Nivarthanam News

User Agreement

WHEREAS www.nivarthanamnews.com is a website owned and maintained by Nivarthanam Publications , a company registered office at VI/ 422, Malik Building, Kizhakke Road, Venjaramoodu, Thiruvananthapuram Kerala,

AND WHEREAS the website www.nivarthanamnews.com (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Nivarthanam Website’) is open for access on the internet to the general public;

AND WHEREAS it is necessary to specify and declare the terms and conditions by which the members of the general public may use or access the Nivarthanam Website;

NOW IT IS HEREBY PUBLICALLY DECLARED AND MADE KNOWN to all users, viewers and readers of the Nivarthanam Website that they shall access or use the Nivarthanam website, its content and all services offered through it, subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter stated. All users, viewers and readers of the Nivarthanam Website are deemed to have duly read and understood the same at the time of use or access of the website and are deemed to have agreed to access, use or view the Nivarthanam Website, strictly in accordance with the ‘terms and conditions of use’ hereinafter contained.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Unless otherwise stated, copyright and all intellectual property rights in all material presented on
the site (including but not limited to text, audio, video or graphical images), trademarks and logos
appearing on the Nivarthanam Website are the property of Nivarthanam Publications
Limited, its affiliates and associates and are protected under applicable n and other laws.
No person is permitted to copy, broadcast, download, store (in any medium), transmit, show or
play in public, adapt or change in any way the contents of the Nivarthanam Website and pages for
any other purpose whatsoever without the prior written permission of the Nivarthanam Publications
Limited.
Users, viewers and readers of the Nivarthanam Website agree not to use any framing techniques to
enclose any trademark or logo or other proprietary information belonging to Nivarthanam
Publications Limited or to its affiliates and associates; or remove, conceal or
obliterate any copyright or other proprietary notice or any credit-line or date-line or other mark
or source identifier included on the Nivarthanam Website, including without limitation, the size,
colour, location or style of all proprietary marks. Nivarthanam Publications shall
initiate strict legal action both civil and criminal in case of any violation of copyright, trademark
infringement or unauthorised use of intellectual property.
Unauthorised use of any material or content in the Nivarthanam Website shall be deemed to be a
serious copyright infringement and appropriate legal proceedings both civil and criminal shall be
initiated against all persons who violate the copyright and trademark rights of Nivarthanam
Publications Ltd.

Permissions and Restrictions

Nivarthanam Publications grants the users of the Nivarthanam Website
permission to access or use the website for personal use alone.
Users of the Nivarthanam Website should not directly or indirectly download or print any
content of the Nivarthanam Website or any portion thereof for copying, publishing,
distributing or otherwise disseminating such content or portions thereof.
Users of the Nivarthanam Website are not permitted to resell or put to commercial use any
part of the Nivarthanam Website or content therein.
No part of the Nivarthanam Website may be reproduced, transmitted or stored in any other
web site, nor may any of its pages or part thereof be disseminated in any electronic or non-electronic form, nor included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without prior written permission from Nivarthanam Publications .
No user shall make any derivative use of the Nivarthanam Website or its contents nor use any
data gathering or extraction tools to collect content from the Nivarthanam Website.
No user of the Nivarthanam Website shall mask, obliterate, delete or fail to display any
promotional taglines, captions, logos, emblems or symbols included in the Nivarthanam
Website either directly or indirectly, except with the express consent of Nivarthanam
Publications Limited.
Users are prohibited from using the contents of the Nivarthanam Website in any manner that
may create an impression that the contents of the Nivarthanam Website are owned, created
or managed by an entity other than Nivarthanam Publications .
Users of the Nivarthanam Website are prohibited from (whether directly or through the use of
any software program) from regularly or systematically downloading and storing all or any
part of the pages from the Nivarthanam Website to create an electronic database or
structured manual.
No user shall use the services provided at the Nivarthanam Website in any manner that could
damage, disable, overburden, or impair any server of the Nivarthanam Website or network
connected to such servers, or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of any
such services

Personal Information of Users, User Details, Individual Registration, and Data Disclosure

