This Privacy and Cookies Policy is presented to you by the owner of the www.malvaculture.com website (“Website”) (Sultançiftliği Tarım İşletmeleri A.Ş.) to inform you about the terms and conditions regarding the processing of data of users/members/visitors (“Data Owner”) through the Website, what types of cookies are used on the Website for what purposes and how you can control these cookies.

Data Protection Principles

(Sultançiftliği Tarım İşletmeleri A.Ş) complies with the data protection principles in the data processing activities for which it holds the title of “data controller”. In accordance with the said principles, personal data is briefly as follows;

• Be processed in accordance with the law and rules of good faith,
• Be processed for limited purposes and not in any way incompatible with those purposes,
• Be adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary for the purposes for which they are processed,
• Be accurate and kept up to date,
• Be retained only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which they are processed,
• Be processed within the framework of the rights granted to the concerned individuals by law,
• Be kept securely, and
• Not be transferred to countries that do not have an adequate level of protection.

www.malvaculture.com is aware of its obligation to act in accordance with the data protection principles outlined in this Policy and takes the necessary technical and administrative measures to ensure data protection.

What Data Do We Process?

Your personal data processed by www.malvaculture.com has been categorized as stated below in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (Law). Unless otherwise stated, the term “personal data” within the scope of the terms and conditions presented in this Privacy Policy shall include the information set out below.

Identity and Contact Information: name, surname, telephone, address, workplace information, e-mail address

User Information, User Transaction Information and Financial Information: Membership information, membership ID number, data regarding the date and time you used www.malvaculture.com services, the reasons for contacting www.malvaculture.com, the terms you use while searching on the Website and your filtering preferences, errors that occur during use, invoice and payment information, balance information (data such as invoices sent to the user and receipt samples of payments received from users, invoice number, invoice amount, invoice cut-off date, etc.)

Transaction Security Information: log in credential information, password information

Marketing Information: reports and evaluations showing your habits and likes, targeting information, cookie records, etc.

Request/Complaint Management Information: Your requests and complaints made through the Website and the comments you share on the Website

Risk Management Information: IP address

Data anonymized within the framework of Articles 3 and 7 of the Law will not be considered personal data under the provisions of the mentioned law, and processing activities related to these data will be carried out without being bound by the provisions of this Privacy Policy.

Data Usage Purpose

The personal data you share with www.malvaculture.com may be processed to enable you to benefit from the services provided through the Website, to register your membership on the Website, to update your membership records, to improve the services offered by www.malvaculture.com, to introduce new services, and to provide you with necessary information accordingly. It may also be processed to carry out commercial activities, determine and implement commercial and business strategies, ensure the legal and commercial security of individuals in a business relationship with www.malvaculture.com, and fulfill obligations arising from the nature of these activities, including providing necessary notifications to you.

The personal information in question may be used to contact you or to improve your experience on the Website (such as managing the communication process, conducting satisfaction surveys, etc.). It may also be used within the scope of internal reporting and business development activities, for conducting various statistical evaluations, creating databases, and carrying out market research without disclosing your identity. This information may be processed, stored, and shared with third parties by www.malvaculture.com for purposes such as direct marketing, digital marketing, remarketing, targeting, profiling, and analysis. Additionally, it may be used to contact you regarding the promotion, maintenance, and support of various applications, products, and services based on the information in question.

www.malvaculture.com may also process and share personal data with third parties without obtaining your explicit consent as a Data Subject, in accordance with Articles 5 and 8 of the Law and/or in the presence of exceptions stipulated in the relevant legislation. The main instances of these situations are listed below:

Explicitly stipulated by laws,

It is necessary for the protection of the life or physical integrity of the person or another, when the person is unable to express their consent due to physical impossibility or when their consent is not legally valid.

It is necessary for the processing of personal data, provided it is directly related to the establishment or performance of a contract between the Data Subject and www.malvaculture.com.

It is necessary for www.malvaculture.com to fulfill its legal obligations.

It has been made public by the Data Subject themselves.

It is necessary for the processing of data to establish, exercise, or protect a right,

It is necessary for the processing of data for the legitimate interests of www.malvaculture.com, provided that it does not harm the fundamental rights and freedoms of the Data Subject.

