TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE IKEA BUSINESS MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM
With the IKEA Business Membership Agreement, we are aiming to offer you services more efficiently through the IKEA Business Card (the “Card”) to be assigned to your IKEA Family account and additional membership benefits. If you check the confirmation box and click “Register”, you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of this Agreement.
Once the Agreement becomes effective, you will be responsible as a member for any transaction you carry out. For details regarding the membership process, please refer to Frequently Asked Questions on our Website.
1. PARTIES
This Agreement is executed by and between Mapa Mobilya ve Aksesuar Pazarlama Anonim Şirketi (“IKEA” or the “Company”) with its registered office located at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Mah. Balkan Cad. No:62 Tepeüstü Ümraniye / Istanbul, and you, who will benefit from the membership program (hereinafter referred to as the “Member”), under the terms and conditions as set forth below.
2. DEFINITIONS
• Website : means www.IKEA.com.tr.
• Mobile App : means the IKEA app that can be downloaded in mobile devices from relevant mobile stores.
• Member : Refers to persons that are member to the IKEA system pursuant to this agreement.
• IKEA Business Membership : means a customer loyalty program created by IKEA under this Agreement, offering special advantages to its members.
• IKEA Business Card : Refers to the card assigned under the IKEA Business Membership.
• IKEA Business Joint Card : Refers to cards that are created which are connected to the IKEA Business Main Card.
• Agreement: means this IKEA Membership Agreement. Secure Payment, Privacy Notice, and Personal Data Protection pages on the Website as well as the Terms of Use and other appendices contained in this Agreement shall constitute the integral part of this Agreement.
3. SUBJECT
This Agreement is intended to define any rights and obligations regarding the membership relationship that creates opportunities for the Member while shopping on the IKEA’s Website, at the IKEA Stores in Türkiye, or on the IKEA’s Mobile App.
The IKEA’s Customer Loyalty Program is a customer-oriented marketing program, allowing program members to benefit from general offers and special offers, promotions, and special club offers organized with the business partners as listed and updated on www.IKEA.com.tr, including similar amenities, at any workplace currently managed or that might later be managed by Mapa Mobilya ve Aksesuar Pazarlama Anonim Şirketi, including online stores.
4. TERMS OF USE FOR THE IKEA BUSINESS MEMBERSHIP
1. To be eligible for the offers and become a part of the IKEA Business, you must be older than eighteen.
2. To be eligible for the offers and become a part of the IKEA Business, you must be a business taxpayer and/or enterprise. Additionally, any documents requested by IKEA have to be submitted completely to become a member of the IKEA Business Program.
3. The IKEA Business Membership shall apply for purchases of furniture and home accessories at the physical IKEA Stores managed by IKEA across Türkiye, on IKEA.com.tr as well as on the IKEA Mobile App, and shall not apply for restaurant and Swedish Food Market products or sewing services. The advantages offered by this membership shall not apply at overseas IKEA Stores.
4. The IKEA Business Card is the property of IKEA and must be returned upon request. Cards that are not returned upon request may be cancelled by IKEA at any time.
5. The IKEA Business Card may only be used by the company’s authorized individual named on the card upon presenting their Turkish ID Card at the cash register, and may not be transferred to others. The relevant invoice is issued to the business title as stated on the IKEA Business Card. Invoices for the purchases made by the IKEA Business Joint Card holders shall be issued to the associated main card holder.
6. IKEA Business members may also enjoy the IKEA Family Membership benefits should they choose to do so. For personal transactions made by IKEA Business members under the scope of IKEA Family Membership, IKEA Family Membership Terms of Use shall apply.
7. IKEA Business Card is associated with the IKEA Business Member’s IKEA Family account. Thus, if the person’s IKEA Family membership is cancelled, their IKEA Business membership shall be cancelled as well.
