Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy and Privacy Notice (“Policy”) contains the principles regarding the use of cookies on the website www.forumkayseri.com (“Website”), which is operated by and belongs to Torun Alışveriş Merkezi Yatırım ve Yönetim Anonim Şirketi (“Torunlar”), as well as our statements and explanations, in our capacity as the data controller due to the operation of the Website by Torunlar, regarding the purpose of data processing, categories of data, method and legal basis for collecting data, to whom and for what purposes the data may be transferred, the data processing period, and your rights regarding your data.

What Data Is Processed by Torunlar?

Torunlar has the right to process general and special categories of data with the explicit consent of the data subject and, in the circumstances stipulated under Articles 5 and 6 of the Law, without explicit consent.

In this context, the following types of “personal data” may be processed by Torunlar on the Website in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in the Privacy Notice:

• Cookie Records

What Do Cookies Mean?

Cookies are small text files created on your device by a website and containing data in name-value format. While you use any website, they store your usage habits and preferences in the browser. Cookies are used both to save time and to provide a better internet experience. Cookies created by a website are stored by the web browser you use to access the website, and remote access to the information contained in cookies is possible only by websites provided under the domain name that created the cookie (e.g. site.org.tr) and provided that you use the same browser.

Cookies have become an important part of web technologies today, and their basic functions are to remember the visitor and their preferences and to recognize the device. Cookies are used on almost every website.

What Are the Types of Cookies?

Cookies created by the website you visit and which can only be read by that website are first-party cookies. The content provided on the website visited may also be provided through domain names other than the domain name in the access address (for example, displaying content hosted on a video platform through a social media website); in this case, each domain name may create its own third-party cookies.

What Are the Purposes of Processing Personal Data by Torunlar?

The main purposes of using cookies on our Website are listed below:

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

• To ensure that various features and functions of the Website operate properly (e.g. keeping your session open, placing dynamic content, etc.);

• To collect general, non-person-specific information about how our Website is used by our visitors, such as the most frequently clicked links, the most frequently visited pages, and the number of error messages displayed, and to analyze this information in order to make faulty pages operational, improve our website, and remove or improve pages that are not preferred.

• To determine how you became aware of the Website,

• To generate traffic statistics,

• To offer opportunities for products and services tailored to you, such as internet advertising, Targeting and re-targeting (=targeting and retargeting), cross-selling, campaigns, opportunities, and product/service advertisements, and to make recommendations by taking your preferences into consideration.

Cookies are not used for purposes other than those specified in this Policy, and all related processing activities are carried out in accordance with data protection legislation.

What Are the Types of Cookies?

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

Persistent cookies are used to remember your preferences on the website and remain on your desktop or mobile device even after you close your browser or restart your computer.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These are cookies that must be used in order for the website to function properly and for you to benefit from the features of the website and the services offered.

Functional and Analytical Cookies

These are cookies used for purposes such as remembering your preferences, ensuring effective use of the website, and optimizing the website to respond to your requests, and they contain data about how you use the website. Due to their nature, these types of cookies may contain your personal data. For example, cookies that save your website display language preference are functional cookies.

Tracking Cookies

Tracking cookies are first-party and third-party cookies created during your visits to our website and third-party domains. These cookies make it possible to track your click and visit history on the domains on which they were created and to match these records across different domains. These types of cookies are used for the purposes of recognizing and profiling users, targeting advertising and marketing activities, and customizing content. These cookies will not be used to identify you or make decisions specific to you.

Cookies on the www.forumkayseri.com.tr Website

Google Analytics (Indefinite)

Google Analytics uses cookies to analyze how visitors use the Website. Information about your use of this Website (including your IP address) is transferred to Google and stored by Google on servers in the USA. 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 associate your IP address with other data stored by Google.

How Are Cookies Managed?

Most browsers allow you to view, manage, delete, and block cookies on websites. If you clear all cookies, you will lose all the preferences you have set. This also includes the feature of not retaining cookies, because in order for this feature to work, a designated cookie must be present on your device.

Guides on how to control cookies in browsers are provided below:

• Google Chrome

• Mozilla Firefox

• Apple Safari

• Microsoft Internet Explorer

• Adobe

In addition, most browsers allow you to perform the following actions:

• View stored cookies and delete those you wish

• Block all cookies

• Block cookies from certain websites

• Delete all cookies when you close your browser

• Block third-party cookies

What Measures Have Been Taken Regarding the Protection of Personal Data and How Will the Data Be Stored?

Torunlar undertakes, under the conditions specified in the Law and this Policy, to take all necessary technical and administrative measures to ensure the protection of personal data, to prevent the unlawful processing of personal data, to prevent unlawful access to personal data, and to prevent data leaks, and to ensure that all required audits are carried out in a timely and complete manner.

Your personal data will be processed, provided that it is not used outside the purposes and scope notified to you, with all necessary information security measures being taken, and will be stored and processed for the statutory retention period or, if no such period is stipulated, for the period required by the purpose of processing. At the end of this period, your personal data will be removed from Torunlar’s data flows by means of deletion, destruction, or anonymization.

To Which Parties Is Personal Data Transferred?

Your collected personal data may be shared, limited to the storage of such data or the lawful purposes set forth in this Privacy Notice, with Torunlar Gayrimenkul Yatırım Ortaklığı Anonim Şirketi, Torun Yapı Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Şirketi, Zafer Plaza İşletmecilik Anonim Şirketi, Torun Kağıt Pazarlama Anonim Şirketi, Torunlar Enerji Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Şirketi, TTA Gayrimenkul Yatırım Geliştirme ve Yönetim Anonim Şirketi, Torunlar Gıda Sanayi Ticaret Anonim Şirketi and their affiliates and subsidiaries, third parties in Türkiye and/or abroad with whom Torunlar has a contractual relationship, and public institutions and organizations authorized to request such data.

How Long Is Personal Data Retained?

Torunlar retains the personal data in question for the period required by the processing purposes specified in this Privacy Notice, taking into account the limitation periods set forth in the Law and other legislation. Upon expiry of these periods, the data in question is deleted or destroyed in accordance with the Law.

What Are Your Rights as a Data Subject?

Within the scope of the Law, you may contact Torunlar at any time to obtain information regarding the following matters:

• To learn whether your personal data is being processed,

• To learn the purpose of processing and whether it is being processed in accordance with such purpose,

• To know the persons to whom personal data has been transferred,

• To request correction in the event of incomplete or incorrect processing and, where the relevant conditions are met, to request the deletion of personal data and to request that the transaction carried out within this scope be notified to third parties to whom the personal data has been transferred,

• To object to the occurrence of a result against you through the analysis of processed data exclusively by automated systems,

• To claim compensation for damages in the event that you suffer damage due to unlawful processing,

• To request the deletion or destruction of personal data where the reasons requiring its processing cease to exist, despite the fact that the personal data has been processed in accordance with the law.

You may submit your applications regarding these rights by sending the Data Subject Application Form through a notary public or by other methods determined by the Personal Data Protection Board, or you may send it with a secure electronic signature to torunavm@hs01.kep.tr. Your request will be responded to as soon as possible and, in accordance with the law, no later than thirty (30) days. However, if the transaction requires an additional cost, Torunlar reserves the right to charge a fee in accordance with the Law based on the tariff determined by the Personal Data Protection Board.

Would You Like More Information About Cookies and Our Cookie Policy?

Visitors who wish to obtain more detailed information about cookies are advised to visit www.aboutcookies.org (English).

If you would like more information about our Cookie Policy, you may contact us through the “Contact Us” page or via the contact addresses specified above.