TERMS OF USE

TERMS OF USE

Welcome to “our website” (“http://www.stringin.in/”), which is published by or on behalf of StringIn E-Commerce Private Limited, (“us” or “our company”), a company incorporated and registered under the laws of India and having its registered office at R-105, Vani Vihar, Uttam Nagar, New Delhi – 110059, India.

We hereby grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the website for your personal and non-commercial use, after completing the registration process and in accordance with these Terms of Use.

These “Terms of Use” define how a registered user (“you”) may use our website and your relationship with us. Please read these terms and conditions carefully as they affect your rights and liabilities under the law.

IF YOU CONTINUE TO BROWSE AND USE OUR WEBSITE AND/OR ACCESS ANY SERVICES PROVIDED BY OUR WEBSITE AND/OR REGISTER AND CREATE AN ACCOUNT WITH US, YOU ARE HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGING THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD AND ARE AGREEING TO COMPLY WITH AND BE LEGALLY BOUND BY THE FOLLOWING TERMS OF USE OF OUR WEBSITE. IF YOU DISAGREE WITH WHOLE OR ANY PART OF THESE TERMS OF USE, PLEASE DO NOT REGISTER WITH US AND/OR DISCONTINUE USING OUR WEBSITE AND/OR ACCESSING ANY SERVICES OFFERED WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT.
WHAT WE OFFER

Our company currently offers “the service” as a platform to the registered users (categorized as STUDENTS, PARENTS and MENTORS) to string-in and e-connect for building own pages and/or communities to upload, post and share content in the form of text, pictures or videos (which are not protected under the Copyright Law and are free from plagiarism); share opinions and views on any choice of topic (which falls under the ambit of freedom of speech and expression); and/or create groups to discuss and analyse new ideas or inventions (which are novel and innovative).

Unless explicitly stated otherwise, any new features which may augment or enhance the current service, including the release of new features by our company, shall be subject to these terms of use.

HOW TO USE OUR SERVICE

In order to use the service offered by our website, you must have the necessary instrument and resources to access the Internet, either directly or through devices that access web-based content.

You acknowledge that your agreement with your mobile network provider will apply to your access and use of Internet and our website. You acknowledge and confirm that you may be charged by the Mobile Provider for data services for accessing our website or any such third party charges as may arise and you accept responsibility for such charges. Our company is not responsible for any charges that may be incurred for accessing and using our website, either online or offline.

For using our services, we have categorized the users into Students, Parents and Mentors. Each category of user may have different rights or restrictions to access or use the website or services based on the category as under:

Student:
If you are a student, you may post, upload or share content (text, images or videos) for any subject of your choice academic or non-academic. All the content will remain accesible to the guardians identified by the e-mail id provided at the time of registration. You must not share content that may disclose your identity.

Parent:
If you are a parent, in addition to the posts, uploads and sharing, you are responsible for approving the content posted by your child.

Mentor:
If you are a mentor, you may post, upload or share content (text, images or videos) for any subject of your choice in addition to providing guidance and support. You are solely responsible for the content posted and that we are not liable to any use, if the content posted is inaccurate.

REGISTRATION

To register on our website and create an account with us, you must have attained 21 years of age for registering as Parents or Mentors. Students below the age of 18 years must create an account under guardianship of Parents, we suggest that Students blow the age of 18 should not specify their emails.

You must ensure that the details provided by you on registration at any time are correct and complete. You must inform us immediately of any changes to the information that you provided when registering by updating your personal details so that our company can communicate with you effectively.

PASSWORD AND SECURITY

Once you create an account to register to use the service, you will be asked to create a password, which will be done by you yourself and that we do not generate a copy of the password or store the same with us. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the account access information and password. The protection of passwords, which you generate or create, on registering with our website is your responsibility and not our liability. We strongly recommend that you should not share your password with any other person.

You shall be solely responsible for all usage of the account and password, whether or not authorized by you. You shall immediately notify us of any actual or suspected unauthorized use of the account or password.

We shall not be liable for any losses incurred caused by any unauthorized use of your account. You shall be liable for the losses to us or others, if any, due to such unauthorized use.

If we have reasons to believe that there is a breach of security or misuse of the service, we may communicate you to change your password or we may, at our sole discretion, suspend the user account for a time period till the breach of security is resolved or till further notice.

