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The Cookie Policy is an integral part of the Website Data Privacy Statement prepared for visitors to our website www.gulcicek.com.tr managed by Gülçiçek Kimya ve Uçanyağlar San. ve Tic. A.Ş. ("GÜLÇİÇEK"). GÜLÇİÇEK has prepared this Cookie Policy to explain which Cookies are used on the website and how users can manage their preferences in this regard. For further details regarding the processing of your personal data by GÜLÇİÇEK, we recommend that you review GÜLÇİÇEK Data Privacy Statement.
DOES GÜLÇİÇEK USE COOKIES?
Yes. GÜLÇİÇEK uses cookies and other similar technologies to ensure that all website users have the best possible experience.
WHAT IS A COOKIE?
Cookies are small text files embedded on your hard disk by website servers. They contain information that can be later read by the web servers of the cookie sender domain. You can learn more about cookies by reviewing the list below. We update this list every six months. For this reason, we would like to emphasize that cookies that are not yet included may also be added to this list in the near future. Web beacons, tags, and scripts may be used on our website or in our emails to help us place cookies, count visitors, analyze web site use, understand the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, and determine whether an email has been opened or related content has been clicked. Reports based on the use of these technologies are drawn up periodically by our service and analysis providers.
WHY DOES GÜLÇİÇEK USE COOKIES?
When you visit our website, we can place a number of cookies on your browser. These are first-party cookies that enable us to keep a record of your session as you navigate through our pages. We use cookies on our website and applications to understand visitor and user preferences, improve their experience, and track and analyze usage, navigation on our pages, and other statistical information. You can manage the use of cookies in the browser you use to access the Internet. You can visit our website even if you choose not to enable cookies or decide to disable them later. However, this may limit your ability to use certain features.
HOW DO I DISABLE COOKIES?
You can enable cookies in your web browser or disable them later. Below you can find out how to manage your cookie settings in your web browser.
Firefox: Click here to learn more about "Private Browsing" and managing the cookie settings.
Chrome: Click here to learn more about "Incognito" and managing the cookie settings.
Microsoft Edge: Click here to learn more about "InPrivate" and managing the cookie settings.
Safari: Click here to learn more about "Private Browsing" and managing the cookie settings.
If you would like to learn more about cookies and how you can control, disable, or delete them, please visit http://www.aboutcookies.org for a detailed guide.
In addition, some third-party advertising networks, including Google, allow users to disable or customize standard preferences associated with Internet browsing. You can click here to learn more about this feature offered by Google.
COOKIES USED BY GÜLÇİÇEK
Many countries require or recommend that website operators disclose the types of cookies they use and obtain the consent of users from time to time before placing certain cookies. We may use any of the categories of cookies specified on our website, as detailed below. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device or network server via browsers by websites you visit. Cookies do not contain personal data about visitors such as name, gender, or address. Cookies are created by the servers that manage the websites you visit. Therefore, the server can recognize when a visitor visits the same site. Cookies can be likened to ID cards that show website owners that the same visitor re-visits the website.
The main purposes of using cookies on our website or applications are listed below:
TYPES OF COOKIES USED ON OUR WEBSITE
Each cookie fits into one of the following four categories:
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Strictly Necessary Cookies |
They are strictly necessary for the accurate and appropriate functioning of our website. For example, strictly necessary cookies are used for purposes, such as authentication, ensuring that information about your current session is not lost. These cookies are used for security and authentication purposes and are not used for any marketing purposes. |
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Functional Cookies |
These are cookies that allow us to remember the preferences of users who visit our website. For example, it allows us to remember the visitor's language preference or text font size selection. Disabling such cookies may result in unavailability of a feature that is customized for you and prevents it from remembering your preferences. |
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Performance and Analysis Cookies |
These are the cookies that help us improve our website. Such cookies collect information about visitors' use of the website and are used to check that the website is working properly and to detect errors received. |
| Targeting and Advertising Cookies |
These cookies are used to promote products and services on our website or in media other than our website, show you relevant and personalized advertisements together with our partners, and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. |
If the cookie notice is turned off and the website or our applications continue to be used, it is deemed that consent to the use of cookies is given. Users always reserve the right to change their Cookie preferences.
