Privacy and Cookie Policy

Prof. Dr. As Tamer Akça, we process personal data and use internet cookies to provide a better usage experience to our visitors, respecting their privacy and personal data protection rights during the activities of our website www.tamerakcacom ("Website"), which we own. This Cookie Use Policy (“Policy”) explains to all our Website visitors, users, patients and their relatives, and employees what types of cookies are used and under what conditions. You can find detailed information about the Protection of Your Personal Data in the Information Text on our website.
This Policy applies regardless of which technologies, methods and how you connect to the Website. Therefore, we recommend that you read this Policy carefully and obtain a copy for future review.

I. What is a cookie and for what purposes is it used?
Cookies are small data storage files saved on your computer, mobile phone, tablet or other mobile device that you access by websites. Information about your Website navigation is stored in this file. 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 effectively and more easily. Cookies are also used on the Website and third party websites so that we can offer you more suitable services, products or offers.
The main purposes of using cookies are;
Some technical data is needed in order to use the Website more effectively,
The Company collects information about your preferences and habits in browsing and using the Website,
Your IP address is used by the Company in order to fulfill its legal and contractual obligations, especially those arising from the Law No. 5651 on the Regulation of Publications Made on the Internet and Combating Crimes Committed through These Publications and the Regulation on the Procedures and Principles Concerning the Regulation of Publications Made on the Internet. is that it needs your personal data.

II. What Types of Data Do We Process with Cookies?
Depending on their type, cookies 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 review, and all information about your navigation on the Website.

III. What Types of Cookies Do We Use and In What Ways?
We use different types of cookies on the Website. These are cookies that are required to be used to ensure the operation of the Website, function cookies, analysis/performance cookies and targeting/advertising cookies.
Cookie Types 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 function.
Functional Cookies: These cookies are used to provide you with a more enhanced and easier usage experience. For example, it functions to remember your previous preferences and enable you to easily access some content on the Website. You can prevent the use of these cookies as detailed below.
Analysis/Performance Cookies: These cookies enable us to analyze and understand your operation of the Website and to improve the Website by interacting with you. You can prevent the use of these cookies as detailed below.
Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to detect and present you 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 will not block the advertising content completely, only ads with general content will be presented instead of ads that may be of interest to you.

Google Analytics
Google Analytics uses cookies to analyze how visitors use the Website. Information about your use of this Website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google and stored by Google on servers in the USA. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the Website, compiling Website activity for the Company and providing 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: http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html.
Google Ads
Google Ads uses cookies to remember your safe search preferences, show you more relevant ads, determine how many visitors come to a page, help you sign up for our services, protect your data or remember your ad settings. This helps the website remember information about your visit (for example, your preferred language and other settings). Information about your use of this Website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google and stored by Google on servers in the USA. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the Website, compiling Website activity for the Company and providing 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 Google Ads' use of cookies (including opt-out options), you can visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Cookie Types in Terms of Duration of Storage:
Persistent Cookies: These are cookies that remain on a person's computer until a certain date or until they are 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 he/she visits or remains inactive for a certain period of time. Targeting 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 you visit and collect personal data, especially the IP address of the user device. The Website uses both first-party and third-party data to collect information, remember your interests and demographic data, and serve you targeted ads, improve ads, determine the number of visits and ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and the ratio between those ad impressions and interactions with ad services. uses party cookies. The Website uses social plugins that provide connections to social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn. When you visit the Website and use these plugins, the Website connects directly to the server of the selected social network. The content served by the plugin is then delivered 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 in 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. To get more information about the purposes, methods and duration for which social networks will process your personal data, please carefully review the personal data processing policies published by the relevant social networks.

IV. How Can You Prevent the Use of Cookies?
Although the use of cookies provides better service on the Website, you can prevent the use of cookies if you wish. However, please keep in mind that 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 should be followed to prevent the use of cookies across 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 under Settings up to block all cookies and tap or click the OK button.
• Microsoft Edge
1. Click on the section with three dots in the upper right corner of your Microsoft Edge browser and go to the Settings section. 2. Click Select Items to Clean in the new window that appears, then 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 choosing 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 and security”, click Content settings. 5. Click Cookies. 6. “Look for the name of the Website under all cookies and site data. 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 and 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. 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. Close the Cookies window by clicking the Close button. 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. You can also delete all cookies left behind by the websites you visit through third-party software. V. Contact Us
You can use one of the contact methods specified below to send us all your questions and opinions about the policy:
www.tamerakca.com
drtamerakca@gmail.com