QBA Medi Tours
Cookie Policy

As QBA Medi Turizm Sağlık ve Dış Ticaret Anonim Şirketi (“QBA Medi Tours”), we use certain technologies such as cookies, pixels, and gifs (collectively referred to as “cookies”) to enhance your experience during visits to our online platforms. The use of these technologies is carried out in accordance with applicable legislation, particularly the Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (KVKK).

Purpose of the Cookie Policy

The purpose of this Cookie Policy is to provide information about the processing of personal data obtained through the use of cookies by users/members/visitors (data subjects) during visits to the website operated by us at www.qba-meditours.com. In this document, we aim to explain which types of cookies we use for what purposes and how you can control these cookies.

As QBA Medi Tours, we may stop using cookies on our website, change their types or functions, or add new cookies. Therefore, we reserve the right to make changes to this Cookie Policy at any time. Any changes made to the updated policy will become effective once published on the website or any public platform. The date of the latest update can be found at the top of this text.

For more detailed information about the processing of your personal data by QBA Medi Tours, we recommend reviewing our Personal Data Protection Policy available at www.qba-meditours.com.

1. For What Purposes Are Cookies Used?

As QBA Medi Tours, we use cookies on our website for various purposes and process your personal data through these cookies. The main purposes are:

• To remember your preferences

• To provide the service you requested

• To understand how you use our website

• To monitor and analyze the performance, functionality, and efficiency of our website

• To evaluate and enhance the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns

• To detect and prevent cyber-attacks to ensure security and prevent fraud

We process your personal data through automated means in accordance with Article 5 of the KVKK based on the following legal grounds:

• With the explicit consent of the data subject

• Where processing is necessary for QBA Medi Tours to fulfill its legal obligations

• Where processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or protection of a right

• Where processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of the data controller, provided that it does not harm the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject

Your personal data may be shared with suppliers from whom QBA Medi Tours receives services, solely for the purposes specified in this policy and in accordance with the law. Data recipients securely store your data within the relevant web interface panels.

2. Types of Cookies Used on Our Website

Below you can find the different types of cookies we use on our website. Both first-party cookies (set by the website you are visiting) and third-party cookies (set by servers other than the website you are visiting) are used.

2.1. Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly and allow users to navigate and use secure areas of the site. Without these cookies, key parts of the website cannot be used.

2.2. Functionality and Preference Cookies

These cookies collect information about user behavior anonymously and do not track your activities across other websites. They may include cookies that remember user preferences or support requested services.

2.3. Performance and Analytics Cookies

These cookies help remember user preferences (such as language settings) and enable a more personalized and enhanced user experience.

2.4. Targeting or Advertising Cookies

These cookies are used to display ads relevant to the user’s interests and to measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns. They also allow communication with potential advertisers based on user interaction with certain pages.

3. How Can You Control the Use of Cookies?

Depending on your internet browser, you can get information about cookies and exercise your right to allow or refuse them by following the steps below:

Google Chrome:

Click the lock icon or “i” symbol in the address bar. Go to the “Cookies” section to allow or block cookies.

Internet Explorer:

Click “Tools” in the upper-right corner of your browser, go to the “Security” tab and manage cookies through “Allow” or “Block” settings.

Mozilla Firefox:

Click the “Open Menu” button in the upper-right corner of your browser. Go to “Options” > “Privacy & Security” to manage cookies.

Safari:

Go to “Settings” > “Safari” on your phone and manage cookies under the “Privacy & Security” section.

Opera:

Visit https://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/ for support.

Other Browsers (e.g., Microsoft Edge, Maxthon):
Check the help or support pages of the respective browsers.

You can also visit the following websites for general information and cookie management options:

• https://www.allaboutcookies.org

• https://www.youronlinechoices.eu

• Use the “Privacy Badger” extension: https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

4. What Are Your Rights as a Data Subject?

Under the KVKK, data subjects have the following rights regarding their personal data:

• To learn whether their personal data is processed

• To request information if their personal data has been processed

• To learn the purpose of processing and whether it is used in line with that purpose

• To know the third parties to whom data has been transferred domestically or abroad

• To request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data

• To request deletion or destruction of personal data under the conditions set by law

• To request that correction or deletion is notified to third parties to whom data was disclosed

• To object to outcomes against them arising from automated processing

• To request compensation for damages caused by unlawful processing

You may submit your requests regarding these rights to us via the methods specified in the Personal Data Protection Policy available at www.qba-meditours.com. Your requests will be evaluated and finalized as soon as possible and no later than 30 (thirty) days. As a rule, no fee is charged for such requests. However, if the process incurs a cost, a fee may be requested in accordance with the tariff set by the Personal Data Protection Authority. If the request results from the fault of QBA Medi Tours, any collected fee will be refunded to the data subject.