ASDENAR Project Consultancy Arch. Eng. Tech. Inc. COOKIE DISCLOSURE TEXT
This text has been prepared by ASDENAR Project Consultancy Arch. Eng. Tech. Inc. ("ASDENAR") in the capacity of data controller within the scope of Article 10 of the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 ("Law") and the Communiqué on the Procedures and Principles to be Followed in Fulfillment of the Disclosure Obligation.
As ASDENAR, we use first-party and third-party cookies in certain areas within the website located at https://www.asdenar.com.tr/ ("Site"). This Cookie Disclosure Text ("Disclosure Text") is valid for the Site managed by ASDENAR, and cookies will be used as described in the Disclosure Text.
The purpose of this Disclosure Text is to inform you about the types of cookies we use, the purposes for which we use them, and how you can manage these cookies regarding the processing of personal data obtained automatically through the placement of cookies on your device on our website. For cookies other than the mandatory cookies used on our website, the explicit consent of the users is obtained, and users are provided with the opportunity to change their preferences regarding their explicit consent at any time.
Users can view the types of cookies used on our website via the cookie management panel and set their preferences with "active" or "inactive" options for all cookies except mandatory cookies. Users also have the opportunity to change their preferences at any time through this panel.
What is a Cookie?
Cookies are small text files created on your device by a website that contain data in a name-value format. Cookies enable the website you visit to store information on your device and use this information during your subsequent visits. Cookies created by a website are stored by the internet browser you use to access the site, and cookies do not contain personal data such as the name, gender, or home address of visitors. The information contained in cookies can only be accessed if you use the same internet browser and only by the website that created the relevant cookie, https://www.asdenar.com.tr/.
Cookies have become an important part of internet technologies today, and their primary functions are to remember the preferences of the online visitor and to recognize the device during the connection; the use of cookies is standard on almost every website.
Who Sends Cookies and How?
Cookies are sent through the communication established between your internet browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, etc.) on your device during your browsing and the website servers within ASDENAR.
Cookie Types:
- By ownership:
- First-Party Cookies: These are placed on the device directly by the website being visited or by ASDENAR.
- Third-Party Cookies: These are cookies placed on the device by a third party, such as an advertiser or an analytics system, that is in cooperation with ASDENAR.
- By duration of activity:
- Session Cookies: These provide data that can be stored until the user closes the browser or the session expires. These are short-term cookies.
- Persistent Cookies: These are cookies that remain on the drive until the date they are deleted by the user or until a specific expiration date for the cookie. Persistent cookies have a written expiration date with a variable duration in their code.
- By purpose of use:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are cookies that are necessary for navigating the website and using features such as accessing secure areas of the site.
- Functional (Preference) Cookies: These enable the website to remember choices made in the past (such as username information, password information, preferred language, etc.). Preference cookies that enable automatic login to the website are also called functional cookies.
- Statistics Cookies: Also known as performance cookies, statistics cookies are cookies that provide anonymous, statistical data regarding the use of the website. With statistics cookies, information such as how the user uses the website, the pages visited, and the links clicked can be stored. Anonymized statistics cookies are not used to identify the website user. The purpose of these cookies is to make the website more functional.
- Marketing Cookies: These are cookies that can be used by companies operating to build a profile of your interests and show relevant advertisements on other sites.
Purposes for Processing Personal Data and Legal Grounds
Mandatory cookiesare used for the purpose of fulfilling an information society service you have requested (logging in, filling out forms, and remembering privacy preferences). Your personal data collected through these cookies are processed within the scope of Article 5, paragraph 2, clause (c) of the Law, "it is necessary to process the personal data of the parties to a contract, provided that it is directly related to the establishment or performance of a contract," or clause (f), "processing of data is necessary for the legitimate interests of the data controller, provided that it does not harm the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject."
Advertising and Marketing cookies, are used by our business partners to profile you according to your interests and to show you relevant advertisements. Your personal data collected through these cookies is processed based on your explicit consent within the scope of Article 5, Paragraph 1 of the Law.
Performance / Analytical cookies, are cookies that enable statistical measurement to analyze user behavior on websites. These cookies are frequently used to improve the site, including measuring the impact of advertisements on relevant individuals. They are used by website owners to estimate the number of unique visitors, identify the most important search engine keywords that lead to a webpage, or track navigation on the website. Your personal data collected through these cookies is processed based on your explicit consent within the scope of Article 5, Paragraph 1 of the Law.
Functional cookies, are used for the purposes of making our website more functional and personalizing it (ensuring that your preferences, other than your privacy settings, are remembered when you return to the site). Your personal data collected through these cookies is processed based on your explicit consent within the scope of Article 5, Paragraph 1 of the Law.
Transfer of Personal Data Processed Through Cookies
Within the scope of our activities carried out through cookies, your personal data is transferred to our suppliers for the purposes of customizing and improving ASDENAR services for you, conducting marketing activities, carrying out and auditing business operations, and managing the procurement processes of goods and services.
Furthermore, if you consent to the statistical and marketing cookies specified in the table above, your personal data will be processed on servers located abroad through third-party infrastructure providers Google and Facebook, limited to the purpose of carrying out storage and archiving activities. In this context, your personal data will be processed by service providers whose servers are located abroad, based on your explicit consent and by taking the necessary technical and administrative measures.
Management of Cookies
The use of cookies is not mandatory to use our website; however, if you set your browser to reject cookies, the quality of your user experience may decrease, and various functions of our sites may be impaired. Technical cookies, in particular, ensure that the Site can perform its basic functions. Since technical cookies ensure the technical operation of the Site, disabling them may result in some functions on the Site not working as intended.
You can toggle the buttons for the relevant cookie types to the on or off position according to your preference in the 'Manage Preferences' section of the cookie management panel, click the 'Save Settings' or 'Allow All' buttons, and refresh the page to activate your settings.
You can configure your browser to block cookies for all sites or specific sites, to provide a warning when a cookie is created, to block third-party cookies, or to treat all cookies as session cookies. Additionally, you can delete cookies through your browser or view the list and values of cookies stored in your browser. For detailed information about your browser's cookie management functions, please click on the relevant link below to obtain information from your browser's website.
For more detailed information about cookies, you can visit https://www.aboutcookies.org or https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/, or use the "Privacy Badger" application (https://www.eff.org/tr/privacybadger).
Requests of Data Subjects
For detailed information regarding your rights under Article 11 of the Law and the processing of your personal data, you may review the Clarification Text. ASDENAR reserves the right to change the terms of use regarding cookies and the Cookie Clarification Text.