We would like to inform you about the types of cookies used on our website, the purposes of using cookies, and the settings, management and deletion of these cookies.
You can visit our website without providing any personal information, and meet your needs by getting information about our products and services. Some cookies are used to collect information about site usage during visits. Our purpose here is to provide convenience to the user visiting our website and to improve its operation.
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small text file saved on your computer or mobile device through your browser when you visit a site. Cookies allow a site to operate more efficiently and to provide personalized pages that are more suitable for your personal needs and to provide a faster visit experience. Cookies only contain information about your visit history on the internet and do not collect any information about the files stored on your computer or mobile device.
Types of Cookies and Purposes of Use
There are two types of cookies according to their validity periods: Permanent Cookies and Temporary Cookies. Temporary cookies are created when you visit the website and are valid only until you close your browser. Persistent cookies are created when you visit the website and remain until you delete them or they expire. Persistent cookies are used for operations such as providing a personalized experience compatible with your settings.
Cookie types and purposes are explained below.
Mandatory Cookies Mandatory cookies are required for our website to function properly. For example, mandatory cookies are used for purposes such as authentication and not losing information about your current session. These cookies are used for purposes such as security and verification and are not used for any marketing purposes.
Cookies Required for Functionality These are cookies that allow our website to remember the preferences of users who visit it. For example, they allow the visitor's language preference or text font size to be remembered. Not allowing the use of such cookies may result in a feature that is specific to you not being used and prevents it from remembering your preferences.
Cookies Required for Performance and Analysis These are cookies that help improve our website. These types of cookies collect information about visitors' site usage, are used to check whether the site is working properly and to detect errors received.
Targeting and Advertising Cookies These cookies are used to promote products and services on our website or in media outside of our website, to show you relevant and personalized advertisements together with our partners with whom we cooperate, and to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
How Are Cookies Collected?
Data is collected through your devices that you access browsers. This collected information is specific to the devices. It can be deleted by the user at any time and access to information can be closed.
Our Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to us, your privacy and security rights are our basic principle.
In this context, you can access our disclosure text on the protection of personal data here.
How can you control cookies?
You can delete cookies that are already on your computer and prevent cookies from being saved/placed in your internet browser.
Internet browsers are predefined to automatically accept cookies. Since managing cookies varies from browser to browser, you can check the browser or application's help menu for detailed information.
For example,
You can manage it with the option "Google Chrome -> Settings -> Advanced -> Privacy and Security -> Site Settings -> Cookies and Site Data -> Allow sites to save and read cookie data".
You can manage it from the menu "Internet Explorer -> Settings -> Internet Options -> Privacy -> Advanced settings".
Most Internet browsers allow you to do the following:
View saved cookies and delete the ones you want
Block third-party cookies
Block cookies from specific sites
Block all cookies
Delete all cookies when you close Internet browser
If you choose to delete cookies, your preferences on the relevant website will be deleted. In addition, if you choose to block cookies completely, many websites and digital platforms, including Akbank's websites, may not work properly.
To Control Cookies on Your Mobile Device;
On Apple Devices;
You can clear your browsing history and cookies with the steps "Settings -> Safari -> Clear History and Website Data".
To clear cookies and keep your history, you can follow the steps "Settings -> Safari -> Advanced -> Website Data -> Clear All Website Data".
When visiting sites, you can clear your history data
