These Terms of Use govern the use of website (WWW.SAHITYAARPAN.COM) (“Website”), and the ‘SAHITYA ARPAN’ application available on Android and iOS (together “Application”) by any person (“User”/”You”/”Your”).
By accepting the terms and conditions of SAHITYAARPAN.COM and any other polices and notices published on the website SAHITYAARPAN.COM, the same shall be constituted as an agreement between you and SAHITYAARPAN.COM. Further by accepting the terms and conditions and policies you affirm that you are competent as per law to accept the terms and policies, or a liberated minor, or possess parental or legally appointed guardian’s consent, and are fully able and competent to enter into the terms, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations, policies and warranties set forth in these terms of Service and undertakes to abide by and comply with these Terms of Service. If after reading the terms enumerated herein below or any other policy of SAHITYAARPAN.COM, the same is not acceptable to you then you are advised not to accept the terms and conditions or the policies of SAHITYAARPAN.COM. If the policy or terms and conditions are once accepted then the same shall be binding upon you. There may be some major or minor changes in the Terms of Service or policies which will be notified to our users, however you should periodically review the same by visiting our website. It will be the sole discretion of SAHITYAARPAN.COM to modify or revise these Terms of Service and policies at any time, and you agree to be bound by such modifications or revisions.
The data including but not limited to story, poetry, scripts, poems, phrases, graphics, image, photos, videos, comments, texts uploaded to SAHITYAARPAN.COM will be called as “contents”. Any content submitted to or uploaded to SAHITYAARPAN.COM is subject to review and approval before it will appear on the website. Contents uploaded to WWW.SAHITYAARPAN.COM are the opinions of those who authored them. Any content will be deleted if deemed offensive, off-topic, repetitive or injurious of terms of service, privacy of others or against the law of the country. You understand and agree that SAHITYAARPAN.COM may retain the contents once uploaded but may not display, distribute, perform, server copies of contents that have been removed or deleted.
SAHITYAARPAN.COM does not own any content uploaded or submitted to its website, however, by submitting the contents to our website you hereby acknowledge and hereby grant SAHITYAARPAN.COM and its affiliates a non-exclusive, perpetual, license to publish, release, edit, reproduce (in any manner), use, create derivative works, remove any derogatory or defamatory remarks, license, print, translate, perform, sublicense, distribute and otherwise exhibit the contents materials you submit, or any portion thereof in any manner and in any medium or forum, whether now known or hereafter devised, without your information and permission and its author will have no objection with regard to the same. You also agree that anyone can access contents through SAHITYAARPAN.COM. It is further agreed by you by accepting the terms and conditions that any income earned from using in any manner the content submitted to WWW.SAHITYAARPAN.COM will be of SAHITYA ARPAN and its author will have no claim and relinquishes all such claims by accepting these terms and conditions. However, it is clarified that, all the ownership rights in the contents, materials etc will be retained by the person being the lawful owner. By submitting the contents, materials, texts to SAHITYAARPAN.COM the owner gives worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable license to non-exclusive, perpetual, license to publish, release, perform, edit, reproduce (in any manner), use, create derivative works, remove any derogatory or defamatory remarks, license, print, translate, sublicense, distribute and otherwise exhibit.
We reserve all rights in the Sites’ and the Services look and feel, and in our content. You may not copy or adapt any portion of our code or visual design elements (including logos) without express written permission from SAHITYAARPAN.COM or as set out in this clause. Please do not use our logo or trademarks in any way that might suggest SAHITYAARPAN.COM endorses a particular product or service, or you have a business relationship with SAHITYAARPAN.COM.
Please do not alter, stretch, condense, embellish, add sparkles to, or otherwise change our logo in any way. We’re pretty proud of our logo, and we’d like to keep it as it is. Still not sure what to do with our logo? Please contact us on help@sahityaarpan.com
SAHITYAARPAN.COM may change, terminate, or restrict access to any aspect of the Services, at any time, without notice. We can remove any content you post or submit for any reason. SAHITYAARPAN.COM may access, read, preserve, and disclose any information as we reasonably believe is necessary to (i) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, (ii) enforce the Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations, (iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, (iv) respond to user support requests, or (v) protect the rights, property or safety of the Services, its users and the public.
