Terms of Use

These terms are the contract between us, who operate AKG Defense (akgdefense.com), and you, who use it. AKG Defense is not a company but an open-source personal project; there is no legal entity behind it today, which is why no trade name appears here. You can reach us at akgdefense@gmail.com. In this text “we” means the person operating AKG Defense, and “you” means the person who opens an account or visits the site.

AKG Defense is a service with two surfaces. The first is the marketing and contact pages served at akgdefense.com: the home page describing our software, AI and automation services, and these legal texts, along with every page you can browse without signing in. The second is a personal-page hosting service at akgdefense.com/username: you set up a public single-page profile there and publish your own links, social accounts, short texts and images on it. AKG Defense hosts that personal page and serves it to visitors; what you write on it and where you link to is your decision. The software, AI and automation development services described on the home page fall outside these two surfaces: they are not sold through the site, but delivered through a separate contract and quote agreed after you contact us at akgdefense@gmail.com; these terms do not cover that contract.

By opening an account or using the site you accept these terms. If you do not accept them you should not use the service.

The Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy apply alongside this text. You can read there how your personal data is processed; these terms give no separate undertaking about data processing.

The only way to open an account on AKG Defense is to sign in with your Google account. You do not create a separate password on AKG Defense and we store no passwords. The practical consequence is this: the security of your AKG Defense account depends on the security of the Google account you use to sign in. Protecting that account with two-step verification is your responsibility.

If you lose access to the provider account you signed in with, you lose access to your AKG Defense account too. You can write to us in such a case, but we open no account to anyone whose identity we cannot verify — that is the very rule that keeps someone else from taking over your account.

You are responsible for everything done under your account — including leaving your device or your provider account open to someone else. If you notice your account being used without your permission, first close the sessions of your provider account, then let us know.

You may not transfer, sell or rent your account to anyone else. If you open a profile on behalf of a team or an organisation, you are deemed to have accepted that you are authorised to represent it.

The address of your profile is made from the username you choose: akgdefense.com/username. A username is between 3 and 30 characters; it may contain only lowercase letters, digits and hyphens, and may not start or end with a hyphen.

Reserved names. Some names are given to nobody. These are the application's own page addresses (for example login, settings, api), names that imitate an authority or infrastructure role (admin, support, security), names that imitate religious values, the language prefixes the site uses in its addresses, and — for brand protection — every name starting with caka or akg. If you try to pick a reserved name the editor warns you.

What happens when you change your address. You can change your username. When you do, the old address redirects to the new one for 30 days and stays locked during that period — meaning nobody else can take that name. The redirect is temporary (302); we do not use a permanent redirect, because browsers cache a permanent redirect indefinitely and would keep sending visitors to the wrong place even after the name is released. When the 30 days are up the record becomes invalid, the old address stops working and the name is open to everyone again.

What this means is that the old links you shared need to be updated within a month. After the period ends someone else can take the same name and that old link will no longer lead to your profile.

How often you can change it. After one address change you cannot change your address again for 30 days. This waiting period is the same length as the redirect and lock period: because every change leaves a name locked for 30 days, changes made back to back both take several names out of circulation and break every link you shared. When the period is up you can take your old address back if you wish.

Reclaiming a name in case of abuse. If you take a username in order to imitate someone else's name, brand or organisation, to sell it, or merely to hoard it, we may reclaim that name and move your profile to another address. A documented request from the owner of a trademark falls within this too. Wherever possible we write to you first.

You put everything on your profile: the name and short bio on the profile card, link blocks, social account blocks, the text in text and status blocks, the images you upload and the GitHub contribution graph you display. AKG Defense neither writes nor chooses this content; it hosts and publishes it.

