Using this site

Who runs this site

EduFabTech (edufabtech.com) is operated by Mustafa Pat, an individual based in Istanbul, Türkiye. Articles and news are published under the name EduFabTech. To reach the operator — including for legal notices — use the contact form.

Accounts

One account per person. You are responsible for what is posted from it. Accounts that exist to spam, impersonate or harass are removed without notice.

Posting rights can be withdrawn for one part of the site on its own: an account stopped from posting listings, or from sending messages, can still read, take part in the forum and vote in polls.

What you post

You keep ownership of what you post, including photographs. By posting you grant us the right to display it on the site and in the archive. When you upload a photograph you confirm that you took it or own it, and that you may let us display it here.

Comments under articles are open to members and shown to everyone — in full to members, as a short excerpt to visitors. They are plain text, cannot be edited, and can be deleted by their author; a moderator can hide a comment that breaks the rules and tells the author which rule. A member stopped from the forum cannot comment either.

Do not post material you do not have the right to share. A listing publishes the contact details you choose to give — posting someone else’s phone number, address or photograph is still forbidden.

Listings

Listings are between members. We are not a party to any transaction, do not verify goods, employers or accommodation, and cannot mediate disputes. Use ordinary caution.

No money passes through this site. We never ask for card, bank or wallet details, we hold no funds, we take no commission and we sell no placement. Anyone who asks you to pay through EduFabTech is a scammer.

A listing runs for seven days. You can renew it at any time, and each renewal gives a fresh seven days. When a listing ends it stays readable for thirty days — so you can bring it back — and is then deleted together with its photographs.

A listing can also be a wanted post: you describe what you are looking for, and the price is your budget. The same rules apply to it. A wanted post does not show an exact spot on the map, and a stay record can only be kept on a place that is offered.

You may not post:

• Weapons, ammunition and parts for them
• Drugs, medicines, supplements and anything sold as a cure
• Tobacco, vaping products and alcohol
• Live animals
• Counterfeit, replica or unlicensed copies
• Stolen, recalled or otherwise unlawfully held goods
• Adult services and adult material
• Financial services, loans, crypto offers and “investment opportunities”
• Personal data, accounts, credentials or identity documents
• Recruitment that charges the applicant anything at all
• Anything unlawful where you are, or where the other person is

Jobs. No job listing may charge the applicant a fee, or demand payment for training, equipment, travel, visas or placement, and no listing may discriminate on protected grounds.

Events. An event runs until it ends — not for seven days — and cannot be renewed; to run it again, post it again. Give its real date, time and place. The venue and address you enter are public, so leave out a home address and share it in messages. Put the joining link of an online event behind your contact, not in the description. “Free entry” means nobody pays anything to attend. An event can only be offered, not posted as a wanted post.

Who answers for an event. The member who posts an event is responsible for the event: that it is real, that they will be there, and that the details are true. Co-organisers they invite accept the same responsibility when they join. EduFabTech does not organise, host, check or vouch for any event, and takes no part in it. Places and conditions are information, not a booking: saying you are going is a heads-up to the organiser, and nobody pays anything through the site. After an event ends, organisers may confirm who came and attendees may say whether it happened as described; small trust points follow only when both agree. A moderator can stop a member from posting or co-organising events if an event turns out not to be what it said.

Spaces. A space — a workshop, maker room, study desk, studio or meeting room — is listed for the hour, day, week or month and runs for seven days like any listing. Nothing is booked through this site: there is no calendar, no reservation and no payment here, and the times and the price are agreed between the two of you. List only a space you have the right to let. The capacity, opening hours, equipment and features you give are public and must be true. The host sets the safety rules and shows how the machines and tools are used; nobody should use equipment they have not been shown. Never pay to “hold” a space you have not seen.

Stays. Accommodation listings may not discriminate. Never pay a deposit before you have seen the place. Dates you agree with a host can be kept as a stay record — a note, not a booking.

Contact details. Whatever you put in the contact field is shown to any signed-in member who asks for it. It is never printed in the page itself. If you choose “Messages on EduFabTech”, no contact detail is published at all: members write to you here, and you decide what to share.

