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Your use of the Hindustan Publishing Corporation (India)’s website (herein after referred to as “HPC”) and services and tools are governed by the following terms and conditions as applicable to the HPC. If you transact on HPC, you shall be subject to the policies that are applicable to the website for such transaction. By use of the website you shall be contracting with Hindustan Publishing Corporation (India), a partnership firm regulated under Indian Partnership Act, 1932 with registered office at 4805/24 Bharat Ram Road, Daryaganj, Delhi – 110002, India and these terms and conditions constitute your binding obligations.
For the purpose of these terms of use, wherever the context so requires ‘You’ shall mean any natural or legal person who has agreed to become a member of the Website by providing Registration Data while registering on the Website as Registered User using the computer systems of the HPC.
When you use any of the services provided by the HPC, including but not limited to, (e.g., Customer Reviews), you will be subject to the rules, guidelines, policies, terms, and conditions applicable to such service, and they shall be deemed to be incorporated into this Terms of Use and shall be considered as part and parcel of this Terms of Use. HPC reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of these Terms of Use, at any time. It is your responsibility to check these Terms of Use periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes will mean that you accept and agree to the changes. As long as you comply with these Terms of Use, HPC grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited privilege to enter and use the Site.
Membership Eligibility
Use of the HPC’s Website is available only to persons who can form legally binding contracts under Indian Contract Act, 1872. Persons who are “incompetent to contract” within the meaning of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 including minors, un-discharged insolvents etc. are not eligible to use the HPC Website. If you are a minor i.e. under the age of 18 years, you shall not register as a member of the HPC and shall not transact or use HPC’s website. As a minor if you wish to use or transact on the Website, such use or transaction may be made by your legal guardian or parents who have registered as users of the HPC. HPC reserves the right to terminate your account and refuse to provide you with access to the website if it is brought to HPC’s notice or if it is discovered that you are under the age of 18 years.
Your Account and Registration Obligations
If you use this Website, you shall be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your User ID and Password and you shall be responsible for all activities that occur under your User ID and Password. You agree that if you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete or HPC has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or not in accordance with this Terms of Use, HPC has the right to indefinitely suspend or terminate or block access of your membership with HPC and refuse to provide you with access to the Website.
Communications
When You use the Website or send emails or other data, information or communication to HPC, You agree and understand that You are communicating with HPC through electronic records and You consent to receive communications via electronic records from HPC periodically and as and when required. HPC may communicate with You by email or by such other mode of communication, electronic or otherwise.
Charges
Membership on the HPC is free. HPC does not charge any fee for browsing on the HPC website. However, HPC reserves the right to charge fee and change its policies from time to time. In particular, HPC may at its sole discretion introduce new services and modify some or all of the existing services offered on the HPC. In such an event HPC reserves, without notice to You, the right to introduce fees for the new services offered or amend/introduce fees for existing services, as the case may be. Changes to the Fee and related policies shall automatically become effective immediately once implemented on HPC. You shall be solely responsible for compliance of all applicable laws including those in India for making payments to HPC.
Use of HPC Website https://www.hpcedu.com
You agree, undertake and confirm that your use of HPC shall be strictly governed by the following binding principles:
- You shall not host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any information:
(a) belongs to another person and to which You does not have any right to.
(b) is grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, libellous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatever; or unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing including but not limited to “indecent representation of women” within the meaning of the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986;
(c) misleading in any way.
(d) is patently offensive to the online community, such as sexually explicit content, or content that promotes obscenity, pedophilia, racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
(e) harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
(f) involves the transmission of “junk mail,” “chain letters,” or unsolicited mass mailing or “spamming”;
(g) promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
(h) infringes upon or violates any third party’s rights [(including, but not limited to, intellectual property rights, rights of privacy (including without limitation unauthorized disclosure of a person’s name, email address, physical address or phone number) or rights of publicity];
(i) promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person’s copyrighted work (see “Copyright complaint” below for instructions on how to lodge a complaint about uploaded copyrighted material), such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;
(j) contains restricted or password-only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);
(l) provides material that exploits people in a sexual, violent or otherwise inappropriate manner or solicits personal information from anyone;
(m) provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone’s privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;
(n) contains video, photographs, or images of another person age 18 or older without his or her express written consent and permission or those of any minor (regardless of whether you have consent from the minor or his or her legal guardian).
(o) tries to gain unauthorized access or exceeds the scope of authorized access (as defined herein and in other applicable Codes of Conduct or End User Access and License Agreements) to the Sites or to profiles, blogs, communities, account information, or other areas of the Sites or solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users;
(p) engages in commercial activities and/or sales without HPC’s prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising and pyramid schemes, or the buying or selling of “virtual” items related to the Sites. Throughout this Terms of Use, HPC’s “prior written consent” means a communication coming from HPC’s Legal department, specifically in response to your request, and specifically addressing the activity or conduct for which you seek authorization;
(q) solicits gambling or engages in any gambling activity which HPC, in its sole discretion, believes is or could be construed as being illegal;
(r) interferes with another user’s use and enjoyment of the HPC’s Website or any other individual’s user and enjoyment of similar services;
(s) refers to any website or URL that, in the sole discretion of HPC, contains material that is inappropriate for the HPC Website or any other Website, contains content that would be prohibited or violates the letter or spirit of these Terms of Use.
