1. Parties
a) SEVAN BIÇAKCI MÜCEVHER TASARIM VE TİCARET A.Ş. (Henceforth referred to as "Sevan Bıçakçı"), located at the address of Mollafeneri Mah. Gazisinanpaşa Sok. No:12 Fatih / İstanbul, which runs the website www.sevanbicakci.com).
b) An internet user who is a member of the www.sevanbicakci.com website ("Members")
c) An internet user (“Guests”) who makes purchases on the www.sevanbicakci.com website without being a member.
2. The Subject of this Contract
The subject of this Agreement is the general terms of use, rules, conditions of usage and transactions of members and the determination of legal responsibilities of the www.sevanbicakci.com website, owned by Sevan Bıçakçı. To establish this membership agreement, Members must enter the requested Member (membership) Information and the password they determine, and to press the [Become a Member] and other such buttons by giving the legally and contractually requested and necessary approvals and/or permissions.
3. Rights and liabilities of Each Party
3.1. People under the age of 18 are prohibited by law from shopping on the website. By logging onto the site and/or becoming a member, people declare and accept that they are over the age of 18.
3.2. Members declare and accept that any personal and/or other information he/she provides while becoming a member of the www.sevanbicakci.com website is legally accurate, and that Sevan Bıçakçı has no responsibility for the inaccuracy of this information and that Members will immediately indemnify any and all damages suffered in full.
3.3. Members/Guests accept and declare that all shopping made on the website www.sevanbicakci.com is for personal use and that they are not shopping for any commercial purposes. Sevan Bıçakçı has the right to terminate any membership agreement in the event that Members/Guests sell the products purchased through the www.sevanbicakci.com website to others for commercial purposes or if it is determined that they have made a commercial profit from the product purchased. In addition, all compensation and other rights of Sevan Bıçakçı are reserved due to such unfair use. Members accept and declare that should this occur, they will be liable to Sınai Mülkiyet Kanunun (Industrial Property Law).
3.4. Members may not provide the password given to them by Sevan Bıçakçı to other persons or organizations. Any rights and responsibilities of Members to use said password belongs to them alone. For this reason, Members are directly responsible for all liability and all claims and demands that may be brought against Sevan Bıçakçı by third parties or authorized authorities, and Sevan Bıçakçı reserves the right to claim any compensation and other claims arising from such unauthorized use.
3.5. Prices of products offered for sale on www.sevanbicakci.com and the sales conditions applied are valid only for the website and are not valid in Sevan Bıçakçı stores or across any other sales channels.
3.6. Sevan Bıçakçı, or related institutions, ensures all necessary measures are undertaken regarding the security of Members' information and transactions, ensuring that they are secure in the relevant systems and online infrastructure depending on the nature of the information and transaction. In the use of www.sevanbicakci.com, all credit card transactions and approvals are carried out online between the Bank or relevant Card and Payment Institutions independent of Sevan Bıçakçı (Information such as credit card "password" is not seen or recorded by Sevan Bıçakçı).
3.7. Members accept and undertake to comply with every legal provision and regulation and not to violate them at any time while using the www.sevanbicakci.com website. All legal and penal obligations that may arise are entirely binding exclusively to Members.
3.8. Information such as the name and Internet Protocol (IP) address of the Internet service provider used to access the www.sevanbicakci.com site for the improvement and development of the site and/or within the framework of all relevant legal legislation, the date and time of access to the site, pages accessed while on the site and the internet address of the website that provides direct connection to the site may be collected by Sevan Bıçakçı. Sevan Bıçakçı's Cookie Policy and detailed information valid to the website is available at https://www.sevanbicakci.com/cookie-policy.
3.9. Sevan Bıçakçı may share Members' personal information with third parties in the form and conditions permitted by Law 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data and all relevant legislation.
