Terms & Conditions
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1. Acceptance of Terms
By accessing, registering for, or using ProductLog (the "Service"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service (the "Terms") and the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
These Terms form a legally binding agreement between you and the operator described in Section 2.
2. About the Service and the Operator
ProductLog is a community platform for indie hackers, makers, and product builders to share what they're working on, give and receive feedback, and discover other makers' work.
The operator is an individual, not a company. ProductLog is operated personally by:
Name: Evren Bal (username
@evrenbal)Capacity: Indie developer, sole operator (no legal entity, no employees, no investors)
Jurisdiction of residence: Türkiye
Contact: [email protected]
Throughout these Terms, "we", "us", "our", or "the operator" refers to Evren Bal in his personal capacity.
3. Eligibility
You must be at least 16 years old to register for or use the Service. By using the Service you represent that you are 16 or older.
If you are under 16, you may not use the Service. If we learn that we have collected personal data from someone under 16 without verifiable parental or guardian consent, we will delete that data and the associated account.
The operator does not currently offer a children's mode or parental-consent flow. The Service is intended for adult-aged makers and product builders.
4. Account Registration & Security
When you create an account, you agree to:
Provide accurate, current, and complete information.
Keep your account credentials confidential and not share them.
Use a strong, unique password.
Be responsible for all activity that occurs under your account.
Notify the operator promptly at
[email protected]if you suspect unauthorised access to your account.
You may not transfer or sell your account to anyone else. The operator may refuse, suspend, or close any account at the operator's discretion in accordance with these Terms.
5. User Content and Conduct
You retain ownership of the content you post on the Service ("User Content"), including posts, comments, products, profiles, and any other contributions.
By submitting User Content, you grant the operator a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to host, store, display, reproduce, distribute, modify (only for technical formatting such as resizing or compression), and make available your User Content solely for the purpose of operating, providing, improving, and promoting the Service. This licence ends when you delete the relevant User Content or your account, except where retention is required by law or for legitimate operational reasons (such as backup retention windows or audit logs).
You agree not to post or transmit any User Content that:
Is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, threatening, hateful, or invasive of another person's privacy.
Infringes the intellectual property, trademark, or other rights of any third party.
Contains viruses, malware, or any other harmful code.
Is unsolicited promotional material, spam, or pyramid-scheme content.
Impersonates any person or misrepresents your affiliation with any person or entity.
Targets, exploits, or harms minors.
The operator may, but is not obliged to, review User Content. The operator may remove or restrict access to any User Content that the operator believes, in good faith, violates these Terms or applicable law. Where the operator acts as a hosting provider under Turkish Law No. 5651, the operator will respond to lawful takedown requests within the timeframes required by that law.
6. Intellectual Property
The Service itself — including its source code, software, design, branding, name, logos, and the selection and arrangement of its content — is owned by the operator or licensed to the operator. Nothing in these Terms transfers any of those rights to you.
You may not copy, reproduce, modify, distribute, sell, lease, or create derivative works from the Service or any part of it, except as expressly permitted by these Terms or by applicable law.
If you believe that User Content on the Service infringes your intellectual property rights, please send a takedown notice to [email protected] containing:
A description of the work that you claim has been infringed.
A description of where the infringing material is located on the Service (URL).
Your contact information.
A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised.
A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act on the owner's behalf.
The operator will review valid notices and act in good faith. The party who posted the contested User Content may submit a counter-notice. Repeat infringers' accounts may be terminated.
7. Acceptable Use Policy
You agree not to:
Scrape, crawl, or use automated means to access the Service except via documented APIs or with the operator's prior written permission.
Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the source code of the Service, except where such activity is permitted by mandatory applicable law.
Probe, test the vulnerability of, or breach the security or authentication measures of the Service without prior written authorisation. Coordinated, good-faith security disclosure to
[email protected]is welcomed and protected.Use the Service to send unsolicited communications, advertising, or promotional material.
Interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Service or its underlying infrastructure.
Use the Service in any way that violates applicable law or these Terms.
Violation of this Section may result in immediate suspension or termination of your account and may give rise to civil or criminal liability under applicable law.
8. Third-Party Services
The Service may integrate with or rely on third-party services (for example, OAuth providers for sign-in, email delivery providers, analytics providers, hosting providers, or content-delivery networks). The operator is not responsible for the policies, practices, content, or availability of those third parties. Your use of any third-party service is subject to that third party's own terms.
