Last Updated: 24 August 2026

As Op. Dr. Buğra İpek Clinic, we attach great importance to protecting the privacy and personal data of visitors to our website.

This Cookie Policy has been prepared to provide information about cookies and similar technologies that may be used on our website and to explain how visitors can manage their cookie preferences.

1. Data Controller

For personal data processing activities carried out through cookies for which Op. Dr. Buğra İpek Clinic acts as the data controller, our contact details are:

Op. Dr. Buğra İpek Clinic

Address: Caddebostan Mahallesi, Bağdat Caddesi, Deniz Apartmanı No: 298-14, 34728 Kadıköy / Istanbul, Türkiye
Phone: +90 530 293 24 00
Email: [email protected]

2. What Is a Cookie?

Cookies are small data files that may be stored on your computer, mobile phone, tablet, or other device through your browser by websites that you visit.

Cookies may be used to enable the basic functionality of a website, enhance security, remember user preferences, analyze website usage, and in certain circumstances enable third-party content or services to function.

3. Types of Cookies
3.1. Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for the basic functions of the website, maintaining security, managing sessions, and providing services explicitly requested by the user.

Disabling these cookies may prevent certain parts of the website from functioning properly.

Where an appropriate legal basis exists, strictly necessary cookies may be used without obtaining separate explicit consent.

3.2. Functional Cookies

These cookies may help remember preferences such as language selection or certain user settings.

Where functional cookies are not strictly necessary, their use may be subject to the user’s preferences depending on the applicable legal basis.

3.3. Performance and Analytics Cookies

These cookies may help us understand how visitors use the website.

For example, they may be used to analyze:

  • Pages visited,
  • Time spent on pages,
  • Technical error records,
  • Anonymous or pseudonymous statistics relating to website usage.

Analytics cookies that rely on explicit consent should not be activated before the user has provided the required consent.

3.4. Advertising and Marketing Cookies

These cookies may be used to provide advertising or content based on users’ interests, measure advertising performance, and associate interactions across different websites.

Where the use of such cookies requires explicit consent, the user must actively provide permission before they are activated.

4. Purposes of Using Cookies

Cookies used on the website may serve the following purposes:

  • Enabling the website to function,
  • Carrying out security functions,
  • Remembering user preferences,
  • Saving language preferences,
  • Measuring website performance,
  • Detecting technical issues,
  • Analyzing visitor statistics,
  • Enabling third-party content to function,
  • Measuring advertising or marketing performance where the user has provided the required permission.
5. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are cookies created directly by the website being visited.

Third-party cookies may be created by different service providers integrated into the website.

Depending on the website’s current technical configuration, third-party services may include, for example:

  • YouTube,
  • Google services,
  • Google patient reviews,
  • Trustpilot,
  • WhatsApp,
  • Security and performance services.

When you access third-party content or use the relevant service, the privacy and cookie policies of that third-party service provider may also apply.

6. YouTube and Embedded Content

The website may contain YouTube videos or other third-party embedded content.

Such services may process technical information such as device information and IP address, particularly when the user plays or otherwise interacts with the relevant content.

Where technically possible and legally required, appropriate mechanisms are applied to prevent non-essential third-party content from being activated before the user has made the relevant cookie choice.

7. Managing Cookie Preferences

Where cookies subject to explicit consent are used on the website, visitors should be provided with a genuine choice.

For example, the cookie management panel may provide the following options:

Accept All
Reject All
Manage Preferences

Rejecting non-essential cookies should not prevent users from accessing the basic functionality of the website.

Users should also be able to access the cookie preference panel again in order to withdraw or modify their previous consent.

8. Legal Basis for the Use of Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies may be used on the basis of applicable legal grounds under KVKK other than explicit consent, depending on the specific purpose for which they are used.

Where no other valid legal basis applies to analytics, advertising, marketing, or similar non-essential cookies, the user’s prior explicit consent is obtained.

Cookies that require explicit consent must not be activated before the user has provided consent.

9. Managing Cookies Through Browser Settings

Most internet browsers allow users to view, delete, or block cookies.

Through your browser settings, you may:

  • Delete existing cookies,
  • Block cookies from certain websites,
  • Block all cookies,
  • Restrict third-party cookies,
  • Configure certain cookies to be deleted when the browser is closed.

However, blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent certain functions of the website from operating properly.

10. Cookies and International Data Transfers

The use of services provided by Google, YouTube, or other international technology providers may result in certain technical data being transferred to recipients located outside Türkiye.

In such circumstances, transfers abroad must be carried out in accordance with Article 9 of KVKK and the relevant secondary legislation.

Current legislation provides mechanisms for international data transfers, including adequacy decisions and appropriate safeguards, with standard contractual clauses also recognized as one of the available safeguard mechanisms.

11. Retention Period of Cookies

The retention period of cookies may vary depending on the type of cookie and its purpose.

Session Cookies:
These cookies are deleted or cease to function when the browser session ends.

Persistent Cookies:
These cookies may remain on the device for a specified period or may be deleted earlier by the user.

Cookie lifetimes are determined in a manner proportionate to the purpose for which they are used.

12. Security of Personal Data

Appropriate technical and administrative security measures are implemented to protect personal data obtained through cookies against unauthorized access, unlawful processing, loss, or misuse.

13. User Rights

Where personal data is processed through cookies, data subjects may exercise the rights provided under Article 11 of KVKK.

Within this scope, you may learn whether your personal data is being processed, request information regarding processed data, and exercise your other rights provided under the Law.

14. Contact

For questions and requests regarding cookies or the processing of your personal data, you may contact us at:

Op. Dr. Buğra İpek Clinic

Address: Caddebostan Mahallesi, Bağdat Caddesi, Deniz Apartmanı No: 298-14, 34728 Kadıköy / Istanbul, Türkiye
Phone: +90 530 293 24 00
Email: [email protected]
Working Hours: Monday – Saturday, 09:00 – 17:00

15. Updates to This Policy

This Cookie Policy may be updated if there are changes to the technologies, cookies, third-party services used on the website, or applicable legislation.

The current version of the Policy will be published on our website.