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Terms & Conditions

Terms of Use

The mentioned document is an e-record in terms of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and rules there under as applicable and the amended provisions pertaining to e-records in various statutes as amended by the Information Technology Act, 2000. This e-record is computer generated and does not require any digital or physical signatures.

 

This document is in accordance with the provisions of Rule 3 (1) of the Information Technology (Intermediaries guidelines) Rules, 2011, which requires publishing the rules and regulations, privacy policy and Terms of Use for browsing or usage of Moral Publishers.

 

The domain moralpublishers.com is owned by Moral Publishers, incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956, with its registered office at 10, Kavignar Bharathidasan Rd, Alwarpet, Chennai - 600018, Tamil Nadu, India.  

 

Your use of Moral Publishers and its services and tools are governed by the following terms and conditions (“Terms of Use”) as applicable to Moral Publishers, including the applicable policies, which are incorporated herein by way of reference. If “You” transact on Moral Publishers, “You” shall be subject to the policies that are applicable to Moral Publishers for such transaction. By just browsing Moral Publishers, you shall be contracting with Moral Publishers and these terms and conditions, including the policies that constitute “Your” binding obligations, with Moral Publishers.

 

For the purpose of these Terms and conditions, wherever the context so requires, “You” or “User” shall mean any natural or legal person who has agreed to become a buyer on moralpublishers.com by providing registration data while registering on Moral Publishers as a registered user using the computer systems, laptops, mobile gadgets etc.

1. THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SHALL GOVERN YOUR USE OF OUR WEBSITE.

  • By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.

  • If you register with our website, submit any material to or use any of our website services, we will ask you to expressly agree to these terms and conditions.

  • Our website uses cookies; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our privacy and cookies policy.

  • Use of moralpublishers.com is available only to those individuals who can form legally binding contracts under the Indian Contract Act of 1872. An individual who are “incompetent to contract” within the meaning of the Indian Contract Act of 1872, including minors, un-discharged insolvents etc., are not eligible to use Moral Publishers. If you are a minor, i.e., under the age of 18 years, you shall not register and shall not transact on or use Moral Publishers. If you are a minor and wish to use or transact on Moral Publishers, such use or transaction may be made by your legal guardian or parents on Moral Publishers. Moral Publishers reserves the right to terminate your membership and / or decline to provide access to Moral Publishers if it is brought to Moral Publishers' notice or if it is discovered that you are a minor.

2. LICENSE TO USE THE WEBSITE

2.1.You may:

  • view pages from our website in a web browser;

  • download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;

  • print pages from our website;

  • use or buy by means of a web browser,

subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.

2.2. Except as expressly permitted by the provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.

2.3. You may only use our website for [your own personal and business purposes], and you must not use our website for any other purposes.

2.4.Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.

2.5.Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

  • republish material from our website (including republication on another website);

  • sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;

  • exploit material from our website for commercial purposes;

2.6. 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. ACCEPTABLE USE

3.1. You shall not add, display, upload, modify, publish, sell, update or share any information which:

  • belongs to someone else and to which You do not have any right to

  • is unacceptably harmful, harassing, defamatory, blasphemous, obscene, libellous, pornographic, pedophilic, 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; or unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing including but not limited to “indecent representation of women” within the meaning of the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986;

  • is misleading/deceptive/confusing in any way;

  • is patently offensive to the online community, such as sexually explicit content or content that promotes vulgarity, racism, paedophilia, bigotry, hatred or physical or mental harm of any kind against any group or individual;

  • comprises the transmission of “junk mail”, “chain letters”, or unsolicited mass mailing or “spamming”;

  • violates/infringes any third party’s rights [including, but not limited to, intellectual property rights, rights of privacy (including without limitation unauthorised disclosure of a person’s name, email address, physical address or phone number) or rights of publicity];

  • Promotes an illegal or unauthorised copy of another person’s copyrighted work

  • contains video, photographs, or images of another person (with a minor or an adult).

