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Terms of Use

This document is an electronic record in terms of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (as published in The Gazette of India) and rules made there under as applicable and the amended provisions pertaining to electronic records in various statutes as amended by the Information Technology Act, 2000. This electronic record is generated by a computer system and does not require any physical or digital signatures.

If you continue to browse and use this website, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use and copyright policy.

The use of this website is subject to the following terms and conditions of use:

  • The content of the pages of this website is for your general information and use only. It is subject to change without notice.

  • We do not provide legal, professional, or any other advice and you should always seek independent advice before acting on any information on the website.

  • Your use of any information or materials on this website is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable. It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any services or information available through this website meet your specific requirements.

  • We take all care in ensuring that all information we provide on the website is accurate, but we are not responsible for any loss suffered by you as a consequence of any action that you take or omit to take on the basis of any of the information we provide.

  • We are not liable for any loss suffered by you through the use of the website howsoever caused, including loss caused through but not limited to our negligence, breach of contract, copyright infringement, breach of other intellectual property rights, or defamation.

  • We do not endorse nor are liable for content published on the website by users/guest authors of the website. If any such content appears to be inappropriate to us, we reserve the right to take down such content.

  • You shall not publish or cause to be published any unlawful, defamatory, obscene, offensive, harmful, or otherwise objectionable content on the website.

  • You are not permitted to use any computer program tools, including, but not limited to, web spiders, bots, indexers, robots, crawlers, harvesters, or any other automatic device, program or algorithm, or any similar equivalent process to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Website or content, or in any way reproduce or to deliberately circumvent the navigational structure or alter the presentation of the Website or any content, to obtain or attempt to obtain materials, documents or information through any means not purposely made available through the Website.

  • You are not allowed to commercially exploit this Website without The Information Review’s express permission for the same. All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved by The Information Review.

  • You are prohibited from using this Website or its content: (a) for unlawful purposes; (b) to solicit others to perform or participate in any unlawful acts; (c) to violate any applicable laws or regulations whether national/state/international; (d) to infringe upon or violate any party’s intellectual property rights; (e) to harass, abuse, insult, harm, defame, slander, disparage, intimidate, or discriminate any person based on gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, race, age, national origin, or disability; (f) to submit false or misleading information; (g) to upload or transmit malicious programs/viruses or any other type of similar code that may be used to affect the functionality or operation of the Website/clandestinely track individual persons or organizations; (h) for any obscene or immoral purpose; or (i) to interfere with or circumvent the security features of any Website or the internet.

  • The publisher of this website, The Information Review, reserves the right to report any of the above actions in the event of any user violating conditions on any of the prohibited uses.

  • We shall not sell, market, trade, or transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. We may release your information when the release is required to comply with the law, enforce our policies, or protect our or others’ rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

  • This website contains material that is owned by us. This material includes, but is not limited to, the text, design, layout, look, appearance and graphics. Reproduction is prohibited other than in accordance with the copyright notice, which forms part of these terms and conditions.

  • Although at The Information Review, we will take all precautions to publish materials that are error-free to the best of our knowledge and capabilities, in consideration of the above The Information Review shall not be held liable for any glitch or technical errors. In furtherance, The Information Review does not warrant that the Website www.theinformationreview.com shall function at all times due to the possible presence of technical glitches/maintenance issues from time to time.

  • You must refrain from using the website in any way that causes damage to the website or in any unlawful, harmful or fraudulent manner. Any such use of this website may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence.

  • You must respect the use of the website by other users and not interfere with their legitimate use of the website and our services.

  • You hereby agree not to post material including spamming which is deliberately intended to upset other users.

  • From time to time this website may also include links to other websites. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information. They do not signify that we endorse the website(s). These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies and, therefore, we owe no responsibility for the content of the linked website(s).

COPYRIGHT  POLICY

The Publisher of this website (theinformationreview.com), The Information Review shall retain and shall hold the Intellectual Property Rights of the original contents published on the Site. It is expressly stated here that the use of any content, the Intellectual Property Rights of which are vested in a third party shall be treated/exempted as Fair Use/ Fair Dealing in accordance with the provisions of the Copy Right Act, 1957, India.

Submission of Content 

  • We do not claim ownership of any Content that you submit, but to be able to legally provide the site to our visitors, we have to have certain rights to use such Content in connection with the site, as set forth below.

  • By providing any content to our website in any form you agree to give us a ‘non-exclusive’ right and license over the content. Since the copyright and license are ‘non-exclusive’, you are free to publish your content on other media/platforms too.

  • By providing any Content to our website: you agree to grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive right and license (including any moral rights or other necessary rights) to use, display, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, distribute, perform, promote, archive, translate, and to create derivative works and compilations, in whole or in part. Such license will apply with respect to any form, media, or technology known or later developed.

  • You warrant and represent that you have all legal, moral, and other rights that may be necessary to grant us the license set forth in this Section.

  • You acknowledge and agree that we shall have the right (but not obligation), in our sole discretion, to refuse to publish or to remove or block access to any content you provide at any time and for any reason, with or without notice.

  • No compensation will be paid with respect to the Content that you submit to the site unless otherwise agreed upon.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIABILITY

  • The Information Review does not represent that this Website or any feature of this Website will be error-free or uninterrupted, that any defects will be corrected, or that your use of this Website will provide specific results. This Website and its content are provided on an “as is” basis without representations or warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or accuracy.

  • The Information Review assumes no responsibility and shall not be liable for any damages caused by viruses or other forms of destructive malware/code that may affect your computer equipment, software, data, or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing this Website or your downloading of any materials, text, images, video or audio from this Website. The Information Review shall not be responsible if information made available on this Website is not true, accurate, complete, or current. The material on this Website is provided for general information only and should not be relied upon or used as the sole basis for making decisions without consulting primary, more accurate, complete, or timely sources of information. Nothing herein constitutes or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind, and any understanding to the contrary shall be at your own risk.

  • In no event The Information Review, its parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, service providers, licensors, or the officers, directors, employees, shareholders, interns, suppliers, or agents of each of them, shall be liable for any injury, loss, claim, damages of any kind, including without limitation any direct, special, incidental, indirect, exemplary, punitive or consequential damages, including lost profits, lost revenue, savings, loss of data, replacement costs, or any similar damages, whether or not advised of the possibility of such damages and on the theory of liability whatsoever, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of, or your browsing this Website or being directed to other websites through third party links on this Website.

INDEMNITY

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless The Information Review and its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, officers, directors, agents, contractors, licensors, service providers, artists,  subcontractors, suppliers, interns, and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your breach of these Terms of Use or terms they incorporate by reference or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party while using the Website.

SEVERABILITY

In the event any provision of these Terms of Use is determined to be unlawful, void, prohibited, or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, such provisions shall be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions of these Terms of Use or affecting the validity or enforceability of such provisions in the same or any other jurisdiction.

TERMINATION

At its sole discretion, The Information Review may modify or discontinue this Website or may modify or terminate your access to this Website, for any reason, with or without notice to you and without liability to you or any third party.

Last Updated: November 20, 2022.

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