Terms and Conditions
1. Scope
These terms and conditions govern access to and reading of the website published under the name Metaexplorer. They apply to every page of that website and to every person who reads it.
The website has no forms, no account, no registration, no login, no subscription, no membership, no purchase function and no paid content. No contract for the supply of goods or services to readers is concluded through the website. Nothing on the website is offered for sale to readers.
The website exists to publish free educational reference articles about blockchain technology. Access is open to any reader and does not depend on the identification of the reader.
Reading the website indicates acceptance of these terms. A person who does not accept these terms should stop reading the website.
These terms describe the relationship between the reader and the operator named in section 2. They describe no other relationship, and they apply to no other website.
2. Who operates this website
The website is operated by BEKTAS DİJİTAL İÇERİK STÜDYOSU ANONİM ŞİRKETİ, a joint-stock company registered in İstanbul, Türkiye. The corporate particulars of the operator are stated below.
- Registered company name
- BEKTAS DİJİTAL İÇERİK STÜDYOSU ANONİM ŞİRKETİ
- Registered office
- Polonezköy Mah. Kayışdağı Cad. No: 299, Kat: 9, Daire: 2, Beyoğlu, 34421 İstanbul, Türkiye
- Date of incorporation
- Tax office
- Beyoğlu Vergi Dairesi
- Tax identification number
- 3806772871
- Istanbul Chamber of Commerce registry number
- 942115
- Central registry record system number
- 0380677287100521
- Corporate e-mail address
- contact@metaexplorer.org
In these terms, the expression the company means BEKTAS DİJİTAL İÇERİK STÜDYOSU ANONİM ŞİRKETİ, the operator named above. The expression the website means the website published under the name Metaexplorer.
3. Licence to read
The company grants each reader a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to view the pages of the website. The same licence permits the printing of pages for personal, non-commercial reference.
The licence transfers no ownership of any content. The licence may be revoked at any time, and it ends automatically upon any breach of these terms.
The following uses are prohibited without the prior written permission of the company.
- Systematic scraping or automated harvesting of pages, of parts of pages or of the underlying markup.
- Bulk downloading of the website or of any substantial part of the website.
- Mirroring the website, or hosting a copy of the website on another domain.
- Framing the website, or any page of the website, inside another website or application.
- Republication of an article, in whole or in substantial part, in any medium.
- Removal or alteration of authorship, ownership, correction or dating information.
Text and data mining is the automated analysis of text and data in digital form in order to generate information such as patterns, trends and correlations. The content of the website may not be used for text and data mining. It may not be used to train, fine-tune, validate or evaluate machine-learning systems of any kind.
The company expressly reserves all rights in the content of the website against text and data mining. That reservation is made for the purposes of Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 of the European Parliament and of the Council. The reservation and the prohibition above apply to every article, to every original diagram and to the markup of every page.
4. Intellectual property
Copyright in the text, the page layout, the stylesheets, the scripts and the original diagrams of the website belongs to BEKTAS DİJİTAL İÇERİK STÜDYOSU ANONİM ŞİRKETİ. Copyright is held for 2026 and for each earlier year of publication.
The name Metaexplorer identifies the website of the company and the editorial work published on it. The visual identity of the website belongs to the company.
Short quotations are permitted where each quotation carries a clear attribution to Metaexplorer in the visible text. A short quotation means a brief passage used to support a discussion, and not a passage that replaces the original article.
Wholesale reproduction of an article is not permitted, with or without attribution. Reproduction of a substantial part of an article is treated as wholesale reproduction. Permission for any wider use may be requested at contact@metaexplorer.org.
Nothing in this section restricts a use that mandatory copyright law permits without the consent of the rights holder. Quotation for the purposes of criticism, review or teaching remains governed by that law.
5. No advice
The website publishes general educational information about blockchain technology. The information is written for a general readership and does not consider the circumstances of any individual reader.
A crypto-asset is a digital representation of value or of a right that is recorded and transferred using a blockchain or a similar distributed ledger.
