You not only agree to follow all applicable laws and regulations while using this Site but also agree to act responsibly in a manner demonstrating the exercise of good and fair judgment. You agree not to use the Site to indulge in the following prohibited activities:

1. You shall not host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any information on the Site, that: (i) belongs to another person and to which you do not have any right to; (ii) 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; (iii) harm minors in any way; (iv) infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights; (v) violates any law for the time being in force; (vi) deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of such messages or communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in nature; (vii) impersonate another person; (viii) contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource; (ix) 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.
2. Upload, post, distribute, transmit or otherwise make available any material / content that infringes and/or violates any right of a third party or including but not limited to: (i) copyright, patent, trademark, or other proprietary rights; (ii) right of privacy (specifically, you must not distribute another person’s personal information of any kind without their express permission) or publicity; (iii) any confidentiality obligation
3. Upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available any material / content that is unlawful, illegal, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, contains sexually explicit material / content (including nudity), hateful, exploits images or the likeness of individuals under 18 years of age, characterizes violence as acceptable, glamorous or desirable encourages or otherwise depicts glamorized drug use (including alcohol and cigarettes) or racially, religiously ethnically or otherwise objectionable. This includes texts, graphics, video, programs, etc.
4. Upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available any viruses, trojan horses, time bombs, flood pings, denial of service attacks, packet or IP spoofing, forged routing or electronic mail address information or similar methods or technology or any other harmful programs or elements.
5. Upload, post, transmit, distribute or make available any information concerning any other person or entity, including without limitation, photographs of others, personal contact information or credit, debit, calling card or account numbers.
6. Upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available any material / content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under non-disclosure agreements).
7. Upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail, "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," duplicative messages or any other form of solicitation.
8. Engage in antisocial, disruptive or destructive acts, including "flaming", "spamming", "flooding", "harassing", "stalking", "trolling" and "griefing" as those terms are commonly understood and used on the Internet (i) Harm minors in any way. (ii) Impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a TIL official, forum leader, guide or host, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity. (iii) Use the information available through this Site for any unauthorized / illegal purpose. (iv) Forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any material / content transmitted through the Site. (v) Disrupt, place unreasonable burdens or excessive loads on, interfere with or attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion of the Site, its computer systems, servers or networks. (vi) Collect or store any information about any other user other. (vii) Assist any third party in doing any of the foregoing.

By submitting, uploading, posting or otherwise transmitting / making available through the Site any data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, images, links messages or other materials, etc. you hereby grant /assign a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free right and non-revocable license to TIL, its affiliates, etc., to use, reproduce, adapt, publish , distribute, perform and display and promote such material/ content in any form or manner(in whole or part), and/or to incorporate it in other works in any media or technology now known or later developed throughout the world and for any purpose.

Individual Registration, Access and Exchange of Information for certain services such as content upload, forward, comments, rating etc registration by the visitor is required. To register for these services you have to open an account by completing the registration process (i.e. by providing us with current, complete and accurate information as prompted by the applicable registration form). You also will choose a password and a user name. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account. By registering, you agree to the following terms in addition to any other specific terms which shall be posted at an appropriate location of the Site. Each registration is for a single individual user only. To access these services, you will be asked to enter your individual User Name and Password, as chosen by you during your registration. Therefore, TIL do not permit any of the following :-
• Any other person sharing your account and Password;
• Any part of the Site being cached in proxy servers and accessed by individuals who have not registered with Hotklix as users of the Site; or
• Access through a single account and Password being made available to multiple users on a network.

If TIL reasonably believe that an account and Password is being used / misused in any manner, TIL shall reserve the right to cancel access rights immediately without notice, and block access to all users from that IP address.

Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify TIL immediately of any unauthorised use of your account or any other breach of security. TIL will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or account. However, you could be held liable for losses incurred by TIL or another party due to activities that occur under your account and/or due to someone else using your account or password.

TIL reserves the right to charge subscription and / or membership fees from a user, by giving reasonable prior notice, in respect of any product, service or any other aspect of this site.

You understand and agree that TIL does not transfer your information to unaffiliated third party/ies without your consent. However, TIL reserves the right to transfer your information without your consent to help investigate, prevent or take action regarding unlawful and illegal activities, suspected fraud, potential threat to the safety or security of any person, violations of TIL’s terms of use, to defend against legal claims; to protect or enforce its rights, to protect / enforce the rights of a third party and under special circumstances such as compliance with subpoenas, court orders, requests/order from legal authorities or law enforcement agencies requiring such disclosure. In addition, TIL may also provide your personal information to third-party service providers who helps it to maintain the Site.

