DISTANCE SALES AND USE AGREEMENT

1. PARTIES

2. DEFINITIONS AND SCOPE

• 2.1. Site: Refers to the website named www.lextum.ai operated by Lextum and mobile/desktop applications to be decommissioned in the future.
• 2.2. Service: Refers to all digital subscription services offered by Lextum and their connected modules and features.
• 2.3. Modules: Refers to the following special tools offered within Lextum, featuring AI support and/or data processing capabilities:
  (i) Petition Editor,
  (ii) Contract Editor,
  (iii) Mediation Editor,
  (iv) Academic Info Note Editor,
  (v) Legal Translation Editor,
  (vi) Voice and Video Meeting Service
  (vi) Case Law Search.
• 2.4. Main Agreement: Refers to Lextum Membership and Terms of Use. This Distance Sales and Use Agreement is an integral part of the Main Agreement and is applied together with the Main Agreement.
• 2.5. Consumer Use: Refers to uses made solely for personal, non-professional purposes falling under the scope of Law No. 6502 on Consumer Protection.
• 2.6. Professional Use / Member: Use of Services for professional purposes by lawyers, financial advisors, or similar professionals and corporate customers.

3. SUBJECT OF THE AGREEMENT, NATURE OF SERVICE AND MODULES

• 3.1. This Agreement concerns the determination of the rights and obligations of the parties regarding the provision of the digital subscription service (“Service”) purchased electronically via the Site by the Buyer/Member, the qualities and scope of which are explained on the Site.
• 3.2. Name of Service: Lextum Legal Search and Editor Modules Service (Digital Subscription).
• 3.3. Content of Service: AI-supported legal search, analysis, petition drafting, contract drafting, mediation application and minutes drafts, academic info note generation, legal translation, voice and video meeting capability, and one or all of the other digital features and modules announced by Lextum on the Site.
• 3.4. Subscription Type: Monthly / Annual (Selected by Buyer/Member during order).
• 3.5. Service Fee: The total amount shown on the order screen including taxes (VAT included).
• 3.6. Payment Method: Credit card / debit card and other payment methods that may be offered on the Site in the future.
• The Buyer/Member declares that they have read, understood, and accepted the Service Terms, appendices, privacy and KVKK clarification texts related to the Service, and the provisions of the Main Agreement.

4. PERFORMANCE OF SERVICE AND ACCESS

• 4.1. The Service is a digital service performed instantly in an electronic environment.
• 4.2. Following successful completion of payment and electronic approval of the Agreement, the relevant subscription account is activated, and the Buyer/Member can log in to the Site with their registered e-mail address and password to start using the Service.
• 4.3. Lextum may stop access partially or completely for reasonable periods within the scope of technical maintenance, update, and improvement works it deems necessary in the presentation of the Service. In such cases, Lextum provides prior information to the extent possible.

5. SUBSCRIPTION, DURATION AND AUTOMATIC RENEWAL

• 5.1. The subscription period selected by the Buyer/Member (monthly/annual) is automatically renewed under the same conditions unless cancelled before the renewal date.
• 5.2. The renewal fee is automatically collected from the payment method registered by the Buyer/Member on the relevant renewal date.
• 5.3. To stop automatic renewal, the Buyer/Member can request cancellation via the user panel or by sending an e-mail to info@lextum.ai before the next billing period.

6. RIGHT OF WITHDRAWAL

• 6.1. Legal Regulation: The Buyer accepts knowing that since the Service is of the nature of “service performed instantly in electronic environment”, there is no legal right of withdrawal pursuant to Article 15/1-ğ of the Regulation on Distance Contracts.
• 6.2. Additional Right of Withdrawal Granted by Lextum: Lextum, within the framework of goodwill, grants a right of withdrawal without reason within 10 (ten) days from the date the contract is established for subscriptions purchased for the first time (excluding renewals).
• 6.3. Withdrawal Notification: It is sufficient for the Buyer/Member to send a clear withdrawal statement to info@lextum.ai within the 10-day period.
• 6.4. Refund: Within 10 days from the receipt of the withdrawal notification by Lextum, the payment is refunded to the payment method used by the Buyer/Member.
• 6.5. Abuse Exception: In case the Service is used within the 10-day period with an intensity exceeding ordinary trial purposes and in a way to obtain the essential benefit, Lextum reserves the right to partially or completely reject the refund request within the framework of the rule of honesty.

