Cookie Policy
ÜNSPED GÜMRÜK MÜŞAVİRLİĞİ VE LOJİSTİK HİZMETLER A.Ş. ("UGM") COOKIE POLICY
WHAT IS COOKIE?
Cookies usually consisting of letters and numbers are very small text files that are stored on your computer (or on other devices, such as smartphones or tablets) by the websites you visit through browsers. Cookies do not contain personal data about visitors, such as name, gender, or address. Cookies are created by the servers that manage the website you visit. Thus, when the visitor visits the same site again server can understand this. Cookies can be likened to identity cards that show website owners that the same visitor has visited the site again.
HOW ARE UGM COOKIES USED?
UGM uses cookies to remember your preferences and personalize your use of the website/mobile app/mobile site.
This use covers cookies that register your password and allow your session to remain constantly open on website/mobile app/mobile site and thus save the trouble of entering password more than once, each time you visit cookies and website/mobile application/mobile site, and remember and recognize you on your subsequent visits.
Cookies are used to determine how you use web site/mobile app/mobile site including where and with which devices you connect to electronic trading platforms operated by UGM, the content you browse on website/mobile app/mobile site and duration of your visit.
Cookies are used for targeted advertising/promotion purposes, in other words, to provide content and advertisements that are more relevant for your interests and for you. By matching the information obtained through cookies with other personal data belonging to you, UGM provides you with more appropriate content, personalized campaigns and products, and does not provide you with content or opportunities that you have previously stated that you did not want. To perform the basic functions necessary for the operation of the site. For example, site members can log in with membership information.
To analyze the site and improve the performance of the site. For example, determining the number of visitors to the site and adjusting performance accordingly, or making it easier for visitors to find what they are looking for.
To increase the functionality of the site and provide ease of use. For example, remembering user name information or search queries on visitor’s subsequent visit to the site, or linking to third-party social media activities through the site.
To perform personalization, targeting and advertising activities. For example, displaying advertisements related to visitors' interests on the pages and products that visitors view.
HOW DOES UGM USE THIRD PARTY COOKIES?
UGM; uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies to analyze how visitors use the website/mobile application/mobile site with statistical information/reports. For more information about using Google Analytics (including rejection options): https://www.google.com/intl/tr/policies/privacy/#infocollect
COOKIE MANAGEMENT
Depending on the type of internet browser, you can learn about cookies and use your right to allow or deny them by following these steps:
Google Chrome: you can allow or block cookies from the “Cookie” tab by clicking the “lock mark” or “i” in the “address section” of your browser.
Internet Explorer: click the “Security” tab in the “Tool” or “tools” section in the upper-right corner of your browser and set our cookie management as “allow” or “deny”.
Mozilla Firefox: click the “Open Menu” tab in the upper-right corner of your browser. Manage cookies by clicking on the “options” image and using the “privacy and security” button.
For other browsers (such as opera, Microsoft edge), you can also review the help or support pages of the corresponding browser.
Safari: you can select the “safari” tab from the “Settings” section of your phone and provide all your cookie management from the “privacy and Security” Section.
For cookie or SDK management in mobile applications, you can follow redirects in the privacy or settings section of your device or use Lumen Privacy Monitor (https://haystack.mobi) by downloading to your phone.
If you refuse persistent cookies or session cookies, you may continue to use the website, mobile app, and mobile site, but you may not be able to access or have limited access to all functions of the website, mobile app, and mobile site. In the mobile application, this situation can vary.
TYPES OF COOKIES
Types of cookies by duration of use: the e-commerce platforms operated by UGM use session cookies and persistent cookies according to their duration of use on their website, mobile app and mobile site. The session cookie ends when you close your browser. A persistent cookie, on the other hand, remains on your hard drive for a long time or indefinitely.
Types of cookies according to the owner of the cookie or the party that placed the cookie: “UGM cookies” and “third party cookies” are used on the website, mobile app and mobile site of e-commerce platforms operated by UGM according to the party that placed the cookie. UGM cookies are created by UGM, while third-party cookies are managed by third-party companies with which we cooperate.
Types of cookies according to intended use: according to purpose of use in electronic trading platforms operated by UGM on the website, mobile apps and mobile site; technical cookies, authentication cookies targeting/advertising cookies, personalization cookies, and analytic cookies are used. By using these cookies; UGM conducts statistical works to determine spending habits such as average spending amount, age, gender, shopping categories, mobile usage rate, by dividing the members into large groups in order to make campaigns and advertisements according to their preferences and tastes.
SESSION COOKIES
Session cookies are temporary cookies that are used during our visitors' visits to the site and deleted after the browser is closed. The main purpose of using such cookies is to ensure that the site works properly during your visit. For example, you can fill out online forms consisting of multiple pages.
PERSISTENT COOKIES
Persistent cookies are types of cookies used to improve the functionality of the site and provide our visitors with a faster and better service. Such cookies are used to remember visitor preferences and are stored on the device used through browsers. Some types of persistent cookies can be used to provide you with specific recommendations, taking into account considerations such as your purpose of using the site. Persistent Cookies allow you to check if there is a cookie created by the site on your device if you visit the site again with the same device, and if there is, it is clear that you have visited the site before, and the content that will be transmitted to you is determined accordingly, thus providing you with a better service.
TECHNICAL COOKIES
Technical cookies ensure the operation of the site, and non-working pages and areas of the website are identified.
VERIFICATION COOKIES
If visitors log in to the site using their passwords, such cookies determine that the visitor is a site user on each page that they visit on the site, preventing the user from re-entering their password on each page.
TARGETING / ADVERTISING COOKIES
These are the types of cookies used to customize advertisements offered to users on the site and prevent them from re-showing advertisements that have already been viewed.
PERSONALIZATION COOKIES
Cookies are also used to remember users' preferences when visiting different site pages. For example, remembering your language preference.
ANALYTICAL COOKIES
Analytical cookies are cookies that enable the production of analytical results such as the number of visitors to the site, detection of pages displayed on the site, site visit times, and site page scrolling movements.
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