Cookies We Use on Our Site

We use Cookies so that you can benefit from our website (biotektohum.com.tr) in the most efficient way and to improve your user experience. When you log in to our website, you are asked whether you accept the use of Cookies. Cookies will be active after you select the 'Accept' option. If you change your mind later and do not prefer the use of Cookies, you can always delete or block Cookies from your browser settings. However, we would like to remind you that this may affect your use of our website. Cookies will continue to be used on this site unless you change your Cookie settings from your browser. The purposes for which Cookies are used and how long they are stored are specified below. You share some information and data with us directly or indirectly for the use of the services on our site. This information is the personal information you provide when registering to the site (such as name, e-mail address, telephone) or the information we collect during your use of the site (such as when using the contact form, commenting, etc.) (data such as IP, device, location and browser information, navigation and interaction content, date and connection time). We take utmost care in storing your information and data. Our website does not share your Cookie data stored on our server with third parties. Cookie data stored by external services on the site (Live Support plugin, Facebook plugin, YouTube video, Twitter content, etc.) are the responsibility of the external services.

What is a Cookie and Why is it Used?

What is a Cookie and Why is it Used?

Cookies are small text (data) files stored on your device or on a network server through browsers by the websites we visit.

• To improve the services offered to you by increasing the functionality and performance of the Website,

• To improve the Website, to offer new features on the Website and to personalize the features offered according to your preferences,

• To ensure the legal and commercial security of the Website, you and our company (or our business, our site, etc.).

Types of Cookies

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

• Session Cookies: These are cookies that enable the use of various features such as transferring information between web pages and systematically remembering information entered by the user, and are necessary for the functions of the website to function properly.

• Performance Cookies: These are cookies that collect information about the frequency of page visits, possible error messages, the total time users spend on the relevant page, and how they use the site, and are used to increase the performance of the website.

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

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

Purposes of Use of Cookies

The purposes of use of cookies used by www.biotektohum.com.tr are as follows:

• Use for security purposes: www.biotektohum.com.tr may use cookies to enable the use of functions on this site or to detect irregular behavior in order to manage and secure its systems.

• Functionality-oriented uses: www.biotektohum.com.tr may use cookies to remind users of their information and past choices in order to facilitate the use of its systems and to provide user-specific usage features.

• Performance-oriented uses: www.biotektohum.com.tr may use cookies that evaluate and analyze user behavior and interaction with the messages sent in order to increase and measure the performance of its systems.

• Use for advertising purposes: www.biotektohum.com.tr may use cookies to deliver advertisements and similar content in line with the interests of users through its own or third-party systems, and to measure the effectiveness of these advertisements or analyze the click status.

Controlling and Deleting Cookies

To change your preferences regarding the use of cookies, or to block or delete cookies, simply change the settings on your browser. Most browsers give you the option to control cookies by accepting or rejecting cookies, accepting only certain types of cookies, or being notified by the browser when a website requests to store a cookie on your device. You can also delete cookies that have already been saved on your browser. The process for controlling or deleting cookies may vary depending on the browser you are using. Instructions for allowing, blocking or deleting cookies for some popular browsers are shown below.

The method for changing cookie usage preferences varies depending on the browser type and can be learned from the relevant service provider at any time.

How Can You Prevent the Use of Cookies? Although the use of cookies allows the Website to provide better service, 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 tap or click the Internet Explorer icon on the taskbar.

2. Tap or click the Tools button, and then tap or click Internet options.

Tap or click the Privacy tab, then move the slider under Settings up to block all cookies and 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 Select 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 and 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 & Security panel and go to the History section.

3. Change Firefox setting 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. Close the Cookies window by clicking the Close button. Then close the about:preferences page

• Safari

1. Select Safari > Preferences.

2. Click Privacy.

3. Click on Website Data.

4. Select one or more websites and then click Delete or Delete All. You can also delete all cookies left behind by websites you visit through third-party software.

Cookie types according to the duration of storage

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 divide 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. Target 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 advertisements, improve advertisements, determine the number of visits and ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and the ratio between these ad impressions and interactions with ad services. The Website uses social plugins that provide connections to social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn. When you visit the Website and use these plugins, the Website connects directly to the server of the selected social network. The content offered 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 belonging to 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.

Data Storage and Destruction Policy

For the destruction of your stored personal data, please see our Storage and Destruction Policy page. You can also check out our KVKK page.

