Cookie Policy

What Is a Cookie?

Today almost every website uses cookies. Like most websites, we also use cookies in order to give you a better, faster and safer experience. A cookie is a small text file stored on your device (for example, a computer or mobile phone) when you visit a website. Cookies may be stored on your device through your browser during your first visit to a website. When you visit the same site again with the same device, your browser checks whether a cookie registered in the name of that site exists on your device. If a record exists, it transmits the data inside that record to the website you are visiting. This allows the website to recognise that you have visited it before and to determine the content delivered to you accordingly.

Why Are Cookies Used?

Some cookies allow the website to remember the preferences you used during previous visits, making subsequent visits far more user-friendly and offering a personalised experience.

In addition, links to third parties found on the website are subject to those third parties' own privacy policies; responsibility for their privacy practices does not lie with kayaoglumakine.com, and in this context we recommend reading the privacy policy of the relevant site when you visit it through such a link.

Types of Cookies

Cookies, whose main purpose is to provide convenience to users, fall into four main groups:

• Session Cookies: These cookies enable various features such as carrying information between web pages and remembering information entered by the user, and are necessary for the website's functions to operate properly.
• Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about the frequency with which pages are visited, any error messages, the total time users spend on a given page and site usage patterns, and are used to improve the performance of the website.
• Functional Cookies: These cookies remember previously selected options in order to provide convenience to the user, and aim to provide users with advanced internet features within the website.
• Advertising and Third-Party Cookies: These are cookies belonging to third-party suppliers, and they enable the use of certain functions on the website as well as advertising tracking.

Purposes for Which Cookies Are Used

• Security purposes: kayaoglumakine.com may use cookies that enable the use of functions on this site or that detect irregular behaviour, in order to administer and secure its systems.
• Functionality purposes: kayaoglumakine.com may use cookies that remember users' information and past selections, in order to make its systems easier to use and to provide user-specific features.
• Performance purposes: kayaoglumakine.com may use cookies that evaluate and analyse interaction with the messages sent and user behaviour, in order to improve and measure the performance of its systems.
• Advertising purposes: kayaoglumakine.com may use cookies that measure the effectiveness of advertisements or analyse click-through rates, in order to deliver advertising and similar content in line with users' interests through its own systems or those of third parties.

Controlling and Deleting Cookies

To change your preferences regarding the use of cookies, or to block or delete cookies, it is sufficient to change your browser settings. Many browsers give you the option of accepting or rejecting cookies, accepting only certain types of cookies, or being warned by the browser when a website requests to store a cookie on your device, so that you can control cookies. It is also possible to delete cookies previously saved in your browser. The procedures for controlling or deleting cookies vary depending on the browser you use.

The method for changing your cookie preferences varies according to the type of browser and can be obtained from the relevant service provider at any time.