All registered users are bound to immediately inform Nivarthanam Publications
Limited of any unauthorized use of the account of a user or any other breach of privacy or
security. Nivarthanam Publications will not be liable for any loss that any
user may suffer consequent to any unauthorised use of any account or password. However,
a user may be held liable for losses incurred by Nivarthanam Publications
or any other legal entity due to such unauthorised use.
Nivarthanam Publications reserves the right to remove, delete, ban or
block any registered user who is found to be misusing or abusing the services provided at
the Nivarthanam Website without notice. In case of such misuse or abuse, Nivarthanam
Publications Limited may also block all users from the IP address of the
offending user.
Nivarthanam Publications shall make every effort to keep all personal
details collected from registered users at the time of registration strictly confidential. The
information so gathered from registered users or the nature and details of their transactions
at the Nivarthanam Website shall not be disclosed or shared with any person without due
direction, order or command from any competent court of law having jurisdiction or any
other statutory authority.
Nivarthanam Publications reserves its right to refuse service, restrict,
suspend or terminate the account of any registered user. Nivarthanam Publications
may at its sole discretion deactivate or delete the account of a user and
remove all related information and files connected to that account.
Any user may terminate his or her account at any time but Nivarthanam Publications may retain even after deletion of the account of a user, indefinitely any
information submitted by the user at the time of creation of the account or submitted
during the course of maintaining such account. However such information retained shall not
be disclosed or shared with any person without due direction, order or command from any
competent court of law having jurisdiction or other statutory authorities.

Charges, Subscriptions, Fees and Rates

Although many of the services currently provided at the Nivarthanam Website are free,
Nivarthanam Publications reserves the right after giving reasonable
notice, to charge fees or subscriptions for all or any of the products, services or any other
aspects that are currently provided at the Nivarthanam Website or that may be provided in
future.

Content, Images, Information or Material Posted at the Nivarthanam Website

Nivarthanam Publications may permit its users to post material on its
website subject to certain conditions. All such content including information, data, text,
software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages or other materials whether
publicly or privately transmitted / posted, is the sole responsibility of the person from whom
such content is originated. Any user who posts on the Nivarthanam Website or transmits
through the Website any material that contains images, photographs, pictures or material
that are otherwise graphical in whole or in part, then such user is deemed to warrant and
represent to Nivarthanam Publications that:

such user is the copyright owner of the images, content or material, or that the
copyright owner of such images, content or material has granted the user
permission to use such images, content or material consistent with the manner and
purpose for which it is used.
any person depicted in the images, has consented to the distribution, public display
and reproduction of the images of the person.
the user has valid rights and title in any and all content / images that the user has
submitted, that the user has not infringed any intellectual property rights belonging
to any party and further that the user will indemnify Nivarthanam Publications
or its affiliates against all claims arising directly or indirectly out of
any content that the user posted on the Nivarthanam Website.
Nivarthanam Publications accepts no responsibility for the
contents posted on the Nivarthanam Website by users.

all contents or images or any other matter posted by a user in the Nivarthanam Website
becomes the property of Nivarthanam Publications and users who make
such posts are deemed to have agreed to grant / assign to Nivarthanam Publications
and its affiliates, a non-exclusive, royalty free, perpetual, irrevocable and
sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative
works from, distribute and display such content, Images or material (in whole or part)
worldwide and / or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now
known or later developed throughout the world.
At all times any material uploaded by a user shall be subject to relevant laws and may be
removed, disabled or investigated upon direction, order or decree of any competent courts
or authority acting under relevant local laws.
Any content uploaded by any user that violates any of the terms herein contained shall be
removed without notice by Nivarthanam Publications .

