Last Updated: 1st September 2024

Terms of use

Welcome to the digital information network of Uttarakhand News Network. "uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in or "Site" is owned and operated by Uttarakhand News Network or its subsidiaries and affiliates. The site contains material which is derived in whole or in part from material supplied by Uttarakhand News Network, various new agencies, syndication partners and other sources and is protected by copyright and trademark laws.
The restrictions on the use of the material and content on this site by you are specified below. By registering and accessing this site, you/user/subscriber/visitor automatically confirms your acknowledgment & acceptance of the terms and conditions and privacy policy which is the agreement between the parties. The agreement herein is an online digital agreement which requires no signatures.

These Terms of Use govern your use of the websites content and other services offered through https://www.uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in (Site) You (the user) agree to access “the site” subject to the terms and conditions of use as set out here. Uttarakhand News Network may add to or change or update these Terms of Use from time to time entirely at its own discretion. You are responsible for checking these Terms of Use periodically to remain in compliance with these terms. Your use of a Site after any amendment to the Terms of Use shall constitute your acceptance of these terms and you also agree to be bound by any such changes/revisions.

Acceptance of terms of use

Thank you for visiting uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in (the "Site"). Access to the Site is offered to you by Uttarakhand News Network subject to your acceptance of these Terms of Use. Please read these Terms of Use carefully before using or registering for the Site, as your use of the Site will constitute your agreement to be legally bound by and to comply with these Terms of Use.

User agreement

Uttarakhand News Network shall have the right at any time to change or modify the terms and conditions applicable to your use of the Uttarakhand News Network Site, or any part thereof, or to impose new conditions, including but not limited to, adding fees and charges for use. Such changes, modifications, additions or deletions shall be effective immediately upon notice thereof, which may be given by means including but not limited to, posting on the Uttarakhand News Network sites, or by electronic or conventional mail, or by any other means by which Subscriber obtains notice thereof. Any use of the Uttarakhand News Network Site by you after such notice shall be deemed to constitute acceptance by you of such changes, modifications or additions. The term 'uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in' is used through this entire Terms of Use document to refer to the website, its owners and the employees and associates of the owner. Associate/Group Sites are sites owned or operated by Uttarakhand News Network or any of its associate or group companies. "Associate Companies "or "Group Companies" shall mean companies that are subsidiaries or affiliates and assigns of Uttarakhand News Network including, without limitation, any legal entity that is directly or indirectly controlled by Uttarakhand News Network  
By visiting our site you are agreeing to be bound by the following terms and conditions. We may change these terms and conditions from time to time at our sole discretion and we reserve the right to do without your consent and we will try to take appropriate measures to inform you about the same. Any revised terms and conditions will be applicable at the time of posting on the uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in. Please ensure that you review these terms and conditions regularly. Your continued use of uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in means that you accept any new or modified terms and conditions that we come up with.

Termination of this Agreement

This Terms of Use and the license rights granted hereunder shall be terminated or cancelled for any of the following reasons:
(a) immediately by uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in for any unauthorized access or use by you
(b) immediately by uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in if you assign or transfer (or attempt the same) any rights granted to you under this Agreement;
(c) immediately, if you violate any of the other terms and conditions of this Terms of Use. Termination or cancellation of shall not affect any right or relief to which uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in may be entitled, at law or in equity. Upon termination of this User Agreement, all rights granted to you will terminate and revert to uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in. Except as set forth herein, regardless of the reason for cancellation or termination of this Terms of Use, the fee charged if any for access to uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in is non-refundable for any reason.

Terminate or suspend your access to the Uttarakhand News Networks Web Sites; Refuse move or remove for any reason any Content / Image that you submit on or through the Services; Refuse move or remove any Content / Image that is available on or through the Services; Deactivate or delete your accounts and all related information and files in your account; Establish general practices and limits concerning use of the Services at any time and remove or edit contents or cancel orders (entered by you) in its sole discretion with or without cause and with or without any prior notice for any violation of the Terms of Use. Upon such termination or suspension your right to use the Uttarakhand News Networks Web Sites will immediately cease. You can also terminate your account at any time but your information may remain stored in archive on our servers even after the deletion or the termination of your account.

Relationship

None of the provisions of the User Agreement shall be deemed to constitute a partnership or agency between you and Uttarakhand News Network and you shall have no authority to bind Uttarakhand News Network in any manner whatsoever.

Entire Agreement

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.

Changes

Uttarakhand News Network reserves the right to suspend / cancel or discontinue any or all channels’ products or service at any time without notice make modifications and alterations in any or all the content products and services contained on the site without prior notice.

Charges

Uttarakhand News Network reserves the right to charge subscription and / or membership fees from a user by giving reasonable prior notice in respect of any product service or any other aspect of this Site.

License

Uttarakhand News Network hereby grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-assignable and non-transferable license to access uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in provided and expressly conditioned upon your agreement that all such access and use shall be governed by all the terms and conditions set forth in this Terms of Use.

User content

You must be at least 18 years of age to use this website. By using this website and by agreeing to these terms and conditions you warrant and represent that you are at least 18 years of age.

