COOKIE POLICY

As Barut Yonetim Hizmetleri A.Ş., we make effort to protect the privacy of any person, who uses our website, in order to ensure that our users take advantages of our services safely and completely. Accordingly, this Cookie Policy has been created by our Company in order to ensure your rights and privacy.

The Cookie Policy shall be applicable for the websites, which are operated by our company, as well as for the platforms, which are accessed and used through the mobile applications, third party programs or websites.

By using our company's website, you will accept use of the cookies in accordance with this Cookie Policy. In the event that you do not approve use of the cookies, then we request you not to continue to use the website, or to change your cookie preferences as shown hereunder. We would like to remind you that some features of the website may lose their functionality in the event that the cookies are not allowed.

This Cookie Policy shall constitute an integral part of the "Personal Data Protection Policy". We recommend that you review our "Personal Data Protection Policy" for further information about your personal data processed by our company.

What is Cookie?

Cookie is the name nominated to the small data files that the websites leave on the computers or mobile devices of their visitors. Cookies shall be used widely in the virtual world, and they help to remember your device's language, settings, etc. with respect to your visit, since the web browsers are automatically identified for pre-acceptance. By reading such data files, which the users create when they connect initially, in their subsequent connection thereto, the websites will have the opportunity to operate more efficiently and to upload the user settings, such as the website language, rapidly.

What are the Types of Cookies?

Cookies are divided into the different types based on such criteria as their storage period on the mobile devices and by whom they are inserted. The basic division under such criteria are provided as follows:

What is the Purpose of Use of the Cookies?

Cookies are used for many different purposes. The main purposes are provided as follows:

• To improve the services, as offered to you, in order to increase the functionality and performance of the website;
• To improve the website, and to offer the new features on the website;
• To provide a more customized and interesting experience for the visitors;
• To ensure the legal and commercial security of the Website, the users and our Company;
• To carry out the product and service promotion activities that are of interest to you;
• To fulfill the statutory and contractual obligations, in particular the obligations arising from the Law Nr. 5651 Regarding the Regulation of the Broadcasting on the Internet and Combating the Offenses Committed By Means of Such Broadcasting, and the Regulation on the Procedures and Principles Regarding Regulation of the Publications on the Internet Environment.

Can Confidential Information Be Kept Through Cookies?

Our company does not store any confidential information, as owned by its users, through the cookies. Cookies only contain any information about your visit history, and they do not access the files stored on your computer or mobile device. Our company is entitled to make amendments to this Cookie Policy without serving any notification to its users or website visitors.

How Can You Control Use of the Cookies?

You can control or delete the cookies as you wish. You can delete the cookies, which already exist on your device, and you can set your internet browser in a manner to block the cookies. The preferences regarding the cookies are required to be made separately on the basis of each device by which the visitor accesses to the Platform.

However, we would like to warn you that some services on our website may not work properly in the event that you set your browser in a manner to block the cookies.

To disable cookies:

• For users of Chrome, you can follow the following steps: "Settings/Privacy/Content Settings/Block all Cookies".

• For users of Internet Explorer: You can follow the following steps: “Options/Internet Settings/Privacy/Settings”

• For users of Firefox: You can follow the following steps: “Tools/Options/ Privacy/Cookie acceptance method/Keep until: I close Firefox”
• For users of Safari: You can follow the following steps: “Preferences/Privacy// Website Data/Select one or multiple web sites/Delete all”
• For users of Opera: You can follow the following steps: “Preferences/Advanced/Cookies”

Clarification Text on Personal Data Processed Through the Cookies 

Barut Yonetim Hizmetleri A.S ("Barut Hotels" or the "Hotel"), consider the privacy and security of your personal data as our top priorities. Accordingly, we would like to inform you about your personal data in order to fulfill our obligation to provide information, which arise from Section 10 of the Law Nr. 6698 on Protection of Personal Data ("LPPD"). Personal data shall mean any information that identifies you or makes you identifiable.