(t) harm minors in any way;
(u) infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights or third party’s trade secrets or rights of publicity or privacy or shall not be fraudulent or involve the sale of counterfeit or stolen items;
(v) violates any law for the time being in force;
(w) deceives or misleads the addressee/ users about the origin of such messages or communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in nature;
(x) impersonate another person;
(y) contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource; or contains any Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, easter eggs or other computer programming routines that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, diminish value of, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information;
(z) threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign states, or public order or causes incitement to the commission of any cognizable offence or prevents investigation of any offence or is insulting any other nation.
(aa) shall not be false, inaccurate or misleading;
(ab) shall not, directly or indirectly, offer, attempt to offer, trade or attempt to trade in any item, the dealing of which is prohibited or restricted in any manner under the provisions of any applicable law, rule, regulation or guideline for the time being in force.
(ac) shall not create liability for us or cause us to lose (in whole or in part) the services of our ISPs or other suppliers;
- You shall not use any “deep-link”, “page-scrape”, “robot”, “spider” or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Website or any Content, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Website or any Content, to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or information through any means not purposely made available through the Website. HPC reserves the right to bar any such activity.
- You shall not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion or feature of HPC website, or any other systems or networks connected to HPC Website or to any HPC’s server, computer, network, or to any of the services offered on or through HPC Website, by hacking, password “mining” or any other illegitimate means.
- You shall not probe, scan or test the vulnerability of HPC website or any network connected to HPC website nor breach the security or authentication measures on HPC website or any network connected to HPC Website. You may not reverse look-up, trace or seek to trace any information on any other user of or visitor to HPC Website, or any other customer of HPC, including any HPC account not owned by you, to its source, or exploit HPC Website or any service or information made available or offered by or through HPC’s Website, in any way where the purpose is to reveal any information, including but not limited to personal identification or information, other than your own information, as provided for by HPC Website.
- You agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the infrastructure of HPC Website or HPC’s systems or networks, or any systems or networks connected to the HPC.
- You agree not to use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Website or any transaction being conducted on the Website, or with any other person’s use of the Website.
- You may not forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any message or transmittal you send to HPC on or through the Website or any service offered on or through the Website. You may not pretend that you are, or that you represent, someone else, or impersonate any other individual or entity.
- You may not use the Website or any Content for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use, or to solicit the performance of any illegal activity or other activity which infringes the rights of HPC or others.
- Solely to enable HPC to use the information you supply us with, so that we are not violating any rights you might have in Your Information, you agree to grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise the copyright, publicity, database rights or any other rights you have in Your Information, in any media now known or not currently known, with respect to Your Information. HPC will only use Your Information in accordance with the terms of use and HPC’s Privacy Policy.
- From time to time, you shall be responsible for providing information relating to the items or services proposed to be sold by you. In this connection, you undertake that all such information shall be accurate in all respects. You shall not exaggerate or over emphasize the attributes of such items or services so as to mislead other Users in any manner.
- You shall not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, other users of HPC to buy or sell any products or services, including, but not limited to, products or services related being displayed on HPC or related to HPC. You may not transmit any chain letters or unsolicited commercial or junk email to other users via HPC. It shall be a violation of these Terms of Use to use any information obtained from HPC in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person, or in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to another person outside of the HPC without HPC’s prior explicit consent.
- You understand that HPC has the right at all times to disclose any information (including the identity of the persons providing information or materials on the HPC Website) as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or valid governmental request. This may include, without limitation, disclosure of the information in connection with investigation of alleged illegal activity or solicitation of illegal activity or in response to a lawful court order or subpoena. In addition, we can (and you hereby expressly authorize us to) disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials, as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate in connection with the investigation and/or resolution of possible crimes, especially those that may involve personal injury.
- HPC reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor the materials posted on HPC’s website. HPC shall have the right to remove or edit any Content that in its sole discretion violates, or is alleged to violate, any applicable law or either the spirit or letter of these Terms of Use. Notwithstanding this right of HPC, YOU REMAIN SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT OF THE MATERIALS YOU POST ON THE WEBSITE AND IN YOUR PRIVATE MESSAGES. Please be advised that such Content posted does not necessarily reflect the views of HPC. In no event shall HPC assume or have any responsibility or liability for any Content posted or for any claims, damages or losses resulting from use of Content and/or appearance of Content on HPC. You hereby represent and warrant that you have all necessary rights in and to all Content you provide and all information it contains and that such Content shall not infringe any proprietary or other rights of third parties or contain any libelous, tortious, or otherwise unlawful information.
- Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers found on or through HPC, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertiser. HPC shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such advertisers on HPC.
- It is possible that other users (including unauthorized users or “hackers”) may post or transmit offensive or obscene materials on HPC and that you may be involuntarily exposed to such offensive and obscene materials. It also is possible for others to obtain personal information about you due to your use of HPC, and that the recipient may use such information to harass or injure you. HPC does not approve of such unauthorized uses but by using the HPC Website you acknowledge and agree that HPC is not responsible for the use of any personal information that you publicly disclose or share with others on HPC. Please carefully select the type of information that you publicly disclose or share with others on HPC.
