COOKIE POLICY

What is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small text file or information stored on your computer or mobile device (such as a smartphone or tablet) when you visit websites through browsers on mobile and desktop devices. Cookies are typically used to provide a personalized experience while using the website, improve the services offered, and enhance your experience. They may also contribute to the ease of use while browsing a website. Cookies generally contain values such as the name of the website they came from, their expiration time, and randomly assigned numbers.

What Are Cookies Used For?

Cookies are used to make websites easier to use, personalize them according to users’ interests and needs, and display personalized ads through smart advertising.

Websites can read and write these cookie files, allowing them to remember important user information (such as remembering preference settings) in order to recognize the user and present a more suitable website experience.

Cookies also help accelerate future user movements on the website. Additionally, cookies may be used to collect statistical information about website usage in order to understand how visitors use the site and improve its design and usability.

Standard Cookies Used by Data Controllers

They are used to personalize the users’ web, mobile app, and/or mobile site usage. This usage includes:

Cookies that store your password and keep your web/mobile app/mobile site session continuously open, thereby saving you from entering your password multiple times on each visit, and cookies that remember and recognize the user on subsequent visits to the website, mobile app, and/or mobile site.

They are used to determine how users use the website, mobile app, and/or mobile site, including information about where and which devices users connect from, what content they view on the website/mobile app/mobile site, and the duration of their visit.

They are used to display content and advertisements tailored to the user’s interests, i.e., for targeted advertising or promotion.

TYPES OF COOKIES

Mandatory/Technical Cookies: These are cookies that are essential for the proper functioning of the website you visit. The purpose of these cookies is to provide the necessary services by ensuring the site’s operation. For example, they allow access to secure sections of the website, use its features, and navigate through it.

Analytical Cookies: These cookies collect information about the way the website is used, such as the frequency and number of visits, and show how visitors arrived at the site. The purpose of using these cookies is to improve the operation of the site by increasing performance and identifying overall trends. They do not contain data that can identify visitor identities. For example, they show the number of error messages displayed or the most visited pages.

Functional Cookies: These cookies remember the choices made by the visitor within the site and recall them on the next visit. The purpose of these cookies is to provide ease of use for visitors. For example, they prevent the site user from having to re-enter their password on every page visited.

Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies measure the effectiveness of advertisements shown to visitors and calculate how many times they were viewed. The purpose of these cookies is to present customized advertisements to visitors based on their interests.

Targeting/advertising cookies are not used on our website.

Cookie Provider	Cookie Name	Purpose	Cookie Type	Duration
Google Analytics	_ga	To analyze website traffic	Performance	2 years
Necessary Cookies	PHPSESSID	Required to manage sessions	Necessary	End of session
WooCommerce	woocommerce_cart_hash	To store e-commerce cart data	Functionality	End of session
PayPal	X-PP-SILOVER	To improve payment processing in e-commerce transactions	Necessary	End of session
Preference Cookies	language	To store the user’s preferred language	Preference	1 year

HOW TO MANAGE COOKIE PREFERENCES?

To change your preferences regarding the use of cookies or to block or delete cookies, simply change your browser settings.

Most browsers provide options to accept or reject cookies, accept only certain types of cookies, or be notified when a website wants to store cookies on your device.

It is also possible to delete previously stored cookies from your browser.

If you disable or reject cookies, some preferences may need to be set manually, and certain features or services on the website may not function properly as we may not be able to recognize or associate your account.
You can change your browser settings by clicking the relevant link from the table below:

Browser Information and Link

Google Chrome
http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647

Internet Explorer
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

Mozilla Firefox
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Cookies

Opera
http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/

Safari
https://support.apple.com/kb/ph19214?

Microsoft Edge
https://support.microsoft.com/tr-tr/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies