Cookie Policy

Muallimköy Neighborhood, Deniz Street No:143-5, Bilişim Vadisi Gebze/Kocaeli address, where Dijital Kurye Teknoloji Hizmetleri A.Ş (Dijital Kurye) operates and is headquartered, cookies (Cookie/Cookies) are used by Dijital Kurye for Members who register to and use the Site operated and managed by Dijital Kurye, as well as for Visitors and Buyers, in the course of any visits they make to the Site within the scope of the Services offered through the Site. This use of Cookies is carried out in compliance with the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (KVKK) in particular, and with the legislation to which Dijital Kurye is subject in general. Dijital Kurye may not disclose to third parties, nor use for purposes other than processing, the personal data it obtains about the Data Subject, in violation of the provisions of the Privacy Policy and Personal Data Text and of the Personal Data Protection Law.

 

This Cookie Policy is an annex to the Website Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy and Personal Data Text, and constitutes an integral part of these documents. Terms that are capitalized in this Cookie Policy and not otherwise defined shall bear the meanings assigned to them in the Website Terms of Use and/or the Privacy Policy and Personal Data Text.

1. What is a Cookie?

 

Cookies are technical communication files, small text files that a website sends to the user’s device or network server via browsers. This text file is entirely personal to the individual and can only be read by the web server that defined this code. It is absolutely not a virus. Cookies exist so that the Site can recognize the person later on.

1. For What Purposes Are Cookies Used?

 

Dijital Kurye uses Cookies on the Site for various purposes and may process personal data by means of these Cookies. The main purposes are as follows:

 

To carry out the basic functions necessary for the Site to operate,

 

To improve the services offered and provide ease of use by increasing the Site’s functionality and performance,

 

To recognize you during your next visit to the Site; if the “Remember me” feature is used to speed up login to the Member account, the username may be stored in a Cookie,

 

To offer new features on the Site and personalize the existing features according to preferences,

 

To ensure the legal and commercial security of the Site, Dijital Kurye, and the User,

 

To generate visit traffic statistics (such as determining the Site’s visit dates and times),

 

To make recommendations based on the services preferred by Users (usage analytics), and

 

To determine how the Site was discovered.

1. Types of Cookies in Terms of Use

 

Strictly Necessary Cookies: These Cookies are absolutely necessary for the Site to function properly. They are needed for managing the system and preventing fraudulent transactions, and if blocked, the Site cannot function correctly.

 

Analytics/Performance Cookies: These Cookies ensure that the operation of the Site is analyzed and understood, and that the Site is improved through interaction with the User. The use of these Cookies can be disabled.

 

Functional and Analytical Cookies: These Cookies are used to provide the User with an easier and more advanced user experience. They perform functions such as remembering previous preferences, ensuring easy access to certain content on the Site, enabling effective use of the Site, optimizing the Site to respond to user requests, and understanding how visitors use the Site. By their nature, these types of Cookies may contain personal information such as usernames. The use of these Cookies can be disabled.

 

Targeting/Advertising/Commercial Cookies: These Cookies are used to identify and present content that may be of interest, including advertising content. They serve to present products/content similar to those targeted in line with users’ interests and choices, and to enhance the user experience by offering a more advanced, personalized advertising portfolio. These Cookies are kept in the background for approximately 2 (two) months, and it is possible for the user to make the necessary adjustments via their internet browser settings. In any case, these settings may vary depending on the internet browser. The use of these Cookies can be disabled; however, such blocking will not completely prevent advertising content, it will only result in general advertisements being shown instead of ads that may be of interest to the user.

 

Flash Cookies: These are types of cookies used to activate visual or audio content on the Site.

 

Third-Party Cookies: The Site works with reputable and well‑known third‑party advertising providers. Third‑party service providers place their own Cookies in order to deliver user‑specific advertisements. Cookies placed by third parties collect, process, and analyze visitors’ browsing information on the Site and how they use it.

1. Types of Cookies in Terms of Storage Duration

 

Persistent Cookies: These are cookies that remain on a person’s computer or smart mobile device until they are deleted by the person or until a specified date. These Cookies are mostly used to measure users’ preferences and site behavior.

 

Session Cookies: These Cookies are used to divide a user’s visit into sessions and do not collect data from the user. These Cookies are deleted when the user remains inactive on the Site for a certain period of time or closes the Site. On the Site, Targeting/Advertising/Commercial Cookies, as defined above, are used to enable third parties to provide services and to increase the effectiveness of these services. These Cookies can remember visited web pages and websites and collect personal data, particularly the IP address of the user’s device. The Site uses both first‑party and third‑party cookies for situations such as gathering information, remembering demographic data and interests, presenting targeted advertisements to the user, and determining the number of ad impressions and visits. When the Site is visited and these plugins are used, the Site connects directly to the selected social network’s server. Then, the content offered by the plugin is transmitted directly from the social networks to the web browser and added to the website being visited. In this way, the relevant social network can access and process the data belonging to the user and combine it with the data of the account on that social network.

 

Dijital Kurye has no control over the data processed by social networks through such plugins. To obtain more information on the purposes, methods, and duration for which social networks process your personal data, the personal data policies published by the relevant social networks should be carefully reviewed.