7. TERMS OF USE, PERSONAL / PROFESSIONAL USE

• 7.1. Personal Use Declaration (For Consumers): The Buyer with consumer status accepts that they will use the Service solely for personal research and information gathering purposes; and will not use the outputs in any legal, commercial, or professional service provision.
• 7.2. Professional Use Declaration (For Lawyers and Corporate Members): Lawyer, financial advisor, or similar professional/corporate Member accepts that they will use the Service solely within the scope of their professional activities and in accordance with relevant legislation, specifically complying with KVKK, Attorneyship Law, professional rules, and confidentiality obligations regarding client/customer data.
• 7.3. Prohibition of Use as Evidence and Official Document: It is prohibited to use outputs obtained from the Service as direct evidence, expert report, or final content replacing a legal opinion in pending or planned lawsuits, investigations, arbitration, mediation, and similar official processes. These outputs can only be used as drafts at the Member's discretion after being checked by a professional lawyer or authorized expert.
• 7.4. Prohibition of Commercial Resale and Unauthorized Sharing: Service access or outputs cannot be sold, rented, sub-licensed, redistributed to third parties, or made part of a product/service competing with Lextum.
• 7.5. Prohibition of Excessive Load on Infrastructure: The Member cannot use the Service to systematically extract data regarding automated bots, scraping, robots etc. methods, perform data mining, or place disproportionate load on the infrastructure.

8. MODULE-BASED SPECIAL PROVISIONS

9. VOICE AND VIDEO MEETING MODULE

• 9.1. Lextum may offer a communication infrastructure via the platform for Members to hold voice and/or video meetings with their clients or business partners.
• 9.2. Systematic recording of voice and video meetings:
  (i) Lextum does not record or store voice and video call contents (audio/video stream) on its own systems.
  (ii) In case the Member or counterparty records audio/video via their own devices during the meeting, all liability regarding the legality of these recordings and KVKK belongs to the relevant persons.
• 9.3. During voice/video meetings, the Member accepts and commits that;
  (i) They will not make secret recordings in violation of KVKK, personal rights, privacy of communication, and relevant penal legislation or mediate such actions,
  (ii) They will not engage in hate speech, threat, harassment, insult, or any behavior constituting a crime,
  (iii) They will not share contents violating others' intellectual property rights.
• 9.4. Lextum makes reasonable efforts to ensure the uninterrupted operation of the voice/video meeting module; however, it is not responsible for connection problems, delays, interruptions etc. arising from internet infrastructure, third-party service providers, or Member’s technical capabilities.

10. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) LIMITATIONS, NO LEGAL ADVICE AND FINAL LIABILITY

• 10.1. Not Legal Advice:
  Pursuant to the Main Agreement and this Agreement, petitions, contracts, mediation texts, academic info notes, legal translations, analyses, and case law suggestions created by Lextum modules based on UYAP data or other documents entered by the Member are in no way in the nature of legal advice, opinion, or attorney service. These outputs are solely in the nature of drafts and auxiliary tools.
• 10.2. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Limitations:
  The Member accepts in advance that AI systems may produce incorrect, incomplete, outdated, or completely fabricated (“hallucination”) information; therefore, all analyses, summaries, suggestions, and drafts offered by Lextum contain a margin of error.
• 10.3. Exclusive Verification can Control Obligation:
  The Member is exclusively obliged to carefully examine, verify, and confirm;
  • All case summaries,
  • Dates, names, amounts, and factual claims within the text,
  • Accuracy, currency, and relevance of case law found and added from the Lextum platform,
  • All legal arguments, results, and requests,
  created by “Petition Editor”, “Contract Editor”, “Mediation Editor”, “Academic Info Note Editor”, and “Legal Translation Editor” before presenting to their client or using in any legal transaction.
• 10.4. Final Liability:
  The Member (lawyer/professional user) is completely and exclusively responsible for all professional decisions regarding the use or non-use of drafts produced by AI and the content, accuracy of the final document, and all legal, financial, and professional consequences arising from this document. Lextum cannot be held responsible for transactions made by the Member based on these drafts or possible errors in the UYAP system.
• 10.5. Third Party Systems and Infrastructures:
  Lextum is not responsible for external causes such as technical malfunctions in the UYAP system, API interruptions, data currency issues, access problems caused by third-party service providers, and similar issues.

11. PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA, SECURITY, DATA BREACH AND CROSS-BORDER TRANSFER

• 11.1. Technical and Administrative Measures:
  Pursuant to KVKK Art. 12, Lextum takes appropriate technical and administrative measures (encryption, access controls, regular audits, logs etc.) to prevent unlawful processing of and access to personal data it processes and to ensure data preservation.
• 11.2. Local Processing and Encryption:
  AI agents working within the scope of modules process sensitive data only to the extent necessary and in encrypted form; data is protected with up-to-date security protocols during transfer.
• 11.3. Personal Data Breach Notification:
  In case of detection of a breach regarding personal data, pursuant to KVKK Art. 12, Lextum informs the Member about the nature of the breach, affected data categories, and taken measures as soon as possible and in any case within 72 hours, and makes necessary notifications to authorized authorities.
• 11.4. Cross-Border Data Transfer:
  Lextum may store and process data in cloud infrastructures located abroad (preferably EU servers) such as AWS AMAZON. In this context, pursuant to KVKK Art. 9, necessary contractual assurances (e.g., standard contractual clauses) are provided and relevant regulations are complied with.

12. ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY (AUP) AND PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES

• 12.1. Prohibited Activities:
  The following actions are strictly prohibited and may cause immediate termination of the agreement and recourse to legal remedies:
  • Selling, renting, sub-licensing Services or subscription to third parties, operating like a “service bureau”, or using for any commercial activity competing with Lextum.
  • Systematically bulk extracting, copying, compiling data from Services via automated methods (data mining, robot, scraping etc.) or manually, or creating an independent database.
  • Engaging in actions that may damage infrastructure or security of Services, place excessive load (DDoS attack, excessive meaningless queries etc.).
  • Reverse engineering source code or underlying algorithms of Services, trying to obtain source code.
  • Using Services illegally or unauthorizedly, sending unauthorized requests, trying to access non-public information or information without access authorization.
  • Sharing account information (username, password etc.) with any third party or opening to multi-person use.
  • Using voice/video meeting module for threats, insults, hate speech, harassment, or other behaviors constituting a crime.
• 12.2. Violation of Policy and Sanctions:
  Violation of this AUP is considered a substantial violation of the Main Agreement and this Agreement. Depending on the nature of the violation, Lextum reserves the right to:
  • Give warning,
  • Restrict usage,
  • Temporarily suspend the account,
  • Immediately terminate the account,
  with or without prior notice. Lextum also reserves the right to notify relevant authorities regarding unlawful acts.

13. WARRANTY AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

• 13.1. Limited Warranty:
  Lextum commits that the Service will be offered with commercially reasonable care in accordance with the basic features specified on the Site.
• 13.2. Presentation “As Is”:
  Apart from this limited warranty, Services are offered “as is” and “as available”. Lextum does not give any express or implied guarantee regarding the accuracy, currency, completeness, and suitability for a particular purpose of contents, search results, AI analyses, or drafts generated via Services.
• 13.3. Usage Limits:
  Lextum is not responsible for damages arising from limitation or slowing down of access to Service due to reaching determined reasonable usage limits.
• 13.4. Indirect Damages:
  Lextum cannot be held responsible for profit loss, data loss, business interruption, or indirect damages arising from the use or inability to use Services.

14. DISPUTE RESOLUTION

• 14.1. For Buyer with consumer status, Consumer Arbitration Committees and Consumer Courts in the place where Buyer is domiciled or consumer transaction is made are authorized in disputes arising from this Agreement.
• 14.2. For Professional/corporate Members, Istanbul (Central) Courts and Execution Offices are authorized in the solution of disputes arising between parties.

15. EFFECTIVENESS

This Agreement enters into force upon the Buyer/Member performing the payment regarding the order via the Site and checking the confirmation box. The Buyer/Member declares that they have read, understood, and accepted all provisions and conditions in the Agreement.

16. CORPORATE LICENSE AND BULK USE

• 16.1. Corporate Member: Private companies with legal entity status, public institutions, or NGOs and their authorized employees and representatives. Corporate subscription can only be purchased by submitting official authorization document/declaration and in line with commercial use purposes.
• 16.2. Bulk License Use: Corporate Member can purchase bulk licenses to use Lextum Services for multiple employees. Separate account definition is made for each user, and the scope of license is determined by proposal form signed separately with Seller, e-mail confirmation, or corporate framework agreement.
• 16.3. Main Account Holder is jointly responsible for activities of all users created within the scope of corporate license on the system. Username and password specific to each user are given, and sharing this information is strictly prohibited.

17. USER ROLES AND AUTHORIZATION

• 17.1. Lextum may allow different access roles such as “Admin User” and “Sub-User” for corporate accounts. Admin User can invite, cancel users, or manage module accesses.
• 17.2. Corporate User is obliged to ensure that authorization processes are carried out in accordance with internal company policy and data security requirements.

18. INTERNAL USE LIMIT AND RESPONSIBILITY

• 18.1. Services offered with corporate license are for internal company use only. The Customer cannot use these Services to provide services to third parties (e.g., consulting companies offering to external clients).
• 18.2. All professional, legal, and technical responsibility arising from documents created, contents, and correct use of services offered within the scope of corporate use belongs exclusively to the Corporate Member.

19. LEXTUM API ACCESS (For Corporate Users)

• 19.1. Lextum may provide API access specifically for detailed corporate users. API use is possible within the framework of separate technical protocol and access limitations to be made with the Seller.
• 19.2. Data received via API can only be used for purposes of integrating into internal company workflow. Use placing load on infrastructure or unauthorized resale purpose is prohibited.

20. DATA SECURITY AND CORPORATE KVKK COMPLIANCE

• 20.1. Lextum acts in accordance with KVKK, GDPR, and relevant data security regulations in all data processing activities for accounts belonging to corporate customers.
• 20.2. Corporate Member is obliged to provide legal notifications regarding processing of personal data of their users and obtain necessary (if any) explicit consents.

21. CORPORATE LICENSE TERMINATION AND ACCOUNT CANCELLATION

• 21.1. Lextum reserves the right to suspend the account or terminate the agreement in case of violation of corporate use conditions, abuse of API, detection of data security risks, or failure to fulfill invoice obligation.
• 21.2. In cancellation of corporate agreement, proportional fee refund according to usage period is applied only if specified in written agreements made specifically.