As the “Smileest Clinic” (hereinafter referred to as “Smileest” ), authorized by Dr. Ayşegül Girgin and Dr. İsmail Metin Hoşer, we process the personal data of our visitors to our website www.smileest.com.tr (“Website”) and use internet cookies to provide a better user experience by observing the privacy and personal data protection rights of our visitors. This Cookie Usage Policy (“Policy”) explains to all our Website visitors and users which types of cookies are used and under what conditions.
This Policy applies regardless of the technologies, methods and manner in which you connect to the Website. Therefore, we recommend that you read this Policy carefully and obtain a copy for future reference.
Cookies are small data storage files saved by websites on your computer, mobile phone, tablet or other mobile device that you access.
Cookies store information about your visit to the Website. In this way, the devices you access will remember this data when you use the Website again. Therefore, cookies are necessary and important for you to use the Website more effectively and easily.
Some Cookies are also used to provide you with more relevant services, products or offers on the Website and third party websites.
The main purposes of using cookies are;
Cookies, depending on their type, generally collect data regarding your browsing and usage preferences on the device from which you access the Website. This data includes the pages you access, the services and products you view, and all information regarding your navigation on the Website.
We use different types of cookies on the Website. These are analytics/performance cookies to make the Website work.
TYPES OF COOKIES IN TERMS OF USE:
Mandatory Cookies: These cookies are absolutely necessary for the Website to function properly. These cookies are needed to manage the system and prevent fraudulent transactions, and if they are blocked, the Website will not be able to function.
Functional Cookies: These cookies are used to provide you with a more advanced and easier user experience. For example, they serve the functions of remembering your previous preferences and providing you with easy access to certain content on the Website. You can prevent the use of these cookies as detailed below.
Analysis/Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to analyse and understand how the Website functions and interact with you to improve the Website. You can prevent the use of these cookies as detailed below.
Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to detect and present content that may be of interest to you, including advertising content. You can prevent the use of these cookies as detailed below. However, blocking these cookies may not completely block advertising content and may only provide general content advertisements instead of advertisements that may be of interest to you. These types of cookies are not used by Smileest, but you may be carrying third-party cookies on you before visiting the Website.
TYPES OF COOKIES IN TERMS OF THE DURATION THEY ARE STORED:
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 separate 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.
THIRD PARTY COOKIES
Some third-party cookies are also used on our Website. These cookies are not placed directly on the Website by Smileest, but are used by users as a result of visiting other websites.
Targeting and tracking cookies are used to help third parties provide services, primarily advertising services, and to improve 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 only third-party cookies to collect information, remember your interests and demographic data, and provide you with targeted advertising, improve advertising, determine the number of visits and ad impressions, other uses of advertising services, and the ratio between these ad impressions and interactions with advertising services.
If you provide a connection to social networks, when you visit the Website from social plugins and use these plugins, the Website connects directly to the server of the selected social network. Then, the content offered by the plugin is 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 data that social networks process through plug-ins. Please carefully review the personal data processing policies published by the relevant social networks to obtain more information on for what purposes, by what methods and for what period of time social networks will process your personal data.
The Website uses the following cookies:
| Cookie | Cookie Name | Cookie Purpose | Cookie Type | Cookie Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga, _gid, __utma | These are cookies defined by Google to analyze and identify the movements of users who have logged into the website. These cookies allow us to analyze and understand the operation of the website and to improve the website by interacting with you. These cookies are mostly used to measure users’ site movements and preferences. These are cookies that continue to exist unless deleted. You can prevent the use of these cookies as detailed below. | Persistent Cookies, Analysis and Performance Cookies | It remains until the user deletes it. (Permanent) |
Although some cookies are required for the website to work, you can prevent the use of cookies other than these. However, please note that even in this case, the site may not function fully and you may not be able to benefit from all its features.
To prevent the use of cookies, you must 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
Open the desktop and click or tap the Internet Explorer icon on the taskbar.
Tap or click the Tools button, and then tap or click Internet options.
Tap or click the Privacy tab, then move the slider under Settings up to block all cookies and tap or click OK.
Microsoft Edge
Click on the three-dot section in the upper-right corner of your Microsoft Edge browser and go to the Settings section.
After selecting Select Items to Clean from the new window that appears, select the sections you want to clean from the window that appears.
There are many sections here. You can start the cleaning process by selecting the one you want.
Google Chrome
Open Chrome on your computer.
Click More Settings in the top right.
Click Advanced at the bottom.
Under “Privacy and security,” click Content settings.
Click Cookies.
Under “All cookies and site data,” look for the name of the Website.
Click the Remove icon to the right of the Site.
Mozilla Firefox
Click the Firefox Menu button and select Options.
Select the Privacy & Security panel and go to the History section.
Change Firefox setting to use custom settings for history.
Click on the “Show cookies” button. The Cookies window will appear.
In the search field, type the name of the site whose cookies you want to delete. Cookies that match your search will be displayed.
Select the cookie(s) you want to delete and click the Delete selected button.
Close the Cookies window by clicking the Close button.
Then close the about:preferences page
Safari
Select Safari > Preferences.
Click Privacy.
Click on Website Data.
Select one or more websites and then click Delete or Delete All.
You can find more information on how to do this in other major web browsers at “https://www.esb.org.tr/cerez-bellek” or “https://www.aboutcookies.org”.
To send us all your questions and comments regarding the policy, you can use one of the communication channels specified below:
