444İK employs cookies, web beacons and similar technologies on its website, as is the case with most websites, so that you may make the most of our site and enjoy a better user experience. The Cookie Policy explains to all our website visitors and users what kind of cookies are used in the website and under which conditions.
What is a Cookie?
Cookies are short text files generally comprising letters and numbers, stored on your computer, mobile device or network server when you visit a website or view a message. On the other hand, web beacons are small and short graphic images, also called “pixel tags” or “clear GIFs”, present on our website, messaging and tools, which often function in parallel with cookies in order to identify visitors and determine their behavior.
What Kind of Data Do We Process via Cookies?
Depending on their type, cookies collect data about your browsing and usage preferences found in the device with which you visit our website. This data consists of all the information about the pages you visited, the services you viewed, and all other information about your visit across our website.
Whenever applicable, we protect our cookies and similar technologies through the use of a unique identifier which can be deciphered only by us, in order to ensure that only us and / or our authorized service providers may access or monitor this data. We do not use our cookies or similar technologies to store your personal data.
Your personal data may be collected and stored using the above-mentioned technologies only after notifying you, and on the basis of legal requirements set forth in the applicable legislation.
For What Purpose Do We Use Cookies?
Cookies help us collect information about your browsing and usage preferences and habits on our website, remember your preferences on your next visit, and enhance our service. As such, you can enjoy an improved and customized user experience on your next visit.
- Cookies enable our website to function effectively and boosts its performance,
- help us enhance and simplify the services offered to you via our website,
- allow us to improve the features offered on our website and to customize these based on your preferences,
- enable us to prevent any fraudulent action on our website and to protect the legal and commercial security of you and our Company, and
- allow us to fulfill our legal and contractual obligations, in particular those stipulated in Law No. 5651 on the Regulation of Online Publications and Prevention of Crimes Committed through Such Publications, as well as in the Communiqué on the Principles and Procedures Regulating Online Publications.
Cookie Types by Storage Duration
Permanent Cookies:
Permanent cookies are stored until being deleted from your browser settings. These are used for measuring your actions and preferences on our website and help our website remember your information and preferences on your next visit.
Session Cookies:
Session cookies make sure that our website functions correctly during your visit on our website. These ensure the security and continuity of our website as well as your own security throughout your visit. Session cookies are temporary cookies, which are deleted once you leave the website or stay inactive for a given period of time. They are not permanent.
Cookie Types by Usage:
Mandatory Cookies:
Mandatory Cookies are absolutely necessary for the website to function correctly. These are used for administering the system properly, creating user accounts and allowing users to log on to the website, and preventing fraudulent actions. In case mandatory cookies are blocked, the website will not function correctly.
Function Cookies:
Function cookies are used for facilitating your visit on our website and enhancing your user experience on the website. These enable us to identify you and remember your fields of interest or previous preferences so as to provide convenient access to some of the content on our website.
Analytical Cookies:
Analytical cookies enable us to improve our website by analyzing and understanding its functioning. These cookies allow us to determine which of our pages draw more attention and which content is visualized more. Thanks to these cookies, we can monitor the traffic on our sites and offer services in line with this traffic. These cookies store information in an anonymous way.
Targeting/Advertising Cookies:
Targeting cookies enable us to determine and offer content related to your areas of interest. Third party advertising cookies may be placed on our website and other websites where we advertise, in order to recognize you and offer you customized ads and content. These cookies are also employed for measuring the effectiveness of our ads. Blocking these cookies will not completely block ad content, but will rather cause you to view general ads instead of ads which might be of interest to you.
Social Networks and Social Plug-Ins:
Our website uses social media plug-ins that link to social networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram. When you use these plug-ins while visiting our website, the website will directly connect to the server of the social network in question. Then, the content provided by the plug-in is transferred from social networks to your web browser, and added onto the website you are visiting. As such, the social network in question can access and process your data and combine it with the data available on your account.
We would like to indicate that we have no influence or control over the data that social networks process via their plug-ins. In order to receive information on social networks’ objectives, methods and schedules in processing your personal data, please examine with care the personal data processing policies issued by the social networks in question.
Authorized third party service providers and third party cookies
In order to provide you a more sophisticated, rapid and secure experience, we may work with third party firms also known as “service providers.” These service providers place third party cookies on our website so as to store information.
The service providers can employ these technologies in order to assist us in delivering content and ads, and gathering site metrics and analytics anonymously. We do not permit the service providers to collect your personal data from our website or tools for their own goals. The service providers are bound by confidentiality agreements that they have signed with us, as well as legal restrictions concerning the collection and use of personal data. Third party cookies are regulated by third party privacy policy.
