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Why we use cookies and other tracking technologies?
Our site enables script (e.g. cookies) that is able to read, store, and write information on your browser and in your device. The information processed by this script includes data relating to you which may include personal identifiers (e.g. IP address and session details) and browsing activity. We use this information for various purposes – e.g. to deliver content, maintain security, enable user choice, improve our sites, and for marketing purposes. You can reject all non-essential processing by choosing to accept only necessary cookies. To personalize your choice and learn more click Privacy & Cookies Policy on the left of your screen.
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our advertising and marketing efforts.
More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:
- Assisting you in navigation;
- Assisting in registration to our events, login, and your ability to provide feedback;
- Analyzing your use of our products, services or applications;
- Assisting with our promotional and marketing efforts. (including behavioral advertising)
Below is a detailed list of the cookies we use on our Website. Our Website is scanned with our cookie scanning tool regularly to maintain a list as accurate as possible. We classify cookies in the following categories:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies
- Performance Cookies
- Functional Cookies
- Targeting Cookies
Cookie List
A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our advertising and marketing efforts. More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are set to provide the service, application or resource requested. Without these cookies, your request cannot be properly delivered. They are usually set to manage actions made by you, such as requesting website visual elements, pages resources or due user login/logoff. We can also use these cookies to set up essential functionalities to guarantee the security and efficiency of the service requested, like authentication and load balancer request.
| Cookie Name | Purpose of Cookie | Cookie Type | Cookie Storage Period |
| apbct_timestamp | CleanTalk uses this cookie and sets it to prevent spammy entries in forms and to act as an anti-spam solution and firewall for the site. | First Side Cookie | During the session |
| apbct_site_landing_ts | CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spammy entries in comments and forms and to act as an anti-spam solution and firewall for the site. | First Side Cookie | During the session |
| apbct_page_hits | CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spammy entries in comments and forms and to act as an anti-spam solution and firewall for the site. | First Side Cookie | During the session |
| apbct_cookies_test | CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spammy entries in comments and forms and to act as an anti-spam solution and firewall for the site. | First Side Cookie | During the session |
| apbct_urls | This cookie is placed by CleanTalk Spam Protect to prevent spam and store the visited addresses (urls) on the website. | First Side Cookie | 3 days |
| apbct_site_referer | This cookie is placed by CleanTalk Spam Protect to prevent spam and store the “referring page” address that sends the user to the website. | First Side Cookie | 3 days |
| ct_sfw_pass_key | CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spammy entries in comments and forms and to act as an anti-spam solution and firewall for the site. | First Side Cookie | 1 month |
| ls_smartpush | This cookie is set by the provider Litespeed Server. This cookie allows the server to store settings and improve the performance of the site. | First Side Cookie | 2 months |
| ct_pointer_data | CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spammy entries in comments and forms and to act as an anti-spam solution and firewall for the site. | First Side Cookie | During the session |
| ct_ps_timestamp | CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spammy entries in comments and forms and to act as an anti-spam solution and firewall for the site. | First Side Cookie | During the session |
| ct_fkp_timestamp | CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spammy entries in comments and forms and to act as an anti-spam solution and firewall for the site. | First Side Cookie | During the session |
| ct_timezone | CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spammy entries in comments and forms and to act as an anti-spam solution and firewall for the site. | First Side Cookie | During the session |
| spbc_secfw_ip_wl | CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spammy entries in comments and forms and to act as an anti-spam solution and firewall for the site. | First Side Cookie | 1 month |
| ct_checked_emails | CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spammy entries in comments and forms and to act as an anti-spam solution and firewall for the site. | First Side Cookie | During the session |
| apbct_pixel_url | CleanTalk–Used to prevent spam in our comments, forms and acts as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for this site | First Side Cookie | During the session |
| apbct_visible_fields | CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spammy entries in comments and forms and to act as an anti-spam solution and firewall for the site. | First Side Cookie | During the session |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | This cookie, set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, is used to save user consent for cookies in the “Mandatory” category. | First Side Cookie | 1 year |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent add-on to save user consent for cookies in the “Functional” category. | First Side Cookie | 1 year |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | This cookie, set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, is used to store user consent for cookies in the “Performance” category. | First Side Cookie | 1 year |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | This cookie, set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, is used to record user consent for cookies in the “Analytics” category. | First Side Cookie | 1 year |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement | This cookie, set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, is used to save user consent for cookies in the “Advertising” category. | First Side Cookie | 1 year |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | This cookie, set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, is used to store user consent for cookies in the “Others” category. | First Side Cookie | 1 year |
| ct_checkjs | CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spammy entries in comments and forms and to act as an anti-spam solution and firewall for the site. | First Side Cookie | During the session |
| __hssrc | This cookie is set by Hubspot whenever the session changes the cookie information. __hssrc cookie set to 1 is assumed to have the user restarted the browser and if there is no cookie, there is a new session. | First Side Cookie | During the session |
| _GRECAPTCHA | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. | Third Side Cookie (google.com) | 5 months 27 days |
- Performance/Analytics Cookies
These cookies are set to provide quantitative measures of website visitors. Information collected with these cookies is used in operations to measure website or software KPIs, such as performance. With the usage of these cookies, we are able to count visits and traffic sources to improve the performance of our site and application. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our site.
