Terms of Service

Effective date: 28 April 2026

These are the terms on which you can use duudey.com and its associated subdomains (including development.duudey.com). Opening the site, scrolling an article, using the search, signing in with Spotify: all of it counts as accepting them. If you do not agree to them in their entirety, please close the tab and stop using the service. duudey is operated as a sole proprietorship (Şahıs Şirketi) registered in Istanbul, Republic of Türkiye. The words "we", "us", "the operator", and "duudey" mean that operator.

What duudey does

duudey is an automated news and event discovery engine. The pipeline reads metadata from publicly available news feeds and ticketing platforms, then performs four steps:

• Deduplication. We group near-identical or highly similar stories from multiple publishers into a single cluster.
• Editorial generation. We do not reproduce the original article. Our systems analyse the factual basis of each cluster and generate an original heading and a two-sentence factual summary.
• Translation. Those summaries are then translated into each of our four supported languages.
• Routing. Every summary carries a direct outbound link to the original publisher's page so the reader can keep reading at the source.

duudey is not the source of the news. The source is the publisher we link to on every story. We do not host the original articles, and we do not claim copyright over them, the event listings, or the artist metadata.

The platform exists to drive traffic to the original publisher and the original ticket seller. We display only the minimum metadata needed to help a reader decide whether to click through, and we never display enough to substitute for the original article. The ranking of clusters and stories on duudey is automated and algorithmic. We do not exercise editorial control over which third-party stories are surfaced, we do not manually re-rank or de-rank publishers based on viewpoint, and we do not curate by hand which events appear in the feed.

Crawling, robots, and paywalls

duudey ingests only metadata that publishers have made publicly available for indexing: RSS feeds, sitemaps, schema.org markup, syndicated press feeds, and similar machine-readable signals that the publisher has placed on the open web specifically so that aggregators, search engines, and readers can discover them. By making those signals public, the publisher grants what U.S. courts have called an implied licence to index and link, and duudey relies on that licence.

We honour the standard exclusion mechanisms publishers use to revoke or limit that licence. A publisher's robots.txt, the X-Robots-Tag HTTP header, the noindex directive in HTML or HTTP, the <meta name="robots"> tag, and equivalent signals will keep that publisher's content out of duudey's index. The same applies to feed-level signals: an empty or excerpt-only RSS feed is treated as the publisher's stated wish, and we do not attempt to reconstruct the full article from elsewhere. If a publisher signals at any time that we should stop crawling, we stop. The takedown procedure below provides a faster, explicit channel for the same outcome.

We do not bypass paywalls. If full-text content sits behind a paywall, login wall, or subscription gate, duudey takes only the public excerpt the publisher has chosen to expose to unauthenticated visitors, and we do not attempt to reach the gated body of the article through cached copies, archive sites, third-party mirrors, or any account-based access. The economic rationale matters here: the platform exists to drive paid readers and ticket buyers to the original publisher and the original ticket seller, not to siphon revenue from them.

Your account

You can read duudey without an account. Personalised features (the radio dock, saved locations, localised news, saved settings) require a Spotify connection through Spotify's own OAuth flow. Connecting Spotify means accepting Spotify's Terms of Service and Developer Policy. Spotify can revoke our access at any time. Disconnecting from your Spotify account dashboard ends the connection on duudey's side too.

Intellectual property, fair use, and quotation rights

We respect the intellectual property of original creators and publishers, and the platform is engineered to operate inside established legal safe harbours.

The articles, images, artist data, and event listings on duudey belong to the publishers, organisers, and artists who created them. Our generated headings and two-sentence summaries are transformative paraphrases. They extract non-copyrightable factual data and present it as a new metadata layer for comparative search and traffic routing, not as a substitute for the original work. They sit inside the very-short-extracts safe harbour of Article 15 of EU Directive 2019/790 (Recital 58), the fair-use doctrine of 17 U.S.C. § 107, and the right of quotation under Article 35 of Turkish Law No. 5846 on Intellectual and Artistic Works (FSEK). Every story links back to the original publisher.

No video content. Article 35 of FSEK, as interpreted by the 11th Civil Chamber of the Turkish Court of Cassation, does not extend the freedom of quotation to cinematographic works (films, video broadcasts, livestreams, multimedia streams). duudey does not scrape, host, embed, transcode, or reproduce video content under the quotation defence. Video is out of scope for the platform.

Anti-scraping, API abuse, and AI/ML training ban

The deduplication logic, the editorial summaries, the translated text, the generated headings, and the database structure of duudey are the operator's exclusive proprietary property. To protect that work, you agree to the following restrictions, which are absolute:

• No automated extraction. You shall not access, monitor, or copy any content or information on the site using any robot, spider, scraper, web crawler, or other automated means, or any equivalent manual process.
• No API abuse. You shall not bypass or circumvent measures that prevent or limit access to the service, and shall not attempt to gain unauthorised access to any servers or networks behind it.
• AI/ML training ban. You shall not scrape, extract, or download duudey's editorial summaries, translated text, headings, or structured datasets to train, fine-tune, or develop any artificial intelligence (AI), large language model (LLM), or machine-learning (ML) system without our express written commercial licence. This is also a Spotify Developer Terms requirement and applies to everything we surface via Spotify.