8. If the IKEA Business Card is cancelled and the type of line associated with the IKEA Business membership is “Personal”, then the IKEA Family membership shall not be cancelled and the rights earned from the IKEA Family membership shall continue, and the person will continue to enjoy the benefits thereof. If the type of line associated with the IKEA Business membership is “Company”, then the IKEA Family membership shall be cancelled as well, in which case the rights earned from the IKEA Family membership shall no longer be applicable and the person can no longer enjoy the benefits of IKEA Family.
9. The advantages of the IKEA Business Card cannot be combined with other advantages offered at IKEA Türkiye stores, or combined with other promotions. IKEA may decide to temporarily suspend or revise the IKEA Business Card advantages and the score system at times of promotions and discounts.
10. If IKEA detects any abuse of the IKEA Business Card terms of use or any irregularity in its use, the IKEA Business Card holder shall be prevented from enjoying the IKEA Business Card benefits, and any rights and benefits of the IKEA Business Card holder shall end.
11. Anyone who finds a lost or stolen IKEA Business Card should call 444 4 532, or return the card to IKEA Türkiye store staff.
12. If the IKEA Business Card is stolen, lost, or damaged beyond use, IKEA shall not be liable for any damage that might be incurred or the inability to enjoy the benefits of the IKEA Business Card until this is reported by the IKEA Business Card holder to IKEA. In the case of written applications regarding a stolen or lost IKEA Business Card, the old card shall be cancelled and the IKEA Business Card holder shall be issued a new card bearing a new card number in response to their written request.
13. IKEA may cancel the IKEA Business Loyalty Program, merge it with other programs and/or hand it over to third parties upon giving notification by phone, e-mail, message or by other means, or at any time, with no requirement for citing any reason and/or paying compensation. IKEA has the right to amend the terms and conditions regarding how to use Membership advantages.
14. In case excessive discounts or other benefits are accorded to the card due to errors or malfunctions, IKEA shall be entitled to correct such problems without the IKEA Business Card holder’s consent and/or notification.
15. Under this process, your personal data shall be processed by IKEA, acting in the capacity of a data controller, in accordance with Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (the “Law”) and Disclosure Form for Protection and Processing of Personal Data. Your personal data in the form of full name, e-mail, address and phone number as collected during the membership registration process, and personal data in the form of title, workplace information and tax number if you are a business customer, are required to be processed for the completion and management of registration, and the collected personal data may be processed for tracking your shopping habits as well as for customized offering, presentation and promotion of products and services according to your needs (profiling). We would like you to know that in accordance with Article 11 of the Law, you, as the owner of the personal data, have the rights to learn whether your personal data have been processed or not; to request information in situations where your personal data have been processed; to learn the reason behind why your personal data have been processed and to learn whether the data are used in accordance with the intended purpose; to know the third parties to whom your personal data have been transferred at home or abroad; to ask for a correction in situations where your personal data are processed incompletely or incorrectly and to ask for the corrected information to be sent to the third parties to whom your personal data have been transferred; to ask for the deletion or demolition of your personal data where the processing reasons disappeared although the data were processed in accordance with the Law and the other relevant law provisions and to ask for the transaction carried out in this regard to be announced to the third parties to whom your personal data have been transferred; to object to a situation where a result appears against you through an exclusive analysis of the processed data via automatic systems; and to ask for an indemnification of a loss where you suffered a loss due to your personal data being processed against the law. For more information regarding the procedure of processing your personal data, please see Disclosure Form for Protection and Processing of Personal Data .
5. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES
5.1. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE MEMBER
5.1.1. By becoming a party to this Agreement, the Member agrees and declares that he/she give his/her consent relating to his/her personal data, including full name, e-mail, mobile phone number and address, business title of their organization, workplace information and tax number, obtained under the scope of the commercial relationship, to be used in IKEA under the membership agreement, and to be transferred to third parties for the purpose of carrying out the activities constituting the subject-matter of the Agreement. For more information relating to the processing of your personal data, please see Disclosure Form for Protection and Processing of Personal Data , which is available at the IKEA Website.
