COOKIE DISCLOSURE STATEMENT

This statement has been prepared by the Personal Data Protection Authority (Nasuh Akar Mahallesi 1407. Sok. No:4, 06520 Çankaya/Ankara), in its capacity as data controller, within the scope of Article 10 of the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“Law”) and the Communiqué on the Principles and Procedures to Be Followed in Fulfilling the Obligation to Inform.

The purpose of this Cookie Disclosure Statement is to inform you about the processing of personal data automatically collected through cookies placed on your device when you visit our website — including the purposes for which cookies are used, their types, the legal basis for data processing, and your rights regarding these processes.

On our website, only first-party session and persistent cookies that are strictly necessary for the provision of the service are used.

Types of Cookies

1. Cookies by Duration

Session cookies: Used to ensure the continuity of the session and are deleted when the user closes their browser.

Persistent cookies: Not deleted when the browser is closed and are automatically deleted at a specific date or after a certain period of time.

Accordingly, our website uses both session and persistent cookies.

2. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are placed directly by the website visited by the user (the domain displayed in the browser’s address bar).

Third-party cookies are placed by a different domain than the one being visited.

In this context, only first-party cookies are used on our website.

3. Cookies by Purpose of Use

Cookies may be used for various purposes such as strictly necessary, functional, or advertising/marketing.
On our website, only strictly necessary cookies are used to provide the information society services that you explicitly request.

Within this scope, your personal data associated with your IP address are processed through the following cookies:

A) To verify the reliability of subsequent requests to the website:
“cookiesession1” — first-party persistent cookie (stored for 1 year).

B) To determine the language preference in which visitors view the website:
“ASP.NET_SessionId” — first-party session cookie.

C) To confirm that the cookie disclosure statement has been read:
“cookiepolicy_status” — first-party persistent cookie (stored for 1 year).

Processing of Personal Data and Legal Basis

Your personal data obtained through these cookies are not transferred to any other data controllers.
The processing of personal data through these cookies is based on the legal ground set forth in Article 5/2(f) of the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698, which allows processing that is

“necessary for the legitimate interests of the data controller, provided that such processing does not harm the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject.”

Your Rights

Within the scope of Article 11 of the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698, you may submit your requests regarding your rights to the Personal Data Protection Authority, in accordance with the Communiqué on the Principles and Procedures for Applications to the Data Controller.