Purpose of This Cookie Disclosure Statement
The purpose of this Cookie Disclosure Statement is to determine the terms and conditions regarding the use of personal data shared with Serapool Porselen San. ve Tic. A.Ş. (“Company”) by users/members/visitors (“Data Subject”) of the website www.serapool.com (“Site”) and all online or offline channels offered to you digitally (hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Platform”), or generated by the Company during the operation of the Platform.
With this Disclosure Statement, the Data Subject declares that they have been informed about the processing of their personal data and consents to the use of their personal data as specified herein.
In this text, we would like to explain for which purposes and what types of cookies we use on our site, and how you can control these cookies. As Serapool, we may cease using the cookies we use on our site, change their types or functions, or add new cookies to our site. Therefore, we reserve the right to change the provisions of this Cookie Disclosure Statement at any time. Any changes made to the current Cookie Disclosure Statement will become effective upon being published on the site or any public platform. You can find the last update date at the end of the text.
Cookies Used on Our Site
Cookies are used on the Platform to ensure that Data Subjects benefit from the Platform in the most efficient way and to enhance the user experience. If you prefer not to use cookies, you may delete or block cookies via your browser settings. However, please note that this may affect your use of the Platform.
Both first-party cookies (set by the site you visit) and third-party cookies (set by servers other than the site you visit) are used on our site.
Mandatory Cookies
Certain cookies are mandatory to experience all functionalities of our website. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent security threats.
Functional Cookies
These are cookies that assist with certain non-essential functions on our website. Such functions include embedding content such as videos or sharing website content on social media platforms.
Preference Cookies
These cookies help us save your settings and determine your browsing preferences, such as language preferences, ensuring a better and more efficient experience in your future visits to the website.
Analytical Cookies
Analytical cookies enable the generation of analytical results, such as determining the number of visitors to the Site, identifying the pages viewed on the Site, recording site visit times, and tracking page scroll movements.
Social Media Cookies
These cookies collect information regarding your social media usage. For example, cookies may be used to utilize information related to your Facebook/Twitter accounts for the creation of personalized ads or conducting market research.
Targeting or Advertising Cookies
We use cookies to promote products and services to you on our website or on media outside of our website. In addition, we may cooperate with certain business partners to advertise and promote to you within or outside our website. For instance, cookies may be used to track whether you click on an ad on our site and whether you benefit from the service on the site to which the ad directs you after capturing your interest.
Can the Use of Cookies Be Prevented by Data Subjects?
Data subjects can personalize their cookie preferences by changing their browser settings. If the browser used provides this option, it is possible to change the cookie preferences via browser settings. Thus, depending on the capabilities provided by the browser, data subjects may prevent the use of cookies, choose to receive warnings before cookies are used, or disable or delete only some cookies.
Preferences regarding cookies may need to be set separately for each device from which the user accesses the Platform.
Method and Legal Reason for Collecting Personal Data
Your personal data are collected electronically via cookies during your visit to our website, based on the legal reason of our Company's legitimate interest. The collected personal data may be processed for the purposes specified in this Cookie Disclosure Statement, in accordance with the personal data processing conditions and purposes specified in Articles 5 and 6 of the Law.
To Whom and for What Purpose Personal Data May Be Transferred
As the Company, your personal data within the scope of this Cookie Disclosure Statement may be shared, limited to the purposes stated below and in accordance with the relevant legislation, with the company's business partners and suppliers, Serapool Community companies and shareholders, and legally authorized public institutions and organizations, as well as legally authorized private law legal entities.
Which Cookies Are Used for Which Purposes?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device or network server via browsers by the websites you visit. On our site, we use cookies for various purposes and process your personal data through these cookies.
The main purposes for using cookies on our website are listed below:
To improve the services offered to you by increasing the functionality and performance of the website;
To enhance the website and offer new features through the website and to personalize the features offered according to your preferences;
To ensure the legal and commercial security of the website, you, and our Company;
To carry out personalization, targeting, and advertising activities on the website.
What Are Your Rights Regarding Access to and Correction of Data?
Pursuant to Article 11 of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data, data subjects have the right to:
Learn whether personal data is being processed,
Request information if personal data has been processed,
Learn the purpose of processing personal data and whether they are used appropriately for their purpose,
Know the third parties to whom personal data is transferred domestically or abroad,
Request correction if personal data are processed incompletely or inaccurately and request notification of such correction to third parties to whom the data has been transferred,
Request the deletion or destruction of personal data in case the reasons for processing no longer exist, despite being processed in accordance with the Law and other relevant laws, and request that this process be notified to third parties to whom the data has been transferred,
Object to the occurrence of a result against the person himself/herself by analyzing the processed data exclusively through automated systems,
Request compensation for damage in case of damage due to unlawful processing of personal data.
You may submit your requests regarding your above-mentioned rights to our company by filling out the Data Subject Application Form available at www.serapool.com. Depending on the nature of your request, your applications will be concluded free of charge as soon as possible and no later than thirty days. However, if the transaction requires an additional cost, a fee may be charged to you according to the tariff to be determined by the Personal Data Protection Board.
Last update date: 25.05.2023
