05 Legal Withdrawal · cancellation · refunds

Cancellation & Refund Policy

When you have a right of withdrawal, which services fall outside it, how to cancel, and when and how refunds are paid.

Summary

In short

14-day withdrawal

Consumers may withdraw within 14 days of the contract without giving a reason, except in the cases listed below.

Exceptions

Digital services performed instantly, services started at your request and work made to your specification are excluded.

Domains

Registration, renewal, transfer and restore fees are paid to the registry and are not refundable.

Stopping renewal

Turn off automatic renewal in the portal at any time; the service runs to the end of the paid term.

Refund timing

We refund within 14 days of a valid withdrawal notice, using the method you paid with.

Talk to us first

Something wrong? Open a support ticket before raising a chargeback; we resolve most cases quickly.

This summary only makes the text easier to read; the full text below is what binds.

01

Scope

This policy applies to every service sold under the simurgh.media brand by Simurgh Medya Yazılım Ticaret Ltd. Şti. (the "Turkish Company") or SIMURGH MEDIA, LLC (the "US Company"). The company named on your order or invoice handles your cancellation and refund requests (see the Terms of Service).

  • Consumers (individuals acting outside their trade or profession) buying from the Turkish Company are protected by Turkish Consumer Protection Law No. 6502 and the Distance Contracts Regulation; nothing in this policy limits those statutory rights.
  • Business clients (companies, sole traders, freelancers and anyone buying for their business) have no statutory right of withdrawal; cancellations and refunds follow sections 6 and 7 of this policy, the Proposal and the Terms of Service.
  • Consumers buying from the US Company benefit from this policy in addition to any non-waivable consumer rights in their own country.
02

The consumer right of withdrawal

A consumer may withdraw from a service contract concluded at a distance, without giving any reason and without penalty, within 14 days of the day the contract was concluded, except in the cases listed in section 3 (Turkish Law No. 6502, Art. 48; Distance Contracts Regulation, Art. 9).

The consumer bears the burden of proving that the right was exercised in time. It is enough to send the withdrawal notice before the period ends.

03

Exceptions to the right of withdrawal

Under Article 15 of the Distance Contracts Regulation, the right of withdrawal does not apply to the contracts below. These cases are shown to you clearly when you order, and your approval is obtained where required.

ServiceExceptionBasis
Opening a hosting account, delivering an smApp licence key, digital content and other services provided instantly onlineServices performed instantly in electronic form and intangible goods delivered instantlyArt. 15/1-(ğ)
Domain registration, renewal, transfer and restoreAn operation carried out instantly at the registry after the order that cannot be undoneArt. 15/1-(ğ)
Monthly SEO, marketing, maintenance, consulting and set-up servicesServices whose performance starts, with your express approval, before the withdrawal period endsArt. 15/1-(h)
Websites, software, AI/automation builds, logos and brand identity designed specifically for youWork prepared according to your requests or personal needsArt. 15/1-(b)

For services under point (h), we start work before the withdrawal period ends only if you confirm at checkout: "I ask you to start performing the service before the withdrawal period ends and I understand that I then lose my right of withdrawal." If you do not give this confirmation, the service starts when the withdrawal period ends.

04

How to withdraw

Send your withdrawal notice within the period through any of these channels:

  • a support ticket in the client portal,
  • an e-mail to [email protected],
  • for the Turkish Company, in writing to Atatürk Mah. Ertuğrul Gazi Sk. A Blok No: 2E K: 21 D: 331, Ataşehir/Istanbul, Türkiye; KEP: [KEP address].

State your name, order number, order date and that you are withdrawing. A sample text:

"I hereby withdraw from the service contract in my order no. [order number] dated [order date]. Name: […] · Address: […] · Date: […]"

We confirm receipt of your notice by e-mail.

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Refund timing and method

  • After a valid withdrawal notice reaches us, we refund all payments received within 14 days (Distance Contracts Regulation, Art. 13).
  • Refunds are made with the method you paid with and at no cost to you: card payments go back to the card; bank transfers go to an IBAN in your own name that you give us.
  • How long a card refund takes to appear depends on your bank.
  • Parts you actually used before withdrawing that fall under an exception to the right of withdrawal are not refunded.
06

Cancelling recurring services

  • Stopping automatic renewal: you can turn off automatic renewal of hosting, domains, smApp licences and other recurring services at any time before the due date, in the portal or with a support ticket. The service continues to the end of the paid term and no new invoice is charged.
  • Cancelling mid-term: for business clients, the unused part of a term that has started is not refunded unless agreed otherwise in writing.
  • Consumer subscriptions: consumers may end subscription-type services at any time, without giving a reason and without penalty, using the same method they subscribed with (the portal). No further term is charged after termination; [fees for unused whole months of a prepaid term are refunded].
  • Monthly service contracts (SEO, marketing, maintenance): the minimum term and notice period in the Proposal apply; if none is given, cancellation must be notified [30] days before the next term starts.
  • If a renewal was charged to your card and you did not mean to renew, write to us within [7] days of the charge and before the service is used in the new term; we refund it, except for domains.
07

Rules for specific services

7.1 Domains

Domain registration, renewal, transfer and restore fees are paid to the registry and the registrar when the operation is made and are not refundable. If the operation fails for a reason on our side (for example the domain cannot be registered or the transfer cannot be completed), we refund the amount or, if you prefer, credit it to your account.

7.2 Hosting

Once a hosting account is opened, unused time is not refunded; the subscription rights of consumers in section 6 are not affected. If we cannot provide the service, or end it, through our own fault, we refund the fee for the unused period.

7.3 smApp licences

Licence fees are not refunded once the licence key has been delivered. Your statutory rights for a defective service remain if the licence does not have the features stated in the agreement.

7.4 Project services

If a project is cancelled, you pay for the work done up to the cancellation date, committed third-party costs (licences, stock media, ad budgets, external services) and any deposit the Proposal states as non-refundable; the rest of any prepayment is refunded. Accepted deliverables are not refunded.

7.5 Third-party costs

Ad spend, software licences and similar amounts paid to third parties on your behalf are not refunded unless the third party refunds them.

08

Defective services and failure to provide

If a service does not conform to the agreement, consumers may choose, under Turkish Law No. 6502 Art. 15, to have it performed again or corrected, a price reduction in proportion to the defect, or to withdraw from the contract. For business clients we first fix the problem within a reasonable time; if we cannot, we refund the fee for the unused period of the affected service.

If we end a service without fault on your side, prepaid fees for the unused period are refunded.

09

When no refund is given

  • services suspended or terminated for breach of the Acceptable Use Policy or the Terms of Service,
  • services ended because invoices were not paid,
  • to the extent the law allows, fees for services already used and operations covered by an exception to the right of withdrawal.
10

Chargebacks

If you dispute a payment, please write to us before contacting your bank; we resolve valid requests quickly. Where a chargeback is raised without good reason, the related services may be suspended until it is settled. Your statutory rights are not affected.

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Requests and complaints

Send requests and complaints through a portal support ticket or to [email protected]. Consumers buying from the Turkish Company may apply to the Consumer Arbitration Committee at their place of residence or where the transaction took place, within the monetary limits announced each year by the Turkish Ministry of Trade, and to the Consumer Court above those limits. Electronic applications can also be made through the Ministry's Consumer Information System (TÜBİS) on e-Devlet.

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