PROHIBITED MISUSE OF OUR WEBSITE AND/OR SERVICE

You are solely responsible for the content uploaded, posted or shared on our website. You are prohibited to use our website for any of the following purposes (“Prohibited Activities”):

• violating or attempting to violate the integrity or security of the Website or any Content thereof;
• disseminating any illegitimate, harassing, libelous, unmannerly, intimidating, detrimental, vulgar, indecent, obscene or offensive or otherwise offensive material or otherwise breaching any laws;
• transmitting any information on or through our website that is disruptive or competitive to the provision of services provided by us;
• framing or hot linking or deep linking any content of our website;
• interfering with any other person’s use of our website;
• assuming the identity of another person;
• disseminating sensitive personal data or information of any person through our website;
• copying or duplicating in any manner any of our content or other information available on our website;
• infringe our Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) in any manner whatsoever;
• any other activity that may be detrimental to the working or smooth functioning of our website.

In case, we have reasons to believe or even suspicion that you have indulged in any of the prohibited activities, we shall, with immediate effect, suspend or terminate your use of the account created on our website.

We may resort to legal action if we doubt your involvement in prohibited activities. You will be responsible for any losses incurred and/or costs resulting from your use of our website for any of the prohibited activities.

AVAILABILITY OF THE WEBSITE

Our website and the service offered on our website is available on an ‘as is’ and ‘as available’ basis without any promises or representations, express or implied. We do not warrant or make any representation regarding the validity, accuracy, reliability or availability of our website or its content.

In the event, you are experiencing any problem or bug in using our website, you are requested to report it to us so that we may rake suitable action to fix the issue, to the extent possible.

While it is our endeavor to ensure that our website is normally available 24 hours a day, we shall not be held liable if for any reason our website is not available at any time or for any period. Access to our website may be suspended temporarily from time to time and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for installing new services or for any reasons beyond our control or if we deem it necessary.

We shall not be liable for any loss or liability which may be suffered or incurred by you as a result of any suspension of, or interruption to, the operation of our website.

We do not accept any responsibility to you for:

• malfunctions in communications facilities, which cannot reasonably be considered to be under our control and that may affect the accuracy or timeliness of the content you upload, post or share or any other content you may access though our website;
• any losses or delays in transmission of messages or material you access arising out of the use of any Internet access service provider or mobile network service provider or caused by any browser or other software which is not under our control;
• viruses that may infect your instrument or equipment or other property on account of your access to or use of our website or your accessing any features of our website;
• any unauthorised use or interception of any content or information before it reaches our website or our servers; or
• any content provided by third parties.

OUR LIABILITY

While it is our endeavor to ensure that content available on our website is correct and reliable, we do not make any warranties or guarantees in relation to any content and the same is offered on an ‘as is’ and ‘as available’ basis without any promises or representations, express or implied. We shall try to rectify any inaccuracies if we are informed of the same in our content on our website.

Our company is not responsible for any content posted by the users of our website. We do not review or control any information or content which is shared by other users of our website.

We will only be responsible for any losses that you suffer as a result of use of our website to the extent that:

• They are a foreseeable consequence to both of us and
• Our liability for such losses has not been excluded in these Terms of Use.

We affirm that in any event, our liability will not include any business losses such as lost data, lost profits or business interruption.

We make no warranties or representations of any kind as to the accuracy, completeness, reliability, operability, or legality of information or opinions contained or expressed within the Application. Your User Content will remain your property but you grant us a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable right to use it in accordance with the terms mentioned herein.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (IPRs):

‘IPRs’ include, but are not limited to, the rights comprised in any patent, copyright, compilation of data, industrial design, logo, sign, trademark, trade secrets, know-how, or other form of rights generally understood as intellectual property, whether at common law or by statute or convention, rights to apply for registration under a statute in respect of those or like rights.

The IPRs in all software and content made available to you on or through our website remains our property or that of the linked website of that third party, if accessed through it or its licensors and are protected by laws of the land. All such rights are reserved by us and our licensors.

You are not permitted to publish, manipulate, distribute, copy, sell, resell, exploit or otherwise reproduce, in any format, any of the content or copies of the content available to you or which appears on our website, and that you cannot use any such content in connection with any business or commercial enterprise. In case of fraudulent use of our website, we reserve the right to recover the cost of services, charges and attorneys' fees from you. We reserve the right to initiate legal proceedings against you for fraudulent use of our website and any other unlawful acts or acts or omissions in breach of these terms and conditions.

