Website Terms of Use

1Introduction and Purpose

These Website Terms of Use (the "Agreement") relate to Aksu Piliç Tarım Sanayi İç ve Dış Tic. A.Ş. (the "Company"), which operates aksugrup.tr , and set out the terms and conditions relating to the use of the website (the "Site") at that domain, together with the rights and obligations of the parties.

Natural or legal persons who access, view, download content from or in any way use the Site (the "User") declare and undertake that they have read this Agreement in full, fully understood its content and unconditionally accepted all of its provisions.

The Company reserves the right to make unilateral changes to this Agreement, to the content and design of the Site or to the services provided, without prior notice. Changes take effect from the moment they are published on the Site.

The information, documents, statistics, opinions and statements on the Site reflect the situation as at the date of publication and may have become out of date over time due to market conditions, legal changes or operational processes. The Company gives no undertaking to update, verify, correct or complete such information and documents. No claim, demand or compensation for damages arising from the information on the Site being out of date, incomplete, incorrect or time-barred may be directed at the Company.

This Site is intended for general information purposes only. No statement, information, graphic or document on the Site constitutes legal, financial, tax or commercial advice or investment advice. The User is solely responsible for the consequences of any commercial decisions, financial transactions or legal steps taken on the basis of the information on the Site. The Company cannot be held liable for any direct or indirect damages arising in this context.

2Intellectual Property Rights

The general appearance, design, source code, database architecture and domain name of the Site, together with all texts, images, logos, icons and technical data presented in written, electronic, graphic or machine-readable form on the Site (the "Content"), are the property of the Company and/or the licence rights belong to the Company.

This Content is under legal protection within the scope of the Law on Intellectual and Artistic Works No. 5846, the Industrial Property Law No. 6769, the Turkish Commercial Code, the Turkish Penal Code and relevant international legislation.

Without the prior express written permission of the Company, the User may not copy, modify, reproduce, translate into another language, republish, upload to another computer, post, transmit, present or distribute the whole or any part of the Site, its source code or the Content. The whole or any part of the Site may not be used on another website without permission.

3Terms of Use and Prohibited Activities

The User agrees, when using the Site, to comply with the provisions of the Turkish Penal Code, the Turkish Commercial Code, the Law on Intellectual and Artistic Works, the Industrial Property Law, the KVKK and related legislation, and with the notices published by the Company.

Any technical interference that would threaten the security of the Site, prevent its operation, damage its software, place excessive load on the servers or hinder other users' access to the Site, as well as the use of malicious software such as viruses, trojans and worms, is prohibited.

Publishing any part of the Site on another website by means of mirroring or framing techniques, and accessing the data on the Site by data mining, data scraping or similar automated methods, is prohibited without the written approval of the Company.

Where an account is created or a password issued to the User for access to the Site, the User is obliged to maintain the confidentiality and security of their password and not to share it with third parties. The User is solely and indefinitely responsible for all transactions and actions carried out through their account. In the event of unauthorised use or loss of the password or its falling into the hands of third parties, the User is obliged to notify the Company immediately. The Company cannot in any way be held responsible for data loss, unauthorised access or damage arising from the User's failure to maintain password security.

4Nature of the Service and Principles of Liability

This Site and its Content are provided by the Company without any undertaking, assurance or warranty, within the existing technical and administrative infrastructure conditions. The Company makes no express or implied representation that the Site is flawless, uninterrupted, free from all errors or continuously accessible.

The Company gives no guarantee that the Site is fit for a particular purpose, merchantable, secure or non-infringing of property rights. All risk and responsibility arising from the use of the Site rests solely with the User.

The Company gives no guarantee as to the accuracy, completeness or reliability of any information obtained on or through the Site. The User is obliged to verify the accuracy of the information before acting on the content of the Site.

5Limitation of Liability

The Company, its board members, managers, employees, agents or business partners shall not be liable — whether based on contract, tort including negligence or any other legal ground — for:

• The use or unavailability of the Site,
• Any transaction or data transmission carried out through the Site,
• Performance failures, errors, omissions, interruptions, defects, delays in operation or transmission,
• Computer viruses, system failures or line faults,
• Unauthorised access, data loss or alteration of data

including but not limited to loss of profit, loss of reputation, loss of data, business interruption, loss of goodwill or the cost of procuring substitute goods and services — for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive or consequential damages that may arise. The Company accepts no liability even if it has been advised in advance of the possibility of such damages.

Links may be provided through the Site to third-party websites that are not under the Company's control. The Company does not audit and gives no undertaking regarding the content, accuracy, privacy policies or security of these links. Any pecuniary or non-pecuniary damage arising from the use of third-party sites is the sole responsibility of the User.

6Indemnity and Right of Recourse

The User irrevocably accepts, declares and undertakes to indemnify — in cash, in full, upon first demand and without the need for any court decision — all direct and indirect damages, loss of profit, compensation payable to third parties, administrative fines and all litigation expenses including attorneys' fees incurred by the Company, its group companies, affiliates, directors and employees as a result of the User's breach of the provisions of this Agreement, use of the Site for unlawful purposes, infringement of the rights of third parties or technical damage to the Site.

7Protection of Personal Data

The personal data obtained during the User's use of the Site is processed, pursuant to the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 and secondary legislation, within the framework of the Website Visitor Privacy Notice and Cookie Policy Notice published on the Site.

8Governing Law and Jurisdiction

Turkish Law shall apply to the implementation and interpretation of this Agreement and to the management of the legal relationships arising under its provisions.

For the resolution of any dispute that may arise from this Agreement, the Adana Courts and Enforcement Offices shall have exclusive jurisdiction.

The User accepts, declares and undertakes that, in disputes that may arise from this Agreement, the electronic records, system logs, commercial books, invoice records, e-mail correspondence and computer records kept by the Company in its own database and servers shall constitute binding, conclusive and exclusive evidence pursuant to Article 193 of the Code of Civil Procedure No. 6100, and that this article constitutes an evidential agreement.