1. Introduction
1.1 These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our site www.skc.world.com.
1.2 By using our site, you accept these terms and conditions in full.
1.3 If you [register with our site, submit any material or information to our website or use any of our site services], we will ask you to expressly agree to these terms and conditions.
1.4 Our website uses cookies; by using our site or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our [privacy policy].
2. Copyright and trademark notice
This website is designed, developed and maintained by SKC.World. All content and functionality on the Site, including text, graphics, logos, icons, images, and videos and the selection and arrangement thereof, in addition to any concepts, know-how, software, applications or other technology, processes, and industry perspectives underlying or embedded in the foregoing, along with any enhancements to or derivative works thereof (the “Site Content”) is the exclusive property of SKC.World and is protected by copyright laws. Neither the Site Content nor functionality of the Site, may be copied, reproduced, modified, altered (including the removal or disabling of any security or technological safeguards, disclaimers, or legends) uploaded, published, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way without our written permission, except for those uses specified in Section 4 – Use of site content. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.
The trademarks, service marks, designs, and logos (collectively, the “Trademarks”) displayed on the Site are the registered and unregistered Trademarks of SKC.World. You agree that, except as expressly permitted by us (e.g., through social media sharing tools provided on the Site), where applicable, you will not refer to or attribute any information to SKC.World in any public medium (e.g., press release, websites, or public social media) for advertising or promotion purposes, or for the purpose of informing or influencing any third party and that you will not use or reproduce any Trademark of, or imply any endorsement by or relationship with, SKC.World.
3. Use and manner of use of website
3.1 Users include individuals of legal age and firms or companies who can form legally binding contracts, have the authority to enter into this Agreement and who register on the Site or use the site in order to use the Services offered therein. To become a User(s) there is a proper procedure which is for the convenience of User(s) so that they can easily log-in and log-out (registered member) or use the site (non-registered member).
Upon accessing the Site, You will be prompted to choose whether you wish to create account with us as registered member or access the site for availing the online services provided by the Company. Upon clicking on the tab you will be able to:
a) Register by filling an on-line registration form on the Site and by giving desired information (name, contact information, details of its business, category of business etc.) and create an account (“Account”) upon registration and assign a user alias (“User ID”) and password (“Password”) for log-in access to your Account; or
b) Avail the online services without creating an account by giving basic information to keep the user data with us for the Company’s reference.
3.2 You may use this Site as follows:
a) To create your Account and access the various features and Services available on the Site;
b) To communicate with other users/experts/professional advisors by sending queries, posting comments and asking questions pertaining to the Company’s services;
c) To view pages from our website in a web browser, download e-catalogues for our services, details of current sessions and events, stream audio and video files from our website, access financial and other public information available on site subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.
3.3 Except as expressly permitted by Section 3.2 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.
3.3 You may only use our website for your own personal and business purposes.
3.4 Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.
3.5 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:
(a) Republish material from our website (including republication on another website);
(b) Sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;
(c) Show any material from our website in public;
(d) Exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or
(e) Redistribute material from our website.
3.6 We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion; you must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on our website.
3.7 Not use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;
4. User login details and cancellation/suspension of account
4.1 If you register for an account with our website, we will provide you with a user ID and password. Your first access to your account will be for change in password only
4.2 You must keep your password confidential.
4.3 You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any disclosure of your password.
4.4 You are responsible for any activity on our website arising out of any failure to keep your password confidential, and may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.
4.5 We may suspend your account or cancel your account, if any forged/untrue information posted by the user or nonpayment of annual fee or at the request of the member.
5. User postings
You acknowledge and agree that SKC.World owns and has the unrestricted right to use, publish, in electronic form and otherwise, distribute and exploit any and all information that you post, submit, share or otherwise publish on the Site (“Submissions”). You hereby waive any and all claims against SKC.World for any alleged or actual infringements of any rights of privacy or publicity, moral rights, rights of attribution or any other intellectual property rights in connection with SKC.World’s use and publication of such Submissions. This means that anything posted, submitted, shared or otherwise published by you to the Site shall be owned by SKC.World and may be used by SKC.World for any purpose, now or in the future, without any payment to, or further authorization by, you. In the event SKC.World’s ownership of such Submissions is successfully contested, you automatically grant SKC.World a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub licensable, transferable, unrestricted, worldwide and irrevocable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, translate, prepare derivative works based upon, distribute, perform or display such Submissions, in whole or in part, in any form, media or technology known or hereafter developed for any purpose, including, but not limited to, advertising and promotional purposes. In addition, you hereby waive all claims against SKC.World for any actual or alleged violation of any privacy or publicity rights, moral rights or rights of attribution or infringement of intellectual property rights in any way arising from or relating to the Submissions. SKC.World does not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any Submissions displayed, uploaded, posted on any message board, or otherwise distributed through the Site by any user of the Site, information provider or any other third party. SKC.World expressly disclaims any and all liability related to Submissions, and you acknowledge and agree that any reliance upon such Submissions shall be at your sole option, liability and risk. You covenant that you shall not post, submit, share or otherwise publish on the Site any materials or information that:
(i) are threatening, libelous, defamatory, or obscene.
