Cookie Policy

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

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

1. What Is a Cookie?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device via your browser when you visit a website. Cookies can be used for purposes such as ensuring the website functions properly, remembering user preferences, measuring site performance, and improving the user experience.

2. Types of Cookies Used and Their Purposes

The Website may use cookies in the following categories based on their intended use:

• Essential and Technical Cookies: These are cookies necessary for the Website to perform its basic functions. Security verifications, session management, form security, remembering your cookie preferences, and ensuring technical performance fall under this category. If these cookies are disabled, some parts of the Website may not function properly.
• Functional Cookies: These can be used to remember user preferences and make the Website more user-friendly. Language selection, display preferences, or similar user settings fall under this category.
• Analytical and Performance Cookies: These cookies can be used to measure how visitors use the Website, which pages are visited most frequently, and how site performance can be improved. These cookies are enabled based on user preferences.
• Marketing and Targeting Cookies: These may be used for advertising, remarketing, conversion tracking, or to serve users content based on their interests. These cookies should only be used with the user’s 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 privacy and cookie policies of the relevant service providers.

3. Technologies That May Be Used on the Website

Depending on the technical infrastructure, security, analytics, performance measurement, advertising, map, 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 selected 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 the secure operation of contact and request forms, and to block spam submissions and automated bot activities.
• Analysis and Performance Measurement: Can be used to measure website traffic, understand visitor behavior, and improve website performance.
• Advertising and Conversion Measurement: Can be used to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, conduct remarketing activities, or deliver content based on user interests.
• Maps and Embedded Content: Can be used for displaying maps, playing videos, linking to social media, 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 used, and users’ cookie preferences.

4. Management and Control of Cookies

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

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

5. Cookie Retention Periods

Cookie retention periods may vary depending on the type of cookie and its purpose. While some cookies are stored only for the duration of a session, others may be retained on your device for a longer period to remember user preferences, ensure security, or conduct analytics.

When you change your cookie preferences or delete cookies via your browser settings, the relevant cookies may be removed. The retention periods for cookies used by third-party service providers may vary according to the policies of those service providers.

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 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 advised to review the privacy and cookie policies of the relevant service providers separately.

7. Changing Cookie Preferences

Users can change their previously set cookie preferences through the cookie preference panel provided on the Website. They can also delete cookies or block cookie usage through their browser settings.

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

8. Policy Changes

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