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COOKIE POLICY
Policy Version: 1.0 · Last Updated: 8 August 2026
As MEANDER FERİBOT İŞLETMELERİ ANONİM ŞİRKETİ (the "Company" or "Meander"), we attach importance to the privacy of the users who visit our website (the "Site") and to the protection of their personal data. Cookies and similar technologies are used in order to ensure that the Site operates in a secure and effective manner, to remember user preferences, to improve the user experience and, where necessary, to analyze the use of the Site.
This Cookie Policy (the "Policy") has been prepared, within the scope of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council (the "GDPR") and the applicable electronic communications and cookie legislation, in order to provide information about the types of cookies and similar technologies used on the Site, their purposes of use, the personal data processing activities carried out through these technologies, and how users can manage their cookie preferences.
The Policy applies to natural persons who visit the Site and benefit from the services offered through the Site.
The Company may update this Policy in line with changes occurring in the technologies used, in data processing activities, or in the applicable legislation. The current version of the Policy is published on the Site.
1. WHAT IS A COOKIE?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device or network server, through your browser, by the websites you visit. These files are used in order to ensure that the visited website operates properly, to improve the user experience, to analyze the performance of the Site and, where necessary, to optimize it.
Through the cookies used on the website with the domain name https://meanderferibot.com, the following are aimed at:
- Ensuring that the Site operates technically correctly and securely,
- Remembering user preferences and settings (for example, language selection, session information),
- Improving the Site's content and the user experience by analyzing visitor behaviour,
- Offering the user content and services suited to their areas of interest,
- Statistically evaluating visitor traffic and usage trends.
Cookies do not contain information of a directly personal-data nature, such as visitors' name, surname, address or contact information. However, certain types of cookies may become associable with personal data, by obtaining the user's explicit consent.
2. HOW DO COOKIES WORK?
Cookies are small data files configured on the server side and placed on users' devices, through their browser, when a website is visited. These files enable the user to be recognized on subsequent visits to the website and function as a digital identity card.
In this way, the visitor's past interactions on the site can be remembered, sessions can be managed, and a more efficient experience can be offered to the user.
Cookies are divided into two according to the party placing them:
First-Party Cookies: These are cookies placed directly by the Site with the domain name https://meanderferibot.com. These cookies are generally used for the purpose of providing basic functionality.
Third-Party Cookies: These are cookies placed by various service providers cooperating with the Site. For example, third-party companies' technologies may be used for purposes such as web analytics, user experience measurement or interaction analysis.
Cookies are also classified in two ways according to the duration for which they remain on the device:
- Session Cookies: These are valid only for the duration of the browser session and are automatically deleted when the user leaves the Site. These cookies are used to remember the visitor's preferences and session information while they navigate between pages.
- Persistent Cookies: These are cookies that continue to be stored on the device for a certain period. Such cookies enable a faster and personalized experience to be offered in the event that the visitor visits the Site again. Persistent cookies are generally used to preserve user preferences and to improve technical performance. By their scope, these cookies do not contain information that directly identifies the user.
Analytical third-party cookies are also used on our Site in order to improve the user experience. Through these cookies, data such as:
- Page view counts,
- Frequency and duration of visits,
- The actions users carry out on the site,
- Geographic location information,
- Return rates to the site,
are collected and analyzed anonymously. Thanks to these analyses, the content, accessibility and performance of the Site are improved.
Cookies are also divided into different categories according to their purposes of use. In the table below you can find explanations regarding which cookie categories are used for which purposes:
Cookie Categories
Technical/Mandatory Cookies
These are cookies that are necessary for the use and operability of the Site and that enable you to use the features of the site. If technical cookies are disabled, access to part or all of the Site may not be possible. We do not need to obtain your consent to use these cookies.
| Cookie Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration | Party |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| mf_consent | Meander Feribot | Storage of your cookie consent preferences (category approvals, policy version). | 12 months | First party |
| __Secure-better-auth.session_token | Meander Feribot | Securely maintaining the member session (signed-in users). | 7 days | First party |
Analytical Cookies (Performance Cookies)
These are cookies used in order to obtain information about how Site visitors use the website and to improve/enhance visitor experiences. These cookies include information such as the pages viewed by visitors, click counts, and the times of entry to and exit from these pages.
| Cookie Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration | Party |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google LLC | Used to distinguish visitors (Google Analytics 4). | 2 years | First party |
| _ga_* | Google LLC | Used to persist session state (Google Analytics 4, per measurement id). | 2 years | First party |
Functionality/Personalization Cookies
These are cookies used in order to offer Site visitors a personalized experience. These cookies enable your preferences, such as your language preferences and your username, to be remembered when you visit the website, and enable the site to offer enhanced, more personal features.
| Cookie Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration | Party |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NID | Google LLC | Google Maps embed on the contact page: Google preferences and security identifier. | 6 months | Third party |
| AEC | Google LLC | Abuse prevention and request validation (Google Maps embed). | 6 months | Third party |
| SOCS | Google LLC | Storage of Google cookie preferences (Google Maps embed). | 13 months | Third party |
Targeting/Advertising Cookies
These are cookies used in order to serve advertisements according to the visitor's areas of interest and to measure the effectiveness of the advertisements served.