Our hotel's website with the extension https://www.baruthotels.com/ is a website that uses the cookies. Cookie is a small text file of low size, which is mostly consisting of combinations of letters and numbers, and which allows the relevant device to be detected by being stored in the terminal devices in use.

The purpose of this Cookie Information Text is to inform you about which type of cookies we use for what purposes and how you can manage such cookies with respect to processing of the personal data obtained automatically through embedment of the cookies, which are used on our website with the extension https://www.baruthotels.com/, on your terminal device.

Types of Cookies Used on Our Website

Types of Cookies by Period of Use:

The session cookies and persistent cookies are used on our Website based on their period of use. The session cookies are used in order to ensure the continuity of the session, and such cookies are also deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies are not deleted when you close your browser, and they are automatically deleted after the period of storage designated has expired.

First Party and Third Party Cookies

Whether the cookie is any first-party or third-party varies based on the cookie placed by whom. The first-party cookies are placed directly by our Website, i.e. the URL address displayed on the address bar https://www.baruthotels.com/ of your browser. The third-party cookies are placed directly by any URL address other than the area displayed on the address bar https://www.baruthotels.com/.

Types of Cookies by Purpose of Use:

The following cookies are used on our Website based on the intended use:

Essential Cookies

Such cookies are the cookies absolutely required for the purpose of operation of our Website. These cookies are the first-party cookies, and they use your personal data so that our Website can function properly. Such cookies are necessarily used in order to carry out the service (such as logging in, completing the forms and remembering the privacy preferences) as requested by you.

Performance-Analytical Cookies

These cookies are used in order to determine the number of unique visitors, and to measure the user traffic of our Website, and to determine the effectiveness of the keywords used by us in the search engine, and to monitor the surfing status of the users visiting our Website, and to measure and improve the performance of our Website. These cookies also help us to understand the popularity of the pages on our Website, and to measure the impact of the advertisements on our visitors.

Functional Cookies

Such cookies are used in order to make our Website more functional and to customize the same (in order to ensure that your preferences, other than your privacy preferences, are remembered when you re-enter the site).

Advertising and Marketing Cookies

Such cookies are the cookies, which are embedded by our business partners through our Website, and they are the third-party cookies. Such cookies are used by our business partners in order to determine your fields of interest based on your fields of interest and to show you the advertisements in relation to you.

Information on the Purposes and Legal Reasons for Which They Are Processed, and the Cookies Used

Essential Cookies

Your personal data collected through the essential cookies are processed as per Section 5(2)(f) of the Law, stating that "It is required to process the personal data of the parties to the agreement, provided that it is directly related to establishment or performance of an agreement". The information about the essential cookies available on our website is provided in following the table:

Functional Cookies

Your personal data, which are specified in the following data, and which are collected through the essential cookies are processed as per Section 5(2)(f) of the Law, stating that "It is required to process the personal data of the parties to the agreement, provided that it is directly related to establishment or performance of an agreement". 

Performance-Analytical Cookies

Your personal data, which are collected through these cookies, and which are provided in detail as follows, are processed under the legal reason for explicit consent in accordance with the paragraph 5(1) of the Law, and the personal data, whose international transfer column is completed, may only be transferred to the country, specified, based on the legal reason for explicit consent in accordance with the paragraph 5(1) of the Law: 

Advertising and Marketing Cookies

Your personal data, which are collected through these cookies, and which are provided in detail as follows, are processed under the legal reason for explicit consent in accordance with the paragraph 5(1) of the Law, and the personal data, whose international transfer column is completed, may only be transferred to the country, specified, based on the legal reason for explicit consent in accordance with the paragraph 5(1) of the Law: 

Recipients of Such Processed Personal Data and Purposes of Such Transmission

We, as Barut Hotels, can transfer your personal data, which we process, to the third parties in accordance with national regulations, especially Sections 8 and 9 of the Law. We, may share your personal data with our suppliers and also the governmental authorities authorized by the laws in accordance with the applicable regulations and to be limited with the purpose of accomplishment of the purposes given herein above. Some cookies used on the website are provided by Google, which is a third party service provider situated abroad other than the Hotel. These third party cookies are used in order to collect the statistical data, and thereby to improve the presentation and use of the Website. In the event that you grant your explicit consent, your personal data is shared with Google Inc., situated abroad, based on your explicit consent, in order to improve the presentation and use of the Website.

