Cookie Policy
Last Updated: September 24, 2026
At Melike Tekstil Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Şirketi (“Melike Tekstil,” the “Company,” or “we”), we place great importance on the privacy of visitors to our website and the protection of their personal data.
This Cookie Policy has been prepared to inform you about the cookies and similar technologies used when you visit our website.
Personal data processing activities carried out through cookies are conducted in accordance with applicable legislation, particularly Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“KVKK”).
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files stored on your computer, tablet, mobile phone, or other internet-enabled devices by the websites you visit.
Cookies may be used for various purposes, such as ensuring the proper functioning of the website, remembering user preferences, evaluating website performance, maintaining security, and providing users with an improved browsing experience.
Cookies may not directly reveal information such as your first or last name on their own. However, certain information, such as your IP address, device details, browser information, visit timestamps, and browsing behavior on the website, may be processed through cookies.
2. What Purposes Do We Use Cookies For?
Cookies may be used on the Melike Tekstil website for the following purposes:
- To ensure the proper and secure functioning of the website,
- To enable navigation between pages and support essential website functions,
- To remember users' preferences,
- To identify technical issues on the website,
- To ensure website security and prevent misuse,
- To analyze the website's traffic and usage performance,
- To improve the user experience,
- To understand which sections of the website receive the most visits,
- To improve the content and services provided,
- To use analytics, functional, or marketing technologies where the user has provided their consent.
Personal data processing activities carried out through cookies are conducted in a manner that is relevant, limited, and proportionate to the intended purpose.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
Different types of cookies may be used on our website depending on their intended purposes.
3.1. Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are essential for the website's core functions to operate, maintaining its security, and providing services explicitly requested by the user.
If these cookies are disabled, certain sections or features of the website may not function properly.
Strictly necessary cookies may be used without obtaining separate explicit consent where an applicable legal basis for personal data processing, as provided under the relevant legislation, applies.
3.2. Functional Cookies
Functional cookies help the website provide enhanced and more personalized features.
Language preferences, display settings, and other choices made by visitors may be remembered through these types of cookies
Where the use of functional cookies requires explicit consent, these cookies will not be activated without the user's consent.
3.3. Performance and Analytics Cookies
Performance and analytics cookies enable us to collect statistical information about how visitors use the website.
Through these cookies:
- Pages visited,
- Visit duration,
- Source of access to the site,
- Device and browser type,
- General usage patterns on the pages
and similar information may be processed.
The information collected may be used to measure website performance, identify technical issues, and improve the user experience.
Performance and analytics cookies requiring explicit consent will not be activated unless the user has provided their consent.
3.4. Advertising and Marketing Cookies
Advertising and marketing cookies may be used to gain insights into visitors' interests, measure the effectiveness of advertisements on our website or third-party platforms, and deliver more relevant content to users.
Where these types of cookies are used, information about users' website visits and interactions may be shared with the relevant service providers.
Advertising and marketing cookies are activated only after obtaining the user's explicit consent, where required.
4. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies
Cookies can be classified as first-party or third-party cookies, depending on the party that places them on your device.
First-party cookies are cookies placed directly by the Melike Tekstil website.
Third-party cookies are cookies that may be placed by external services or third-party technology providers used on the website.
If third-party technologies such as Google Analytics, Google Maps, YouTube, reCAPTCHA, social media platforms, or similar services are used on the website, these service providers may use their own cookies or similar technologies.
Data processing activities carried out by third-party service providers within their own systems may also be subject to the respective providers' privacy and cookie policies.
5. Cookie Retention Periods
Cookies can be classified into session cookies and persistent cookies based on their retention periods.
Session cookies are stored temporarily until the web browser is closed and are deleted when the session ends.
Persistent cookies may remain stored on the user's device for a specified period or may be deleted earlier by the user.
The retention period for each cookie is determined in accordance with its intended purpose of use.
6. Managing Cookie Preferences
Where required, users' consent is obtained for the use of non-essential cookies on our website.
