Cookie Policy

1. What cookies are

Cookies are small text files a website stores on your device. Similar technologies — localStorage and sessionStorage — work the same way and are covered by this policy. They let a site remember things between pages, such as a menu you closed or the language you chose.

2. Our approach

We keep this deliberately minimal. Key Smile does not use advertising cookies, and does not run analytics, remarketing or social media tracking pixels on this website. We do not profile visitors and we do not sell data to advertisers.

The storage we do use is strictly necessary to make the site work, or is loaded only after you actively click to load it.

3. What this site actually stores

Name	Type	Purpose	Duration
Cookie consent record	Strictly necessary	Remembers your choice on the cookie notice so it is not shown again	Up to 12 months
Country code (session storage)	Strictly necessary	Stores the country detected from your IP so the phone field pre-fills the right dialling code and we can suggest a language. Stored on your device only.	Until you close the tab
Language preference	Functional	Remembers the site language you selected	Until you close the tab or clear storage
WhatsApp notice state	Functional	Remembers that you dismissed the chat prompt, so it does not reappear	Until you close the tab

4. Third-party services

These external services are contacted when you use the site. Each receives your IP address, which is technically required to deliver the content:

• Google Fonts and unpkg (icons) — deliver the typeface and icons used across the site. They do not set advertising cookies here.
• ipapi.co — returns the country matching your IP address so the enquiry form can pre-select your international dialling code. This is the single most common reason enquiries reach us with an unusable phone number, which is why we do it. We do not store your IP address for this, and the result stays on your device for the session.
• Google Maps — on our Contact page the map is not loaded automatically. It appears as a placeholder and only loads, setting Google's own cookies, if you click to load it. If you never click, Google receives nothing.

These providers may process data outside Türkiye and the EEA. See the international transfers section of our Privacy Policy.

5. Your choices

Strictly necessary storage cannot be switched off, since the site cannot function without it. Everything else is under your control:

• Do not load the map — simply do not click the "load map" button on the Contact page.
• Browser settings — every major browser lets you block or delete cookies and site storage. See the privacy or cookie settings in Chrome, Safari, Firefox or Edge.
• Clear site data — clearing your browser data for this site removes everything listed in the table above.

Blocking storage may mean the site forgets your language, shows the cookie notice repeatedly, or cannot pre-fill your dialling code.

6. Legal basis

Strictly necessary storage is placed under Art. 5/2-f of KVKK (legitimate interest) and the equivalent exemption for strictly necessary storage under the EU ePrivacy rules. Anything non-essential — including the Google Maps embed — is placed only with your consent, which you may withdraw at any time by clearing your browser data.

7. Changes and contact

If we add or remove a service, we will update this page and its date. Questions: info@keysmile.com.tr.