How Are the Cookies Controlled? / How Are They Blocked?

In respect of use of cookies and such other similar technologies, the preferences of the visitors and our users are of essential nature for us. Nevertheless, the Cookies, which are necessary for the functioning of the Website, are required to be used. Additionally, we would like to remind you that some of the functions of the Website may not function either partially or wholly in case some cookies are disabled through the browser. The details with respect to how you can manage your preferences regarding the cookies used in the Website are given as follows:

·     The visitors have the opportunity to customize their preferences regarding the cookies by changing the settings of the browser they use for viewing the Website. If such opportunity is enabled by the browser being used, then the preferences regarding the cookies may be changed by means of the browser settings. Thus, despite the fact that it will vary depending on the opportunities provided by the browser, the data owners will have the opportunity to prevent the use of cookies and to prefer to receive a warning before the use of cookies or to disable or delete only some cookies.

·     The preferences regarding the foregoing will vary depending on the browser being used, and general explanation is https://www.aboutcookies.org/ . The preferences regarding the cookies might be required to be made separately on the basis of each device by which the visitor accesses to the Platform. 

·     Click here for disabling the cookies managed by Google Analytics.

·     Click herefor managing the customized advertisement experience provided by Google.

·     The preferences can be managed through Your Online Choices for the cookies used by many companies for the advertising activities. 

·     The settings menu of such mobile device can be used for managing the cookies through a mobile device.

How Is Your Personal Data Protected?

Any personal data shared with our hotel shall be under the supervision and control of Barut Hotels. Acting in the capacity of data controller, Barut Hotels assumes the liability for establishing the necessary organization and taking and adapting the technical measures for the purpose of protecting the confidentiality and integrity of the information as per the provisions as prescribed under the applicable regulations. By being aware of our obligation with respect to the foregoing;

·     The periodical penetration tests are conducted in accordance with the international and national standards applicable to data privacy.

• Your personal data, which you transmit to Barut Hotels through the website, is protected by using the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) technology.
• The risk analyses are carried out regularly with respect to the personal data processing activities, and actions are taken in order to reduce the risks.
• The access and authorization controls are implemented in order to prevent any unauthorized access to the personal data.
• We hereby inform you that our data processing policies are updated at all times, accordingly.

Requests of the Respective Persons

As per Section 11 of the LPPD, the relevant persons shall be entitled to:

• Inquire whether any personal data has been processed, or not;
• Ask for information about their personal data, if it has been processed;
• Be informed about the purpose of processing of any personal data, and also about the fact that whether such data has been used as appropriate to the purpose thereto;
• Be informed about any third party to which any such data has been transferred, either domestically or internationally; and
• Ask for correction of any imperfect or inaccurate personal data, in case of any imperfect or inaccurate processing thereof, and to ask for providing information about the processes, performed for such purpose, to the third parties, to which such personal data has been transferred;
• Ask for the deletion or disposal of any such personal data if the reasons requiring the processing of such data cease to exist although such personal data has been processed in accordance with the provisions as prescribed under the LPPD and such other applicable laws, and to ask for provision of information about the process, performed for such purpose, to the third parties, to which such personal data has been transferred; and
• Raise an objection against such outcome in case of emergence of an outcome that is to the detriment of you upon the analysis of any such processed personal data solely by any automatic systems;
• to claim for compensation of any and all damage and/or loss they might have incurred in case any such personal data have been processed in breach of the law.

You can submit your applications with respect to your rights, as provided above, to our Hotel by completing the Data Owner Application Form, which you can access through website of our organization, or by using the other methods as prescribed under the regulations. Your applications shall be concluded as soon as possible and in any case within a maximum period of thirty days, depending on the nature of your inquiry; however, if such inquiry requires an extra cost, then a fee may be collected from you as based on the tariff determined by the Personal Data Protection Board.