This Cookie Policy and Privacy Notice (“Policy”) sets out the principles regarding the use of cookies on the website www.korupark.com.tr (“Website”), operated by and belonging to Torun Alışveriş Merkezi Yatırım ve Yönetim Anonim Şirketi (“Torunlar”). It also contains our statements and explanations, as the data controller, regarding the purposes of data processing, categories of data, methods and legal grounds for collecting data, the parties to whom and purposes for which data may be transferred, the data retention period, and your rights concerning your personal data.
1. What Data Is Processed by Torunlar?
Torunlar has the right to process general and special categories of personal data with the explicit consent of the data subject and, where applicable, without explicit consent in accordance with the circumstances set forth under Articles 5 and 6 of the Law.
Within this scope, and in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in this Privacy Notice, the following type of personal data may be processed through the Website:
2. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files created by a website on your device that contain data in a name-value format. They store your usage habits and preferences in your browser while you use a website. Cookies are used both to save time and to provide a better browsing experience.
Cookies created by a website are stored by the web browser you use to access the site. The information contained in cookies can only be accessed remotely by websites operating under the domain that created the cookie (e.g., site.org.tr), provided that the same browser is being used.
Today, cookies have become an essential part of web technologies. Their primary functions are to remember visitors and their preferences and to recognize devices. Almost every website uses cookies.
3. What Are the Types of Cookies?
Cookies created by the website you visit and readable only by that website are referred to as first-party cookies.
Content provided on the website you visit may also be supplied through domains other than the domain shown in the address bar. For example, content hosted on a video platform may be displayed through a social media website. In such cases, each domain may create its own third-party cookies.
4. What Are the Purposes of Processing Personal Data by Torunlar?
The main purposes of using cookies on our Website are as follows:
- To improve the Website, introduce new features, and personalize the features provided according to your preferences;
- To ensure that various features and functions of the Website operate properly (e.g., keeping you logged in and displaying dynamic content);
- To collect general, non-person-specific information about how visitors use our Website, such as the most frequently clicked links, most visited pages, and the number of error messages displayed, and to analyze this information in order to fix malfunctioning pages, improve our Website, and remove or improve less-preferred pages;
- To determine how you became aware of our Website;
- To generate traffic statistics;
- To provide personalized opportunities relating to products and services, including internet advertising, targeting and re-targeting, cross-selling, campaigns, offers, and product/service advertisements, and to make recommendations based on your preferences.
Cookies are not used for purposes other than those specified in this Policy, and all relevant processing activities are carried out in accordance with applicable data protection legislation.
5. What Are the Types of Cookies?
Session Cookies
Session cookies are cookies that remain active while you use the Website and remain valid until you close your web browser.
Persistent Cookies
Persistent cookies are used to remember your preferences on the Website and remain stored on your desktop or mobile device even after you close your browser or restart your computer.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These are cookies that are essential for the proper functioning of the Website and for you to benefit from its features and services.
Functional and Analytical Cookies
These cookies are used for purposes such as remembering your preferences, enabling effective use of the Website, and optimizing the Website to respond to your requests. By their nature, these cookies may contain personal data. For example, cookies that remember your preferred display language are functional cookies.
Tracking Cookies
Tracking cookies are first-party and third-party cookies created when you visit our Website and third-party domains. These cookies enable the tracking of your click and browsing history on the domains where they are created and the matching of such records across different domains.
Such cookies are used to recognize and profile users, target advertising and marketing activities, and personalize content. These cookies will not be used to identify you personally or to make decisions specifically about you.
Google Analytics (Indefinite)
Google Analytics uses cookies to analyze how visitors use the Website. Information regarding your use of the Website, including your IP address, is transferred to Google and stored on servers located in the United States.
Google uses this information to evaluate your use of the Website, compile Website activity reports for the Company, and provide other services relating to Website activity and internet usage. However, Google will not associate your IP address with other data stored by Google.
