Privacy & Cookies Policy

Who are we?

Our website address: www.mitraconsultancy.com/en/ . Mitra Bağımsız Denetim A.Ş. (hereinafter referred to as “MITRA”), located at Kültür Mah. Suna Sokak No:94 Etiler, Beşiktaş, İstanbul, Türkiye, uses cookies to offer you more selective and intelligent options. Without using cookies, it would not be possible for us to keep all the functions of our website active and for you to benefit from them. By accepting our cookie policy, you are deemed to have accepted all the points below.

MİTRA presents the following explanations to the information of our visitors and third parties using our website in order to fulfill the disclosure obligation arising from Article 10 of the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“LPPD”). MİTRA reserves the right to update this Personal Data Protection Explanation text at any time within the scope of possible changes in the current legislation.

What personal information do we collect and for what purposes?

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using the service. The Gravatar service’s privacy policy is located at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible to the public along with your comment.

Environment

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Website visitors may download and extract any location information from images on the website.

Contact forms

The messages you send through the contact forms reach our e-mail address. We have to store these messages on our e-mail server in order to respond to you.

Cookies

What is a Cookie?

Small text files or information that web pages (web servers) save on your computer or mobile device (such as a smartphone or tablet) via browsers during a visit to a web page are defined as “cookies”.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies last for one year.

If you have an account or visit this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

If the login feature is turned on, when you log in, we will set up several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days and screen options cookies last for one year. If you select “Remember me”, your login will continue for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Why Do We Use Cookies?

We use cookies for;

• The proper functioning of the web page,
• The next time you log in to the web page is faster and easier,
• Facilitating users’ access to some features,
• Offering interest-based advertising,
• Providing ease of access by saving your password if desired,
• Web sayfası açısından analitik verilerin elde edilmesi,

…in order to obtain information about how often, for how long and which pages are visited by users is important for our website and also guides our strategic planning.

How Do Cookies Work?

When a user enters a web page, they request the site to be displayed on the server (HTTPS request), and in response to this request, the server sends the site to the user (HTTPS response). From the stage of requesting and displaying the web page in response to the request, you can use the site with cookies.

What Types of Cookies Do We Use?

We use many types of cookies to provide a better experience for our users. We also use many online tools when using these types of cookies.

In this context; cookies that are mandatory and important for the proper functioning of web pages such as session, load balancing user ID and security cookies, preference-related cookies such as password, language, location, history, flash and mobile cookies that increase the efficiency of use in line with the preferences of the users, functional and analytical cookies that allow information to be obtained about the visit to the web page by collecting analytical data, targeting and marketing-related cookies that include advertising, market analysis, targeting, fraud detection, campaign promotion cookies that are frequently used especially for advertisements, Third party cookies that include cookies in advertisements or add-ons related to another web page that we usually encounter on sites that receive advertisements on web pages are used on our web page. Information about these cookies is below.

Mandatory Cookies:

These cookies are essential for the proper functioning of websites, allowing you to navigate our sites and use their features. An example of this is remembering previous actions when returning to a page within the same session. These cookies do not identify you. If you do not accept these cookies, the performance of the website or parts of the site may be affected.

Analysis and Performance Cookies:

These cookies help us understand and analyse how the Website functions and enable us to interact with you and improve the Website. You can prevent the use of these cookies as detailed below. These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by providing information about the areas visited, time spent on the site and any issues encountered, such as error messages. This allows us to improve the performance of our website. These cookies do not identify you. All data is collected and aggregated anonymously.

Functionality Cookies:

These cookies allow our websites to remember your preferences (e.g. your username, the region you are in or the language you speak) for a more personalized online experience. Cookies also enable visitors to watch videos, play games and use social tools such as blogs, chat rooms and forums. The information collected by these cookies may include private data that can identify you, such as your username or profile picture. We must always be transparent about what data we collect, what we do with it and who we share it with. If you do not accept these cookies, the performance and functionality of the website may be affected and some content on the website may not be accessible.

Targeting and Advertising Cookies:

These cookies are used to deliver content that is relevant to you and your interests. They may be used to deliver targeted ads or to limit the number of times an ad is displayed to you. We may use these cookies to remember the websites you have visited and share this information with third parties, including advertisers and our own companies. Many types of these cookies may collect personally identifiable information by tracking consumers by IP address.

Persistent Cookies: These are cookies that remain on a person’s computer until a certain date or until deleted by the user. These cookies are mostly used to measure users’ site movements and preferences.

Session Cookies: These cookies are used to divide the user’s visit into sessions and do not collect data from the user. The cookie is deleted when the user closes the web page they are visiting or remains inactive for a certain period of time. Target and tracking cookies are used on the Website to help third parties provide services, primarily advertising services, and to increase the effectiveness of these services. These cookies can remember the web pages and sites you have visited and collect personal data, primarily the IP address of the user’s device. The Website uses both first-party and third-party cookies to collect information, remember your interests and demographic data, and provide you with targeted advertisements, improve advertisements, determine the number of visits and ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and the ratio between these ad impressions and interactions with ad services.