That is why you are responsible for the lawfulness of the content. Concretely, for every item you add to your profile you are declaring the following:

• You have the right to publish it. The copyright of the image you upload, the text you use, the logo and the music is either yours or you have obtained the permission needed to publish it. Uploading an image you found on the internet does not give you the right to use it.
• You respect trademark and name rights. You do not present a brand, organisation or person you do not own as if it were your own. Profiles that give the impression of being a brand's official account are no problem if the brand is yours; if it is not, that is impersonation.
• You are responsible for where you link to. Every address you put on your profile is your choice. If the content of the page a link leads to is unlawful or harms the visitor, responsibility for that lies with the person who put the link there.
• You do not publish someone else's personal data without permission. Putting another person's photo, phone number, address or correspondence on your profile is unlawful without that person's consent. If the GitHub account you display on your profile is not yours, you are publishing that account's public contribution data — do it knowingly.
• You share your own contact details knowingly. The email, phone number or address you write on your profile is open to everyone on the internet and can be collected by automated tools. Do not treat it as a field hidden from us; you have written it on a public page.

Your unpublished drafts. Changes you make in the profile editor and have not yet published do not appear on your public page. The moment you press publish, that layout becomes public and may be indexed by search engines. Even if you remove a piece of content later, we cannot recall the copies held by people who saw your page at the time or by third-party archives.

What we do when a piece of content is reported to us is written in Reports and removal. Let us also say plainly here that we do not review your content in advance: there is no moderation process that reads every profile before it goes live.

The following are prohibited on AKG Defense. The list covers both the content you write on your profile and the pages you link to — linking to a prohibited page counts the same as putting that content on AKG Defense.

• Phishing and fraud. Pages that imitate another service's sign-in screen, fake payment or donation collection, fake giveaways and “you send first” schemes.
• Harmful redirection. Links that distribute malware, trick the user into downloading something, or send the visitor somewhere else without their knowledge.
• Impersonation. Representing another person, brand, organisation or public authority as though you were them.
• Copyright and trademark infringement. Publishing works you hold no rights to, or linking to unauthorised copies of such works.
• Hate speech, violence and harassment. Content that incites hatred on the basis of race, ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability and similar characteristics; calls to violence, threats, targeting individuals and systematic harassment of a person.
• Child abuse. Any content relating to the sexual abuse of children and any link leading to it. There is no warning, suspension or graduated process for this item: access is closed directly and the required notifications are made.
• Unlawful goods and services. The sale of drugs, weapons, forged documents, stolen accounts and data; gambling and betting referrals not permitted by legislation.
• Adult content. Pornographic content and links leading to it. AKG Defense has no mechanism to place such content behind an age gate; that is why it is prohibited without exception.
• Publishing someone else's personal data without permission. Publishing a person's contact details, address, documents or images without their consent.
• Spam and automated abuse. Opening fake accounts in bulk, hoarding addresses, putting the service under load with automated tools, attempting to bypass security measures or exploiting a vulnerability in the system.

If you find a security vulnerability, write to akgdefense@gmail.com instead of exploiting it. We do not take action against anyone for vulnerabilities reported in good faith.

The content you put on your profile is yours and stays yours. AKG Defense claims no ownership over it.

But hosting and publishing a page technically means copying, storing and transmitting. So when you add your content to AKG Defense you grant us a limited right of use that is non-exclusive, royalty-free, non-transferable and confined to what is necessary to operate the service. That right covers the following:

• Storing and backing up the content on our servers.
• Showing your profile to visitors who request it and delivering it over a content delivery network.
• Resizing and converting the format of your images so that they display properly on the page.
• Producing the preview image and title shown when your profile is shared in a messaging app or on a social network.

That right is limited to these. We do not use your content in advertising, do not sell or license it to third parties and do not include it in another product. When you remove a piece of content from your profile or close your account, this right ends too; copies in technical backups are cleared within the ordinary backup cycle.

AKG Defense's own name, logo, interface, theme designs and source code, on the other hand, belong to us; these terms give you no right over them.

