Cookie Policy.
This Cookie Policy explains how merveakkaya.com uses cookies and similar technologies, why they may be used and how you can control technologies that are not strictly necessary for the website to operate.
Last updated · 25 August 2026Technologies genuinely required for operation, security or your requested preferences may be used without optional cookie consent where permitted by law.
Where consent is required, analytics, marketing and other optional technologies remain disabled unless you choose to enable them.
Optional categories can be accepted, rejected or managed through the website’s cookie controls.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small piece of information stored on or accessed from your device when you visit a website. Cookies can perform different functions, such as enabling essential website features, remembering choices, measuring website use or supporting third-party services.
Similar technologies, including local storage, pixels, tags and comparable browser or device technologies, may perform related functions. References to cookies in this Policy also include similar technologies where appropriate.
Which categories may be used?
These technologies support functions required for the website to operate properly or securely. They may include security, network management, session handling and storage of your cookie preference.
They are not used simply for advertising or optional behavioural analytics.Functional technologies may remember non-essential preferences or support enhanced third-party functionality.
Where these technologies are not strictly necessary and consent is required by applicable law, they remain disabled until consent is given.Analytics technologies can help us understand how visitors find and use the website, which pages are viewed and whether technical or usability problems occur.
Where consent is required, analytics is not activated before you opt in.Marketing technologies may be used to measure campaigns, recognise interactions across websites or platforms, or support advertising and remarketing activities.
If these technologies are introduced, they will remain disabled until the necessary consent has been obtained.How do we obtain consent?
Where applicable law requires consent for a category of cookies or similar technologies, that consent is requested before those technologies are activated.
The website’s consent controls are intended to provide separate choices to:
- Accept optional technologies.
- Reject optional technologies.
- Review and adjust individual cookie categories.
Simply continuing to browse the website is not treated as consent to optional cookies where active consent is required.
Current cookie register.
The exact cookies and similar technologies present on the website may change as infrastructure or approved services are updated.
The current cookie preference panel is intended to provide the operational cookie register, including information available for each detected technology such as:
- Cookie or technology name.
- Provider.
- Purpose.
- Category.
- Duration or expiry where applicable.
- Whether the technology is first-party or third-party.
When a new analytics, advertising or embedded service is introduced, the cookie configuration and register should be reviewed before that technology is allowed to operate for visitors.
Third-party technologies.
Some website features may be provided through external platforms or technology providers. Where enabled, those providers may set or access their own cookies or similar technologies.
Examples may include analytics platforms, embedded media, social-media functionality or other services introduced to support the website.
Third-party services are subject to their own privacy and cookie practices. Where their use requires prior consent, they should not be activated before that consent has been provided.
International processing.
Some technology providers may process information using infrastructure located outside Türkiye or outside the country from which you access the website.
Where cookie-related personal data is transferred internationally, applicable requirements concerning international data transfers are taken into account. Further information is available in the Privacy Policy.
How long do cookies remain?
Cookies may be temporary or persistent.
Session technologies
These generally expire when the browser session ends or when they are otherwise no longer required.
Persistent technologies
These may remain for a defined period unless they expire, are removed by you or are deleted through browser or preference controls.
The relevant duration for individual technologies should be available through the website’s current cookie register where applicable.
How can you change your choice?
Consent to optional cookies can be changed or withdrawn. When the website’s cookie preference control is available, you can reopen it and update your selected categories.
You may also control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Browser-level restrictions may affect how some website features operate.
Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that was lawfully carried out before the preference was changed.
Personal data and your rights.
Some cookies and similar technologies can involve the processing of information that constitutes personal data.
Information about the data controller, processing purposes, international transfers, retention and your data-protection rights is available in the Privacy Policy.
Changes to this Policy.
This Cookie Policy may be updated when website technology, service providers, cookie use or legal requirements change.
The current version will be published on this page with the latest revision date.
Your choice stays yours.
Optional cookies should remain under your control. You may accept them, reject them or change your preferences through the cookie controls provided on the website.
Once the consent system is active, the Cookie Preferences control in the website footer will reopen the preference panel at any time.
Rejecting optional cookies should not prevent you from reading the website’s ordinary content.