We monitor for programmatic abuse and will pursue immediate technical and legal remedies against any entity engaging in unauthorised data harvesting.

You also agree to use duudey within reasonable limits: do not impose unreasonable load on the service, do not probe security boundaries, do not reverse-engineer the site or bypass authentication. duudey and anything obtained through it must not be used to harass, defame, or otherwise violate the rights of any person.

Ephemeral caching and technical copies

For story preview images and event posters, duudey may cache the image for at most thirty days, served from our own infrastructure for performance and to reduce bandwidth strain on the original publisher's servers. The cache is short-lived and rebuilt automatically. We do not permanently host, modify, edit, watermark, or redistribute these visual assets, and we do not display them outside the context of the link back to the original publisher.

This transit mechanism qualifies as a transient or incidental copy that is integral and essential to a technological process, exempt from reproduction rights under Article 5(1) of EU Directive 2001/29/EC (the Information Society Directive). Following the Court of Justice of the European Union's rulings in Infopaq I and II, the conditions of Article 5(1) are satisfied cumulatively here: the cached copies are temporary, they are an integral part of the technological process by which the page is delivered to the reader, the process is fully automated such that cached entries are purged from electronic memory without human intervention, and the cache has no independent economic significance separate from the routing function it serves.

The cache is also defensible as transformative thumbnail use under the U.S. fair-use analysis applied in Perfect 10 v. Amazon.com: the function of the image on duudey is identification and routing, not aesthetic substitution for the original.

If you are the rights-holder of an image and want it removed, see the takedown section.

Spotify content

Spotify content (artist names, images, profile links, album art, preview metadata) is displayed under the Spotify Developer Terms and the Spotify Developer Policy, including the policy update that took effect in early 2026. Each artist card links back to Spotify, and we do not modify, relabel, co-brand, or visually re-skin the Spotify-supplied imagery in a way that would obscure its source. Audio playback always happens inside the official Spotify client; duudey does not host, transcode, decrypt, redistribute, or replay Spotify audio.

Spotify-derived data is handled inside the bounds set by the Spotify Developer Terms: it is used only to operate the features you have authenticated for, it is not used to train any AI or machine-learning system, and it is not redistributed in violation of those terms. Spotify can revoke our developer access at any time, with or without notice, and any such revocation is binding on duudey and on you.

Event listings, ticketing, and third-party liability

duudey aggregates publicly announced live events and routes users directly to official third-party ticketing vendors.

• No affiliation. duudey is an independent discovery platform. We are not partnered with, sponsored by, or legally affiliated with any event organiser, venue, or ticketing platform.
• No contractual privity. duudey is strictly an information router. We are not a party to any financial transaction, ticketing agreement, or binding contract between you and the event organiser, promoter, or ticketing agency.
• No automated purchasing. duudey never acts as an automated purchase agent. We do not search, reserve, hold, or buy tickets on behalf of users. The transaction always takes place on the destination platform, initiated by you.
• Assumption of risk. All financial transactions, ticket issuance, and customer service inquiries take place on the destination platform, on its terms. You voluntarily assume all risk incidental to the event.
• Zero liability. duudey bears no legal or financial liability for cancelled events, rescheduled dates, ticket pricing errors, counterfeit tickets, venue injuries, refund disputes, or anything that happens at the venue.

duudey's design, code, editorial summaries, deduplication logic, translated text, and database structure belong to the operator. Do not copy, modify, or redistribute them without permission.

Notice and takedown (Uyar-Kaldır)

Under Turkish Internet Law No. 5651, duudey operates as a Content Provider (İçerik Sağlayıcı) for, and only for, the proprietary content the platform itself produces: the deduplication clusters, the generated headings, the two-sentence editorial summaries, and the translations of those summaries. For everything else (the third-party articles, the publishers' images, the event listings, and any external destination reached through one of our outbound links), duudey relies on Article 4 of Law No. 5651, under which a content provider is not responsible for content belonging to others to which it merely provides a link. We do not endorse the linked third-party content, we do not adopt it as our own, and we do not encourage any user to commit an offence through it; the link is a routing mechanism, nothing more.

We do not editorially curate the third-party material we index, we do not present it in a way that signals endorsement, and we are not legally obligated to proactively monitor the internet for unlawful activity on the destination side of an outbound link. We act on credible notices when we receive them about either layer (our own summaries, or the linked source material), and on official takedown orders issued by competent Turkish authorities (including the Information and Communication Technologies Authority, BTK), within the windows described below.

