COOKIE POLICY

VELTORI CATERING LİMİTED ŞİRKETİ ("VELTORI" or the "Company") enforces rigorous standards of digital security, confidentiality, and statutory personal data protection across our platform (veltori.store).

This Cookie Policy governs the technical classifications, operational purposes, disaggregated lawful processing conditions under Law No. 6698 (KVKK), and browser management protocols applicable to cookies utilized on our platform.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small alphanumeric text files stored on your computer, tablet, or mobile device via your web browser when visiting our platform. Cookies serve to maintain technical platform security, validate authenticated sessions, preserve localized regional preferences, and measure aggregated infrastructure performance.

2. Classifications by Duration and Domain Origin

• Session Cookies: Temporary files that are automatically deleted once the browser session is terminated.
• Persistent Cookies: Data files stored on the client terminal until their prescribed expiration date or until cleared manually by the user.
• First-Party Cookies: Deployed directly by the veltori.store domain for core website operation.
• Third-Party Cookies: Deployed by authorized cloud infrastructure, technical security, or analytics service providers.

3. Cookie Classifications and Statutory Grounds Under Law No. 6698

Pursuant to Article 5 of Law No. 6698 (KVKK) and the Turkish Data Protection Authority's Guidelines on Cookie Practices, each cookie is evaluated and processed under an individual lawful basis tailored to its technical necessity and function:

• Strictly Necessary / Essential Cookies: Indispensable for establishing secure sessions, executing SSL/TLS cryptographic validation, and routing platform traffic. Non-consent based.
  Lawful Grounds: KVKK Art. 5/2-c (Direct necessity for contract performance) and Art. 5/2-f (Legitimate interests of the data controller).
• Functional Cookies: Retain technical user selections, such as consent logging (_tracking_consent) and market-country routing (localization).
  Lawful Grounds: KVKK Art. 5/2-ç (Compliance with legal logging obligations) and Art. 5/2-f (Legitimate interests).
• Performance & Analytics Cookies: Measure aggregated platform speed, session interaction, and technical stability. Activated strictly upon the user's prior affirmative Opt-in Consent via our Cookie Banner.
  Lawful Grounds: KVKK Art. 5/1 (Explicit consent).
• Marketing & Targeting Cookies: Third-party behavioral tracking is strictly minimized. Any non-essential profiling cookie is deployed solely upon the user's explicit consent.
  Lawful Grounds: KVKK Art. 5/1 (Explicit consent).

4. Storefront Cookie Matrix

* The following table outlines primary standard cookies and indicative retention periods; actual durations may vary subject to platform software updates and user preference parameters.

5. Cookie Management & Consent Revocation

In accordance with KVKK standards, non-essential cookies requiring explicit consent may be customized, accepted, or revoked at any time.

Users may also adjust local browser configurations to block, restrict, or purge stored cookies:

• Google Chrome: Settings → Privacy and Security → Third-Party Cookies → Block or Clear Cookies.
• Apple Safari: Preferences → Privacy → Block all cookies or Manage Website Data.
• Mozilla Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data → Clear Data.
• Microsoft Edge: Settings → Cookies and Site Permissions → Manage and delete cookies and site data.

6. Statutory Data Subject Rights (KVKK Art. 11)

Pursuant to Article 11 of Law No. 6698, data subjects are statutorily entitled to: learn whether their personal data is processed, request information regarding processing, verify alignment with lawful processing purposes, learn domestic and cross-border transferees, request rectification of incomplete or inaccurate data, request erasure or destruction under statutory parameters, request notification of adjustments to third-party recipients, object to adverse outcomes produced exclusively via automated data processing, and claim compensation for damages sustained due to unlawful processing.