Cookie Policy

As Prof Dr Yusuf Yıldırım's clinic, we use internet cookies (persistent cookies and session cookies) in order to provide a better usage experience to our visitors by guarding their rights to privacy and protecting personal data on our website www.oncosurgery.com.tr. This Cookie Usage Policy (Cookie Policy, Policy) explains to all our website visitors, users, patients along with their relatives and employees which types of cookies are used and under what conditions.

This Policy is implemented regardless of what technologies, methods and how you connect to the Website. Therefore, we recommend that you read this Policy carefully and make a copy for future reference.

1.What is A Cookie and For What Purposes is It Used?

Cookies are small data storage files saved on your computer, mobile phones, tablets or other mobile devices that you access by websites. This file stores information about your Web Site navigation. Thus, the devices you access will remember this data when you use the Website again. Therefore, cookies are necessary and vital to use the Website more effectively and easily. Cookies are also used on the Website and third-party websites that enable us to provide more suitable services, products or offers.

The main purposes of using cookies are;

• The need for some technical data in order to use the Website more effectively,
• The Company collects information about your Web Site browsing preferences and habits and usage,

the need for your personal data such as your IP address by the company in order to fulfill its legal and contractual obligations, especially those arising from Law No: 5651 on the Regulation of Publications Made on the Internet and Fight Against Crimes Committed Through These Publications (“Internet Law”) and the Regulation on Procedures and Principles of Publications Made on the Internet

2.What Type of Data Do We Process with Cookies?

Depending on the type, cookies generally collect data regarding your browsing and usage preferences on the device you access the Website. This data includes the accessed pages, the viewed services and products along with all the browsing information on the Website.

3.What Types of Cookies are Used and In Which Ways?

We use different types of cookies on the Website. These are cookies, function cookies, analysis/performance cookies and targeting/advertising cookies that are required to make the Website work.

Types of Cookies in Terms of Usage:

• 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 blocked, the Website will not be able to work.
• Function Cookies: These cookies are used to provide a more advanced and easier usage experience, such as remembering your previous preferences or accessing some contents in the Website.  You can disable these cookies as detailed below.
• Analysis/Performance Cookies: These cookies enable us to analyze and understand the functioning of the Website and interact with you to improve the Website. You can disable these cookies as detailed below.
• Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to identify and serve you content that may be of interest, including advertising contents. You can disable these cookies as detailed below. However, disabling these cookies will not completely block the advertising content, but instead of ads that may be of interest to you, ads with general content will be served.

Types of Cookies in Terms of Storage Period:

• Persistent Cookies: These are the cookies that exist on the person's computer until a certain date or until they are deleted by the user. These cookies are mostly used to measure users' website activities 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 visited web page or remains passive for a certain period of time. Target and tracking cookies are used on the Website to help third parties provide services, especially advertising services, and to increase the effectiveness of these services. These cookies can remember the web pages and sites that have been visited and collect personal data, especially the IP address of the user device. The Website uses both first party and third-party cookies to collect information, remember your interests and demographic data, and serve you with targeted ads, improve ads, determine the number of visits and ad impressions, other usages of advertising services, and the ratio between those ad impressions and interactions with the ad services.  The Website utilizes social plugins that provide links to social networks such as Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. When you visit the Website and use these plugins, the Website directly connects 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. Thus, the relevant social network can access and process your data and combine it with the data of your account in the relevant social network. Please note that we have no influence or control over the extent of data processed by social networks via plugins. Please carefully review the personal data processing policies published by the relevant social networks for more information on the purpose, methods and duration of the social networks' processing of your personal data.

Cookies by Purpose of Use:

• Google Analytics cookies:  analyze how visitors use the Website. Information about usage of this Website (including your IP address) is transferred to and stored by Google servers in the USA. Google will use this information to evaluate utilization of the Website, to compile Website activity for the Company and to provide other services related to Website activity and internet usage, but will not match IP address with other data stored by Google. For more information on the use of Google Analytics (including opt-out options), visit: http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html.
• Google Ads cookies:  remember safe search preferences, show more relevant ads, identify the number of visitors to a page, assist you to register for our services, protect your data or remember your ad settings. This helps the website remember information about your visit (your language preference and other settings). Information about usage of this Website (including your IP address) is transferred to and stored by Google servers in the USA. Google will use this information to evaluate your usage of the Website, to compile Website activity for the Company and to provide other services related to Website activity and internet usage, but will not match your IP address with other data stored by Google. For more information on the use of Google Ads cookies (including opt-out options), visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=tr
• Insider: uses “cookies”, which are small text files that contain a unique identifier belonging to your computer or a third-party analytics provider via a web browser. It is used to improve services and websites. Insider uses Google Analytics to track the performance of certain marketing campaigns and some of their products. This is to allow third-party service providers to create tailored ads on behalf of the Insider on different touchpoints. These service providers do not collect personal information, contact information, etc. but might gather IP address and non-personally identifiable information. Cookies also provide statistical information regarding our website usage and performance. For more information on Insider cookie use (including opt-out options), visit: https://useinsider.com/privacy-policy/

4. How to Disable the Cookies?

Cookies allow the Website to give a better service, though can be blocked if needed. However, in this case please note that, the site may not fully function, and you may not be able to benefit from all its features. To disable 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 are using. There is information below about what steps to follow to disable the 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 Internet options.

3. Tap or click the Privacy tab, then move the slider up under Settings and tap or click the OK button to block all cookies.

Microsoft Edge:

1. Click on the section with three dots in the upper right corner of the Microsoft Edge browser and go to the Settings section.

2. After choosing Select Items from the new window that appears, Select the sections you want to delete from the window. the

3. There are many sections here. You can start the deleting process by selecting the one you want.

Google Chrome:

1. Open Chrome on your computer.

2. Click More Settings at the top right.

3. At the bottom, click Advanced.

4. Click Content settings under "Privacy and security".

5. Click on Cookies.

6. Search for the name of the Website under "All cookies and site data.

7. Click the Uninstall icon on the right margin of the website.

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 the Firefox setting to Use custom settings for history.

4. Click the Show cookies button. The Cookies window will appear.

5. Search:  Type the name of the site you want to delete cookies from. Cookies matching your search will be displayed.

6. Select the cookie(s) you want to delete and click the Delete button.

7. Close the Cookies window by clicking the Close button. Then close the preferences page.

Safari:

1. Open Safari and choose Preferences.

2. Click Privacy.

3. Click Website Data.

4. Select one or more websites, and then click Delete or Delete All.

You can also delete all cookies that are left behind by the websites you visit through third party software.

5. Contact Us

You can use one of the following communication ways to send us all your questions and comments about the policy:
www.oncosurgery.com.tr (using the contact form)

[email protected] (by sending an e-mail)