Cookie Policy

Royal Duchess Marine Denizcilik A.Ş. (Royal Duchess Marine) residing at the address of Postane Mah. Şelale Sk. A Blok No:4 Interior Door No:1 Tuzla/Istanbul , uses cookies (Cookie/Cookies) at the website https://royalduchessmarine.com (Site) during visitors (Visitors) visit to the Site which is owned and managed by Royal Duchess Marine. This use of Cookies is carried out in accordance with the legislation to which Royal Duchess Marine is subject, in particular the Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (KVKK). Royal Duchess Marine cannot disclose the personal data obtained about the Data Subject to anyone else in violation of the Privacy Policy and Personal Data Text and the provisions of the Personal Data Protection Law and cannot use it for purposes other than processing.

This Cookie Policy is an annex to the Site Use Agreement and the Privacy Policy and Personal Data Text and constitutes an integral part of these texts.

1. What is a Cookie?

Cookie technical communication files are small text files that a website sends to the user's device or network server via browsers. This text file is completely personalized and can only be read by the web server that defines this code. It is definitely not a virus. Cookies are for the Site to recognize the person later.

2. What are the Purposes of Using Cookies?

Royal Duchess Marine uses Cookies for various purposes on the Website and may process personal data through these Cookies. These purposes are mainly as follows:

To perform basic functions necessary for the operation of the Site,
To improve the services offered and provide ease of use by enhancing the functionality and performance of the Site,
To recognize you on your next visit to the Site;
To offer new features to the Site and to personalize the features offered according to preferences,
To ensure the legal and commercial security of the Site, Royal Duchess Marine and the Visitor,
Creating visit traffic statistics (determining the date and time information of visits to the Site),
Making recommendations based on visitors' preferred services (usage analytics), and
To determine how to be informed about the Site.

3. Types of Cookies in Terms of Use

Mandatory Cookies: These Cookies are cookies that are absolutely necessary for the Site to function properly. These Cookies are needed to manage the system and prevent fraudulent transactions, and if they are blocked, the Site cannot function properly.

Analysis/Performance Cookies: These Cookies enable the functioning of the Site to be analyzed and understood and the Site to be improved by interacting with the User. The use of these Cookies may be blocked.

Functional and Analytical Cookies: These Cookies are cookies used to provide the User with an easier and improved user experience. It performs functions such as remembering previous preferences, providing easy access to some content on the Site, using the Site effectively, optimizing the Site to respond to user requests and how visitors use the Site. Due to its nature, this type of Cookies may contain personal information such as user name etc. The use of these Cookies may be blocked.

Targeting/Advertising/Commercial Cookies: These Cookies are used to identify and present content that may be of interest, including advertising content. It serves to increase the user experience by offering similar products/content to the targeted product/content in line with the interests and choices of the users and by offering a more advanced, personalized advertising portfolio. These Cookies are kept in the background for approximately 2 (two) months and it is possible for the user to make the necessary adjustments in the internet browser settings. In any case, these settings may vary depending on the internet browser. The use of these Cookies can be blocked. However, this blocking will not completely block advertising content; only ads with general content will be presented instead of ads that may be of interest to the user.

Flash Cookies: These are the types of cookies used to activate the image or audio content on the Site.

Third Party Cookies: The Site works with third party reliable, well-known advertising providers. Third party service providers place their own Cookies in order to offer customized advertisements to the user. Cookies placed by the third party collect, process and analyze the navigation information of visitors on the Site and how they use it.

4. Types of Cookies in Terms of Duration of Storage

Persistent Cookies: Cookies that persist on a person's computer and smart mobile device until deleted by the person or until a certain date. These Cookies are mostly used to measure users' preferences and site movements.

Session Cookies: These Cookies are used to divide the user's visit into sessions and do not collect data from the user. These Cookies are deleted when the user remains inactive on the Site for a certain period of time or closes the Site. Targeting/Advertising/Commercial Cookies are used as defined above for third parties to provide services on the Site and to increase the effectiveness of these services. These Cookies may remember the web pages and sites visited and collect personal data, in particular the IP address of the user device. The Site uses both first-party and third-party cookies to collect information, remember demographic data and interests, serve targeted ads to the user, and determine the number of ad impressions and visits. When the Site is visited and these plugins are used, the Site connects directly to the server of the selected social network. The content offered by the plugin is then transmitted directly from the social networks to the web browser and added to the website being visited. In this way, the social network concerned can access and process the user's data and combine it with the data belonging to the account on the social network concerned.

Royal Duchess Marine has no control over the data processed by social networks through plugins. For more information on the purposes, methods and duration for which social networks will process your personal data, you should carefully review the personal data policies published by the relevant social networks.

5. Cookies Used on the Website

Cookie Name

Cookie Type

Purpose of Use

Google Analytics

- Functional and Analytical Cookies