Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy has been prepared to inform you, in line with our obligations under Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (KVKK), about the types of cookies used on our website, their purposes and how they are managed.
This policy explains the cookies used to provide visitors to our website with a better service and a functional online environment. It also explains how personal data obtained in accordance with KVKK is processed and describes users’ statutory rights and powers.
1. What Is a Cookie?
A cookie is a text file stored on a hard drive or in a browser folder when a website is visited. Cookies are intended to make the service offered to website visitors faster and more functional.
Cookies make it possible to provide an online environment tailored to each website visitor. Visitors can set and change their preferences regarding the use of cookies. They also have the right to request the deletion of cookies.
2. Types of Cookies
Cookies may be classified according to their purpose, the period for which the data is retained and the source that creates them.
2.1. Cookies by Purpose
When classified by purpose, cookies include strictly necessary cookies, preference cookies, statistics cookies and marketing cookies.
2.1.1. Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are used to enable essential website functions, such as navigating the site and accessing secure areas. On e-commerce sites in particular, these cookies enable functions such as keeping products selected by a user in the shopping cart.
Strictly necessary cookies are generally first-party session cookies. Although separate explicit consent is not required for these cookies, users must be informed of the reason for and necessity of their use.
2.1.2. Preference Cookies
Preference cookies remember choices previously made on the website. By storing choices such as a username, password, preferred language or region, they provide the user with a more personalised experience.
These cookies, which can enable automatic login to the website, are also known as functional cookies.
2.1.3. Statistics Cookies
Statistics cookies, also known as performance cookies, provide anonymous statistical data about the use of the website. They can be used to analyse how a user uses the website, which pages they visit and which links they click.
Anonymised statistics cookies are not used to identify the user directly. Their purpose is to make the website more functional and efficient.
2.1.4. Marketing Cookies
Marketing cookies enable advertisers to present advertisements based on a user’s interests. Statistical data about the advertisements encountered by a website user may be obtained through these cookies and shared with other organisations or advertisers.
These cookies can generally be stored as persistent cookies.
2.2. Cookies by Storage Period
According to the period for which data is retained, cookies are divided into session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies differ from persistent cookies in that they provide temporary, short-lived data.
2.2.1. Session Cookies
Session cookies store data until the user closes the browser or the session ends. They are short-lived cookies and are deleted automatically when the session ends.
2.2.2. Persistent Cookies
Persistent cookies remain on the device until the user deletes them or until the expiry date set for the cookie. Their code contains an expiry date with a variable duration.
Under the ePrivacy Directive, persistent cookies should not be stored for longer than 12 months.
2.3. Cookies by Source
This classification is based on which party or source places the cookie on the user’s device.
2.3.1. First-Party Cookies
First-party cookies are placed on the user’s device directly by the website being visited.
2.3.2. Third-Party Cookies
Third-party cookies are placed on the user’s device not by the website being visited, but by third parties such as advertisers or analytics service providers.
