Privacy Policy
The Website is responsible for the processing of your personal data. Collecting your personal data. The Website may collect the following personal data in the following ways: You may provide us your personal data, e.g. name, user name, password, e-mail address, etc upon registration (including via Facebook or other available social media means), using the Website (e.g. photo), contacting us, etc. We collect certain data by automated means, such as cookies and web beacons, when you visit the Website, e.g. IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, information on actions taken on the Website, and dates and times of Website visits. Using your personal data. We may use your personal data for the following purposes: to provide the Website and parts thereof; to contact you, to provide assistance, to collect feedback; to exercise any rights and obligations arising from the law; to personalise the Website, monitor and analyse the effectiveness of the Website, monitor aggregate site usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages viewed, etc. Please note that your name as entered during registration, as well as your URL and photo (if uploaded) is publicly visible to all visitors of the Website.
DATA PROCESSORS
We use service providers in order to provide you the Website. For example, we might use Amazon for hosting the data. We remain responsible for your personal data and take all necessary measures to protect your personal data as provided herein.
DISCLOSING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We only disclose your personal data to third parties without your prior consent if provided herein or the applicable law. We may disclose your personal data to the following third parties: an acquirer, or successor or assignee as part of any merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of assets, or similar transaction, as well as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which information is transferred to one or more third parties as one of our business assets; supervisory authorities; our lawyers, auditors, accountants. Data retention. We only store your personal data as long as necessary for the purposes of the personal data collected and as long as required by law. In general, we store your personal data as follows: personal data needed for tax and bookkeeping purposes - 7 years from the end of the financial year when the relevant data was provided to us; personal data related to the contract ñ 10 years (in accordance with the maximum period for raising claims from transactions).
SECURITY
We implement appropriate organisational, technical and physical safeguards to protect your personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or access and against all unlawful forms of processing.
YOUR RIGHTS
You have all the rights of a data subject as provided in the applicable law. This includes the right to obtain information and personal data concerning you and to demand the correction of inaccurate personal data. If processing of personal data is not permitted on the basis of law, you have the right to demand termination of the processing of the personal data, termination of the disclosure or enabling access to the personal data and/or deletion or closure of the collected personal data. You have the right at any time to refuse receiving any further direct marketing messages. You also have the right to turn to the Data Protection Inspectorate or the court to safeguard your rights.
USER CONTENT
Because the Website does not collect or determine the use or purposes of all of the User Content, including personal data contained therein, the Website is not acting in the capacity of the data controller. The Users should be considered as data controllers as regards the personal data contained in their User Content. Except as provided herein, the Website does not transfer or disclose the User Content to any third parties, except to its subcontractors who may process such data on behalf of the Website in connection with the Website’s provisions.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
Any and all intellectual property rights in and to the Website (except User Content) are exclusively owned by the Website and/or its third party partners. Your use of the Website does not grant to you any ownership or intellectual property rights therein. You may only use the Website only for its intended purposes. You retain all your ownership and intellectual property rights in and to your User Content. By submitting your User Content to the Website, you hereby grant the Website and its affiliates, sub-licensees, partners, designees, and assignees a worldwide, non-exclusive, fully paid-up, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, sub-licensable, and transferable license to use, reproduce (including by making mechanical reproductions), distribute, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, and otherwise exploit your User Content and derivatives thereof for any purpose whatsoever in connection with the Website's business, including for providing the Website for its intended purpose, as well as for the Website’s commercial, marketing or any similar purpose
ADMINISTRATOR’S REMEDIES
Upon breach of the Terms by you, including, but not limited to, if unlawful User Content or the action of its unlawful processing is discovered or brought to the attention of the Website or if there is reason to believe that certain User Content is unlawful, the Website has the right to use any or all of the following remedies, at its own discretion: set a term for you to end or cure the breach; demand that you bring the breaching User Content into compliance with these Terms and applicable law; deny the publication of the breaching User Content on the Website; temporarily or permanently remove the breaching User Content from the Website, restrict access to it or delete it; restrict your rights of use of or access to the Website by any means, including blocking any traffic from your IP address; delete your account, including all User Content therein, and effectively terminate the contract. The Website is not required to give notice of any of the foregoing actions. If the administrator has reasonable grounds to believe that your use of the Website may harm other Users or any third persons, he has the right to take adequate measures under its control to prevent, stop and eliminate the harm, where possible, in order to protect those Users and third persons. In addition to the above, these measure include notifying the relevant authorities. In addition to the foregoing, the Website may use all other remedies under the applicable law.
