Website Terms of Use

Website Terms of Use - Membership Agreement

WEBSITE TERMS OF USE
Please read these ‘website terms of use’ carefully before using our website.
The customers that use and purchase goods from this shopping site are deemed to have accepted the following terms:
Web pages in our site and all related pages (‘website’) belong to and are managed by Sefa TOPAL- theottomanbazaar.com (İstanbul Chamber of Commerce Registration Nr: 254394-5) company (‘Company’) at the address www.theottomanbazaar.com. You (‘Users’) are deemed to have accepted that you are subject to the following conditions while using all services offered on the website; and by benefitting from and continuing to use the service on the site, that you are over 18 and have the right, authority and legal capacity to sign contracts under the laws you are subject to, and that you have read and understood the Agreement, and adhere to the terms written in the Agreement.
 
This Agreement imposes rights and liabilities on the parties regarding the contracted website, and the parties declare to fulfill the mentioned rights and liabilities completely, on time and within the conditions specified in this Agreement when they agree with the Agreement.
 
1. LIABILITIES
a. The company reserves the right to make changes on prices and offered services at all times.
b. The company accepts and undertakes that the contracted services will be made available to the member except technical breakdowns.
c. The user accepts in advance that he/she will not do reverse engineering or carry out any other actions to find or obtain source codes while using the website; otherwise, he/she will be responsible for damages to third parties, and legal and criminal action will be taken against him/her.
d. In his/her activities or communications on or in any part of the website, the user accepts not to generate and share contents that are misleading, aggressive, obscene, pornographic; are against general moral principles, laws and copyrights; violate rights of third persons and encourage illegal activities. The user is fully responsible for damage that may arise otherwise. In this case, the ‘website’ officials may suspend and close such accounts, and reserve the right to initiate legal action, and therefore to share user activities and accounts if they receive information requests for the same from judicial authorities.
e. Members of the website are responsible from their relations with each other and third parties.
 
2.  Intellectual Property Rights
2.1. All registered or unregistered intellectual property rights on this site -such as title, establishment name, brand, patent, logo, design, information and method- belong to the company that owns and manages the website, and are under the protection of national and international law. Visiting this website or benefitting from the services on this website do not grant any rights regarding the mentioned intellectual property rights.
2.2. Information on the website cannot be reproduced, published, copied, offered and/or transferred under any circumstances. The whole website or part of it cannot be used on another website without permission.
 
3. Confidential Information
3.1. The company shall not disclose personal information submitted by users via the website to third persons. Such personal information includes name-surname, address, telephone number, mobile number, e-mail address and all kinds of other information to identify the user, and shall be referred to as ‘Confidential Information’ in brief.
 
3.2. The user accepts and undertakes to give consent the company that owns the website for sharing his/her communication, portfolio status and demographical information with his associates and affiliated group companies, only limited to the use within the scope of advertising, campaign, promotion, announcement etc. marketing activities. Such personal information may be used by the company in order to determine a customer profile, offer promotions and campaigns suitable for the customer profile, and carry out statistical studies.
 
3.3. Confidential Information may only be disclosed to third parties in the event that such information is requested by public authorities in due form and that it is compulsory to make explanations to public authorities as per imperative provisions of applicable legislations.
 
4. No Warranty: THIS AGREEMENT ARTICLE SHALL BE VALID TO THE MAXIMUM EXTEND PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. THE SERVICES ARE OFFERED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS BY THE COMPANY, AND NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHER WARRANTIES ARE PROVIDED REGARDING SERVICES OR IMPLEMENTATION (TOGETHER WITH ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED), INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES ON MERCHANTABILITY, CONFORMITY WITH A CERTAIN PURPOSE OR NONINFRINGEMENT.
 
5. Registration and Security
The User is obliged to provide accurate, complete and up-to-date information for registration. Otherwise, he/she shall be deemed to have violated the Agreement, and the account may be closed without informing the User.
The User is responsible for password and account security on the website and third party websites. Otherwise, the Company cannot be held responsible for data loss, security violations or damage to hardware and software.
 
6. Force Majeure
The parties shall not be held liable if their contractual liabilities become unperformable due to reasons such as natural disasters, fire, explosions, civil wars, wars, riots, civil commotions, declaration of mobilization, strike, lockout, epidemics, infrastructure and internet malfunction and electrical outage (shall be collectively referred to as “Force Majeure” below), which are beyond the control of parties. The Parties’ rights and liabilities arising from this Agreement are suspended during this period.
 
7. Entire Agreement and Validity
If any term of this Agreement becomes partially or wholly invalid, the rest of the Agreement shall remain valid.
 
8. Amendments to Be Made in the Agreement
The Company may wholly or partially change the services offered via the website and terms of this Agreement at any time. The changes shall be valid as of the date they are published on the website. The User is responsible for following up the changes. The User is deemed to have accepted such changes by continuing to benefit from the services offered.
 
9. Notices
All notifications to be sent to parties regarding this Agreement shall be via the Company’s e-mail address known and the user’s e-mail address specified in the registration form. The User accepts that the address he/she stated while registering to the website is his/her current notification address, he/she will inform the other party of any changes in written within 5 days, otherwise the notifications made to this address will be deemed valid.
 
10. Evidence Agreement
For all kinds of disputes that may arise between the Parties regarding this Agreement, the Parties’ books, records, documents and computer/fax records shall be considered as evidence per the Law on Civil Procedure no. 6100, and the User accepts that he/she will not object to such records.
 
11. Resolution of Disputes
Istanbul (Central) Courts and Bailiffs Offices are authorized in the resolution of all kinds of disputes arising from the execution or implementation of this Agreement.
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