Nothing on the website is investment, financial, tax, legal, accounting or security advice. Nothing on the website is a recommendation or a solicitation to acquire, dispose of or hold any crypto-asset.
No advisory relationship, no client relationship and no fiduciary relationship arises between the company and a reader. Reading an article creates no duty in respect of a decision that a reader takes.
The company is not authorised or licensed as a financial services provider, as a crypto-asset service provider, as an exchange, as a custodian or as a wallet provider in Türkiye or in any other jurisdiction. The company does not present itself as any of those. The company does not accept, hold or transmit money or crypto-assets belonging to any person.
6. No services and no support
The company provides no wallet, exchange, swap, custody, staking, recovery, seed-phrase restoration, key-management, synchronisation, validation or technical-support service to readers or to any other person.
A private key is a secret value that authorises transactions from one blockchain address. A Secret Recovery Phrase is the ordered list of words from which every key in a wallet is derived.
The company will never contact a reader first. The company will never ask any person for a Secret Recovery Phrase, a private key, a password or remote access to a device. Any message claiming to be technical support from the company is fraudulent.
The company operates no helpdesk, no live chat, no support telephone line and no remote assistance channel. No person is authorised to offer support, recovery or account services in the name of the company.
The company holds no credential of any reader and can restore no wallet, no phrase and no account. A statement to the contrary made by any other person does not bind the company.
8. No user-generated content
The website accepts no comments, no submissions, no uploads, no reviews and no postings of any kind. The website contains no message board, no comment field, no rating widget and no public profile.
All content on the website is written and published by the company. The company hosts no third-party content and stores no material at the request of a reader.
The company therefore provides no intermediary notice-and-action mechanism, because there is no third-party content on which such a mechanism could operate. That position follows from the design of the website and not from any assessment of any legal status.
A concern about the company's own editorial content may be sent to contact@metaexplorer.org. Section 19 describes how such a concern is handled.
9. Third-party names and non-affiliation
The company is independent. The company has no connection, affiliation, endorsement, sponsorship, partnership or agency relationship with any organisation, brand or product mentioned in its articles.
That statement includes MetaMask and Consensys. It includes every other wallet application, software publisher, protocol, foundation and organisation named in editorial writing on the website.
Third-party names and trademarks remain the property of their respective owners. Such names appear in ordinary body text and are used only to identify the subject that an article describes.
The use of a third-party name implies no relationship of any kind, in either direction. The company does not speak for any named organisation, and no named organisation speaks for the company.
10. Accuracy and no warranty
The website is provided as is and as available. The company gives no warranty of accuracy, completeness, currency or fitness for a particular purpose, whether express or implied. That exclusion applies to the extent that applicable law permits it.
Blockchain protocols and wallet software change over time. Interface names, menu positions, default settings and security behaviour described in an article may differ from the software that a reader actually uses.
Content may therefore become outdated between the date of publication and the date of reading. Each article states the date on which it was last reviewed.
Readers must verify every security statement against the official documentation of the software they actually use. The website publishes no outbound links, so verification takes place in documentation that the reader reaches independently.
11. Availability
The company gives no guarantee of uninterrupted availability. The website may be unavailable during maintenance, during technical work, or for reasons outside the control of the company.
The company may change, suspend or withdraw any part of the website at any time. An article may be revised, replaced or removed without prior notice to readers.
Nothing in these terms obliges the company to keep any page, any address or any article available for any period. A page that has been withdrawn creates no entitlement of any kind.
12. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the company is not liable for indirect loss or for consequential loss. That exclusion covers loss arising from access to the website and loss arising from reliance on its content.
To the same extent, the company is not liable for any loss of crypto-assets, of funds, of private keys or of data that arises from reliance on the content of the website. A decision about the software a reader uses, and about the handling of that reader's keys, remains with the reader.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits the liability of the company for death or personal injury caused by negligence. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for fraud or for fraudulent misrepresentation.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including liability under mandatory consumer protection law.
13. Advertising
Each page of the website carries a single sponsored slot. The slot is labelled clearly as sponsored and is separated visually from editorial content.
