INTERNATIONAL TUNNELLING SYMPOSIUM (hereinafter referred to as "TUNNEL TURKEY” or the “Symposium”), we show the utmost sensitivity to process personal data belonging to our website visitors in accordance with the Law No. 6698 on Protection of Personal Data and relevant legislation ("KVKK Legislation"), and we would like to state that we use cookies through our website.
The purpose of this Cookie Policy is to inform you, as the website users/members/visitors (“Data Subject”), regarding the types and purposes of use of cookies obtained through your visit to the tunnelturkey.org website (“Site”) operated by us.
What is a Cookie?
Cookies are small text files, mostly consisting of letters or numbers, stored on your computer or mobile device (“device”) when you visit a website, which allow the identification of said device.
What Personal Data is Processed Through Cookies?
Through cookies, your usage and browsing habits, session information, transaction history, and navigation data on the Site are processed.
By Which Methods are Cookies Collected and For What Purposes Are They Used?
- As the Symposium, we process your personal data consisting of cookies collected via log files, blank gif files, and/or third-party sources, in accordance with KVKK Legislation and limited to the purposes specified below:
- Your navigation data on the Site is processed, shared with third parties limited to this purpose, and securely stored in order to provide better services to our Site visitors.
- Your transaction history is stored to create a summary regarding your preferences.
- Your navigation data and/or usage history on the Site may be tracked to provide you with customized promotions, special offers, and marketing proposals based on your marketing consent, to improve the Site's content for you, and/or to determine your preferences.
- Functional and analytical cookies are used to analyze how the Site is used and to improve your user experience on the Site.
- Advertising cookies are used for advertising/promotional purposes to present content and advertisements more relevant to your interests and needs. In this way, when you use the Site, tailored content, personalized campaigns, and products are offered to you, and content or offers that you previously indicated you did not want are not shown again. Advertising technology uses information about your previous visits to the website and to websites where the website advertises in order to serve personalized ads. When serving these ads, a unique third-party cookie may be placed on your browser to enable the website to recognize you.
The Symposium may match information collected online and offline through different methods or collected from you on the Site at different times, and may use this information together with information obtained from other sources, such as third parties.
Which Types of Cookies Are Used?
Both first-party cookies (placed by the site you visit) and third-party cookies (placed by servers other than the site you visit) are used on our Site. Below you can find the different types of cookies used on our Site:
Mandatory (Essential) Cookies: These are cookies that are necessary for the Site to function properly and for you to benefit from its features and services provided. For instance, authentication cookies activated when you log in to our site ensure that your active session continues as you transition from one page to another on our site. Disabling these cookies may render services and features unusable.
Persistent Cookies: These are cookies used to enhance the functionality of the Site and to provide faster and better service to our visitors, remaining valid until deleted by you via your browser settings or until their expiration date. These types of cookies are used to remember your preferences and personalize your website usage. This includes cookies that save your password, keep your website session permanently open—thereby saving you the trouble of entering your password multiple times during each visit—and cookies that recognize you on subsequent visits to the website.
Session Cookies: These are temporary cookies used during your visit to the Site and deleted after closing the browser. These types of cookies do not contain personal data and help reduce the need to transfer personal data over the internet. You can delete or block the use of these cookies; however, disabling them may lead to decreased Site performance and a restricted user experience.
Functional and Analytical Cookies: These are cookies used to determine how you use the Site, including tracking how you connected to the Site, what content you viewed on the Site, and the duration of your visit.
Advertising Cookies: These are cookies that help us provide content on the Site that aligns with your interests and needs.
Flash Cookies: These are cookies used to enable video or audio content on the Site.
Google Analytics
Function: Tracking / Analysis
Purpose of Use: To measure and analyze visitor traffic to the site from different perspectives in order to improve performance and user experience.
Operating Method: Provides anonymous, aggregated data about which pages you browse and what actions you perform within the tunnelturkey.org site.
Cookie Type: Third Party, Persistent, and Session cookies
Google Adwords
Function: Cross-Site Tracking
Purpose of Use: To display customized and personalized advertisements to you based on your browsing behavior.
Operating Method: Provides anonymous information about visitors, such as websites visited before and after the website.
Cookie Type: Third Party, Persistent, and Session cookies
SkySection
Function: Tracking / Analysis
Purpose of Use: To collect information about visitors coming to the site in order to increase the efficiency of planned campaigns, offer tailored ad communications (remarketing, etc.) according to user profiles, and assist in shaping future plans.
Operating Method: Geographical (location) and technical information (IP, device, browser, operating system, etc.) of users visiting the tunnelturkey.org site are provided via developed adserver software.
Cookie Type: Third Party, Persistent, and Session cookies
How Can You Control the Use of Cookies?
The use of cookies is not mandatory to use our Site; you have the opportunity to customize your preferences regarding cookies by changing your browser settings.
If you set your browser to block all cookies, you can continue to use our Site; however, you may not be able to access all functions of the Site or your access may be limited, and the quality of your user experience may decrease.
Adobe Analytics http://www.adobe.com/uk/privacy/opt-out.html
AOL https://help.aol.com/articles/restore-security-settings-and-enable-cookie-settings-on-browser
Google Adwords https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=tr
Google Analytics https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Google Chrome http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647
Internet Explorer https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Mozilla Firefox http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Cookies
Opera http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/
Safari https://support.apple.com/kb/ph19214?locale=tr_TR