Where there is a breach of these terms or of the law, we may take one of the following steps:

• Remove a single piece of content or a link. If the problem is not with the whole profile, this is the narrowest intervention.
• Unpublish the profile. The public page is closed to access; your account and content remain.
• Suspend the account. You can sign in but not publish.
• Reclaim the username. If the name is being abused or there is a justified trademark claim.
• Terminate access entirely. For serious or repeated breaches.

We observe proportionality: we take the narrowest measure first and inform you in advance wherever possible. We leave notification until after the action only where delay would harm visitors — phishing, malware, child abuse content or a request from a competent authority.

If you think a decision is wrong you can object by writing to akgdefense@gmail.com. We review and answer your objection; we reverse a removal we find unjustified.

If you have seen unlawful content, impersonation, copyright infringement or phishing on an AKG Defense profile, write to akgdefense@gmail.com. So that we can assess your report quickly, we ask you to include:

1. The full address of the page you are complaining about (akgdefense.com/username).
2. Which element on the page is the problem — which link, which image, which text.
3. What the problem is and on what legal ground you consider it unlawful.
4. If you are reporting a copyright or trademark infringement, information showing that you are the rights holder or acting on their behalf.
5. A contact address where we can reach you.

What happens next. We review the report without delay. Where the content is clearly unlawful and the situation does not tolerate delay, we close access to it immediately; in other cases we first write to the profile owner and give a reasonable period for a reply. We notify our decision both to you and to the profile owner. The profile owner may object to the decision. We do not commit to a specific response time; the reason is written in section 9.

Do not abuse the reporting channel. Sending a baseless infringement report in order to get a competitor's profile taken down is itself a breach of these terms.

If you think your own personal data has been published without permission on a profile, you can send that to the address above as a violation report; your data protection rights you exercise through the application route in Your rights as a data subject.

Because AKG Defense hosts and publishes pages prepared by users, it is a hosting provider within the meaning of the applicable Turkish legislation. This status does not depend on a threshold of scale or commerciality: even though the service is free and there is no company behind it, we are a hosting provider. As regards the site's own pages — the home page and these legal texts — we are at the same time a content provider; we write what is there and we are responsible for it.

We do not review content in advance. The applicable legislation imposes no obligation on a hosting provider to monitor the content it hosts or to investigate whether it is unlawful. AKG Defense likewise has no moderation process that reads every profile before publication; the moment you press publish the content goes live directly. Hosting a page does not mean endorsing what is written there.

Content reported to us. When we are notified that content we host is unlawful, we remove it so far as technically possible and without delay. We do not commit to a response time here, and let us write why. The mandatory 24-hour period for removal that the law used to set is no longer in force, and no new period was put in its place. Writing a period into this text that is not in force would mean creating an obligation with our own hands that we cannot keep; in a one-person project that would be a promise of use to nobody.

Official orders: four hours. By contrast there is one concrete period the law does impose on us. An access-blocking or content-removal order issued by a judge, public prosecutor or the Cybersecurity Directorate is carried out by us immediately and within four hours at the latest. This is not an undertaking we give but a period the law sets.

Where to send your report. Send your reports to akgdefense@gmail.com. For a report to be actionable it must include the full address of the page complained about, which element on the page is the problem, on what legal ground you consider it unlawful, and who you are. Those four items and the process that follows a report are set out in detail in section 8. We may be unable to act on an incomplete report.

The identifying-information obligation under the applicable regulations, which requires a name, address, phone number and tax/national identity number to be shown on the home page, applies to hosting providers acting for commercial or economic purposes. Because AKG Defense is free today and earns no revenue, that obligation does not arise; it comes into play if the service is commercialised, and this section will be updated then.

AKG Defense's job is to gather the links you choose onto a single page and publish that page. When a visitor clicks a link on your profile they leave AKG Defense and go to another company's site. From that moment on, what happens there — the page's content, the product sold, the payment taken, the information requested — is the business of that site and of the profile owner who sent you there. AKG Defense is not a party to that relationship: it is neither the seller, nor an intermediary, nor a payment institution.

We write this not as a disclaimer but as a description of what the service is. We do not choose the targets of the links and we have no mechanism to keep monitoring those sites; so we are not to be taken as having approved or vouched for the content of an external site. On the other hand, if we are told that a link is harmful we use our removal powers — we are saying not that we bear no responsibility, but that we have this tool in hand.

Before you go to an external site. Look at the domain in the address bar, verify the identity of the site if you are making a payment, and enter your sign-in details only on a page you are sure really belongs to that service. We also expect profile owners to keep their links current: an expired domain can end up in someone else's hands.

Services the page talks to by itself. There are also third-party services we use to run AKG Defense: Google for sign-in, a font service for typefaces, GitHub for the contribution graph and Cloudflare for hosting. The link preview images on profiles are fetched from the remote site by our server; your browser makes no request to that site. Beyond these there are connections only you initiate: if you press the play button on a YouTube or Spotify card, the player is loaded at that moment and your browser connects directly to that platform. Which data reaches whom in these requests is written out one by one in Transfers and suppliers.

We try to keep AKG Defense running without interruption, but we do not undertake that it will be uninterrupted. The service may become temporarily unreachable because of maintenance, a fault at an infrastructure provider, an attack or a mistake of ours. We announce planned maintenance in advance as far as possible.

As the product develops, features change: new block types may be added, an existing feature may change or be removed. If we make a removal that directly affects content you have published, we announce it in advance and allow a reasonable transition period.

Keeping a backup is in your interest too. There is no button in the dashboard today to export your content in one click. We recommend not keeping a text you worked long on only on AKG Defense, and keeping your own copy as well.

Liability: there is no cap here. In this section we do not tie our liability to a monetary limit and we do not write a sentence like “we are not liable for indirect damages”. The reason is simple: such clauses are invalid in consumer contracts. A term that excludes or limits our liability for death, injury and material damage caused by our own act or omission is not valid — and a monetary ceiling falls within that. A term that removes or disproportionately restricts the legal remedies available to you, or an advance exclusion of liability for our intent or gross negligence, is equally invalid. Rather than writing an invalid term and presenting it to you as though it were valid, we chose to write what genuinely holds.

The framework that does hold is this:

• Scope of the service. AKG Defense is a page service that hosts and publishes the content you write. We do not undertake uninterrupted availability, a particular speed, visibility in search engines or a particular number of visitors. Nor do we choose or monitor the sites the links on your profile lead to; we are not responsible for the content there or for what happens there.
• The service is free, and that matters legally. We charge nothing for AKG Defense and derive no revenue from this use. When a service is provided free of charge, the duty of care owed by whoever provides it is assessed more leniently. In other words, being free is not a limit we imposed but a measure the law itself provides, and it is taken into account when assessing our duty of care. The day we offer a paid plan, that measure falls away as well.
• Acts of auxiliary persons. We exclude in advance liability arising from the own acts of the third parties we use to run the service — the hosting provider, the identity providers, the content delivery network. No claim can be made against us for an outage, fault or data loss at an infrastructure provider. Our own fault in selecting or supervising those parties falls outside this.
• Your obligations. The lawfulness of the content on your profile is yours; the detail is in section 4. If a third party directs a claim at us because of content on your profile, responsibility for that claim lies with the person who put the content there.
• Acts of third parties and force majeure. We cannot be held liable for interruptions arising from events outside our control, such as an attack, abuse, an access block ordered by a competent authority, or a fault in the electricity and communications infrastructure.

What is never limited. None of the above touches the following: liability arising from our intent or gross negligence, liability for death and bodily harm, and the rights granted to you by the mandatory provisions of consumer legislation. If a term in these terms is found unfair, only that term is void and the rest of the contract remains valid. These terms are presumed to have been drafted unilaterally and not separately negotiated with you; the party wishing to argue otherwise bears the burden of proof, and that party is us.

