COOKIE NOTICE

As Verim Agency (the “Company”), on https://www.verimagency.com (the “Website”) and other digital environments belonging to Verim Agency, as well as any similar online and offline channels that we make available to you as users/visitors (“Data Subject”) (all such channels jointly referred to as the “Platform”), we use certain technologies such as cookies, pixels, GIFs, and similar tools (“Cookies”) in order to enhance your experience during your use of or visit to the Platform.

The use of these technologies is carried out in compliance with the applicable legislation to which we are subject, in particular the Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (“KVKK”).

The purpose of this Cookie Notice is to inform you about the Cookies used during the use of the Platform and the processing of personal data in this context. Verim Agency may obtain information regarding users visiting our Website and users’ use of the Website by using a technical communication file (Cookie). These technical communication files are small text files that a website sends to a user’s browser to be stored in the main memory. The technical communication file facilitates the use of the internet by storing status and preferences about the website.

Through cookie technologies, personal data such as users’ and visitors’ behaviors on the Website, demographic information, marketing information, and the device used to access the Platform may be processed.

In this Notice, we would like to explain for which purposes we use which types of cookies on our Website and application and how you can control these cookies.

METHOD AND LEGAL BASIS FOR COLLECTING PERSONAL DATA

Your personal data is collected automatically through cookies in electronic environments within the scope of your visit to our Website, based on the legal ground of the Company’s legitimate interest.

Marketing and advertising activities carried out through targeting and profiling are performed only if you provide your explicit consent.

Your personal data collected may also be processed for the purposes stated in this Cookie Notice, within the scope of the personal data processing conditions and purposes set out in Articles 5 and 6 of the KVKK.

TO WHOM AND FOR WHAT PURPOSES PERSONAL DATA MAY BE TRANSFERRED

As Verim Agency, your personal data within the scope of this Cookie Notice may be transferred, in compliance with applicable legislation and limited to the fulfillment of the purposes stated below, to our shareholders, companies providing support for the technological systems relating to the use of the Website, legally authorized public institutions, and legally authorized private persons.

WHICH COOKIES ARE USED FOR WHICH PURPOSES?

Verim Agency may process personal data for the purpose of customizing the products and services offered by Verim Agency according to the preferences, usage habits, and needs of the relevant persons, recommending such products and services to them, using such data within the scope of direct and indirect marketing activities, and transferring such data to the Company’s representatives and third parties from whom services are obtained for these purposes.

The Company may also process and share personal data with public institutions and organizations and third parties without obtaining the Data Subject’s separate consent, in accordance with Articles 5 and 8 of the KVKK and/or where exceptions under applicable legislation apply. The main situations include the following:

Where it is explicitly stipulated by law.

Where processing is mandatory to protect the life or physical integrity of a person who is unable to express consent due to actual impossibility or whose consent is legally invalid, or of another person.

Where processing is necessary, provided that it is directly related to the establishment or performance of any contract between the Data Subject and the Company.

Where processing is mandatory for the Company to fulfill its legal obligations.

Where the Data Subject has made the personal data public.

Where processing is mandatory for the establishment, exercise, or protection of a right.

Where processing is mandatory for the legitimate interests of the Company, provided that it does not harm the fundamental rights and freedoms of the Data Subject.

As Verim Agency, we use cookies on the Platform for various purposes and process your personal data through these cookies. These purposes include:

Analyzing the Platform and improving its performance: For example, integrating different servers on which the Website runs, determining the number of visitors and making performance adjustments accordingly, or making it easier for visitors to find what they are looking for.

Enhancing the functionality of the Platform and ensuring ease of use: For example, enabling sharing to third-party social media channels, remembering a visitor’s username or search queries on subsequent visits.

Carrying out personalization, targeting, and advertising activities: For example, displaying advertisements relevant to visitors’ interests based on pages and products viewed.

Ensuring basic functions necessary for the operation of the Website and the application; customizing products and services according to preferences, usage habits, and needs; using them within direct and indirect marketing activities; and collecting and using certain personal information (such as name, surname, company information, telephone, address, email address, etc.) either automatically via cookies depending on Website use or via the completion of various forms and surveys on the Website, in accordance with the nature of the business and the principle of legitimate interest.

COOKIES USED ON OUR WEBSITE

Below you may find different types of cookies used on our Website and application. Both first-party cookies (placed by the website you visit) and third-party cookies (placed by servers other than the website you visit) are used.

Cookie Types in Terms of Placement: First-Party and Third-Party Cookies: First-party cookies are cookies used by our Website. Third-party cookies are cookies placed on your device by parties other than our Website. Both first-party and third-party cookies are used on our Website.

Your data obtained due to your visit to our Website may be shared, in line with the purposes of processing personal data, with shareholders, companies that provide support for technological systems relating to the use of the Website, legally authorized public institutions, and legally authorized private persons, within the scope of the personal data processing conditions and purposes specified in Articles 8 and 9 of the KVKK.

