Last updated: November 08, 2023

1. About Cookie Disclosure Text

As Baş | Kaymaz Law Firm (“Firm“), like many undertakings, we use cookies in certain areas within the scope of our website. In addition, we would like to point out that some of our pages containing external links may also use cookies without the possibility of informing you. Accordingly, this Cookie Policy Disclosure Text (“Disclosure Text“) has been prepared in order to inform the visitors of our website within the scope of the cookies used on the website www.baskaymaz.av.tr, which we manage as the Firm, in accordance with the Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (“LPPD“), and the relevant cookies will be used by us in accordance with the forms described below.

 

2. Identity of the Data Controller

Pursuant to the LPPD, the data controller is defined as “the natural or legal person who determines the purposes and means of processing personal data and is responsible for the establishment and management of the data recording system”. In this context, the data controller is Baş | Kaymaz Law Firm (Attorney Baran Baş and Attorney Ardan Kaymaz), whose website you have visited.

 

3. What is a Cookie?

Cookies are small text files created by a website on your device and contain data in name-value format. Cookies make it possible for the website you visit to store information on your device and to use this information during your subsequent visits. Cookies created by a website are stored by the internet browser you use to access the site.

Cookies have become an important part of internet technologies today and their main functions are to remember the visitor and their preferences and to recognise the device. Accordingly, almost all websites you access use cookies.

At this point, there are two different types of cookies that are stored in your browser.

The first of these is defined as persistent cookies. Such cookies are stored on the online visitor’s device for the period specified for storage and are activated each time the online visitor visits the website that generated the relevant cookie.

Other types of cookies are referred to as session cookies. Such cookies are cookies that are actively stored from the moment the online visitor visits the relevant website until the moment the browser window is closed.

 

4. For what purposes are cookies on our website used??

Cookies that must be used for the functioning of the website: These cookies are cookies that must be used in order for the website to function properly and for you to benefit from the features of the site and the services offered. No personally identifiable information is stored through these cookies.

Analytics/Performance: These cookies allow us to identify visits and traffic sources to measure and improve the performance of our website. They help us to reach the number of visitors of the pages on our website and to see which pages our visitors spend time on our website. All information collected by the relevant cookies does not contain personal information as it is evaluated collectively / collectively, it is anonymous. By means of these cookies, we are trying to make our website more efficient.

Functionality/Functional: These cookies are used to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation opportunities, such as remembering the language or region selection of our visitors on our website. If you do not allow the use of the relevant cookies, it will not be possible to save your personalised settings on our website. They may be used by the Firm or by third-party providers whose services we make use of on our pages.

Targeting and Advertising Cookies: These cookies are primary and third-party cookies created during your visit to our website and third-party domains. These cookies enable the tracking of your click and visit history on the domains where they are created and the mapping of these records between different domains. Such cookies are used to recognise and profile users, target advertising and marketing activities and customise content. These cookies will not be used to identify you or make personalised decisions.

You can find detailed information about the cookies used on our website in the table in Article 6 of this Disclosure Text (Information on Cookies on Our Website).

Cookies are not used for purposes other than those specified in this Disclosure Text, and all related transactions are carried out in accordance with the LPPD.

 

5. Information on the Use of Cookies and Management of Cookies

When you visit our website for the first time or reset your cookies, we will inform you about our use of cookies via our cookie management panel. The use of cookies is not mandatory in order to use our website, we would like to point out that if you do not accept the cookies we process based on your explicit consent through the cookie management panel or if you set your browser not to accept cookies, the quality of your user experience may decrease and various functions of our website may not work.

Most internet browsers have been developed to accept all cookies, and users can also block cookies by changing the browser settings, or you can configure it to block cookies for certain sites, to warn when cookies are created, or to count all cookies as session cookies. In this context, you can refuse the use of cookies by changing your browser settings, delete cookies or see the list and values of cookies stored in your browser.

For more detailed information about changing the settings regarding the use of cookies through your browser, you can review the links specially arranged for the browsers below by clicking on the logo of the relevant browser.

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6. Information on Cookies on Our Website

Cookie Name	Cookie Description/Purpose of processing	Cookie Type	Storage Period	Legal Grounds
pll_language	It collects cookies related to users’ language preferences to remind you of your previously selected language settings.	Functional/ Third Party/ Polylang		Pursuant to the first paragraph of Article 5 of the Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data, “It is processed based on the explicit consent of the person concerned”
Google Maps Cookie	Collects your IP address when you use our website in order to accurately display the location of our Law Firm	Marketing/ Third Party/ Google Maps		Pursuant to the first paragraph of Article 5 of the Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data, “It is processed based on the explicit consent of the person concerned”
_ga	It counts the number of visitors to our website and the number of page views.	Analytical/ Third Party/ Google Analytics	2 years	Pursuant to the first paragraph of Article 5 of the Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data, “It is processed based on the explicit consent of the person concerned”
_ga_*	It counts the number of visitors to our website and the number of page views.	Analytical/ Third Party/ Google Analytics		Pursuant to the first paragraph of Article 5 of the Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data, “It is processed based on the explicit consent of the person concerned”
trustedsite_visit	It allows the web page to understand whether subsequent requests are reliable and keeps track of the number of page visits.	Mandatory cookie/ Third Party/ McAfee	1 year	Pursuant to subparagraph (f) of the second paragraph of Article 5 of the Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data, “Data processing is mandatory for the legitimate interests of the data controller, provided that it does not harm the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject”
cmplz_policy_id	Your personal data is processed by associating it with your IP information in order to confirm that the cookie disclosure text has been read.	Mandatory cookie/ Third Party/ Complianz	1 year	Pursuant to subparagraph (f) of the second paragraph of Article 5 of the Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data, “Data processing is mandatory for the legitimate interests of the data controller, provided that it does not harm the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject”

 

As Baş | Kaymaz Law Firm, we may stop 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 Disclosure Text at any time. Any changes made to the current disclosure text shall become effective upon publication on the website or any other public medium. The date of the last update can be found at the beginning of the text.