1. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your device (e.g. computer or mobile phone) when you visit a website. Cookies may be stored on your device through your browser during your first visit to a website. When you visit the same site again with the same device, your browser checks whether there is a cookie registered to the site on your device. If there is a record, it transmits the data in the record to the website you are visiting. In this way, the website understands that you have visited the site before and determines the content to be delivered to you accordingly.

2. What are the types of cookies?

Cookies, whose main purpose is to provide convenience to users, are basically divided into 4 main groups:

Session Cookies: These are cookies that enable you to benefit from various features such as carrying information between web pages and systematically remembering the information entered by the user, and are necessary for the website's functions to function properly.

Performance Cookies: These are cookies that collect information about the frequency of page visits, possible error messages, the total time spent by users on the relevant page, as well as site usage patterns, and are used to increase the performance of the website.

Functional Cookies: These are cookies that remind the user of previously selected options for the convenience of the user and aim to provide users with advanced Internet features within the scope of the website.

Advertising and Third Party Cookies: These are cookies belonging to third party suppliers and enable the use of some functions on the website and tracking of advertisements.

3. What are the purposes of using cookies?

The purposes of use of cookies are as follows:

Cookies for security purposes: They are used to ensure the administration and security of the systems, to enable the use of functions on the sites or to detect irregular behavior.

Functionality cookies: They are used to remind users of their information and past choices in order to facilitate the use of the systems and to provide user-specific usage features.

Performance cookies: Used to evaluate and analyze interaction with sent messages and user behavior in order to improve and measure the performance of the systems.

Advertising cookies: They are used to deliver advertisements and similar content within the scope of users' interests through their own or third-party systems, to measure the effectiveness of these advertisements or to analyze the click status.

4. How to control cookies?

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can disable cookies by changing your browser settings. Please note that if you disable cookies, some features and services on our sites may not function properly.

In this context, all browser manufacturers provide help pages regarding the management of cookies in their products. In this context, for more information on how you can manage cookies, you can visit the addresses specific to browser manufacturers given in the table: