Cookie Policy

Host Internet and Communication Technologies Limited Company ("HOST") attaches great importance to the confidentiality and protection of the data you share with us, especially your personal data. As HOST, we respect your personal data and we show maximum sensitivity within the framework of current legislation and universal values to ensure the security of your personal data. Administrative and technical measures are provided for the protection of your personal data and personal data processing activities are carried out in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 ("Law").
If you use the website with the extension www.host.com.tr ("Website"), your personal data may also be collected through Cookies depending on the use of the Website in order to be processed in accordance with the purposes specified in the Clarification Text on the Processing of Personal Data for Website Visitors ("Clarification Text").

1. What is a Cookie?
In general, cookies are small text files, often consisting of letters and numbers, that are installed on your computer, tablet, smartphone or other device (hereinafter referred to as "device") when you visit the Website. Cookies allow us to save certain information when you interact with our Website, services and applications. We use cookies to optimise the performance of our Website and to continuously improve our platform, products and services. Users can always remove cookies and/or stop the aforementioned notifications by editing cookies from the settings of the programme and/or operating system and/or internet browser on their devices (In this case, it should be known that our Website / the relevant device / programme may not work as desired and / or may not be informed about the notification contents).

2. Types of Cookies Used on the Website and Data Processing Purposes
Cookies are divided into groups in terms of their managers, lifetime and intended use. Accordingly, cookies used on our Website;

Session Cookies: These are temporary cookies that are active only during your browser session and are deleted after your browser is closed. Such cookies will not recognise you on your next visit to the Website.
Persistent Cookies: These are cookies that are stored for a long period of time until they are deleted manually by you or by your browser after a period of time. The storage period for persistent cookies is usually between 30 days and a maximum of 2 years.
First Party Cookies: Cookies created by the Website.
Third Party Cookies: Cookies created by third parties such as business partners and service providers of the Website.
Necessary Cookies: These cookies are necessary for us to provide you with services through our Website and for our Website to work efficiently and functionally in accordance with the settings you have made. In addition, these cookies are also used to ensure the security of our Website. Detection and examination of potential defective or suspicious access to our Website, user accounts and our network (for example: identity theft, bot attack, fraud) and identification of technical problems are provided through necessary cookies.
Performance Cookies: Performance cookies are used to obtain information about the number of visitors to our Website, such as the frequency of visits, and information about how visitors use our Website, and in this way to evaluate the performance of our Website and to improve the overall user experience. In addition, web analytics tools may also use session cookies or persistent cookies provided by third parties to improve the performance of our Website. All information collected through these cookies is combined and kept anonymously.

Performance cookies can be blocked through your browser and blocking these cookies has no effect on the services offered on our Website. In this context, performance cookies are processed based on your explicit consent. However, blocking performance cookies makes it difficult for us to improve the user experience.

Advertising Cookies: Advertising cookies are mostly persistent cookies provided by third parties. These cookies allow us to provide you with personalised advertising related to your interests. In addition, we can track our marketing campaigns through these cookies. If you are logged in to your social media accounts while browsing our Website, these third parties can track your browser and create a profile of your interests. In this way, advertising cookies allow us to serve advertisements on other websites and social media to users who have already visited our Website. All information collected through these cookies