This policy explains what is stored in your browser when you visit aithinks.net, which third-party services are involved, and how you can manage your preferences.
Alongside strictly necessary cookies, this site uses analytics (Google Analytics) and advertising (Google Ads) cookies that run only if you consent. Until you do, these cookies are not written to your browser.
2. Cookie categories
- Strictly necessary: required for the site to work, stay secure and remember the choices you make (site language, cookie preference). Not based on consent and cannot be turned off.
- Analytics: Google Analytics measures page views, traffic sources and on-site interactions as aggregate statistics. Runs only with your consent.
- Advertising: Google Ads measures whether our ads lead to enquiries and may personalise ads. Runs only with your consent.
3. What we use on this site
The table below lists everything stored on this site. Any cookie not listed here is not used by us. Analytics and advertising cookies are written only if you consent to that category.
| Name | Category | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| aithinks-cookie-consent | Strictly necessary (local storage) | Stores your cookie preference and when you set it | 12 months |
| aithinks-language | Strictly necessary (local storage) | Remembers the site language you selected (Turkish / English) | Until you delete it |
| app-state | Strictly necessary (local storage) | Remembers notices you have dismissed in the interface | Until you delete it |
| theme | Strictly necessary (local storage) | Stores your light / dark theme preference | Until you delete it |
| __cf_bm and similar | Strictly necessary (third-party cookie, Cloudflare) | Turnstile bot protection; prevents automated submission of the contact form | Session / short-lived |
| _ga | Analytics (first-party cookie, Google Analytics) | Stores a randomly generated ID used to tell visitors apart | 2 years |
| _ga_VY5Q87R5Z5 | Analytics (first-party cookie, Google Analytics) | Stores session information such as session count and timing | 2 years |
| _gcl_au | Advertising (first-party cookie, Google Ads) | Links ad clicks to the conversions that follow them | 90 days |
| Advertising cookies on Google domains (e.g. IDE) | Advertising (third-party cookie, Google) | Conversion measurement and ad personalisation | Set by Google |
4. Google Analytics, Google Ads and Consent Mode
This site uses Google Analytics 4 and Google Ads, provided by Google LLC, together with Google Consent Mode (v2). The Google tag loads on every visit; your choice determines what data it collects.
Information you type into the contact form, such as your name, email address, phone number and message, is never sent to Google.
- Before you decide, or if you do not consent: all analytics and advertising signals are reported as "denied". No Google cookies are written to your browser, no identifier that recognises you is sent, and ad click identifiers are removed from requests. Google receives only limited, cookieless signals: page address, referring page, timestamp, browser and device type, and consent status. Your IP address also reaches Google as part of these requests. Google uses these signals for aggregate modelling without identifying individuals.
- If you consent to analytics cookies: Google Analytics writes a random identifier to your browser and uses it to measure page views, sessions, traffic source, approximate location at country and city level, device and browser information, and whether you successfully submitted the contact form (without its content). Google Analytics does not log IP addresses.
- If you consent to advertising cookies: if you arrived by clicking one of our ads, Google Ads links that click to the conversion on the site (a contact form submission). This data is shared with Google, which may use it to measure ad performance and to personalise the ads you see (remarketing).
5. Third-party services
Some parts of the site cause your browser to send requests to third-party servers. Your IP address is disclosed to those providers as part of such requests.
- Google Analytics and Google Ads (Google LLC): loaded on every page; the data collected depends on your consent as described above. Data may be processed on Google servers outside Turkey. Details: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
- Vercel Web Analytics: cookieless visit measurement from Vercel, which hosts the site. It counts page views in aggregate, writes nothing to your browser, and tells visits apart only with a hash that is valid for a single day and does not reveal who you are.
- Cloudflare Turnstile: provides bot protection on the contact form. Loaded only on pages that contain the form.
- OpenStreetMap: supplies the map tiles on the contact page. Loaded only on the contact page.
- Social and share links: no request is sent to the platform unless you click the link.
6. Managing your preferences
In the cookie notice shown on your first visit you can accept all cookies, reject all of them, or choose by category under "Manage preferences". Accept and reject are offered on equal terms, and no category is pre-selected.
You can change or withdraw your consent at any time with the button below or the "Cookie Preferences" link at the bottom of every page. When you withdraw consent, the related Google cookies are deleted from your browser and are not used on later visits. Withdrawal does not affect processing carried out on the basis of consent before it was withdrawn.
Your choice is kept for 12 months and you are asked again when it expires or when the cookie categories change.
To block Google Analytics on all sites you can use Google’s browser add-on (tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout), and to turn off personalised ads you can use Google My Ad Center (myadcenter.google.com). You can also delete cookies and site data from your browser settings and block them going forward; blocking strictly necessary cookies may stop the contact form from working.
- Chrome: Settings > Privacy and security > Third-party cookies
- Safari: Settings > Privacy
- Firefox: Settings > Privacy & Security
- Edge: Settings > Cookies and site permissions
7. Cookies and personal data
Data processed through cookies and similar technologies falls within the scope of Turkish Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data. Strictly necessary cookies rely on our legitimate interest in operating and securing the site; analytics and advertising cookies rely on your explicit consent.
The purposes, legal grounds, transfers and retention periods are set out in detail in our Data Protection Notice.
8. Changes to this policy
This policy is updated when the technologies used on the site change. The current version is always published on this page with the last update date shown above. If a new cookie category that requires consent is added, you will be asked for your preference again.
Questions
- Email: support@aithinks.net
- Phone: +90 212 222 36 26