Cookies Policy

We process personal data of our visitors who visit www.gridballs.com web site we own as GRINDBALLS (“Company”) and use internet cookies by taking into consideration their confidentiality and protection of personal data rights in order to present them a better usage experience. This Cookie Use Policy (“Policy”) explains all of our web site visitors and users what kind of cookies is used under which conditions. You can access to detailed information on processing of personal data at Protection of Personal Date page in our web site.

This policy is being implemented regardless of with which technologies, which methods and how you connect to our web site. Therefore we recommend you to take a copy so that you can read it carefully later.

I. Minors

If you are below 18 years of age you ought to visit our web site accompanied by your parents. You should not use our web site and should not share any personal data of yours without the company of your parents.

II. What is cookie and for what purposes it is used?

Cookies are small data storage files recorded in your computers, mobile phones, tablets or other mobile devices by the internet sites that you have gained access to. Information about your visit to the web site isstored in this file. Therefore, when you use the web site again later, your devices that you have used in gaining access will remember your data. Therefore, cookies are necessary and important for effective and easy use of the web site. Cookies are also used for enabling us to offer more suitable services, products or make better offers.

Basic purposes of using cookies;

The need for some technical data for more effective use of web site, collection of information about your preferences and habits in scanning and use of the web site by the company, company’s need for your personal data such as your IP address to enable the company to fulfill its legal and contractual obligations, especially the law on regulation of publications on the internet and suppression of crimes committed by means of such publications no.5651 and Regulation on basis and procedures of the law on regulation of publications on the internet,

III. What type of your data do we process with cookies?

Depending on their types, in general, cookies collect data regarding your scanning and usage preferences in the device that you use in gaining access to the web site. This data includes the pages that you gained access to, our services and products that you have examined and all information about your tour in the web site.

IV. What type of cookies do we use and in what ways?

We use different type of cookies in our web site. These are cookies that are necessary to enable web site to work, function cookies, analysis/performance cookies and targeting/advertisement cookies.

TYPES OF COOKIES ACCORDING TO USAGE

Cookies use of which is compulsory: These cookies are the ones use of which is definitely necessary for proper functioning of the web site. These cookies are needed for managing of the system, prevention of false transactions and web site would not function properly if they are prevented.

Function Cookies: These cookies are the ones used for enabling you experience a more developed and easier use of the web site. For example, they fulfill the function of remembering your previous preferences and access to some contents on the web site in an easier way. You can prevent the use of these cookies as explained in detail below.

Analysis/Performance Cookies: These cookies analyses your processing of the web site and enables us to understand and interact with you and enable us to develop the web site. You can prevent the use of these cookies as explained in detail below.

Targeting/Advertisement Cookies: These cookies are used to determine the contents that will attract your interest, including advertisement contents. You can prevent the use of these cookies as explained in detail below. However, your prevention of these cookies will not prevent advertisement contents completely; advertisements with general content will be presented to you instead of advertisements that will attract your interest.

TYPES OF COOKIES WITH REGARD TO DURATION OF RETENTION

Persistent Cookies: These are cookies that continue its existence in one’s computer until a certain date or until they are erased by the user. These cookies are generally used to measure user’s movements and preferences on the site.

Session Cookies: These cookies are used to separate user’s visit into sessions and do not collect data of the user. These cookies are erased when user closes the web site visited or when remains passive for a certain period. Targeting and monitoring cookies are used in order to assist third persons’ provision of services, especially advertisement services and in order to improve the effectiveness of these services. These cookies may remember web sites you visit and pages and can collect personal data, especially IP address of user’s device. Web site uses both first party and also third party cookies for collecting data, remember your areas of interest and demographic data and present you targeted advertisements, improve advertisements, to determine visit and advertisement display numbers, other uses of advertisement uses, and determine the ratio between these advertisement displays and interaction related to advertisement services. Web site makes use of social add-ons such as Facebook and LinkedIn. When you visit Web site and use these add-ons web site directly connects to server of the selected social network. Then, the content served by the add-on is directly transmitted by social networks to your web scanner and attached to the web site you visited. Therefore, related social network can access to data that belongs to you and process the same and combine it with the data in your account at the related social network.

The following cookies are being used in the web site:

Technical Cookies: With technical cookies, functioning of the web site is enabled and unused pages and areas of the internet site are detected.

Authentication Cookies: When visitors enter internet sites by using their passwords, with these cookies, at every page visitor visits, visitor’s site user status is determined and need for re-entry of the password at each page is prevented.

Customization Cookies: These are cookies that are used to remember user’s preferences in their visits to different pages of different internet sites. For example, remembering the language preference you have chosen.

Analytical Cookies: Analytical cookies are cookies that enable production of analytical results such as determination of number of persons who visited internet site, detection of pages displayed at internet site; internet site visiting hours, internet site page offset movements.

Please do not forget that we do not have any impact and control on the scope of the data processed by social networks through add-ons. For having more information for what purposes, with which methods and what period of time social networks process your personal data, please carefully examine processing of personal data policies published by related social networks.

V. How can you prevent use of cookies?

  • When you visit our web site you will see a heading that informs you about the use of cookies. By clicking on close button (x) you accept the use of cookies in our web site.
  • You can withdraw your approval anytime you like by changing your scanner settings and deactivating settings of cookies and erasing previously set cookies.
  • If you want to withdraw your approval for third person cookies, please contact supplier of the related cookie. More information can be found in related suppliers data protection principles or cookie notice. For access, please use the links given above.
  • Most scanners automatically accept use of cookies. You can use your scanner settings for managing use of cookies. If you do not want cookies to be saved automatically in your device, you can set your scanner settings accordingly and deactivate cookie setting. When you are using a web site’s cookies you can also prefer when you want to be informed about this use. For more details about changing your scanner settings, please see your scanners directives or help functions.
  • After you change your scanner settings and deactivate cookies, do not forget that you can visit and use our web site. However, under certain conditions, deactivation of cookies may mean that you may not be able to use functions of our web site fully.

VI. Contact Us
For asking questions regarding this policy or convey your views to us you can use one of the communication channels indicated in the following address: www.gridballs.com

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