As Ran Kitap, we use cookies to optimize the time you spend on our digital platforms and to provide you with the best experience. This policy explains the types of cookies used when you visit our site and how you can manage them.

1. What is a Cookie?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device through your browser when you visit a website. They act as a “digital safety net”, making it easier to find the information you are looking for and remembering your preferences within the site.

2. Why do we use cookies?

We use cookies on our website for the following purposes:

• Improving the User Experience: Making our site easier to navigate and enabling visitors to find the content they are looking for (for example, a specific audiobook or author) without frustration.
• Analytics and Performance: Tracking how users interact with our site, analyzing which pages are clicked more, and optimizing our performance based on this data.
• Personalization and Marketing: Providing book recommendations based on your listening history and managing engagement tools such as newsletter subscription.
• Security and Legal Compliance: Ensuring the platform is legally sound and protecting your privacy rights.

3. Types of Cookies We Use

• Mandatory Cookies: Required for the site to function properly. Without these cookies, navigation and accessibility features cannot function fully.
• Analytical Cookies: Through Google Analytics and similar tools, it helps us understand how many people visit our site and how they use it.
• Social Media Cookies: Allows you to share our content on platforms such as Instagram or Twitter or see our social media feeds through our site.

4. How Can You Control Cookies?

Our visitors have the right to accept, reject or delete cookies through their browser settings. However, disabling cookies may cause some features on our site (e.g. Storytel redirects or sample listening buttons) not to function fully.

5. Other Platforms and Third Party Cookies

Our Site may contain referrals to partner platforms such as Storytel. We remind you that these platforms have their own cookie policies and Ran Kitap has limited control over these external sites.

Legal Note: This policy has been prepared in accordance with our transparency principle as “Turkey’s First Digital Publishing House” and is updated regularly.