Cookie Policy

CONTENT INFORMATION TEXT and CONFIDENTIALITY WITHIN THE SCOPE OF INTERNET SITE USE

As GRC LEGAL Law Office and Consultancy Services (Av. Mehmet ŞAHİN, VKN: 7930289436) (“GRC LEGAL” or “Office”), we show the utmost sensitivity for the processing and protection of personal data belonging to you, our www.grc-legal.com (“Site”) visitors, in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 and its secondary regulations (“personal data protection legislation”). Within the scope of our Office’s disclosure obligation arising from the personal data protection legislation, we hereby inform you about the general principles to be followed within the scope of the operation of our website, the cookies used and your personal data processed by this means with this “Cookie Information Text and Privacy within the Scope of Website Usage” text.

Privacy and Information Security

  • The information provided on grc-legal.com is provided “as is” and “as available”. GRC LEGAL does not guarantee the accuracy, adequacy or completeness of this information and expressly disclaims liability for errors or omissions in this information. GRC LEGAL cannot give any warranty of any kind, whether implied, express or statutory, including, but not limited to, warranties of title, fitness for a particular purpose and/or freedom from computer viruses.
  • GRC LEGAL takes all necessary security measures and all technical and administrative measures on information systems to prevent any unauthorised access to this information. GRC LEGAL will inform the relevant users and competent administrative authorities in the event of malicious and unauthorised seizure of personal data or any technical or administrative violation, as stipulated in the legislation.
  • Some of our electronic service media may, from time to time, provide links to some electronic media such as third party websites. The commitments and principles contained in this text are only valid for GRC LEGAL’s electronic service channels and do not cover other third party environments. Other electronic media to be accessed via link may have different and specific privacy assurances and terms of use, and these terms may correspond to a lower level of security than those provided by GRC LEGAL. GRC LEGAL cannot be held responsible for this situation. The accuracy of the information provided on these sites and the quality of other links provided from these sites have not been investigated and verified by GRC LEGAL. Accordingly, GRC LEGAL cannot be held responsible for the use of information, ethical principles, confidentiality principles, quality and service quality of third-party electronic media that are passed on grc-legal.com for advertising, banner, content purposes or for any other purpose, and any material / moral damages and losses that may occur in these environments.
  • GRC LEGAL and/or its employees cannot be held responsible for any damages and losses, including but not limited to any direct or indirect damages, losses and expenses arising directly or indirectly as a result of any performance failure, error, deficiency, interruption defect, delay in operation and / or transfer, computer virus and / or line and / or system failure, including but not limited to cases that cannot be expected from GRC LEGAL or force majeure cases, except for its fault and responsibility during the use of the Site.
  • In your activities within the Site, you agree in advance that you will not produce and share content that is contrary to general morality and decency, contrary to the law, damaging the rights of third parties, misleading, offensive, obscene, pornographic, damaging personal rights, violating copyrights, promoting illegal activities in any part of the Site. Otherwise, you are fully responsible for any damages that may occur, and the Site authorities reserve the right to suspend, terminate such accounts and initiate legal proceedings. For this reason, it reserves the right to share information about the activity or user accounts from the judicial authorities.
  • In any dispute that may arise between GRC LEGAL and you regarding the use of the Site, GRC LEGAL’s books, records and documents and digital records will be accepted as evidence in accordance with the Civil Procedure Law No. 6100 and you agree that you will not object to these records.

Which Types of Cookies Do We Use?

Cookies are small text files created by a website on your device and contain data in name-value format. Therefore, the cookies we use when you visit our Site make it possible to store information about your visit to the Site on your device and to use this information during your subsequent visits.

Cookies created by our Website and readable only by our Website are primary cookies. The content offered on our Site is also provided through other domain names other than the domain name at the access address. In such cases, each domain name creates its own unique third-party cookies.