In this context, information regarding a cookie processed based on the legitimate interest ground under Article 5 of the Law No. 6698 and/or your explicit consent is as follows:

Cookie Name: “_ga”

Cookie Description: “A user tracking cookie used by the Google Ads platform to measure website performance.”

Cookie Category: “Performance”

Cookie Duration: “2 years”

Cookie Type: “Third-Party”

Strictly Necessary Cookies: Strictly Necessary Cookies are required for the Website to function properly. Such cookies are used for the proper management of the system, creating user accounts and enabling users to log in, and preventing fraudulent transactions. If these cookies are not used, the Website may not function properly.

Functional Cookies: Functional Cookies are used to make your visit easier and improve your experience on the Website. These cookies remember your previous visit and allow you to access content more easily.

Analytical Cookies: Analytical Cookies help us understand which pages are more popular, which resources are viewed more, and enable us to provide services appropriate to that traffic by analyzing website traffic. Cookies used for these purposes store information anonymously.

Except for strictly necessary and first-party cookies used by our Website, cookies used include the following:

Google Analytics: Google Analytics is a web analysis tool that analyzes how users use the Website. In addition to anonymous information, information considered personal data regarding your Website use (name, address, telephone number, email address, IP address) may be sent to Google by your browser and recorded by Google.

HOW CAN I CONTROL THE USE OF COOKIES?

The preferences of our visitors and users regarding the use of cookies and similar technologies are essential for us. However, cookies that are strictly necessary for the operation of the Platform must be used.

We would also like to remind you that if certain cookies are disabled, some functions of the Platform may partially or completely fail to operate.

Information on how you can manage your preferences regarding cookies used on the Platform is provided below.

Visitors may customize cookie preferences by changing the settings of the browser through which they view the Platform. If the browser in use provides this possibility, it is possible to change cookie preferences via browser settings. Accordingly, depending on the capabilities offered by the browser, data subjects may prevent the use of cookies, choose to receive a warning before cookies are used, or disable or delete only certain cookies.

The technical communication file helps obtain statistical information such as how many people visited the Website, for what purpose and how many times a person visited the Website, and how long they stayed on the Website; it also helps to generate advertisements and content dynamically for users from specially designed user pages.

The technical communication file is not designed to obtain data or any other personal information from the main memory or from your email. Most browsers are designed to accept technical communication files by default; however, users may change their settings so that technical communication files are not received or a warning is given when such files are sent.

Although preferences vary depending on the browser used, general information is available at https://www.aboutcookies.org/. Cookie preferences may need to be set separately for each device through which the visitor accesses the Platform.

Click here to disable cookies managed by Google Analytics.

Click here to manage the personalized advertising experience provided by Google.

Preferences for cookies used by many companies for advertising activities may be managed via Your Online Choices.

To manage cookies on mobile devices, the settings menu of the relevant device may be used.

You may personalize your cookie preferences by changing your browser settings.

Adobe Analytics: http://www.adobe.com/uk/privacy/opt-out.html

AOL: https://help.aol.com/articles/restore-security-settings-and-enable-cookie-settings-on-browser

Google Analytics: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Google Chrome: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

Mozilla Firefox: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Cookies

Opera: http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/

Safari: http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/

YOUR RIGHTS AS A DATA SUBJECT

Pursuant to Article 11 of the KVKK, data subjects have the right to:

Learn whether personal data is processed.

Request information if personal data has been processed.

Learn the purpose of processing and whether the data is used in accordance with that purpose.

Know the third parties to whom personal data is transferred domestically or abroad.

Request correction of incomplete or inaccurate personal data and request notification of such correction to third parties to whom personal data has been transferred.

Request deletion or destruction of personal data where the reasons requiring processing no longer exist, even if it has been processed in accordance with the KVKK and other applicable laws, and request notification of such action to third parties to whom personal data has been transferred.

Object to the emergence of a result against the person by analyzing processed data exclusively through automated systems.

Claim compensation for damages in case of loss due to unlawful processing of personal data.

With regard to your rights listed above, you may submit your request by completing the “Data Subject Application Form” available on the Website at https://www.verimagency.com and sending a wet-ink signed copy to the address below via a notary notice or similar means, or by signing with a “secure electronic signature” as defined under the Electronic Signature Law No. 5070 and sending it to our KEP address verimdenizcilik@hs01.kep.tr with the subject line “Personal Data Protection Law Information Request”, or by using other methods determined by the Personal Data Protection Board:

VERIM AGENCY
Soğanlık Yeni Mah. Aliağa Sk. Bumerang Kartal No:8/130
34880 Kartal / İSTANBUL

Depending on the nature of your request, your application will be concluded free of charge as soon as possible and at the latest within 30 (thirty) days; however, if the process requires an additional cost, a fee may be charged in accordance with the tariff to be determined by the Personal Data Protection Board.

The data subject acknowledges that if they make a request that results in any personal data not being used by the Company, they may not be able to fully benefit from the functioning of the Website, and declares that any responsibility arising within this scope shall belong to the data subject.