COOKIE POLICY
One of VEF's leading principles is to protect the privacy of those who visit (“Data Owner”) the “https://www.vef.com.tr/” website (“Site”) operated by Sonsuz Akademi Eğitim Hizmetleri Limited Şirketi (“VEF”) and your privacy and security rights are our basic principle. In order to protect the privacy of our customers' personal information, necessary precautions have been taken by keeping our system and internet infrastructure at the most reliable level.
The purpose of the Cookie Policy (“Policy”) is to inform you about the types and purposes of use of the cookies obtained by the users/visitors (“Relevant Person”) of the site operated by us.
About the cookie policy
You can visit our site without giving any personal information, and you can meet your needs by getting information about our products and services. Cookies are used to collect information about site usage during visits. Our aim here; It is to provide convenience to the user visiting our site and to understand how we can improve the operation.
Our Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them. You should read our Cookie Policy to understand what the cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use, the information we collect using cookies, how this information is used, and how to control your cookie preferences. For more information about how we use, store and store your personal data, you can look at our Personal Data Protection and Privacy Policy. At any time, you can change or withdraw your consent given in the cookie notification presented as a pop-up on our site.
Your consent is applied to the following areas:
2. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small file containing a series of characters that it saves on your computer or mobile device (“device”) when you visit a website.
Cookies are stored on your device when the site is loaded in your browser. Cookies aim to make a website more user-friendly. Cookies allow us to keep our site working properly, make our site more secure, provide a better user experience, see how our site is performing, see what is working, and analyse where it needs improvement. In short, it enables personalized web pages to be offered to provide a more convenient and faster visit experience for your personal needs. Cookies cannot collect any information, including your personal data stored on your computer or files.
We use cookies so that you can make the most of our website and improve your user experience. If you do not prefer the use of cookies, you can delete or block cookies from your browser's settings. However, we would like to remind you that this may affect your use of the site.
3. How do we use cookies?
Third-party cookies used on our site are mainly used to determine how the site is performing, how you interact with our site, perform statistical analysis, take security measures, keep our services secured, serve ads and provide you with a better service in all. It helps speed up your user experience and future interactions with our site.
The primary purposes of using cookies on our site are listed below:
- Improve the services offered to you by increasing the functionality and performance of the website,
- Improving the website and offering new features on the website, and personalizing the features offered according to your preferences,
- Ensure the legal and commercial security of the website, you and VEF.
4. What kind of cookies do we use?
Essential Cookies: Some cookies are necessary for you to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent security threats. They do not collect or store personal information.
Statistical Cookies: These cookies are the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website are visited, the source of the visit, and alike. It stores information such as This data helps us analyse how well the website is performing. Third-party advertising providers may also use the information stored in these cookies to display advertisements on other websites in the browser.
Functional and Analytical Cookies: Functional and Analytical Cookies: These are cookies used to determine how you use the site, including where you connect to the site, what content you view on the site and the duration of your visit, including tracking your use of the site.
Advertising and Marketing Cookies: These cookies track your online activity to help deliver tailored marketing and advertising to you based on information you browse, buy or show interest in, or to limit the number of times you see an ad. It is used with third-party organizations that provide tools that allow grouping these cookies with other users to target these ads.
Authentication Cookies: If visitors log in to the website using their passwords, such cookies will 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 website.
Preferences: These cookies help us save your settings and determine your browsing preferences, such as language preferences, so that you have a better and more efficient experience on future visits to our site.
There are two types of cookies, Permanent Cookie and Temporary Cookie, according to their validity period. Temporary cookies are created while visiting the website and are only valid until you close your browser. Persistent cookies are created when you visit the website and remain until you delete them or expire. Persistent cookies are used to perform actions such as providing a personalized experience compatible with your settings.
Temporary and permanent type cookies on our site are used to distinguish you from other users of our site and to plan according to your interests and preferences. In addition to the cookies designed by VEF, cookies can also be used within the scope of services received from third parties.
