Cookie types according to the duration of use: On the website and mobile site of the e-commerce platforms operated by CookieSeal, session cookies and persistent cookies are used according to the duration of their use. Session cookies expire once you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your hard drive for a long term or indefinitely.
Cookie types according to the owner or the party that places the cookie: On the website, mobile application and mobile site of the e-commerce platforms operated by CookieSeal, “CookieSeal cookies(first party cookies)” and “third party cookies” are used according to the party that places the cookie. CookieSeal cookies are generated by CookieSeal, while third party cookies are managed by third party companies (e.g. Google, Facebook) with whom we collaborate.
Cookie types according to the purpose of use: On the CookieSeal website and mobile website, the following cookies are used according to the purpose of their use.
Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for the running of the website and cannot be turned off on our systems. These enable you to browse the website, determine your privacy preferences, or use features such as logging in and completing forms that correspond to your service requests.
Performance Cookies: These cookies are used to improve the way the website operates. They do not collect information that identify the visitor. They include information on how the visitors use the website (e.g. whether or not they receive an error message on the web pages).
Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember the preferences you made (e.g. your user name, language or location) and provide you with more advanced and customized features. These can also be used to remember other changes you made to customize the website such as the changes made to the text size, fonts and other sections of the website. The information collected by these cookies can be kept confidential and these cookies cannot monitor your browsing activity on other websites. If you don’t allow these cookies, some or all of these functions may be impaired.
Targeting and Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to create your profile and offer you ads that are in line with your areas of interest. At the same time, these help gauge the effectiveness of an advertising campaign and limit the number of times an ad is shown. These are generally placed in advertising networks with the consent of the website owner (e.g. social media sites). The information related to your visit to the website are shared with other companies that place ads. If you don’t allow these cookies, you will not be able to experience our targeted ads on different websites.
For the cookies used on the CookieSeal website, the explicit consent of the user is obtained, and the users are given the option to withdraw such consent at any time. This system, which we call the explicit consent management, is located in the banner on the home page of our website and/or mobile application. Through this banner, our users are able to see the types of cookies, owners of the cookies, purposes, nature and duration of the cookies and determine their preference with the options “active” or “inactive” for all other cookies aside from the Strictly Necessary cookies. They can also change this preference at any time through this banner.