We may employ cookies or similar technologies by our service providers so as to offer you customized ads falling in your areas of interest, and to analyze how you use our website.
Facebook and Google may match the data they collect on our website with their own data, and process the personal data thus obtained in line with their own privacy policies.
For Facebook’s Data Policy, please visit https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation, for Google’s Privacy Policy please visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ ssacebook Özel Hedef Kitle Hüküm ve Koşulları için https://www.facebook.com/ads/manage/customaudiences/tos.php adresini ziyaret edebilirsiniz.
Furthermore, we also have recourse to Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics services in order to analyze and measure how you use our website.
Ad Networks and Ad Exchanges Run by Authorized Third Parties:
We may use third parties such as ad networks and ad exchanges allowing us to show you ads. The third party ad network and exchange providers may use third party cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to gather information, and also collect information such as device IDs, IP addresses and identity for advertisers (IDFA). The information collected by these third parties may be employed for showing you more relevant ads on our website and on other websites. Third party cookies are regulated by third party privacy policy.
We may use Google Ads, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn ad networks.
The website makes use of the following cookies:
Google Analytics
Google Analytics uses cookies to examine how visitors use the website. Information about your use of this website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google and stored by Google on servers located in the USA. Google will employ this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, collecting the website activity for the Company, and providing other services related to website activity and internet usage; however, Google will not match your IP address with other data that it stores. For more information about the use of Google Analytics (including rejection options), you may visit: http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html.
Google Ads
Google Ads employs cookies in order to remember your safe search preferences, show you more relevant ads, determine how many visitors visit a page, help you register for our services, safeguard your data, or remember your ad settings. This allows the website to remember information about your visit (such as your language choice and other settings). Information about your website use (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google and stored by Google on servers in the USA. Google will use this information for assessing your website use, compile website activity for the company, and provide other services related to website activity and internet use; however, it will not match your IP address with other data it stores. For more information on Google Ads cookies (including rejection options), you may visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=tr.
Facebook uses cookies if you have a Facebook account, utilize Facebook products including sites and apps, or visit sites or apps that utilize Facebook products (inclusive of the Like button and similar Facebook technologies). Cookies enable Facebook to offer you Facebook products and comprehend the information that it collects about you, including your use of other websites and apps, whether you are registered or signed in or not. Facebook uses cookies for identity check, security and site integrity, ads, suggestions, metrics, analytics and reporting. Moreover, the e-mail address in your personal data is shared with such platforms in order to show you ads that may be of interest to you on social media platforms and to create a customized target audience. Your e-mail address is transferred via the secure channels and environments created by these platforms. Social media platforms employ e-mail hashing and use your e-mail only for matching purposes. Your e-mail address is not shared with third-parties or other advertisers, and once the matching process is complete, your e-mail is deleted from social media platforms’ systems as soon as possible. For instance, Facebook will implement processes and procedures to maintain the confidentiality and security of the hashed data and the collection of Facebook User IDs that comprise the audience created from your hashed data (“your audience”), including by maintaining technical and physical safeguards that are designed to (a) protect the security and integrity of data while it is within Facebook’s systems and (b) guard against the accidental or unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure of data within Facebook’s systems. Facebook will not give access to or information about this audience to third parties or other advertisers, use your audience to append to the information it has about its users or build interest-based profiles, or use your audience except to provide services to you, unless it has your permission or is required to do so by law. For Facebook’s Custom Audiences Terms, please visit https://www.facebook.com/ads/manage/customaudiences/tos.php and for Facebook’s Data Policy, please visit https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.
How Can You Block the Use of Cookies?
The use of cookies allows you to get a better service from our website, but if you wish, you can choose to block the use of cookies by changing your browser’s settings.
In case you block cookies, some of the features and services on our site may not function correctly, our site may not be customized for you, and tailored according to your experience.
You have the option of customizing your cookie preferences by changing your internet browser settings. Browser providers offer help pages concerning the management of cookies in their products. For further information please visit:
Google Chrome:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=tr
Mozilla Firefox:
https://support.mozilla.org/tr/kb/%C3%87erezleri%20engellemek
Opera Mobil:
https://www.opera.com/tr/help/mobile/android
Safari Bilgisayar:
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19214?locale=tr_TR&viewlocale=tr_TR
Safari Mobil:
https://support.apple.com/tr-tr/HT201265
For further information about this procedure in other major web browsers, please visit https://www.esb.org.tr/cerez-bellek veya https://www.aboutcookies.org.
You may also employ third party software to delete the cookies placed by the websites you visited.
Contact Us
You may share with us your inquiries and comments about our Cookie Policy via the communication channels listed on our website (www.444ik.com).