This 'Cookie Policy' was last updated on: 20/08/2022

KVKK

In accordance with the Law on the Protection of Personal Data No. 6698 (“LPPD”), your personal data will be processed by our Company, as the Data Controller, by using, recording, storing, updating, transferring and/or classifying them within the framework explained below, depending on business purposes. In this context, in accordance with the Laws and Regulations issued by our Company to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals, especially the right to privacy, and to protect personal data, our Company takes all technical and administrative measures to ensure the appropriate level of security in order to prevent the unlawful processing of your personal data, to prevent unlawful access and to ensure its preservation.

The target audience of this text is all real persons whose personal data are processed by our Company, other than our Company employees or job candidates who have applied to our Company.

Personal data processed as the data controller are listed below, but not limited to those specified herein;

Name, surname, Turkish Republic identity number, address, telephone number, e-mail address, signature, physical location/security image recording, call center/service quality voice recording, bank account number, cookie records

Purposes and legal reasons for processing personal data; Your personal data shared by you;

Carrying out the necessary work, including but not limited to determining and implementing our Company's commercial and business strategies, conducting marketing activities, and carrying out business development and planning activities, in order to enable you and/or the institutions and organizations you represent to benefit from the products and services offered by our Company,

Carrying out administrative operations regarding communication carried out by our company,

Ensuring the physical security and control of the locations in use by our company,

Establishing business partner/customer/supplier (authorized or employees) relationships,

Ensuring contractual requirements and financial agreements regarding products and services offered with our business partners, suppliers or other third parties,

Execution of our company's human resources policies,

Calling our company's call center or using our website

or

It will be processed for the purpose of participation in training, seminars or organizations organized by our company.

The method of collecting and storing personal data; Your personal data that you share with our Company may be collected verbally, in writing or electronically, by automatic or non-automatic methods, through offices, branches, call centers, websites, social media channels, mobile applications and similar means. Your personal data will be stored in electronic and/or physical environments. In order for your personal data provided and stored by our Company not to be exposed to unauthorized access, manipulation, loss or damage in the environments where they are stored, the necessary business process design and technical security infrastructure developments are implemented.

Your personal data will be processed by taking all necessary information security measures, provided that it is not used for purposes other than those notified to you, and will be stored and processed for the legal retention period or, if no such period is foreseen, for the period required by the purpose of processing. Once this period expires, your personal data will be removed from our Company's data flows by deletion, destruction or anonymization methods.

Transfer of Personal Data;

Your personal data, within the scope of the Laws and other legislation and for the purposes described;

To Turkish Telecommunications Inc. and Turkish Telecommunications group companies,

To our authorized companies and representatives operating on behalf of our Company,

Regulatory and supervisory authorities, public institutions or organizations that are expressly authorized to request your personal data under their laws,

Within the scope of the specified purposes, business partnerships, supplier and contractor companies, banks, credit risk and financial institutions and other real or legal persons,

It may be transferred to tax and similar consultants, persons required for legal follow-up processes, institutions and organizations, and third parties from whom we receive consultancy, including auditors, and, without limitation, to business partners, third parties from whom services are received, authorized persons and organizations for the above-mentioned purposes, both domestically and abroad.

Your rights pursuant to Article 11 of the KVKK; By applying to our Company, your personal data;

To find out whether it is processed or not,

Requesting information if it has been processed,

To learn the purpose of processing and whether it is used in accordance with its purpose,

Knowing the third parties to whom the data is transferred domestically / abroad,

Request correction if it is processed incompletely/incorrectly,

Request deletion/destruction within the framework of the conditions set forth in Article 7 of the KVKK,

Requesting notification of the transactions made pursuant to clauses (e) and (f) above to third parties to whom the data was transferred,

To object to a result that is to your detriment due to analysis by exclusively automated systems,

If you suffer damage due to unlawful processing, you have the right to demand compensation for the damage.

In accordance with the first paragraph of Article 13 of the Personal Data Protection Law, you can submit your request to our Company regarding the exercise of your rights specified above, in writing or through other methods determined by the Personal Data Protection Board.

In order to exercise your rights specified above, you can personally deliver your petition with the necessary information to establish your identity, send it through a notary or other methods determined by the Personal Data Protection Board, or send it with a secure electronic signature to biotektohum@hs03.kep.tr.