A more detailed list of the third-party services used and the data shared with them is available in the Privacy Policy.
9. Security and Breach Notification
The operator applies reasonable, industry-standard technical and organisational measures intended to protect the Service and your data, including transport-layer encryption (HTTPS), hashed password storage, ORM-based query protection, dependency auditing, and rate limiting on sensitive endpoints.
No service can be made unhackable, and the operator does not warrant absolute security. The operator's commitment is to ordinary care, not to perfection.
In the event the operator becomes aware of a personal-data breach affecting your account or data, the operator commits to:
Investigating and patching the underlying issue as quickly as is reasonable under the circumstances;
Notifying the Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK Kurumu) within 72 hours of becoming aware of the breach, where notification is required by KVKK Article 12 and related regulations;
Notifying affected users without undue delay where the breach is likely to result in a high risk to your rights and freedoms; and
Documenting the incident and the remedial steps taken.
You acknowledge that you share responsibility for the security of your account by maintaining a strong, unique password and keeping it confidential. The Service does not currently offer two-factor authentication.
10. Termination
You may terminate your account at any time using the account-deletion option in /me/settings, or by emailing [email protected].
The operator may suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time, with or without notice, for any reason, including (without limitation) violation of these Terms or applicable law, conduct that the operator reasonably believes is harmful to other users or to the Service, or extended account inactivity.
Upon termination, the licence you granted in Section 5 ends, except where User Content was previously displayed in shared community contexts (for example, comment threads on other users' content) where retention is needed to preserve the integrity of those contexts; in such cases the operator will, on request, anonymise the contribution. Backup-retention windows and any retention required by law may apply. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including Sections 5 (licence terms regarding the licence remaining), 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, and 19 — will continue to apply.
11. Disclaimers
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the operator disclaims all warranties, express, implied, or statutory, including without limitation:
Warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement.
Warranties that the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, accurate, error-free, or free of viruses.
Warranties that any content, data, or results obtained through the Service will meet your requirements or expectations.
You use the Service at your own risk. Do not rely on the Service for any business-critical, safety-critical, or otherwise consequential purpose.
12. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the operator is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, business, goodwill, or other intangible losses, arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service, whether based in contract, tort, statute, or any other legal theory, even if the operator has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Where applicable law does not permit a complete exclusion of liability, the operator's total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service shall be limited to the minimum amount permitted by such applicable law. Where applicable law mandates a particular minimum, that minimum applies; where applicable law permits exclusion, exclusion applies.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including liability for gross negligence, wilful misconduct, or under mandatory consumer-protection statutes.
13. Indemnification
If a third party brings a claim, demand, or action against the operator that arises out of or relates to:
Your User Content,
Your misuse of the Service,
Your violation of these Terms or of applicable law, or
Your infringement of any third party's rights,
you agree to cooperate reasonably with the operator's defence of that claim and to hold the operator harmless from such claim to the extent the claim arises from your wrongful actions. The operator is not seeking general indemnification for ordinary use of the Service. This Section is intended only as a shield against harm caused by your wrongful conduct, not as a general transfer of risk.
14. Changes to These Terms
The operator may modify these Terms from time to time. When changes are made, the operator will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this document. Material changes (changes that meaningfully affect your rights or obligations) will be communicated to you in advance, where reasonably practicable, via email to your registered address or via a prominent notice within the Service.
Continued use of the Service after the effective date of any modification constitutes your acceptance of the modified Terms. If you do not agree to the modified Terms, you must stop using the Service and may close your account.
15. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Türkiye, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles.
Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Kocaeli Courts and Enforcement Offices, Türkiye, except where mandatory rules of consumer protection require otherwise.
This forum-selection clause does not deprive consumers of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of the country of their habitual residence where applicable.
16. Severability
If any provision of these Terms is held to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision shall be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.
17. Entire Agreement
These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any policies referenced herein, constitute the entire agreement between you and the operator concerning the Service, and they supersede any prior agreements between you and the operator on the same subject matter.
18. No Waiver
The operator's failure to enforce any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of that provision or any other provision. A waiver of any breach is not a waiver of any future breach.
19. Contact
Questions, takedown notices, security disclosures, account or data requests, and any other communications about these Terms can be sent to:
The operator will endeavour to respond within a reasonable time, taking into account that this Service is operated by a single individual without dedicated support staff.