Privacy Policy & Cookie Disclosure
Effective Date: October 2026
At Medical Tourism Turkey (https://medicaltourismturkey.net), we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, use our healthcare directory, or participate in our Health Forum, as well as how third-party partners such as Google AdSense use cookies.
1. Information We Collect
- Information You Provide Voluntarily: When you register for an account, create a doctor or hospital profile, post a question or answer in the Health Forum, or contact us via email, we may collect your name, email address, professional details, and any content you submit.
- Automatically Collected Log & Device Data: When you browse our website, our servers and analytics tools automatically record standard log information, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring/exit pages, date/time stamps, and pages viewed.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected information to:
- Operate, maintain, and improve our healthcare directory, articles, and community forum.
- Manage user registrations, doctor/hospital profiles, and forum discussions.
- Respond to inquiries, support requests, and feedback sent to info@medicaltourismturkey.net.
- Monitor website performance, analyze traffic trends, and prevent fraudulent or unauthorized activity.
3. Cookies, Google AdSense & DoubleClick DART Cookie
Medical Tourism Turkey uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance user experience, analyze site usage (via Google Tag Manager / Google Analytics), and serve relevant advertisements.
- Third-Party Vendors & Google AdSense: Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites on the internet.
- Advertising Cookies: Google’s use of advertising cookies (including the DoubleClick DART cookie) enables Google and its partners to serve personalized or non-personalized ads to our visitors based on their visit to Medical Tourism Turkey and/or other sites on the internet.
- Opting Out of Personalized Advertising: Users may opt out of personalized advertising at any time by visiting Google Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info or www.youronlinechoices.eu.
- Browser Cookie Controls: You can choose to disable or selectively turn off cookies in your web browser settings. Please note that disabling cookies may affect how certain interactive features of our website function.
4. Data Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal identification information to third parties. Publicly submitted information—such as doctor/hospital directory listings and questions or answers posted in the public Health Forum—is visible to visitors of the website. Please exercise caution and avoid sharing sensitive personal medical records in public forum posts.
5. Data Security & Retention
We implement industry-standard technical and organizational security measures (including SSL/HTTPS encryption) to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, or destruction. We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy or as required by law.
6. Your Privacy Rights (GDPR / KVKK)
Depending on your jurisdiction (including the European Economic Area under GDPR and Turkey under KVKK), you have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data, as well as the right to object to or restrict certain processing activities. To exercise these rights, please contact us at info@medicaltourismturkey.net.
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:
Email: info@medicaltourismturkey.net
Location: Istanbul, Turkey