(ii) would constitute, or that encourage conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate law.
(iii) infringe the intellectual property, privacy, or other rights of any third parties; (iv) contain a computer virus or other destructive element.
(v) contain advertising; or
(vi) constitute or contain false or misleading/untrue/false statements or information; or
(vii) be in contempt of any court, or in breach of any court order. SKC.World in its sole discretion reserves the right to refuse to post and the right to remove any information or Submission from the Site, in whole or in part, for any reason.
6. Limited warranties
6.1 We do not warrant or represent:
(a) the completeness or accuracy or links or other items of the information published on our website.
(b) that the material on the website is up to date. or
(c) that the website or any service on the website will remain available.
6.2 We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services or terms and conditions, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.
7. Breaches of these terms and conditions
7.1 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:
(a) send you one or more formal warnings.
(b) temporarily suspend your access to our website.
(c) permanently prohibit you from accessing our website.
(d) block computers using your IP address from accessing our website].
(e) [contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our website].
(f) commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise. And/or
(g) suspend or delete your account on our website.
7.2 Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a part of our website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking [creating and/or using a different account].
7.3 You hereby indemnify, defend, and hold harmless SKC.World and all of its predecessors, successors, parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, shareholders, investors, employees, agents, representatives and attorneys and their respective heirs, successors and assigns (collectively, the “Indemnified Parties”) from and against any and all liability and costs, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees, incurred by any or all the Indemnified Parties in connection with any claim arising out of or relating to: (i) your access to or use of the Site, or (ii) any breach by you of these Terms and Conditions or the representations, warranties, and covenants you have made by agreeing to these Terms and Conditions. You shall cooperate as fully as reasonably required in the defense of any such claim. SKC.World reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you.
8 Notices of infringement
SKC.World prohibits the posting of any information that infringes or violates the copyright rights and/or other intellectual property rights (including rights of privacy and publicity) of any person or entity. If you believe that your intellectual property right (or such a right that you are responsible for enforcing) is infringed by any content on the Site, please write to Grievance officer of SKC.World [Details given below], giving a written statement that contains:
(a) identification of the copyrighted work and/or intellectual property right claimed to have been infringed.
(b) identification of the allegedly infringing material on the Site that is requested to be removed.
(c) your name, address, and daytime telephone number, and an e-mail address if available.
(d) a statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the copyrighted work and/or exercise of the intellectual property right is not authorized by the owner, its agent, or the law.
(e) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that the signatory is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the right that is allegedly infringed; and
(f) the signature of the intellectual property right owner or someone authorized on the owner’s behalf to assert infringement of the right. SKC.World will remove any posted submission that infringes the copyright or other intellectual property right of any person.
9. Privacy
SKC.World understands that your privacy is important to you and SKC.World is committed to respecting your privacy and to protecting your personally-identifiable information (which is also referred to in some contexts and under some applicable laws as your personal data). SKC.World’s Privacy Policy describes how SKC.World uses and protects your personally-identifiable information, as well as how and with whom SKC.World may share that information. You are encouraged to read the privacy policy carefully.
10. Payment terms
10.1 Payment(s) may only be made with a Credit Card, Debit card or Net Banking for availing online paid services of SKC.World.
10.2 It is the sole responsibility of the User of the site to ensure that the information entered in the relevant fields are correct. It is recommended that you take and retain a copy of the transaction for record keeping purposes, which might assist in resolution of any disputes that may arise out or usage of the service;
10.3 We use secure payment gateway however the user agrees, understands and confirms that his/ her personal data including without limitation details relating to debit card/ credit card/net banking transmitted over the Internet may be susceptible to misuse, hacking, theft and/ or fraud and that SKC.World have no control over such matters and neither SKC.World gives any assurance, that the information so provided online by a user is secured or may be read or intercepted by a third party. SKC.World does not accept or assume any liability in the event of such unauthorized interception, hacking or other unauthorized access to information provided by a user of the service or any deducted payment from the account of user in case of non-receipt of the payment in SKC.World’s account.
11. Disclaimers
The content and functionality on the site is provided with the understanding that SKC.World is not herein engaged in rendering professional advice or services to you, no site content is intended to serve as or shall be deemed investment, legal, tax, accounting or other regulated advice, and that you shall remain solely responsible for your use of all site content and acknowledge that any reliance upon the site content shall be entirely at your sole option and risk. all content and functionality on the site is provided “as is,” without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, without limitation, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. SKC.World and its third-party content providers make no warranties, express or implied, as to the ownership, accuracy, or adequacy of the site content. SKC.World shall have no liability or responsibility for any information published on linked websites, contained in any user submissions published on the site, or provided by third parties. Neither SKC.World nor its third-party content providers shall be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages or losses or for lost revenues or profits, whether or not advised of the possibility of such damages or losses and regardless of the theory of liability.
12. Governing Law
Use of this site shall be governed by of India and the courts of New Delhi shall have exclusive jurisdiction on any disputes arising out of use of this site.
13. Grievance Officer
The name and contact details of the Grievance Officer is as follows:
Name: Mr Anurag Sharma
Email Id: anurag.sharma@skc.world