Your personal data is processed by SOA Holding as the data controller, and protecting the privacy of visitors to the website (soaholding.com.tr) is one of our foremost principles. This Cookie Usage Policy ("Policy") explains to all our website visitors and users what types of cookies are used under what conditions.

Cookies are small text files stored on your device or network server by the websites you visit through your computer or mobile device.

They are generally used to provide you with a personalized experience while using the website you visit, to improve the services offered and to enhance your experience, and can contribute to ease of use while navigating a website. If you prefer not to use cookies, you can delete or block them from your browser settings. However, we would like to remind you that this may affect your use of our website. As long as you do not change your cookie settings from your browser, we will assume that you accept the use of cookies on this site.

1. WHAT TYPES OF DATA ARE PROCESSED IN COOKIES?

In the cookies on websites, depending on their type, data related to your browsing and usage preferences on the device you visit the site from are collected. This data includes information about the pages you access, the services and products you review, your preferred language option and other preferences.

2. WHAT IS A COOKIE AND WHAT ARE ITS USAGE PURPOSES?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device or network server by browsers through the websites you visit. These small text files, which contain your preferred language and other settings on the site, help remember your preferences on your next visit to the site and make improvements to our services to enhance your experience. This way, you can have a better and personalized user experience on your next visit.

The main purposes of using cookies on our website are as follows:

• To improve the services offered to you by increasing the functionality and performance of the website,
• To improve the website and offer new features through the website, and to personalize the offered features according to your preferences;
• To ensure the legal and commercial security of the website, you and the institution, and to prevent fake transactions through the site;
• To fulfill legal and contractual obligations arising from Law No. 5651 on Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Combating Crimes Committed through These Publications and the Regulation on Procedures and Principles for Regulation of Publications on the Internet.

3. TYPES OF COOKIES USED ON OUR WEBSITE

3.1. Session Cookies

Session cookies ensure that the website functions properly during your visit. They are used for purposes such as ensuring the security and continuity of our sites and you during your visit. Session cookies are temporary cookies, they are deleted when you close your browser and come back to our site, they are not permanent.

3.2. Persistent Cookies

These types of cookies are used to remember your preferences and are stored on your device through browsers. Persistent cookies remain stored even after you close the browser you visit our site with or restart your computer. These cookies are kept in the subfolders of your browser until they are deleted from your browser settings.

3.3. Necessary/Technical Cookies

These are essential cookies for the proper functioning of the website you visit. The purpose of these cookies is to provide the necessary service by ensuring the operation of the site. For example, they allow you to access secure sections of the website, use its features, and navigate on it.

3.4. Analytical Cookies

They collect information about how the website is used, the frequency and number of visits, and show how visitors reach the site. The purpose of using these cookies is to improve the site's performance by enhancing its operation and to determine general trends.

3.5. Functional Cookies

They remember the choices made by the visitor on the site and recall them on the next visit. The purpose of these cookies is to provide ease of use to visitors. For example, they prevent the site user from having to re-enter their password on each page they visit.

3.6. Targeting/Advertising Cookies

They enable measuring the effectiveness of advertisements presented to visitors and calculating how many times the advertisements are displayed. The purpose of these cookies is to present customized advertisements according to visitors' interests.

4. HOW ARE COOKIE PREFERENCES MANAGED?

To change your preferences regarding the use of cookies or to block or delete cookies, it is sufficient to change your browser settings. Many browsers offer you options to control cookies such as accepting or rejecting cookies, accepting only certain types of cookies, or being warned by the browser when a website requests to store cookies on your device.

5. EFFECTIVENESS OF THE WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY

The Website Privacy Policy is dated 04.01.2024. In case of renewal of all or certain articles of the Policy, the effective date of the Policy will be updated. The Privacy Policy is published on the institution's website (soaholding.com.tr) and is made available to relevant persons upon request of personal data subjects.