Membership Agreement (Company Account Agreement)

This English version is provided for information; the Turkish version prevails.

1. Parties

1. Service provider: MERT ÇELİK DENİZER (a sole proprietorship), tax office Kocasinan V.D., tax ID number 2920840438, address Kartaltepe Mah. Malazgirt Caddesi No:10/B D:119 Küçükçekmece/İstanbul, email [email protected] ("Tekstil Rehberi").
2. Member: the natural person who opens an account in the tekstilrehberi.com company panel (the "Panel") and the company on whose behalf that person acts in the Panel (the "Member"). Anyone who adds a company to the Panel or joins a company's team declares that they are authorized to represent that company and to accept this Agreement on its behalf.

2. Subject and scope

This Agreement sets the terms for the Member's Panel account, for publishing the company profile, products, listings, job postings ("We are hiring"), quotes and messages, and for the free and paid services offered by Tekstil Rehberi. The Terms of Use, the Content and Listing Rules and, for paid orders, the Distance Sales Agreement form an integral part of this Agreement. Processing of personal data is explained in the Privacy Notice.

3. Conclusion of the Agreement

1. The Agreement is concluded electronically when the Member ticks the box "I accept the Terms of Use and the Membership Agreement" on the registration form and creates the account. The versions of the accepted documents and the time of acceptance are recorded on the account.
2. The email address must be verified before the account can be used.
3. The Member accepts that Tekstil Rehberi's system records (acceptance records, activity and correspondence records) may be used as evidence in disputes; the right to present counter-evidence is reserved.

4. Account and team

1. The Member is responsible for keeping the information given at registration and in the Panel accurate and up to date.
2. The account is personal. The Member is responsible for the password and the security of the account; if unauthorized use is suspected, the Member changes the password and informs Tekstil Rehberi immediately.
3. Other people can be invited to the company's team. Team roles (owner, manager, editor) are defined in the Panel. The company is responsible for what its team members do in the Panel on its behalf.
4. The Member can close the account at any time with "Delete my account" in the Panel and remove the company from the directory.

5. Company profile, claims and verification

1. New company profiles, and changes to sensitive fields of published profiles (such as company name, tax number, contact details, address and main category), are published after moderator approval.
2. Claiming a company already listed in the directory and verification badges follow the rules of the verification process. The Member is responsible for documents submitted for claims and verification being genuine and valid.
3. False documents or statements are grounds for immediate suspension and closure of the profile and the account.

6. Company content and responsibility

1. The Member is solely responsible for all content published or sent from the Panel, including the company profile, products, listings, photos, quotes and messages ("Company content").
2. The Member accepts and undertakes that Company content is accurate, current and lawful, does not infringe third parties' trademark, copyright, design, trade secret, personality or other rights, and that the Member holds the necessary rights to the photos and texts uploaded.
3. Company content must comply with the Content and Listing Rules.
4. Tekstil Rehberi is the hosting provider of Company content and has no obligation to monitor it in advance. Losses Tekstil Rehberi suffers because of Company content, including claims, administrative fines and legal costs, may be recovered from the Member in proportion to the Member's fault.

7. License

1. The rights to Company content remain with the Member.
2. The Member grants Tekstil Rehberi a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free and non-transferable license to publish Company content on the Platform; to format, resize and re-encode it (e.g. photo sizes); to show it in search results, on category, province and product pages, in newsletters and in promotion of the Platform; and to make it shareable on search engines and social media.
3. The license lasts as long as the content is published on the Platform. When content is removed, Tekstil Rehberi takes it offline within a reasonable time; statutory retention obligations, backups and dispute records are reserved.

8. Moderation

1. Tekstil Rehberi may review Company content before or after publication. The current rules are: a company's first 5 products and listings approved by a moderator go through pre-approval; content of unverified companies always goes through pre-approval; changes to published content may be queued for review; content reported with a holding reason by 3 different visitors within 30 days is put back into review. Every job posting is reviewed before it is published (Article 12).
2. Tekstil Rehberi may reject, ask for corrections to, take down or hold back content it finds in breach of the Content and Listing Rules, the law or this Agreement. The reasons for rejections and takedowns are given in the Panel or by email.
3. The Member may object to decisions through the contact form.