  • tries to gain unauthorised access/exceeds the scope of authorised access to the Moral Publishers or to profiles, blogs, communities, account information, bulletins, friend request, or other areas of the Moral Publishers or solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users;

  • engages in any gambling activity which We, in Our sole discretion, believes is or could be construed as being illegal;

  • interferes with another USER’s use and access of the Moral Publishers or any other individual’s User and access to similar services;

  • violates any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights or third party’s trade secrets or rights of publicity or privacy or shall not be deceitful or involve the sale of counterfeit/bogus or stolen products;

  • violates any law for the time being in force;

  • contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource; or contains any worms, time bombs, Trojan horses, cancelbots, Easter eggs or other computer programming routines that may harm, detrimentally interfere with, diminish the value of, surreptitiously/covertly intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information;

  • 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 any other nation.

You must not:

  • use Moral Publishers or any content for any purpose that is against the law or forbidden by these Terms of Use or to solicit the performance of any illegal activity or other activity which infringes the rights of Moral Publishers.

  • use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website;

  • conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including, without limitation, scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;

  • access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;

  • violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website

  • use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including, without limitation, email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing).

3.2. You must not use data collected from our website to contact individuals, companies, or entities.

3.3. You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website or in relation to our website is [true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.

3.4. You shall at all times ensure complete compliance with the applicable provisions of the IT Act, 2000 and rules there under as applicable and as amended from time to time and also all applicable Domestic laws, rules and regulations (including the provisions of any applicable Exchange Control Laws or Regulations in Force) and International Laws, Foreign Exchange Laws, Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations (including, but not limited to Sales Tax/VAT, Income Tax, Octroi, Service Tax, Central Excise, Custom Duty, Local Levies) regarding Your use of Our service and Your listing, purchase, solicitation of offers to purchase, and sale of products or services. You shall not engage in any transaction in an item or service which is prohibited by the provisions of any applicable law, including exchange control laws or regulations for the time being in force.

3.5.  Solely to authorise Moral Publishers to use the information you supply so that we are not violating any rights, you might have in your Information, you agree to grant Moral Publishers a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise the copyright, publicity, database rights or any other rights you have in your Information, in any media now known or not currently known, with respect to your information. We will only use your details according to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy applicable to the use of Moral Publishers.

4.  REGISTRATION AND ACCOUNTS

4.1. You may register for an account with our website by completing and submitting the account registration form on our website.

4.2 You must not allow any other person to use your account to access the website.

4.3. You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your account.

4.4 You must not use any other person’s account to access the website unless you have that person’s express permission to do so.

5. USER LOGIN DETAILS

5.1.If you register for an account with our website, [we will provide you with] OR [you will be asked to choose] [a user ID and password].

5.2. Your user ID must not be liable to mislead; you must not use your account or user ID for or in connection with the impersonation of any person.

5.3.You must keep your password confidential.

5.4. You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any disclosure of your password.

5.5. You are responsible for any activity on our website arising out of any failure to keep your password confidential. You may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.

6. CANCELLATION AND SUSPENSION OF ACCOUNT

6.1. We may:

  • suspend your account;

  • cancel your account; and/or

  • edit your account details,

 at any time at our sole discretion without notice or explanation.

7.  YOUR CONTENT: LICENSE

7.1. In these terms and conditions, “your content" means all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our website.

7.2. You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media OR reproduce, store and publish your content on and in relation to this website and any successor website OR reproduce, store and, with your specific consent, publish your content on and in relation to this website.

7.3. You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

7.4. You may edit your content to the extent permitted using the editing functionality made available on our website.

7.5. Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of 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 delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.

8. YOUR CONTENT: RULES

8.1. You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.

8.2. Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).

8.3. Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not:

  • be libellous or maliciously false;

  • be obscene or indecent;

  • infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off, or other intellectual property rights;

  • infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;

  • constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;

  • constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity];

  • be in contempt of any court or in breach of any court order;

  • be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;

  • be blasphemous;

  • be in breach of official secrets legislation;

  • be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;

  • depict violence in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner;

  • be pornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit;

  • be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;

  • consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;

  • constitute spam;

  • be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or

  • cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.

9.  LIMITED WARRANTIES

 

9.1. We do not warrant or represent:

  • the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;

  • that the material on the website is up to date; or

  • that the website or any service on the website will remain available.

  • any liable for any damages of any kind occurring from the use of this site.

In no event shall Moral Publishers be liable for any special, incidental, indirect or consequential damages of any kind in connection with these terms of use, even if a user has been informed in advance of the possibility of such damages.

