Privacy Statement

for Cookies

This Privacy Statement explains the types of the cookies used by Hayat Finans Katılım Bankası A.Ş. (“Bank”) in its website and installed in your computer to automatically collect and process your personal data, the legal ground of the said collection and process, and your rights.

This statement was drafted by Hayat Finans Katılım Bankası A.Ş. acting as the data controller under Section 10 of the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“KVKK”) and the Communique on Procedure and Rules Governing the Privacy Statement Obligation.

Cookies are recognition files placed on your computer by a website. They are used by websites to recognize you and to provide special services to you.

• Pages viewed by the users in this bank’s applications, their shopping history, information collected by means of polls, campaigns, etc. are collected by means of the cookies.
• Information given in the online forms filled by the user.
• IP address, behaviors and recognition of the user in the website and sessions, uses for security purposes, the browser and application preferred by the user, and data to remember these things.
• Data on correct working of the website, utilization of the website as intended, its security, improving the website’s performance, recording the searches, starting a session, and similar functions.
• Data collected for advertisements and marketing activities.
• Data collected through the cookies to increase the functionality of the website, facilitate the visits, improve the user’s experience, setting a language, order and color scheme, present special campaigns and products, classify the users’ online behaviors, etc.

This bank uses necessary cookies, performance and analysis cookies, and advertising and marketing cookies.

In addition to the cookies prepared by this bank, cookies included in the services bought from third parties are used.

Basic purposes of the use of cookies:

• Recording your user experience and preferences (language, etc.) in our website for use in your subsequent visits
• Recording the information entered in the calculation tools available in our website.
• Recording data on your visits to predict the banking products you may choose and to present customized products to you.
• Recording statistical data on the user to increase the performance of our website.
• Collecting statistical data to perform more efficient marketing activities.
• Determining whether inquiries sent to our website are safe or not.
• Confirming that this Privacy Statement for Cookies has been acknowledged and the use of cookies was accepted by the user.
• Measuring the efficiency of advertising campaigns.
• Showing relevant and customized advertisements.
• Limiting the number of advertisements shown.

Your personal data may be processed basically to provide secure, efficient and quality services to you or depending on the nature of your relation with this bank after receiving explicit consent or instruction from you, or in case of any of the legal grounds described below without having to receive explicit consent or instruction from you.

Legal grounds

• A law requiring such processing
• Processing directly related with entering into or performing a contract
• Necessity to process the personal data of the parties to a contract
• Necessity to process to fulfill a legal obligation
• Necessity to process to create, use or protect a right
• Necessity to process to protect this bank’s lawful interests, provided that your basic rights and freedoms must be protected.

Your personal data are processed by associating them with your IP data. Your personal data are not transferred to other data controllers.

If you do not want our cookies to be stored in your computer, you can change your preference in the settings of your browser. Cookies management settings differ depending on the browser, therefore please follow the steps described below.

To block cookies:

• If you use Chrome, go to Settings / Privacy / Content/Block Cookies.
• If you use Edge, go to Preferences / Internet Settings / Privacy/Settings.
• If you use Firefox, go to Tools / Options / Privacy /Cookies method / Until Firefox is turned off.

Under Section 11 of the KVKK governing the related persons’ rights, you can notify your claims by sending them to the head office of this bank by mail, registered mail or a notary public or the registered e-mail address of this bank hayatfinanskatilimbankasi@hs03.kep.tr with a safe electronic signature.