Privacy & Cookie Policy

1. What Is a Cookie?

Cookies are small text files, generally consisting of letters and numbers, which are stored on your device or network server through the browser by the website you visit.

As the University, we use cookies, pixels and similar technologies in connection with your visit to the University’s website at sucool.sabanciuniv.edu. In this respect, cookies are used in compliance with Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (“Law”), as well as all regulations, communiqués and decisions issued from time to time by the Personal Data Protection Authority.

You may at any time access detailed information regarding the processing, transfer, protection, retention and destruction of your personal data through the Clarification Texts and policies published by the University on its website.

2. Purpose of Using Cookies

We use the data obtained through cookies from users visiting our website primarily for the following purposes:

• To ensure the operation of the essential functions and functionality of the website.
• To ensure the proper operation of the website.
• To conduct statistical analyses and performance measurements.
• To manage the website interface and session information.
• To analyze visitor sessions and patterns of website use.
• To measure and evaluate advertising and campaign performance and conversions.
• To carry out retargeting and interest-based advertising activities for visitors.

3. Method and Legal Basis for Collecting Personal Data

Visitors may be required to provide certain personal data through the forms available on our website. Information regarding the personal data processed is set out in the relevant sections of the Clarification Texts available on our website. In addition, the personal data specified above, which are collected by the University through cookies during your visit to our website, may be processed in accordance with Articles 5 and 6 of the Law. Furthermore, within the scope of web server access logs, IP address, user agent information (browser and operating system), request time, requested resource, HTTP status code and referrer address information are processed. Through Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager services, approximate geolocation based on IP address, page view, session, device and traffic source information are processed.

4. Cookies Used on Our Website

The types and characteristics of the cookies used on our website are set out below:

Session Cookies

Session cookies are cookies that are used temporarily for the duration of visitors’ use of the website and, as a rule, are deleted when the browser is closed. These cookies may be used for purposes such as ensuring the secure and proper operation of the website, managing session information, and performing the technical functions required during the visit.

Persistent Cookies

Persistent cookies are cookies that continue to be stored on the user’s device for a predetermined period of time even after the browser is closed. These cookies may be used for purposes such as distinguishing visitors and sessions from one another, analyzing website usage and traffic sources, measuring visitor interactions and performance, evaluating advertising and conversion effectiveness, carrying out retargeting activities, and managing preferences relating to the provision of third-party services and content.

Within this scope, the cookies used on our website are listed below:

5. Transfer of Personal Data

Within the scope of this Privacy and Cookie Policy, your personal data collected through cookies may be transferred to the following recipients, limited to the purposes specified below and in accordance with the applicable legislation:

• Authorized Public Institutions and Organizations: Sharing/transferring information and documents requested from the University by the relevant public institutions and organizations, limited to the purpose of the request and the scope of commercial activities.
• Suppliers: Sharing/transferring personal data with suppliers and service providers engaged in these areas, limited to the provision of the relevant services, for the purposes of providing the technical infrastructure of the website, delivering content and JavaScript libraries, providing third-party widget services, improving user experience, conducting visitor and usage analytics, carrying out advertising and retargeting activities, and providing font and video content.

6. Use and Control of Cookies

During your visit to our website, you have the right to determine and customize your preferences regarding the cookies used by changing the settings of the browser you use. To the extent permitted by the technical infrastructure of your browser, you may completely block the use of cookies, receive notifications before cookies are used, disable certain types of cookies, or delete existing cookies. The available options and methods may vary depending on the browser used and the technical specifications of the device. General information regarding cookie management is available at https://www.aboutcookies.org/. Cookie preferences are configured separately for each device and browser through which you access our website; therefore, preferences may need to be set separately for each device used to access the website.

Our website also contains links to other websites. The University is not responsible for the privacy policies or content of such other websites.

7. Your Rights as a Data Subject

If, as personal data subjects, you submit your requests regarding your rights through the Data Subject Application Form published at sucool.sabanciuniv.edu or by using the methods specified in the Communiqué on the Procedures and Principles of Application to the Data Controller, the University shall conclude your request free of charge, depending on the nature of the request, as soon as possible and in any event within thirty days at the latest.

Within this scope, personal data subjects have the right to learn whether their personal data are being processed, request information if their personal data have been processed, learn the purpose of the processing of their personal data and whether such data are used in accordance with such purpose, know the third parties to whom their personal data are transferred domestically or abroad, request the correction of their personal data where such data have been processed incompletely or inaccurately and request that the relevant correction be notified to third parties to whom the personal data have been transferred, request the deletion or destruction of their personal data where the reasons requiring their processing no longer exist, even though such personal data have been processed in accordance with the Law and other applicable legislation, and request that the relevant action be notified to third parties to whom the personal data have been transferred, object to the occurrence of a result against them arising from the analysis of processed personal data exclusively through automated systems, and claim compensation for damages suffered as a result of the unlawful processing of personal data.

Our website contains links to websites operated by third-party companies, and the University has no involvement in or responsibility for the policies and procedures applied by such third parties in relation to the processing of personal data.

The University reserves the right to update and amend this Policy in line with any changes that may occur in its personal data processing activities.

8. Data Controller Information