3. WHY ARE COOKIES USED?
On the website with the domain name https://meanderferibot.com, cookies are used in line with the following objectives, in order to improve the user experience and to make the technical functionality of the Site sustainable:
- Performing the core functions of the Site: For example, ensuring that visitors moving between pages within the same session during ticket reservation or payment steps do not need to re-authenticate,
- Monitoring and analyzing the performance of the Site: Measuring how users use the Site, determining visitor numbers, analyzing navigation between pages and managing access traffic, in order to improve the technical performance of the Site.
- Increasing functionality and remembering user preferences: Providing the user with easier access by remembering information such as the visitor's preferred language and location, or the voyage/route information they previously selected. In addition, supporting functions such as enabling links to be provided to third-party social media platforms,
- Personalizing content according to users' areas of interest: Offering the user more relevant and informative content suggestions based on visit behaviour carried out on the Site, and carrying out measurement within the scope of the promotion of the Site.
4. HOW CAN YOU MANAGE YOUR COOKIE PREFERENCES?
You can manage your cookie preferences at any time via the “Cookie Settings” button on this page, change your consent per category, or withdraw it entirely. Your preferences are stored on your device and remembered on your next visit.
Cookies other than those strictly necessary for the operation of the Site or for the provision of a service expressly requested by the user are activated, to the extent required under the applicable legislation, only in accordance with the prior consent given by the user.
Through the cookie preference screen presented during your first visit to the Site, you can:
For information on how to disable cookies, please click on the link specific to your browser below:
- Accept all non-mandatory cookies,
- Reject all non-mandatory cookies, or
- Determine your preferences on a cookie-category basis.
You can change your preferences regarding consent-based cookies at any time, or withdraw the consent you previously gave, through the Browser Settings or the Cookie Settings / Çerez Tercihleri panel available on the Site.
The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of consent prior to its withdrawal.
In addition, through your internet browser's settings you can view or delete the cookies on your device, or change your browser's settings regarding future cookie use. However, changing browser settings may cause some features or services on the Site not to work as expected.
Browser settings are a preference-management method additional to the cookie preference panel offered by the Site, and do not constitute a basis for cookies requiring consent to be activated in advance by the Site.
5. THIRD-PARTY COOKIES
On our website, cookies placed by third-party service providers are used in order to improve service quality, enhance the user experience and optimize informative promotional activities. These cookies are placed and managed through technology providers outside the Company (for example, firms offering analytics and advertising services).
These types of cookies may be used for the following purposes:
- Advertising and Promotion: In order to offer visitors content suggestions suited to their areas of interest or to personalize informative campaigns within the scope of software promotion. (Example: Google Ads)
- Analytics and Performance Monitoring: In order to analyze Site traffic, evaluate visitor behaviour anonymously and improve technical performance. (Example: Google Analytics)
- Social Media Integrations: In order to enable visitors to share content through social media platforms or to facilitate interaction with these platforms.
Visitors can manage their preferences regarding the use of third-party cookies through the Browser Settings or Cookie Settings / Çerez Tercihleri, or can disable cookies directly through the tools offered by the relevant service providers.
6. PURPOSES OF PROCESSING PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED BY MEANS OF COOKIES
Your personal data obtained through cookies and similar technologies is processed only for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and in accordance with the applicable data protection legislation.
In this scope, your personal data may be processed for the purposes of:
- Ensuring that the Site operates in a technically secure and functional manner,
- Ensuring the uninterrupted conduct of session management, reservation and payment processes,
- Remembering user preferences such as language, route and the like,
- Measuring the performance of the Site and detecting technical problems,
- Improving content, design and the user experience by analyzing visitor trends and Site usage,
- Personalizing Site content depending on the user's preference,
- Where the necessary consent exists, measuring the effectiveness of advertising, promotion and marketing activities and offering the user content suited to their areas of interest.
Non-mandatory analytical, personalization, targeting and advertising cookies are activated, to the extent required under the applicable legislation, only after the prior consent given by the user.
Personal data processed through cookies is retained limited to the period necessary for the relevant processing purpose. Detailed information regarding the types, purposes, providers and retention periods of the cookies used is explained in the relevant sections of this Cookie Policy.
7. PROCESSING AND TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA BY MEANS OF COOKIES
On the Site, in addition to first-party cookies placed by the Company, cookies and similar technologies placed by third-party service providers for the purpose of providing analytics, technical services, advertising or similar services may be used.
In this scope, where the necessary consent is given by the user, the relevant personal data may be processed through the systems of third-party service providers.
