1. What Is A Cookie And Why Is It Used?

We use cookies for you to make the most of our Toplum Çalışmaları Derneği website and to enhance your user experience.

Cookies are small text files created by a website on your device that contain data in name-value format. Cookies enable the website you visit to store information on your device and to use this stored information by the website during your next visits.

Cookies may also be used to speed up and improve your future activities and experiences on our sites. We also use cookies to help us gather anonymous and aggregated statistical data that enables us to understand how people use our sites, and to help us improve the structure and content of our sites. These data are not information that could enable us to identify you.

(i) To remember your navigation and usage preferences (eg display language etc.), to facilitate the use of our website and to customize our website according to your preferences,

(ii) To ensure the proper functioning of various features and functions of our website (e.g. keeping you logged in, embed dynamic content, etc.);

(iii) Cookies are used for collecting non-personal, general information about how our website is used by our visitors, such as the most clicked links, most visited pages, and the number of error messages viewed, and analyzing this information to render faulty pages, improve our website, and remove unpreferred pages.

2. Types of Cookies Used on Our Website

Session Cookies: Session cookies are temporary cookies that are used during the visits of our visitors to the web site and are deleted after the browser is closed. The main purpose of using such cookies is to ensure the proper functioning of the web site during your visit. For instance; this type of cookie makes it possible for you to fill the online forms composed of more than one page.

Persistent Cookies: Persistent cookies are the types of cookies used to increase the functionality of the web site and to provide a faster and better service to our visitors. This kind of cookies are used to remember your preferences and are stored on your device via browsers. Some types of persistent cookies may be used to provide you specific suggestions by considering your intended use of the web site. With the help of persistent cookies in the event that you visit our website again with the same device, it is checked whether there is a cookie created by our website on your device, and if you have, it is understood that you have visited the web site before and the content to be offered to you is determined accordingly and thus a better service is provided to you.

3. Categories of Cookies Used on Our Website

Authentication Cookies: When visitors log on to the website with their passwords, by the help of this kind of cookies, visitors are identified to be a site user for each page that they visit on the web site and this prevents users to re-enter their passwords on each page.

Analytical Cookies: With analytical cookies, it is possible to produce analytical results such as the number of visitors to the web site, the pages displayed on the web site, visit hours of the web site and scrolling movements of the web sites.

If you do not prefer to use cookies, you can delete or block cookies from your browser’s settings. But please note that this may affect your use of our website. Unless you change your Cookie settings on your browser, we will assume that you accept the use of cookies on our websites. Cookies are not used for purposes other than those specified in this Policy, and all relevant transactions are carried out in accordance with data protection legislation. For more detailed information about the processing of your personal data by us, please read the “Clarification Text” and the “Personal Data Protection and Processing Policy” published on the Toplum Çalışmaları Derneği website.