Cookies Policy
As SPRO Teknoloji A.Ş. ("Company"), we process personal data and use internet cookies to provide our visitors with a better user experience by respecting the privacy and personal data protection rights of visitors to our website ("Website"). This Cookie Usage Policy ("Policy") explains to all our Website visitors and users which type 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 on the processing of your personal data in the Clarification Text.
This Policy is implemented regardless of what technologies, methods and how you connect to the Website. Therefore, we recommend that you read this Policy carefully and make a copy for future reference.
1. Minors
If you are under the age of 18, you are required visit the Website under the supervision of your parents. You should not use this Web Site or share any personal data without the presence of your parents.
2. What is a cookie and for what purposes is it used?
Cookies are small data storage files saved on your computer, mobile phones, tablets or other mobile devices that you access by websites. This file stores information about your Web Site navigation. Thus, the 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 party websites so that we can offer you more suitable services, products or offers.
The main purposes of using cookies;
- Need for some technical data in order to use the Website more effectively,
- Collecting information about your preferences and habits in browsing and using the Company's Web Site,
- If the Company needs your personal data such as your IP address in order to fulfil its legal and contractual obligations, especially those arising from the Law No. 5651 on the Regulation of Publications Made on the Internet and Fight Against Crimes Committed Through Publications and the Regulation on the Procedures and Principles Regarding the Regulation of Publications on the Internet,
3. What Type of Data Do We Process With Cookies?
Cookies, depending on their types, generally collect data regarding your browsing and usage preferences on the device you access the Website. This data includes the pages you access, our services and products you view, and all information about your navigation on the Website.
4. Which Types of Cookies Do We Use In Which Ways?
We use different types of cookies on the Website. These are cookies, function cookies, analysis/performance cookies and targeting/advertising cookies that are required to make the Website work.
TYPES OF COOKIES IN TERMS OF USE
Mandatory Cookies: These 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 work.
Function Cookies: These cookies are used to provide you with a more advanced and easier user experience. For example, it fulfills the functions of remembering your previous preferences and enabling you to easily access some content on the Website. You can prevent the use of these cookies as detailed below.
Analysis/Performance Cookies: These cookies enable us to analyze and understand the functioning of the Website and to interact with you to improve the Website. You can prevent the use of these cookies as detailed below.
Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to identify and serve you content that can be of interest to you, including advertising content. You can prevent the use of these cookies as detailed below. However, blocking these cookies will not completely block the advertising content, but instead of ads that can be of interest to you, ads with general content will be served.
TYPES OF COOKIES IN TERMS OF STORAGE
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 separate 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 s/he 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 fields of interest and demographic data and provide you with targeted advertisements, improve advertisements, determine the number of visits and ad impressions, other uses of advertising services and the ratio between these ad impressions and interactions with advertising services. Website benefits from social plugins 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 plug-in is transmitted directly from the social networks to your web browser and added to the website you are visiting. Thus, the relevant social network can access and process your data and combine it with the data of your account in the relevant social network.
Please note that we have no influence or control over the scope of data that social networks process via plugins. Please carefully review the personal data processing policies published by the relevant social networks for more information on the purpose, methods and duration of the social networks' processing of your personal data.