Data processing arrangements in accordance with the provisions of Article 28 of the GDPR are made, to the extent applicable, with service providers processing personal data on behalf of the Company, and these service providers are expected to ensure appropriate technical and organizational security measures.
In cases where the transfer of personal data to a separate controller or processor located outside the European Economic Area is subject to the international data transfer provisions of the GDPR, appropriate data transfer mechanisms are applied pursuant to Chapter V of the GDPR. In this scope, where applicable, the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) adopted by the European Commission or other appropriate safeguards provided for in the GDPR may be used.
8. METHOD AND LEGAL BASIS FOR COLLECTING PERSONAL DATA
Your personal data is collected by electronic means and automatic methods, through the cookies and similar technologies used on the Site.
The legal basis of the personal data processing activities carried out through cookies varies according to the type and function of the cookie used.
With respect to cookies that are strictly necessary for the operation and security of the Site, session management, and the provision of a service expressly requested by the user, personal data may be processed — depending on the nature of the processing — on the legal grounds of being necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract within the scope of Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR, and/or the Company's legitimate interest in operating the Site in a secure and functional manner within the scope of Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.
With respect to non-mandatory cookies for analytical, performance, personalization, targeting and advertising purposes, personal data is processed on the basis of the user's consent within the scope of Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR, to the extent required under the applicable electronic communications and data protection legislation.
Consent-based cookies are not activated before the user gives consent. The user may, at any time, withdraw the consent they previously gave or change their preferences through browser settings or the cookie preference panel offered on the Site.
The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the data processing activities carried out on the basis of consent prior to its withdrawal.
9. SHARING OF PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED BY MEANS OF COOKIES
Your personal data obtained through cookies and similar technologies may be shared, only to the extent required by the relevant processing purpose, with:
- Hosting and technical infrastructure service providers,
- Information technology and technical support service providers,
- Analytics and performance measurement service providers,
- Where the necessary consent exists, advertising and marketing service providers,
- Authorized administrative and judicial authorities, for the purpose of fulfilling obligations arising from legislation.
Third parties processing personal data on behalf of the Company process personal data only within the framework of the Company's instructions and the relevant contractual arrangements.
Where third-party cookies are used, there may be cases in which the relevant service provider additionally acts in the capacity of an independent data controller. In such cases, the said service provider's own privacy and cookie policies may also apply.
Users can manage their preferences regarding non-mandatory third-party cookies through browser settings or the cookie preference panel offered on the Site, and can withdraw the consent they previously gave.
10. PRINCIPLES COMPLIANT WITHIN THE PROCESSING OF THE PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED BY MEANS OF COOKIES
The Company acts in accordance with the following fundamental principles, within the scope of Article 5 of the GDPR, in the processing of personal data obtained through cookies and similar technologies:
- Lawfulness, fairness and transparency,
- Processing for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes,
- Personal data being relevant to, necessary for and proportionate with the processing purpose,
- Personal data being kept accurate and, where necessary, up to date,
- Personal data being retained only for the period necessary for the processing purpose,
- Personal data being protected against unauthorized or unlawful processing, loss, destruction or damage through appropriate technical and organizational measures,
- The Company establishing the necessary records and processes capable of demonstrating that it complies with its data protection obligations,
- The Company taking into account the principles of data minimization, privacy by design and privacy by default in the data processing activities carried out through cookies.
11. YOUR RIGHTS WITHIN IN THE SCOPE OF COOKIES
Where the GDPR is applicable, with respect to your personal data processed through cookies and similar technologies, you have the rights to:
- Learn whether your personal data is being processed and request access to your data,
- Request the rectification of your incomplete or inaccurate personal data,
- Request the erasure of your personal data where the conditions provided for in the GDPR exist,
- Request the restriction of the processing of your personal data,
- Exercise the right to data portability to the extent the conditions are met,
- Object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to data processing activities based on legitimate interest within the scope of Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR,
- Object at any time to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes,
- Withdraw your consent at any time where personal data processing is based on consent,
- Lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority.
You can change your preferences regarding consent-based cookies at any time, or withdraw your consent, through browser settings or the cookie preference panel available on the Site.
In order to exercise your other data subject rights, you can submit your requests to the Company through the following channels:
Email: info @ meanderferibot . com
Post: Camikebir Mahallesi, Mahmut Esat Bozkurt Caddesi, Turistik Site No:14/B, 09400 Kusadasi/Aydin, Türkiye
EU Representative: Tekin Isikligil
Where there is reasonable doubt about the identity of the person making the request, the Company may request necessary and proportionate additional information in order to conclude the request securely.
Requests within the scope of the GDPR are concluded free of charge, without undue delay and, as a rule, within one month of receipt of the request. Where the request is complex or the number of requests is high, this period may be extended by a further two months; in this case, the data subject is informed within the first one-month period.
In addition, within the scope of Article 77 of the GDPR, you may lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority, in particular in the EU/EEA country of your habitual residence, place of work or the place where the alleged infringement occurred.