As mentioned above, www.malvaculture.com may use cookies and process data within the scope of analysis services provided by third parties, which will only be shared with third parties to the extent required by these analysis services. These technical communication files are small text files sent by the Website to the Data Subject’s browser to be stored in the main memory. The technical communication file helps facilitate the usage of the Website by storing information about preferences and settings. It is designed to gather statistical information about the number of users visiting the Website, their purpose, frequency, and duration of visits, and to dynamically generate advertisements and content for users based on personalized user pages. The technical communication file is not designed to collect any personal data from the main memory. Most browsers are designed to accept technical communication files by default; however, users can always change their browser settings to prevent the reception of technical communication files or to receive an alert when a technical communication file is sent.

Who Can Access Your Data?

www.malvaculture.com may transfer your personal data and any new data obtained from the use of your personal data, solely for the purpose of fulfilling the objectives outlined in this Privacy Policy and to provide the relevant services. In this context, data may be transferred to our business partners, suppliers from whom we benefit, and third parties in an anonymous or limited manner. In such cases, additional consent may be obtained.

www.malvaculture.com may share your data with third-party service providers, including those sending emails and SMS, hosting service providers, and law firms, in order to improve your user experience (including enhancement and personalization), ensure your security, detect fraudulent or unauthorized uses, conduct operational assessments, resolve errors related to the Site services, and fulfill any other purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.

As the Data Subject, you undertake to ensure that the information subject to this Privacy Policy is complete, accurate, and up-to-date, and to promptly update it in the event of any changes. If you do not provide up-to-date information, www.malvaculture.com will not be held responsible.

As the Data Subject, you acknowledge that if you make a request that results in any of your personal data being unavailable for use by www.malvaculture.com, you may not be able to fully benefit from the functionality of the Website, and you declare that any responsibility arising from this will be yours.

Google and other third-party providers use cookies to display advertisements based on a user’s previous visits to the Website.

Google’s DoubleClick cookie (a cookie activated when users visit a partner’s website and view or click on an advertisement) allows Google and its partners to serve advertisements to users based on their visits to your site and/or other sites.

Data Subjects can opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising through the Google Ads Settings link.

Data Retention Period

Your personal data shared with www.malvaculture.com is retained for the duration required to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy and for the duration of any statutory limitation periods specified in the relevant legislation. Additionally, your personal data may be stored for the limited purpose of enabling necessary defenses in the event of any dispute between you and www.malvaculture.com.

Ensuring the Security of Your Data

www.malvaculture.com takes the necessary technical and administrative measures, considering the appropriate conditions and costs, to ensure that personal data is not processed unlawfully, to prevent unauthorized access to personal data, and to ensure the protection of personal data. Additionally, it conducts the required audits to maintain the minimum security level as specified by the relevant legislation or outlined in this Privacy Policy.

www.malvaculture.com also ensures that it does not disclose the personal data obtained from you to others in violation of this Privacy Policy and the Personal Data Protection Law, and does not use the data for purposes other than the intended processing purposes.

If the Website provides links to other applications, www.malvaculture.com does not assume any responsibility for the privacy policies and content of these applications and recommends that you review these texts.

What is a Cookie and Why is it Used?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device or network server through browsers when you visit a Website. For more detailed information, you can visit: http://www.aboutcookies.org/ and http://www.allaboutcookies.org/. Through cookies, certain information about your interaction with the Website can be gathered. The main purposes of using cookies on the Website are to improve the services provided by enhancing the Website’s functionality and performance, to improve the Website and offer new features, to personalize the features based on user preferences, and to ensure the legal and commercial security of the Website, users, and www.malvaculture.com.

On what purpose and legal basis are personal data processed through cookies?

The personal data processed through cookies collected from the Website are based on the legal grounds outlined in Article 5, paragraph 2, subparagraph (e) of the Law, which states that data processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or protection of a right, for the purpose of maximizing the benefit from the Website, improving user experience, and creating visitor and user records. Additionally, the personal data is processed for the purpose of managing advertising/campaign/promotion processes and conducting marketing analysis, based on the legal ground stated in Article 5, paragraph 2, subparagraph (f) of the Law, which specifies that processing data for the legitimate interests of the data controller is necessary, provided it does not harm the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject. The processed personal data is shared with the parties providing the relevant cookie services, strictly for the purposes outlined above and in accordance with the law; however, it may also be shared with authorized public institutions where legally required. Detailed information about data processing and transfer activities related to these personal data is provided below.

What types of cookies are used on the Website?