3.10. All manner of precautions had been taken to ensure that the Sevan Bıçakçı website is free of viruses and similar software/malware. In addition, in order to ensure ultimate security, Members/Guests should use their own virus protection systems and provide the necessary protection. Members/Guests, by entering the Sevan Bıçakçı website, are deemed to have accepted responsibility for all errors that may occur in their own software and operating systems and the subsequent direct or indirect consequences thereof.
3.11. Sevan Bıçakçı reserves the right to change the content of www.sevanbicakci.com at any time, to change or terminate any service provided to Members/Guests, or to delete or anonymize member information and data registered on the Sevan Bıçakçı website.
3.12. Member information is tracked by Sevan Bıçakçı in order to provide better service. Adhering to the privacy conditions, this information is used for advertising, etc., in order to expand and improve the content. It may be shared with the companies it cooperates with in the form and conditions in compliance with all relevant laws and legal authorities. The aim is to improve the experience that the site offers to its guests and the www.sevanbicakci.com website.
3.13. Members may not have more than one account. Should multiple accounts be found, it is at Sevan Bıçakçı's sole discretion to close/freeze the accounts that have been found to be fraudulent without notifying the member. Sevan Bıçakçı reserves the right to resort to other means, including removal from membership, since the member's attempt to profit from the system with more than one account will not be protected, and if such a violation occurs more than once, the relevant violation will be a fundamental violation of the membership agreement.
3.14. Sevan Bıçakçı may change, update or cancel the terms of the membership agreement at any time without the need for prior notice and/or warning in any form or manner, and will publish it on the website with a dated update under the same link. If deemed necessary, it may notify its Members by email. The renewed current terms of use will be valid from the moment they are published on www.sevanbicakci.com and the use of the www.sevanbicakci.com site or services will depend on the renewed terms of use from that moment on.
3.15. All parties accept and declare that all computer records belonging to Sevan Bıçakçı will be taken as the sole and true exclusive evidence, in accordance with Article 193 of the HMK, and that the said records constitute a contract of evidence.
3.16. Any trademarks, trade names, logos, graphics, patterns, images, general appearance, texts, all other materials used on the site, including technical data on the www.sevanbicakci.com website are the property of Sevan Bıçakçı. All phrases and wordings presented on this site are registered to Sevan Bıçakçı. For this reason, no such phrase or wording on the www.sevanbicakci.com website may be copied, reproduced or used without permission. Sevan Bıçakçı reserves the right to claim all forms of compensation or other claims due to such actions on the part of Members or Guests.
3.17. Members accept that he/she will be deemed to have accepted all the provisions of this contract from the moment he/she starts to use the service and that the contract will be fully valid for himself/herself. Members consent to indemnify Sevan Bıçakçı for any damages they may incur due to a violation of the obligations undertaken herein. Sevan Bıçakçı retains the right of recourse from any member for any compensation and/or administrative and/or judicial fines to be paid to public institutions and/or third parties due to a breach of contract.
4. Permission to Process Personal Data
Members consent to provide their contact information and other personal information including all forms of personal and non-personal information regarding product-service purchases, visits to e-commerce websites and to the sections and structures of physical stores and their locations, and all shopping undertaken herein. They consent to allow Sevan Bıçakçı to take necessary measures to protect their privacy and to use them in accordance with the legal principles regarding their processing. Sevan Bıçakçı may use this information first of all for legal reasons, secondly, to benefit from general and personalized products-services and opportunities, and thirdly, for all forms of product-service promotion, advertising, communication, promotions, sales, marketing, gift cards, membership transactions, information and services. Personal information may include Member names, surname, age, gender, marital status, delivery address, interests, shopping habits-preferences, likes, invoice content, mobile/home/work phone number, technical advertisement identifier-ID information, email address and/or location data, and Members agree that it may be used for automatic or non-automatic procurement, takeovers, recorded in written/magnetic archives within the country for a period to be determined, but not exceeding any legal maximum periods. It may be stored, kept, made available, used, updated, changed, combined, rearranged, classified, described, shared, transferred to third parties in the country, or transferred and processed by other means. Member accept and declare that they have read the KVKK Privacy Policy, which is an inseparable part of this agreement, available on the www.sevanbicakci.com website within the scope of all relevant legal rights. Furthermore, accordingly, Sevan Bıçakçı accepts and declares that the data controller fulfill their obligation of full disclosure within the scope of Article 10 of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data.
