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7. Prohibited Content
The Media includes comments sections, blogs and other interactive features that allow interaction among Users and between Users and the Company. We call the information posted by or contributed by users “Contributed Content”. In the course of availing of the Services or uploading any post or comment on the Media, you shall not post any Contributed Content that is in contravention of Clause 12.1 below (collectively “Prohibited Content”).
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8. Limitations of content published on the Website
1. All content published on the Media (including any information we publish regarding third party products) is only for your general information and entertainment purposes and is not intended to address your particular requirements. In particular, content created by the Company, its syndication partners and including Contributed Content and any other content provided by third parties and distributed by the Media, does not constitute any form of advice, recommendation, representation, endorsement or arrangement by the Company. It is not intended to be and should not be relied upon by users in making (or refraining from making) any specific investment, purchase, sale or other decisions. Appropriate independent advice should be obtained before making any such decision, such as from a qualified financial adviser.
2. Any agreements, transactions or other arrangements made between you and any third party named on (or linked to from) the Media shall be at your own responsibility and entered into at your own risk. Any information that you receive through or from the Media, whether or not it is classified as “real time”, may have stopped being current by the time it reaches you. Share price information may be rounded up/down and therefore may not be entirely accurate.
9. Third Party Content
1. The Company may partner with third party content providers to offer bundled services, under which the payment for the bundled services will be collected by the Company. The Company will endeavor to provide seamless access to all such third parties with a single point access. There could be a gap in this seamless access due to a technology breakdown, temporary disconnection of the internet connection or any factors beyond the reasonable control of the Company.
2. You are requested to read through the terms and conditions offered by content partners to the Media. Most partners offer bundled services for new Users. Existing subscribers of partners are not eligible for bundled subscription. Should you happen to be one please note that the partner will be liable to reject your offer to subscribe under the bundled subscription not leading to contract formation as a result.
3. We have no liability for any privacy breach at end of third party service provider.
1. The Company is constantly endeavoring to improve the quality of Services provided to you. Due to this, the form and nature of Services provided may change from time to time without any prior notice to you. The Company reserves the right to introduce and initiate new features, functionalities, components to the Website and/or Services and/or change, alter, modify, suspend, discontinue or remove the existing ones without any prior notice to you. Further, the Company is entitled to discontinue (either permanently or temporarily) one or more of the Services provided or terminate any or all of the Media without any prior notice to you. The Company may also prescribe certain limits on the use of the Media and/or Services or storage of Content at its sole discretion without any prior notice to you while at all times complying with its Privacy Policy.
2. The Media, all the materials and Services, included on or otherwise made available to you through this website or any other Media is provided by the Company “as is” and “as available” basis without any representation or warranties, express or implied except otherwise specified in writing. Without prejudice to the forgoing, the Company does not warrant that:
1. This website and/or any other Media and/or Services will be constantly available;
2. The information on this website or any other Media or provided through the Services is complete, true, accurate or not misleading; or
3. The quality of any products, services, information, or other material that you obtain through the website, any other Media or Services will meet your expectations.
3. The Company, to the fullest extent permitted by law, disclaims all warranties, whether express or implied, including the warranty of merchantability, fitness for particular purpose and non-infringement. The Company makes no warranties about the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or timeliness of the Media, Content, Contributed Content, Services, software, text, graphics and links.
4. The Company does not warrant that this website and/or any other Media, information, content, materials, or Services included on or otherwise made available to you through this Website, their servers, or electronic communication sent from by Company are free of viruses or other harmful components.
5. Nothing on this website or any of the Media constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind.
The information presented on this website or any other Media has been compiled by the Company from various sources including from external sources. No representation is made or warranty is given as to the completeness or accuracy of such information. This website or any other Media may contain typographical errors, incomplete or out of date information. The Company reserves the right to make changes to the Content, Contributed Content and information on this website, or other Media or to the services described therein, or update such information at any time without notice, but the Company makes no commitment to correct or update this information.
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1. You shall be solely responsible for the information shared by You and activities undertaken by you on the Media and undertake to not host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any information that:
1. belongs to another person and to which you do not have any right to;
2. is grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, pedophilic, seditious, libelous, 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;
3. harms minors in any way;
4. infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights of any person anywhere in the world;
5. violates any law for the time being in force;
6. deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of the message or knowingly and intentionally communicates any information which is patently false or misleading in nature but may reasonably be perceived as a fact;
7. impersonates another person;
8. contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource;
9. 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 to any other nation;
10. creates liability for the Company;
11. is in the nature of political campaigning, unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional and/ or commercial solicitation, chain letters, pyramid schemes, mass mailings and/or any form of ‘spam’ or solicitation;
12. is patently false and untrue, and is written or published in any form, with the intent to mislead or harass a person, entity or agency for financial gain or to cause any injury to any person; or
13. is illegal in any other way.