Businesses. If you are trading, recruiting or letting as a business you must say so, and your trading name, address and contact are published with the listing. Buying from a business can give you rights that buying from a private seller does not.

Reporting and removal. Anyone can report a listing, with or without an account. We remove listings that break these rules without notice; the person who posted it is told which rule was broken and can appeal through the contact page. Listing rights can be withdrawn on their own.

Staying safe. Meet in a public place, check what you are buying before you pay, and never send money in advance.

Messages

Members can send each other private messages. Use them to talk about a listing or a genuine question — not to advertise, to send the same text to many people, or to keep writing to someone who has not answered you. Messages are between members: we are not a party to anything agreed in them. A message cannot be edited or taken back once it is sent.

Nobody writes to you on behalf of EduFabTech in private messages, and no money passes through messages either. Anyone who asks you in a message to pay through EduFabTech, to use an “EduFabTech escrow” or “protection” service, to pay a deposit before you have seen a place, to pay to get a job, or to share a code you were sent, is a scammer. Report the message.

To keep this usable, new accounts can start only a few conversations a day and can message members directly — rather than about a listing — once the account is a week old or has three forum posts. You can send at most three messages to someone who has not replied, and links can be shared only once they reply. Links that imitate this site’s address, hide where they go, or point to a bare IP address can never be sent.

You can block any member at any time; neither of you can then message the other. You can report any message you receive; a moderator then sees that message and up to ten before it. If several members report messages from the same account, that account cannot start new conversations until a person has looked at it, for at most 30 days — this happens automatically and is lifted if the reports were unfounded. Messaging rights can be withdrawn on their own; we tell the account holder which rule was broken, and they can appeal through the contact page.

Stay records

In a conversation about a stay listing, the guest and the host can keep a stay record: one of you proposes an arriving day and a leaving day, and the record exists only once the other confirms exactly those days. The guest is always the member who started the conversation; the host is the member who posted the listing. A stay record only notes that you both agreed on those dates. It is not a booking, a reservation or a contract, EduFabTech is not a party to it and cannot enforce it, and it holds no price and no payment. Anything else you arrange — money, keys, house rules, cancellation — is between the two of you. We never send “booking confirmations”; one that claims to come from us is fake.

Dates are recorded before or during a stay, not afterwards: the arriving day can be today or up to a year ahead, and a record covers 1 to 180 nights. Proposed dates that are not confirmed within 14 days, or before the leaving day, lapse. Only one set of proposed dates can wait for an answer in a conversation at a time.

Either of you can cancel a confirmed stay on your own, or agree new dates that replace it, until the day before arrival — the exact time is shown next to the stay, measured so that it holds in every time zone. From the arriving day until 14 days after the leaving day, either of you can say the stay did not happen; if you both say so, it is set aside. Otherwise the record stays exactly as you confirmed it. Blocking a member, a moderator closing the conversation, a stop on messages or listings, or closing an account prevents new stay records but never undoes one you both confirmed.

A stay record is visible only to the two of you; the reviews you write after it are public. Confirming dates you did not agree, or using stay records to mislead anyone, breaks these rules.

Stay reviews

After a stay you both confirmed, the guest can review the host and the host can review the guest: one to five stars and a short text, for 14 days after the leaving day. Reviews are blind — neither of you can read the other’s until both are written or the 14 days are over — and then both are published together. A review cannot be edited or taken back. Blocking a member, a moderator closing the conversation, a stop on messages or listings, or closing your own account never takes away the other member’s right to review a stay you both confirmed, and never removes a review that was written. Reviews about a closed account would not be shown anywhere, so none can be written about one.

Write about the stay itself, honestly and from your own experience. Do not include links, email addresses, phone numbers or anyone’s private details, do not insult, threaten or discriminate, and never offer, ask for or trade a review — not for money, a discount or a better review in return. Moderators remove a review that breaks these rules and tell its author which rule. A stay that appears not to have taken place — for example two accounts run by one person — is set aside: neither of its reviews is shown, and both members are told why. EduFabTech does not check what happened during a stay; a review is the opinion of the member who wrote it.

