Terms & Conditions
We are pleased to welcome you with us at www.searchfoundation.in (“searchfoundation.in”, “search foundation”, “Website”,” App”, or “we”). This Website/App is owned and operated by Style Just Matters.
Partnership, which has its registered office in Bangalore, India. The following are the Terms and Conditions, read along with the Privacy Policy, that governs your purchase and use of the products and services (the “Products”) from searchfoundation.in, and constitute a legally binding agreement between you (“the Customer”, the “User”) and searchfoundation.in. As per the terms of the Information Technology Act of 2000, this document is an electronic record. Being generated by a computing system, it does not require any physical or digital signatures. By visiting, viewing, accessing, or otherwise using any of the services or information created, collected, compiled, or submitted to www. searchfoundation.in or the app, you’re deemed to have agreed to all the following Terms and Conditions of Sale/Service. So, before you employ this Website/App, please read these Terms carefully as you agree to be bound by them. If you don’t intend to accept these Terms and Conditions, please don’t use this App/Website.
- CREATING AN ACCOUNT:
1.1 To use certain features of the Website/App (e.g., ordering Products, posting ratings/reviews, receiving e-newsletters), you need to set up an account with www.searchfoundation.in and put certain data about yourself as prompted by the Customer Information form, including, your name, gender, email address, an account password, mobile number and billing/shipping address, Date of Birth. All of your registration information is protected by our Privacy Policy.
1.2 You represent and warrant that the data you submit during registration is all truthful and accurate and that you will maintain the accuracy of any such information.
1.3 Your Account username and password are personal to you. You’ll not transfer your account, and you will be responsible for every activity associated with your Account.
1.4 searchfoundation.in won’t be liable for any loss or damages due to your failure to maintain the confidentiality of your account credentials. If you are doubtful about the unauthorized use of your account, you shall immediately notify searchfoundation.in.
1.5 It’s your responsibility to keep your email address up-to-date on your account setup at searchfoundation.in/app to make it easier for us to communicate with you electronically in a time of need.
1.6 By creating this account, you allow us to communicate with you on electronic media and send you information via email, telephone, SMS, and chat. If you, at any time, wish to discontinue receiving communications from us, you can contact us by email.
ELIGIBILITY
searchfoundation.in only provides its service to select geographies in India. Persons who are “incompetent to contract” within the meaning of the Indian Contract Act, 1872, including un-discharged insolvents, etc., aren’t eligible to use the Site. If you’re a minor, that means if you are under the age of 18 years, but at least 13 years of age, you’re eligible to use the Site, but only under the supervision of a parent, guardian, or trustee who agrees to be bound by these Terms of Use. If your age is below 18 years, any transaction can only happen if your legal guardians are registered users, and they transact on your behalf of you. If you’re a minor, you’re prohibited from purchasing any material which is for adult consumption.
COMMUNICATIONS:
By using this Website/App, you are automatically giving us consent to receive calls, auto-dialled and/or pre-recorded messages or calls, from us at any time via the telephone number that you have provided for the use of this Website/App. This includes contacting you through information received through other parties as well as contacting other parties through the information you provide to us. By using this Website/App you also consent to receive SMSs from us at any time we deem fit. This consent to be contacted is for purposes that include and aren’t limited to clarification calls and marketing and promotional calls. If you wish to stop this communication with us, you need to email us at info@searchfoundation.in.
You may also be contacted by service providers with whom we have entered into a contract in furtherance of our rights, duties, and obligations under other agreements, contracts, and policies followed by us. Such contact is going to be made only in pursuance of the respective contracts, agreements, and/or policies.
The sharing of the knowledge you provide will be governed by the Privacy Policy. We’ll not
give out your contact information to third parties not connected with the Website/App and the services offered by it and/or for any purpose not in furtherance of the activities and aims of the corporate. Please check the ‘Privacy Policy for more information.
THIRD-PARTY INFORMATION:
The website/app’s content, which incorporates all text, graphics, user interfaces, visual interfaces, photographs, trademarks, logos, sounds, music, design documents, and artwork, is searchfoundation.in / App content (hereinafter mentioned as ‘Content’). The Website/App may contain links to/ content of third-party websites that aren’t associated with us. We’ve no control over any third-party user-generated content as we are merely an intermediary for the purposes of that content. Within this event, if any of the Third Party Content infringes any person’s property, the third Party shall be solely liable for any loss caused, and we shall not be liable. You’ll send an email to info@searchfoundation.in to report any such content.
Other than that, when expressly allowed, any use of our Content and it being reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted or distributed in any way (including “mirroring”) to the other computer, server, website or another medium for publication or distribution or for any commercial enterprise, without our express prior written consent isn’t allowed.
USER CONTENT:
The content you simply upload or post will become our property and you grant us the worldwide, perpetual, and transferable rights in such Content. We shall be entitled to, according to our Privacy Policy as adopted in accordance with applicable law, use the Content or any of its elements for any use forever. It is not limited to promotional and advertising purposes and in any media, whether now known or hereafter devised, including the creation of derivative works which will include any content you provide and are not entitled to any payment or other compensation for such use. You furthermore grant us the right to sub-license these rights and, therefore, the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights. We reserve the rights and can anytime edit or remove any material submitted to this Website/App, stored on our servers, or hosted or published on this Website/App.
Those posting any sort of User content on the Website/App must verify the truthfulness and authenticity of the particulars of the content, including the time, place, and nature. Before allowing such content to be posted on the Website/App, we have the right and authority to verify the accuracy of such particulars related to the content with the respective sources provided by the user posting such content, if we feel that there’s a need to check such accuracy. We have the right to upload content on behalf of third parties, after collecting such information and verifying it if we deem it necessary. Notwithstanding this, we will in no way be held liable for any false or misleading information.
