COOKIE POLICY

Gümüştaş Madencilik ve Tic. A.Ş. uses cookies to ensure optimum use of our website and to enhance your used experience. If you choose to do so, you are able to delete or block cookies from your browser’s settings. However, please note that blocking or deleting cookies may affect the usability of the website’s features.

1. What Are Cookies and What Do They Do?

Cookies are small text files created on your device or web server via your browser when you visit a website.

The primary reasons for using cookies on our websites are:

To improve the quality of the services we offer by enhancing the functionality and performance of the website,

To enhance the website, add new functions and tailor website functions based on user preferences,

To ensure the legal and commercial security of the website, its users and our Company.

2. Types of Cookies Used on Our Website

Cookie Type

Explanation

Session Cookies

Session cookies are temporary cookies that are active while you are visiting our website, and expire once you close your browser.

The main purpose of these cookies is to ensure smooth functionality of the website during your visit.

Persistent Cookies

Persistent cookies are used to enhance the functionality of the website, offer faster and better services to visitors, remember information and offer tailored suggestions.

Persistent cookies enable the website to identify returning users, which helps tailor the content to be presented in order to enhance user experience.

First-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are directly stored by our website and are only accessible by the Company. These can be either session cookies or persistent cookies.

Third Party Cookies

In case the website content is provided by a domain other than www.gumustasmadencilik.com.tr, (such as playing a video hosted on a video platform through the website), the third-party domain may also create a cookie. These are generally persistent cookies.

3. Cookies Used on Our Website

Cookie

Type

Explanation

Cookie Duration

PHPSESSID

Strictly Necessary

Cookies generated by PHP applications. This is a general identifier used to save the variables of a user’s session. Normally, it is a randomly generated number. Its use varies by website, but generally it is used to record log-in status between pages.

During the Session

_ga

Performance

Used to analyze browsing habits, flow, sources and other data.

2 years

_gid

Performance

Used to identify users.

1 day

4. Preventing Cookies

You are able to personalize your cookies by customizing your browser’s cookie settings. Browser developers offer guidelines to manage the cookies in their respective browsers. Please check the table below for more information.

Google Chrome

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en

Internet Explorer

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/260971/description-of-cookies

Mozilla Firefox

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer

Safari

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042?

The Company may carry out cookie profiling in line with the methods specified in this Cookie Policy to improve its website.

This Cookie Policy, published by the Company, may be revised periodically and without prior notice to reflect the Company’s personal data policies. Any significant change in our Cookie Policy will be clearly disclosed on the Company’s website. The last revision date of this Cookie Policy can be found at the top of the document.

5. Legal Basis for the Processing of Your Cookies

Non-strictly necessary cookies are processed under the provisions of article 5/1 of the Law on Protection of Personal Data with your explicit consent. Strictly necessary cookies are processed for the legitimate interest of the Company under article 5/1 of the Law on Protection of Personal Data without detriment to your fundamental rights and liberties.

6. Your Rights Regarding Your Cookies

You can exercise your rights arising out of article 11 of the Protection of Personal Data by applying to the Company in line with the Communique on Procedures and Principles for Applying to the Data Controller.