As LINK DİJİTAL MEDYA A.Ş. (“Company”), we process personal data and use internet cookies in order to provide a better usage experience to our visitors by observing the privacy and personal data protection rights of the visitors of our https://www.linkdijital.com.tr/ website (“Website”). This Cookie Usage Policy (“Policy”) explains to all our Website visitors and users which types of cookies are used and under what conditions. If you complete your membership process and become a member of the Website, you can find detailed information about the processing of your personal data in the Clarification Text.

This Policy is applied regardless of which technologies, methods and how you connect to the Website. Therefore, we recommend that you read this Policy carefully and take a copy so that you can review it in the future.

Minors
If you are under 18 years of age, you must visit the Website under the supervision of your parents. You must not use this Website without the accompaniment of your parents and you must not share any of your personal data.
What is a Cookie and for what purposes is it used?
Cookies are small data storage files saved by websites on your computer, cell phones, tablets or other mobile devices that you access. In this file, information about your Website browsing is stored. Thus, your devices you access will remember this data when you use the Website again. Therefore, cookies are necessary and important for you to use the Website effectively and more easily. Cookies are also used on the Website and third parties’ websites so that we can provide you with more appropriate services, products or offers.

The main purposes of using cookies;

The need for some technical data in order to use the Website more effectively,
Collection of information regarding your preferences and habits of browsing and using the Website by the Company,
The Company needs your personal data such as your IP address in order to fulfill its legal and contractual obligations, especially those arising from the Law No. 5651 on the Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Combating Crimes Committed through These Publications and the Regulation on the Procedures and Principles on the Regulation of Publications on the Internet,

III. What Kind of Data Do We Process with Cookies?
Cookies, depending on their types, generally collect data about your browsing and usage preferences on the device from which you access the Website. This data includes the pages you access, our services and products you review, and all information about your browsing on the Website.

Which Types of Cookies Do We Use and in Which Ways?
We use different types of cookies on the Website. These are cookies that must be used to ensure the operation of the Website, function cookies, analysis/performance cookies and targeting/advertising cookies.

Which Types of Cookies Do We Use and How?
We use different types of cookies on the Website. These are cookies that must be used to ensure the operation of the Website, function cookies, analysis/performance cookies and targeting/advertising cookies.

TYPES OF COOKIES IN TERMS OF USE:

Mandatory Cookies: These cookies are cookies that are absolutely necessary for the Website to function properly. These cookies are needed to manage the system and prevent fraudulent transactions, and if they are blocked, the Website will not be able to function.

Function Cookies: These cookies are cookies used to provide you with a more advanced and easier usage experience. For example, it fulfills the functions of remembering your previous preferences, allowing you to access some content on the Website easily. You can prevent the use of these cookies as explained in detail below.

Analysis/Performance Cookies: These cookies enable us to analyze and understand your operation of the Website and to improve the Website by interacting with you. You can prevent the use of these cookies as explained in detail below.

Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to identify and provide you with content, including advertising content, that may be of interest to you. You can block the use of these cookies as detailed below. However, blocking these cookies will not completely block the advertising content, only ads with general content will be presented instead of ads that may be of interest to you.

TYPES OF COOKIES IN TERMS OF THE TIME THEY ARE STORED:

Persistent Cookies: These are cookies that persist on a person’s computer until a certain date or until they are deleted by the user. These cookies are mostly used to measure users’ site movements and preferences.

Session Cookies: These cookies are used to divide the user’s visit into sessions and do not collect data from the user. The cookie is deleted when the user closes the web page visited or remains inactive for a certain period of time. Target and tracking cookies are used on the Website to help third parties provide services, especially advertising services, and to increase the effectiveness of these services. These cookies can remember the web pages and sites you visit and collect personal data, especially the IP address of the user device. The Website uses both first-party and third-party cookies to collect information, remember your interests and demographic data, and provide you with targeted ads, improve ads, determine the number of visits and ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and the ratio between these ad impressions and interactions with ad services. The Website utilizes social plug-ins that provide links to social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn. When you visit the Website and use these plugins, the Website connects directly to the server of the selected social network. Then, the content offered by the plugin is transmitted directly from the social networks to your web browser and added to the website you are visiting. In this way, the social network concerned can access and process your data and combine it with the data of your account on the social network concerned.

Please note that we have no influence and control over the scope of the data that social networks process through plug-ins. Please carefully review the personal data processing policies published by the relevant social networks for more information on the purpose, methods and duration for which social networks will process your personal data.

