COOKIE POLICY

As Yılmaz Ulusoy Otel İşletme ve Yönetim A.Ş., we process personal data and use internet cookies in order to provide our visitors with a better user experience while respecting their privacy and personal data protection rights on our website [https://www.sericarestaurant.com] (the "Website"). This Cookie Policy (the "Policy") explains to all visitors and users of our Website what types of cookies are used and under which circumstances they are used.

This Policy applies regardless of the technologies, methods, or means you use to connect to the Website. Therefore, we recommend that you read this Policy carefully and keep a copy of it for future reference.

I. What Is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small data storage file placed on your computer, mobile phone, tablet, or other mobile devices by websites that you access.

II. What Are Cookies and For What Purposes Are They Used?

Cookies store information regarding your browsing activity on the Website. In this way, your devices will remember this information when you revisit the Website. Therefore, cookies are necessary and important for enabling you to use the Website effectively and easily.

Some Cookies are also used to provide you with more suitable services, products, or offers on the Website and on third-party websites.

The main purposes of using cookies are:

• The need for certain technical data in order to enable the Website to be used more effectively,

• To remember your previous preferences and enable you to conveniently access certain content available on the Website,

• The need for personal data such as your IP address in order for the Company to fulfill its legal and contractual obligations, particularly those arising under Law No. 5651 on the Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Combating Crimes Committed through Such Publications and the Regulation on the Procedures and Principles for the Regulation of Publications on the Internet.

III. What Types of Your Data Do We Process Through Cookies?

Depending on their type, cookies generally collect data relating to your browsing and usage preferences on the device through which you access the Website. This data includes the pages you access, the services and products you review, and all information relating to your browsing activity on the Website.

IV. What Types of Cookies Do We Use and How Do We Use Them?

We use different types of cookies on the Website. These include strictly necessary cookies that are required for the operation of the Website, functionality cookies, analytics/performance cookies, and targeting/advertising cookies.

TYPES OF COOKIES ACCORDING TO THEIR USE:

Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are absolutely necessary for the Website to function properly. They are required for system administration and the prevention of fraudulent transactions. If these cookies are blocked, the Website may not function properly.

Functionality Cookies: These cookies are used to provide you with a more advanced and convenient user experience. For example, they allow us to remember your previous preferences and provide you with convenient access to certain content available on the Website. You may prevent the use of these cookies as described in detail below.

Analytics/Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to analyze and understand how the Website functions and help us improve the Website by interacting with you. You may prevent the use of these cookies as described in detail below.

Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to identify and provide you with content, including advertising content, that may be of interest to you. You may prevent the use of these cookies as described in detail below. However, blocking these cookies may not completely prevent advertising content from being displayed; instead, you may receive general advertisements rather than advertisements that are specifically tailored to your interests. Such cookies are not used by ………………; however, you may already have third-party cookies stored on your device before visiting the Website.

TYPES OF COOKIES ACCORDING TO THEIR STORAGE PERIOD:

Persistent Cookies: These are cookies that remain on a person's computer until a specified date or until they are deleted by the user. These cookies are generally used to measure users' activity and preferences on the Website.

Session Cookies: These cookies are used to divide a user's visit into sessions and do not collect data from the user. The cookie is deleted when the user closes the web page they are visiting or remains inactive for a certain period of time.

THIRD-PARTY COOKIES

Some third-party cookies are also used on our Website. Although these cookies are not directly placed on the Website by Yılmaz Ulusoy Otel İşletme ve Yönetim A.Ş., they become active as a result of users visiting other websites.

Targeting and tracking cookies are used to assist third parties, particularly in providing advertising services, and to increase the effectiveness of such services. These cookies may remember the web pages and websites you visit and may collect personal data, particularly the IP address of the user's device. The Website uses third-party cookies solely to collect information, remember your interests and demographic data, provide you with targeted advertisements, improve advertisements, determine the number of visits and ad impressions, measure other uses of advertising services, and determine the ratio between interactions and such ad impressions and advertising services.

If you connect to social networks such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram, when you visit the Website through social plugins and use these plugins, the Website directly connects to the server of the selected social network. The content provided by the plugin is then transmitted directly from the relevant social network to your web browser and added to the website you are visiting. In this way, the relevant social network may access and process your data and combine it with data associated with your account on the relevant social network.

Please note that we have no influence or control over the scope of the data processed by social networks through their plugins. For further information on the purposes, methods, and duration of processing of your personal data by social networks, please carefully review the personal data processing policies published by the relevant social networks.

The following cookies are used on the Website:

V. How Can You Prevent the Use of Cookies?

Although the use of certain cookies is necessary for the Website to function, you may prevent the use of cookies other than these. However, please note that even in such a case, the Website may not function fully and you may not be able to benefit from all of its features.

In order to prevent the use of cookies, you need to change the settings of the internet browser you use. These changes vary depending on the device and internet browser you use. Information on the steps to be followed to prevent the use of cookies through different internet browsers is provided below:

• Internet Explorer

1. Open the desktop and tap or click the Internet Explorer icon on the taskbar.

2. Tap or click the Tools button and then Internet Options.

3. Tap or click the Privacy tab, then move the slider under Settings upward to block all cookies and tap or click the OK button.

• Microsoft Edge

1. Click the three-dot icon in the upper-right corner of your Microsoft Edge browser and go to Settings.

2. In the new window that appears, click Choose what to clear, and then select the items you wish to clear.

3. There are various options available here. Select the items you wish to remove and proceed with the clearing process.

• Google Chrome

1. Open Chrome on your computer.

2. Click More and then Settings in the upper-right corner.

3. Click Advanced at the bottom.

4. Under Privacy and security, click Content settings.

5. Click Cookies.

6. Under All cookies and site data, search for the name of the Website.

7. Click the Remove icon next to the Website.

• Mozilla Firefox

1. Click the Firefox Menu button and select Options.

2. Select the Privacy & Security panel and go to the History section.

3. Change the Firefox setting to Use custom settings for history.

4. Click the Show Cookies button. The Cookies window will appear.

5. In the Search: field, enter the name of the website whose cookies you wish to delete. The cookies matching your search will be displayed.

6. Select the cookie(s) you wish to delete and click Remove Selected.

7. Click Close to close the Cookies window. Then close the about:preferences page.

• Safari

1. Select Safari > Preferences.

2. Click Privacy.

3. Click Website Data.

4. Select one or more websites and then click Remove or Remove All.