This Cookie Privacy Notice and Cookie Policy (the "Cookie Policy") has been prepared under the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 ("KVKK") and the Authority's Guidelines on Cookies (the "Guidelines"). It informs visitors about cookies and similar technologies used on alpbulgur.com (the "Site"), operated under the trade name "Alp Bulgur Diş Kliniği" by data controller Dentist Hamdi Alp Bulgur, an oral and dental health practice (the "Practice").
1. What Is a Cookie?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device through your browser by websites you visit. They enable operation, security, remembering preferences and usage statistics. Session cookies are deleted when the browser closes; persistent cookies remain for a specified period. First-party cookies are set by the Site; third-party cookies by other providers. Browser local storage, pixels and similar technologies are also treated as cookies under this Policy.
2. Purposes and Legal Grounds
Cookies support operation of the Site and online appointment system, session continuity, security, prevention of misuse and automated bot requests, remembering language and display preferences, displaying the contact-page map, statistical measurement of usage and improving Site performance.
Necessary cookies and user-interface personalisation cookies exempt from consent under the Guidelines (such as language preferences) rely on Article 5(2)(c) of the KVKK (contract performance) and Article 5(2)(f) (legitimate interests), as needed to deliver your requested service. Performance, analytics and third-party cookies requiring consent rely solely on explicit consent under Article 5(1). Google Analytics cookies are used on the Site as consent-requiring cookies. They do not operate until you explicitly consent through the panel shown on your first visit. If you refuse or withdraw consent, they remain disabled and essential Site features remain available.
3. Types of Cookies Used
a) Necessary cookies
These are necessary for the Site and online appointment system. They include session management, form security and cookies set by the security and content delivery provider to block malicious traffic and automated requests. They cannot be disabled by the user; disabling them may prevent the Site or appointment system from working properly.
b) Functional cookies
These remember your language (Turkish, English or German) and similar settings. Based on your express choice and limited to a session or short period, they are user-interface personalisation cookies exempt from consent under the Guidelines. Disabling them may limit functionality.
c) Performance and analytics cookies
Google Analytics (GA4), provided by Google LLC, is used to understand Site usage, measure traffic and page performance and improve the Site. It places the following third-party cookies on your device:
Google Analytics: a randomly generated identifier distinguishes visitors and is retained for 2 years; cookies maintaining session status and counting visits are retained for 2 years.
These cookies process data such as pages viewed, visit count and duration, referral source, browser, operating system, device type, screen resolution, approximate country/city and Site interactions. Your IP address is used momentarily only to determine approximate location and is not recorded or retained by Google Analytics. Analytics cookies operate only with explicit consent through the panel; without consent they are not placed, and on withdrawal they are disabled. The Practice uses Analytics only for aggregate statistical reporting, does not enable advertising features or Google Signals, does not use data for advertising or targeting, and sets Analytics data retention to no more than 14 months. Data collected through Analytics are processed on Google's servers abroad; section 4 explains these transfers. Information about Google's processing is available at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
d) Third-party cookies
Google Maps on the contact page loads only when you click "Show map"; Google may then set its own cookies. Video content on the About page loads only after clicking play, using YouTube privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com); YouTube (Google) may set its own cookies when the video plays. Links to Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp open those platforms' own pages only when clicked. Those platforms have their own privacy policies. Their controller status and policies apply to processing on their platforms; the Practice has no control over that processing.
e) Advertising and targeting cookies
In view of the prohibition of healthcare advertising under the Regulation on Promotion and Information Activities in Health Services, the Practice does not use advertising or targeting cookies on the Site.
4. Third-Party Providers and Transfers Abroad
The Site may use overseas hosting, security and content delivery providers. Data such as IP addresses, browser information and access logs processed through cookies and similar technologies may therefore be transferred abroad. Analytics-cookie data are also processed by Google LLC (USA) and its affiliates on servers abroad. Without Analytics consent, Google Analytics does not operate and no transfer takes place through it. Under Article 9 of the KVKK as amended by Law No. 7499, transfers rely on an adequacy decision, appropriate safeguards such as a Board-published standard contract, or, for occasional transfers, explicit consent following information about possible risks.
5. Managing Cookies
Consent-requiring cookies (Google Analytics) operate only if you explicitly agree through the first-visit panel; they are not placed beforehand. You may accept all, allow only necessary cookies and reject the rest, and change preferences or withdraw consent at any time through "Cookie Settings" in the footer. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of earlier processing. You may also prevent Analytics collection using Google's browser add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Browser settings also allow you to delete or block cookies or request warnings before placement:
• Google Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Third-party cookies / Site settings → Cookies
• Safari: Settings → Privacy → Cookies and website data
• Mozilla Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
• Microsoft Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage cookies and site data
Browser interfaces may change; consult the official help pages for current guidance. Disabling some cookies may prevent certain features, particularly the online appointment system, from working.
6. Personal Data Processed Through Cookies and Retention
Cookies may process IP addresses, browser and device information, visit date and time, pages viewed, language and session identifiers, and, with consent, analytics identifiers and usage statistics. Session cookies are deleted when the visit ends or the browser closes. Persistent cookies remain for the period specified by their purpose and type, never longer than 24 months, and are removed on expiry or browser deletion. Analytics cookie names and periods are in section 3(c). When the processing purpose ceases, data obtained through cookies are deleted, destroyed or anonymised under our Personal Data Retention and Disposal Policy. Access logs are retained for no more than two years on our legitimate-interest ground for Site security, in line with the maximum hosting-provider period under Law No. 5651.
7. Your Rights as a Data Subject
Under Article 11 of the KVKK, you may learn whether your personal data are processed; request information; learn the purpose and whether use accords with it; know recipients in Türkiye or abroad; seek correction of incomplete or inaccurate data; seek deletion or destruction where conditions apply; request notification of resulting actions to recipients; object to adverse results from exclusively automated analysis; and seek compensation for damage from unlawful processing.
Under the Communiqué on the Procedures and Principles for Requests to the Data Controller, you may complete the Data Subject Request Form on our website and deliver a handwritten-signed request in person or through a notary to Sırakapılar Mahallesi, Gazi Bulvarı, 1581 Sokak, No: 1, Daire: 28, Merkezefendi / Denizli; send a secure electronically or mobile-signed request to info@alpbulgur.com; or email that address from an email address previously provided to the Practice and registered in our system.
8. Updates
This Policy may be updated when Site cookies or legislation change. The current version is always the one published on the Site.
9. Data Controller Details
Data Controller: Dentist Hamdi Alp Bulgur (an oral and dental health practice operating under the trade name "Alp Bulgur Diş Kliniği")
Address: Sırakapılar Mahallesi, Gazi Bulvarı, 1581 Sokak, No: 1, Daire: 28, Merkezefendi / Denizli
Telephone: +90 532 240 93 19 / +90 258 261 84 36
Email: info@alpbulgur.com
Website: alpbulgur.com
Technical Cookie and Preference Inventory
Google Analytics cookies: _ga (visitor distinction) and _ga_5Q89D1SCP5 (session status); only with analytics consent, for up to 2 years. The preference cookie alp_consent_v1 and analytics-blocking cookie alp_analytics_block are necessary preference records, retained for up to 180 days. The local-storage keys alp-analytics-block and alp-consent-change are also used only for preferences and synchronisation between tabs, for up to 180 days.
The consent evidence record contains random browser and receipt identifiers, server time, action, selected category, language and notice version. Consent records are retained for 2 years. They do not include raw IP addresses, the treatment page visited or a fingerprint.