At Dr. Birgül Altuntürk, we strive to protect the privacy of our users to ensure they can benefit from our services safely and completely. To this end, this Cookie Policy has been created by our company to ensure your rights and privacy.
This Cookie Policy applies to websites and mobile applications operated by our company, as well as platforms accessed and used through third-party programs or websites.
By using our company’s website, you agree to the use of cookies in accordance with this Cookie Policy. If you do not consent to the use of cookies, we ask that you do not continue using the website or change your cookie preferences as shown in this Policy. Please note that if cookies are not allowed, some features of the website may lose functionality.
This Cookie Policy is an integral part of our “Personal Data Protection Policy”. More detailed information regarding the processing of your personal data by our company can be found here.
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small data file that websites leave on the computers or mobile devices of their visitors. Cookies are widely used in the virtual world and, because they are automatically accepted by web browsers, help remember information about your visit, such as your device’s language and settings. Websites read these data files created when users first connect, enabling them to work more efficiently and quickly load user settings such as site language on subsequent connections.
What are the Types of Cookies?
Cookies are divided into different types according to criteria such as their storage duration on mobile devices and who placed them. The basic distinction based on these criteria is as follows:
Session Cookies
Session cookies are cookies that are valid during your use of the website and remain valid until the web browser is closed.
Persistent Cookies
These cookies are stored in your browser and remain valid until you delete them or until their expiration date.
Mandatory Cookies
These cookies are essential for the proper functioning of the website and for you to be able to use the site’s features and services.
Functional and Analytical Cookies
These cookies are used to remember your preferences, ensure efficient use of the website, and optimize the site to meet your needs. They contain data about how you use the site. By their nature, these types of cookies may contain your personal data. For example, cookies that save your preferred language for viewing the site are functional cookies.
Tracking Cookies
Tracking cookies are primary and third-party cookies created during your visit to our website and third-party domains. These cookies enable the tracking of your click and visit history on the domains where they are created and the matching of these records between different domains. These types of cookies are used for user identification and profiling, targeting advertising and marketing activities, and customizing content. These cookies will not be used to identify you or make decisions about you personally.
First-Party Cookies
First-party cookies are cookies placed on your device by the operator of the website you are visiting.
Third-Party Cookies
Third-party cookies are cookies placed on and controlled by parties other than the operator of the website you are visiting.