5.1.2. To enjoy membership benefits, business customers are required to communicate the details of the persons who are authorized to use the Business Card to IKEA, and to provide information to those persons. Any information provided by the Member to the IKEA personnel during membership registration shall be deemed to be true and correct. In case of any change in the information provided during membership registration, the Member shall be required to provide the updated information to IKEA. Otherwise IKEA shall not be responsible for any losses incurred.
5.1.3. Filing an IKEA Business Card application shall not result in automatic acceptance of the application. The membership relationship shall be established once a notification is made by IKEA that the application has been approved. 5.1.4. Member may in no way transfer his/her established account or his/her membership profile to another user, or nor allow third parties to use it. Member shall be solely responsible for the use and management of all information allowing the use of his/her personal profile. Any transaction completed through the account of the Member shall be deemed to have been performed by the Member, and the Member shall be solely responsible for any losses incurred by the Member and/or third parties due to the use of such information by any person other than the Member, or loss or handover thereof. Transactions reported by business customers to IKEA that are performed by persons authorized by the business customers to perform transactions on their behalf shall be deemed to be performed by the Member, and the Member who is the business customer shall be exclusively responsible for ensuring security of information and informing the relevant persons in this regard.
5.2. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF IKEA
5.2.1. IKEA may reject membership applications at its sole discretion without any reason, or may impose additional terms and conditions for the acceptance of the membership application.
5.2.2. IKEA reserves the right to make changes in this Agreement without any reason and without prior information. Any changes shall become binding on the Parties from the date of publication thereof.
5.2.3. IKEA shall be required to protect the Members’ information in accordance with the applicable regulations and Disclosure Form for Protection and Processing of Personal Data, which is available on the Website.
5.2.4. IKEA has the right to use the information provided by the Member for creating the Member’s account, conducting statistical studies, and for marketing activities according to the preferences of the Member.
5.2.5. It is required to publish up-to-date information about the terms and conditions for the IKEA Business membership on the Website and to inform Members through the Website.
5.2.6. IKEA, or the members of board of directors of the Company, its directors, employees, or the persons who prepare the information provided on the Website shall not be responsible for any direct or indirect, tangible and/or intangible, negative and/or positive losses that might arise from visiting the Website, or the use of the Website or the information therein, or other data or programs, or due to any breach of the Agreement, tort or other reasons. IKEA shall not assume any responsibility regarding any interruption of transaction, error, negligence or disruption due to any breach of the Agreement, tort, negligence or other reasons.
5.2.7. The rights of all audio, visual and written material and content on the Website are reserved, and unless stated otherwise, are owned by IKEA. Any use thereof by the Member without permission shall constitute illegal use, and IKEA may commence legal action against the relevant persons. IKEA is the owner or license holder of all the materials including the Website’s overall look and design, any information and pictures on the Website, the IKEA brand, the Website’s domain name, logo, icon, any demonstrative, written, electronic, graphical or machine-readable technical data, computer software, the sale system in place, the business method and business model (the “Materials”), as well as any intellectual and industrial property rights in relation thereto, and these are under legal protection. None of the Materials on the Website, including code and software, may be modified, copied, reproduced, translated into another language, reissued, installed in another computer, mailed, communicated, presented or distributed without obtaining permission in advance and citing sources. Neither the entire Website nor any part of it can be used on another website without permission. Acting to the contrary shall result in legal and penal liability. IKEA reserves all of its other rights that are not expressly stated here.
5.2.8. IKEA shall not assume any responsibility with regard to interruption of transaction, error, negligence, disruption, deletion, loss, delays in the transaction or communication, computer virus, communication error, theft, destruction, access to records without permission, modification or use thereof without permission, due to breach of the agreement, tort, negligence or other reasons.
5.2.9. IKEA shall not be responsible for the contents of references or links to other websites that are not under its control, or any other links that they contain.