9. Requests and quotes

1. A company may send quotes for buyer requests sent to it or shown in the Panel. Quotes must be genuine, capable of being binding and relevant to the request.
2. For buyers' personal data passed on through requests and correspondence, the company is a separate data controller for its own processing. The company uses this data only to assess and answer the request concerned; it may not add the buyer to a newsletter, send advertising or promotional messages without the buyer's consent, or share the data with third parties.
3. Paid packages give no priority for requests; requests are matched by field of activity and the Platform's rules.

10. Plan limits

1. All companies start on the free plan. On the date this Agreement was last updated, the free plan allows at most 10 products (main product lines), 2 active listings, 1 active job posting, 2 team members and 8 gallery images; the current limits are shown on the Plans and pricing page and in the Panel.
2. Tekstil Rehberi may change plan limits and the scope of the free services. If limits are reduced, no content is deleted; the newest products, listings and plan-funded job postings over the limit are hidden from the site and stay in the Panel until the company is within the limit again. New content can only be added within the new limit.

11. Paid packages and sponsored placements

1. Tekstil Rehberi may offer companies paid membership packages and sponsored placements (e.g. featuring). The scope, duration and price of packages are shown on the order page.
2. A Pre-Information Form and a Distance Sales Agreement are issued for each package order placed in the Panel. For orders agreed with the Tekstil Rehberi team, such as sponsored placements, ad spaces or packages at a special price, the scope, duration and price are set out in writing (by email) and become binding with the Member's written approval. Payment is made by bank transfer; the ordered service is activated once the payment reaches the account.
3. Sponsored placements are clearly labeled "Sponsored" on the site. Paid packages do not buy editorial content, a verification badge, request matching or organic ranking.
4. A package does not renew automatically when it ends. An expired package continues with the same scope for a 7-day grace period after its end date; the new term of a renewal ordered during the grace period counts from the end date of the previous term. At the end of the grace period the company returns to the free plan. A package that ends early because of a cancellation or refund has no grace period.
5. No content is deleted when the company moves to the free plan or to a lower package: the newest products, active listings and job postings over the new plan's limits are not shown on the site, and stay in the Panel, until the company is within the limits again or buys a paid package again; gallery images over the limit are not shown on the profile; no team member is removed. While over a limit, no new products, listings, gallery images or team invitations can be added; a new job posting can only be sent with an extra job posting credit. Job postings published with an extra credit are not affected by a package change.