The following cookies are used on the Website:

Name of the Cookie Purpose of Use Duration of Use
Google Analytics 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 United States. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the Website, compile Website activity for the Company and provide other services related to Website activity and internet usage, but will not match your IP address with any other data stored by Google. For more information about the use of Google Analytics (including opt-out options), you can visit http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html. Persistent Cookies
Session Cookies

RMC RMC uses “cookies”, which are small text files that contain a unique identifier that belongs to your computer through the web browser or a third-party analytics provider. It uses this to improve the services and websites. RMC uses Google Analytics to track the performance of certain marketing campaigns and some of its products. This is to allow third party service providers to create tailored advertisements on behalf of RMC at different touch points. These service providers may collect your IP address and non-personally identifiable information, which may not include your personal information, contact information, etc. These cookies also provide statistical information on how our website is used and its performance. For more information about RMC cookie usage (including opt-out options), you can visit https://www.relateddigital.com/en/rmc-product-privacy-policy Persistent Cookies Session Cookies Facebook

Facebook uses cookies if you have a Facebook account, use Facebook products, including sites and applications, or visit sites or applications that use Facebook products (including the Like button and other Facebook Technologies). Cookies enable Facebook to provide Facebook products to you and to understand the information it receives about you, including your use of other websites and applications, regardless of whether you are registered or logged in. Facebook uses cookies for identity control, security and site integrity, advertising, recommendations, measurement, analysis and reporting.

In addition, your e-mail address from your personal data is shared with these platforms in order to present advertisements that may be of interest to you on social media platforms and to create a special target audience. Your e-mail address is transferred through secure channels and environments offered by these platforms. Social media platforms hash your e-mail address and use it only for the matching process. Your e-mail address is not shared with third parties or other advertisers and is deleted from the systems of the social media platforms as soon as possible after the matching process is completed. For example, Facebook will ensure the confidentiality and security of your hash-encrypted email address and the collection of Facebook User IDs that make up your custom audience (“your custom audience”), including technical and physical security measures developed to (a) protect the security and integrity of your personal data while it resides on Facebook systems and (b) Facebook will ensure the confidentiality and security of your hash-encrypted email address and the collection of Facebook User IDs that make up your custom audience (“your custom audience”), including technical and physical security measures developed to protect against accidental or unauthorized access to and accidental or unauthorized use, modification or disclosure of your personal data in Facebook systems. In addition, without your consent or unless required by law, Facebook will not give third parties or other advertisers access to or information about your custom audience, add your custom audience information to information about our users or create interest-based profiles, or use your custom audience for any purpose other than providing services to you.

You can visit https://www.facebook.com/ads/manage/customaudiences/tos.php?_=_ for Facebook custom audiences conditions and https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation for Facebook Privacy Principles.

Persistent Cookies
Session Cookies

Information regarding cookies is given in the table below:

Service Provider Cookie Name Cookie Purpose Cookie Type Cookie Duration
Google _ga Analytics provides device information. Third Party Cookie 2 Years
Google _gaexp keeps information about the EU test for Experience. Third Party Cookie 90 Days
Google _gid gives unique id for user identification. Third Party Cookie 1 Day
Google collect This cookie is used to send data about the visitor’s device and behavior to Google Analytics. Third Party Cookie 180 Days
Yandex _ym_isad Adblock plugin is used for detection. Third Party Cookie 2 Days
Yandex _ym_uid Gives unique id for user identification. Third Party Cookie 1 Year

How Can You Prevent the Use of Cookies?
Although the use of cookies provides better service of the Website, you can prevent the use of cookies if you wish. However, please note that in this case, the site may not function fully and you may not be able to benefit from all its features. In order to prevent the use of cookies, you need to change the settings of your internet browser. These changes vary depending on the device and internet browser you use. Below is information on which steps should be followed to prevent the use of cookies through different internet browsers:
Internet Explorer
1. Open the desktop and tap or click the Internet Explorer icon on the taskbar.
2. Tap or click the Tools button and tap or click Internet options.
3. Tap or click the Privacy tab, then move the slider under Settings up to block all cookies and tap or click OK.

Microsoft Edge
1. In the upper right corner of your Microsoft Edge browser, click on the section with the three dots and go to Settings.
2. In the new window that appears, select Select Items to Clean and then select the sections you want to clean from the window that appears.
3. There are many sections here. You can start the cleaning process by selecting the one you want
Google Chrome
1. Open Chrome on your computer.
2. Click More Settings at the top right.
3. At the bottom, click Advanced.
4. Under “Privacy and security”, click Content settings.
5. Click Cookies.
6. Under “All cookies and site data”, search for the name of the Website.
7. Click the Remove icon to the right of the site

Mozilla Firefox
1. Click the Firefox Menu button and select Options.
2. Select the Privacy and Security panel and go to the History section.
3. Change the Firefox setting to Use custom settings for history.
4. Click the Show cookies… button. The Cookies window will appear.
5. In the Search: field, type the name of the site whose cookies you want to delete. Cookies that match your search will be displayed.
6. Select the cookie(s) you want to delete and click the Delete selected button.
7. Close the Cookies window by clicking the Close button. Then close the about:preferences page
Safari
1. Choose Safari > Preferences.
2. Click Privacy.
3. Click Website Data.
4. Select one or more websites and then click Delete or Delete All.

You can find more information on how to do this in other major web browsers at https://www.aboutcookies.org.

You can also delete all cookies left behind by websites you visit through third party software.

Contact Us
In order to send us all your questions and opinions about the policy, you can use one of the contact methods specified below: https://www.linkdijital.com.tr/