Session Cookies: Session cookies are temporary cookies used during a visitor’s session on the Website, which are deleted after the browser is closed. The main purpose of using these cookies is to ensure the proper functioning of the Website during your visit. For example, they allow you to fill out online forms that span multiple pages.

Persistent Cookies: Persistent cookies are used to enhance the functionality of the Website and provide visitors with faster and better service. These cookies are used to remember your preferences and are stored on your device via browsers. Some types of persistent cookies may be used to offer personalized recommendations based on factors such as your purpose for using the Website. With persistent cookies, when you revisit the Website using the same device, the Website checks whether a cookie created by it exists on your device. If it does, it is understood that you have visited the site before, and the content provided to you is tailored accordingly, offering you a better service.

What are the categories of cookies used on the Website?

Technical Cookies: Technical cookies are used to ensure the functioning of the Website and to detect non-functional pages and areas of the Website.

Authentication Cookies: These cookies are used when visitors log in to the Website using their passwords. They help identify the visitor as a site user on every page they visit, preventing the need to re-enter the password on each page.

Customization Cookies: These cookies are used to remember users’ preferences when visiting different pages on the Website. For example, they may store your selected language preference.

Analytical Cookies: Analytical cookies are used to gather data such as the number of visitors to the Website, the identification of pages viewed, visit times, and scrolling behavior on the Website, allowing for the production of analytical results.

What cookies are used on the Website?

Advertising: Used to display behavioral and targeted advertisements to visitors. It can be accepted or rejected via browser settings for a period of 3 months.

Facebook: These cookies enable the tracking of Facebook members (and non-members) for market analysis and product development purposes. The cookie can be accepted or rejected via browser settings for a period of 2 years from the initial setup.

Google Analytics: These cookies enable the collection of all statistical data, which helps improve the presentation and use of the Website. Google enhances this data with social statistics and interest-related data, allowing us to better understand users. The Website uses Google Analytics cookies. The data collected by these cookies is transferred to Google servers located in the USA and stored in accordance with Google’s data protection principles. For more information about Google’s data processing activities and personal data protection principles, you can click here. The processing period is 2 years from the last update.

Adobe Omniture: These cookies enable the collection of all statistical data, which helps improve the presentation and use of the Website. The processing period is 5 years, 3 years, and 1 month from the initial setup of the cookie.

Session Cookie: It can be accepted or rejected via browser settings.

Technical Cookies Session: Session cookies are used to ensure the continuity of the session. The processing period is 82 years from the initial setup. It can be accepted or rejected via browser settings.

Customization Cookies (Language): These cookies store the language selected by the user and provide relevant options accordingly. They are unlimited and remain on the computer until settings are changed or deleted from the browser. It can be accepted or rejected via browser settings. If the user visits the site from a mobile device, the cookie is used to display the main website (e.g., when the device enables Flash) or to record the mobile site preferences, allowing for a better understanding of the user’s choices.

Cookie Provider Name, Description, Duration, and Preferences

This type of cookie enables the collection of all statistical data, which helps improve the presentation and use of the Site. Google enhances these statistics by adding data related to social statistics and interests, helping us understand users better.

For example: Google Analytics: Our site uses Google Analytics cookies. The data collected through these cookies is solely statistical anonymous data related to the use of the website, which is transferred to Google servers located in the USA. These data are stored in accordance with Google’s data protection principles. To learn more about Google’s analytical data processing activities and principles regarding personal data protection, you can click here. By adding social statistics and interest data, Google helps us better understand users.

Our site uses Google Analytics cookies. The data collected through these cookies is solely statistical anonymous data related to the use of the website, which is transferred to Google servers located in the USA. These data are stored in accordance with Google’s data protection principles. To learn more about Google’s analytical data processing activities and principles regarding personal data protection, you can click here.

The maximum retention period: 720 days.

Usage duration: 180 days.

How can I control the use of cookies?

If you prefer not to use cookies, you can delete or block cookies through your browser settings. However, we would like to remind you that this may affect your use of our websites. You have the option to customize your cookie preferences by changing your browser settings.

Google Adwords

https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en

Google Analytics

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Google Chrome

http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647

Internet Explorer

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

MozillaFirefox

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Cookies

Opera

http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/

Safari

https://support.apple.com/kb/ph19214?locale=tr_TR

This Privacy and Cookie Policy has been updated on www.malvaculture.com and made available to relevant individuals through the website. In case of partial or complete updates, the effective date will be updated, and the revised text will be published again on the website.