The Website uses social plugins that provide connections to social networks such as Facebook and Google. When you visit the Website and use these plugins, the Website connects directly to the server of the selected social network. The content provided by the plugin is then transmitted directly from the social networks to your web browser and added to the website you are visiting. In this way, the relevant social network can access and process your data and combine it with the data of your account on the relevant social network. Please note that we have no influence or control over the scope of the data processed by social networks through plugins. Please carefully review the personal data processing policies published by the relevant social networks to obtain more information on the purposes for which social networks will process your personal data, by which methods and for how long.

Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Google Adwords, Google Tag Manager, Google Maps, Yandex Metrica, Yandex Webmasters and Bing Webmaster (Persistent Session Cookies)

Google Analytics and others use cookies to analyze how visitors use the Website. Information about your use of this Website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to Google, which will store it on servers in the United States. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the Website, compile Website activity for the Company, and provide other services relating to Website activity and internet usage, but will not match your IP address with other data stored by Google. For more information about the use of Google Analytics (including opt-out options), you can visit:

https://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html.

https://yandex.com.tr/legal/metrica_agreement/

https://yandex.com.tr/legal/metrica_termsofuse/

https://privacy.microsoft.com/tr-tr/privacystatement/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/servicesagreement/

COOKIE SERVICE PROVIDER	COOKIE NAME	COOKIE PURPOSE	COOKIE TYPE	COOKIE PERIOD
Google	_ga	Analytics device information – For use by applications in the Google Tag Manager system	Persistent Cookie	1 Year
Google	_gaexp	Cookie that stores information about EU tests – For use by applications in the Google Tag Manager system	Persistent Cookie	85 Days
Google	_gid	For user identification	Persistent Cookie	1 Day
Yandex	_ym_isad	For ad blocking detection	Persistent Cookie	2 Days
Yandex	_ym_uid	For user identification	Persistent Cookie	1 Year
MİTRA	COOKIE_CookieLawInformationPermission	Permissions related to our personal data policies are stored in this cookie	Session Cookie	For the duration of the browser session.
MİTRA	COOKIE_Popup	Technical data regarding popups displayed to the user are stored in this cookie	Persistent Cookie	1 Hour
MİTRA	elementor	Mandatory cookie	Persistent Cookie	–
MİTRA	wp-wpml_current language	To remember the visitor’s site language preference.	Persistent Cookie	Duration of the browser session.
MİTRA	_icl_visitor_lang_js	This cookie is stored by the WPML Language plugin. The purpose of the cookie is to remember the redirected language.	Persistent Cookie	23 Hours 59 Minutes
MİTRA	wpml_browser_redirect_test	This cookie is set by the WPML Language plugin and is used to test whether cookies are enabled in the browser. Functionality cookie.	Session Cookie	For the duration of the browser session
MİTRA	hvtb	Provides information about whether a visitor has visited MİTRA before.	Persistent Cookie	2 Years
Google	_ga_*	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. Detailed information is below.	Persistent Cookie	1 Year
Youtube	VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	This cookie is set by Youtube. It is used to track information about YouTube videos embedded on a website.	Permanent Cookie	6 Months
Youtube	YSC	These cookies are set by Youtube and are used to track views of embedded videos. Performance cookie.	Session Cookie	For the duration of the browser session
Youtube	GPS	This cookie is set by Youtube and records a unique ID to track users based on their geographic location.	Persistent Cookie	29 Minutes

*MİTRA reserves the right to change cookie names in line with technical updates.

What Should You Know About the Cookie Policy?
MİTRA may make changes to this cookie policy at any time. If a change is made to the cookie policy, you will be notified on your first visit to the site after the updated Cookie Policy is published. Some of the cookies mentioned above may not always be active.

What do we collect and store?

While you visit our site, we track:

Location, IP address and browser type: We use this for purposes such as tax, legal regulations, automatic license display, fraud prevention, spam/bot detection and pro-active defense.

When you send us a request, we store the information you provide in the request form to communicate with you.

We keep information about you for as long as we need it and for the legal period.

We also store site comments or testimonials if you choose to do so.

Our team has access to:

Members of our team can access the information you provide to us. Site administrators can read the contact and request forms you send to us and forward them to the relevant department. Our team members have received training on the confidentiality of personal data.

What do we share with others?

Embedded content from other sites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analysis
How long do we keep your data?

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit or delete their personal information (except changing their username) at any time. Website administrators can also see and edit this information.

What are your rights over your data?

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase all the personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.

Where do we send your data?

When you request a password reset (if applicable), your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Visitor comments can be monitored through an automatic spam detection service and proactive defense.

Visitor comments may be checked through our automatic spam detection service by including the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter, such as name, username, email). For information: https://automattic.com/privacy/ .