The Site and Services may contain links to other websites; for instance, stories, user profiles, and other posts may link to other sites. When you access third-party websites, you do so at your own risk. We don’t control or endorse those sites.
We make the Services available without charge. To be able to continue to do so, we display third party advertisements and promotions on or in connection with the Service. Since the advertising we provide is based upon information provided by third parties, we will not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred by you as a result of any advertisements. Your interactions with advertisers found on or through the Service, including, without limitation, all reliance upon advertising, all commercial transactions and legal obligations associated with such advertisements, are solely between you and the advertisers.
All the users of SAHITYAARPAN.COM are hereby notified and hereby agrees not to engage in the use, copying, distribution, and publication of any of the content of SAHITYAARPAN.COM in any medium other than expressly permitted herein or without the prior written permission obtained through the website for any commercial purposes. If SAHITYAARPAN.COM comes to know about anyone who is using any content of our website or doing such activity causing any harm to the reputation, business model, contents, market value or any wrongful loss to SAHITYAARPAN.COM in any manner and is making any wrongful gain then SAHITYAARPAN.COM will take legal action against such person and SAHITYAARPAN.COM will have all the rights upon any wrongful gain made by such person.
In connection with contents you further agree that you will not submit material that is copyrighted, protected by trademark or otherwise subject to intellectual property rights including but not limited to privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission or license or authority from their rightful owner, the necessary consents from any individuals whose personally identifiable information is contained in such contents posted, uploaded or sent SAHITYAARPAN.COM. SAHITYAARPAN.COM does not endorse any content or any opinion, recommendation, or advice expressed therein and SAHITYAARPAN.COM expressly disclaims any and all liability in connection with the contents. SAHITYAARPAN.COM does not permit copyright infringing activities and infringement of intellectual property rights on its Website, and SAHITYAARPAN.COM will remove all infringing contents if properly notified that such Contents infringes on another's intellectual property rights or breaches the privacy of anyone without prior notice. If anyone uploads any content which infringes the intellectual property right of any person then the person who uploads such content will only be liable for such infringement and also agrees to indemnify and or compensate SAHITYAARPAN.COM , its officers, directors, employees, agents, associates from and against any and all claims, demands, causes of action, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses, (including but not limited to reasonable legal fees) arising from such usage, breach of such terms, conditions or violation of any intellectual property rights, claim from any person or any other loss.
1. We respect people's rights and expect everyone to do the same.
2. If anyone finds any content infringing any intellectual property right on SAHITYAARPAN.COM then the same can be reported to us on help@sahityaarpan.com with the details of the infringing content and documents verifying that the content is intellectual property owned by anyone.
3. If you infringe any intellectual property rights, we will disable your account.
Anyone above 18 years can create your account on SAHITYAARPAN.COM. It is necessary to read these terms of service and policies before the creation of the account; however, we know that you have faith in us, therefore you may prefer not to read these terms of service but still you will be bound by these terms and our policies. While creating account on SAHITYAARPAN.COM you must carefully in fulfilling all your correct personal details in such a manner so that you can be easily identified by our team and we assure you that we will keep your personal information secrete except showing you name along with your content. We will not hesitate in terminating your account if you violate any terms of service, privacy policy, intellectual property right, or engage in any unlawful activity on SAHITYAARPAN.COM and we reserve the right to take any other action as per law against such violator. Once the account has been terminated you are not allowed to create the account again without our permission.
You’re responsible for all the activity on your account, and for keeping your password confidential. If you share your account information with anyone, that other person may be able to take control of the account, and we may not be able to determine who is the proper account holder. We will not have any liability to you (or anyone you share your account information with) as a result of your or their actions under those circumstances. If you find out that someone’s used your account without your permission, you should report it at help@sahityaarpan.com.