5. Sending Electronic Commercial Messages
5.1. Members who approve this Agreement by entering the information requested in the Membership Information on www.sevanbicakci.com expressly consent and approve that: Sevan Bıçakçı, in accordance with the law, may send commercial electronic messages in the form of SMS/short messages, instant notifications, messages across social media and other online advertising networks, automatic dialing, computer, telephone, fax, email/mail, bluetooth-other wireless networks and other electronic communication tools. These may pertain to notifications regarding changes, use and maintenance of all kinds of products and services and regarding purchase, delivery, membership information, membership transactions and similar situations within the scope of ongoing membership, and various promotions, advertisements regarding all kinds of products and services and for promotional, sales and marketing purposes.
5.2. Members are deemed to have consented to allowing Sevan Bıçakçı and its current and future affiliates, partners, successors and/or third parties to be determined by them, to send discounts, campaigns and information within the scope of authorized marketing to Members via SMS, email and all kinds of digital communication tools by virtue of having provided personal information to www.sevanbicakci.com in the process of becoming a member. Members may easily and free of charge unsubscribe from the daily commercial mailing list by clicking the "Please click if you don't want to be informed of campaigns" link at the bottom of the emails sent from Sevan Bıçakçı or by using the forwarding link included in the relevant SMS. For channels specified by Members in accordance with their clear notification on this matter, communications to the party are suspended within the legal maximum period. In accordance with the law, messages regarding the purchases, deliveries, etc. of products and services may continue.
5.3. If Members make changes to their communication preferences on the www.sevanbicakci.com membership page, they may continue to receive commercial electronic messages from the relevant channel until they change communication preferences from the membership page on the site or refuse notifications for any commercial communication without the need for further permissions/approvals and without taking into account any previous rejection notices based on the approval given here and otherwise.
6. Termination of Contract
This agreement will remain in effect until members cancel their membership or Sevan Bıçakçı cancels the membership. Members may terminate their membership electronically at any time, and Sevan Bıçakçı may terminate the contract by terminating the membership without giving any reason. With the termination of the contract/membership, all forms of data and information, including the personal data of the seven parties, will be kept in accordance with the requirements of the KVKK and other legislation.
7. Resolution of Disputes
The laws of the Republic of Turkey will be applied in disputes related to this contract, and Istanbul (Çağlayan) Courts and Enforcement Offices are given the full power of their authority.
8. Correspondence Addresses
The email address provided by Members to Sevan Bıçakçı is considered to be a valid and up-to-date email address for any notifications to be made regarding this contract. Unless the parties notify the other party in writing of changes to their current emails within 3 (three) days, they accept that the requests made to the old email address will be valid and will be deemed to have been made to them. Only emails sent by Members from a valid and up-to-date email address are taken into account by Sevan Bıçakçı. Any notification made by Sevan Bıçakçı using the registered email address reported by Members will be deemed to have reached Members 5 (five) days after the email was sent by Sevan Bıçakçı. Parties may also provide any notifications and requests in person or in writing.
9. Other Provisions
Sevan Bıçakçı has the right to change prices, images, features, conditions of use of the site and all other information published on www.sevanbicakci.com and its extensions, if available, without prior notice, to rearrange the site, and/or terminate or stop its publication if necessary. If changes are made to the website and/or its extensions, these changes will become immediately valid on the date of publication and these changes will be deemed to have been accepted by the member by entering and/or using the website. Sevan Bıçakçı reserves the right to change and update these terms of use at any time if deemed necessary.
10. Validity
This Membership Agreement becomes valid from the moment it is published on the website.