OUR COOKIE POLICY

Our Cookie Policy forms part of our Privacy Policy (paftar.com)

What is a Cookie?
Today, almost every website 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 (e.g. 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 visit the same website again with the same device, your browser checks whether there is a cookie stored on your device on behalf of the website. If there is a record, it transmits the data in the record to the website you are visiting. In this way, the website realises that you have visited the site before and determines the content to be transmitted to you accordingly.

Why are cookies used?

Some cookies enable the website to remember the preferences you have used in your previous visits, allowing your subsequent visits to provide a much more user-friendly and personalised experience.

In addition, although the links of third parties on the website are subject to the privacy policies of these third parties, the responsibility for privacy practices does not belong to paftar.com and in this context, it is recommended to read the privacy policy of the site when the site within the scope of the relevant link is visited.

Cookie Types

Cookies, whose main purpose of use is to provide convenience to users, are basically categorised into 4 main groups:

  • Session Cookies: These are cookies that allow the use of various features such as the transfer of information between web pages and the systematic recall of information entered by the user and are necessary for the proper functioning of the functions of the website. 
  • Performance Cookies: These are cookies that collect information about the frequency of visiting the pages, possible error messages, the total time users spend on the relevant page and the patterns of using the site and are used to increase the performance of the website. 
  • Functional Cookies: These are cookies that remind the user of the previously selected options in order 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. It allows the use of some functions on the website and tracking of advertisements. 

Purposes of Use of Cookies

The intended use of cookies used by paftar.com is as follows:

  • Uses for security purposes: paftar.com may use cookies that enable the use of the functions on this site or detect irregular behaviour in order to ensure the administration and security of its systems.
  • Uses for functionality: paftar.com may use cookies that remind users of their information and past choices in order to facilitate the use of its systems and provide user-specific usage features.
  • Performance-oriented uses: paftar.com may use cookies that evaluate and analyse the interaction with the messages sent and user behaviour in order to increase and measure the performance of its systems.
  • Uses for advertising purposes: paftar.com may use cookies that measure the effectiveness of these advertisements or analyse the click status in order to transmit advertisements and similar content within the scope of users' interests through its own or third parties' systems.

Our Use of Cookies for Advertising Purposes

paftar.com uses the Google Adsense advertising system. This system includes the double click cookie used by Google in adverts served on publisher websites where Google AdSense adverts are displayed for content.

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. It uses these cookies to serve adverts to your users based on their visits to your site and other sites on the internet.You can prevent the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Google uses third-party advertising companies to provide advertising services when you visit our website. These companies may use information (other than your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number) obtained from your visits to these and other websites to advertise products and services of interest to you. For more information about this practice and what your options are to prevent such information from being used by these companies, see Appendix A of the NAI Self-Regulatory principles for publishers (PDF).

Controlling and Deleting Cookies

To change your preferences regarding the use of cookies or to block or delete cookies, simply change the settings of your browser. Many browsers give you the option to accept or reject cookies, to accept only certain types of cookies, or to be warned by the browser when a website requests to store cookies on your device so that you can control cookies. 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. You can review the instructions for allowing cookies or blocking or deleting cookies for some popular browsers.

The method of changing the cookie usage selection varies depending on the browser type and can be learnt from the relevant service provider at any time.

Date this policy was last updated: 02/08/2023