 

The types of cookies we use on our website and our purposes for using these cookies are as follows:

  1. Session Cookies: Cookies that are valid during your use of the website and remain valid until the web browser is closed.
  2. Persistent Cookies: Cookies that are stored in your browser and remain valid until they are deleted by you or until the expiry date. The information collected by these cookies cannot be used for marketing purposes. If the use of such cookies is not allowed, various parts of the Site may not be available.
  3. Mandatory Cookies: These are cookies whose use is mandatory for the website to function properly and for you to benefit from the features of the website and the services offered. The information collected by these cookies cannot be used for marketing purposes. If the use of such cookies is not allowed, various parts of the Site may not be available.
  4. Functional and Analytical Cookies: These are cookies that are used for purposes such as remembering your preferences, using the website effectively, optimising the site to respond to your requests and contain data about how you use the site. Due to their nature, cookies of this type may contain your personal data. For example, cookies that save your preference for the display language of the website are functional cookies.

 

We aim to provide you with a more efficient and functional internet experience with the third party cookies we use on our website. A Confidentiality Agreement has been concluded between these third party service providers and our Office in accordance with the legislation on the protection of personal data and the security of your personal data obtained by these persons on behalf of our Office is guaranteed.

Purposes and Legal Reasons for Processing Cookies

Cookies; To perform the basic functions necessary for the operation of the Site (for example, in the event that the logged-in members do not need to enter a password again when visiting different pages on the Site), to analyse the Site and to increase the performance of the Site (for example, in the event that the integration of different servers on which the Site runs, It is used for the purposes of determining the number of visitors to the Site and making performance settings accordingly or facilitating visitors to find what they are looking for), increasing the functionality of the Site and providing ease of use (for example, sharing to third party social media channels through the Site, remembering the username information or search queries of the visitor who visits the Site in the next visit).

Technical cookies are used to perform the basic functions necessary for the operation of the Site. These cookies are processed on the basis of the legal grounds stated in Article 5/2/c of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data No. 6698 (“Law”) “provided that it is directly related to the establishment or performance of a contract, it is necessary to process personal data belonging to the parties to the contract” in order to make the Site available to you in working order, while other cookies are processed based on the legal grounds stated in Article 5/2/c of the Law. /2/f of the Law “provided that it does not harm the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject, data processing is mandatory for the legitimate interests of the data controller”.

Storing and Accessing Cookies

Cookies created by the Site are stored on your computer by your website browser that you use to access the Site. The information contained in these cookies can only be accessed remotely by the Site offered under the domain name www.grc-legal.com that creates the cookie and if you use the same browser.

Cookie Management and Usage

Your internet browsers usually automatically accept cookies used on the sites you visit. The use of cookies is not mandatory to use the Site, but if you set your browser to block all cookies, the quality of your user experience may decrease and may prevent you from accessing the Site or taking advantage of various functions of the Site. Technical cookies enable the Site to fulfil its basic functions.

Since technical cookies establish the technical operation of the Site, if you switch them off, some functions on the Site may not work properly.

You can configure your browser to block cookies for all sites or specific sites, to warn when cookies are created, to block third-party cookies, or to count all cookies as session cookies. On the other hand, you can delete cookies stored on your device through your browser, or you can see and track the list and values of these cookies. You can get detailed information about cookie management by clicking on the browser you are using from the browsers listed below.

 

Security of Your Personal Data

Cookies are not used for purposes other than those specified in this text and all related transactions are carried out in accordance with the legislation on the protection of personal data. Your personal data obtained through cookies are processed, stored and secured by GRC LEGAL in accordance with the personal data protection legislation. Clarification texts specific to the process regarding personal data processing activities other than cookies will be provided to you for your review where appropriate.

Your Right to Information

You may submit your requests within the scope of Article 11 of the Law “regulating the rights of the data subject” to GRC LEGAL in accordance with the “Communiqué on the Procedures and Principles of Application to the Data Controller”. You can review the KVKK Application Form, which is organised within this scope and available on the website.

 

“Cookie Information Text and Privacy within the Scope of Website Use” will be updated by us from time to time due to changing laws, regulations or operational requirements.

 

This text was updated on 18.03.2024.