2. You understand and agree that the Company reserves the right to remove and/or edit such detail / information.
You shall indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its subsidiaries, affiliates and their respective officers, directors, agents and employees, customers/clients, information providers, licensors or licensees, if any, from and against all liability including any claim, demand, or actions including reasonable attorney’s fees, made by any third party or penalty imposed due to or arising out of your breach of these Terms of Use or any document incorporated by reference, or your violation of any applicable laws, rules, regulations or the rights of any third party. You shall cooperate as fully as reasonably required in the defence of any such claim. The Company reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you.
These Terms of Use will remain in full force and effect while you continue the use of any of the Media and/or avail of the Services at any level. The Company retains the right to deny access to the Media and/or the Services to anyone who it believes has violated any of these Terms or does not accept these Terms, and retains the right to terminate the subscription of such person. You may terminate these Terms of Use by cancelling your subscription. We have no liability to refund for discontinuation of business for any reason.
1. We will not be liable for any failure and/or delay on our part in performing any obligation under the Terms of Use and/or for any loss, damage, costs, charges and expenses incurred and/or suffered by you if such failure and/or delay shall be result of or arising out of a Force Majeure Event, as defined hereunder.
“Force Majeure Event” means any event that occurs due to any cause beyond the reasonable control of the Company, including, but without limitation, unavailability of any communication system, sabotage, fire, flood, earthquake, explosion, acts of God, civil commotion, strikes, lockout, and/or industrial action of any kind, breakdown of transportation facilities, riots, insurrection, hostilities (whether war be declared or not), acts of government including change in law, governmental orders or restrictions breakdown and/or hacking of the website or any of the Media, such that it is impossible to perform the obligations under the Terms of Use, or any other cause or circumstances beyond the control of the Company hereto which prevents timely fulfilment of obligations of the Company.
In good faith, if you have reason to believe that any work copyrighted by you has been reproduced, embedded, or linked without any authorization on this website or any of the Media, in a manner that constitutes an infringement of your copyright under Indian law, please compile the following information and email to info@thefinancestory.com :
1. A clear identification of the copyrighted work allegedly infringed;
2. A clear identification of the allegedly infringing material on the website or any of the Media (with specific URL reference);
3. Your contact details: name, address, e-mail address and phone number;
4. A statement that you believe, in good faith, that the use of the copyrighted material allegedly infringed on the website or any other Media is not authorized by your agent or the law;
5. A statement that the information provided in the notice is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the signatory is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive copyright right that is allegedly infringed; and
6. Your signature or a signature of your authorized agent.
1. Except as otherwise expressly stated herein, all rights, title and interest in the website or any of the Media, its contents and the online services therein, are owned by the Company. No part of this website or any of the Media may be reproduced, distributed, republished, retransmitted, disseminated, displayed, adapted, altered, hyperlinked or otherwise used in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of the Company.
2. The domain name on which this website is hosted on is the sole property of the Company and you may not use or otherwise adopt a similar name for your own use.
3. All proprietary content, trademarks, service marks, brand names, logos and other intellectual property displayed in this website or any other Media are the property of the Company and where applicable, third party proprietors identified in any website. No right or license is granted directly or indirectly to any party accessing any website or any other Media to use or reproduce any such proprietary content, trademarks, service marks, brand names, logos and other intellectual property, and no party accessing the website or any other Media shall claim that any right, title or interest therein are of any other website or platform. In addition, you agree that you will not use any of the following but not limited to, robot, spider, software, programme, algorithm or any other automatic device or manual process to monitor or copy our web pages or the content contained herein, without the prior written consent of the Company (such consent is deemed given for standard search engine technology employed by Internet search websites to direct Internet users to any website).
This website, any other Media, including the Content and Contributed Content and information contained herein, and the provision of Services shall be governed by the laws of the Republic of India and the courts of Bengaluru, India shall retain exclusive jurisdiction to entertain any proceedings in relation to any disputes arising out of the same. As such, the laws of India shall govern any transaction completed using this website or any other Media.
1. Information submitted or collected on the Website or pursuant to the use of the Services is stored in a database. Specifically, we store the username, name, e-mail address, contact number, as submitted or collected on our website or any of the Media or through the provision of the Services. We may use such information to send out occasional promotional materials, including alerts on new Services available, or other promotional and marketing material relating to our clients and customers.
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