Your contact information

We store the e-mail, phone number, name, surname, etc. information you share with us in the communication panel on our server in order to communicate with you.

Language Translations

Loco does not collect any data from general website visitors. You can read the privacy statement for more information.

WPML uses cookies to determine the visitor’s current language, the language they last visited, and the language of users who are logged in. When using the plugin, WPML will share data about the site through the Uploader. No data about the user itself will be shared. You can read more here.

WPML Media Translate will send the email address and name of each administrator and assigned translator, as well as the content itself, to the Advanced Translation Editor and the translation services used.

WPML Translation Management will send the email address and name of each administrator and assigned translator, as well as the content itself, to the Advanced Translation Editor and the translation services used.

WPML String Translation will send all strings to WPML’s Advanced Translation Editor and the translation services used.

YouTube

Our website may use plug-ins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

If you visit one of our pages that contains a YouTube plug-in, a connection to the YouTube servers will be established. Here you can find out which of our pages you have visited are YouTube servers.

If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

YouTube is used to help make our website attractive. This constitutes a legitimate interest according to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

Further information about handling user data can be found in YouTube’s data protection declaration at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Google Web Fonts

For uniform display of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the necessary web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.

For this purpose, your browser must establish a direct connection to the Google servers. Google thus recognizes that our website was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is made for a uniform and attractive presentation of our plugin. This constitutes a legitimate interest according to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font will be used by your computer.

You can find more information about user data processing at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Vimeo

How Long Do We Keep This Data?

Otherwise, all information (data) is stored indefinitely in the local database unless deleted.

Some data can be exported or removed via the available Exporter or Eraser upon user requests. However, please note that there are a few “edge cases” where we are not able to perfect the collection and export of all data for your end users. We recommend performing a search in your local database and also in the WordPress Dashboard to identify all data collected and stored for your specific user requests.

Where Do We Send Your Data?

3rd party applications do not send any user data outside of the website by default.

If our data is activated on a third-party service such as Eventbrite or Google Maps, this information may be transferred to external services. These services may be located abroad.

How do we protect your data?

Our website and server protect your data with advanced and effective 256-bit encryption methods. We use software that blocks some common malware and malicious behaviors. These protective software can monitor IP addresses etc. in order to maintain proactive defense and can blacklist IP addresses that it perceives as threats. You can access detailed information at https://www.wordfence.com/privacy-policy/.

In addition, website administrators have received the necessary training on data protection.

How Can You Prevent the Use of Cookies?
The use of cookies allows the Website to provide better service, but if you wish, you can prevent the use of cookies. However, please remember that in this case, the site may not function fully and you may not be able to benefit from all its features. In order to prevent the use of cookies, you need to change the settings of your internet browser. These changes vary depending on the device and internet browser you use. Below is information on what steps to follow to prevent the use of cookies on different internet browsers:

Internet Explorer

1. Open the desktop, and tap or click the Internet Explorer icon on the taskbar.
2. Tap or click the Tools button, and then tap or click Internet Options.
3. Tap or click the Privacy tab, and then under Settings, move the slider up to block all cookies, and then tap or click OK.

Microsoft Edge
1. Click on the three-dot section in the upper right corner of your Microsoft Edge browser and go to the Settings section.
2. After selecting Select Items to Clean from the new window that appears, select the sections you want to clean from the window that appears.
3. There are many sections here. You can start the cleaning process by selecting the one you want.

Google Chrome
1. Open Chrome on your computer.
2. Click More Settings in the top right.
3. Click Advanced at the bottom.
4. Under “Privacy & security,” click Content settings.
5. Click Cookies.
6. Under “All cookies and site data,” look for the name of the Website.
7. Click the Remove icon to the right of the Site.

Mozilla Firefox
1. Click the Firefox Menu button and select Options.
2. Select the Privacy & Security panel and go to the History section
3. Change Firefox to use custom settings for history.
4. Click the Show cookies… button. The Cookies window will appear.
5. In the Search: field, type the name of the site whose cookies you want to delete. Cookies that match your search will be displayed.
6. Select the cookie(s) you want to delete and click the Delete selected button.
7. Click the Close button to close the Cookies window. Then close the about:preferences page.

Safari
1. Select Safari > Preferences.
2. Click Privacy.
3. Click Website Data
4. Select one or more websites and then click Delete or Delete All.
In addition to the above, you can block cookies manually through the app at https://www.eff.org/issues/privacy or automatically within the app’s settings.

Opera
You can delete, block and manage cookies from the “Cookies” section by selecting “Advanced” in the “Preferences” section of your browser.

You can find more information on how to do this in other major web browsers at https://www.esb.org.tr/cerez-bellek or www.aboutcookies.org. You can also delete all cookies left behind by the websites you visit through third-party software.

Contact Us
You can use one of the contact methods listed below to send us all your questions and comments regarding the Policy:

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