DISCLAIMERS AND RESTRICTION OF LIABILITY
The Administrators expressly disclaim any warranty, express or implied, regarding the Website, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement of proprietary or other rights, correctness, accuracy and reliability, or that the Website will be secure, uninterrupted or free of errors, viruses or other harmful components or that defects will be corrected. The Website may include links to other websites or services (hereinafter Linked Sites). The Website does not endorse any such Linked Sites or the information, material, products, or services contained on or accessible through Linked Sites. To the greatest extent possible under applicable law, the Website shall not be liable to you (whether under the law of contract, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with the Website.
MODIFICATION TO THE WEBSITE AND THE TERMS
The Administrators reserves the right to modify the Website and its contents from time to time without prior notice and explanation. Such modifications may include changes in the touch and feel of the Website, rebranding the Website, etc. The Website may modify the Terms from time to time. The modifications may be introduced as a result of the following: *a change in the applicable law or its interpretation; *a court decision, administrative act or other legal act requiring the amendment; *the modification or termination of a functionality on the Website or an introduction of a new one; *complaints and suggestions from Users; *new technologies and other innovations, which allow the Website to enhance the quality, security and user experience of the Website; *changes in the business model or work organisation of the Website; *other unforeseeable circumstances when amending the Terms is reasonably required. *For any material modifications to the Terms or in the event that such modifications materially alter your rights or obligations hereunder, such modified Terms will automatically be effective upon the earlier of your continued use of the Website with actual knowledge of such modifications, or 30 days from publication of such modified Terms on or through the Website. You may refuse to agree to the modified Terms. In that case you must immediately cease using the Website. Your continued use of the Website after such modifications have been published constitutes your binding acceptance of such modifications.
TERMINATION OF THE CONTRACT
You may terminate the contract at any time. You can do that by deleting your account or approaching us via the contact page on the website, stating clearly that you wish to terminate the contract. The Website Administrators may terminate the contract for convenience at any time upon decision to end provision of the Website. The Website may terminate the contract if you breach these Terms and do not remedy the breach within the reasonable deadline given by the Administrator. The website may terminate the contract immediately if you materially breach these Terms. Upon termination of the contract, your account will be permanently deleted, including all User Content therein, as soon as reasonably possible.
LANGUAGE
The Terms, the Website and the support of the Website are available in the English language. The Administrator may make the website available in other language versions thereof. You confirm that you fully understand the chosen language of the Terms, the Website and the support of the Website and consent to the use of it.
SEVERABILITY
If any provision of the Terms becomes or is determined to be invalid or unenforceable, then the invalidity or unenforceability of that provision does not affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions of the Terms. In such a case, the parties shall replace the invalid or unenforceable provision with a valid or enforceable provision that allows for the maximum attainment under the law of the very same effect and result as was intended by the replaced provision without undue delay.
APPLICABLE LAW
The Terms are made under, and shall be governed, interpreted and enforced in accordance with the jurisdiction of the Republic of India, without regard to the conflict of laws principles thereof. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods shall not apply. Regardless of the foregoing, you also enjoy the protection of the mandatory provisions of law that are applicable in your home country.
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
We will make our best efforts to solve any disputes amicably. Should it prove to be impossible within reasonable time, the dispute will be settled in the Madras High Court in India.