COOKIE CLARIFICATION TEXT (“CLARIFICATION TEXT”)
If you contact us via our website, email address, or social media channels (LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook), or if you submit requests for information, complaints, or job applications through these channels; we process your personal data—specifically your first and last name, email address, phone number, log records, and other relevant information provided by you depending on your request or complaint—for the purposes of fulfilling your requests, resolving your complaints, contacting you when deemed necessary within this scope, addressing you correctly when you reach out to us, and better managing, tracking, and reporting customer relationship processes.

DATA CONTROLLER: CAVO OTOMOTİV

As Cavo Otomotiv Sanayi Ve Ticaret Anonim Şirketi (“Company”), we use cookies and similar technology products (collectively referred to as “Cookies”) during your visits to our online platforms for the purposes detailed below.We would like to emphasize that these technologies are utilized in accordance with the legislation we are subject to, primarily the Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (“Law”).The purpose of this Clarification Text is to inform you regarding the purposes of processing personal data obtained through the use of cookies by website visitors (“Visitor”) during the operation of our Company's website at https://www.cavo.com.tr (“Website”), as well as the management of these cookies. Our Company reserves the right to stop using the cookies we use on our Website, change their types or functions, or add new cookies. For these reasons, we reserve the right to amend the provisions of this Clarification Text at any time.

1. WHAT ARE COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES?
Cookies are small data files saved on your device via your browser when you visit a website. While ensuring that the site works more effectively, these files enable a faster experience that is aligned with user preferences.

Cookie-like technologies, on the other hand, are technical methods that allow writing data to user devices via the website, reading this data, recognizing users, or analyzing their behavior. These technologies are used for purposes such as improving user experience, personalizing services, performing performance analyses, and carrying out advertising activities.

2. COOKIES USED IN COOKIE MANAGEMENT:

• First-Party Cookies: These are cookies placed directly by the website you are visiting—that is, the web address displayed in your browser's address bar.

• Third-Party Cookies: Cookies created and managed by third-party companies with which we cooperate are referred to as third-party cookies.

3. COOKIES ACCORDING TO PURPOSE OF USE:

The following Cookies are used on our site according to their purpose of use:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies (Mandatory Cookies): These are strictly necessary cookies used for legitimate purposes, fulfilling functions required for the operation of the website, providing technical storage or access, enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.

• Performance-Analytical Cookies: These cookies enable the statistical measurement and analysis of user behavior on the site. They are frequently used to improve the website and serve technical storage or access for statistical purposes.

• Advertising/Marketing Cookies: These cookies track users' online movements across the internet to identify their personal interests and display targeted advertisements. Marketing technical storage or access is used to create user profiles for sending advertisements or analyzing activities for similar marketing purposes.

4. COOKIES ACCORDING TO DURATION OF USE:

• Session Cookies: Cookies that exist only while your browser is open and are deleted when your browser is closed.

• Persistent Cookies: Cookies that remain after your browser is closed until a specific expiration date. These can be used by websites to recognize your computer when you open your browser and navigate the internet again. You can also delete them prior to the specified duration by changing your cookie settings.

COOKIES AND PURPOSES OF USE

The website https://www.cavo.com.tr processes cookies for the following purposes:

• Carrying out advertising activities,

• Ensuring the functionality of core features required for the website to operate and facilitating its use,

• Analyzing the functionality of the website and improving its performance accordingly,

• Improving the Website, offering new features through the Website, and personalizing the offered features according to your preferences,

• Ensuring the legal and commercial security of you and our Company via the Website.

Pursuant to Articles 5 and 8 of the Law and/or in the presence of exceptions in the relevant legislation, your personal data may be processed for the above purposes with your consent where required by legislation, or without your consent in other cases. As the Company, we may share your personal data within the scope of this Clarification Text, limited to the fulfillment of the above-mentioned purposes and in compliance with the legislation, with third parties from whom our Company receives services, our subsidiaries, business partners, and group companies.

THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS (VENDOR LIST)

Third-party service providers (vendors) are used on our site to improve user experience, ensure security, and provide various services. These services may place their own cookies and process data. The main third-party services we use are listed below:

EXTERNAL SERVICES

• Google (Google Analytics, Google reCAPTCHA, YouTube)

COOKIES WE USE ON OUR WEBSITE

CONTROLLING COOKIE USE

You can manage and personalize your cookie preferences using the methods detailed below. To benefit smoothly from the services and features offered on our site and to provide you with a faster, personalized experience, we recommend enabling cookies or granting explicit consent accordingly. Disabling certain cookies may partially limit the functionality of our Site and negatively affect your user experience.

• Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647

• Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/manage-cookies-in-microsoft-edge-view-allow-block-delete-and-use

• Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/tr/kb/cerezleri-silme-web-sitelerinin-bilgilerini-kaldirma

• Opera: https://www.opera.com/privacy/cookies

• Safari: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-sfri11471/mac

RIGHTS OF THE PERSONAL DATA SUBJECT ENUMERATED IN ARTICLE 11 OF THE LAW

You have the rights to:

• Learn whether your personal data is processed,

• Request information if your personal data has been processed,

• Learn the purpose of processing your personal data and whether they are used in accordance with their purpose,

• Know the third parties to whom your personal data is transferred domestically or abroad,

• Request the correction of your personal data if it is incomplete or incorrectly processed,

• Request the deletion or destruction of your personal data within the framework of the conditions stipulated in Article 7 of the Law,

• Request notification of the operations carried out pursuant to sub-paragraphs (d) and (e) of Article 11 of the Law to third parties to whom your personal data has been transferred,

• Object to the occurrence of a result against you by analyzing the processed data exclusively through automated systems,

• Request compensation for damages in case you suffer damage due to the unlawful processing of your personal data.

To exercise your rights and submit requests regarding the implementation of the Law, you may fill out the application form available at [Website URL], sign it with a physical signature, and deliver it via notary, registered mail with return receipt requested, or in person to “TOSB Otomotiv Yan Sanayi İhtisas Organize Sanayi Bölgesi 1. Cadde 15. Sokak No:3 Çayırova/Kocaeli”, or electronically send it to kvkk@cavo.com.tr using your Registered Electronic Mail (KEP) address, or the email address already registered in the Company's data system after signing the application form with your mobile signature or secure electronic signature.

If the Company responds to requests in writing, no fee will be charged for up to ten pages; a transaction fee of 1 Turkish Lira will be charged for each page over ten pages. If the response to the application is provided in a recording medium such as a CD or flash memory, the fee that may be requested by the Company shall not exceed the cost of the recording medium.