TIL may send information and offer products and services to you from time to time. For further details relating to TIL’s policy relating to such offer please refer to TIL’s privacy statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, TIL reserves the right to disclose any information in response to / that it is required to be shared, disclosed or made available to any governmental, administrative, regulatory or judicial authority under any law or regulation applicable to TIL.

Further, TIL can (and you authorise TIL to) disclose your name, street address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number, email, and company name to Intellectual Property right's owners, as TIL in its sole discretion believe necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy, or other unlawful activity.

To improve the responsiveness of the Site for the users, TIL may use "cookies", or similar electronic tools to collect information to assign each visitor a unique, random number as a User Identification (User ID) to understand the user's individual interests using the Identified Computer. A cookie cannot read data off your hard drive. By accessing the Site provided by TIL you agree to the collection and use of your data by TIL i.e. TIL’s web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer's connection to the Internet, including your IP address, when you visit the Site. (Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know where to send you data -- such as the web pages you view.) Your IP address does not identify you personally. TIL uses this information to deliver the web pages to you upon request, to tailor the Site to the interests of its users, to measure traffic within its site and let advertisers know the geographic locations of the users.

Any questions or clarifications with respect to this Privacy Policy can be sent to TIL at:
Attn: Legal Department
Times Internet Limited (Privacy Policy)
"I World" Tower, DLF City Phase V,
Opp DLF Golf Course,
Gurgaon -122 002 (Haryana)

Additionally, you may encounter "cookies" to your browser or other similar devices, of our advertisers, on certain pages of their Site that are placed by third parties. For example, if you view a web page created by a user, there may be a "cookie" placed within that web page. We do not control the use of cookies by third parties.

Certain links on the Site lead to resources located on servers maintained by third parties, these sites of third party(s) may contain TIL’s-logo, please understand that it is independent from TIL, over whom TIL has no control or connection. These Sites are external to TIL. You agree and understand that by visiting such sites you are beyond TIL’s Site. TIL therefore neither endorses nor offers any judgment or warranty and accepts no responsibility or liability for the authenticity, availability, suitability, reliability, accuracy of the information, software, services and related graphics contained, of any of the services/or for any damage, loss or harm, direct or consequential or any violation of local or international laws that may be incurred by your visit on these Site(s), as the same is provided on "AS IS" basis without warranty of any kind. TIL gives no warranty and makes no representation whether expressed or implied, that the information contained in said site is error free. TIL shall not be responsible nor liable for any consequential damages arising on account of your relying on the material / contents of the advertisement. Before relying on the material/ content, users should independently verify its relevance for their purposes, and should obtain any appropriate professional advice.

Part of the Site contains advertising information or promotion material or other material submitted to TIL by third parties. Responsibility for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on a Site complies with applicable International and National law is exclusively on the party providing the information/material. Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers other than TIL found on or through the Website, 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. TIL will not be responsible or liable for any claim, error, omission, inaccuracy in advertising material or any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such non-TIL advertisers on the Website. TIL reserves the right to omit, suspend or change the position of any advertising material submitted for insertion. Acceptance of advertisements on the Site will be subject to these terms and conditions.

All information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, images, video, links, messages or other materials, etc, (“Content”) whether publicly or privately transmitted / posted, is the sole responsibility of the person from where such material / content is originated (the Originator). By Posting any material / content you warrant and represent that (a) you are the copyright owner of such Content or you have valid rights and title in any and all Content or that the copyright owner of such Content has granted you permission to use such Content or the said Content is consistent with the manner and purpose of your use and as otherwise permitted by these Terms of Use; (b) you have the rights necessary to grant the licenses and sublicenses described in these Terms of Use; (c) that, incase of Image(s), each person depicted in such Images, if any, has provided consent to the use of the Images as set forth in these Terms of Use; (d) you have valid rights and title in any and all material/s / content/s that you submit on the Site; and (e) you have not infringed on any IPR belonging to any party.

TIL accepts no responsibility for the Content, accuracy, conformity to applicable laws of such material/content submitted by you/ any user and You will indemnify and hold harmless TIL against or its affiliates or parent company against all third party claims, demands and actions brought against TIL/affiliates/parent company which arises from or relates to the material / content posted/submitted by you.

In addition, you represent and warrant that: (a) you have the full power and authority to enter into and perform under these Terms, (b) you will comply with all applicable laws in using the Site and in engaging in all other activities arising from, relating to or connected with these Terms, including, without limitation, contacting other users of the Site and (c) you own or otherwise have all rights necessary to license the material/ content you submit and that the posting and use of your material / content by TIL will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party, whatsoever.

You represent that you are a responsible adult (18 years or above) and you shall be solely responsible for all Content / Material that you upload, post or otherwise transmit.

