Adel Cookie Policy

As Adel Kalemcilik Ticaret ve Sanayi Anonim Şirketi ("Adel"), we use cookies and other similar technologies and products (together referred to as "Cookies") for you to benefit most efficiently from our websites and mobile applications and to develop your user experience.

This text contains descriptions of the Cookies to be used if you visit www.adel.com.tr and www.adelexport.com/ website (it will be referred to as "Site").

If you prefer not to use cookies, you can delete or block Cookies in your browser settings. However, we would like to remind you that this may affect your use of the Site.

The privacy policy on your personal data processed by Adel as “Data Controller” under the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 ("Law") can be found on the Site or the Mobile Application or via the [http://www.adel.com.tr/tr/adel-web-sitesi-aydinlatma-metni] link.

A cookie is a small text file saved to your computer or mobile device via your browser when you visit a website. Cookies allow a website to work more efficiently, as well as personalized pages to provide a more tailored and faster visit experience to your personal needs. Cookies contain only information relating to your online visit history and do not collect any information about files stored on your computer or mobile device.

In addition, there are some technologies ("Cookies-Like Technologies") below used for similar purposes to Cookies.

• Pixel tags (transparent graphical images placed on a website showing a page displayed),
• Mobile device identifiers (storing information on the use of a mobile device through IDFA, advertising ID, etc. in 3rd party environments),
• Segmentation/Reporting Products (programs/products that work through some ready-made codes added to the codes of the website or mobile devices by various methods and report/make sense/store users' movements on the website or mobile device due to these codes)

The Cookie phrase used in this text will also be used to cover Cookie-Like Technologies.

2. Types of Cookies and Intended Use
   • Cookies for their period of validity:

• Temporary Cookies: Session Cookies are temporary cookies that are used during visitors' visits to the website and are deleted after the browser is closed. The main purpose of using such cookies is to ensure that the website functions correctly during your visit. For example, you can fill out online forms consisting of more than one page due to these cookies.
• Permanent Cookies: Permanent Cookies are the types of cookies used to improve the functionality of the website and provide a faster and better service. Such cookies are used to remember visitors' preferences and are stored on visitors' devices through browsers. Some types of persistent cookies can be used to provide special suggestions to visitors by considering issues such as the purpose of using the website. If the website is visited again through the same device, due to permanent cookies, it is checked whether there is a cookie created by the website on the visitors' devices and if there is one, it is understood that the website has been visited before and the contents to be communicated to the visitors are determined accordingly. The Cookies-Like Technologies are also included in this scope.
  • Cookies by source:
• First party cookies: They are directly placed on visitors' devices by the website. First-party cookies are defined by the website you are visiting and can only be read by this website.
• Third party cookies: Third-party cookies are defined by other organizations used for different services. For example, the external data analysis services we use and the suppliers who provide this service, define cookies on our behalf to report what is popular and what is not.
  • Cookies according to their intended use:
• Strictly Necessary Cookies: Mandatory cookies are the cookies you will need to browse our website and use its features such as access to secure areas of the website. These cookies are used for security and verification purposes and are not used for any marketing purposes and do not identify your identity. An example of this is remembering previous actions when you return to a page in the same session.
• Functionality cookies: Functionality cookies allow you to remember past choices (your username, area, or language) on our website for a more personalized online experience. The information which these cookies collect may include confidential data that may identify you, such as your username or profile picture. Not allowing the use of such cookies may result in the non-use of a feature specific to you and prevent you from remembering your preferences.
• Performance cookies: These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting information such as how you use our website, which pages you visit, and which links you click. These cookies do not identify your identity. All data is collected and assembled anonymously.
• Marketing cookies: These cookies are used to provide content that is close to you and your interests. It can also be used to provide targeted ads or to limit the number of times an ad is viewed to you. Many types of these cookies can collect identifying information by tracking consumers.

3. What happens if Cookies are not accepted?

If you decide not to accept cookies, certain features of this website may not be displayed or function correctly. This limits what you will do on our website and may have an effect on design and user experience.

Below are among the features likely to be affected:

• Use of the My Favourites (My Content) function
• Inability to experience the website in a personalized way
• Watching video
• Liking or sharing this page on social networks
• Displaying embedded content

4. How to Prevent the Use of Cookies

While the use of cookies enables the website or mobile device to provide a better service, you can block the use of cookies if you wish. Please note, however, that in this case the website or mobile application may not fully function, and you may not be able to benefit from all of its features. You need to change your settings for the internet browser which you use to prevent cookies from being used. These changes vary according to the device and internet browser you are using. Below is information on which steps should be followed to prevent cookies from being used through different internet browsers:

• Internet Explorer
• Open the desktop and tap or click the Internet Explorer icon on the taskbar.
• Touch or click the Tools button and Internet Options.
• Touch or click the Privacy tab, and then move the slider under Settings top to block all cookies, and then touch or click the OK button.
• Google Chrome
• Open Chrome on your computer.
• Click More Settings at the top right.
• Click Advanced at the bottom.
• Under "Privacy and security," click Content settings.
• Click Cookies.
• Under "All cookies and website data," look for the name of the Site.
• Click the Remove icon to the right of the website
• Mozilla Firefox
• Click the Firefox Menu button and select Options.
• Select the Privacy and Security panel and go to History
• Change Firefox setting to use custom settings for history.
• Click the “Show cookies” button. Cookies window will appear.
• Type the name of cookies in search area whose cookies you want to delete. Cookies that match your search will appear.
• Select the cookie(s) you want to delete, and then click Delete Selected.
• Close the Cookies window by clicking the Close button. Then close about: preferences page.
• Safari
• Select Safari > Preferences.
• Click on Privacy.
• Click Website Data.
• Select one or more websites, and then click Delete or Delete All.
• Microsoft Edge
• Click the three-dotted section in the top-right corner of your Microsoft Edge browser and scroll to the Settings section
• After saying Select Items to Clear from the new window that appears, select the sections that you want to clear from the window that appears.
• There are several areas here. You can start the cleaning process by selecting what you want.

5. Cookies Used and the purposes of Use
   • STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES

• FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES

• PERFORMANCE COOKIES

• MARKETING COOKIES