Sponsorship is not endorsement, verification or recommendation of an advertiser or of the products of an advertiser. The company does not check, approve or guarantee any statement made by an advertiser.
Editorial content is not written, reviewed, approved or influenced by any sponsor. No sponsor sees an article before publication, and no sponsor selects the subject of an article.
Any dealing between a reader and an advertiser is solely between those two parties. The company is not a party to such a dealing and carries no responsibility for it.
The slot is static and first-party: it is stored on the company's own server and delivered with the page. There is no advertising network, no advertising tag, no call to an advertising server, no tracking pixel, no impression beacon and no click-tracking redirect.
The company applies the following acceptance rules to every sponsorship.
- No unlicensed crypto-asset service provider, exchange, token sale or initial coin offering.
- No yield promise, return promise or profit promise.
- No trading signal service.
- No wallet recovery, seed-phrase restoration or crypto support service.
- No advertiser-supplied script, iframe or externally fetched creative.
- No sponsored content that expresses an opinion about any crypto-asset.
A proposal that does not meet these rules is declined. A published sponsorship is withdrawn once the company recognises that it does not meet these rules.
14. Editorial independence
Articles are researched from the published documentation of the software or protocol being described, and from public technical specifications. Sources are named in plain words inside the text, rather than by hyperlink.
Each article is reviewed before publication for factual accuracy, for consistency of terminology and for compliance with these terms. That review takes place within the company.
Corrections are made openly. A corrected article carries a dated note that states what was changed, and an error is never removed without a record.
The editorial method is described further on the about page of Metaexplorer.
15. Personal data
The handling of personal data is described in the privacy policy of Metaexplorer. The use of cookies and of similar storage is described in the cookie policy of Metaexplorer.
Those two documents apply together with these terms. Neither of them forms part of a contract for the supply of goods or services, because no such contract is concluded through the website.
Where a statement in these terms and a statement in the privacy policy address the same matter, the privacy policy governs questions of personal data. These terms govern the remaining matters.
16. Changes to these terms
The company may amend these terms. An amendment takes effect when the amended version is published on the website.
An amendment applies only to access that takes place after publication of the amended version. Reading that took place before an amendment remains governed by the version in force at the time of that reading.
The date of the version in force is stated in section 20.
17. Governing law and jurisdiction
These terms, and any non-contractual obligation arising from them, are governed by the laws of Türkiye. The courts and enforcement offices of İstanbul have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them.
A reader who is a consumer habitually resident in the European Union or in the European Economic Area keeps the protection of mandatory local law. That protection is given by the law of the country of habitual residence. Such a reader may also bring proceedings before the courts of that country.
A reader who is a consumer habitually resident in Türkiye keeps access to the consumer arbitration committees and to the consumer courts provided by the law of Türkiye. That access is not affected by the first paragraph of this section.
Nothing in this section removes a right that mandatory law gives to a consumer. Where the two preceding paragraphs conflict with the first paragraph, the two preceding paragraphs prevail.
18. Severability, no waiver and language
If a provision of these terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision is severed. The remaining provisions continue in full effect.
A severed provision is treated as replaced by the valid provision that comes closest to its purpose.
A failure by the company to enforce a provision is not a waiver of that provision. A waiver is effective only when it is given in writing by the company, and it applies only to the matter for which it is given.
These terms are drafted in English and the English text is operative. If a translation is published, it is provided for convenience only. Where a translation and the English text differ, the English text prevails.
19. Complaints
A complaint about the website, about an article or about a sponsored slot may be sent to contact@metaexplorer.org. That address is the single channel for complaints.
A complaint is acknowledged within 5 business days of receipt. The acknowledgement confirms receipt and states what happens next.
A complaint that concerns a factual error is examined against the source named in the article. Where an error is confirmed, the article is corrected and the correction carries its own date.
A complaint that concerns a sponsored slot is examined against the acceptance rules in section 13. The company gives no undertaking as to the outcome of a complaint, only as to the acknowledgement described above.
20. Version
Last updated: .
This version replaces every earlier version of these terms. The version published on the website is the version in force.