Friends

Friend matching introduces members to each other; it does not vouch for anyone. Treat a match like meeting a stranger: meet in a public place first, tell someone where you are going, and keep your messages on the site. Nobody may ask another member for money through it. A profile must be your own and truthful; you must be 18 or older. Harassment, discrimination and unwanted advances end your access to matching and may end your account. What a member shares with you as a friend — private details they chose to open — is for you alone; passing it on is a breach of these terms.

Hosting and travelling together

Members can describe their home on a home card and, as the travel features open, host other members, meet them or travel with them. This part of the site is for people aged 18 or over, and it rests on one rule: hosting on EduFabTech is free. Everyday costs — food, cleaning, transport — are shared, and how you share them is between the two of you. EduFabTech promises and guarantees nothing: not a place to stay, not a host, not a guest, not a price, not that anyone is who they say they are, and not that a visit will go well. We are not a party to anything members arrange with each other, we hold no money and we cannot settle a disagreement about costs.

A home card has no price field and must not be used to rent out a room — a room for rent belongs in Listings. Do not put an address, a phone number, an email address or a link on a home card; share those in the conversation, once you have both agreed. A host chooses whom to welcome into their home — by gender, age range, what a guest does and how many guests — and nobody is owed a stay. A card that misleads guests about who lives at home or where they would sleep breaks these rules. Photos on a home card show the place — a room, the kitchen, the street — not people who have not agreed to appear, and nothing that gives away the address; they are shown only to a traveller you offer to host.

You are responsible for your own safety and your own decisions: meet in a public place first, tell someone where you are going, and keep your messages on the site. Report anyone who asks for money to host you, pressures you, or is not who their profile says.

Trips. A trip tells members where you are going and when, so that people who live there can offer to host you, meet you or invite you to something. Announce only journeys you really intend to make, describe everyone who is travelling truthfully — your own details come from your travel profile — and keep phone numbers, email addresses, links and addresses out of it. A trip is not an advertisement, a request for paid accommodation or a way to look for dates. You can have two trips running at once, even for the same nights — a connecting route or two candidate cities — but then both are marked as an alternative route, and once you accept an offer you are expected to close the trip you drop. Moderators remove a trip that breaks these rules and tell its owner which rule; the owner can appeal from the contact page.

Offers. If you live where a traveller is going, you can offer to host them, meet them or invite them to something. Offer only what you really mean to give; to offer a place to stay you need a home card that is open to guests and an account at least seven days old. An offer is not a booking and binds nobody: the traveller chooses whether to accept, and either of you can change your mind. Accepting an offer only opens a conversation. Do not use offers to advertise, to ask for money, to look for dates or to pressure anyone, and do not offer again to a traveller who has declined. A traveller can report an offer; moderators may stop a member's trips and offers.

Plans and references. After an offer is accepted, the two of you can turn what you agreed into a plan: a stay, a meeting or an event, and the days. A plan is confirmed when both say yes. It is your word to each other, not a booking or a contract, and no money is involved. If you cancel a confirmed plan less than three days before it starts, or do not show up, trust points are deducted and you cannot confirm new plans for seven days — thirty after repeated cancellations. The same rule applies to travellers and hosts alike; the member who did not cancel is never penalised. When a plan is over, both of you say whether it happened; if your answers differ, a moderator decides and may apply the no-show penalty. After a plan that happened, each of you may write one honest reference about the other. References are sealed until both are written or two weeks pass, cannot be changed, and may be removed only by a moderator for breaking these rules. A reference that is positive makes you a voucher: if that member later gets a negative reference or cancels at the last minute, you lose part of the points your reference gave them. Do not write references for plans that did not happen, and do not trade references. You can appeal a penalty or a removed reference from the contact page.

The law of the place you are in applies — entry and visa rules, any duty to register a guest with the authorities, and the rules of a tenancy or a building. Following it is up to the host and the guest; everything else is whatever the two of you agree. EduFabTech does not issue invitation letters, proof of accommodation or any document for a visa, and a home card or a message on this site is not one.

Accuracy

We work hard to source every claim, but articles can still be wrong. If you find an error, send the source and we will correct it visibly.

Changes

These terms may change as the site grows. Material changes will be noted on this page with a new date.