Through the cookie preference panel displayed during your first visit:
- You may accept all cookies,
- You may reject non-essential cookies,
- You may set your preferences individually for each cookie category.
Non-essential cookies will not be activated without your consent where no other legal basis applies to the relevant data processing activity and your explicit consent is required.
You may change your previously selected cookie preferences or withdraw your explicit consent at any time.
Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of data processing activities carried out prior to such withdrawal.
7. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
Most web browsers allow users to view, accept, block, or delete cookies.
Through your browser settings:
- You can delete existing cookies,
- You can block all cookies,
- You can block third-party cookies,
- You can manage cookies for specific websites,
- You can choose to receive notifications when cookies are stored on your device.
Please note that blocking strictly necessary cookies through your browser settings may prevent certain website functions from operating as expected.
8. Information About the Cookies We Use
The cookies used on our website may change over time due to updates to the website's technical infrastructure and the third-party services it uses.
Information about the cookies used is provided to visitors based on the following criteria:
Cookie Name: Technical name of the cookie
Provider: Service or domain that places the cookie
Purpose: Purpose for which the cookie is used
Type: Strictly necessary, functional, analytics, or marketing
Party: First-party or third-party
Retention Period: Period during which the cookie remains stored on the device
The current list of cookies used on the website can be viewed through the cookie management system in use or the cookie list provided in this policy.
9. Transfer of Personal Data
Personal data collected through cookies may be shared with service providers to the extent necessary for operating the website's technical infrastructure, ensuring its security, measuring its performance, and providing the relevant services.
Where third-party analytics, mapping, video, security, or similar services are used, certain personal data may be processed by the relevant service providers.
Where personal data is transferred abroad, such transfers shall be carried out in accordance with the requirements set forth under the KVKK and applicable personal data protection legislation.
10. Legal Basis for the Processing of Personal Data
Personal data collected through cookies is processed on the basis of an applicable legal ground for personal data processing as set forth under the KVKK, depending on the nature of the relevant data processing activity.
Cookies that are essential for the operation of the website and the provision of services explicitly requested by the user may be used on the basis of the applicable legal grounds provided for under the relevant legislation.
Analytics, functional, advertising, or marketing cookies that require explicit consent are activated on the basis of the user's freely given explicit consent.
11. Your Rights Under the KVKK
Under Article 11 of the KVKK, individuals whose personal data is processed have the right to:
- To learn whether their personal data is being processed,
- To request information if their personal data has been processed,
- To learn the purpose of processing their personal data and whether it is being used in accordance with that purpose,
- To learn the third parties to whom their personal data has been transferred,
- To request the correction of incomplete or inaccurate personal data,
- To request the deletion or destruction of personal data where the conditions stipulated under the applicable legislation are met,
- To request that third parties to whom personal data has been transferred be notified of any correction, deletion, or destruction of such data,
- To object to any outcome arising to their detriment as a result of the analysis of their personal data exclusively through automated systems,
- To request compensation for damages incurred as a result of the unlawful processing of their personal data.
has the right to exercise these rights.
12. Data Controller and Contact Information
Data Controller under the KVKK:
Melike Tekstil Industry and Trade Joint Stock Company.
Address: 4. Organize Sanayi Bölgesi, 83404 No’lu Cadde, No:17, Başpınar, Şehitkamil / Gaziantep
Phone: +90 342 357 03 03
Email: info@meliketekstil.com
To obtain information about your personal data and this Cookie Policy, or to submit a request regarding your rights under the KVKK, you may contact Melike Tekstil through the methods prescribed by applicable legislation.
13. Changes to the Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy may be updated in the event of changes to the technologies, cookies, service providers, or applicable legislation used on the website.
The latest version of this Policy shall take effect as of the date it is published on the website.
In the event of significant changes to cookie usage, visitors will be informed through the website, where necessary.
Melike Tekstil Industry and Trade Joint Stock Company.
Last Updated: September 24, 2026
