Membership terms

1. Parties

These terms are made between Bumba Teknoloji Limited Şirketi ("Bumba"), Ataşehir, İstanbul, and the person who signs up on a Bumba website or app ("Member", "you"). Contact: bilgi@bumbagroup.com

2. Definitions

• Website: every Bumba website and mobile app that offers membership.
• Service: all features the Website offers to members.
• Account: the record that lets you sign in to the Website with your email address and password (or with a social account where offered).
• Member content: everything you add to your profile or the Website (name, nickname, photo, "About me", social media links, comments, saved items and the like).
• Privacy notice: the Membership privacy notice, which explains how your personal data is processed.

3. Subject

These terms govern the conditions under which you use the Service as a member and the rights and obligations of the parties. If a Website has its own rules or additional services, they are set out on that Website's terms page in addition to these terms and apply together with them; in case of conflict, the Website-specific provision prevails.

4. Membership conditions

• You must be at least 16 to become a member. You confirm this at sign-up.
• Membership is free and voluntary. Only a valid email address and a password are needed to open an account; everything else is optional.
• You cannot sign in until you verify your email address; accounts not verified within 7 days are deleted.
• Each Website keeps your account separately; if you wish, you turn it on for other Bumba Websites from your account page (same email, password and member number; your information stays the same on linked Websites). One email address is one Bumba membership. Your account is personal; you may not transfer, sell or let anyone else use it. You may not open an account on someone else's behalf or under a false identity.
• You are responsible for keeping your password safe and not sharing it. If you think your account has been used without permission, change your password, close your open sessions and tell us.
• You are responsible for the accuracy of the information you enter.

5. Rules of use

When using the Service you agree not to:

• Act against the law, public morals or the rights of others.
• Upload content that is insulting, threatening, harassing, hateful, discriminatory, violent or obscene.
• Share other people's personal data, photos or confidential information without permission.
• Upload content that infringes someone else's copyright, trademark or other intellectual property.
• Try to access someone else's account, get around the Website's security, look for vulnerabilities or disrupt the Website.
• Overload the Website; collect data or open accounts without permission using bots, scrapers or automated tools.
• Copy, reverse engineer or modify the Website's software without permission.
• Use the Service for unauthorised advertising, unsolicited messages (spam) or commercial purposes.
• Cheat in games and competitions or take unfair advantage of bugs.

6. Member content

You are responsible for the content you add and confirm that you have the right to add it. You remain its owner. You give Bumba a free, non-exclusive, non-transferable permission to store, display and technically process it (e.g. resize or convert it) on the Website solely to provide the Service (e.g. to show your profile to other members when you make it visible). This permission ends when you delete the content or your account.

Bumba may remove, without prior notice, content it considers to breach these terms or the law.

7. Intellectual property

The Website's software, design, texts, images, logos and trademarks (other than member content) belong to Bumba or its licensors. Membership gives you the right to use them personally and non-commercially through the Website; it gives no right to copy, reproduce, distribute or create derivative works.

8. Paid services

Membership is free. If a Website offers a paid service, it shows the price, conditions, right of withdrawal and pre-contractual information separately before payment, and a separate distance sales contract is made for it. No charge arises unless you pay.

9. Changing and closing the Service

Bumba may change, suspend or close the Service or the Website, or any feature or all of it, without prior notice. The Service may be interrupted for maintenance, updates, faults or reasons beyond our control. No compensation can be claimed from Bumba in these cases.

10. Limitation of liability

The Service is provided as it is and free of charge; we do not guarantee that it will be uninterrupted, error-free or fit for a particular purpose. To the extent permitted by law, Bumba is not liable for indirect damage, loss of profit or loss of data arising from the use of or inability to use the Service, for member content, for members' conduct towards each other or for third-party websites linked from the Website. Bumba's liability for intent or gross negligence and your statutory rights as a consumer are reserved.

Bumba cannot be held responsible for its obligations during events beyond its control (force majeure), such as natural disasters, epidemics, war, cyber attacks, infrastructure or power outages, service provider failures and decisions of authorities.

11. Suspension and closure of accounts

• You: you can permanently delete your account at any time with "Delete account" on your account page (from that Website only or from all linked Bumba Websites). Deletion is immediate and cannot be undone; before deleting you can take your data with "Download my data". Background steps that follow from deleting your account or turning a setting off (e.g. stopping an email that was already queued) are completed within 7 days at the latest.
• Bumba: in case of breach of these terms or the law, a security threat, abuse or a legal requirement, Bumba may suspend or close your account without prior notice. The owner of a suspended or closed account is told by email, with the reason; a suspended account cannot sign in and its data is not deleted. The owner is also told when a suspension is lifted. For serious or repeated breaches Bumba may ban your account permanently: the account is closed on all linked Websites and the email address cannot be used to sign up on any Bumba Website again; the ban lasts until it is lifted and you are told by email, with the reason. Suspensions and bans apply to all linked Websites together.
• These terms end automatically when your account is deleted or the Website closes.

12. Personal data

Your personal data is processed as described in the Membership privacy notice, which you also accept at sign-up. Your rights and how to contact us are explained there.

13. Notices

Bumba writes to the email address registered to your account; an email sent there is deemed received. Keeping your email address up to date is your responsibility. You reach Bumba at bilgi@bumbagroup.com.

14. Evidence

In disputes arising from these terms, you accept that Bumba's server and database records, email records and acceptance records constitute conclusive evidence under Article 193 of the Turkish Code of Civil Procedure No. 6100; your right to present counter-evidence is reserved.

15. Changes

Bumba may update these terms. The current version is always on this page, with its date at the top. Changes take effect when published. For significant changes members are told by email and asked to accept them at their next sign-in; if you do not accept, you can delete your account.

16. Other provisions

If any provision of these terms is held invalid, the others remain in force. Bumba not exercising a right does not mean it waives it. Bumba may transfer its rights and obligations under these terms to whoever takes over the Website.

17. Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Türkiye. The courts and enforcement offices of Istanbul (Anadolu) have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, your right under Consumer Protection Law No. 6502 to apply to the consumer arbitration committees and consumer courts of your place of residence, within the legal limits, is reserved.

18. Entry into force

These terms are formed when you accept them at sign-up and remain in force until your account is deleted. They consist of 18 sections; the Membership privacy notice and any Website-specific rules are read together with them.