In case any content is considered to be unlawful or against the law within any jurisdiction in which our Website/App can be seen and accessed, it shall be removed forthwith by us on being intimidated by the authorities of the respective jurisdiction that such content is deemed unlawful. We can’t be held liable or questioned for the same.
USER OBLIGATIONS
You are a restricted user of this Website/App.
8.1. You are not allowed to cut, copy, distribute, modify, recreate, reverse engineer, distribute, disseminate, post, publish, or create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information or software obtained from the Website/App. With our prior permission, limited use can be allowed. To clarify any further doubt, it is clearly being mentioned that unlimited or wholesale reproduction, copying of the content for commercial or non-commercial purposes, and unwarranted modification of knowledge and information within the content of the Website/App is not permitted. You shall not nor allow third parties on your behalf to (i) make and distribute copies of the Website/App, (ii) try and copy, reproduce, alter, modify, reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, transfer, exchange or translate the Website/App; or (iii) create derivative works of the Website/App of any kind whatsoever.
8.2. You agree to not access (or attempt to access) the App and/or the materials or Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by the Website/App. The utilization of deep-link, robot, spider, or another automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy, or monitor any portion of the App or Content or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Website/App, materials or any Content, to get or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or information through any means not specifically made available through the Website/App. You acknowledge and agree that by accessing or using the Website/App or Services, you’ll be exposed to content from other users that you may consider offensive, indecent or otherwise objectionable. We disclaim all liabilities arising in reference to such offensive content on the Website/App. Further, you need to report such offensive content by sending us an e-mail to our official e-mail address.
8.3. This Website/App may allow you to upload information; it is important that you undertake that such material is in accordance with applicable laws. Further, you undertake not to:
(a) Abuse, harass, threaten, defame, disillusion, erode, abrogate, demean, or otherwise violate the legal rights of others;
(b) Engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts access to the Website/App or the Services (or the servers and networks which are connected to the Website/App);
(c) Impersonate a person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with an individual or entity;)
(d) Publish, post, disseminate, any information which is grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating or encouraging concealment or gambling, or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatsoever; or unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing including but not limited to “indecent representation of women” within the meaning of the Indecent Representation of girls (Prohibition) Act, 1986;
(e) Post any file that infringes other legal entities’ copyright, patent, or trademark.
(f) Upload or distribute files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of the Website/App or another’s computer;
(g) Download any file posted by another user of a Service that you know, or reasonably should know, can’t be legally distributed in such manner;
(h) Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Website/App or any network connected to the Website/App, nor breach the safety or authentication measures on the Website/App or any network connected to the Website/App. You’ll not reverse look-up, trace, or seek to trace any information on the other user, of or visitor to, the Website/App, or the other customer of the Website/App, including any account not owned by you, to its source, or exploit the Website/App or Service or information made available or offered by or through the Website/App, in any way whether or not the aim is to reveal any information, including but not limited to non-public identification information, aside from your own information, as provided for by the Website/App;
(i) Disrupt or interfere with the safety of, or otherwise cause harm to, the Website/App, systems resources, accounts, passwords, servers or networks connected to or accessible through the Website/App or any affiliated or linked sites;
(j) Collect or store data about other users in reference to the prohibited conduct and activities set forth in this Section.
(k) Use the Website/App or any material or Content for any purpose that’s unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Service or to solicit the performance of any criminality or other activity which infringes the rights of this Website/App or other third parties;
(l) Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines, which can be applicable for or to any particular Service;
(m) Violate any applicable laws or regulations for the nonce in force within or outside India; n) Violate the Terms of Service including but not limited to any applicable Additional Terms of the Website/App contained herein or elsewhere;
(o) Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines, which can be applicable for or to any particular Service;
(p) Threaten the unity, integrity, defense, security, or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign states, or public order or causes incitement to the commission of any cognizable offense or prevents investigation of any offense or is insulting the other nation.
(q) Publish, post, disseminate information that’s false, inaccurate, or misleading; violate any applicable laws or regulations for the nonce in force in or outside India;
(r) Directly or indirectly, offer, try and offer, trade or try and trade in any item, the dealing of which is prohibited or restricted in any manner under the provisions of any applicable law, rule, regulation, or guideline for the nonce in force.
(s) Create liability for us or cause us to lose (in whole or in part) the services of our internet service provider (“ISPs”) or other suppliers;
While we shall not be held liable or answerable to Users for any such acts on your part, violation of this clause would cause potential criminal legal action against you, either by other Users of the Website/App or by us.
We can (and You hereby expressly authorize Us to) disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials, as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate in reference to the investigation and/or resolution of possible crimes, especially people who may involve personal injury. You understand that we reserve the right at all times to disclose any information (including the identity of the persons providing information or materials on the Website/App) as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation, or valid governmental request. This might include, without limitation, disclosure of the knowledge in connection with an investigation of alleged illegal activity or solicitation of illegal activity or in response to a lawful court order or subpoena.
We have no obligation whatsoever to watch the material posted on the Website/App. We shall have the proper to remove or edit any content that in its sole discretion violates, or is imagined to violate, any applicable law or either the spirit or letter of those Terms of Service. Notwithstanding this right, YOU REMAIN SOLELY liable for THE CONTENT OF THE MATERIALS YOU POST ON THE WEBSITE/APP. In no event we could assume or have any responsibility or liability for any Content posted or for any claims, damages, or losses resulting from the use of Content and/or appearance of Content on the App. You hereby represent and warrant that you simply have all necessary rights in and to all Content which you provide and all information it contains and that such Content shall not infringe any proprietary or other rights of third parties or contain any libelous, tortuous, or otherwise unlawful information.