The following cookies are used on the Website:
Name of Cookie | Purpose of Usage | Usage Period |
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 USA. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the Website, to compile Website activity for the Company and to provide other services related to Website activity and internet usage, but will not match your IP address with other data stored by Google. For more information about the use of Google Analytics (including opt-out options), visit: http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html | Permanent Cookies Session Cookies |
Google Ads | Google Ads uses cookies to remember your safe search preferences, show you more relevant ads, determine how many visitors you get to a page, help you sign up for our services, protect your data, or remember your ad settings. This helps the website remember information about your visit (for example, your preferred language and other settings). Information about your use of this Website (including your IP address) is transferred to Google and stored by Google on servers in the USA. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the Website, to compile Website activity for the Company and to provide other services related to Website activity and internet usage, but will not match your IP address with other data stored by Google. For more information about the use of Google Ads cookies (including opt-out options), you can visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en | Permanent Cookies Session Cookies |
RMC | RMC uses "cookies", which are small text files that contain a unique identifier of your computer or a third-party analytics provider via a web browser. It uses it to improve 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 ads on behalf of RMC on different touchpoints. These service providers do not collect your personal information, contact information, etc. It can collect your IP address and non-personally identifiable information. These cookies also provide statistical information on how our website is used and its performance. For more information on the use of RMC cookies (including opt-out options), visit: https://www.relateddigital.com/en/rmc-product-privacy-policy | Permanent Cookies Session Cookies |
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 offer Facebook products to you and to understand information it receives about you, including your use of other websites and applications, whether you are registered or logged in. It uses cookies for identity checking, security and website integrity, advertisements, 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 can be of interest to you on social media platforms and to create a special target audience. Your e-mail address is transferred over the secure channels and environments offered by these platforms. Social media platforms only use your e-mail address for the matching process by hashing it. Your e-mail address is not shared with third parties or other advertisers and will be deleted from the systems of social media platforms as soon as possible after the matching process is completed. For example; Facebook provides technical and physical security developed to (a) protect the security and integrity of data as long as your personal data is in Facebook systems, and (b) protect your personal data in Facebook systems against accidental or unauthorized access and accidental or unauthorized use, modification or disclosure of your data and will ensure the privacy and security of your hash-encrypted e-mail address and Facebook User ID collection that constitute your custom audience ("custom audience"), including measures. In addition, without your permission or as required by law, Facebook will not provide third parties or other advertisers with access or information about your specific audience, add your custom audience information to information about our users, or create interest-based profiles, or use your custom audience other than to provide services to you. Visit https://www.facebook.com/ads/manage/customaudiences/tos.php?_=_ for Facebook custom audiences terms and https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation for Facebook Privacy Policy. | Permanent Cookies Session Cookies | |
Google Tag Manager | SPRO uses Google Tag Manager to manage the operation of this website. Purpose of data collection and processing: Google Tag Manager is tag management solution that manages data. Information about privacy and opt-out: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy | Session Cookies |
Hotjar | On some pages on this website, we use Hotjar to see how you interact with our web pages. Hotjar uses cookies to collect non-personal information about internet registration information and visitor behavior details after your visit to the site. We use these processes to provide you with a better experience, define your preferences, identify technical issues, analyze trends and improve our website in general. https://www.hotjar.com/privacy | Session Cookies |
Google Optimize | By using Analytics cookies, Optimize serves to display the variations that affect the user's experience to different audiences and to create an experiment. This ensures that the best variation is found to improve the experience. Information about privacy and opt-out: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/cookies/ | Permanent Cookies Session Cookies |
New Relic | As a service provider, New Relic uses user data (name, ID, etc.) to view network and system usage and operation of the websites New Relic provides, user actions, and other performance tracking data, as well as problems experienced by specific groups of users. New Relic uses this data to prevent illegal use of the service it provides, to manage its systems in the event of technical faults and to measure, develop and improve the quality of the service it provides. https://newrelic.com/termsandconditions/cookie-policy | Permanent Cookies Session Cookies |
5. How can you prevent the use of cookies?
The use of cookies allows the Website to serve better, but you can prevent the use of cookies if you wish. However, please note that in this case, the site can not function fully and you can not be able to benefit from all its features. 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 are using. Below is information on what steps should be followed to prevent the use of cookies on 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 Internet options.
3. Tap or click the Privacy tab, then move the slider up under Settings and tap or click the OK button to block all cookies.
Microsoft Edge
1. Click on the section with three dots in the upper right corner of your Microsoft Edge browser and go to the Settings section.
2. After selecting Select Items to Clean from the new window that appears, 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 in the top right.
3. Click Advanced at the bottom.
4. Under "Privacy and security," click Content settings.
5. Click Cookies.
6. Under "All cookies and site data", search for the Website's name.
7. Click the Uninstall icon on the right of the site
Mozilla Firefox
1. Click the Firefox Menu button and select Options.
2. Select the Privacy & Security panel and go to the History section.
3. Change Firefox 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 matching 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.esb.org.tr/cerez-memory or https://www.aboutcookies.org
You can also delete all cookies left behind by the websites you visit through third party software.
Contact Us
You can use one of the communication ways given below to send us all your questions and comments regarding the policy: https://spro.com.tr/en/contact-us/