1. Preface
Rhodium Mağazacılık ve Dış Ticaret Anonim Şirketi (“Rhodium”), attaches importance to the protection of your personal data.
This policy provides you with information about the source and use of information about you collected through cookies when you use the Rhodium electronic commerce site accessible at www.rhodium.com.tr ( “Website”) and enables you to exercise your choices and rights under applicable personal data protection legislation..
This policy applies to the Website offered by Rhodium and completes the "Terms of Use", "Membership Agreement" and "Customer Clarification Text" and any documents and information statements referring to this policy.
Rhodium may amend this privacy and cookie policy from time to time. In case of any change in this privacy and cookie policy, you will be informed by changing the update date on the current privacy and cookie policy. For this reason, we recommend that you review the privacy and cookie policy on the Website before each action and transaction you will make on the Website.
2. Key Points of Rhodium's Privacy and Cookie Policy
2.1 Information Collected
We collect cookies about you based on your use of the Website. In addition to the information you provide (e.g. when you create a membership or during shopping), there is also information that is automatically collected, generated or extracted by our technical systems (e.g. your connection data).
2.2 Usage
We use this information to provide the services you have requested and, in particular, to enable you to place orders through the Website. In addition, this information allows us to get to know you better and, subject to your consent, to send you personalized offers regarding our products and those of our business partners.
The use of cookies helps us to improve the performance of the Website and to display advertisements on the Website and third party sites. In addition, in order to provide you with a better shopping experience, checks are made using cookies to ensure the security of the Website and orders.
2.3 Transfer of Your Personal Data to Third Parties
Your personal data collected through cookies is transmitted to our service providers and to your bank for the verification of payments in connection with your online orders, when necessary for us to provide the service, you have requested through the Website.
Some of this information (e.g., your purchase history or profile) may be transmitted to our commercial business partners based on your consent and depending on your sharing preferences. This may apply in particular to targeted content that you may see on third party sites based on your online activity. In this context, in addition to this Privacy and Cookie Policy, we recommend that you read the privacy policies and terms of use specific to the third-party sites on which you operate online.
We would like to remind you that your personal data collected through cookies may be transferred abroad due to the organizational structure or location of some of our service providers (delivery, storage, payment or security service providers).
In such a case, we act in accordance with the legislation in Turkish data protection law. In cases where Rhodium transfers your personal data abroad, in accordance with Article 9 of the Personal Data Protection Law ( "KVKK") and Article 9 of the Regulation on the Procedures and Principles Regarding the Transfer of Personal Data Abroad, it is shared with our business partners, suppliers and service providers based on the existence of one of the legal reasons "Providing appropriate assurance with the standard contract and the existence of one of the situations regulated in paragraph 6 of Article 9 of the KVKK, provided that it is incidental if you consent to the use of cookies".
We also request that our business partners use your personal data obtained through cookies based on your use of the Website only for the purpose of managing or providing the requested services, always act in accordance with applicable data protection laws and scrupulously protect the confidentiality of the information transferred.
2.4 Your Rights and Options
If you submit your requests regarding your personal data collected through cookies, we will respond to your request as quickly as possible and no later than 30 (thirty) days, free of charge, depending on the nature of your request. However, if the process requires an additional cost, the fee specified in the tariff determined by the Personal Data Protection Board will be applied.
Please review the "Customer Clarification Text" on the Website to learn your rights under Article 11 of the KVKK.
To learn more about the use of cookies, to set your cookie usage preferences and to disable the use of cookies except for mandatory data collection areas, you can visit the "Cookie Settings" section.
2.5 Contact
In case you have any wishes, suggestions or complaints about this Privacy and Cookie Policy or your request to exercise your rights specified in pursuant to Article 13 of the KVKK for cookies collected within the scope of your use of the Website, you can send us your request to use your rights specified below by one of the following communication methods:
| Mail Address: | Levazım Mah. Koru Sk. Zorlu Center Blok No: 2 İç Kapı No: 388 Beşiktaş / İstanbul |
| E-mail Address: | e-ticaret@rhodium.com.tr |
| Fax: | +90 212 225 62 05 |
| Telephone: | +90 212 22562 62 |
3. Cookies We Collect
When you visit or connect to the Website, we may place various cookies on your device. These cookies help us recognize your device's browser (e.g. computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) and ensure the proper functioning of the Website. Cookies may also be used to provide you with a personalized experience and to secure online payments. Some cookies also include additional security functions, such as preventing fraud and identity theft.