SAHITYAARPAN.COM Services are only for people 18 years old and over. If we learn someone under 18 is using SAHITYAARPAN.COM Services, we’ll terminate their account.
By agreeing to these terms of service you agree that you submit yourself to the jurisdiction of the courts at Delhi and will be governed by the laws of INDIA. Any cause of action or dispute you have with us will be exclusively in the state of NCT of Delhi. If any terms of service or any policy of SAHITYAARPAN.COM is struck down or held illegal by the court of competent jurisdiction or by any other law of the country of governance, then it cannot be said that the whole of the terms and policy is invalid.
You acknowledge that your use of the service is at your sole risk. We do not warrant that your use of the service is lawful, and we specifically disclaim such warranties. SAHITYAARPAN.COM do not represent or warrant that the service will be error-free or uninterrupted; that defects will be corrected; or that the service or the server that makes the service available is free from any harmful components including but not limited to virus, however best effort will be done by us to keep our services error free and protect our servers and contents from any harmful devices, software, violators. We do not warranty that the information on the service is accurate, complete, or useful. Neither SAHITYAARPAN.COM nor its officers, directors, employees, agents and associates will be liable for any errors, omissions, for any loss, damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any content made available through SAHITYAARPAN.COM. We clearly disclaim any warranty of any kind for accuracy, quality, non-infringement, title and ownership. SAHITYAARPAN.COM does not promote, represent warrant, guarantee or assume responsibility for any content.
If your content does not comply with these guidelines it may be removed at any time.
You own all the rights to the content you create and post on the SAHITYAARPAN.COM Services. Of course, if the content wasn’t yours to begin with, putting it on SAHITYAARPAN.COM doesn’t make it yours. Don’t submit content you don’t hold the copyright for (unless you have permission, including to grant SAHITYAARPAN.COM all the rights outlined in these terms).
When you post content to SAHITYAARPAN.COM, we need the legal permission under applicable copyright laws to display that content to users of the SAHITYAARPAN.COM Services. Legally this means you give us a nonexclusive license to publish your content on the SAHITYAARPAN.COM Services, including anything reasonably related to publishing it (like storing, displaying, reformatting, and distributing it).
You’re responsible for the content you post. This means you assume all risks related to its publication and display, including someone else’s reliance on its accuracy and any claims relating to intellectual property or other legal rights.
SAHITYAARPAN.COM is a free service and to continue to make it free you understand that we enable advertising on the Services, including in connection with the display of your content or other information. We may also use your Content to promote the Services. We will never sell your content to third parties without your explicit permission.
In your use of the Services you may enter into additional terms and conditions and other agreements that alter or override these Terms of Service, such as when you enter a contest/competition or join a special program/event. In case of any conflict or inconsistency, the terms and conditions of those additional terms and agreements would override these Terms of Service.
Content Guidelines
In order to create an inclusive and respectful space, we want to ensure our content creator/writers know what type of content they will discover as well as content they can or cannot post!
Before you take off on your writing journey, please take a look at the following guidelines:
If you come across any content that violates our guidelines, let us know by reporting it.
If you come across a content that has inappropriate content, you can let us know by reporting it. Please note that we will change/remove it, if it does not comply with these guidelines.
Content that contain prohibited content will be removed.
A content removed if it contains any of the following inappropriate content & reported:
If we feel that your content fits our guidelines but may include parts that aren’t appropriate for our readers, then we will be remove it.
Any content that could put our community at risk will be removed. SAHITYAARPAN.COM has the right to close any account or remove content without notice.
Media on SAHITYAARPAN.COM includes images, videos, gifs, and sound clips. To help keep it a safe space for everyone to create and discover content, we may remove images that don’t follow our Content Guidelines. We have the right to remove any media deemed unfit for SAHITYAARPAN.COM
Any content that advertises products or services unrelated to, or not sanctioned by SAHITYAARPAN.COM is not permitted and will be removed.