COOKIE POLICY
www.metinhara.com and its mobile applications (hereafter altogether referred to as the “Platform”) use a variety of cookies. These are identifiers such as session cookies, persistent cookies, technical cookies, authentication cookies, flash cookies, customization cookies, analytical cookies and third-party cookies. If you prefer not to receive cookies, you can delete or disable cookies in the settings of your browser. However, we would like to remind you that this might affect the use of the Platform. Unless you change the cookie settings in your browser, it will be assumed that you accept the use of cookies in this Platform
COOKIES USED IN THIS PLATFORM
What Are Cookies and What Are They Used For?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device or network server by the websites you visit through the browsers you use. For more information on cookies, you can visit http://www.aboutcookies.org/ and http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ The primary objectives of using cookies in the Platform are as follows: • Improve services provided to you by increasing the functionality and performance of the Platform. • Improve the Platform and offer new features through the Platform and customize offered features according to your preference. • Ensure the legal and commercial security of the Platform, you and Trusthuman Organizations.
The Duration of Cookies Used in the Platform
Session Cookies
Session cookies are temporary cookies that are used when our visitors visit the Platform and are deleted once the browser is closed. The main objective of such cookies is to ensure that the Platform runs smoothly throughout your visit. For instance, it helps you fill out online forms that consist of more than one page.
Persistent Cookies
Persistent cookies are cookies that are used to increase the functionality of the Platform, and deliver a faster and better service to our visitors. These cookies are used to remember your preferences and are stored on your device through the browsers you use. Some types of persistent cookies can be used to offer you customized suggestions based on factors such as your intended use of the Platform. Thanks to persistent cookies, if you visit the Platform on the same device, the system checks whether there are cookies created on your device by the Platform, and if there are any, this indicates that you have visited the Platform before, and the content to be delivered to you is identified accordingly, resulting in a better service for you.
Categories of Cookies Used in the Platform
Technical Cookies
Technical cookies ensure that the Platform works, and help identify pages and fields of the Platform that do not work.
Authentication Cookies
If visitors log into the Platform using their password, these cookies help identify on each page visited that the visitor is a Platform user, thus preventing the user of having to re-enter their password on every page.
Flash Cookies
These are the cookies used to enable visual or audio content present in the Platform.
Customization Cookies
These are cookies used to remember user preferences on different pages of the website. Remembering your language selection is an example.
Analytical Cookies
Analytical cookies help to produce analytical results by identifying the number of visitors in the Platform, the pages viewed in the Platform, Platform visiting hours, scrolling activity on the page, etc.
Description, Duration and Preferences
Analytical Cookies
Advertising
They are used to show behavioral and targeted ads to visitors. 6 months as of the initial installment or last update of the cookie.
Market Analysis
They are used to perform market analysis. 360 days as of the initial installment or last update of the cookie.
Campaigns/promotions
They are used to calculate the impact of campaigns. 360 days as of the initial installment or last update of the cookie.
These cookies are used to track Facebook members (or non-members) for market analysis and product development. 360 days as of the initial installment or last update of the cookie. It is possible to accept or decline them in your browser settings.
Google Analytics
These cookies serve to collect all kinds of statistical data, thereby improving the delivery and use of the Platform. Google helps us understand users better by adding social statistics and interest-related data. The Platform uses Google Analytics cookies. Data collected through these cookies are transferred to Google servers in the U.S. and are stored in line with Google’s data protection principles.
Source Site
Source site is used to understand the preferences of users better and offer related content. 360 days as of the initial installment or last update of the cookie. It is possible to accept or decline them in your browser settings.
Last visit and activity
These are used to update the users on what has changed in the Platform since their last visit and understand their preferences better. 360 days as of the initial installment or last update of the cookie. It is possible to accept or decline them in your browser settings.
Technical Cookies
Session
Session cookies are used to ensure continuity of the session 90 days as of the initial installment or last update of the cookie. It is possible to accept or decline them in your browser settings.
Authentication Cookies
User Identity
User identity cookies are used to ensure that users see their own information only. 360 days as of the initial installment or last update of the cookie. It is possible to accept or decline them in your browser settings.
Can the Use of Cookies Be Blocked by Data Owners?
You can customize your preference about cookies by changing the settings of your browser. If you disable cookies, some of the features of the Platform might become dysfunctional, your user experience in the Platform might be affected, or you might not be able to access some of the information customized for you. If you are using different devices to view the Platform (e.g. computer, smartphone, tablet PC, etc.), you have to make sure that the browser on each device has cookie settings in line with your preferences.