1. Preface

Durukan Fadıllıoğlu Attorney Partnership ("D+P" or "Durukan+Partners") attaches importance to the protection of your personal data.

This policy provides you to be informed about the source and use of the information collected about you through cookies when you use the D+P electronic site accessible at www.durukanpartners.com ("Website"), and enables you to exercise your choices and rights under the applicable personal data protection legislation.

This policy applies to the Website provided by D+P and complements the "Terms of Use", the "Clarification Text" and any document or information statement that refers to this policy.

D+P may amend this privacy and cookie policy from time to time. In case of any change in this privacy and cookie policy, you will be informed by changing the update date on the current privacy and cookie policy. For this reason, we recommend that you review the privacy and cookie policy on the Website before each action and transaction you will make on the Website.

2. Key Points of D+P Privacy and Cookies Policy

2.1. Information Collected

When you use our Website, we collect cookies related to you. There is information that is automatically collected, generated, or derived by our systems (for example, your connection data).

2.2. Usage

We use this information to improve your experience of using our Website, to analyze the traffic of our Website, and to ensure the security of you and other users while using our Website.

2.3. Transfer of Your Personal Data to Third Parties

We request our business partners to use the information obtained through cookies on our Website solely for the purpose of managing or providing the requested services, to always act in compliance with applicable data protection laws, and to strictly protect the confidentiality of the transferred information.

2.4. Your Rights and Options

If you submit your requests regarding your personal data collected through cookies, we will respond to your request as quickly as possible and no later than 30 (thirty) days, free of charge, depending on the nature of your request. However, if the process requires an additional cost, the fee specified in the tariff determined by the Personal Data Protection Board will be applied.

To learn about your rights listed under Article 11 of the Personal Data Protection Law ("Law"), please review the "Clarification Text" available on the Website.

To learn more about the use of cookies, to set your cookie usage preferences and to disable the use of cookies except for mandatory data collection areas, you can visit the "Cookie Settings" section.

2.5. Contact

In case you have any wishes, suggestions or complaints about this Privacy and Cookie Policy or your request to exercise your rights specified in pursuant to Article 13 of the Law for cookies collected within the scope of your use of the Website, you can send us your request to use your rights specified below by one of the following communication methods:

Postal Address:	Bestekar Hacı Faik Bey Sok. No:6 34349 Balmumcu, Beşiktaş İstanbul, Türkiye
E-mail Address:	info@durukanpartners.com
Fax:	+90 212 266 66 94
Telephone:	+90 212 266 66 93

3. Cookies We Collect

When you visit or connect to the Website, we may place various cookies on your device. These cookies help us recognize your device's browser (e.g., computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) and ensure the proper functioning of the Website.

This Privacy and Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them and how you can manage your preferences. To manage your preferences regarding the collection of cookies, you can visit Cookie Settings.

3.1. What is a Cookie?

A cookie is a type of text file placed on the user's device by website operators and transferred as part of an HTTP(S) (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) request. According to another definition, cookies are low-size rich text formats that allow certain information about users to be stored on users' terminal devices when a website is visited.

3.2. Cookies Collected by D+P

When you visit the Website, three types of cookies listed below are collected by D+P:

Mandatory Cookies	:	These cookies are essential to provide basic interchange functions and current services. They are used to ensure security and session management.
Analytical Cookies	:	These cookies provide a customized experience on the Website. They enable us to track visitor traffic and behavior.
Performance and Statistics	:	These cookies allow us to measure visitor traffic. They also help us understand which products and actions are more popular than others.

When processing is based on our legitimate interest, we will ensure to consider the possible effects of the use of your data on you. If we believe that your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms outweigh our legitimate interest, we will not use your personal data on this basis and will seek your explicit consent.

We do not use personal information for purposes incompatible with the purposes for which it was originally collected unless later approved by you.

3.3. Change of Purpose

Your personal data will only be used for the purposes for which it was collected by us. However, if it is necessary to use it for another purpose and this purpose is compatible with the original purpose, we may also use your personal data for such new purposes. If would like an explanation of how the processing of the new purpose is compatible with the original purposes, please contact us via the communication channels specified in Article 2.5 of this Privacy and Cookies Policy.

If we need to use your personal data for a purpose other than the subject matter, we will inform you by explaining the legal basis that allows us to do so. We would like to state that we may process your personal data in accordance with the Customer Clarification Text and this Privacy and Cookie Policy, without your knowledge and consent, where necessary and permitted under the legislation.

3.4. Management of Cookies and Consequences of Blocking Cookies

By clicking the "Accept All" option regarding the cookies we collect in accordance with the procedures specified in our Privacy and Cookies Policy, you will have given your consent to our use of cookies.

The consequences of blocking cookies are as follows:

Mandatory Cookies	:	These cookies are essential to provide basic interchange functions and available services. It is therefore not possible to block them.
Analytical Cookies	:	This will have no impact on the use of the website.
Performance and Statistics	:	This will have no impact on the use of the website.

3.5. Duration of Cookies

It uses session cookies and persistent cookies according to the duration of use on the Website. Session cookies are used to ensure the continuity of the session and are deleted when the user closes the browser. Persistent cookies, on the other hand, are not deleted when the internet browser is closed and are deleted automatically on a certain date or after a certain period of time. For example, the retention period for analytical cookies is 6 months to 1 year. Your personal data will not be retained longer than necessary for the purposes for which they were collected.

3.6. Parties to Cookies

First-party and third-party cookies: Whether a cookie is first-party or third-party depends on the website or domain that places the cookie. First-party cookies are placed directly by D+P. Third-party cookies are placed by a domain different from the one you have visited.

3.7. Cookie Settings in Browser Settings

You can always change your cookie preferences from the "Cookie Settings" section available on our Website. In addition, control can also be partially provided through browser settings. You can access information on the management of cookies in frequently used browsers.