We, as Digital Hotel Care Danışmanlık ve Yazılım A.Ş. process the personal data of visitors of our website www.digitalhotelcare.com and use internet cookies by respecting the rights of our visitors regarding the protection of their privacy and personal data to provide a better user experience for our website. This Cookie Usage Policy (”Policy”) explains what kind of cookies are used in which conditions to all of our Website visitors and users.

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     This policy is applied to the website without considering the type of technologies, methods, and means that you are connecting with. Thus, we recommend reading this policy carefully and taking a copy of this policy for further review.

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     Minors
     If you are under 18 years old, you must visit our website under the supervision of your parents. You must not use this website and share your personal data unless you are accompanied by your parents.

 

     What is a cookie and What is it used for?
     Cookies are small data storage files saved in your computers, mobile phones, tablets, or other mobile devices from which you access to the internet by websites. In this file, the information regarding your visit to the website is stored. Therefore, your devices from which you access to the internet will remember these data when you re-visit the Website. Thus, the cookies are important and necessary for you to use the website in an efficient and easier way. The cookies are also used for providing you with more suitable services, products or offers on this website and on the websites of third parties.

 

     The purposes of using cookies are as follows;

     Some technical data are needed to use the website more efficiently,

The company gathers information about your preferences for website navigation and usage and habits.

The company needs your personal data such as your IP address to fulfill its legal and contractual liabilities, such as the ones originating from Regulation Regarding Rules and Principles On Managing The Publications Made On Internet Environment and Law Against Crimes Committed via Publications Made On Internet Environment Number 5651.

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     What Kind of Information Is Processed With Cookies?

• The need for some technical data in order to use the Website more effectively,

• Collecting information about your preferences and habits in browsing and using the Company's Web Site,

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

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     Cookies include, depending on their types, 

• Name-Surname,

• E-mail,

• Telephone number,

• Date of Birth,

• Date of Marriage,

• Country and Country Code,

• Address,

• Your password data;

• Data regarding IP, URL and log in and log out, the pages you have accessed, our services and products that you review, and all information related to the navigation that you have made on our website on the device which you access to the internet generally. Your data is processed for the purpose of information security, keeping records, and carrying out the processes regarding reservations.

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     How Do We Use Cookies?

     We are using different types of cookies on the website. These are the cookies required to be used to operate the website, the analysis/performance cookies, and targeting/advertisement cookies. Also, we are using third-party cookies. Data regarding IP, URL, log in-log records are processed through this way and transmitted to the site which provides a cookie function.

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     COOKIE TYPES IN TERMS OF USAGE:

     Obligatory Cookies: These are the ones required to operate the website smoothly. These cookies are needed for managing the system and preventing false transactions and the website will not work if they are blocked.

     Function Cookies: These are the ones used to provide a more developed and easier user experience. For example, they carry out the functions of recalling your previous preferences, to help you access some of the contents included on the website comfortably. You can prevent the use of these cookies as shown below in detail.

     Analysis/Performance Cookies: These cookies help us analyze and understand the operation of the website and enable us to develop the website by interacting with you. You can prevent the use of these cookies as shown below in detail.

     Targeting/Advertisement Cookies: These cookies are used to detect the contents that you may be interested in and offer them, including advertisement content. You can prevent the use of these cookies as shown below in detail. However, if you prevent these cookies, the advertisement contents will not be blocked completely and advertisements with general contents will be provided instead of the ones you may be interested in.

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     COOKIE TYPES IN TERMS OF THE PERIOD THEY ARE STORED:

     Persistent Cookies: These cookies exist until a specific date on the user’s computer or until the user deletes them. These are used to measure site movements and preferences of the users mostly.

     Session Cookies: These cookies are used to partition the visit of the user and do not gather data from the user. A cookie is deleted when the user closes the website or remains passive for a specific time. Target and monitoring cookies are used to help provide advertisement services to third parties and to increase the efficiency of these services on the website. These can recall the websites and sites you have visited and gather personal data such as the IP address of your user device. The website uses both first and third-party cookies to gather information, recall your interests and demographic data and provide the advertisements aimed at you, improve the advertisements, and determine the times visited and advertisement demonstration number, other usages of advertisement services, and the proportion between these advertisements and interactions regarding advertisement service. The website uses social add-ons which provide connections to social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn. When you visit the website and use these add-ons, the website is directly connected to the selected social network’s server. Then, the content provided by the add-on is transmitted to your web browser and to the website you are visiting. Therefore, the related social network can access and process your data and connect them with your account data available in the social add-on.

     Please remember that we do not have any effect and control over the scope of data processed by social networks via add-ons. Please carefully review personal data processing policies published by the related social networks to get more information on which purpose, which method, and for how long your personal data will be processed by social networks.

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     COOKIE TYPES ACCORDING TO SOURCE

     First-Party Cookies: Hence the name, first-party cookies are directly placed on your device by the website you are visiting.

     Third-Party Cookies: These are the ones placed by not the website you are visiting but by third parties such as Google, Facebook, or Yandex.

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     SESSION

     Information on cookies is stated in the table below:

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     How Do You Prevent Use of Cookies?

     Even though the use of cookies provides better service from the website, you can prevent the use of cookies if you want. You need to change the settings of the internet browser you use to prevent their usage. These changes vary according to the device and internet browser you are using. You can find information below about how to prevent the usage of cookies over different internet browsers.

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     Internet Explorer
     1. Open the desktop and tap or click on the Internet Explorer icon on the taskbar.
     2. Tap or click on the tools button and Internet Options.
     3. Tap or click on the Privacy tab, then move up the slider found under Settings to prevent all cookies, and tap or click on the OK button.

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     Microsoft Edge
     1. Click on the three points icon from the upper right corner of your Microsoft Edge and access to the Settings section.
     2. Click on the Select Items To Clean option from the newly opened window, and then select the sections you wish to clean at the related window.
     3. There are lots of sections here. You can start cleaning procedures by selecting whatever you wish.

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     Google Chrome
     1. Open Chrome on your computer.
     2. Click on Other Settings on the upper right.
     3. Click on Advanced.
     4. Click on Content Settings under “Privacy and security”.
     5. Click on cookies.
     6. Look for the name of the website under “All cookies and website data”.
     7. Click on the Remove icon on the right side of the site.

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     Mozilla Firefox
     1. Click on the Firefox menu button and select Preferences.
     2. Select the Privacy and Security panel and go to the History section.
     3. Change the setting of firefox to use the special setting for history.
     4. Click on the show cookies....button. A cookie window will be shown.
     5. Write the name of the website where you wish to delete cookies in the search area. Cookies related to your search will be indicated.
     6. Select the cookie(s) you wish to delete and click on the delete the selected button.
     7. Close the Cookies window by clicking on the Close button. Then close the about preferences page.

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     Safari
     1. Select Safari > Preferences.
     2. Click on the Privacy option.
     3. Click on Website data.
     4. Select one or more websites and then click on Delete or Delete All.

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     You can find more information about how to carry out this procedure on other web browsers at https://www.aboutcookies.org address.

     You can delete all cookies left by the websites you have visited via third-party software.

 

     Contact Us
     You can contact us at hsinay@digitalhotelcare.com address to submit all your questions and opinions about the Policy.