Regarding Cookies Processed on Our Website
When you visit our website www.dowaksa.com (“website”) that is owned by us, DowAksa Ileri Kompozit Malzemeleri San. Ltd. Şti. (“Company”), cookies are used by our Company, and some of your personal data are processed in order to improve the user experience on our website, ensure that our website works efficiently, and for you to make the most of our services.
Personal Data Protection Law Numbered 6698 (PDPL) and applicable legislation regulate some rules and principles on the processing of personal data. As the data controller, our Company is required to give information to you regarding the processing of your personal data and obtain your explicit consent in some cases pursuant to PDPL and applicable legislation.
This information text is prepared to give information to you regarding the cookies used when you visit our website, some of your personal data processed by this means, and the processing of your personal data.
1. Your Personal Data Processed Through Cookies:
“Personal data” means the information that belongs to you and that can help our Company identify you, directly or indirectly.
In this context, when you visit our website, technology and marketing information such as cookie records that are general personal data, and transaction security information such as exit IP address information, visit records/date and time of our website, route records, destination IP address information, computer serial number/mac ID when you visit our website via computer, mobile phone serial number/IMEI number when you visit our website via your mobile phone, requested URL or file, status information such as error messages are processed.
2. Definition of Cookies:
Cookies are very small text files, usually consisting of letters and numbers, that are saved on your computer via browsers by the websites you visit. Cookies are created by the servers that manage the website you visit. Thus, when the user revisits the website, the server can understand this, and the website is opened faster accordingly.
In addition to cookies strictly necessary for the functioning of our website, our Company may use other cookies as well. Our Company uses these cookies not to track or identify users but to obtain useful information about how the sites are used so that we can continue to improve our sites/services for our users. Providing the service we offer is only possible thanks to the information we obtain from the systems that utilize these cookies.
a. Types of Cookies in Terms of Usage:
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Strictly Necessary Cookies:
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Strictly necessary cookies are essential for the website to function properly. These cookies are needed to manage the system and prevent fraudulent transactions, and the website may not be able to function properly when these are rejected. |
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Functionality Cookies:
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These cookies are used to provide website users with a more advanced and easy-to-use experience. They feature functions such as remembering previous user preferences and providing easy access to some content on the website. |
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Analysis/Performance Cookies:
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These cookies are data that analyze and understand the website’s functioning, determine which pages attract more attention, which resources are viewed more, and then see the traffic on the website and provide appropriate service for this traffic. This information is stored anonymously by the cookie. |
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Targeting/Advertising Cookies:
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These cookies are used to determine and display the contents that interest the website users, including the advertisements. |
b. Types of Cookies in Terms of Storage Period:
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Persistent Cookies: |
These are cookies that persist on the user’s computer until a specific date or until the user deletes them. These cookies are primarily used to measure users’ site movements and preferences. |
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Session Cookies: |
These are created when you visit a website, used during your visit, and deleted when the browser is closed. These cookies don’t collect data from the user. Their purpose is to ensure the continuity and security of your visit, help third parties to provide services, advertising services in particular, on the website, and increase the effectiveness of these services. |
4. Cookies Used in Our Website:
a. Strictly Necessary Cookies Processed by Our Company:
Strictly necessary cookies are essential for the website to function properly; the website may not be able to function properly when these are rejected. This category includes only the cookies that provide the website’s basic functions and security properties.
For instance, authentication cookies, which are activated when you log in to our website, ensure that your active session continues when you switch from one page to another on our website.
b. Analysis/Performance Cookies Processed by Our Company:
Analysis/Performance Cookies are data that enable us to analyze and understand the website’s functioning, see which of our pages attract more attention, which resources are viewed more, and then to see the traffic on our sites and provide services suitable for this traffic.
These cookies are only used, processed, and stored by Google with your explicit consent.
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Cookie Name |
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Purpose |
Expiration Time |
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__utma |
Google Analytics |
Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes, and no existing _utma cookies exist. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
It will be removed as soon as you clear the cache (or one year after your visit to the website). |
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__utmb |
Google Analytics |
Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes, and no existing _utma cookies exist. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
It will be removed as soon as you clear the cache (or one year after your visit to the website). |
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__utmc |
Google Analytics |
Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit. |
It will be removed as soon as you clear the cache (or one year after your visit to the website). |
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__utmz |
Google Analytics |
Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
It will be removed as soon as you clear the cache (or one year after your visit to the website). |
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__utmv |
Google Analytics |
Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor-level custom variable. This cookie was also used for the deprecated _setVar method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
It will be removed as soon as you clear the cache (or one year after
your visit to the website). |
5. Purposes of Processing Personal Data Specified in this Text:
Your identity and contact information specified above (in Article 1) are processed limited to the following purposes for legal reasons specified in article 5 of the PDPL as quoted below pursuant to PDPL and applicable legislation. Your personal data is processed pursuant to PDPL and applicable legislation for the purposes of:
· Carrying out information security processes, corporate promotion, and communication activities (legal reason: “processing of data is required for the legitimate interests pursued by the data controller, provided that this processing does not violate the fundamental rights and freedom of the data subject.”), and in this regard, taking necessary actions related to the website for;
o Performing the essential functions necessary for the operation of our website,
o Providing legal and commercial security to you and our Company.
· Conducting marketing analysis studies (legal reason: “explicit consent of the data subject/user”), and in this regard for;
o Analyzing our website and increasing the performance of our website; for example, determining the number of visitors to our website, adjusting performance accordingly, or making it easier for users to find what they are looking for,
o Increasing the functionality of our website and ensuring ease of use; for example, remembering search queries in the next visit of our website visitors, and
o Improving our website, offering new features on our website, and personalizing the offered features according to your preferences.
6. Collecting Method of and Legal Reasons for Processing Your Personal Data Processed Through Cookies:
Your personal data we processed through strictly necessary cookies are based on the legal reason of “processing of data is required for the legitimate interests pursued by the data controller, provided that this processing does not violate the fundamental rights and freedom of the data subject.”; on the other hand, your personal data processed through the analysis/performance cookies are collected and processed with automated means in the electronic environment through cookies only with your “explicit consent.”
7. The Reason for Transfer of Your Personal Data Processed Through Cookies to Foreign Countries:
Our Company uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”), regarding the Analysis/Performance Cookies. The marketing information (cookies, your personal data processed through cookies) and your transaction security information will be transferred to Google with said technology based on the legal reason of “your explicit consent” pursuant to Art. 9/1 of PDPL, and stored at the data centers/cloud bases of Google located in foreign countries in order for our Company to receive said services from Google.
8. Your Rights Under PDPL
Article 11 of PDPL regulates the rights of the data subjects. You can submit your claims arising from this article in writing to the registered address of our Company at Miralay Şefik Bey Sokak Akhan No:15 34437 Gümüşsuyu / İstanbul / Turkey, or e-mail address at info@dowaksa.com, or by using other methods specified in the applicable legislation pursuant to the “Communiqué on Procedures and Principles for Application to the Controller.”
9. As Data Controller, Contact Information of Our Company:
Title : DowAksa İleri Kompozit Malzemeler San. Ltd. Şti.
Address : Miralay Şefik Bey Sokak Akhan No:15 34437 Gümüşsuyu /
İstanbul /Turkey
Trade Registry Office : İstanbul
Trade Registration No : 802353-0
Telephone : +90 212 251 45 0050)
E-mail : info@dowaksa.com