İSTE & İSTE LAW FIRM

COOKIE POLICY

Last Updated: October 2026

İste & İste Law Firm (“İste & İste” or the “Firm”) values the privacy of visitors to its website and is committed to protecting their personal data.

This Cookie Policy (the “Policy”) has been prepared to inform visitors about the cookies and similar technologies used on the website available at www.iste-iste.av.tr and its related pages (the “Website”), the purposes and legal grounds for their use, and how visitors may manage their cookie preferences.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on, or accessed from, your device through your browser when you visit a website.

Cookies may be used for various purposes, including ensuring the secure and proper functioning of the Website, managing sessions and user preferences, enabling the provision of services offered through the Website, and understanding how visitors interact with the Website.

2. What Types of Cookies Do We Use and for What Purposes?

Cookies used on the Website are categorized according to their purposes as follows.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the secure and proper functioning of the Website and for enabling its essential features.

They may be used for purposes such as maintaining security, managing sessions, recording visitors’ cookie preferences, and ensuring the operation of the Website’s core functionalities.

Where visitors use online legal consultation services or make online payments through the Website, technically necessary cookies may also be used to securely process the relevant transaction, maintain the user session, complete the payment process, and perform security checks.

Strictly necessary cookies are not used for advertising or marketing purposes.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies are used to facilitate the use of the Website and to remember certain preferences selected by visitors.

Where the use of functional cookies requires explicit consent, such cookies will not be activated before the visitor has provided the relevant consent.

Performance and Analytics Cookies

Performance and analytics cookies may be used to evaluate the performance of the Website, understand how visitors use the Website, generate usage statistics, and contribute to the improvement of the Website.

Where performance and analytics cookies are subject to explicit consent, they will not be activated unless and until the visitor has provided such consent.

3. Cookies Used on the Website

The cookies currently identified as being used on the Website are listed below:

The cookies used on the Website may change as a result of changes to the Website’s technical infrastructure or the services used. The cookie inventory will be updated accordingly.

4. Personal Data Processed Through Cookies and Legal Grounds

Depending on the nature of the relevant cookie, information such as IP address, device and browser information, session information, Website usage and interaction data, cookie preferences, and cookie identifiers may be processed.

Personal data processing activities carried out through strictly necessary cookies are performed on the basis of the applicable personal data processing condition set forth under Article 5 of the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“KVKK”), depending on the nature of the relevant processing activity.

Where explicit consent constitutes the applicable legal basis for non-essential cookies, such cookies will not be activated unless and until the visitor has provided explicit consent.

A visitor’s decision not to consent to non-essential cookies will not prevent the visitor from using the Website’s essential functions. However, certain functionality associated with a declined cookie may not be available.

5. Online Legal Consultation and Online Payments

The Website enables users to obtain online legal consultation services and to make online payments in connection with such services.

In connection with these services, technically necessary cookies and similar technologies may be used to securely process transactions, maintain user sessions, process payments, prevent unauthorized transactions, and ensure security.

Where payments are processed through the infrastructure of third-party payment service providers, such providers may use their own cookies or similar technologies.

Personal data processed in connection with online legal consultation services, including identity and contact details, information relating to the consultation request, invoicing information, and transaction details, is governed separately by the applicable privacy notices and personal data protection documentation.

6. Third-Party Service Providers and Data Transfers

Third-party service providers may be used in connection with the operation and security of the Website, the provision of online legal consultation and payment services, or the performance of certain technical functions.

Where such service providers use cookies or similar technologies, personal data may be processed by the relevant service providers to the extent necessary for the provision of the relevant service.

Where personal data is transferred to third parties or abroad, such transfers are carried out in accordance with Articles 8 and 9 of the KVKK and the applicable requirements of data protection legislation.

7. Cookie Retention Periods

Cookies are retained only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which they are used and for any periods required under applicable legislation.

Depending on their retention period, cookies may be categorized as session cookies or persistent cookies.

Session cookies are stored for the duration of the browser session during which the visitor uses the Website and are generally deleted when the browser session ends.

Persistent cookies may remain on the visitor’s device for the period specified for the relevant cookie or until they are deleted by the visitor. Such cookies may, for example, be used to remember the visitor’s previously selected cookie preferences.

8. How Can You Manage Your Cookie Preferences?

You may manage your preferences regarding non-essential cookies used on the Website through the cookie management panel.

You may accept or reject non-essential cookies and may subsequently change the preferences you have previously selected.

You may also view, delete, or restrict the use of cookies stored on your device through your browser settings.

Blocking cookies that are technically necessary for the operation of the Website may result in certain essential functions of the Website not operating properly.

9. Personal Data Protection and Data Subject Rights

Where personal data is processed through cookies, visitors have the rights set forth under Article 11 of the KVKK.

Further information regarding the processing of your personal data, your rights under the KVKK, and the methods by which you may exercise those rights is available in our Privacy Notice on the Protection of Personal Data.

10. Updates to this Policy

İste & İste may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in the technologies used on the Website, the services offered through the Website, or applicable legislation.

The current version of the Policy becomes effective as of the date on which it is published on the Website.