Our Cookie Policy forms part of our Privacy Policy.

What is a Cookie?

Almost every website today uses cookies. Like most websites, we use cookies to provide you with a better, faster, and safer experience. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your device (such as your computer or mobile phone) when you visit a website. Cookies can be stored on your device through your browser during your first visit to a website. When you revisit the same site with the same device, your browser checks if there is a cookie registered for the site on your device. If there is a record, it sends the data within the record to the website you are visiting. This allows the website to recognize that you have visited it before and to determine the content to be delivered to you accordingly.

Why Are Cookies Used?

Some cookies enable subsequent visits to be much more user-friendly and personalized by allowing the website to remember preferences you entered during previous visits.

Also, links to third-party sites on the website, while subject to the privacy policies of those third parties, do not have responsibility for privacy practices belonging to smkmakina.com.tr, and in this context, it is recommended to read the privacy policy of the site when visiting the site within the scope of the relevant link.

Types of Cookies

Cookies, primarily aimed at providing convenience to users, are broadly categorized into 4 main groups:

• Session Cookies: Cookies that enable various features such as carrying information between web pages and remembering information entered by the user systemically, and are necessary for the proper functioning of functions belonging to the website.
• Performance Cookies: Cookies that gather information about page visit frequency, possible error messages, total time spent by users on the relevant page, along with usage patterns of the site, and are used to enhance the performance of the website.
• Functional Cookies: Cookies that remind users of previously selected options to provide convenience to the user and aim to provide advanced Internet features to users within the scope of the website.
• Advertising and Third-Party Cookies: Cookies belonging to third-party suppliers that enable the use of certain functions on the website and allow tracking of advertisements.

Purposes of Cookie Use

The purposes of cookies used by smkmakina.com.tr are as follows:

• For security purposes: smkmakina.com.tr may use cookies to administer and ensure the security of its systems, to enable the use of functions on this site, or to detect irregular behaviors.
• For functionality purposes: smkmakina.com.tr may use cookies to facilitate the use of its systems and to provide usage features specific to the user by remembering user information and past selections.
• For performance purposes: smkmakina.com.tr may use cookies to enhance and measure the performance of its systems by evaluating and analyzing interactions with sent messages and user behaviors.
• For advertising purposes: smkmakina.com.tr may use cookies to deliver advertisements and similar content based on user interests through its own systems or those of third parties and to analyze the effectiveness of these advertisements or click-through rates.

Controlling and Deleting Cookies

To change your preferences regarding the use of cookies or to block or delete cookies, you can change your browser settings. Many browsers offer options to control cookies, such as accepting or rejecting cookies, accepting only certain types of cookies, or being alerted by the browser when a website requests to store cookies on your device. It is also possible to delete cookies previously stored in your browser. The procedures for controlling or deleting cookies may vary depending on the browser you use. Instructions for allowing or blocking cookies or deleting them can be found from the relevant service provider.

The method of changing cookie usage preferences may vary depending on the type of browser and can be learned from the relevant service provider when desired.

 

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