types of cookies used by the Website, their purposes of use, retention periods and how users can manage them.

The mandatory cookies used on the Website are necessary for the site to function securely and correctly. Non-mandatory analytical, performance, marketing and targeting cookies are used in line with user preferences and the cookie consent mechanism.

1. What Is a Cookie?

Cookies are small text files saved to your device by your browser when you visit a website. Cookies may be used to make a website function, remember user preferences, measure site performance and improve user experience.

2. Types and Purposes of Cookies Used

The Website may use cookies in the following categories depending on their purpose of use:

• Mandatory and Technical Cookies: Cookies required for the Website to perform its basic functions. Security verifications, session management, form security, remembering your cookie preferences and ensuring technical performance fall within this scope. When these cookies are disabled, some parts of the Website may not work properly.
• Functional Cookies: May be used to remember user preferences and make the Website more useful. Language selection, appearance preferences or similar user settings fall within this scope.
• Analytical and Performance Cookies: May be used to measure how visitors use the Website, which pages are visited more, and how site performance can be improved. These cookies are activated in line with user preferences.
• Marketing and Targeting Cookies: May be used for advertising, remarketing, conversion measurement, or presenting content to users according to their interests. These cookies should only be used with user consent.
• Third-Party Cookies: Cookies may be used by third-party service providers due to maps, videos, social media links, security tools, analytics tools or embedded content on the Website. These cookies are subject to the relevant 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, maps and embedded content technologies used on the Website, different cookies may be used.

• Cookie Preference Management: May be used to save users' cookie preferences and remember previously given preferences.
• Site Security: May be used to protect the Website against spam, misuse, unauthorized access attempts, malicious traffic and security threats.
• Form Security: May be used to ensure contact and request forms work securely, and to prevent spam submissions and automated bot activity.
• Analytics and Performance Measurement: May be used to measure site traffic, understand visitor behaviour and improve Website performance.
• Advertising and Conversion Measurement: May be used to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, carry out remarketing activities, or present content according to user interests.
• Maps and Embedded Content: May be used for map display, video playback, 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 needs, the services used and users' cookie preferences.

4. Management and Control of Cookies

Users can manage their cookie preferences through the cookie consent banner they encounter on their first visit to the Website. Mandatory cookies may not be disabled as they are necessary for the Website to function. Analytical, performance, marketing and targeting cookies can be accepted, rejected or customized based on user preferences.

Users can also block, delete cookies or change their cookie preferences through browser settings. However, if cookies are completely disabled through browser settings, some features of the Website may not work properly.

5. Cookie Retention Period

Cookie retention periods vary depending on the type and purpose of the cookie. Some cookies are stored only for the duration of the session, while others may be kept on your device for longer periods to remember user preferences, ensure security or carry out analysis processes.

When you change your cookie preferences or delete cookies through your browser settings, the relevant cookies may be removed. The retention periods of cookies used by third-party service providers may vary according to those providers' 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 map display, video playback, security, analytics, advertising or performance measurement. The use and management of these cookies are subject to the relevant third-party service providers' own privacy and cookie policies.

The Website is not directly responsible for data processing activities carried out by third-party service providers on their own platforms. Users are advised to also review the privacy and cookie policies of the relevant service providers.

7. Changing Cookie Preferences

Users can change previously given cookie preferences through the cookie preference panel offered on the Website. They can also delete cookies or block cookie use through browser settings.

If the cookie preference panel is active on the Website, users can update their preferences regarding non-mandatory cookie categories through this panel at any time.

8. Policy Changes

The Website reserves the right to update the Cookie Policy in line with technological needs, changes in the services used or legal regulations. Changes take effect from the date they are published on this page.