Privacy Statement

Collection of Information

FloraTurk.Com gets some information from visitors and members in some pages of the web site.

Registartion

Although our site generally does not require passwords, to be able to use some parts of our web site, to see some pages (Adress Notebook, Reminder List etc.) and to participate to some activities, our visitors have to be registered members. Members become “registered members” by using the member registration page.

When one of our members become a registered member, we hold only the Name Surname and E-mail Adress information necessary. The registration process is completed when these information are entered. But the member can record additional information such as Birth Date, Gender, Phone Number, Adress, Office etc. if he/she wishes.

Occasionally, some additional information (like state of education) can be required to prepare Visitor Profiles, but it is never compulsory to enter that kind of information.

E-Mail Lists

There may be various e-mail lists at our site. We take the e-mail adress from the person who would like to join these e-mail lists. Then e-mails are sent to the person suitable to the rules anounced beforehand and content of that e-mail list. By no means, mails irrelevant to subject are sent to subscribers, e-mail adresses are never shared with others. Members of the mail lists may leave these lists any time they wish without the necessity to inform us.

Order Form

Site visitors and members fill an ordering form when they order something (if they want flowers to be sent to their or to some other adresses).That form contains the name of the orderer and the receiver of the flower and his/her communication information. Payment information of the orderer also (credit card informations) takes part in the form. Being member is not necessary to submit an order.

Other Forms

In our site there may be present some other forms like the Contact Form, Advertisement Information Form, Advertisement Registration Form. These forms are used only and solely for communication. The content of these forms is not recorded on any data base; it is only sent to the relevant person by e-mail. The relevant person reads the content of the form and does its needs or composes an e-mail to ask for additional information from the visitor, who filled the form. No e-mails are sent to the e-mail adresses of the persons afterwards and these informations are hidden entirely.

Usage of the Information

Profile

The information taken directly from the visitor/member through the forms mentioned above and statistical information such as cookies, page visit records and log records, are generally used to develop a profile of the visitors. This information is also used to automatically present a page that suits the requests and inclinations of the user when he/she visits the site and therefore to ensure the satisfaction of the visitor. 

The information given to us by the visitors is never published (except for a general demographic report) and is never shared with a third party through any means or methods.

We do not have any partner organizations or partner web sites with which we share the information collected.

Cookies

We use cookies in our site to enable the users to perform certain procedures (for example to form a MyPoemList and to later view it).

A cookie is an information notice recorded on the visitor's computer. 

Short-term cookies (also known as Session ID) are used for data transfer in the transition from one page to another during the visit. These short-term cookies are erased automatically when the visitor leaves our site or does not call for any page for 10 minutes.

Long-term cookies are recorded on the visitor's computer and allow us to identify him/her on a later visit. In general we keep only a number on the long-term cookie. We do not keep the name, surname and other information about the visitor on the cookie record. Therefore, a person who reads this cookie on the visitor's computer using a cookie reader program, will not find any meaningful information. 

The cookie mechanism is not a secret one. The visitor may get more information by reading the help texts of the internet browser, (such as Microsoft Internet Explorer) and by looking at the settings section can see where in his/her computer the cookies are kept. (For more information, refer to the web site of the firm which produced your internet browser.)

On the other hand, the visitor may disable the cookie mechanism whenever she/he wishes. The usage of cookies may be prevented from the settings section of the internet browser.

When cookies are disabled, our site may still be visited, but it becomes impossible to register as a user, change information, use the forms or participate in the other online activities.

Advertisements

We use the codes developed by third parties for the advertisements on our site. Among these, are amazon.com, linkshare.com, reporting.net and bfast.com. When these firms publish advertisements on our site, they can record information about how many times an advertisement was clicked by a visitor. But it is impossible for these firms (and the mechanism used) to obtain information such as the name and the city of a visitor and this is against the agreements between us and them.

Log Files

Like most web sites, we also keep the visitor record files. In these files, standard information such as the pages visited, date and time of the visit, size of the files, the type of internet browser used, the version of the operating system, the IP number, the reference web site are kept. In order to ensure the security of our information, we record the IP numbers along with the private information of persons.

Legal Disclaimer

Although we do not share the member information with any person or institution, we would like to state that if authorized courts demand this information, will submit the requested information to the court. 

Leaving membership or e-mail lists

In all the mechanisms included in our site, such as membership and e-mail lists, an option to "leave" is always included. When a visitor or a member informs us that he/she wishes to leave the e-mail list which he/she has subscribed, we carry out this demand without asking for a reason. Other than this, a form that allows the visitor to automatically leave our e-mails is always present on our main page. Any person using this form can leave the lists without having to inform us. 

Our members are never supposed members of certain e-mail lists "automatically" or "by default". Our forms and our methods rest on the basis that a member must be aware when subscribing to a list. 

Links

Our site includes a links section. Other than this, we publish links as advertisements and as recommendation. The links to outside of our site generally open in a new window.

As PoemHunter.Com we do not assert that the sites we give link to comply with the rules for keeping the visitor information confidential. The whole responsibility with this respect is on the web site concerned. We therefore recommend our visitors visiting these sites, not to give information without making sure that this information will be kept confidential. 

Communication Information

All questions and problems with respect to the information presented herewith can be sent us using the Contact Us page.

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