This Privacy and Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them and how you can manage your preferences. To manage your preferences regarding the collection of cookies, you can visit Cookie Settings.
3.1 What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a type of text file placed on the user's device by website operators and transferred as part of an HTTP(S) (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) request. According to another definition, cookies are low-size rich text formats that allow certain information about users to be stored on users' terminal devices when a website is visited.
3.2 Cookies Collected by Rhodium and Purposes of Collection
The following four types of cookies are collected by Rhodium when you visit the Website:
| Mandatory Cookies: | These cookies are essential to provide basic shopping functionalities and available services. |
| Analytical Cookies: | These cookies provide a customized experience on the Website. |
| Performance and Statistics: | These cookies allow us to measure visitor traffic. They also help us understand which products and actions are more popular than others. |
| Advertising/Marketing: | With these cookies, it is aimed to track the online movements of users in the internet environment, to determine their personal interests and to show advertisements to users in the internet environment for these interests . |
Where we process your personal data based on our direct legitimate interest, we take into account the possible effects that the processing of your personal data may have on you.
Where we process your personal data based on our direct legitimate interest, we take into account the possible effects that the processing of your personal data may have on you.
3.3 Change of Purpose
Your personal data will only be processed for the purposes for which it was collected by us and for other purposes connected with the purpose of collection. If you would like an explanation of how the processing of the new purpose is compatible with the original purposes, please contact us at the contact addresses specified in Article 2.5 of this Privacy and Cookie Policy.
If we need to use your personal data for a purpose other than the subject matter, we will inform you by explaining the legal basis that allows us to do so. We would like to state that we may process your personal data in accordance with the Customer Clarification Text and this Privacy and Cookie Policy, without your knowledge and consent, where necessary and permitted under the legislation.
3.4 Legal Reason for the Use of Cookies
Rhodium processes your personal data for the purposes set out in the table above, based on the grounds of lawfulness set out in Article 5 of the KVKK and set out below. Your personal data collected through cookies are processed for the purpose of carrying out the intended activities;
3.5 Management of Cookies and Consequences of Blocking Cookies
When you visit the Rhodium Website for the first time, we will notify you about the cookies used by Rhodium, your consent to the collection of relevant cookies, the effects of cookies on the use of the Website and the settings where you can edit your preferences for cookies.
If you click on “Accept All” regarding the cookies we will collect in accordance with the procedures specified in our Privacy and Cookie Policy and Cookie Settings, you will consent to our use of cookies.
Your cookie preferences will be valid for 6 months. Following the expiration of the specified period, your preferences regarding cookies will be provided again. You can always change your preferences regarding cookies at Cookie Settings.
The consequences of blocking cookies are as follows:
| Mandatory Cookies: | These cookies are essential to provide basic shopping functions and available services. It is therefore not possible to block them. |
| Analytical Cookies: | This will have no impact on the use of the website. |
| Performance and Statistics: | This will have no impact on the use of the website. |
| Advertising/Marketing: | This will have no effect on the use of the website. If you block advertising/marketing cookies, while using the Website, you will continue to see our advertisements on the Website and receive our marketing offers, but these advertisements and marketing offers will not be personalized advertisements according to your preferences. |
3.6 Duration of Cookies
It uses session cookies and persistent cookies according to the duration of use on the Website.
Session cookies, also called temporary cookies, are used by Rhodium to ensure the continuity of the session. Session cookies are automatically deleted when you close your internet browser. For example: Determining that you are visiting the Website for the first time.
On the other hand, persistent cookies are not deleted when the internet browser is closed and are automatically deleted on a certain date or after a certain period of time. For example: To ensure that you do not re-enter the login information each time you log in to your account on the Website.
Your personal data are processed in line with the purposes for which they are collected and stored by us for the periods required by the purposes for which they are collected.
3.7 Parties to Cookies
Whether the cookie is first-party or third-party depends on the cookie placed by the website or domain.
3.7.1. First Party Cookies
It is placed directly on the Website visited or by Rhodium on your device from which you visit the Website.
3.7.2. Third Party Cookies
Cookies placed on the device by a third party, such as an advertiser or analytics system in cooperation with Rhodium.
3.8 Cookie Settings in Browser Settings
You can always change your preferences regarding cookies from the "Cookie Settings" section on the Website. In addition, partial control can also be provided through browser settings. You can access information on the management of cookies in frequently used browsers.
DATE: 13-07-2025
Levazım Mah. Koru Sokak Zorlu Center K:T1 D:168 Beşiktaş İstanbul