Algorithmic generation and good-faith correction

The summaries, headings, translations, and cluster labels duudey produces are generated by automated machine-learning systems operating at scale, without a human editor reviewing each output before publication. The systems are designed to stay tight to the factual signal in the source material, but no language model is perfect: an output can occasionally misstate a fact, mistranslate a phrase, attribute a quote inaccurately, group unrelated stories into the same cluster, or generate phrasing that a subject reasonably objects to.

duudey does not claim editorial certainty for any individual generated string, and the legal posture above (Content Provider responsibility for our own content, Article 4 link-shield for everything else) is paired with an explicit good-faith correction commitment: when a subject, publisher, or rights-holder notifies us that a generated summary, heading, translation, or cluster is inaccurate, misleading, defamatory, or otherwise objectionable, we treat that notice as a takedown request under the procedure below. We will remove or rewrite the disputed output rather than defend it on accuracy grounds, on the same twenty-four-hour discretionary and forty-eight-hour formal windows that apply to third-party-content takedowns. The willingness to take the output down is part of the design, not an exception to it.

This commitment does not waive the limitation of liability or the indemnification clauses below, and an algorithmic mistake we have removed does not create an ongoing publication that could ground a continuing claim.

How to file a notice

If you are a copyright holder, or believe your personal rights have been violated by content indexed on the platform, write to [email protected] with the subject prefix Takedown:. A complete notice should contain:

• the exact duudey URL or URLs of the disputed item,
• a description of the right you hold (copyright, trademark, personality rights, image rights, neighbouring rights for news publishers under Article 15 of EU Directive 2019/790, or other),
• evidence that the right is yours, or that you are authorised to act on behalf of the right-holder (a registration record, a publication credit, an authorisation letter, a national-ID-bearing trademark certificate, or equivalent),
• a good-faith statement that the use on duudey is not authorised by the right-holder, by law, or by a valid licence,
• contact details we can use to confirm receipt and ask follow-up questions.

A notice that lacks a clear URL or any plausible evidence of standing will be answered with a request for the missing piece rather than dismissed.

Response windows

A credible-looking notice (one that names a specific URL and articulates a plausible right) gets the disputed item off the page within twenty-four hours, ahead of full review. A complete and legally valid notice is processed under our Uyar-Kaldır procedure (permanent removal or de-indexing of the URL, blocklisting of the canonical source, and where relevant a propagation of the block to the cluster's siblings) within forty-eight hours. We then assess whether the item should be reinstated, narrowed, or kept down permanently.

Blanket publisher exclusion

Publishers who wish to be excluded from the index entirely, rather than per-URL, can request blanket exclusion through the same address. A blanket request from a verifiable publisher domain is treated as authoritative and processed in the same forty-eight-hour window: the source is removed from active crawling, existing entries are de-indexed, and the cache for that source is purged. We will not require legal grounds for a blanket publisher exclusion; the publisher's wish is enough.

Counter-notice and disputes

If you are a publisher or contributor whose lawfully posted content was removed because of a disputed third-party notice, you can write to the same address with the subject prefix Counter-notice: and the original takedown reference. We review counter-notices in good faith. We do not adjudicate substantive copyright disputes, and we do not act as a court; where the parties disagree, the content stays down until either the dispute is resolved between them or a competent authority orders reinstatement.

We may also remove any content from duudey at our own discretion if we believe it violates these terms or applicable law, even in the absence of a notice.

Disclaimers, liability, and indemnification

Disclaimer of warranties. duudey is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, without express or implied warranties of any kind, including warranties of merchantability, accuracy of editorial summaries or their translations, or fitness for a particular purpose. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure.

Liability cap. Because duudey is operated as a sole proprietorship and provided as a free discovery tool, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the operator's total, aggregate, cumulative liability for any and all claims arising out of or relating to these terms or your use of the service shall not exceed the greater of (a) what you have paid duudey in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, which for the free service is zero (0) TRY, and (b) one hundred U.S. dollars ($100.00). The operator is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, punitive, or consequential damages, including lost profits, lost data, or business interruption, even if the possibility was raised. Liability that the law does not allow us to limit (such as fraud or personal injury caused by negligence) is not limited here.

Indemnification. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold the operator harmless from any claims, damages, losses, or legal expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of your breach of these terms, in particular any unauthorised scraping, redistribution, or AI/ML training use of duudey's proprietary data.

Termination

You can stop using duudey at any time. Disconnecting Spotify is enough to end the relationship. We can suspend or end your access if you breach these terms, abuse the service, or expose us to legal risk. The provisions that should outlive termination (intellectual property, anti-scraping, content treatment, disclaimers, liability, indemnity, governing law) outlive it.

Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Türkiye. Any legal dispute or claim arising from your use of duudey is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts and execution offices in Istanbul, Türkiye, without prejudice to mandatory consumer-protection rights you have under your country of residence. Readers in the European Union may also use the European Commission's online dispute-resolution platform at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.

Changes and contact

These terms get updated when something material changes. Significant changes appear at the top of this page. If you have a connected account, we send a note. The effective date above always reflects the current version. Continued use after a change means you accept it.

Anything else: [email protected]. The contact page explains the inbox conventions.