Cookies are very small text files, usually composed of letters and numbers, that are saved to your computer (or other devices such as smartphones or tablets) by browsers of the websites you visit. Cookies do not include personal information about visitors, such as name, gender or address. Cookies do not collect any information stored on your computer or device or in your files.
Cookies are generated by servers that manage the website you visit. By this way, the server can understand when a visitor visits the same site. Cookies can be likened to identity cards that show website owners that the same visitor is visiting the site again.
Hello Group İnternet Hizmetleri Tic. Ltd. Şti. (“Hello Group”) cookies;
• are used in order to determine how you use the website/mobile application/mobile site, including where and from which devices you connect to the electronic trading platforms operated by the Hello Group, what content you display on the website/mobile application/mobile site and in order to determine how you use the website/mobile application/ mobile site, such as the duration of your visit.
• Performing basic functions necessary for the operation of the Site. For example, Site members can login with membership information.
• Analyzing the Site in order to identify errors and improving the performance of the Site. For example, identifying the numbers of visitors of the Site and adjusting performance accordingly or making it easier for visitors to find what they are looking for.
Hello Group cookies may also be used in order to offer you the advertisements that you may be interested in when you visit the website, mobile application or mobile site and/or websites of the Hello Group of the electronic trading platforms operated by the Hello Group or when you visit the websites on which the ads are placed by the Hello Group or when you visit the search engines, for the purpose of activating the “advertising technology” thereto. The advertising technology uses information about your previous visits to the website/mobile application /mobile site and to the websites / mobile / mobile site applications on which the ads are placed by the Hello Group, in order to offer you specific ads according to your interests. While offering such ads, a unique third-party cookie may be placed in your browser so that Hello Group can recognize you.
Hello Group is also using Google, Inc. ("Google"), which is a web analytics service provided by Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses cookies for the purpose of analyzing how the visitors use the website/mobile application/ mobile site through statistical information/reports thereof. For more information about using the Google Analytics (including rejection options), please visit the following website:
https://www.google.com/intl/tr/policies/privacy/#infocollect
In addition to this, your e-mail address is shared with these platforms, in order to offer you the ads that may be interesting for you on social media platforms and in order to create a special target audience. Your e-mail address is transmitted through secure channels and environments provided by these platforms. Social media platforms use your e-mail address only for matching purposes, by hashing your e-mail. Your e-mail address is not shared with third parties or other advertisers and it is deleted from the social media platforms, as soon as possible after the matching process is completed.
Depending on your Internet browser type, you can exercise your right to learn about cookies and allow or reject the cookies by following the below given steps:
• Google Chrome: You can allow or block cookies from the “Cookie” tab by clicking the “lock mark” or “i” in the “address section” in of your browser.
• Internet Explorer: Click on the “Tools” section at the top right corner of your browser and click on the “Security” segment and manage your cookies either by “allowing” them or by “not allowing” them.
• Mozilla Firefox: Click on the “open menu” section at the top right corner of your browser and click on the “Options” segment and manage your cookies by using the “Privacy and Security” button here.
• For other browsers (such as Opera, Microsoft edge), you may review the help or support pages of relevant browser.
• Safari: Select the “safari” segment from the “Adjustments” section of your smart phone and manage your cookies by using the “Privacy and Security” section.
• Along with the above-mentioned options, you may also visit the address of: https://www.allaboutcookies.org, https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/ in order to learn more about all of the cookies and for cookie management or you may use the "Privacy Badger" application. (https://www.eff.org/tr/privacybadger)
• For the management of the cookies or SDK in mobile applications, you may follow the instructions given in the Privacy or Adjustments sections of your device or you may download and use the Lumen Privacy Monitor (https://haystack.mobi) to your smart phone.
If you reject the persistent cookies or session cookies, you may still continue to use that website, mobile application or mobile site, however you may not be able to access overall functions of that website, mobile application or mobile site or you may have a limited access. This matter may vary depending on the mobile applications.
Types of Cookies depending on the durations of use: The electronic trading platforms operated by the Hello Group use session cookies and persistent cookies on the websites, mobile applications and mobile sites according to their duration of use. The session cookie ends when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard disk for a long time or indefinitely.
Types of cookies depending on the owner or the party placing the cookie: Hello Group cookies “first party cookies” and “third party cookies” are used on the websites, mobile applications and mobile sites of the electronic trading platforms operated by the Hello Group, depending on the party placing such cookies on such websites. Hello Group cookies are generated by the Hello Group and the third party cookies are managed by third party companies, that we work in collaboration with.
Types of cookies depending on the intended use: The technical cookies, verification cookies, targeting/advertising cookies, personalization cookies and analytical cookies are used on the websites, mobile applications and mobile sites of the electronic trading platforms operated by the Hello Group, depending on their intended use. By using these cookies the Hello Group, it conducts statistical studies in order to determine their spending habits basing on the categories such as, age, gender, mobile usage rate and etc. habits.
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Session Cookies |
Session cookies are temporary cookies used during our visitors' visits to the Site, which are deleted after the browser is closed. The main purpose of using such cookies is to ensure the proper functioning of the Site during your visit. For example; multiple forms of online forms. |
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Persistent Cookies |
Persistent cookies are types of cookies which are used in order to improve the functionality of the Site and to provide a faster and better service to our visitors. These types of cookies are used in order to remember the preferences of our visitors and they are stored on the device used by browsers. Some certain types of these persistent cookies may also be used in order to provide you with specific recommendations, by taking into account of your intended use of the Site. |
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Technical Cookies |
Technical cookies are used in order to ensure the operation of the Site and the non-functioning pages and areas of the website are determined by using these cookies. |
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Verification Cookies |
If visitors log into the Site using their passwords, such cookies will prevent the user from re-entering the password on each one of the pages visited, by identifying that the visitor is the site user during the visit of each page on the Site. |
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Targeting/Advertising Cookies |
These are the types of cookies which are used in order to customize the ads offered to users on the Site and to prevent displaying such ads again. |
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Personalization Cookies |
These are the types of cookies which are used in order to remember the preferences of the users, when visiting different Site pages. For example, remembering your choice of language. |
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Analytic Cookies |
Analytical cookies are cookies that provide the production of analytical results such as the numbers of visitors of the Site, the detection of pages displayed on the Site, Site visit hours, Site page scrolling movements and etc. |
The details regarding the cookies given place on the website of the Hello Group are given in the below table:
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Cookie Service Provider |
Cookie Name |
Cookie Purpose |
Cookie Type |
Cookie Duration |
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_ga |
Receiver data – for the utilization of the applications in the Google Tag Manager system |
Persistent Cookie |
2 years |
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_gat_gtag_UA_158194039_1 |
Used to throttle request rate. |
Persistent Cookie |
1 minute |
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_gid |
For segmenting of the receiver by the Google Tag Manager |
Persistent Cookie |
1 Day |