- HPC shall have all the rights to take necessary action and claim damages that may occur due to your involvement/participation in any way on your own or through group/s of People, intentionally or unintentionally in DoS/DDoS (Distributed Denial of Services).
Contents Posted on Site
All text, graphics, user interfaces, visual interfaces, photographs, trademarks, logos, sounds, music, artwork and computer code (collectively, “Content”), including but not limited to the design, structure, selection, coordination, expression, “look and feel” and arrangement of such Content, contained on the HPC Website is owned, controlled or licensed by or to HPC, and is protected by trade dress, copyright, patent and trademark laws, and various other intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws.
Except as expressly provided in these Terms of Use, no part of the HPC and no Content may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted or distributed in any way (including “mirroring”) to any other computer, server, website or other medium for publication or distribution or for any commercial enterprise, without HPC’s express prior written consent.
You may use information on HPC products and services purposely made available by HPC for downloading from the Site, provided that you (1) not remove any proprietary notice language in all copies of such documents, (2) use such information only for your personal, non-commercial informational purpose and do not copy or post such information on any networked computer or broadcast it in any media, (3) make no modifications to any such information, and (4) not make any additional representations or warranties relating to such documents.
You shall be responsible for any notes, messages, e-mails, billboard postings, photos, drawings, profiles, opinions, ideas, images, videos, audio files or other materials or information posted or transmitted to the Sites (collectively, “Content”). Such Content will become the property of HPC and you grant HPC the worldwide, perpetual and transferable rights in such Content. HPC shall be entitled to, consistent with our Privacy Policy, use the Content or any of its elements for any type of use forever, including but not limited to promotional and advertising purposes and in any media whether now known or hereafter devised, including the creation of derivative works that may include Content you provide. You agree that any Content you post may be used by www.hpcedu.com, consistent with our Privacy Policy and Rules of Conduct on Site as mentioned herein, and you are not entitled to any payment or other compensation for such use.
Other Businesses
HPC does not take responsibility or liability for the actions, products, content and services on HPC website, which are linked to Affiliates and / or third party websites using HPC APIs or otherwise. In addition, HPC may provide links to the third party websites of affiliated companies and certain other businesses for which, HPC assumes no responsibility for examining or evaluating the products and services offered by them, and HPC does not warrant the offerings of, any of these businesses or individuals or the content of such third party website(s). HPC does not in any way endorse any third party website(s) or content thereof.
Links
HPC welcomes links to this site. You may establish a hypertext link to HPC website, provided that the link does not state or imply any sponsorship or endorsement of your site by HPC. You must not use on your site or in any other manner any trademarks, service marks or any other materials appearing on the HPC, including any logos or characters, without the express written consent of HPC and the owner of the mark or materials. You must not frame or otherwise incorporate into another third party website or present in conjunction with or juxtaposed against such a website any of the content or other materials on the HPC website without HPC’s prior written consent.
Privacy
We view protection of Your privacy as a very important principle. We understand clearly that you and Your Personal Information is one of our most important assets. We store and process Your Information on computers that may be protected by physical as well as reasonable technological security measures and procedures in accordance with Information Technology Act 2000 and rules there under. Our current Privacy Policy is available at https://www.hpcedu.com/privacy-policy/. If you object to your Information being transferred or used in this way, please do not use HPC Website.
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Disclaimer of Warranties And Liability
This website, all the materials and products (including but not limited to software) and services, included on or otherwise made available to you through this site are provided on HPC on “as is” and “as available” basis without any representation or warranties, express or implied except otherwise specified in writing. Without prejudice to the forgoing paragraph, HPC does not warrant that:
- This website will be constantly available, or available at all; or
- The information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.
HPC will not be liable to you in any way or in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, HPC website.
HPC does not warrant that this site; information, content, materials, product (including software) or services included on or otherwise made available to you through HPC website; their servers; or electronic communication sent from HPC are free of viruses or other harmful components.
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- lack of authorization for any transaction/s,
- or exceeding the preset limit mutually agreed by you and between your “Bank/s”,
- or any payment issues arising out of the transaction,
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Breach
Without limiting other remedies, HPC may limit your activity, immediately remove your information, warn other Users of your actions, immediately temporarily/indefinitely suspend or terminate or block your membership, and/or refuse to provide you with access to the HPC website in the event, but not limited to:
- If you breach the Terms of Use or Privacy Policy or other rules and policies, if any;
- If HPC is unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide; or
- If it is believed that your actions may cause legal liability for you, other Users or HPC. HPC may at any time at its sole discretion reinstate suspended Users. A User that has been suspended or blocked may not register or attempt to register with HPC or use HPC Website in any manner whatsoever until such time that such User is reinstated by HPC. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if you breach the Terms of Use or Privacy Policy or other ruler and policies, HPC reserves the right to recover any amounts due and owing by you to HPC and to take strict legal action including but not limited to a referral to the appropriate police or other authorities for initiating criminal or other proceedings against you.
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Applicable Law
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Copyright complaint
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