TIL reserves its right to refuse service, restrict, suspend, terminate your account; (Terminate this Agreement; Terminate or suspend your access to the TIL’s Web Sites; Refuse, move or remove for any reason any Content / Image that you submit on or through the Services; Refuse, move, or remove any Content / Image that is available on or through the Services; Deactivate or delete your accounts and all related information and files in your account; Establish general practices and limits concerning use of the Services) at any time and, remove, in its sole discretion with or without cause, and with or without any prior notice for any violation of the Terms of Use and remove or delete any materials/ contents entered by you, which in TIL’s own opinion is offensive, abusive, derogatory, harmful, illegal, etc.; and remove or delete any materials/ contents entered by you, upon intimation from any third party that the said material/content is offensive, abusive, derogatory, harmful, illegal, etc Upon such termination or suspension, your right to use the TIL’s Web Sites will immediately cease.

You can also terminate your account at any time but your information may remain stored in archive on TIL’s servers even after the deletion or the termination of your account.

TIL grants you permission to only access and make personal use of the Site. You cannot download or modify/alter/change/amend/vary/transform/revise TIL’s Site, or any portion of it. You may not use any framing techniques to enclose any trademark or logo or other proprietary information of TIL and further may not use any meta tags. TIL forbids you from any attempts to resell or put to commercial use any part of the Site; any derivative use of the Site or its material / contents. No material / content from any this Site may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way. No part of the Site may be reproduced or transmitted to or stored in any other Site, nor may any of its pages or part thereof be disseminated in any electronic or non-electronic form, nor included in any public. or private electronic retrieval system or service without prior written permission of TIL. However, you are permitted to print or download extracts from these pages for your personal, non-commercial use only. Any copies of these pages saved to disk or to any other storage medium may only be used for subsequent viewing purposes or to print extracts for personal use. You may not (whether directly or through the use of any software program) create a database in electronic or structured manual form by regularly or systematically downloading and storing all or any part of the pages from this site. You agree not to download or copy account information of another user for your benefit or any third party benefit; or retrieve any data or other material / content from the Site to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, directory or the like, whether by manual methods, through the use of "bots" or otherwise, etc. Any infringement shall be vigorously defended and pursued to the fullest extent permitted by law.

You will not use any communication tool or other means available on the Site to transmit, directly or indirectly, any unsolicited bulk communications (including emails and instant messages). You may not harvest information about users of TIL for the purpose of sending or to facilitate the sending of unsolicited bulk communications. TIL may suspend your use of the Site immediately, with or without any notice, and take any other legal action if you, or anyone using your access details to the Site, violates these terms. TIL may adopt any technical remedy (including any filtering technology or other measures) to prevent unsolicited bulk communications from entering, utilizing or remaining within TIL’s computer or communication networks.

As a condition of your use of the Site, you will not use the Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use the Site in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair any TIL’s server, or the network(s) connected to any TIL server, or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Site. You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any other accounts, computer systems or to any of the Services, through any means. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available through the Site.

Children are not eligible to use the Site and TIL asks that minors (under the age of 18) do not access the site; and/or do not submit any material/content on this Site. TIL strongly urges parents to monitor children's usage of the Web, including this Site.

This Site is intended for user/s of 18 years or older. You as a responsible adult (18 years or above) shall be solely responsible for all material/ content that you upload post or otherwise transmit. You understand that by using this Site, you may be exposed to objectionable matter.

Your use of the Site is at your own and sole risk. All the contents of this Site are only for general information or use. They do not constitute advice and should not be relied upon in making (or refraining from making) any decision. Any specific advice or replies to queries in any part of the Site is/are the personal opinion of such experts/consultants/persons and are not subscribed to by this Site. The Site is provided on an "AS IS" basis, and all warranties and conditions, expressed or implied of any kind, regarding any matter pertaining to any goods, service or channel, including without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, workmanlike effort, title and non-infringement are disclaimed and excluded.

TIL and its parent, affiliates and associates shall not be liable, at any time for any, direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential, damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of business projects, damage to your computer system or damages for loss of profits, damages for loss of use, data or profits, arising out of or in any way connected with the use or performance of the sites/services, with the delay or inability to use the TIL’s sites/services or related services, the provision of or failure to provide services, or for any information, software, products, services and related graphics obtained through the TIL’s sites/services, or otherwise arising out of the use of the TIL’s sites/services) arising in contract, tort or otherwise from the use of or inability to use the Site, or any of its contents, or from any act or omissions a result of using the Site or any such contents or for any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of information contained on the site.

TIL does not warrant that (a) use of Site will meet your requirements, (b) Site will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, (c) any information that you may obtain on the Site will be accurate or reliable, (d) any information you provide or TIL collects will not be disclosed to third parties [except as states above] or (e) any errors in any data or software will be corrected (f) non-infringement of the material / content posted on the Site including intellectual property rights.

