1. What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files that websites, applications or other platforms use to store your browsing or usage information on your computer, tablet, smartphone or other similar devices by acting as a tag that identifies your device. Cookies are necessary for purposes such as facilitating navigation, learning how users interact with the platforms and improving them. They are also used to provide advertising to the user according to their preferences and for other purposes detailed below. Cookies do not harm your computer or device.
When we talk about “cookies”, we also mean other similar technologies that collect or set information on and through your device (flash cookies, web beacons or bugs, pixels, HTML5 – local storage) and SDK technologies for application formats. Similarly, the term “cookie” is also applied to fingerprint control, i.e. the use of information collection techniques that will help us identify your device. In some cases, these technologies work together with cookies to collect and store information in order to provide you with certain functions or services on our Platform or to serve you advertisements on third-party platforms based on your browsing data.
This definition is a general summary of Cookies for informational purposes only. Cookies used for specific purposes are detailed in the cookie configuration panel accessible from our Platform.
2. What Types of Cookies are there?
Please review this section to get general information about the types of Cookies that can be used in online environments.
Cookies can be divided into the following categories according to their owners:
A) First-party cookies: Cookies sent to the user’s computer or device from equipment or domains managed by the publisher and from which the platform or the service requested by the user is provided.
B) Third-party cookies: Cookies sent to the user’s computer or device from equipment or domains not managed by the publisher and from another entity that processes data through cookies.
Cookies can be classified according to their purpose as follows:
A) Strictly necessary cookies (technical): These are cookies that allow the user to navigate a web page, platform or application and use different options such as controlling the traffic contained therein, identifying data or sessions, accessing restricted sections or content, remembering the elements that make up an order, performing the purchase for an order, managing the payment, controlling fraud related to the security of the service, using security elements during navigation, requesting registration or participation in an event, storing content for video or audio broadcasting, enabling dynamic content (for example, text or image loading animation) or sharing content on social networks. Strictly necessary technical cookies are downloaded by default when the platform is allowed to be displayed or the service requested by the user is provided.
B) Functional or personalization cookies: These cookies allow the user to access the service or platform with certain features that may differentiate their experience from the experiences of other users, such as language, the number of results to be displayed when the user performs a search, the appearance or content of the service depending on the type of browser the user uses or the region from which the service is accessed. Not accepting these Cookies may cause the website to work slowly or provide recommendations that are not sufficiently personalized.
C) Analysis cookies: These cookies allow the calculation of the number of users, the sections visited by users on the platform and the ways they interact with them in order to perform usage measurements and statistical analyses of users in order to offer improvements through the analysis of usage data resulting from the use of our platform or service by users.
D) Behavioral advertising cookies: These cookies allow the creation of a specific profile to display advertisements according to the user’s browsing habits and store user behavior information obtained by continuously observing these habits. These cookies allow the easiest possible management of advertising areas added by the editor directly or in cooperation with third parties.
3. Why are Cookies Used on Our Platform?
Cookies are an integral part of the operation of our Platform. The main purpose of our cookies is to make your browsing experience more comfortable and efficient. For example, they are used to remember your preferences (language, country, etc.) during browsing and for future visits. Cookies are also used to continuously improve our services and our Platform, as well as to provide personalized advertising based on your browsing habits.
The information collected in cookies is also used for statistical data and usage patterns (number of visits,