Privacy and Cookie Policy

As Soydan Raf Market Equipment Trade and Industry Co. Ltd., we use cookies on our website, https://www.soydanraf.com/, to provide our visitors with a more user-friendly experience while respecting the privacy and personal data protection rights of all users. This "Cookie Use Policy" explains to all visitors to our website which types of cookies are used and under what conditions. You can access membership terms, ordering information, and documents related to various membership processes on our website.

This Policy applies regardless of the technology, device, or method through which you connect to our website. Therefore, we recommend that you read this Policy thoroughly and obtain a copy for future reference.

I. What is a Cookie and for What Purposes Are They Used?

Cookies are small data storage files stored by websites on your computer, mobile phone, tablet, or other mobile device. This data file stores information about your visit to the Website. This way, the devices you access will remember this information when you return to the Website. Therefore, cookies are essential and important tools for making the Website more user-friendly and effective. Cookies are also used to provide you with more relevant services, products, or offers on the Website and third-party websites.

The main purposes of using cookies are;

• Some technical data is needed for more effective use of the Website,

• The Company collects information about your browsing and usage preferences and habits on the Website,

• The Company needs your personal data, such as your IP address, in order to fulfill its legal and contractual obligations, particularly those arising from the Law No. 5651 on the Regulation of Publications Made on the Internet and Combating Crimes Committed Through These Publications and the Regulation on the Principles and Procedures for the Regulation of Publications Made on the Internet.

II. What Types of Data Do We Process with Cookies?

Depending on their type, cookies generally collect data about your browsing and usage preferences on the device you use to access the Website. This data includes the pages you access, the products you view, and all information about your navigation through the Website.

III. What Types of Cookies Do We Use and in What Ways?

We use different types of cookies on the Website. These are cookies that are essential for the Website to function, functionality cookies, analytics/performance cookies, and targeting/advertising cookies.

Types of Cookies by Usage:

Mandatory Cookies: These cookies are essential for the proper functioning of the Website. These cookies are needed for system management and to prevent fraudulent transactions. If blocked, the Website will not function.

Functional Cookies: These cookies are used to provide you with a more advanced and user-friendly experience. For example, they serve functions such as remembering your previous preferences and providing you with easy access to certain content on the Website. You can prevent the use of these cookies as detailed below.

Analysis/Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to analyse and understand how the Website functions and to improve it by interacting with you.

Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to identify and present content, including advertising, that may be of interest to you. You can block the use of these cookies as detailed below. However, blocking these cookies will not completely block advertising; you will only be served general content ads instead of ads that may be of interest to you.

Cookie Types in Terms of Storage Period:

Persistent Cookies: These cookies remain on a user's computer until a specific date or until deleted by the user. These cookies are often used to measure users' site activity and preferences.

Session Cookies: These cookies are used to divide user visits into sessions and do not collect user data. The cookie is deleted when the user closes the visited webpage or remains inactive for a period of time. Targeting and tracking cookies are used on the Website to help third parties provide services, primarily advertising, and to improve the effectiveness of these services. These cookies can remember the web pages and sites you have visited and collect personal data, primarily the IP address of the user's device. The Website uses both first-party and third-party cookies to collect information, remember your interests and demographic data, and serve you targeted ads, improve ads, determine the number of visits and ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and the ratio between these ad impressions and interactions with ad services. The Website utilizes social plugins that provide connections to social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn. When you visit the Website and use these plugins, the Website connects directly to the selected social network's server. The content provided by the plugin is then transmitted directly from the social networks to your web browser and embedded in the website you are visiting. In this way, the relevant social network can access and process your data and combine it with the data belonging to your account on the relevant social network.

Please note that we have no influence or control over the extent of data processed by social networks through plugins. For more information on the purposes for which social networks process your personal data, by what methods, and for how long, please carefully review the personal data processing policies published by the relevant social networks.

IV. How can you prevent the use of cookies?

The use of cookies will enable the Website to provide better service. However, you can block cookies if you wish. However, please note that this will not fully function the site and you may not be able to take advantage of all its features. To block cookies, you must adjust the settings in your internet browser. These changes will vary depending on the device and internet browser you use. Below is information on what steps to follow to block cookies on different internet browsers:

• Internet Explorer

1. Open the desktop and click or tap the Internet Explorer icon on the taskbar.

2. Tap or click the “Tools” button and then “Internet Options.”

Tap or click the "Privacy" tab, then move the slider under "Settings" up to block all cookies and tap or click OK.

• Microsoft Edge

1. Click on the three-dot icon in the upper right corner of your Microsoft Edge browser and go to the "Settings" section.

2. In the new window that opens, click "Select Items to Clean" and select the sections you want to clean from the window that opens.

3. There are several sections here. You can start the cleaning process by selecting the one you want.

• Google Chrome

1. Open Chrome on your computer.

2. Click “More Settings” in the top right.

3. Click "Advanced" at the bottom.

4. Under "Privacy & Security," click "Content Settings."

5. Click “Cookies”.

6. Under “All Cookies and Site Data,” look for the name of the Website.

7. Click the "Remove" icon to the right of the site

• Mozilla Firefox

1. Click the Firefox Menu button and select "Options".

2. Select the “Privacy & Security” panel and go to the “History” section.

3. Change Firefox setting to "Use Custom Settings for History".

4. Click the "Show cookies..." button. The Cookies window will appear.

5. In the "Search:" field, type the name of the site whose cookies you want to delete. Cookies that match your search will be displayed.

6. Select the cookie(s) you want to delete and click the "Delete Selected" button.

7. Close the Cookies window by clicking the "Close" button. Then close the "about:preferences" page.

• Safari

1. Select “Safari > Preferences”.

2. Click on “Privacy”.

3. Click on “Website Data”.

4. Select one or more websites and then click "Delete" or "Delete All".

You can find more information on how to do this in other major web browsers at https://www.esb.org.tr/cerez-bellek or https://www.aboutcookies.org.

You can also delete all cookies left behind by the websites you visit using third-party software.

You can contact us for detailed information about our Cookie Policy.

E-mail: bilgi@soydanraf.com

Call Center: 0552 887 88 81