5.2.10. Information such as the name of the internet service provider and the Internet Protocol (IP) address used by the users for having access to the Website, the date and time of access to the Website, the pages accessed during the visit to the Website, and the Website that provided the direct link to the Website may be collected to be able to identify and fix any issues that might occur in the system in relation to the Website, as well as to improve and develop the Website and the system.
5.2.11. IKEA has taken necessary precautions within its capabilities to keep the Website free from virus and other malware. In addition to that, the user needs to provide his/her own virus protection system and the necessary protection for ultimate security. In this regard, by visiting this Website, the User agrees to be solely responsible for any errors that might occur in his/her own software and operating systems as well as any direct and indirect consequences of such errors.
6. TERMINATION OF THE AGREEMENT
6.1. IKEA may terminate this agreement at any time based on a rightful cause, including reasons such as if it is found that the information provided by the Member in his/her application is not sufficient, accurate or up-to-date, or if the applicant’s application was previously rejected, or if it is found that the Member misused the terms of use of the Loyalty Program or that there is irregularity in its use, or if complaints or negative comments are received with regard to the Member and this is considered a risk by IKEA, or without any reason, without giving notification and without paying any compensation, whereby the Member and all IKEA Business Card holders associated with the Member would be prevented from using the advantages of the Loyalty Program, and any rights and advantages accrued in his/her favor would be terminated.
6.2. The Parties may terminate the membership relationship established under this Agreement upon serving written notification if there is rightful cause.
7. GENERAL PROVISIONS
7.1. FORCE MAJEURE
Incidents, including but not limited to those specified below, that may occur outside the control of the Parties and that prevent and/or delay fulfilment of the obligations of the Parties under this Agreement, shall constitute the force majeure events.
• Acts of God, natural disasters (fire, flood, epidemic, earthquake, over-flooding, etc.);
• War (declared or not), civil war, acts of terror, insurrection, revolution, coup;
• Industrial conflicts, strike, lockout, blockade, slowdown;
• Restrictions, actions, avoidance or interventions by public authorities;
• Any administrative and/or judicial decision that prevents access to the Website, etc.
7.2. INTERPRETATION OF THE AGREEMENT
7.2.1. If it is found that any article, sub-article or provision of this Agreement except for the Agreement’s material components is or becomes invalid, or legally unenforceable, this shall not affect the enforceability or validity of the remaining articles, sub-articles or provisions of the Agreement. In this case, the articles, sub-articles or provisions of this Agreement that are found to be invalid or legally unenforceable in any respect shall be deemed to be removed from the Agreement text, and the Agreement shall be interpreted and executed accordingly.
7.2.2. Both Parties hereby agree and declare that they determined all the provisions of this Agreement mutually with their free will, that they considered all the conditions of the Agreement in detail and they agreed on all these conditions, that this Agreement was prepared in consideration of the legal legislation, notably the Code of Obligations, the Law on the Protection of Consumers as well as any regulations in force under said law, that this Agreement is not a standard Agreement, that none of the articles of the Agreement puts any of the parties at a disadvantage, and that the principle of mutuality was diligently observed in all the provisions.
7.2.3. Disclosure Form for Protection and Processing of Personal Data shall be interpreted with this Agreement as an integral part thereof.
7.3. NOTIFICATIONS
Any notification regarding the Agreement shall be delivered to the address of IKEA as specified in the first article of this Agreement and to the address as notified by the Member. Notifications delivered to these addresses shall bear the effect and outcomes of a legally valid notification unless any change of address is notified to the other Party in writing.
7.4. SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES
Both Parties declare and undertake that the Agreement is subject to the Turkish Law, and that they shall first make their best effort through negotiation to reach a reasonable settlement that they can mutually agree on regarding any disputes arising from the Agreement. Otherwise, Istanbul Anatolian Courts and Enforcement Offices shall have jurisdiction regarding any disputes arising from this Agreement.
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