COOKIE POLICY

As Rune Technologies Information Services Joint Stock Company (“Company/Rune”), we value the privacy and protection of the personal data of visitors to our website available at https://runegames.studio (“Website”). To provide our visitors with a better user experience, we process personal data and use cookies, local storage technologies, and similar tools. This Cookie Policy has been prepared to explain which types of cookies are used on the Website and how users can manage their cookie preferences. For more detailed information regarding the processing of your personal data by our Company, we recommend that you review our Privacy Notice on the Processing of Personal Data.

WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES ARE USED?

Different types of cookies are used on the Website. These include: strictly necessary cookies – cookies essential for the operation of the website, functional cookies, performance and analytics cookies, advertising / marketing cookies, persistent cookies, and session cookies.

1. TYPES OF COOKIES BASED ON USE:

• Mandatory Cookies: These cookies are essential for the proper functioning of the Website. They also enable you to benefit from related services and features. These cookies are necessary for managing the system and preventing fraudulent transactions, and without them, the Website will not function.

• Functional Cookies: These cookies are used to provide you with a more advanced and user-friendly experience. For example, they remember your previous preferences and allow you to access certain content on the Website easily. You can block the use of these cookies as detailed below.

• Performance-Analytical Cookies: These cookies allow the statistical measurement of users’ behaviours on websites. These cookies are often used to improve the website, including measuring the impact of advertisements on relevant individuals. They are used to estimate the number of individual visitors, identify the most important search engine keywords that lead to a web page, or monitor the navigation status of the website.

• Advertising/Marketing Cookies: Advertising and marketing cookies track users’ online activities to identify their personal interests and aim to display advertisements to users based on these interests. Behavioural advertising is the most preferred type of advertising online because it allows ads to be tailored to individuals’ preferences and provides more efficient use of time and resources for advertisers. Online behavioural advertising practices involve tracking individuals’ activities on the internet, analyzing these activities to create profiles, matching profiles with relevant ads, and displaying these ads to individuals. Advertising and marketing cookies allow constant monitoring of individuals’ online behaviours, analyzing these behaviours to create profiles, matching profiles with appropriate ads, and displaying these ads to individuals.

2. TYPES OF COOKIES BASED ON STORAGE DURATION:

• Persistent Cookies: These are cookies that persist on a user’s computer until a specific date or until the user deletes them. These cookies are often used to measure user site activities and preferences.

• Session Cookies: These cookies are used to divide a user’s visit into sessions and do not collect data from the user. The cookie is deleted when the user closes the web page visited or after a period of inactivity. The Website uses targeting and tracking cookies to assist third parties, primarily in providing advertising services, and to enhance the effectiveness of these services. These cookies can remember and collect personal data, including the user’s IP address. The Website uses both first-party and third-party cookies to collect information, remember your interests and demographic data, and display targeted ads to you, improve ads, determine the number of visits and ad impressions, and the ratio of interactions related to these ad impressions and ad services. The Website utilizes social plugins that provide links to social networks such as LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram. When you visit the Website and use these plugins, the Website directly connects to the selected social network’s server. Subsequently, the content offered by the plugin is transmitted directly from social networks to your web browser and integrated into the website you are visiting. This allows the respective social network to access your data, process it, and combine it with data related to your social network account.

3. HOW CAN YOU MANAGE YOUR COOKIE PREFERENCES?

Information on how you can manage your cookie preferences regarding the cookies used on our Website is provided below:

• Users can manage cookies by changing their browser settings or by adjusting their preferences through the cookie banner provided on the Website, where they can choose to accept or reject certain types of cookies.
• Users may also delete existing cookies or prevent cookies from being stored on their devices by modifying their browser settings. However, in such cases, certain parts of the Website may not function properly.
• Cookie preferences must be managed separately for each device and browser. You may change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the icon available on our Website.

In the cookie management panel, you can enable or disable cookies according to your preference and click “Save Settings”. Please refresh the page for the updated settings to take effect. Additionally, cookies can be partially controlled through browser settings. You may access information on cookie management in commonly used browsers through the following links:

Google Chrome	https://support.google.com/accounts/ answer/61416?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=tr
Mozilla Firefox	https://support.mozilla.org/tr/kb/masaustu firefox-surumunde-gelismis-izlenme-koruma
Safari	https://help.apple.com/safari/mac/9.0/#/sfri40732
Opera	https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/

Your Data Subject Rights

Pursuant to Article 11 of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data No. 6698 (“Law”), data subjects may submit their requests relating to their personal data by following the procedures set out in the Communiqué on the Procedures and Principles of Application to the Data Controller, and by using the methods specified in our Privacy Notice on the Processing of Personal Data. Requests may be sent by post to the address provided below, or, if you have a registered e-mail address in our system, via e-mail to the e-mail address indicated below.

Data Controller

Title: Rune Technologies Information Services Joint Stock Company

Address: Gülbahçe Mah. Gülbahçe Cad. No: 1/48 İç Kapı No: 14 Urla / İzmir, Türkiye
E-mail: studio@runegames.com

This Cookie Notice has been prepared to inform you about our personal data practices and may be updated periodically. In the event of any material changes to this Cookie Notice, we will provide notification primarily through our Website and, where appropriate, through other communication channels.

COOKIES USED ON OUR WEBSITE

COOKIES NAME	PURPOSE AND RETENTION PERIOD	LEGAL BASIS AND COOKIE TYPE
VISITOR_PRIVACY_ METADATA	This cookie is used to store the user’s consent and privacy preferences for interaction with the Website. It records the visitor’s consent and settings regarding various privacy policies and preferences for future sessions. It is retained for 5 months.	This cookie is strictly necessary for the operation of the Website and is required to ensure its proper functioning.
YSC	This cookie is set by Youtube to track views of embedded videos. It is retained for the duration of the session.	This is a marketing and advertising cookie, processed based on the data subject’s explicit consent.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	This cookie is set by YouTube to track user preferences for embedded YouTube videos and to determine whether the user is using the new or old interface. It is retained for 5 months.	This is a marketing and advertising cookie, processed based on the data subject’s explicit consent.
__Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN	This cookie is generally used to ensure that users can be authenticated and log in correctly. It may also be used to provide security measures for the Website (e.g., session and login security). It is retained for 1 week.	This cookie is strictly necessary for the operation of the Website and required to ensure its proper functioning.