Cookie Policy

Dear Visitor,

Investigative Medical Technologies Manufacturers Association (“ARTED"), ensuring your privacy and security while visiting our website is one of our top priorities.

With this Cookie Policy, we aim to inform you about what types of cookies we use and for what purposes by placing the cookies used on our website on your device.

What is a Cookie?

A cookie is a simple text file sent to your computer by our website's server when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used to provide you with a better and faster visiting experience.

Cookie Types

Cookies are divided into two, Permanent Cookies and Temporary Cookies, depending on their validity period. These two types of cookies are used on our website for the following purposes:

Persistent Cookie: These are cookies that remain on the computer / mobile device after you close the browser or application. They remain until you delete them or until they expire. Their purpose is to remember your preferences regarding settings so that your experience visiting the website continues as expected.

Temporary Cookie: These are cookies, also called “session” cookies, that are created during your visit and are deleted after your visit ends.

Additionally, cookies can be classified as follows according to their purpose of use:

• Used to ensure that the website works as intended and ensures security. mandatorycookies,
• It helps to remember the preferences of the user visiting the website (e.g. the language of your internet browser or mobile application, etc.), and aims to ensure that your website experience is as you expect. functionality cookies,
• It consists of information related to website usage, used and analyzed to develop websites, detect errors and check whether the website is working correctly, such as how long you spent on a page, which sub-link addresses you clicked, whether you received an error message on any page. performance and analytics cookies,
• It enables targeted advertisements to be made to you following your visit to the website, enables the company that manages the website to show you personalized advertisements, and determines how often the advertisements are seen, whether they are clicked on, whether they are effective, etc. used to measure and analyze the effectiveness of marketing cookies.

Cookies are also divided into two groups, depending on their nature: first-party cookies or third-party cookies. First party cookiesis placed directly by the website the user visits. Third party cookies is placed by a different domain other than the address visited by the user. In this context, both first-party and third-party cookies are used on our website.

As a rule, cookies do not collect your personal data. However, some cookies may provide information that can identify you when matched with other information you may provide during your website visit. Such cookies may also be subject to the privacy policy and/or information on the protection of personal data on our website and the Personal Data Protection Law ("KVKK"). Please regarding the protection of personal data Our Privacy Policy Please review.

None of the cookies currently used on our website obtain personal data and do not share personal data with ARTED. We will also inform you if there are any changes in the cookies to be used within the scope of this policy.

In this context, only the following cookies can currently be used on our website.

Your browser or mobile device may also use cookies for all your visits to the internet. ARTED is not the data controller in terms of the use of these cookies, and the companies that provide the browser or your mobile device software do not share any cookie information or personal data with ARTED. We strongly remind you to check your browser and mobile device settings and review their cookie policies.

How Are Cookies Collected?

Cookies are collected through the devices from which you access our website and application. This information collected is specific to your devices. When you visit our website from another device, cookies collected during your previous visit will not be available.

How Can You Change Your Cookie Preferences?

You can control cookies as you wish, prevent them from being collected/saved, or delete them if they are collected. Most internet browsers and mobile devices allow this. How you do this may differ for each browser and mobile device. You can access the necessary information and guidance from the settings section of your browser and mobile device.

You can find information about cookie management in frequently used browsers from the links below:

• Google Chrome

(https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDe sktop&hl=en)

• Mozilla Firefox

(https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-trackingprotection-firefox-desktop?redirectslug=enable-and-disable-cookies-websitepreferences&redirectlocale=en-US)

• Microsoft Internet Explorer

(https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/deleteand-manage-cookies-168dab11-0753-043d-7c16-ede5947fc64d)

• safari

(https://help.apple.com/safari/mac/9.0/#/sfri40732)

• opera

(https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/)

If you choose to delete cookies, persistent cookies will be deleted. If you choose to block cookies completely, this may also prevent functional cookies from working. Therefore, our website may not function correctly and effectively.

Investigative Medical Technologies Manufacturers Association

Barbaros Mah. Dereboyu Cad.

Fesleğen St. Uphill Towers A Block,

K: 5 D: 26 34746 Batı Ataşehir, Istanbul

Tel: 0 (216) 456 16 39

arted@arted.org.tr