Cookie Policy

Effective Date: June 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how I, Cagri Adal, operating under the name Empress English, use cookies and similar technologies on the Empress English website.

I use cookies to help the website operate properly, provide requested website functions, remember preferences, understand website usage, and, where applicable, improve the website experience.

This Cookie Policy should be read together with my Privacy Policy / KVKK Information Notice.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites may store on a user's device when the user visits a website.

Cookies can allow a website to recognise a user's device, remember certain preferences, maintain website functionality, and provide information about how the website is used.

Some cookies are necessary for the website to operate, while others may be used for additional purposes such as analytics, functionality, performance measurement, or marketing.

2. How I Use Cookies

I may use cookies for the following purposes:

• To ensure that essential website functions operate correctly;

• To maintain website security and prevent misuse;

• To remember certain user preferences and settings;

• To support account, booking, and website functionality;

• To understand how visitors use the website and improve its performance;

• To analyse website traffic and user interactions, where legally permitted;

• To support third-party services integrated into the website; and

• Where applicable, to provide or measure marketing and advertising activities, subject to applicable consent requirements.

I do not use non-essential cookies merely because a user visits the website. Where applicable Turkish law requires explicit consent for a particular cookie or related processing activity, the relevant cookie will not be activated unless the user provides the required consent.

3. Types of Cookies

Depending on the technologies used on the website, I may use the following categories of cookies:

3.1. Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website or a service specifically requested by the user to function properly.

They may support functions such as:

• Website security;

• Session management;

• Login or account functionality;

• Booking functionality;

• Payment-related functionality; and

• Basic website operation.

Where these cookies are strictly necessary for the requested service, they may be used without separate explicit consent where a valid legal basis under Turkish law applies.

3.2. Functional Cookies

Functional cookies may remember user preferences or settings and help provide a more personalised website experience.

Where these cookies are not strictly necessary and their use requires explicit consent under applicable law, they will only be activated after the required consent has been provided.

3.3. Performance and Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies may help me understand how visitors use the website, such as which pages are visited and how users interact with the website.

Where the use of analytics cookies requires explicit consent under applicable Turkish law, these cookies will remain disabled unless the user actively provides the required consent.

3.4. Advertising and Marketing Cookies

Where applicable, advertising or marketing cookies may be used to measure advertising activity, understand interactions with promotional content, or provide more relevant advertising.

These cookies will not be activated without the required legal basis or explicit consent where explicit consent is required under Turkish law.

4. Cookie Consent and Your Choices

When required, I will provide a cookie-management mechanism that allows users to make an informed choice about non-essential cookies.

Depending on the cookies used on the website, users may be able to:

• Accept non-essential cookies;

• Reject non-essential cookies; and

• Manage individual cookie categories or preferences.

Where explicit consent is required, consent will be obtained through an active user action rather than by treating continued browsing or silence as consent.

Users may also withdraw or change their cookie preferences through the available cookie-management mechanism.

5. Third-Party Services

The Empress English website may use third-party services that place or access cookies or similar technologies.

Depending on the services currently integrated into the website, these may include:

• PayTR, as the payment service provider used by Empress English for processing payments; and

• Zoom, for one-on-one online lessons and communication.

Third-party providers may process information in accordance with their own privacy and cookie policies.

Where applicable law requires consent for a particular third-party cookie, the relevant cookie will be subject to the applicable consent mechanism.

6. Cookies and Personal Data

Cookies do not always contain information that directly identifies an individual.

However, information collected through cookies may constitute personal data where it can be associated with or reasonably linked to an identifiable person.

Where cookie-related information constitutes personal data, I process it in accordance with Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (KVKK) and other applicable Turkish legislation.

Further information is provided in my Privacy Policy / KVKK Information Notice.

7. Cookie Duration

Cookies may be:

Session Cookies – These generally remain on your device only while your browser session is active and are normally deleted when the browser is closed.

Persistent Cookies – These remain on your device for a defined period or until they are deleted by you.

The duration of individual cookies may vary depending on their purpose and provider.

Where required, information about the name, purpose, duration, and first- or third-party status of cookies will be provided through the website's cookie-management tool or cookie information panel.

8. Managing Cookies

You can manage or delete cookies through your internet browser settings.

Most browsers allow you to block, delete, or restrict cookies.

However, disabling strictly necessary cookies may prevent certain parts of the website or requested functions from working correctly.

9. Your Rights Under KVKK

Where applicable, individuals have rights under Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (KVKK) relating to personal data processed through cookies.

Further information regarding these rights and how to exercise them is provided in my Privacy Policy / KVKK Information Notice.

10. Changes to This Cookie Policy

I may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to:

• The one-on-one online lessons I provide;

• The technologies used on the website;

• Third-party services integrated into the website; or

• Applicable Turkish legislation or regulatory guidance.

The updated version will be published on the Empress English website with its applicable effective date.

11. Contact

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or the use of cookies on the Empress English website, you may contact me:

Cagri Adal
Empress English
Email: classes@empressenglish.com
Website: www.empressenglish.com