To help you make the most efficient use of our website, www.birikimpilleri.com, and to improve your user experience, we use cookies. When you enter our website, you will be asked whether you accept the use of cookies. Cookies will be activated once you select the “Accept” option. If you later change your mind and prefer not to use cookies, you can always delete or block cookies via your browser settings. However, please note that this may affect your experience and functionality on our website. Unless you change your cookie settings in your browser, cookies will continue to be used on this site.

Below, we explain the purposes for which cookies are used and how long they are stored.

When using the services on our site, you share certain information and data with us directly or indirectly. This information may include the personal details you provide when registering on the site (such as name, email address, or phone number) or information collected during your use of the site (such as IP, device, location and browser details, browsing and interaction content, timestamps, and connection duration). We take maximum care to safeguard your information and data. Cookie data stored on our server is not shared with third parties.

However, cookie data stored by external services (such as Live Chat plugins, Facebook plugins, YouTube videos, Twitter content, etc.) is the responsibility of those external services. Please refer to our KVKK (Personal Data Protection Law) page for more details.

COOKIES USED ON THE WEBSITE

Minors

If you are under the age of 18, you should only visit the website under the supervision of your parents. You must not use the website or share any personal data without parental supervision.

What Are Cookies and Why Are They Used?

Cookies are small text (data) files stored by browsers on your device or network server by websites you visit.

We use cookies to:

• Improve the functionality and performance of the website and enhance the services offered to you.
  
  
• Improve the website, offer new features, and personalize the offered features based on your preferences.
  
  
• Ensure the legal and commercial security of both you and our company.
  
  

Types of Cookies

Cookies, mainly designed to make the user experience easier, are grouped into four main categories:

Session Cookies:
 These allow the transfer of information between web pages and remember user-entered information, ensuring the proper functioning of site features.

Performance Cookies:
 These collect information on how often pages are visited, potential error messages, total time spent by users on a page, and how the site is used, helping to improve the website’s performance.

Functional Cookies:
 These remember previously selected options to provide convenience to the user and offer enhanced website features.

Advertising and Third-Party Cookies:
 These are third-party cookies that enable the use of certain functions on the website and track advertising (for example, showing relevant ads).

Purposes of Cookie Usage

Birikim Pilleri uses cookies for the following purposes:

• Security purposes: To manage and secure our systems, ensure the proper functioning of site features, or detect irregular behavior.
  
  
• Functionality purposes: To make system use easier and offer personalized features by remembering users’ details and previous choices.
  
  
• Performance purposes: To enhance and measure system performance by evaluating and analyzing user interaction with communications and behavior.
  
  
• Advertising purposes: To deliver ads and similar content tailored to users’ interests and measure the effectiveness or click-through rates of these ads, using either Birikim Pilleri’s or third-party systems.
  
  

Advertising Cookies

www.birikimpilleri.com uses Google Adsense and Google Analytics advertising systems. These systems use the DoubleClick DART cookie in AdSense ads displayed on publisher websites.

As a third-party vendor, Google uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Using these cookies, Google serves ads based on users’ visits to your site and other sites on the internet. You can opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ads and Content Network Privacy Policy.

Google may also use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (excluding your name, address, email address, or phone number) about your visits to this and other websites to provide advertisements about products and services that may interest you. To learn more about this practice and your options for preventing the use of such information by these companies, refer to the NAI Self-Regulatory Principles for Publishers (Appendix A).

Controlling and Deleting Cookies

To change your preferences regarding cookie use, or to block or delete cookies, simply adjust your browser settings. Most browsers offer options to accept or reject cookies, accept only specific types, or notify you when a website wants to store cookies. Previously stored cookies can also be deleted.

Since the process depends on your browser, please refer to your service provider’s instructions. Below are general steps for popular browsers:

Internet Explorer

• Open your desktop and tap or click the Internet Explorer icon on the taskbar.
  
  
• Tap or click the Tools button and then Internet Options.
  
  
• Tap or click the Privacy tab, move the slider up to block all cookies, and tap or click OK.
  
  

Microsoft Edge

• Click the three-dot icon at the top right and go to Settings.
  
  
• Under “Clear browsing data,” select what to clear.
  
  
• Choose the items you want to delete and start the process.
  
  

Google Chrome

• Open Chrome on your computer.
  
  
• Click More Settings at the top right.
  
  
• At the bottom, click Advanced.
  
  
• Under “Privacy and security,” click Site settings.
  
  
• Click Cookies.
  
  
• Under “All cookies and site data,” search for the site name.
  
  
• To the right of the site, click Remove.
  
  

Mozilla Firefox

• Click the Firefox Menu button and select Options.
  
  
• Select the Privacy & Security panel and go to the History section.
  
  
• Set Firefox to use custom settings for history.
  
  
• Click Show Cookies. The Cookies window will appear.
  
  
• In the search field, type the site whose cookies you want to remove.
  
  
• Select the cookies you want to delete and click Remove Selected.
  
  
• Click Close to close the Cookies window and then close the about:preferences page.
  
  

Safari

• Select Safari > Preferences.
  
  
• Click Privacy.
  
  
• Click Manage Website Data.
  
  
• Select one or more websites and then click Remove or Remove All.
  
  

Google Analytics Visitor Tracking

To block Google Analytics tracking:

• Use the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on to stay outside of Google Analytics tracking.
  
  

Cookies Used on the Website

The Cookie Policy should list all the cookies used on the site individually, including clear descriptions of their purpose, storage duration, and features.

Cookie Types by Storage Duration

Persistent Cookies:
 Cookies that remain on the user’s computer until a specific date or until deleted by the user. These are mainly used to measure users’ site movements and preferences.

Session Cookies:
 Cookies used to separate user visits into sessions and do not collect data from the user. These are deleted once the user closes the web page or remains inactive for a certain time.

The website also uses targeting and tracking cookies to support third-party services, especially advertising, and to enhance the effectiveness of these services. These cookies can remember the web pages and sites you visit and may collect personal data, such as the user device’s IP address.

The website uses both first-party and third-party cookies to:

• Collect information,
  
  
• Remember your interests and demographic details,
  
  
• Deliver targeted advertisements,
  
  
• Improve advertisements,
  
  
• Measure the number of visits and ad displays,
  
  
• Analyze interactions with ads and advertising services.
  
  

The website also uses social plugins like Facebook and LinkedIn, which connect directly to the servers of those social networks. When you visit the website and use these plugins, the content is transmitted directly from the social networks to your browser and incorporated into the website, allowing the social networks to access and process your data and associate it with your social media account.

Please note that we have no control over the scope of data processed by these social networks through plugins. For more details on how these social networks process your personal data, including the purposes, methods, and retention periods, carefully review the personal data policies published by the respective networks.