COOKIES USED ON OUR WEBSITE AND APPLICATIONS
Information about the cookies used on our website is given in the tables below:
| Name of Cookie | Type of Cookie | Purpose of Collection | Retention Period |
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Doubleclick / IDE |
Persistent Cookie |
Targeting |
6 Months |
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Facebook / Fr |
Persistent Cookie |
This cookie is used to deliver more relevant ads across Facebook. |
90 days |
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Facebook / sb |
Persistent Cookie |
Targeting / Analysis |
90 days |
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Google / 1P_JAR |
Persistent Cookie |
It is used to retrieve the website's statistical data, conversion numbers. |
1 month |
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Google / NID |
Persistent Cookie |
Google uses this cookie for tracking if the user has special settings. When you move to another page, it compares and understands through this information (e.g., language, search options, etc.). |
6 months |
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Google / 1P_JAR |
Persistent Cookie |
Google defines a security cookie to prevent users from unauthorized access. |
3 months |
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Google / __Secure-3PAPISID |
Persistent Cookie |
Used for user profiling and ad targeting |
2 years |
AMENDMENTS TO THE COOKIE POLICY
Our Company is entitled to perform amendments to this Cookies Policy at any time. These changes shall take effect and enter into force immediately upon uploading the new amended Cookies Policy to the website. Last updated on January 4, 2024.
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INTRODUCTION
Gülçiçek Kimya ve Uçanyağlar San. ve Tic. A.Ş. (“GÜLÇİÇEK”), is an organization that adheres to all legal regulations, corporate codes, code of business conduct, and ethical rules. The term "GÜLÇİÇEK" ("we" or "ours/us" or "our") is used in this text to refer to GÜLÇİÇEK and all of its subsidiaries.
GÜLÇİÇEK has a contractual relationship with you as the data controller operating the website you visit. Data belonging to an identified or identifiable real entities are qualified and protected as personal data in accordance with Law on Protection of Personal Data No. 6698 ("LPPD") and the secondary legislation based on it, as well as the decisions of the Personal Data Protection Board ("Board") (hereinafter collectively referred to as "Turkish Data Protection Legislation").
GÜLÇİÇEK is committed to processing, securing, and respecting all personal data relating to real entities, i.e. Individuals, who visit our website or who wish to contact us through our website, in accordance with the Turkish Data Protection Legislation. We present this data privacy statement for your information so that you can understand how we will process individuals' personal data for the purposes of executing agreements and managing customer relations.
LAWFULLY PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Personal data of individuals are processed in line with thelegitimate interests (*)of GÜLÇİÇEK because they are directly related to the establishment or performance of the agreement (**) between you and GÜLÇİÇEK due to your use of the website. It is in GÜLÇİÇEK's legitimate interest to manage the performance of the agreement to which GÜLÇİÇEK is a party and to evaluate requests and complaints.
PURPOSE OF PROCESSING PERSONAL DATA
We process personal data for the following purposes:
1) Performance of Customer Satisfaction Activities,
2) Execution of Agreement Processes,
3) Execution of Internal Audit/ Investigation/ Intelligence Activities,
4) Execution/ Supervision of Business Operations,
5) Fulfillment of Legal Notification Obligations.
TYPES OF PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT
Our Company processes the general personal data of the Individuals consisting of the following personal data types during their visits and applications made on the website www.gulcicek.com.tr for the reasons mentioned above; i) Identity information (Name-Surname), ii) Contact information (Mobile Phone Number, E-mail address), iii) website visit information (IP address, cookies records, permission/consent records, browsing records, log information) and iv) other information that you prefer to provide to us within your message sent to us.
PERSONAL DATA SOURCES
We collect the above-mentioned personal data directly from the Individuals who reach our company by visiting the GÜLÇİÇEK website.
TO WHOM ARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA TRANSFERRED?
In connection with the management of the contractual relationship between us and individuals, we can at any time disclose personal data to a service provider who processes data on our behalf under a service and confidentiality agreement. We do not share the personal data we collect with third parties other than our data processors.
Personal data of individuals are securely processed and stored in local and global data processing systems for financial, contractual, and supplier management purposes, which are used by GÜLÇİÇEK to carry out its operations and transactions effectively.
It is our Company's responsibility to obtain explicit consent from all Individuals whose personal data are processed, in accordance with the Turkish Data Protection Legislation, if necessary, for the processing of their data on GÜLÇİÇEK's domestic data recording systems, and in any case, to inform the Individuals in accordance with the procedures and principles determined under the Communique on Principles and Procedures to be Followed in Fulfillment of the Obligation of Clarification for any data processing activities to be carried out using the GÜLÇİÇEK systems.
