In your use of the Platforms, you may enter into correspondence with, purchase goods and/or services from, or participate in promotions of advertisers or members or sponsors of the Platforms or access any other third-party website linked to the Platforms. Unless otherwise stated, any such correspondence, advertisement, purchase or promotion, including the delivery of and the payment for goods and/or services, and any other term, condition, warranty or representation associated with such correspondence, purchase or promotion, is solely between you and the applicable third party. You agree that we have no liability, obligation or responsibility for any such correspondence, purchase or promotion, access or usage of any third-party website and the contract under such instances remains between you and any such third party.
9. TRADEMARKS
All the trade names associated with us and all Products and logos denoted with TM are trademarks or registered trademarks of us or our affiliates. Our trademarks may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not our product or service.
10. LICENSE AND USE OF YOUR CONTENT
- You grant to us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to adopt, publish, reproduce, disseminate, transmit, distribute, copy, use, create derivative works from, display worldwide, or act on any material posted by you on the Platforms without additional approval or consideration in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, for the full term of any rights that may exist in such content, and you waive any claim over all feedback, comments, ideas or suggestions or any other content provided through or on the Platforms. You agree to perform all further acts necessary to perfect any of the above rights granted by you to us, including the execution of deeds and documents, at its request.
- You agree that we do not routinely monitor your postings on the Platforms but reserve the right to do so. However, if we become aware of inappropriate use of the Platforms or any of its Services, we will respond in any way that, in its sole discretion, we deem appropriate. You acknowledge that we will have the right to report to law enforcement authorities of any actions that may be considered illegal, as well as any information it receives of such illegal conduct. When requested, we will co-operate fully with law enforcement agencies in any investigation of alleged illegal activity on the internet.
- Submissions and unauthorised use of any materials contained on the Platforms may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, certain communications statutes and regulations and other applicable laws and regulations. You alone are responsible for your actions or the actions of any person using your username and/or password. As such, you shall indemnify and hold us and our officers, directors, employees, affiliates, agents, licensors, and business partners harmless from and against any and all loss, costs, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred in relation to, arising from, or for the purpose of avoiding, any claim or demand from a third party that your use of the Platforms or the use of the Platforms by any person using your user name and/or password (including without limitation your participation in the posting areas or your Submissions) violates any applicable law or regulation, or the rights of any third party.
- We reserve the right to terminate access to the Platforms at any time and without notice. Further this limited license terminates automatically, without notice to you, if you breach any of these Terms of Use. Upon termination, you must immediately destroy any downloaded and printed materials. Any provision of the Terms of Use which imposes an obligation or creates a right that by its nature will be valid after termination or expiration of the Terms of Use shall survive the termination or expiration of the Terms of Use.
11. USER WARRANTIES AND RESTRICTIONS
11.1 You represent and warrant that: (a) your use of the Platforms and/or Services will not violate any applicable law or regulation; (b) all information that is submitted to us in connection with the Platforms and/or Services is true, accurate and lawful; (c) use of the content and material you supply does not breach any applicable Agreement and will not cause injury to any person or entity (including that the content or material is not defamatory). If at any time, the information provided by you is found to be false or inaccurate, we will have the right to reject registration, cancel all orders, and restrict you from using the Services and other affiliated services in the future without any prior intimation whatsoever. You agree to indemnify us and our affiliates for all claims brought by a third party against it or its affiliates arising out of or in connection with a breach of any of these warranties.
11.2 You will use the Platforms for lawful purposes only and will not undertake any activity that is harmful to the Platforms or its content or otherwise not envisaged through the Platforms. You have a limited license to access and use the Platforms solely for the purpose of availing the Services, subject to these Terms of Use.
11.3 You will not do any of the following:
11.3.1 Delete or modify any content on the Platforms, including but not limited to any information regarding the Services, their performance, sales or pricing, legal notices, disclaimers or proprietary notices such as copyright or trademark symbols, logos, that you do not own or have express permission to modify.
11.3.2 Decompile, reverse engineer, or disassemble the content on the Platforms.
11.3.3 Use the Services in any way that is unlawful, or harms What The Elf or any other person or entity, as determined in What The Elf’s sole discretion.
11.3.4 Use any engine, software, tool, agent or other mechanism (such as spiders, robots, avatars, worms, time bombs, Easter eggs, cancel bots, intelligent agents, etc.) to navigate or search the Platforms.
11.3.5 Make false or malicious statements against the Services, the Platforms or us.
11.3.6 Post, copy, submit, upload, distribute, or otherwise transmit or make available any software or other computer files that contain a virus or other harmful component, or otherwise disrupt or damage the Platforms and/or Services or any connected network, or otherwise interfere with any person or entity’s use or enjoyment of the Platforms and/or the Services.
11.3.7 Introduce any trojans, viruses, any other malicious software, any bots or scrape the Platforms for any information.
11.3.8 Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any system, security or authentication measures implemented by us or otherwise tamper or attempt to tamper with our technological design and architecture.
11.3.9 Hack into or introduce malicious software of any kind onto the Platforms.
11.3.10 Gain unauthorized access to, or interfere with, or damage, or disrupt the server on which the details connected to the Services are stored, or any other server, computer, or database connected to the Services.
11.3.11 Engage in any form of antisocial, disruptive, or destructive acts, including “flaming,” “spamming,” “flooding,” “trolling,” “phishing” and “griefing” as those terms are commonly understood and used on the internet.
11.4 You are prohibited from hosting, displaying, uploading, modifying, publishing, transmitting, storing, updating or sharing on or through the Platforms, any information that:
11.4.1 belongs to another person and to which you do not have any right.
