This Cookie Policy has been prepared to inform you, the visitors, about which types of cookies are used on the smoothhoreca.com website ("Website") and for what purposes, and to explain how you can manage your preferences regarding cookies.

Cookies are small text files stored on your device or network server via browsers by the websites you visit.

Cookies are created by servers associated with the website you visit and are used for the following purposes:

To analyze the behavior of visitors and improve the performance of the Website.

To increase the functionality of the Website and provide ease of use.

To perform personalization, targeting and advertising activities.

Cookies remember some information about you to fulfill these purposes and enable us to fulfill these purposes.

On the Website;

- Session, user ID and security type basic cookies in order to provide access to the Website and to ensure that it works in accordance with your Website preferences,

- Preference cookies, such as language, location, mobile, last visit and page history, to help us learn about your online behavior and preferences,

- Analytics cookies of the Google Analytics type to collect information about your use of the Website,

- There are marketing cookies within the scope of campaigns to be carried out on the Website.

You have the opportunity to customize your preferences for cookies by changing your browser settings.

If the browser you use offers this opportunity, you can change the preferences for cookies through the browser settings. Thus, although it may vary according to the possibilities offered by the browser, visitors have the opportunity to prevent the use of cookies, prefer to receive alerts before cookies are used, or disable or delete only some cookies.

What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a text file stored on the hard drive or browser folder when a website is visited. It is aimed to make the service offered to website visitors faster and more functional through cookies. Providing a personalized online environment according to the website visitor is provided through cookies. Our visitors can determine and change their preferences regarding the use of cookies. Likewise, the visitor has the right to request the deletion of cookies.

Types of Cookies
Cookies can be classified as cookies according to the purpose they serve, according to the period of time the data is stored and according to the sources of their formation.

Cookies by Purpose
In this classification according to the purpose of using the cookie, strictly necessary cookies, preference cookies, statistical cookies and marketing cookies are explained.

Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are cookies that are essential for the use of features such as browsing the website and access to secure areas of the site. When shopping online in e-commerce stores, the user's preferred items need to be stored for the next step in order to end the transaction. Cookies that allow items to be kept in the shopping cart on e-commerce sites are examples of strictly necessary cookies. Strictly necessary cookies are generally first-party session cookies. Although consent is not required for these cookies, it should be explained to the user why the cookie is used and the necessity of the cookie.

Preference Cookies
It allows the website to remember the choices made in the past (username information, password information, which language is preferred, etc.). Preference cookies that enable automatic access to the website are also called functional cookies.

Statistics Cookies
Statistics cookies, also known as performance cookies, are cookies that provide anonymous, statistical data regarding the use of the website. With statistics cookies, how the user uses the website, the pages visited, the links clicked can be stored. Anonymized statistical cookies are not used to identify the website user. The purpose of these cookies is to make the website more functional.

Marketing Cookies
Marketing cookies are cookies that enable advertisers to serve ads based on the user's interest. Statistical data of the advertisements encountered by the website user, data obtained through marketing cookies, may be shared with other organizations or advertisers. These are cookies that can be stored permanently.

Cookies According to Storage Periods
Cookies are divided into session cookies and persistent cookies according to the retention period of the data. Session cookies differ from persistent cookies in that they provide temporary, instant data information.

Session Cookies
Session cookies provide data that can be stored until the user closes the browser or the session ends. They are short-term cookies.

Persistent Cookies
Persistent cookies are cookies that remain on the drive until the date the cookie is deleted by the user or until the specific expiration date for the cookie. Persistent cookies have a variable, written expiration date in their code. According to the E- Privacy Directive, persistent cookies should not last longer than 12 months.

Cookies by Source
It is a classification made according to the party/source from which the cookie is placed on the device.

First Party Cookies
As the name suggests, first-party cookies are placed directly on the device by the website visited.

Third Party Cookies
Third-party cookies are cookies placed on the device not by the website visited, but by a third party, such as an advertiser or analytics system.

Privacy and Cookie Management
We process the data related to the sections that users visit when they enter the website for purposes such as increasing the quality of use of our users when they enter the website, increasing the benefit received from the use of the site by facilitating the use of the site, and improving our website and preventing the possibility of security vulnerabilities within the scope of KVKK by observing the legal rights of our users. Users accept and declare that they have been informed about the processing of the data mentioned so far and that they consent to the data processing process to be carried out by Elle in this context, starting from the moment they enter the site and ending with their departure, including the use of the contact form. Users can prevent websites from processing/storing their personal data through cookies. They can also delete cookies in their internet browser beforehand.