This Cookie Policy (“Policy”) applies to the website managed by Boğaziçi University Center for Targeted Therapy Technologies (Boğaziçi CT³). Cookies will be used during your visit to the website in the manner described in this Policy.

What Is a Cookie?

Cookies are small text files created on your device by a website and stored in a name–value format. Cookies enable the website you visit to store information on your device and to use that stored information during your subsequent visits. Cookies created by a website are stored by the web browser you use to access that website, and remote access to the information contained in the cookies is only possible by websites offered under the domain name that created the cookie (e.g., site.org.tr) and only if you use the same browser.

Today, cookies have become an important part of web technologies. Their main functions are to remember visitors and their preferences and to recognize the device. Almost every website uses cookies.

Types of Cookies

Cookies created by the website you visit and readable only by that website are first-party cookies. Content offered on the visited website may also be provided through domains other than the domain name in the access address (for example, viewing content hosted on a video platform via a social media site). In such cases, each domain may create its own third-party cookies.

For What Purposes Are Cookies Used?

We use cookies for the purposes listed below: to remember your browsing and usage preferences during your visit to our website (e.g., display language), to make our website easier to use, and to customize our website according to your preferences; to ensure that various features and functions of our website operate properly (e.g., keeping your session active, placing dynamic content, etc.); to collect and analyze non-personal, general information about how visitors use our website—such as the most clicked links, the most visited pages, and the number of error messages displayed—in order to fix faulty pages, improve our website, and remove or enhance pages that are not preferred. The data we collect through cookies are not used to identify you, perform personalized profiling and targeting, or track your internet activities outside our website. Cookies are not used for purposes other than those stated in this Policy, and all related processes are carried out in accordance with data protection legislation.

Managing Cookies

Web browsers generally accept cookies automatically. Using cookies is not mandatory to use our website; however, if you configure your browser not to accept cookies, the quality of your user experience may decrease and certain functions of our website may not work properly.

You can configure your browser to block cookies for all websites or for specific websites, to notify you when a cookie is created, to block third-party cookies, or to treat all cookies as session cookies. In addition, you can delete cookies via your browser, or view the list and values of cookies stored in your browser.