Last update: July 1, 2025
Cookie Policy
1) Introduction
The Cookie Policy has been prepared to explain to visitors visiting the website with the domain name www.ustad.co which cookies are used and how users can manage their preferences in this regard, by Üstad Teknoloji Anonim Şirketi (“USTAD.CO”). For more detailed information on the processing of your personal data by USTAD.CO, we recommend you review the USTAD.CO Data Privacy Notice.
2) Cookie Usage
USTAD.CO uses cookies and other similar technologies to ensure that everyone using the website has the best possible experience.
3) What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files placed on your hard drive by web page servers. They contain information that can later be read by the web servers belonging to the domain that sent them to you. By reviewing the list below, you can learn more about cookies. We update this list every six months. Therefore, we want to emphasize that cookies not yet listed may appear in this list in the near future. Web beacons, tags, and scripts can be used on our website or in our emails to help us place cookies, count visitors, analyze usage, understand the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, and determine if an email has been opened or if its associated content has been clicked. Reports based on the use of these technologies are prepared by our service and analytics providers at specific intervals.
4) Why is the Cookie Used?
When you visit our website, we may place some cookies in your browser. These are first-party cookies that allow us to keep records of your session as you navigate our pages. We use cookies on our website and applications to understand visitor and user preferences, enhance their experiences, and to monitor and analyze usage, navigation on our pages, and other statistical information. You can control the use of cookies at the browser level that you use to access the internet. You may visit our website even if you choose not to enable cookies or disable them later. However, in such a case, your ability to use some features may be limited.
5) How to Disable?
You can enable or later disable the use of cookies through your web browser. Below you can find how to manage your cookie settings through your web browser.
Firefox: Click here to learn more about managing “Private Browsing” and cookie settings.
Chrome: Click here to learn more about managing “Incognito” and cookie settings.
Microsoft Edge: Click here to learn more about managing “InPrivate” and cookie settings.
Safari: Click here to learn more about managing “Private Browsing” and cookie settings.
If you would like to learn more about cookies or how you can manage, disable, or delete them, please visit http://www.aboutcookies.org for a detailed guide.
Additionally, some third-party advertising networks, including Google, allow users to disable or customize standard preferences related to web browsing. You can click here to learn more about this feature provided by Google.
6) Used Cookies
Many countries require or recommend that website operators disclose the types of cookies they use and obtain user consent from time to time before placing certain cookies. As you can find in detail below, we may use any of the specified cookie categories on our website. Cookies are small text files stored on your device or network server via browsers by the websites you visit. Cookies do not contain personal data such as name, gender, or address about visitors. Cookies are created by the servers that manage the website you visit. Thus, the server can recognize when the visitor visits the same site again. Cookies can be likened to ID cards that show the website owners that the same visitor has returned to the site. The main purposes of using cookies on our site or applications are listed below:
To improve the services offered to you by increasing the functionality and performance of the website and our applications,
Used to remember your preferences, maximize your user experience during your visit to the site and our applications and personalize your usage. This use includes cookies that remember and recognize you in your subsequent visits to the site.
Used to improve our site and applications and offer new features over the site or our applications and personalize the offered features according to your preferences.
Used to determine details about how you use the site, such as where you connect to the site operated by our company and our applications, which content you view on the site, and the duration of your visit.
Used to ensure the legal and commercial security of you and our company on the website and our applications.
Types of Cookies Used on Our Website
Each cookie falls into one of the following four categories:
Mandatory Cookies
These are essential for the proper functioning of our website. For example, mandatory cookies are used for purposes such as authentication and ensuring that information about your current session is not lost. These cookies are used for security and authentication purposes and are not used for any marketing purpose.
Functional Cookies
These are cookies that allow the website visitors to remember their preferences. For example, it ensures that the visitor's language preference or text font size selection is remembered. Not allowing the use of such cookies may cause a specific feature to not be used specifically for you and prevent your preferences from being remembered.
Performance and Analytics Cookies
These are cookies that help improve our website. These types of cookies collect information about visitor usage of the site and are used to check whether the site is functioning as it should and to detect any errors.
Targeting and Advertising Cookies
These cookies are used to promote products and services on our website or in external channels, to display relevant and personalized ads to you along with our partners we cooperate with, and to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
By closing the cookie notification warning and continuing to use the website or our applications, it is deemed that consent to cookie use has been given. Users always have the option to change their cookie preferences.
Cookies Used on Our Website and Applications
Information regarding the cookies used on our site is presented in the tables below:
Cookie Name
Cookie Type
Collection Purpose
Storage Duration
Doubleclick / IDE
Persistent Cookie
Targeting
6 months
Facebook / Fr
Persistent Cookie
This cookie is used to deliver more relevant ads across Facebook.
90 days
Facebook / sb
Persistent Cookie
Targeting / Analysis
90 days
Google / 1P_JAR
Persistent Cookie
Used to collect statistical data and conversion numbers of the site.
1 month
Google / NID
Persistent Cookie
Google uses this cookie to track if there are personalized settings for the user. It compares this information and understands when moving to another page. (e.g., language, search options, etc.)
6 months
Google / 1P_JAR
Persistent Cookie
Google defines a security identification cookie to prevent unauthorized access to users.
3 months
Google / __Secure-3PAPISID
Persistent Cookie
Used for user profiling and ad targeting.
2 years
Changes to the Cookie Policy
Our company may change this Cookie Policy at any time. These changes will become valid and effective immediately upon the loading of the revised new Cookie Policy on the website.