12. Job postings

1. The Member posts jobs only for its own open positions. A Member acting as a private employment agency may post only with a valid licence from the Turkish Employment Agency (İŞKUR) and by showing the licence number on the posting. Job postings must comply with the "Job postings" section of the Content and Listing Rules.
2. The Member accepts that the phone, WhatsApp and email details and the calling hours of a posting are published to everyone who views it, and that candidates contact the Member directly with them. The Member is an independent data controller of the personal data it receives from candidates; it uses this data only for the recruitment concerned and processes it lawfully. Before publishing the name or number of an employee as the contact person of a posting, the Member informs that employee.
3. Tekstil Rehberi does not take applications, select candidates, act as an intermediary between the Member and candidates or place anyone in a job; the employment relationship is formed only between the Member and the candidate. No fee of any kind may be asked of candidates.
4. The Member is responsible for the posting and the employment relationship complying with Labour Law No. 4857, Social Insurance and General Health Insurance Law No. 5510, Law No. 6701 on the Human Rights and Equality Institution of Türkiye, Turkish Employment Agency Law No. 4904, Occupational Health and Safety Law No. 6331, Law No. 6356 on Trade Unions and Collective Labour Agreements and Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698. Administrative fines imposed on Tekstil Rehberi because of a posting are recovered from the Member under 6.4.
5. Every job posting is reviewed before it is published. Tekstil Rehberi may reject a posting that breaks the rules with a reason code, ask for corrections, hide it or take it down, and may temporarily hide a reported posting while it is reviewed. If a phone cannot be reached or the position is reported filled, the Member is asked to correct or close the posting within 72 hours; a posting not corrected in time is paused. For repeated or serious breaches, the Member's right to post jobs may be restricted. The review checks the posting against the rules; it does not guarantee the accuracy of the posting, the working conditions or the Member's compliance with the law, and it does not change Tekstil Rehberi's role as a hosting provider under 6.4.
6. The content, versions and moderation records of job postings are kept for 10 years and handed to competent authorities on request.
7. Each package includes a number of job postings that may be active at the same time; on the date this Agreement was last updated it is 1 in the Free, 3 in the Pro and 8 in the Premium package, and the current numbers are shown on the Plans and pricing page. When the package allowance is used up, the Member may buy extra job posting credits: one credit is one 30-day run of a job posting and is used within 12 months of being added to the account. If a posting is rejected or withdrawn before it goes online, the credit is given back; the credit of a posting that went online is not refunded. Extra credits are sold by an order agreed with the Tekstil Rehberi team (11.2) and are added once the payment reaches the account; an expired credit cannot be used. Renewing a posting published with an extra credit needs room in the package or a new credit. The validity of credits given as a gift is shown in the Panel when they are added. If the order is refunded, unused credits are taken back. If Tekstil Rehberi ends the job posting service, it refunds the price of unused credits that were bought. Extra job posting credits are bought for the Member's commercial or professional activity; Consumer Protection Law No. 6502 and the Distance Contracts Regulation do not apply.
8. The "Urgent" label is used truthfully and only for positions starting immediately; it is removed if used untruthfully. Paid packages, extra credits and featuring do not change the order of job postings.

13. Continuity of service

Tekstil Rehberi takes reasonable care to keep the service running; however, there may be temporary interruptions for maintenance, updates, security measures and technical faults. Tekstil Rehberi may develop and change the Panel's features.

14. Suspension and termination

1. The Member may end this Agreement at any time by deleting the account or removing the company from the directory.
2. In case of a breach of this Agreement, the Terms of Use, the Content and Listing Rules or the law, false statements or documents, suspected fraud or spam, an order of a competent authority or an unpaid order, Tekstil Rehberi may take the content concerned offline and temporarily suspend or close the account or the company profile. For breaches that can be remedied, the Member is first given a reasonable time to correct them; for serious breaches and where the law requires, action may be taken immediately.
3. If Tekstil Rehberi ends a paid package before it expires without just cause, it refunds the price for the remaining period. No refund is made for terminations caused by the Member's serious breach.
4. When the Agreement ends, the company profile and content are taken offline. Personal data is kept for the periods in the Privacy Notice and then deleted or anonymized. Addresses of profiles and content that were once published may return a permanent redirect or a "gone" response to search engines.

15. Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by law, Tekstil Rehberi's total liability under this Agreement is limited to the amount the Member paid Tekstil Rehberi in the 12 months before the event causing the damage. Tekstil Rehberi is not liable for indirect damage, loss of profit or damage arising from the relationships between the Member and buyers or candidates. These limitations do not apply in cases of intent or gross negligence.

16. Notices

Tekstil Rehberi sends notices to the Member to the email address on the account or as Panel notifications. The Member sends notices to [email protected]. The Member is responsible for keeping the email address up to date.

17. Changes

Tekstil Rehberi may amend this Agreement. Significant changes to the Member's disadvantage are announced by email at least 15 days before they take effect. If the Member does not accept a change, the Member may close the account before it takes effect; continuing to use the Panel after that date counts as acceptance.

18. Governing law and jurisdiction

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the Republic of Turkey. The Istanbul Central (Çağlayan) Courts and Enforcement Offices have jurisdiction over disputes; where the law makes mediation a precondition of a lawsuit, mediation is sought first.

19. Entry into force

This Agreement consists of 19 articles and enters into force when the Member accepts it electronically at registration.