GDPR and Cookie Policy

Privacy Policy

marmara.gov.tr website belongs to Marmara Municipalities Union, and the information security of you, our visitors, is of great importance to Marmara Municipalities Union. This text has been prepared to inform you about information security.

You may visit our website as often as you like without sharing any personal information. During your visit to our website, your personal information is only collected with your knowledge. The personal information recorded by us, with your knowledge, is protected by Marmara Municipalities Union. Your first and last name, mailing address, date of birth, gender, phone and fax number, e-mail address, etc. are recorded when provided by you to our website. The IP addresses of registered users who share their information are used to generally identify users and to collect comprehensive demographic information. This information is evaluated and analyzed in order to serve you better, and is never shared with any institution outside Marmara Municipalities Union, including our affiliates and the institutions we cooperate with. Please remember that, for your information security, you should not share the password you use on our website with anyone or write it down anywhere.

On our website, we may obtain information about users and users' use of marmara.gov.tr through a technical communication file (cookie). However, users may change their browser settings so that the technical communication file is not sent, or so that a warning is given when a technical communication file is sent.

Marmara Municipalities Union undertakes to keep personal information strictly private and confidential, to treat this as an obligation of confidentiality, and to take the necessary measures and exercise the necessary care to ensure and maintain confidentiality and to prevent all or any part of confidential information from entering the public domain, from unauthorized use, or from disclosure to a third party. Notwithstanding the necessary information security measures taken by Marmara Municipalities Union, Marmara Municipalities Union shall bear no responsibility in the event that confidential information is damaged or falls into the hands of third parties as a result of attacks on marmara.gov.tr website and system.

Our website may contain links to other websites not operated by Marmara Municipalities Union. If you visit any of these websites, that site's privacy and other policies will apply. We state that we are not responsible for the policies and practices of other companies.

Cookie Policy

Our Cookie Policy forms part of our Privacy Policy.

What Is a Cookie?

In order to provide you with a better, faster, and safer experience, like most websites, we also use cookies. A cookie is a small text file stored on your device (computer, mobile phone, tablet, etc.) when you visit a website. Cookies may be stored on your device through your browser during your first visit to a website. When you visit the same site again with the same device, your browser checks whether there is a cookie registered on your device for that site. If a record exists, the data within that record is transmitted to the website you are visiting. This allows the website to understand that you have visited the site before and to determine the content to be delivered to you accordingly.

Why Are Cookies Used?

Some cookies enable the website to remember the preferences you used during your previous visits, thereby providing a much more user-friendly and personalized experience on your subsequent visits.

In addition, links belonging to third parties found on the website are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties, and the responsibility for such privacy practices does not belong to marmara.gov.tr; in this context, it is recommended that the privacy policy of the relevant site be read when the linked site is visited.

Types of Cookies

Cookies, whose main purpose is to provide convenience to users, are generally grouped into 4 main categories:

• Session Cookies: These are cookies that enable various features such as the transfer of information between web pages and the systematic remembering of information entered by the user, and are necessary for the proper functioning of the website's features.
• Performance Cookies: These are cookies that collect information on how frequently pages are visited, possible error messages, the total time users spend on a given page, and site usage patterns, and are used to improve the performance of the website.
• Functional Cookies: These are cookies that ensure previously selected options are remembered in order to provide convenience to the user, and aim to provide users with enhanced internet features within the scope of the website.

Purposes of Cookie Usage

The purposes for which cookies used by marmara.gov.tr are used are as follows:

• Security purposes: marmara.gov.tr may use cookies that enable the use of functions on this site or that detect irregular behavior, in order to administer and secure its systems.
• Functionality purposes: marmara.gov.tr may use cookies that remember users' information and past choices, in order to facilitate the use of its systems and provide user-specific usage features.
• Performance purposes: marmara.gov.tr may use cookies that evaluate and analyze interaction with sent messages and user behavior, in order to increase and measure the performance of its systems.

Controlling and Deleting Cookies

To change your preferences regarding the use of cookies, or to block or delete cookies, it is sufficient to change your browser settings. Many browsers offer options that allow you to control cookies, such as accepting or rejecting cookies, accepting only certain types of cookies, or being warned by the browser when a website requests to store a cookie on your device. It is also possible to delete cookies that have previously been saved to your browser. The procedures for controlling or deleting cookies may vary depending on the browser you use. Instructions for allowing, blocking, or deleting cookies for some popular browsers can be found via the links below.

The method for changing cookie usage preferences varies depending on the browser type and can be learned at any time from the relevant service provider.

Last updated: 2025