This Terms of Use and Membership Agreement (“Agreement”) has been concluded between CNT Lüks Tüketim Malları İç ve Dış Ticaret Limited Şirketi (“Company”), located at Şişli Branch: Harbiye Mahallesi Atiye Sokak Genç Apartmanı No:1/3 Şişli/Istanbul, and the user (“User and/or Member”), member or visitor of the website with the domain name www.authenticseconds.com (“Site”) under the following conditions.

Subject of the Terms of Use and Membership Agreement

The subject of this Agreement is to determine the products and services offered on the Site, the conditions for benefiting from these services, and the rights and obligations of the parties. Company is completely free to determine the scope and nature of the products and services it will offer through the Site, and any changes it makes to the services are deemed to have come into effect upon their publication on the Site.

This Agreement is valid for all natural persons and legal persons and consumers who use, visit, and/or shop online through the site.

Use of the Site indicates that the user has read and accepted this Agreement. Therefore, this Agreement is binding for users, visitors, and members who benefit from the Site. Those who use this website, whether visitors or members, will be deemed to have committed to act in accordance with the provisions of this agreement. The term User in the Agreement text includes members and visitors.

Rights and Obligations

User Rights and Obligations

1. It is sufficient for the establishment of this Membership Agreement that User provides the information requested in the Membership Form on the Site and gives the specified approval and/or permissions. User accepts that from the moment they start to benefit from the services, they will be deemed to have accepted all the terms of the Agreement and that these terms will be binding for them.
2. If the Agreement is concluded on behalf of a legal person, the person concluding the Agreement accepts, declares, and undertakes that they are authorized to perform such a transaction on behalf of the said legal person, otherwise (in case of unauthorized transaction), they will be personally responsible for all consequential transactions they have made/will make.
3. User accepts, declares, and undertakes that they will act in accordance with all current legislation in the use of the Site, all the terms contained in this Agreement, and the rules specified in the relevant places of the Site.
4. Users accept, declare, and undertake that the information and content provided by themselves within the Site are accurate and legal. Company is not obliged or responsible for investigating the accuracy of the information and content transmitted to the Company by the Users or uploaded, modified, or provided by themselves through the Site, nor for guaranteeing that this information and content is secure, accurate, and legal, and cannot be held responsible for any damage that may arise due to such information and content being wrong or erroneous.
5. Users cannot transfer their rights and obligations under the Membership Agreement, partially or completely, to any third party without the written approval of the Company.
6. Users can only perform transactions on the Site for lawful purposes. The legal and criminal responsibility for every transaction and action that the Users make within the Site belongs to User. Each User accepts, declares, and undertakes that they will not reproduce, copy, distribute, process the images, texts, visual and auditory images, video clips, files, databases, catalogs, and lists within the Site in a way that would constitute an infringement of the real or personal rights or assets of the Company and/or any other third party, and that they will not directly and/or indirectly compete with the Company either through these actions or by other means. The Company will terminate the membership of Users who carry out activities on the Site that violate the provisions of the Membership Agreement and/or the law, and cannot be held directly and/or indirectly responsible in any way for the damages that third parties have suffered or may suffer.
7. Company, its employees, or managers have no responsibility for the services provided on the Site and the content published by third parties, including Users. The commitment to the accuracy and legality of information, content, visual and auditory images provided and published by any third party is entirely the responsibility of the persons performing these actions. Company does not undertake and guarantee the security, accuracy, and legality of services and content provided by third parties, including Users.
8. Users, while benefiting from the Site and its services, agree to comply with the Turkish Penal Code, Turkish Commercial Code, Law on Intellectual and Artistic Works, Decree Laws on the Protection of Trademark and Patent Rights and legal regulations, Law of Obligations, provisions of other relevant legislation, and all kinds of announcements and notifications that will be published regarding the services of the Site. All legal, criminal, and financial responsibilities that may arise due to use contrary to these notifications and laws belong to the User.
9. It is the responsibility of the Users to back up correspondence with Company. Company cannot be held responsible for the loss and deletion of correspondence due to not backing them up.
10. All records belonging to the membership account terminated by Company or User themselves may be kept by Company subject to the conditions stipulated by the Personal Data Protection Law; however, Company is free to delete the said records from the moment the membership ends. Member cannot make any claim for rights or compensation regarding deleted records. However, Member’s right to be informed about personal data related to themselves is reserved. For detailed information on this matter, please review the Privacy Policy located on the Site.
11. For Users who change any of their information (including contact information), the permission they have given regarding personal data and electronic commercial communication is also valid for their new information. Similarly, Users who stop commercial electronic communication for any communication channel by changing their communication preferences or who perform the rejection process in commercial electronic messages, when they take action to request communication on the membership page, without the need for any additional permission/approval and regardless of any previous rejection notifications, will continue to receive our commercial electronic messages from the relevant channel based on the approval they have given here and otherwise, until they change their communication preference from our membership page or make a proper rejection notification for any commercial communication.
12. User accepts and declares that they allow all personal data shared with Company within the scope of membership to be used within the application in accordance with the member title arising from the membership agreement; to be contacted for promotion, campaign, invitation, opportunity, information about sectoral developments; and for their personal data to be transferred to Company’s business partners and third parties within the scope of the Privacy Policy.

