Membership Agreement

Governs the membership and usage terms of the Society mobile application operated by Turuncu Deneyim Organizasyon ve Teknoloji Limited Şirketi.

By downloading the mobile application named Society of Turuncu Deneyim Organizasyon ve Teknoloji Limited Şirketi (the “Company”) and entering their self-introduction text, first name, last name, email, phone, gender, date of birth, interests, university, profession, employer, Instagram and LinkedIn information, the User submits a membership application to the Company, and, if the application is accepted by the Company, enters into this membership agreement.

Terms of Use

The terms of use of the Company’s mobile application named Society are as follows:

• The User may write to tuna@societyapp.org or emre@societyapp.org for any requests and complaints. All information that is not required to be shared with third parties and that is not already open to other people’s access shall be deemed confidential and must not be shared with others. The User is obliged to keep confidential the access tools used to access the system (such as username, password, OTP SMS, PIN, code). The User is entirely responsible for the consequences of the use of the system access tools by a third party. The Application is not obliged to determine the identities of persons engaged in improper use. The User accepts, declares and undertakes that, without prejudice to the provisions above, they are responsible for the use of their information by a third party and its consequences, and that transactions carried out using the information are binding upon them. The User is obliged to notify the Company immediately upon learning that their password has been obtained by others.
• The User accepts and undertakes that the information and content they provide within the application is accurate and lawful. The Company is not obliged or responsible to investigate the accuracy of the information and content transmitted to the application by the User or uploaded, modified and provided by the User over the application, nor to warrant and guarantee that such information and content is safe, accurate and lawful, and is likewise not responsible for any damage arising from such information and content being false or erroneous.
• The User accepts, declares and undertakes that all transactions carried out from their own application account are performed exclusively and solely by themselves.
• Those who benefit from the products and services offered by the application may only carry out transactions within the application for lawful purposes. The legal and criminal liability for every transaction and act carried out by the User within the application belongs to the User.
• The User accepts, declares and undertakes that they will not reproduce, copy, distribute or process images, texts, visual and audio imagery, video clips, files, databases, catalogues and lists that are within the application but that would constitute an infringement of the property or personal rights or assets of the Company and/or any third party.
• The Company reserves the right to unilaterally change the application, and the products, services and content offered in the application, at any time. If the change and/or correction requests made by the Company to the User are not fulfilled within the specified period, the Company shall under no circumstances be liable for any damages that have arisen or may arise.
• The User may evaluate the mobile application and, if they wish to write a review, may use the “Contact us” tab.
• The Company reserves the right to change the content of the services it offers at any time. The application is available on the App Store and Google Play.
• The Company may, through the Society application, carry out campaign participation, tracking and rewarding, display announcements, and send messages through the application.
• While carrying out all transactions within the system described by this agreement, the User accepts and undertakes in advance to comply, in addition to this agreement, with all applicable laws, regulations and by-laws in force, to pay any penalties that may otherwise arise, not to hold the Company responsible for any reason, and not to claim compensation.
• All elements of the application (including but not limited to the general appearance, design, text, imagery, logo, icons, demonstrative, written, electronic, graphic or machine-readable technical data, the business method and business model applied in the Company’s Society application, software code and other codes) belong to the Company and/or are used under a copyright obtained from a third party by the Company’s mobile application. All of these elements of the Company’s mobile application, protected under Law No. 5846 on Intellectual and Artistic Works, may not be modified, copied, reproduced, translated into another language, republished, resold, shared, distributed or displayed without prior permission and without citation, may not be used outside the scope of the user agreement, and derivative works may not be created or prepared from them. In case of any conduct to the contrary, the responsible person(s) shall be liable to cover the damage suffered by the Company and/or the amount of compensation claimed from the Company due to damages suffered by third parties, including licensors, including court costs and attorney’s fees.
• Copying the pages or content in the mobile application by any automated device or manual method without the written permission of the Company is prohibited. Interfering with the normal operation of the mobile application’s system using any device or software is prohibited. Furthermore, no more load than permitted may be placed on our technical infrastructure. The information in the mobile application is updated in real time and has been provided only to the Company by users or third parties. As stated previously, copying, reproducing, modifying, amending or publicly displaying the content in the mobile application (except User information) without the written permission of the third parties in the system or of the Company is prohibited.
• The term force majeure shall be interpreted as unavoidable events developing beyond the reasonable control of the Company and that it could not prevent despite exercising due care, including but not limited to natural disasters, riots, war, strikes, and attacks on the application, portal and system despite the Company having taken the necessary information security measures.
• In all cases deemed force majeure, the Parties shall not be liable for late or incomplete performance, or non-performance, of any of the obligations determined by the framework agreement.
• The email address notified by the User through the Company’s Society application shall be accepted as the email at which the legal address will be requested for any notification to be made in connection with this agreement.
• The Parties agree that, unless they notify the other party in writing of changes to their current email addresses within 3 (three) days, requests made to the old email addresses shall be valid and deemed to have been made to them. The User declares, accepts and undertakes that they have read, understood and accepted all of the articles in the agreement and have confirmed the accuracy of the information they have provided about themselves.

Termination of Membership

In the cases set out below, the User’s membership may, at the Company’s discretion, be suspended temporarily or cancelled entirely without any need for warning. In the event that the membership is terminated by the Company, the User will not be able to benefit from our services.

1. In case of conduct contrary to this Agreement or the documents it contains,
2. In case the information provided by the User cannot be verified and confirmed,
3. In case the User’s conduct within the mobile application and at events organised through the mobile application gives rise to, or is likely to give rise to, legal liability towards third parties, including the Company and/or other users.

Liability and Miscellaneous Provisions

• The User accepts and undertakes in advance to indemnify all pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages (including attorney’s fees) that may arise from the claims or demands of third parties (and that may arise against the Company’s officers, coordinators, managers, agents, representatives, affiliated partners, subsidiaries and all employees) in case of their failure to comply with this agreement or the documents it contains.
• Depending on many factors beyond the Company’s complete control that may arise from internet use, problems of various kinds may be experienced in the operation of the mobile application (including the mobile application not being able to operate indefinitely). For this reason, the Company gives no warranty or undertaking under any circumstances that the services in the mobile application will continue uninterrupted, securely or continuously. Even if one or more of the articles of this Agreement become invalid or contrary to applicable laws, the others remain valid as they are. The User’s conduct contrary to this Agreement shall be subject to legal proceedings, with all of the Company’s legal rights reserved. The Company’s failure to respond immediately to conduct contrary to the Agreement does not mean that, should the same conduct be repeated later, its legal rights will be waived and the matter will not be pursued.