As homeawayistanbul.com, we process personal data and use internet cookies to provide a better user experience for our website visitors by respecting their privacy and personal data protection rights. This Cookie Usage Policy (“Policy”) explains to all our Website visitors and users which types of cookies are used under which conditions. If you complete your membership transactions and become a member of the Website, you can access detailed information about the processing of your personal data through the Information Text, Privacy Policy and User Agreement.

This Policy applies regardless of the technologies, methods and manner in which you connect to the Website. Therefore, we recommend that you read this Policy carefully and obtain a copy for future reference.

Minors

If you are under 18 years of age, you must visit the Website under the supervision of your parents. You must not use this Website and must not share any of your personal data without the supervision of your parents.

What is a Cookie and for what purposes are they used?

Cookies are small data storage files saved by websites on your computer, mobile phones, tablets or other mobile devices that you access. This file stores information about your visit to the Website. Thus, the devices you access will remember this data when you use the Website again. Therefore, cookies are necessary and important for you to use the Website effectively and more easily. Cookies are also used on the Website and third-party websites so that we can offer you more suitable services, products or offers.

The main purposes of using cookies are;

Some technical data is needed for more effective use of the Website, The Company's collection of information regarding your browsing and usage preferences and habits on the Website, The Company needs your personal data, such as your IP address, in order to fulfill its legal and contractual obligations, particularly those arising from the Law No. 5651 on the Regulation of Publications Made on the Internet and Combating Crimes Committed through Such Publications and the Regulation on the Principles and Procedures for the Regulation of Publications Made on the Internet.

What Types of Data Do We Process with Cookies?

Cookies, depending on their type, generally collect data regarding your browsing and usage preferences on the device from which you access the Website. This data includes the pages you access, the services and products you view, and all information regarding your navigation on the Website.

What Types of Cookies Do We Use and in What Ways?

We use different types of cookies on the Website. These are cookies that are essential for the Website to function, functionality cookies, analysis/performance cookies and targeting/advertising cookies.

TYPES OF COOKIES IN TERMS OF USE:

Mandatory Cookies: These cookies are absolutely necessary for the Website to function properly. These cookies are needed to manage the system and prevent fraudulent transactions, and if they are blocked, the Website will not be able to function.

Functional Cookies: These cookies are used to provide you with a more advanced and easier user experience. For example, they serve the functions of remembering your previous preferences and providing you with easy access to certain content on the Website. You can prevent the use of these cookies as detailed below.

Analysis/Performance Cookies: These cookies enable us to analyse and understand how the Website functions and to interact with you and improve the Website. You can prevent the use of these cookies as detailed below.

Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to identify and present content that may be of interest to you, including advertising content. You can prevent the use of these cookies as detailed below. However, blocking these cookies will not completely block advertising content; instead, you will be presented with general content advertisements that may only be of interest to you.

TYPES OF COOKIES IN TERMS OF THE DURATION THEY ARE STORED:

Persistent Cookies: These are cookies that remain on a person's computer until a certain date or until deleted by the user. These cookies are mostly used to measure users' site movements and preferences.

Session Cookies: These cookies are used to separate the user's visit into sessions and do not collect data from the user. The cookie is deleted when the user closes the web page they are visiting or remains inactive for a certain period of time. Targeting and tracking cookies are used on the Website to help third parties provide services, primarily advertising services, and to increase the effectiveness of these services. These cookies can remember the web pages and sites you have visited and collect personal data, primarily the IP address of the user's device.

The Website uses both first-party and third-party cookies to collect information, remember your interests and demographic data, and to provide you with targeted advertising, improve advertising, determine the number of visits and ad impressions, other uses of advertising services, and the ratio between these ad impressions and interactions with advertising services.

The Website uses social plugins that provide connections to social networks such as Facebook and Google. When you visit the Website and use these plugins, the Website connects directly to the server of the selected social network. The content provided by the plugin is then transmitted directly from the social networks to your web browser and added to the website you are visiting. In this way, the relevant social network can access and process your data and combine it with the data of your account on the relevant social network.

Please note that we have no influence or control over the scope of data that social networks process through plug-ins. Please carefully review the personal data processing policies published by the relevant social networks to obtain more information on for what purposes, by what methods and for what period of time social networks will process your personal data.

The Website uses the following cookies:

Google Analytics: Google Analytics uses cookies to analyze how visitors use the Website. Information about your use of this Website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google, which stores it on servers in the United States. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the Website, compile Website activity for the Company, and provide other services relating to Website activity and internet usage, but will not match your IP address with other data stored by Google. For more information about the use of Google Analytics (including opt-out options), please visit: http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html.

Google Adwords: A tool that allows you to create, publish and monitor search, display and YouTube ads using Google services and networks.

System Cookies: These are mandatory cookies related to session information until you close the site when you visit this website. These cookies are necessary for the operation of the site and for you to be able to access the relevant sections of the site, such as logging in / out, etc. How Can You Prevent the Use of Cookies? The use of cookies allows the Website to provide better service, but if you wish, you can prevent the use of cookies. However, please note that in this case, the site may not function fully and you may not be able to benefit from all its features. In order to prevent the use of cookies, you must change the settings of your internet browser. These changes vary depending on the device and internet browser you use. Below is information on what steps to follow to prevent the use of cookies on different internet browsers:

Internet Explorer 1. Open the desktop, and then tap or click the Internet Explorer icon on the taskbar. 2. Tap or click the Tools button, and then tap or click Internet Options. 3. Tap or click the Privacy tab, and then under Settings, move the slider up to block all cookies, and then tap or click OK.

Microsoft Edge 1. Click on the three-dot section in the upper right corner of your Microsoft Edge browser and go to the Settings section. 2. After selecting the items to clean from the new window that appears, select the sections you want to clean from the window that appears. 3. There are many sections here. You can start the cleaning process by selecting the one you want.

Google Chrome 1. Open Chrome on your computer. 2. Click More Settings in the top right. 3. Click Advanced at the bottom. 4. Under “Privacy & security,” click Content settings. 5. Click Cookies. 6. Under “All cookies and site data,” look for the name of the Website. 7. Click the Remove icon to the right of the Site

Mozilla Firefox 1. Click the Firefox Menu button and select Options. 2. Select the Privacy and Security panel and go to the History section . 3. Change Firefox to use custom settings for history. 4. Click the Show cookies… button. The Cookies window will appear. 5. In the Search: field, type the name of the site whose cookies you want to delete. Cookies that match your search will be displayed. 6. Select the cookie(s) you want to delete and click the Delete selected button. 7. Click the Close button to close the Cookies window. Then close the about:preferences page

Safari 1. Choose Safari > Preferences 2. Click Privacy 3. Click Website Data 4. Select one or more websites, and then click Delete or Delete All.

In addition to the above, you can block cookies manually via the application at the URL https://www.eff.org/tr/privacybadger or automatically within the application's settings.

More information on how to do this in other major web browsers can be found at https://www.esb.org.tr/cerez-bellek or www.aboutcookies.org.

You can also delete all cookies left behind by the websites you visit through third-party software.

Contact us!

To send us all your questions and comments regarding the policy, you can use one of the communication channels specified below: https://www.homeawayistanbul.com/iletisim