If you access or transmit any material / content through the use of the Site, you do so at your own discretion and your sole risk. You are solely responsible for any loss or damage to you in connection with such actions.

No data, information or advice obtained by you in oral or written form through the Site will create any warranty not expressly stated in these terms.

TIL endeavors to provide a web platform for various community interactions for persons to interact and exchange views with each other. TIL will not be responsible for any damage or harm resulting from your interactions with other users of the Site and it is only you who is entirely responsible for your interactions. TIL shall not assume liability; (a) for any errors or omissions in any material / content, or (b) for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any material / content posted or uploaded on the Site, or (c) for any infringement of another's rights, including intellectual property rights or (d) for any material / content sent using and/or included in TIL’s site by any user.

Under No circumstances will TIL be held responsible or liable, in any way, for any material /content which in Legal opinion / TIL’s opinion and/or other user’s opinion is derogatory, threatening, lewd, lascivious, of prurient interest filthy, excessively violent, defamatory, obscene or offensive or offends public sensibilities or morals and shall also not assume liability for any errors or omissions in any content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any content posted or uploaded on the Site, or any infringement of another's rights, including intellectual property rights. You specifically agree that TIL is not responsible for any content sent using and/or included in this site/service by any third party.

However, TIL reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor interactions between you and other users of the Site and take any other action in good faith to restrict access to or the availability of any material / content that it or another user of the Site may consider to be derogatory, threatening, lewd, lascivious, of prurient interest, filthy, excessively violent, defamatory, obscene, offensive, offends public sensibilities or morals or otherwise objectionable. In addition, TIL may, in its sole and unfettered discretion, remove or delete any material /content that you upload, post, transmit, submit or otherwise make available on the Site that it deems to be inappropriate, i.e., racist, sexist or threatening. Messages using inappropriate language will also be removed. TIL do not wish to be censors, but its forums must remain civilized and respect the rights of others.

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold TIL harmless from any claim, demand, action, damage, loss, cost or expense, including without limitation, reasonable attorneys fees, incurred in connection with any suit or proceeding brought against TIL arising out of your use of the Site or alleging facts or circumstances that could constitute a breach of any provision of these Terms by you. If you are obligated to indemnify TIL, TIL will have the right, in its sole and unfettered discretion, to control any action or proceeding and determine whether TIL wishes to settle it, and if so, on what terms.

By using TIL’s sites and services, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Statement. If you do not agree or are not comfortable with any policy described in this Privacy statement, your only remedy is to discontinue use of TIL sites. We reserve the right, to modify this Privacy Statement at any time.

Survival: Rights and obligations under the Terms which by their nature should survive will remain in full effect after termination or expiration of the Terms.

Governing Law: The Agreement shall be governed by the Laws of India without reference to conflict of law principles. The Courts of law at Delhi/New Delhi shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes arising under this agreement.

Relationship: None of the provisions of the Terms of Use shall be deemed to constitute a partnership or agency between you and TIL and you shall have no authority to bind TIL in any manner, whatsoever.

Limited time to bring your claim: You and TIL agree that any cause of action arising out of or related to the TIL’s web sites, only, must commence within one (1) year after the cause of action accrues otherwise, such cause of action will be permanently barred.

Entire Agreement: These Terms contain the entire understanding of the parties regarding their subject matter, and supersede all prior and contemporaneous agreements and understandings between the parties regarding their subject matter.

Waiver: Any express waiver or failure to exercise promptly any right under the Terms will not create a continuing waiver or any expectation of non-enforcement.

Severability: The invalidity or unenforceability of any of these Terms shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other of these Terms, all of which shall remain in full force and effect.

Force Majeure : TIL will not be liable for any failure or delay in performing under these terms of use where such failure or delay is due to causes beyond TIL’s reasonable control, including natural catastrophes, governmental acts or omissions, laws or regulations, terrorism, labor strikes or difficulties, communications systems breakdowns, hardware or software failures.

Discontinuance of Site: TIL reserves the right at any time to modify/alter, suspend / cancel, or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, any or all channels, products or service or any portion of the Site with or without prior notice. You agree that TIL will not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification or discontinuance of the Site.

TIL is not liable for any infringement of copyright arising out of materials posted on or transmitted through the site, or items advertised on the site, by end users or any other third parties. TIL’s policy is to comply with all Intellectual Property Laws and to act expeditiously upon receiving any notice of claimed infringement.

In the event you have any grievance in relation to any Content uploaded on the Site, you may contact our Grievance Officer at copyright.infringement@indiatimes.com ; or write at the following address:

Legal Head
Times Internet Limited
4th Floor, ‘I’ World Tower,
DLF City Phase V, Opposite DLF Golf Course
Gurgaon, Haryana 122002
India
Ph: 0124-4187000