Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains which cookies are used on the clevel.group website (the "Site") operated by Clevel Yapay Zeka ve Teknoloji A.Ş. ("Clevel" or the "Company"), for what purposes and for how long, and how you can manage your preferences. For detailed information about personal data processed through cookies, please see the Privacy Notice (KVKK).

1. What Is a Cookie?

Cookies are small text files saved in your browser when you visit a website. They allow you to be recognised on your next visit to the site, your preferences to be remembered, or the way the site is used to be measured. In this Policy, the term "cookie" also covers similar technologies used for similar purposes, such as pixels and scripts.

2. Types of Cookies

2.1 By Source

• First-party cookies: Cookies placed directly by the Site.
• Third-party cookies: Cookies created by the scripts of a service provider used on the Site (e.g. Google, Meta), through which data is transmitted to that provider. Even if these cookies are written under the Site's domain, they belong to the third-party service.

2.2 By Duration

• Session cookies: Deleted when you close your browser.
• Persistent cookies: Remain in your browser until the set period expires or until you delete them.

2.3 By Purpose

• Strictly necessary: Required for the Site to function and for your cookie preference to be remembered. These cookies do not depend on your consent and cannot be switched off.
• Analytics: Help us improve the Site by measuring how it is used. They run only with your consent.
• Marketing: Used to measure advertising conversions and to display advertisements tailored to your interests. They run only with your consent.
• Functional: Used to provide additional features such as embedded videos or maps. This category is not currently in use. If it is added in the future, the table below will be updated and these cookies will run only with your consent.

3. Cookies We Use

Cookie	Category	Provider	Purpose	Duration
clevel_consent	Strictly necessary	clevel.group (first party)	Stores your cookie preferences and consent ID	6 months
NEXT_LOCALE	Strictly necessary	clevel.group	Remembers your language preference	1 year
_ga	Analytics	Google	Distinguishing visitors	2 years
_ga_<ID>	Analytics	Google	Maintaining session state	2 years
_gcl_au	Marketing	Google	Advertising conversion measurement	3 months
_fbp	Marketing	Meta	Advertising measurement and targeting	3 months
_fbc	Marketing	Meta	Source of the advertisement click	3 months

The <ID> part in the name of the _ga_<ID> cookie refers to the Site's Google Analytics measurement ID.

Plausible Analytics does not use cookies and does not save any files in your browser; it measures visits as aggregate statistics. Nevertheless, Plausible is also activated only if you consent to the Analytics category.

4. Consent Management

4.1 Without Your Consent

On your first visit to the Site, you will see a cookie notice. In this notice, the "Reject" and "Accept all" options are offered with equal ease and visibility; with the "Manage preferences" option, you can decide separately for each category. The Analytics, Marketing and Functional categories are switched off by default.

Unless you give your consent, only strictly necessary cookies are used. The Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics 4, Plausible Analytics and Meta Pixel scripts are not loaded before your consent; therefore, no analytics or marketing cookies are written or read. Closing the notice or continuing to use the Site does not constitute consent.

4.2 Google Consent Mode v2

The Site uses Google Consent Mode v2. Under this setup, the four consent signals relating to Google services (analytics_storage, ad_storage, ad_user_data, ad_personalization) are set to "denied" by default. When you consent to the Analytics category, analytics_storage is updated to "granted"; when you consent to the Marketing category, ad_storage, ad_user_data and ad_personalization are updated to "granted". Google tags operate only in accordance with these signals.

4.3 Changing Your Preferences

You can change your cookie preferences or withdraw the consent you have given at any time. Withdrawing consent is as easy as giving it:

Manage cookie preferences

When you withdraw your consent, the relevant tools are no longer run from the next page load onwards. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out until that time. You can delete cookies previously written to your browser through your browser settings.

4.4 Browser Settings

You can also manage, delete or block cookies through your browser settings. In common browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge, these options are usually found in the "Privacy and security" section of the "Settings" menu. If you block strictly necessary cookies, some parts of the Site may not work properly and your cookie preference may not be remembered.

5. Consent Record

Every consent decision you give or refuse is recorded so that we can prove that consent was obtained properly. This record contains the following information:

• An anonymous visitor ID generated in your browser,
• The consent decision and the categories consented to,
• The policy version and language in effect at the time of consent,
• The page on which the decision was made and its source (notice or preferences panel),
• A salted hash of the IP address and browser information (user-agent),
• Timestamp.

Your IP address is not stored in plain form. Consent records are retained for 3 years and are deleted or anonymised at the end of this period. Your preference is remembered in the clevel_consent cookie for 6 months; after this period expires, or when a significant change is made to the Cookie Policy, you will be asked for your preference again.

6. Legal Ground

Strictly necessary cookies are used for providing the Site and applying your cookie preference under Art. 5/2-f of the KVKK (Turkish Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698; legitimate interest). Analytics, Marketing and Functional cookies are used solely on the basis of your explicit consent under Art. 5/1 of the KVKK and, to the extent applicable, your consent under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR and the relevant electronic communications legislation. Consent records are retained under Art. 5/2-ç and Art. 5/2-e of the KVKK.

7. Changes

When the cookies we use change, this Policy and the table above are updated. The current version is always published on this page.

8. Contact

You can send your questions about cookies to hello@clevel.group. Related documents: Privacy Policy, Privacy Notice (KVKK).