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Cookie |
Definition |
Purpose |
Duration |
Type |
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XSRF-TOKEN |
The cookie is provided by the Wix website, which is the platform on which the site is set up, for security purposes. |
Security |
1 hour 59 minutes |
Essential |
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utm_medium |
It is used to monitor advertising sources. |
Functional, Marketing |
7979 years |
Analytical |
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utm_campaign |
It is used to monitor advertising sources. |
Functional, Marketing |
7979 years |
Analytical |
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utm_content |
It is used to monitor advertising sources. |
Functional, Marketing |
7979 years |
Analytical |
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utm_term |
It is used to monitor advertising sources. |
Functional, Marketing |
7979 years |
Analytical |
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utm_source |
It is used to monitor advertising sources. |
Functional, Marketing |
7979 years |
Analytical |
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_fbp |
It is a cookie provided by Facebook and is used to advertise to the visitor after visiting the site when they are on Facebook or on a digital platform supported by Facebook ads. |
Marketing |
2 months 28 days 23 hours 59 minutes |
Advertising and Marketing Cookies |
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_hjid |
This cookie provided by Hotjar assigns a random unique ID when the visitor first logs into the site, this cookie is used to protect this ID value. This ensures that the behaviour on subsequent visits to the same site is associated with the same user ID. |
Functional, Marketing |
11 months 29 days 23 hours 59 minutes |
Analytical |
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_hjIncludedInPageviewSample |
This cookie provided by Hotjar is associated with web analytics functionality. It uniquely identifies the visitor during a single browser session and indicates that they are included in the audience sampling. |
Marketing |
1 minute |
Analytical |
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_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress |
This cookie is used to detect a visitor's first pageview session. This is the True / False flag determined by the cookie. |
Marketing |
29 minutes |
Analytical |
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_ga |
It is a type of cookie used by Google Analytics. This cookie is used to analyse and report user, session, campaign data and site usage for the site. This cookie collects information without identifying the identities of the visitors and anonymizes the information and identifies a random unique ID number to distinguish each user. |
Marketing |
1 year 11 months 28 days 23 hours 59 minutes |
Analytical |
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_gid |
It is a type of cookie used by Google Analytics. This cookie is used to generate analytical reports on how visitors use the site. |
Functional, Marketing |
23 hours 59 minutes |
Analytical |
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_hjFirstSeen |
This cookie provided by Hotjar indicates the new visitor's first session on the website and is used to determine whether Hotjar has previously targeted this visitor. |
Functional |
During the session |
Analytical |
5. How can I control cookie preferences?
Different browsers offer different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change your browser's settings to block/delete cookies. In addition, you can delete the cookies already on your device and prevent the saving/setting of cookies in most browsers.
Most browsers allow you to:
- View and delete saved cookies
- Blocking third-party cookies
- Blocking cookies from certain sites
- Block all cookies
- Deleting all cookies when you close the browser
If you choose to delete cookies, your preferences on the relevant website will be deleted. Also, if you choose to block cookies altogether, many websites, including VEF-owned sites, may not work correctly. You can get detailed information about controlling and deleting cookies using the list in article 1.6.
1.6 Can the data owner block the cookies?
Almost all internet browsers are predefined to accept cookies automatically. However, by changing your browser settings, you can personalize your preferences regarding cookies, control or delete cookies as you wish.
(As managing cookies differs from browser to browser, you can check the browser's help menu for detailed information.)
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Browser |
Browser Settings |
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Adobe Analytics |
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AOL |
https://help.aol.com/articles/restore-security-settings-and-enable-cookie-settings-on-browser |
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Google Adwords |
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Google Analytics |
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Google Chrome |
http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647 |
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Internet Explorer |
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies |
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Mozilla Firefox |
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Opera |
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Safari |
1.7 Enforcement of cookie policy
This Cookie Policy is dated 28.06.2021. In case all or certain articles of the policy are renewed, the effective date will be updated, allowing you to receive updated information.
You can find detailed information about the processing of your personal data by reviewing our VEF Personal Data Protection and Privacy Policy.