This website www.articles.legal (the “Website”) and this user agreement / terms of use is an electronic record in terms of Information Technology Act, 2000 (“Act”), as applicable in India. These Terms of Use (“Terms”) is generated by a computer system and does not require any physical or digital signatures.
Please read these Terms carefully as by using the Website you agree to be bound by them. We reserve the right to vary the Terms at any time and will post any variations here. You are advised to review the Terms on a regular basis as you will be deemed to have accepted variations if you continue to use the Website after they have been updated.
If you do not agree to abide by these Terms of Use you should not use the Website in any way.
This Website is an “intermediary” as defined under the Act as it hosts third party content. The Website and its owners, employees and contractors do not verify or check the third-party content as displayed and hosted on the Website. For any issues with the third-party content kindly contact or escalate the matter to the content provider / originator of the third-party content. The Website could only remove or disable (temporarily or permanently) the third-party content at the issue upon a prior written notice to the Website, and in compliance with applicable laws.
As a user of the Website and viewer of the content including the third-party content on the Website,
- you may be asked to register with the Website by providing your personal details like your full name, your company / firm / organization, your designation, your email ID, your address etc. You will be required to create a user ID and password efficiently and properly use the various features of the Website. The Website may add or remove one or more personal details that the Website requires for you to register.
- The Website will share with the author or publisher of the content on the Website (who could be in your country of residence or in any other country) one or more of the data or information that you provide to the Website and/or that the Website process or collect (including via cookies) and/or the Website receive from third parties and/or any aggregate or derived data. The Website shall not be liable, and you hereby waive all your rights and remedies against the Website to the maximum extent permitted under the law, for any use, processing, storage or sharing of your data or information by the authors or publishers or any third party. THIS IS ONE OF THE KEY CONSIDERATIONS AND/OR BARGAIN FOR WHICH YOU ARE ACCEPTING THESE TERMS AND AGREE TO USE THE WEBSITE.
- At present the Website provides free of cost viewing of the third-party content. We will update these Terms and/or will otherwise inform you if we introduce any charge or fee for you to access or use any one or more features of the Website.
- The Website may send you periodic emails containing various articles or content published on the Website basis your choice or basis your activities on the Website. The Website, emails and/or any other platform, profiles or communications of Website may also contain advertisement, marketing, or promotional material of Website or of any third parties. This will also apply to the authors or publishers on the Website.
- The articles and the content on the Website are for your general knowledge and education and shall not be deemed or construed to be legal advice or professional opinions. You should never take any decisions or actions based on the content on the Website.
- You understand and agree that the authors and publishers are sharing their knowledge on the Website and do not intend to market, promote, or solicit any work or business from you.
As an author or publisher of a third-party content on the Website,
- you should not publish any content that is illegal, libellous, misleading, false, incorrect, inaccurate or infringe third party intellectual property or proprietary rights. We reserve the right to take-down such content, share your details with the person making any allegation against your content and/or with law enforcement agencies / courts / quasi-judicial bodies / regulators. You will be fully liable for such content and shall indemnify us and hold us harmless for any such content published by you on the Website.
- you could be asked to pay a certain fee to the Website for publishing your content. You can check the fee at the time of uploading or publishing of the content. The fee can vary and can be changed at any point of time without any prior notice to you. The content that you will publish will be hosted temporarily by the Website and such duration shall be decided by the Website and communicated to you from time to time. Presently, the Website intend to host your content for a period no longer than one year from the date it gets first published. The Website may give you an option to continue hosting the content on the Website for such additional time as may be decided by the Website by paying additional fee to the Website. The fee once paid is not refundable under any circumstances.
- you will get a dashboard on your profile page to check various actions taken by the registered viewers. The data in the dashboard will be shown after a minimum level activity or number of users visiting and reading your articles. The Website will share limited data or information about such users. The nature of data or information will be decided by the Website from time to time. You shall not further share such information with any third party and shall not use such information for any illegal purpose or the purpose not authorized under these terms. Specifically, you are prohibited to spam such users.
- you shall not use the Website to market, promote or solicit the work or business and shall use the Website in full compliance with the professional standards or professional rules that govern your profession including as an advocate, counsel, solicitor, attorney, chartered accountant, company secretary etc.
- Any data, content, or other information that you provide to the Website or publish on the Website in connection with your use of the Website, you grant us (and our affiliates) a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide licence to use such data, content, and information. This licence survives even if you stop using the Website. You are responsible for obtaining the necessary rights from all applicable rights holders to grant this licence.
IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: THE WEBSITE IS PROVIDED ON “AS IS” WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THE WEBSITE, ANY ERRORS ON THE WEBSITE, SAFETY AND SECURITY OF YOUR DATA OR INFORMATION, THE ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION OR THE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES OFFERED ON THE WEBSITE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE WEBSITE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSSES OR DAMAGE WHETHER DIRECT OR INDIRECT (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION DIRECT OR INDIRECT INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS, LOSS OF DATA OR INFORMATION), CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR OTHERWISE INCIDENTAL THAT MAY RESULT FROM USE OF THE WEBSITE HOWSOEVER ARISING.
Intellectual Property Rights:
The Website its images, trademarks, domain name, logos, algorithm, designs, interface, computer source-code and brands are owned exclusively by the owner(s) of the Website and protected by intellectual property laws and may not be reproduced or appropriated in any manner without written permission of their respective owners. You are prohibited to reverse engineer or create any derivative work of the intellectual property of our website and services. If you provide us any feedback or advise on improvement of our website or services, you hereby grant / assign us the ownership to use your feedback and advise at any point of time in future and all the intellectual property rights created or derived from your feedback or advise shall be owned by us to your complete exclusion. It is hereby clarified that between the owners of the Website and the authors / publishers, the intellectual property rights in the third-party content published by the authors / publishers on the Website is owned by such authors / publishers.
Content of other users: The third-party user generated content i.e. articles, description of the firm, companies, entities, authors, and individuals are licensed to us. You shall not acquire any right, title, or interest in any of the above materials except for a limited and temporary non-exclusive, revocable and world-wide right to view and take print of one copy of such content for your personal and private use. You may share such content solely via a sharing options available on the website which may include Twitter, WhatsApp, Facebook, LinkedIn etc. or via copy-pasting the URL on your social media platforms.
Other terms:
This Website may contain links to other websites owned and operated by third parties who are not related to the Company (“Third-Party Websites”). Third-Party Websites are not under the control of Company and Company shall not be responsible for the content of any Third-Party Websites or any hyperlink contained in a Third-Party Websites and makes no representation or warranty with respect to the content of any such Third-Party Websites.
Your access and usage of any Third-Party Websites is entirely at Your own risk. We shall not be a party to any transaction between You and a Third-Party Website. Your use of a Third-Party Website is subject to the terms and conditions of that Third-Party Websites in addition to these Terms of Use. If there is any inconsistency these Terms of Use prevail.
The Website may contain third party advertisements, promotions, etc. either directly or through advertisement aggregator platforms (that may or may not contain embedded hyperlinks or referral buttons to Third-Party Websites). The display of such advertising does not in any way imply an endorsement or recommendation by the Website of the relevant advertiser, its products, or services or any such Third-Party Website. You must refer directly to the relevant advertiser for all information regarding the advertiser and its products and/or services. The Website accept no responsibility for any interaction between you and the relevant third party and is released from any liability arising out of or in any way connected with such interaction and/or any defects, deficiencies, claims, etc. arising out of an advertiser’s products and/or services.
If you are using the Website on behalf of a third party (including, but not limited to, as an agent or representative of an author / publisher / firm etc.), you represent and warrant that you have the authority as agent of such party to use such features on their behalf, agree to these Terms and hereby bind such party to these Terms. You agree to indemnify and not hold the owners and employees of the Website responsible for any claims, suits, losses, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses resulting from your breach of the Terms.
Any reference to any product or service which has been or may be provided by the Website does not amount to a promise that such product or service will be available at any time. We can terminate or suspend your use of the Website or any part thereof at any time in our sole discretion, and we may change or stop offering the Website or any part thereof at any time in our sole discretion. In no event will we be liable in any way for terminating or suspending your use of Website or part thereof, for the discontinuation of Website or part thereof, for the removal of or disabling of access to content, or for the withdrawal of the content or the Website.
Privacy Policy (as provided on the Website), and any other documents, instructions, etc. included on the Website shall be read into this and shall be a part of these Terms.
These Terms are governed by the laws of India without giving effect to its principles of conflict of law, and you agree that the courts in Mumbai shall have exclusive jurisdiction in any dispute.
To the extent that any part of these Terms is found to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction such part shall to that extent be severed from the remaining terms all of which shall remain in full force and effect as permitted by law.
