Who We Are?
We are istanbeautiful team of Istanbul locals and world travelers. Our website address is: https://istanbeautiful.com/nl
If you have any concerns or questions about your privacy or how your data is used or stored by Istanbeautiful.com, please do write to us via info@istanbeautiful.com
Data We Collect
Reviews and Comments
Currently, we do not offer or allow reviews or comments on our website. But, if we allow this in the future, to leave a review or comment on our website, we will ask for your name and email address. This is to prevent spam. Reviews or comments without a valid email address may be deleted. We reserve the right to not publish any review / comment we deem to be inappropriate for any reason.
Media
Currently, we do not offer and allow media uploads on our website. But, if we allow this option in the future, if you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Tour & Activity Enquiries
Istanbeautiful does not operate any tours and activities, but works with several hand picked tour and travel operators making tours in Istanbul and whose products we present to our website visitors. When inquiring by email, about a tour or activity that you saw or read on Istanbeautiful you consent for us to forward your inquiry to the relevant party or parties such as tour operators, tour agents etc. and anticipate contact from them regarding your inquiry. When you email us in this manner, your email remains in the inbox, however your details are not stored in or added to our database or reused for any other purposes. Direct responsibility and liability for any tours and activities lie with the operators or providers themselves.
Cookies
Cookies are tiny files saved in a computer and designed to store small amounts of data. These data are used to track information on your visits to and between websites. Cookies have existed for a number of years, and are very widespread. You may already have cookies activated in your computer. Don’t worry. Cookies won’t damage your computer, and istanbeautiful.com does not store any item of information that can identify you personally –such as your credit card details– in the cookies it creates.
We’re telling you this because there has just been a change in European Union legislation that affects all European websites, and we want to be clear and honest with you at all times with regard to your privacy when using our website. It’s very important to us that you feel you can trust and have confidence in us.
What’s more, we’re also devising a range of improvements relating to cookies and the privacy of our website. If you want to block or restrict all cookies from istanbeautiful.com, you can do so with your browser. Each one is different, so you’ll need to consult the Help section of your browser to see how to change your preferences for cookies.
Data Third Parties Collect
Affiliate Program Participation
To help our website expand and to cover the costs of running the site, our wesbite engages in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking / affiliate links into the website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.
We will earn commission from these affiliate links when you make a purchase and there will be no additional costs to you. So that we can keep our website growing and giving you the best services.
Istanbeautiful.com is a participant of the Booking.com, Trivago.co.uk, Viator.com, GetYourGuide.com, Rentalcars.com, KiwiTaxi.com and some other trusted and secure affiliate programmes.
Google Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics, which is a trusted and secure web analytics service. It is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies” which are text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie regarding your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. We do not store any information.
Google Analytics cookies are stored based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize both its website and its advertising.
Browser plugin
If you wish to deactivate cookies in your browser, you can set the browser to your preference using the menu bar.
We wish to point out that doing so may mean you will not be able to enjoy the full functionality of this website and our free content service.
You can also prevent the data generated by cookies about your use of the website (incl. your IP address) from being passed to Google, and the processing of these data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
Objecting to the collection of data
You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. If you wish to do so, you can use certain plugins for your browser.
We wish to point out that doing so may mean you will not be able to enjoy the full functionality of this website and our free content service.
For more information about how Google Analytics handles user data, see Google’s privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.
Demographic data collection by Google Analytics
Our website uses the demographic features of the Google Analytics. This allows reports to be generated containing statements about the age, gender, and interests of the site visitors. This data comes from interest-based advertising from Google and third-party visitor data. This collected data cannot be attributed to any specific individual person. You can disable this feature at any time by adjusting the ads settings in your Google account or you can forbid the collection of your data by Google Analytics.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites such as Youtube or Vimeo behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. This way you, as a user are able to play the video directly on our website, instead of having to open the video in a new window.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Google Maps
Our website uses the Google Maps map service. It is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
To use Google Maps, it is necessary to save your IP address. This information is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transfer.
The use of Google Maps is in the interest of making our website appealing and to facilitate the location of the popular attractions and places specified by us on our website. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of Google at https://www.google.com/intl/policies/privacy/.
Social media cookies
Our website may contain buttons and content from social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to enable you to share content from our website with your social media networks. If you use these features, those social media sites may use their own cookies. The information on how these are used can be found on the websites of these social media sites.
Disclaimer
Accountability for content
The contents of our website are created with the utmost care to give you the correct information and guides. However, we can not guarantee the contents’ accuracy, completeness or topicality. According to statutory provisions, we are furthermore responsible for our own content on these web pages. In this context, please note that we are accordingly not obliged to monitor merely the transmitted or saved information of third parties, or investigate circumstances pointing to illegal activity.
Accountability for links
Responsibility for the content of external links (to the web pages of third parties) lies solely with the operators of the linked pages. No violations were evident to us at the time of linking. Should any legal infringement become known to us, we will remove the respective link immediately.
