Effective Date: January 1, 2025
VEKEND (“we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience on our website https://www.vekend.com (the “Site”). This Cookie Policy explains how and why we use cookies, web beacons, pixels, and other tracking technologies (“Cookies”) and how you can manage your preferences. This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
COOKIE POLICY
As VEKEND LLC (“VEKEND”), we are using cookies in certain areas of www.vekend.com (“Site”). This Cookie Policy (“Policy”) is valid for this Site managed by Vekend LLC, and cookies will be used during your visit to the Site in the manner explained in this Policy.
Vekend uses cookies within the scope of the Vekend Privacy Policy and reserves the right to revise the usage conditions for cookies and the Cookie Policy.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are created on your device by an internet site and that contain data in name-value format. Cookies enable the internet site you visited to store information on your device and use that information in your future visits. Cookies created by an internet site are stored by the internet browser you use to access the site. Remote access to the information contained in these cookies is possible only through the domain name creating the cookies, www.vekend.com (“Site”).
Nowadays, cookies have become an important part of internet technologies, and their basic function is to remember the preferences of the online visitor and recognize the device, and almost all internet sites use cookies.
Who Sends the Cookies and How?
The cookies are sent through the communication established between the browser available on your device (Google Chrome, Safari, etc.) and the servers of Vekend during your navigation on the internet.
Cookie Types
| Cookie Type | Remarks |
|---|---|
| Session Cookies | Session cookies are those cookies that are valid when you use the Site, and they will continue to be valid until the internet browser is shut down. |
| Permanent Cookies | These cookies are stored in your browser and continue to be valid until you delete them or until their expiration dates. |
| First Party Cookies | These are the cookies created by the Site, which could be read only by Vekend. These cookies may be in the form of session cookies or permanent cookies. |
| Third-Party Cookies | These cookies are those created by each third-party domain name exclusively, in case the content provided on the Site is also provided through other domain names in addition to the address of Vekend (for example, displaying the content hosted on a video platform through the Site). These cookies are mostly permanent cookies. |
For Which Purposes are the Cookies Used?
Mandatory Cookies: These cookies are those whose use is mandatory to run the internet site orderly and in order for you to benefit from the site’s features and the services provided. No personal data is processed through these cookies.
Performance Cookies: These cookies enable us to detect the visits and sources of traffic so that we can measure and improve the performance of our website. They help us to access the visitor numbers for the pages on our website and see on which pages our visitors spend their time while they visit our Site. All information collected by these cookies does not contain any personal data, and they are anonymous, as they are evaluated collectively/altogether. By using these cookies, we try to make our internet site more efficient.
Functionality Cookies: These cookies are used to provide advanced functionality and personalization facilities, such as remembering the language or region preferences made by our visitors on our website. If you do not allow the use of these cookies, it will not be possible to record your personalized settings in relation to our website.
Targeting Cookies: These cookies are the first and third-party cookies created during your visit to our website and to the domain names belonging to third parties. These cookies make it possible to monitor the click and visit history for the domain names for which they are created and to match these records between different domain names. These cookies are used to get to know and profile the users; to target advertising and marketing activities, and personalize the content.
Management of the Cookies
Generally, the browsers accept cookies automatically. Use of cookies is not mandatory to use our website, but if you set your browser not to accept cookies, the quality of your user experience may diminish, and various functions of our site may be affected.
You may structure your browser so that it prevents cookies for all sites or for certain sites, and it gives alarms when cookies are created, and it prevents third-party cookies, or considers all cookies as session cookies. You may also delete the cookies on your browser or see the list and values of the cookies stored in your browser. For detailed information about the cookie management functions of your browser, please click on the link below and obtain information from the website of your browser.
| NAME OF THE COOKIE | PURPOSE: | Cookie Type |
|---|---|---|
| _clck, _clsk | In session information, it keeps the special ID information about the device to which the cookie was sent. | Performance |
| PHPSESSID | Session ID value produced after the user logs in, is kept by this parameter. | Performance |
| _ga, _ga_2JDVPQGN82 | Google Analytics | Performance |
| sbjs_ | Sourcebuster.js for attribution tracking | Performance |
| stm_post_watched | custom for user preferences | Performance |
| Secure-*, SID, SSID, SAPISID, etc. | for analytics, security, ads | Performance |
| CLID, MUID | for session replay analytics and targeting | Performance |