Terms of Service
1. Who we are and what these terms cover
u2aiconsulting.com is operated by U2 AI Studio Teknoloji A.Ş. and presents the U2 AI Consulting practice. These terms govern your use of this website and the information published on it. They are not the engagement contract. Any work we carry out for you is governed by a separate written agreement signed by both parties, and where that agreement differs from this page, the agreement prevails.
2. The nature of the service and its limits
U2 AI Consulting is an advisory practice. It is not a law firm and gives no legal opinion: under Article 35 of the Attorneys' Act No. 1136, advising on legal questions and drafting the documents belonging to that work are reserved to attorneys registered with a bar association, so we do not interpret legislation, review or draft contracts, or state whether a client is in conformity with a rule. We are not an independent auditor and carry out no audit or assurance engagement within the meaning of Decree Law No. 660; the requirements for an audit firm are structural and a technology company cannot meet them, and the voluntary form of such an engagement is covered by the same regime as the mandatory one. We perform no work reserved to certified public accountants under Law No. 3568 and no work concerning tax. We issue no certificate and hold no accreditation: ISO/IEC 42001 certification is granted only by accredited certification bodies and never by a consultancy, and NIST AI RMF 1.0 has no certification scheme. References to those voluntary frameworks describe how we structure our work and are not a statement of conformity. Our governance and risk line is advisory work and is not offered as a cyber security product or service within the meaning of Article 7/1(c) of Law No. 7545.
3. No published prices, and how scope and fee are agreed
No fee, day rate, package price or engagement duration is published on this site, because the scope of the work differs materially between institutions and a published figure would misdescribe most engagements. What is published instead is the method, the list of deliverables and the limits of the service. Scope, deliverables and fee are agreed in a written contract following a conversation. The content of this site is provided for information, is not an offer within the meaning of Article 8 of the Turkish Code of Obligations, and no contract arises from it. This site carries no ordering, purchase or online acceptance function; contact is made through the form, by electronic mail or by telephone, and any contract is concluded in writing between the parties.
4. What we commit to and what we do not
We commit to the agreed scope, the method described on this site and the written deliverables. We do not commit to a particular finding or to a particular outcome, and we make no claim about savings, efficiency gains or results that a client will obtain. Decisions on public support and funding belong to the relevant institutions; those institutions do not accredit or authorise consultancies, and we neither claim such a status nor undertake that any application will succeed. Our material is an input to your decision. The decision, and the responsibility for it, remain with your institution.
5. Intellectual property
Background intellectual property, meaning the methods, frameworks, templates, tools and materials each party held before the engagement, remains with its owner, and we grant you a licence to use ours within the delivered work. Foreground intellectual property, meaning what is created during the engagement for you, is allocated in the engagement contract. Under Law No. 5846 a disposition concerning a work that has not yet been created is void, and each economic right transferred must be stated separately, so the engagement contract records the undertaking to transfer and the assignment itself is executed as a separate written instrument once the work exists. Documents, data and materials the client provides remain the client's.
6. Data protection and confidentiality
Before any personal data is processed, the roles of data controller and data processor are determined and recorded in writing. In the ordinary arrangement the client is the controller and U2 AI Studio is the processor acting on the client's written instructions; Article 12 of Law No. 6698 governs data security and makes the controller jointly responsible with the processor for it. Whether a party is a controller is assessed on the criteria set out in the Personal Data Protection Board's decision numbered 2020/71; applying those criteria to an advisory engagement is our own assessment. We apply data minimisation and prefer anonymised, masked or sample data where the question permits. Client data is not used to train our models, to build benchmark or comparison pools, or to develop our methods. Return or deletion of data at the end of the engagement, and the date on which it happens, are set out in the contract, and confidentiality obligations bind both parties. For the contact form on this site U2 AI Studio is the data controller, and the notice available at the point of submission sets out the purpose, the legal basis and the rights under Article 11 of Law No. 6698.
7. Public sector and chamber engagements
The procurement method is the administration's decision and we take no part in it. There is no procurement regime specific to artificial intelligence; depending on its subject the work falls under the goods, service or consultancy route, and consultancy services are governed by Article 48 of Law No. 4734. We do not select, recommend or justify a procedure or an exemption on an administration's behalf, and we will not propose dividing a scope. Article 5 of Law No. 4734 prohibits division in order to fall below the threshold values, and the Public Procurement General Communiqué, in the part dealing with Article 22, prohibits dividing a single requirement so that the parts remain within the direct procurement limits. Under the final paragraph of Article 11 of Law No. 4734 a contractor performing the consultancy services for a work cannot take part in the tender for that work, and that prohibition extends to companies in an ownership or management relationship with it and to companies in which more than half the capital is held; u2aipoc.com is a brand of the same company and is covered accordingly. Article 16(3) of the Consultancy Service Procurement Implementation Regulation provides separately that the consultancy service provider which drafts the technical specification cannot take part in the implementation of that work. We state this before an engagement rather than after it, and we do not present advisory work and implementation as stages of one purchase. Chambers of commerce and industry, commodity exchanges and their union do not procure under the same regime as public administrations and follow their own rules; we work to what your own counsel confirms rather than determining your regime for you.
8. Website content, liability and governing law
The content of this website is published for general information, may be updated without notice, and does not constitute advice on any specific matter or a legal opinion. Summaries of legislation reflect the position verified at the date of publication; the binding text is the one published in the Resmî Gazete or, for Union legislation, in the Official Journal. No client name, logo or reference is published without written consent, and no reference client is published on this site. Liability arising from an engagement is as set out in the signed agreement, within the limits Turkish law allows: under Article 115 of the Turkish Code of Obligations an agreement made in advance to exclude liability for gross fault is void, and we make no such exclusion, nor do we treat a notice placed on a web page as a limitation of liability, since a limitation arises only from a negotiated contractual provision. These terms are governed by Turkish law and the courts and enforcement offices of Ankara have jurisdiction over disputes arising from them; where a dispute arises from a public procurement, the review and remedy routes laid down in procurement legislation and the administrative jurisdiction apply and are not displaced by this clause. Questions about these terms may be sent to the contact address on this site.