Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy; applies to the official / corporate website of ASB International Certification Surveillance Inspection and Training Services Ltd. (“ASB Certification”); by visiting ASB Certification’s website, you agree to the use of cookies in accordance with this Cookie Policy. If you do not want cookies to be used in this way; we need to state that you should adjust your browser settings or refrain from using the ASB Certification websites. Disabling the cookies we use may affect your user experience on ASB Certification’s website.

Our Cookie Principle

To effectively provide our services, improve your consumer experience, facilitate the use of our website, and better customize our website and services according to your interests and needs, we use cookies on our website and in our email communications. Additionally, we use cookies to gather anonymous and aggregate statistical data that helps us understand how third parties use our website and to improve the structure and content of our website. We would like to note that this data does not contain information that could directly identify the individuals visiting our website.

What are “Cookies”?

Cookies; are small pieces of information stored on your computer’s hard drive by your browser. Every time you revisit our website, your web browser sends cookies to us to better match your interests and preferences or to enable you to log in to benefit from our services, thus allowing us to personalize your user experience.

What Types of Cookies Do We Use?

The cookies we use allow us to identify each consumer revisiting our site, so you do not need to enter the same information multiple times. Cookies also help us understand the usage pattern of visitors on our website, making it more practical.

Some of the types of Cookies used on our website are as follows:

Basic Cookies:

Basic cookies may be used to enable you to receive the services you request from our website. Without these cookies, we cannot provide the services you request. For example, these cookies may be used for the following purposes:

Allowing you to access the secure areas of our website without having to log in continuously.
Remembering actions you have previously performed (such as filling out online forms) when you go to a previous page in the same session.

Performance Cookies:

Performance cookies are used to collect information about how our website, our advertisements, and our email communications are used, and to notify us if errors occur. These cookies can collect detailed technical information such as the last visited page, number of pages visited, whether email messages have been opened, which parts of our website or email were clicked, and the time between clicks. While this information can be associated with your IP address, domain, or browser details, it is analyzed only by combining it with other users’ data without directly identifying you. For example, these cookies may be used on our website for the following purposes:

Analyzing and improving the performance and design of our website, advertisements, and email communications.
Calculating the number of responses to our advertisements to improve advertising efficiency.
Evaluating errors that occur on our website to improve our service and address complaints.

Referral Cookies:

We may access referral cookies sent to your device by our business partners’ websites. These cookies are used to identify each visitor directed to our website by our partners and to understand whether these visitors have benefited from any ASB Certification product or service. This information can be shared with our partners, provided that it remains anonymous and does not directly reveal your identity.

We may use this information to fulfill our contractual obligations to our partners and to help improve the effectiveness of our partners’ websites.

Functional Cookies:

We may use non-essential functional cookies to activate various auxiliary features on our website. For example, these cookies may be used for the following purposes:

Remembering your preferences such as country/language, interests, and presentation of our website (layout, font size, colors, etc.) during your last visit, so you do not need to enter this information repeatedly.
Remembering your responses to questions asked by our website, such as whether you want to participate in customer satisfaction surveys, so you do not need to answer the same questions again.
Determining whether a service such as live online help has been previously offered to you.
Providing information to enable the operation of optional services such as watching online videos or commenting on our blog.

Target Audience or Advertising Cookies:

Target audience or advertising cookies may be used on our website to serve advertisements related to your interests. These cookies can collect detailed information about your browsing habits during your time on our website (such as which products and services you clicked on). They can also be used to recognize you when you revisit our website and/or a website within our advertising partner network.

For example, these cookies may be used to gather information about the ASB Certification products or services you browse or review on our website, so that:

Advertisements for the ASB Certification products and services you are viewing can be displayed on other websites within our advertising network.
Emails and other direct marketing messages you receive can be personalized.
Our advertising partners can help you access ads on other websites within their networks related to the ASB Certification products and services you are viewing.
We can measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign and limit the number of times you see the same ad.
Yurtiçi Kargo and/or our advertising partners may store and access these cookies.

Third-Party Cookies:

While using our website, some cookies that are not controlled by ASB Certification may be stored on your computer. This occurs when the web page you are visiting contains content from a third-party website, causing cookies from that third-party service to be saved on your computer. However, no personal information is stored in these cookies unless you are logged into your account. For example, the sources of these cookies may include:

YouTube or Facebook,
Trusted operators,
Paid media organizations,
Marketing activities belonging to ASB.

ASB Certification does not control the storage or access of these third-party cookies. To learn how these third parties use cookies, you should review their privacy and cookie policies.

Changing Your Cookie Settings

Most internet browsers are set to automatically accept cookies by default. You can change these settings to block cookies or to notify you when cookies are sent to your device. There are several ways to manage cookies. For detailed information on how to adjust your browser settings, please refer to your browser’s instructions or help section.

Most browsers allow you to delete cookies stored on your computer, prevent cookies from being accepted, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored.

What Happens if Cookies (Cookies) Are Disabled?

If you disable the cookies we use, this may affect your user experience on ASB Certification’s corporate website. For example; you may not be able to view certain parts of our website and/or access information customized for you when visiting our website.

If you use different devices to view ASB Certification’s website (for example; computer, smartphone, tablet, etc.); you need to ensure that each browser on these devices is configured according to your cookie preferences.

This notice was last updated and published in October 2020.