Company Rights and Obligations

1. Company may immediately terminate this Agreement unilaterally without any notification and without any obligation to pay compensation, and may terminate User’s membership or temporarily suspend User’s membership without terminating the Agreement, following the detection by Company of a violation of this Agreement and that Users’ transactions or the situation resulting from their transactions constitute a risk. In this case, Users cannot claim any compensation from Company.
2. Company reserves the right to change the services and contents offered on the Site at any time; to close access to information and content uploaded by Users to the system to third parties, including Users, and to delete them. Company can use this right without giving any notice. Users are obliged to immediately fulfill the changes and/or corrections requested by Company. Changes and/or correction requests requested by Company can be made by Company if deemed necessary. Damages, legal and criminal responsibilities that arise or may arise due to the failure of Users to fulfill the change and/or correction requests requested by Company in a timely manner belong entirely to Users.
3. Company may perform necessary content and/or message scanning in order to detect messages and/or contents that occur between Users through the site and that are contrary to the operation of the Site and/or the Membership Agreement and/or the general rules of the Site and/or general moral rules and that cannot be accepted by “Company” or a third party, and may remove the messages and/or contents it detects from access at any time and in any way; Company may warn User who created this message and/or content in writing and/or may terminate User’s membership, temporarily or permanently, without making any notice.
4. The “usernames” that Users upload to the system when becoming members of the Site are subject to the provisions contained in this Agreement, and Users should not violate the legal rights of third parties such as copyright, trademark, commercial title, as well as public order and/or public morality when determining their “username”. In case of Users’ violation of the provision of this article, Company may request User to correct this situation that is contrary to this Agreement, or if it wishes, it may temporarily or permanently cancel User’s membership without prior notice to User.
5. Company accepts that it will store the pre-information form and distance sales Agreements related to sales made through the Site for the period determined by the legislation and that it will share this distance sales Agreement and Pre-Information Form with the Buyer upon request within this period. Company does not keep credit card information of its customers as registered in the system. Sharing credit card information with the relevant bank, receiving payments, is beyond the control of the company, and the bank, the institution that issued the credit card, is responsible for all kinds of damages that may arise in this regard.
6. Company will act in accordance with the conditions specified in this Agreement and Privacy Policy on the Site during the use of the Site. Company is obliged to store Member information that it is legally required to store. For detailed information on this matter, please review the Privacy Policy located on the Site. However, Company will not use this information for commercial purposes for any reason other than its activity. This provision does not prevent the transfer of the Agreement to third parties.

7. Company uses “cookies” on the Site, which can be defined as small data files that are saved to Users’ computers during their visit. These files are files used to make Users’ shopping more efficient and secure. If Users do not want to use these files or do not want to be informed about the use of these files, they can make the necessary changes in their browser. For detailed information on cookie usage, please review the Cookie Policy on the Site.

8. In addition, when Users use a credit card to pay for the product received through the Site, they have understood that the credit card number, credit card expiration date, security code, and similar information need to be shared with the relevant financial institutions for the purpose of completing the transaction.
9. Company undertakes that User will be able to benefit from the contract services, except for technical failures; and that the information that Member has opened for sharing will not be shared with third parties, except for situations where it needs to share with third parties for the realization of the above-mentioned purposes and legal obligations.

Intellectual Property Rights

Users may not use, resell, share, distribute, display, reproduce, process, make derivative works from, or prepare any of Company’s copyrighted works on the Site under any circumstances. Otherwise, Users are responsible for all damages that Company may suffer. All assets, real and personal rights, commercial information and know-how, including Company’s trademarks, commercial appearance, or all material and intellectual property rights owned through the Site, are reserved.

It is strictly forbidden to copy or use the software used in the design of the Site and the creation of the database, all rights of which belong to Company.

Users cannot remove or extract copyright, trademark, and notes under the Law on Intellectual and Artistic Works from any material copied from the Site or printed with a printer.

Transfer

Company may transfer this Agreement in whole or in part at any time without notice. However, User and Member cannot transfer this Agreement or any part of it to another party. Such an attempt at transfer is invalid.

Applicable Law and Jurisdiction

The validity, interpretation, and execution of this Agreement are subject to the laws of the Republic of Turkey, and the Istanbul Central Courts and Enforcement Offices are authorized for the resolution of any dispute that may arise from the Agreement.

The most current e-mail address that Member has notified or will notify to Company is accepted as the legal notification address for all kinds of notifications to be made regarding this Agreement.

In case of any dispute between the parties and/or related to complaints of third parties, Company’s records and documents, mail correspondence, system records on the website (including magnetic records such as computer-voice records) will exclusively constitute conclusive evidence in the sense of Article 193 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

Enforcement

User or Member declares, accepts, and undertakes that they have read, understood, and accepted all the articles in this Agreement and approved the accuracy of the information they have given about themselves. This Agreement has been concluded at the time User or member enters the Website or becomes a member and has entered into force mutually and indefinitely. The Agreement will automatically become invalid without any need for notice upon the termination of membership or upon the occurrence of any of the termination cases listed in this Agreement.

Date: 19 April 2025