Last update Date 15th Oct 2022

we benefit from certain technologies such as cookies, pixels, gifs, etc. (“cookies”) in order to improve your experience during your visits to our online channels.

marine-platform.com also uses Cookies to display personal content and advertisements to visitors, to perform traffic analysis on marine-platform.com and to understand visitor usage habits.

we may decide not to use cookies which are currently used on our Site, change the types or functions thereof, or add new cookies to our Site. Accordingly, we hereby reserve the right to amend the terms of this notice at any time. Any and all kinds of amendments made on the current notice will become effective upon publication on any public channel. Please see the last update date on top of this notice.

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small data files set up in your computer by a web server, via your browser. Web sites use cookies to recognize you when a connection is established between your browser and the server. Cookies are designed to make a web site more convenient to use for its visitors.

Cookies are created by the servers that manage the website you visit. In this way, the server can understand when the visitor visits the same site. Cookies can be likened to identity cards that show website owners that the same visitor has re-visited the site.

Which Cookies Are Used?

Cookies can be classified in terms of their owner, lifetime and intended use.

According to the owner, site cookies and third-party Cookies are used. While site cookies are managed by marine-platform.com, third party cookies are managed by different companies.

Session cookies and persistent cookies are used according to the lifetime. Session cookies are deleted when the visitor leaves the website, while persistent cookies remain on visitors' devices for varying periods of time.

According to the purposes of use, strictly necessary cookies, analytical cookies, functionality cookies and targeting / advertising cookies are used on the Site.

Why Are Cookies Used?

Cookies are used for the following purposes:

- Performing basic functions necessary for the operation of the Site.

- Analyzing the Site and improving the performance of the Site.

- Increasing the functionality of the Site and providing ease of use.

- Performing personalization, targeting and advertising.

Types of Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookies ; Cookies are mandatory for marine-platform.com to work properly and provide the intended services. For example, if visitors log in to marine-platform.com using their passwords, with these types of cookies, it is determined that the visitor is a site user on each page he visits in marine-platform.com, and the user is prevented from re-entering his password on each page.

Functionality Cookies ; These are the cookies used to remember the preferences of the users when they visit different marine-platform.com pages.

Analytics Cookies ; Analytical cookies are cookies that produce analytical results such as the number of visitors to marine-platform.com, the detection of pages viewed on marine-platform.com, marine-platform.com visiting hours, marine-platform.com pages scrolling movements.

Targeting/Advertising Cookies ; These are the types of cookies used to customize the advertisements served to users on marine-platform.com and to prevent the ads that have already been displayed from being shown again.

How to Manage Cookie Preferences?

It is extremely important for us that visitors can freely choose which personal data they own can be collected. However, preference management is not possible for Cookies, which are mandatory for marine-platform.com to work. In addition, we remind you that various functions of marine-platform.com may not work if some Cookies are turned off.

Depending on the type of your internet browser, you can learn about cookies, exercise your right to allow or reject cookies, by following the steps below:

· Google Chrome: You can allow or block cookies from the “Cookie” tab by clicking on the “lock mark” or letter “i” in the “address section” of your browser.

· Internet Explorer: You can click on the “Tools” Section at the top right corner of your browser and click on the “Security” tab and manage your cookies by “allowing” or “disallowing” them.

· Mozilla Firefox: You can click on the “open menu” tab at the top right corner of your browser and click on the “Options” image and manage your cookies by using the “Privacy and Security” button.

· For other browsers (such as opera, Microsoft edge, etc.), you can review the help or support pages of the relevant browsers.

· Safari: You can select the “safari” tab from the Settings” section, and manage your cookies from the “Privacy and Security” Section.

· For the management of the cookies or SDK (Software Development Kit) in mobile applications, you can follow the instructions under the Privacy or Settings Section of your device.

Visitors have the opportunity to customize their preferences for cookies by changing the browser settings in which they view marine-platform.com . If the browser in use offers this possibility, it is possible to change the preferences for Cookies through the browser settings. Thus, although it may differ according to the possibilities offered by the browser, data owners have the opportunity to prevent the use of cookies, to choose to receive a warning before the use of cookies, or to disable or delete only some Cookies