This section covers two different things separately: the platform (the personal-page hosting service at akgdefense.com/username) and the development services (the software, AI and automation services described on the home page). Different rules apply to each.

There is no paid plan on the platform today. No fee is charged, no payment details are requested and there is no payment flow on the platform. That is why this section contains no subscription, invoicing, refund or withdrawal terms for the platform: writing the terms of a service that does not exist would make this text untrue. The platform is entirely free; it is not possible to sell goods or services, conclude a contract or place an order through it.

Development services are not sold through the site. The software, AI and automation development services described on the home page have no cart, payment flow or order form on the site; they cannot be purchased through akgdefense.com. If you are interested in these services you write to us at akgdefense@gmail.com; the scope, fee, delivery and payment terms are then set out in a separate contract or quote agreed with you at that point. These Terms of Use do not cover that contract; its terms are written in its own text.

If we offer a paid plan on the platform in future, its price, scope, payment and refund terms will be set out in a separate text and notified to you before it takes effect. Moving to a paid plan will always be your separate and explicit choice; the account you use today does not become paid by itself.

You can't close your account yourself in the dashboard: you send the closure request by writing from the email address registered to your account to akgdefense@gmail.com. Where to write and how the application works is explained in Your rights as a data subject, and how to apply. To protect against a closure requested on someone else's behalf we may need to verify your identity. Your request is fulfilled within 3 months at the latest.

What happens when you close it. Your public profile is unpublished. Your account data, profile content, your page's counters and your session records are deleted. This cannot be undone; no copy is left with us. Deletion of the images and documents you uploaded is handled as a separate, manual step — there is no automated system that does this; it is still completed within the same three-month window.

Records that must be retained because of a legal obligation may be kept for the period the legislation provides even after the account is closed. You can find which data is kept for how long in Retention periods.

We too may terminate your account in the event of a serious breach of these terms; how that works is written in section 7.

Turkish law applies to these terms and to the use of AKG Defense.

We do not choose a competent court here. That is not an omission but a deliberate choice. A jurisdiction agreement can be made only between merchants or public legal entities; a clause saying “the courts of such-and-such a province have jurisdiction” placed in a contract against a consumer is invalid, and is also deemed an unfair term: terms that restrict the consumer's right to go to court, force them into an arbitration not provided for by law, or reverse the burden of proof are deemed unfair. Had we written such a clause, the competent authority could have required its removal, and an administrative fine could have followed if it were not removed.

Where you apply. The bodies competent in consumer disputes are set by law and that competence is absolute. The monetary limit for consumer arbitration committees is reset every year; you can verify the current amount from the figure the Ministry of Trade publishes. For disputes below the limit, applying to the consumer arbitration committee is mandatory; for disputes above it, the committee cannot be used and you go directly to the consumer court. For disputes to be heard in the consumer court, applying to a mediator before bringing an action is a procedural requirement; disputes within the committee's remit fall outside this.

You can also apply where you live. As a consumer you may also bring your action in the court of your own place of residence. The word “also” matters: this is an option added to the generally competent courts, not an obligation replacing them. The choice is yours.

Your right to bring complaints about personal data to the Personal Data Protection Authority is unaffected by this text.

If a provision of these terms is held invalid, the remaining provisions stay in force.

As the product changes, so do these terms: we update the text when a new feature is added, when a rule is clarified or when legislation changes.

With every update the version number at the top of the page increases and the last-updated date is renewed. The versions of the three legal documents are independent of each other: only the date of the document that changed moves. If there is a change that substantially affects your rights or obligations, we also inform users who have an account. If you keep using the service after a change you accept the new version; if you do not accept it you can close your account.

How to reach us. For content violation reports, objections to removals and questions about these terms you can write to akgdefense@gmail.com. For applications concerning your personal data, the application route in the Privacy Policy applies.

Alongside this text we recommend reading the Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy as well.