HOW LONG WE STORE PERSONAL DATA
We process and retain the personal data of individuals throughout our use of the GÜLÇİÇEK website and as long as the agreement, if any, is in force between you and us. In addition, we continue to store the personal data of individuals for 10 (ten) years after the termination of the agreement between you and GÜLÇİÇEK in accordance with the statute of limitations specified in the Turkish Code of Obligations No. 6098, for our legitimate interests (***). However, within a retention period of 10 (ten) years after the termination of the agreement, we retain personal data in such a way that only certain persons can access it by applying authorization restrictions.
MAINTAINING PERSONAL DATA SECURE
It is our top priority to maintain individuals' personal data secure. Personal data is securely stored either by us or by our carefully selected service providers, who act as data processors under a service and confidentiality agreement. We ensure that strict security measures are in place to keep personal data safe from unauthorized access or disclosure, as well as loss and misuse. We take care that the technical and administrative measures we take in terms of security meet the measures required to be taken in accordance with the Turkish Data Protection Legislation.
DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS
Pursuant to Turkish Data Protection Legislation, Individuals may, at any time, apply to GÜLÇİÇEK for any information pertaining to themselves;
a) To learn whether their personal data are processed or not,
b) To demand information as to if their personal data have been processed,
c) To learn the purpose of the processing of their personal data and whether these personal data are used in compliance with the purpose,
d) To know the third parties to whom their personal data are transferred in the country or abroad,
e) To request the rectification of the incomplete or inaccurate data, if any,
f) To request the deletion or destruction of their personal data,
g) To request reporting of the operations carried out pursuant to sub-paragraphs (d) and (e) to third parties to whom their personal data have been transferred,
h) To object to the occurrence of a result against the person himself/herself by analyzing the data processed solely through automated systems,
i) To claim compensation for the damage arising from the unlawful processing of his/her personal data.
EXERCISE OF RIGHTS REGARDING PERSONAL DATA
Each data subject whose data is processed pursuant to the instructions of the data controller GÜLÇİÇEK has the right to apply to the data controller in accordance with Article 13 of the LPPD to exercise his/her rights set forth in Article 11 of the LPPD. GÜLÇİÇEK, the data controller, is obliged to accept or reject this application within 30 (thirty) days at the latest, provided that it explains its reasoning. However, in order for this application to be considered a proper application, it must meet all of the elements regulated in the Communique on the Procedures and Principles of Application to the Data Controller.
For an application made by any data subject to be recognized as a valid application, it must be made:
• in writing in Turkish language by the data subject himself/herself by presenting his/her identity card; or
• through registered electronic mail (REM) address, secure electronic signature, or mobile signature; or
• by using the e-mail address previously notified to GÜLÇİÇEK by the data subject and recorded in GÜLÇİÇEK's system; or
• by means of a software or application developed by GÜLÇİÇEK for the application purposes
Again, in order for an application to be accepted and considered a proper application, it must contain all of the followings:
• Name, surname, and -if the application is in writing- handwritten signature of the data subject.
• Turkish identity number for citizens of the Republic of Türkiye, nationality for foreigners, passport number or identity number, if any,
• Residential or business address for notifications,
• E-mail address, telephone, and fax number for notifications, if any,
• The subject of the request of the data subject.
Therefore, to exercise the rights granted to data subjects under Article 11 of the PDPL, an application bearing the contact and address information in this Policy and containing all of the elements set out in the Communique on the Procedures and Principles of Application to the Data Controller must be submitted to GÜLÇİÇEK using one of the following methods: registered mail with return receipt requested, in person, via an email address registered in GÜLÇİÇEK's systems, or by electronic mail with a secure electronic signature.
IN THE EVENT OF YOUR INQUIRIES
If you are dissatisfied with our data processing ways, wish to make a complaint, or want to receive information or ask a question on any matter you do not understand, you may contact the Data Protection Officer at any time. (E-mail: kvkk@gulcicek.com.tr)
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(*) Regulated as one of the conditions that make it possible to process personal data without the explicit consent of the data subject pursuant to Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698, Article 5, paragraph 2, subparagraph f).
(**) Regulated as one of the conditions that make it possible to process personal data without the explicit consent of the data subject pursuant to Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698, Article 5, paragraph 2, subparagraph c).
(***) Regulated as one of the conditions that make it possible to process personal data without the explicit consent of the data subject pursuant to Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698, Article 5, paragraph 2, subparagraph f).