Interactions Between Users

Nivarthanam Publications may provide web platforms for users to
interact and exchange views with each other. The content posted by users on such services will be their individual and personal opinions, views or comments and therefore the
accuracy or nature of such content cannot be controlled or guaranteed by Nivarthanam
Publications Limited. Users are therefore warned that they may be exposed to
objectionable matter and that Nivarthanam Publications cannot accept
any liability for such exposure or inconvenience caused. However Nivarthanam Publications
Limited shall make all efforts to remove or regulate such objectionable content
as soon as they are brought to the notice of Nivarthanam Publications .
All persons who use or access the interactive web platforms provided by Nivarthanam
Publications Limited are prohibited from uploading, posting, or otherwise
transmitting any content or matter that is false, defamatory, abusive, obscene, racial,
scandalous, subversive, blasphemous, pornographic, paedophilic, invasive of another's
privacy, disparaging or likely to cause religious or communal disharmony. Any content
posted by any user that is in the view of Nivarthanam Publications is
objectionable shall be removed without notice and such user may be banned or blocked
from accessing the Nivarthanam Website.
All users of the Nivarthanam Website are prohibited from creating nuisance for other users
and from committing any act in the nature of cyber stalking or cyber bullying. If any such
complaint is received regarding any user, then Nivarthanam Publications
shall immediately ban and block the user from accessing the Nivarthanam Website or any
portion thereof.

Other Prohibitions

No user shall host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any
information on the Nivarthanam Website that:

contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to
interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource;
infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights;
threatens the unity, integrity, security or sovereignty of
adversely affects friendly relations with foreign states;
affects public order;
may incite another to commit any cognisable or cognisable offence
harms minors;
purports to impersonate another;
violates any law for the time being in force;

No user may delete from the Nivarthanam Website any legal notices, disclaimers, or
proprietary notices such as copyright or trademark symbols;
No User may use the Nivarthanam Website in any manner that could damage, disable,
overburden, or impair to any server that may be owned or hired by Nivarthanam Publications
Limited or the networks, or computer systems and resources connected to any
such server
No user may interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Nivarthanam Website
or Services

Alteration of Terms and Conditions of Use

Nivarthanam Publications may amend or alter the Terms and Conditions
of Use contained herein without prior notice, from time to time at its discretion. Users,
viewers and readers are responsible for reading and understanding the terms and
conditions of use contained herein each and every time they access https://www.nivarthanamnews.com.
Access or use of https://www.nivarthanamnews.com after any amendment
or alteration to the ‘terms and conditions of use’ shall constitute acceptance of such
revision, alteration or amendment. However for the convenience of users, viewers and
readers all changes or alterations in the Terms and Conditions of Use may be notified at
https://www.nivarthanamnews.com

Changes In Facilities And Services

Nivarthanam Publications reserves the right to revoke, cancel, suspend or
change any of the facilities or services offered through the website
https://www.nivarthanamnews.com at any time and without prior notice. However for the
convenience of users, viewers and readers all changes or alterations in facilities and services
may be notified at https://www.nivarthanamnews.com

Advertisements

The Nivarthanam Website may contain advertising information or promotion material or other
material submitted by third parties. The responsibility for ensuring that material submitted
for inclusion in the Nivarthanam Website complies with applicable International and National
laws is the sole responsibility of the party providing such information / material. Any
correspondence or business dealings by users with advertisers other than Nivarthanam
Publications Limited, including payment and delivery of related goods or
services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with
such dealings, shall not be the responsibility of Nivarthanam Publications .
Nivarthanam Publications will not be liable for any claim, error, omission,
inaccuracy in advertising material or 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 on the Nivarthanam
Website. Nivarthanam Publications reserves the right to omit, suspend or
change the position of any advertising material submitted for insertion. Acceptance of
advertisements on the Nivarthanam Website will be subject to the aforesaid terms and
conditions.

Further Conditions

None of the provisions of the User Agreement shall be deemed to constitute a partnership
or agency between the user and Nivarthanam Publications and the user
shall have no authority to bind Nivarthanam Publications in any manner,
whatsoever.
These Terms of Service constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to
the subject matter hereof and supersedes and replaces all prior or contemporaneous
understandings or agreements, written or oral, regarding such subject matter.
If any provision of the Agreement is held invalid by any law or regulation of any government,
or by any court, the parties agree that the other provisions of the Terms will remain in full
force and effect.