 

9.2. We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, 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.

9.3. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the use of our website.

10. BREACHES OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS

10.1. 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:

  • send you one or more formal warnings;

  • temporarily suspend your access to our website;

  • permanently prohibit you from accessing our website;

  • block computers using your IP address from accessing our website;

  • contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our website;

  • commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or

  • suspend or delete your account on our website.

10.2. 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 (including, without limitation creating and/or using a different account).

11. VARIATION

11.1. We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.

11.2.The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our website from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions. OR We will give you written notice of any revision of these terms and conditions, and the revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of our website from the date that we give you such notice; if you do not agree to the revised terms and conditions, you must stop using our website.

11.3. If you have given your express agreement to these terms and conditions, we will ask for your express agreement to any revision of these terms and conditions; and if you do not give your express agreement to the revised terms and conditions within such period as we may specify, we will disable or delete your account on the website, and you must stop using the website.

12. ASSIGNMENT

12.1. You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

12.2. You may not, without our prior written consent, assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

13. SEVERABILITY

13.1. If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.

13.2. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

14. THIRD-PARTY RIGHTS

14.1.A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.

14.2. The exercise of the party’s rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.

15. ENTIRE AGREEMENT

15.1.The terms and conditions, together with our privacy and cookies policy, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website.

16. LAW AND JURISDICTION

16.1. These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Indian Law.

16.2. Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive OR non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of India.

17. STATUTORY AND REGULATORY DISCLOSURES

17.1. We are registered in the trade register; you can find the online version of the register at Moral Publishers

17.2.We are subject to an authorisation scheme, which is supervised by a supervisory authority.

18. CHARGES

Membership and browsing on Moral Publishers are free for buyers and visitors. Moral Publishers does not charge any membership fee for browsing and buying on the Moral Publishers. Moral Publishers reserves the right to change its Fee Policy at any time without giving any prior notice to this effect. In particular, Moral Publishers has the sole discretion to introduce new services, offers, promotions and modify some or all of the existing services offered by Moral Publishers. In such an event Moral Publishers reserves the right to charge fees for the new services offered or amend/introduce fees for existing services, as the case may be. Amendments to the Fee Policy shall be published on Moral Publishers and such changes shall automatically become effective instantly after they are published on Moral Publishers. Unless otherwise stated, all fees/charges shall be quoted in Indian Rupees. You shall be solely responsible for compliance with all applicable laws including those in India for making payments to Moral Publishers.

 

19. REVIEWS AND COMMENTS

 

Except as otherwise provided somewhere else in this Agreement or on Moral Publishers, whatever you submit or provide, including without limitation, techniques, ideas, know-how, reviews, questions, comments, and suggestions is and will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary, and Moral Publishers shall have the royalty-free, copy, distribute, display, publish, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and transferable right to use, perform, sell, lease, transmit, adapt, create derivative works from such submissions by any means and in any form, and to translate, modify, reverse-engineer, disassemble, or decompile such Submissions. All Submissions shall automatically become the sole and exclusive property of Moral Publishers and shall not be returned to you. In addition to the rights applicable to any Submission, when you post comments or reviews on Moral Publishers, you also grant Moral Publishers the right to use the name that you submit with any review, comment, or other Content, if any, in connection with such review, comment, or other content. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the reviews, comments and other Content that you post on Moral Publishers and that use of your reviews, comments, or other Content by Moral Publishers will not infringe upon or violate the rights of any third party.

 

20. TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS

In the event an item is listed at an incorrect price or with incorrect information/description due to typographical error or error in pricing or product information received from our suppliers/Publishers, moralpublishers.com shall have the right to refuse or cancel any orders placed for product listed at the incorrect price. Moral Publishers shall have the right to refuse or cancel any such orders whether or not the order has been confirmed and your credit card/ Debit Card/ Net Banking charged. If your credit card has already been charged for the purchase and your order is cancelled, Moral Publishers shall immediately issue a credit to your credit card/Debit Card/ Net Banking account in the amount of the charge.

 

21. TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS

This site may contain links to other sites on the Internet that are owned and operated by third parties. You acknowledge that Moral Publishers is not responsible for the operation of or content located on or through any such site.

 

22. OUR DETAILS.

22.1. You can contact us:

Reach us at moralpublishers@gmail.com using our website contact form.

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