| Cookie Name | Purpose of Cookie | Cookie Type | Cookie Storage Period |
| _gcl_au | It is provided by Google Tag Manager and serves to experiment with ad performance. | First Side Cookie | 3 months |
| _Ga | This cookie provided by Google Analytics calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also feeds site usage information into the analytics report. The cookie records information anonymously and recognizes unique visitors by assigning random numbers. | First Side Cookie | 2 years |
| _Going | This cookie, provided by Google Analytics, collects information about how users use the site and creates an analytical report on the performance of the website. The data collected includes the number of visitors anonymously, from which source they come from, and which pages they visit. | First Side Cookie | 1 day |
| __hstc | This is the main cookie provided by Hubspot, it serves to track users. The domain contains information about the first visit to the site, the last time you visited the site, the number of sessions and the number of times you visited the site at that moment. | First Side Cookie | 1 year 24 days |
| hubspotutk | The cookie provided by this Hubspot serves to track users. This cookie is activated when users fill out forms from the site and when deduplicating users. | First Side Cookie | 1 year 24 days |
| _hjFirstSeen | This cookie provided by Hotjar collects information about the new user’s ik session. It stores true/false information, thus revealing whether Hotjar has seen this usage for the first time. | First Side Cookie | 30 minutes |
| _hjIncludedIn PageviewSample | Hotjar sets this cookie to know if a user is included in the data sample defined by the site’s page view limit. | First Side Cookie | 2 minutes |
| _hjAbsolute SessionInProgress | Hotjar sets this cookie to detect a user’s first pageview session. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | First Side Cookie | 30 minutes |
| _Gat | This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to limit the request rate and therefore to limit the collection of data on high-traffic sites. | First Side Cookie | 1 minute |
- Functional Cookies
These cookies are set by us or by third party service providers we use to implement additional functionalities or to enhance features and website performance, however they are not directly related with the service you requested. Services and functionalities implemented by these cookies support features like automatic filled text box, live web chat platform, non-necessary forms and optional security parameters like a single sign-on (SSO).
| Cookie Name | Purpose of Cookie | Cookie Type | Cookie Storage Period |
| pll_language | The pll _language cookie is used by Polylang to remember the language chosen by the user when returning to the website, as well as to retrieve language information when otherwise unavailable. | First Side Cookie | 1 year |
| __cf_bm | This cookie set by Cloudflare is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. | Third Side Cookie (hubspot.com) | 30 minutes |
| __hssc | HubSpot sets this cookie to track sessions and determine whether HubSpot will increase the number of sessions and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. | First Side Cookie | 30 minutes |
| ct_screen_info | CleanTalk uses this cookie to store n dynamic variables inthe browser. | Third Side Cookie (Cleantalk) | During the session |
| ct_has_scrolled | CleanTalk uses this cookie to store n dynamic variables inthe browser. | Third Side Cookie (Cleantalk) | During the session |
| ct_mouse_moved | CleanTalk uses this cookie to store n dynamic variables inthe browser. | Third Side Cookie (Cleantalk) | During the session |
- Targeting Cookies
These cookies are set by our advertising partners to provide behavioral advertising and re-marketing analytical data. They collect any type of browsing information necessary to create profiles and to understand user habits in order to develop an individual and specific advertising routine. The profile created regarding your browsing interest and behavior is used to customize the ads you see when you access other websites.
| Cookie Name | Purpose of Cookie | Cookie Type | Cookie Storage Period |
| test_cookie | This cookie checks whether the user’s browser supports cookies. | Third Side Cookie (doubleclick.net) | 15 minutes |
| IDE | It collects information that leads to the display of advertisements according to the user’s characteristics of using the site and his profile. | Third Side Cookie (doubleclick.net) | 1 year 24 days |
What are the Personal Data Processed by Cookies?
Your identity (first name, surname) and contact (e-mail address, phone number, IP, country information) information will be processed by us, through cookies, by automated or non-automated methods, and sometimes by obtaining, recording, storing and updating it from third parties such as analytics providers, advertising networks, search information providers, technology providers, on the basis of legitimate interest processing within the framework of and during the service and contractual relationship between us.
What Are Cookies Used For?
Our website uses cookies to ensure security through the detection of suspicious actions, to increase functionality and performance in line with the preferences of users, to develop and personalize products and services and to facilitate access to these services, and to fulfill contractual and legal responsibilities. There are also advertising cookies and information sharing with third parties in order to connect users with a wider range of service providers.
How are Cookies Managed?
After all these explanations, the issue of which cookies to use is completely left to the free will of our users. You can manage your cookie preferences by deleting or blocking them in your browser settings as soon as you step onto our website or change these settings at any time in the future.
Contact Us
You can contact us at one of the following ways to send us all your questions and comments regarding the Policy:
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail: info@smartmessage.com
Phone: +90 850 221 39 00
Mersis No: 0634042637100018
Address: Fatih Sultan Mehmet Mah. Balkan Cad. No:62/A Ümraniye 34771 İstanbul