11.4.2 is libellous, abusive, threatening, offensive, harmful, harassing on the basis of gender, racially or ethnically objectionable, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, invasive of another’s privacy including bodily privacy, insulting, hateful, relating to or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or an online game that causes user harm, or promoting enmity between different groups on the grounds of religion or caste with the intend to incite violence or otherwise violates any law or right of any third-party in any manner whatsoever.
11.4.3 harms minors in any way.
11.4.4 infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights.
11.4.5 violates any law for the time being in force.
11.4.6 deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of the message or knowingly and intentionally communicates any misinformation or information which is patently false and untrue or misleading in nature or, in respect of any business of the Central Government, is identified as fake or false or misleading by such fact check unit of the Central Government as the Ministry may, by notification published in the Official Gazette, specify.
11.4.7 impersonates or defames another person.
11.4.8 contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource.
11.4.9 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 cognisable offence, or prevents investigation of any offence, or is insulting other nation.
11.4.10 is in the nature of an online game that is not verified as a permissible online game.
11.4.11 is in the nature of advertisement or surrogate advertisement or promotion of an online game that is not a permissible online game, or of any online gaming intermediary offering such an online game, or any illegal loan, or betting.
12. INDEMNIFICATION AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless us, our affiliates, officers, directors, employees, consultants, licensors, agents, and representatives from and against any and all third- party claims, losses, liabilities, damages, and/or costs (including reasonable attorney fees and costs) arising from your access to or use of the Platforms or the Services, violation of these Terms of Use, or infringement of any of our or any third-party intellectual property or other rights. We will notify you promptly of any such claim, loss, liability, or demand, and in addition to the foregoing, you agree to provide us with reasonable assistance, at your expense, in defending any such claim, loss, liability, damage, or cost.
12.1 To the fullest extent permitted by law, in no event shall What The Elf or any of its directors, officers, employees, agents or content or service providers (collectively, the “What The Elf Representatives”) be liable to you for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, exemplary, special, remote or punitive damage, including, but not limited to damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses arising from, or directly or indirectly related to, the use of, or the inability to use, the Platforms or the content, materials and functions related thereto, the Services, provision of information via the Platforms, lost business, even if such What The Elf Representatives have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
12.2 In no event shall What The Elf Representatives be liable for:
12.2.1 the use or inability to use the Platforms and/or the Services.
12.2.2 any content posted, transmitted, exchanged or received by or on behalf of any user or other person on or through the Platforms.
12.2.3 Any other matter relating to the Platforms or the Services.
12.3 What The Elf is neither liable nor responsible for any actions or inactions of the other users of the Platforms or any breach of conditions, representations or warranties by them. What The Elf is not obligated to mediate or resolve any dispute or disagreement amongst two or more users of the Platforms.
12.4 None of the directors, officials or employees of What The Elf shall be personally liable for any action in connection with the Platforms or the Services thereto.
13. ACCESS OUTSIDE THE REPUBLIC OF INDIA
What The Elf makes no representation that the content on the Platforms is appropriate to be used or accessed outside the Republic of India. Your use of or access to the Platforms from outside the Republic of India is at your own risk and you are responsible for compliance with the laws of such jurisdiction.
14. APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION:
These Terms of Use are governed by and to be interpreted in accordance with laws of India, without regard to the choice or conflicts of law provisions of any jurisdiction. You agree, in the event of any dispute arising in relation to these Terms of Use or any dispute arising in relation to the Platforms, whether in contract or tort or otherwise, to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts located at Hyderabad, India for the resolution of all such disputes.
15. GRIEVANCE OFFICER:
In accordance with the applicable law, any grievances which you may have with respect to the information shared by you with us hereunder and its treatment or any grievance related to Services being availed hereunder, may be directed by you to such grievance officer or at the below mentioned coordinate:
Name: Swarna G
Email ID: legal@whathelf.in
16. FORCE MAJEURE
We will not be held responsible for any delay or failure to comply with its obligations if the delay or failure arises from any cause which is beyond our reasonable control.
17. WAIVER
No provision in these Terms of Use will be deemed waived and no breach excused, unless such waiver or consent is in writing and signed by us. Any consent by us to, or waiver of your breach, whether expressed or implied, will not constitute consent to, waiver of, or excuse for any other different or subsequent breach.
18. SEVERABILITY
If any provision of these Terms of Use is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable under applicable law, then such provision will be excluded from these Terms of Use and the remainder of these Terms of Use will be interpreted as if such provision were so excluded and will be enforceable in accordance with its terms; provided however that, in such event, these Terms of Use will be interpreted so as to give effect, to the greatest extent consistent with and permitted by applicable law, to the meaning and intention of the excluded provision as determined by such court of competent jurisdiction.
19. AMENDMENT
These Terms of Use are subject to amendments and modifications and may be updated from time to time, without any advance notice. You are requested to regularly review the Terms of Use as available on the Platforms. Your relationship with the Platforms will be governed by the most current version of these Terms of Use, as published on the Platforms.
20. MISCELLANEOUS
20.1
In addition to these Terms of Use, you will also ensure that you are in compliance with the terms and conditions of the third parties, such as bank offers terms and conditions, brand promotional offers, whose links, if any, are contained/embedded in the Services. You agree that we will not be liable for any transaction between itself and any such third parties.
20.2
These Terms of Use supersede all previous oral and written terms and conditions (if any) communicated to you by us, for the use of the Platforms, and the rights and liabilities with respect to any Services to be provided by us shall be limited to the scope of these Terms of Use.