Cookie Policy

RS HOLDING COOKIE POLICY
WHAT IS A COOKIE?

Cookies are very small text files, usually consisting of letters and numbers, stored on your computer (or other devices such as smartphones or tablets) by browsers via the websites you visit. Cookies do not contain personal data such as names, genders, or addresses about visitors. Cookies do not collect information or files stored on your computer or device.

Cookies are created by the servers managing the website you visit. In this way, the server can understand when the visitor visits the same site again. Cookies can be likened to identity cards that show site owners that the same visitor is revisiting the site.

DOES RS HOLDING USE COOKIES?

• They are used to determine how you use the website/mobile application/mobile site, including information such as your duration of visit, from where and from which devices you connect to the electronic transaction platforms operated by RS Holding, and which content you view on the website/mobile, and to determine how you use the application/mobile site and website/mobile application/mobile site.
• To perform the basic functions necessary for the operation of the site. For example, members can log in to the site with their membership information. To analyze the site, identify errors, resolve and improve the performance of the site. For example, determining the number of visitors to the site and adjusting performance accordingly or making it easier for visitors to find what they are looking for.

HOW DOES RS HOLDING USE THIRD-PARTY COOKIES FOR ADVERTISING AND RETARGETING?

RS Holding may use cookies to apply “advertising technology” in order to provide you with advertisements when you visit search engines, electronic commerce platforms operated by RS Holding, and the website, mobile application or mobile site and/or websites operated by RS Holding. Advertising technology uses information about your previous visits to the website/mobile application/mobile site and websites/mobile applications/mobile sites advertised by RS Holding in order to present you with customized advertisements. When presenting these advertisements, a unique third-party cookie may be placed on your browser so that RS Holding can recognize you.

RS Holding also uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics cookies use statistical information/reports to analyze how visitors use the website/mobile application/mobile site. For more information on using Google Analytics (including opt-out options), please visit: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/#infocollect

Furthermore, your e-mail address from your personal data is shared with these platforms for the purpose of presenting advertisements that may interest you on social media platforms and creating a special audience. Your e-mail address is transmitted through secure channels and environments offered by these platforms. Social media platforms hash your e-mail address and use it only for matching. Your e-mail address will not be shared with 3rd parties or other advertisers and will be deleted from the systems of social media platforms as soon as possible after the matching process is completed.

COOKIE MANAGEMENT

• Google Chrome: You can allow or block cookies from the “Cookie” tab by clicking on the “lock sign” or the letter “i” in the “address section” of your browser.
• Internet Explorer: Click on the “Tools” or “tool” section in the upper right corner of your browser, then the “Security” tab, and perform your cookie management as “Allow” or “deny”.
• Mozilla Firefox: Click on the “Open Menu” tab in the upper right corner of your browser. Manage cookies by clicking the “options” image using the “Privacy and security” button.
• For other browsers (such as Opera, Microsoft Edge), you can also view the help or support pages of the relevant browser.
• Safari: You can perform all your cookie management from the “privacy and security” section by selecting the “safari” tab from the “Settings” section of your phone.
• In addition to the options above; for information about all cookies and cookie management: visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org, https://www.youronlinechoices.eu or use the “Privacy Badger” application. (https://www.eff.org/privacybadger)
• For cookie or SDK management in mobile applications, you can follow the directions in the privacy or settings section of your device or download and use Lumen Privacy Monitor (https://haystack.mobi) on your phone.

If you reject persistent cookies or session cookies, you may continue to use the website, mobile application, and mobile site, but you may not be able to access all functions of the website, mobile application, and mobile site or you may have limited access. This situation may vary in the mobile application.

TYPES OF COOKIES

Types of cookies according to the duration of website use:
Session cookies and persistent cookies are used on the mobile application and mobile site of the electronic commerce platforms operated by RS Holding according to their usage duration. The session cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for a long time or indefinitely. “First-party Cookies” and “third-party cookies” are used on the website, mobile application, and mobile site of electronic commerce platforms operated by RS Holding. While RS Holding cookies are created by RS Holding, third-party cookies are managed by third-party companies with whom we cooperate.

Types of cookies according to the purpose of use:
According to their use on the websites, mobile applications, and mobile sites of electronic commerce platforms operated by RS Holding; technical cookies, authentication cookies, targeting/advertising cookies, personalization cookies, and analytical cookies are used. RS Holding conducts statistical studies such as age, gender, spending habits, and mobile usage rate using these cookies.

Session cookies:
Session cookies are temporary cookies used during our visitors’ visits to the site and deleted after the browser is closed. The main purpose of using such cookies is to ensure that the site functions properly during your visit. For example, you can fill out online forms consisting of multiple pages.

Persistent Cookies:
Persistent Cookies are types of cookies used to increase the functionality of the site and to provide faster and better service to our visitors. Such cookies are used to remember visitor preferences and are stored on the device used via browsers. Some types of persistent cookies can be used to offer you special suggestions by considering issues such as your purpose of using the site. Persistent Cookies allow you to check whether there is a cookie created by the site on your device when you visit the site again with the same device, and if so, it is understood that you have visited the site before and the content is transmitted to you accordingly.

Technical cookies:
Technical cookies ensure the operation of the site, and non-working pages and areas of the site are detected.

Authentication Cookies:
If visitors log in to the site using their passwords, such cookies prevent the user from re-entering their password on each page by determining that the visitor is a site user on each page they visit on the site.

Targeting/advertising cookies:
Targeting/advertising cookies are types of cookies used to personalize the advertisements offered to users on the site and to prevent the re-display of advertisements that have already been shown.

Personalization cookies:
Personalization cookies are cookies used to remember users’ preferences when visiting different site pages. For example, remembering your language preference.

Analytical cookies:
Analytical cookies are cookies that enable the production of analytical results such as the number of visitors to the site, the detection of pages viewed on the site, site visit times, and site page scrolling movements.