VIOLATION OF IPRs

Our company respects the IPRs of ourselves and others, and we request our users to do the same. If you are of the opinion that any content posted on our website by any user constitutes infringement of IPRs of any other person, kindly forward the following information to our company to help us take action against the same:
• description of the work that you claim has been infringed
• description of where the infringed content is located on our website
• your contact information including name, address, telephone number and email address
• a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use of content is not authorized by the owner, its agent or is in accordance with the prevalent laws
• a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the afore-said information is accurate.
You may send such information to by email to support@stringin.in.

INDEMNITY

You agree to indemnify and hold the company, and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, employees, agents, co-branders or other partners, harmless from any claim or demand, including attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of content that you upload, submit, post to or transmit through our website, your use of our website or the service, your violation of the terms of use, or your violation of any rights of another user or third party.

MODIFICATIONS TO SERVICE

You agree to indemnify and hold the company, and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, employees, agents, co-branders or other partners, harmless from any claim or demand, including attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of content that you upload, submit, post to or transmit through our website, your use of our website or the service, your violation of the terms of use, or your violation of any rights of another user or third party.

TERMINATION

You agree that our company may at any time, on its sole discretion, modify, suspend or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the website or service (or any part thereof) with or without notice. You agree that our company shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the service.

Notwithstanding the fact that our company provides the service as stated in this terms of use, you acknowledge and agree that our company, on its sole discretion, may at any time remove and discard any content on the website, for any reason, including, without limitation, for lack of use or if the company believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the terms of use or of any terms and conditions or rules posted on our website.

You agree that any termination of your access or use of our website or service under any provision of these terms of use may be effected without prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that the company may immediately deactivate or suspend your account and deactivate or delete all your personal information and files contained in your account and/or bar any further access to such files or the service. Further, you agree that our company shall not be liable to you or any third party for any termination of your access to, or removal of your information from, our website.

DEALINGS WITH ADVERTISERS AND/OR MARKETING PARTNER

Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers or marketing partners, available on or accessed through our 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 or marketing partner or the third party. You agree that our company 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 or marketing partners on our website.

LINKS

Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers or marketing partners, available on or accessed through our 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 or marketing partner or the third party. You agree that our company 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 or marketing partners on our website.

ENTIRE AGREEMENT

Our website, or the third parties may provide, links to other websites or resources on our website. Since our company has no control over such websites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that our company is not responsible for availability of such external websites or resources, and that we do not endorse and are not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, services, information, or other materials on or available from such websites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that the company shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by, or in connection with, use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such website or resource.

EFFECT OF WAIVER

This Agreement comprises the entire agreement between you and our Company and supersedes any prior agreements pertaining to the subject matter contained herein.

GOVERNING LAW

The failure of our Company to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement will not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of this Agreement is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of this Agreement remain in full force and effect.

STATUTE OF LIMITATION

This Agreement will be governed by the laws of India without regard to its conflict of law principles to the contrary. The proceedings or prosecution any suit, proceeding or claim to enforce the provisions of this Agreement, to recover damages for breach of or default of this Agreement, or otherwise arising under or by reason of this Agreement can only be done before the Hon’ble courts of Delhi. By using or accessing our website or registering with us, you consent to the jurisdiction and venue of such courts in connection with any action, suit, proceeding or claim arising under or by reason of this Agreement.

WAIVER OF CLASS ACTION RIGHTS

You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of our website or services offered or this Terms of Use must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.

TERMINATION

By entering into this agreement, you hereby irrevocably waive any right you may have to join claims with those of other in the form of a class action or similar procedural device. Any claims arising out of, relating to, or connection with this agreement must be asserted individually.

AMENDMENTS

Your registration may be suspended or cancelled immediately at our sole discretion or in the event of a breach of obligations under these Terms of Use. You may cancel your registration at any time through our website and deactivate your account. The suspension or cancellation of your registration does not affect your or our statutory rights or liabilities.
This Agreement will survive indefinitely unless and until we choose, on our sole discretion and without advance to you, to terminate it.

MISCELLANEOUS

For legal or regulatory reasons, the terms of use may be updated periodically to allow the proper operation of our website or services offered or for appropriate upgradations. The updated Terms of Use may or may not be provided to you on individual basis and that the same may only be updated on our website alone without any intimation to the effect. Should you not agree to the new terms of use, discontinue use of our website. Your use of our website or services offered indicate your agreement to abide by the new Terms of Use post the date of update.

For any queries regarding the usage and transmission of data, please read our Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions on these Terms of Use, please contact us at contact.us@stringin.in or at our office at R-105, Vani Vihar, Uttam Nagar, New Delhi -110059, India.