6. How Can Cookies Be Managed?
Most browsers allow you to view, manage, delete, and block cookies used by websites. If you clear all cookies, you will lose all preferences you have set. This includes the “Do Not Track” functionality, as this feature requires a designated cookie to be stored on your device.
Guides on how to control cookies in different browsers are available below:
Google Chrome Cookie Settings
Mozilla Firefox Cookie Settings
Apple Safari Cookie Settings
Microsoft Internet Explorer Cookie Settings
Adobe Privacy and Opt-Out Information
In addition, most browsers allow you to:
- View and delete stored cookies;
- Block all cookies;
- Block cookies from specific websites;
- Delete all cookies when you close your browser;
- Block third-party cookies.
7. What Measures Have Been Taken to Protect Personal Data and How Will Data Be Stored?
Torunlar undertakes to take all necessary technical and administrative measures and to carry out all required inspections in a timely and complete manner in order to ensure the protection of personal data, prevent unlawful processing of personal data, prevent unlawful access to personal data, and prevent data breaches, in accordance with the conditions set forth in the Law and this Policy.
Your personal data will be processed only for the purposes and within the scope communicated to you, with all necessary information security measures in place. Your data will be retained for the legally prescribed retention period or, where no such period is prescribed, for the period required by the purpose of processing.
Upon expiration of the applicable retention period, your personal data will be removed from Torunlar’s data systems through deletion, destruction, or anonymization.
8. To Whom Is Personal Data Transferred?
Your collected personal data may be transferred, limited to the purposes of storing such data or other lawful purposes specified in this Privacy Notice, to Torunlar Gayrimenkul Yatırım Ortaklığı Anonim Şirketi, Torun Yapı Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Şirketi, Zafer Plaza İşletmecilik Anonim Şirketi, Torun Kağıt Pazarlama Anonim Şirketi, Torunlar Enerji Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Şirketi, TTA Gayrimenkul Yatırım Geliştirme ve Yönetim Anonim Şirketi, Torunlar Gıda Sanayi Ticaret Anonim Şirketi, their affiliates and subsidiaries, domestic and/or foreign third parties with whom Torunlar has a contractual relationship, and public institutions and organizations legally authorized to request such data.
9. How Long Is Personal Data Retained?
Torunlar retains the relevant personal data for the period required by the processing purposes specified in this Privacy Notice, taking into account the statutory limitation periods prescribed under the Law and other applicable legislation.
Upon expiration of the applicable periods, the relevant data will be deleted or destroyed in accordance with the Law.
10. What Are Your Rights as a Data Subject?
You may contact Torunlar at any time to obtain information regarding the following matters within the scope of the Law:
- To learn whether your personal data is being processed;
- To learn the purpose of processing and whether the data is being used in accordance with that purpose;
- To know the third parties to whom your personal data has been transferred;
- To request correction of incomplete or inaccurate personal data and, where the relevant conditions are met, to request the deletion of personal data and notification of such action to third parties to whom the data has been transferred;
- To object to a result arising against you through the analysis of processed data exclusively by automated systems;
- To claim compensation for damages incurred due to unlawful processing of your personal data;
- To request the deletion or destruction of your personal data where the reasons requiring its processing have ceased to exist, even though the data has been processed in accordance with the Law.
Applications concerning these rights may be submitted using the Data Subject Application Form, through a notary public, or by other methods determined by the Personal Data Protection Board. Applications may also be submitted securely with an electronic signature to torunavm@hs01.kep.tr.
Your request will be responded to as soon as possible and, in any event, within thirty (30) days at the latest, in accordance with the Law. However, if the process incurs an additional cost, Torunlar reserves the right to charge a fee in accordance with the tariff determined by the Personal Data Protection Board and applicable legislation.
11. Would You Like More Information About Cookies and Our Cookie Policy?
Visitors who wish to obtain more detailed information about cookies are advised to visit AboutCookies.org (English).
If you would like further information about our Cookie Policy, you may contact us through the “Contact Us” page or via the contact details provided above.