Information on the site

We will always aim to provide you with the best service we can, but our service is provided "as is" and we do not and cannot promise that all the information we provide will always be 100% accurate.
Whilst we take every care to ensure that all information is accurate and complete, some of it is supplied to us by our third-party partners. We have no control over third party content and we are unable to guarantee the accuracy of such third-party content. Before relying on any information, whether it is from us or from our third-party partners, we advise you to verify the accuracy of such information.
Whilst we will do our best to ensure that our service is always fully operational, we are not responsible for any problems or temporary interruptions in using our services arising from factors outside of our control. We give no warranties of any kind concerning uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in or the content. We do not warrant that the site or any of its contents are virus free. You must take your own precautions in this respect as we accept no responsibility for any viruses affecting or damaging any property of the user.
Under no circumstances, Uttarakhand News Network shall be held responsible for any loss or damage resulting from the use of our services or from any content posted on the website.

Material posted/transmitted at Uttarakhand News Network’s site

All information data text software music sound photographs graphics video messages or other materials (Content) whether publicly or privately transmitted / posted is the sole responsibility of the person from where such content is originated (the Originator). By Posting any material which contain images photographs pictures or that are otherwise graphical in whole or in part (Images) you warrant and represent that (a) you are the copyright owner of such Images or that the copyright owner of such Images has granted you permission to use such Images or any content and/or images contained in such Images consistent with the manner and purpose of your use and as otherwise permitted by these Terms of Use and the Services (b) you have the rights necessary to grant the licenses and sublicenses described in these Terms of Use and (c) that each person depicted in such Images if any has provided consent to the use of the Images as set forth in these Terms of Use including by way of limitation the distribution public display and reproduction of such Images. You represent that you have valid rights and title in any and all Content/Images that you submit on the Site that you have not infringed on any IPR belonging to any party and further that you will indemnify Uttarakhand News Network or its affiliates for all claims arising out of any content that you post on the Site. Uttarakhand News Network accepts no responsibility for the said Content / Images. However you understand that all Content / Images posted by you becomes the property of Uttarakhand News Network and you agree to grant/assign to Uttarakhand News Network 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 perform and display such Content / Images (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”.

Third party advertising on the site

You will see advertising material submitted by third parties on uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in. Each individual advertiser is solely responsible for the content of its advertising material. We accept no responsibility for the content of advertising material, including, without limitation, any error, omission, or inaccuracy therein.

Advertising Material

Part of the Site contains advertising information or promotion material or other material submitted to Uttarakhand News Network by third parties. Responsibility for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on Site complies with applicable International and National law is exclusively on the party providing the information/material. Your correspondence or business dealings with or participation in promotions of advertisers other than Uttarakhand News Network found on or through the Website including payment and delivery of related goods or services and any other terms conditions warranties or representations associated with such dealings are solely between You and such advertiser. Uttarakhand News Network will not be responsible or 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 non-Uttarakhand News Network advertisers on the Website. Uttarakhand News Network reserves the right to omit suspend or change the position of any advertising material submitted for insertion. Acceptance of advertisements on the Site will be subject to these terms and conditions.

Redirections and links of the third-party websites on the site

The links in this site will allow you to leave uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in. The linked sites are not under the control of uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in. uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in has not reviewed, nor approved these sites and is not responsible for the contents or omissions of any linked site or any links contained in a linked site. The inclusion of any linked site does not imply endorsement by uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in of the site. 
Every effort is made to keep the website up and running smoothly. However, the Company takes no responsibility for, and will not be liable for, the website being temporarily unavailable due to technical issues beyond our control. The Site contains (or you may be sent through the Site or the Service) links to other websites ("Third Party Sites") as well as articles, photographs, text, graphics, pictures, designs, music, sound, video, information, applications, software and other content or items belonging to or originating from third parties (the "Third Party Applications, Software or Content"). Such Third Party Sites and Third Party Applications, Software or Content are not investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy, appropriateness, or completeness by us, and we are not responsible for any Third Party Sites accessed through the Site or any Third Party Applications, Software or Content posted on, available through or installed from the Site, including the content, accuracy, offensiveness, opinions, reliability, privacy practices or other policies of or contained in the Third Party Sites or the Third Party Applications, Software or Content. The inclusion of, linking to or permitting the use or installation of any Third-Party Site or any Third-Party Applications, Software or Content does not imply approval or endorsement thereof by us. If you decide to leave the Site and access the Third-Party Sites or to use or install any Third-Party Applications, Software or Content, you do so at your own risk and you should be aware that our terms and policies no longer govern. You should review the applicable terms and policies, including privacy and data gathering practices, of any site to which you navigate from the Site or relating to any applications you use or install from the site.

User submissions and conduct

As an uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in account holder you may submit textual content ("User Comments", "Posts, "Poems", "Articles", "User Generated Content"). You understand that uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in does not guarantee the publication of the User Generated Content. You further understand that whether or not such User Generated Content is published, uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in does not guarantee any confidentiality with respect to any User Generated Content. You shall be solely responsible for your own User Generated Content and the consequences of posting or publishing them. In connection with User Generated Content, we prohibit posting of any rude or nasty comments, ethnic slurs, personal insults or abuses or personal details, or comments that are defamatory or infringe intellectual property rights or the rights of privacy or publicity or any other civil or personal or property right of any third party or which is lewd or is sexually explicit or is an aimed at creating an issue relating to caste, sex, ethnicity, religion, etc. We reserve the right to not publish the User Generated Content in case the same does not comply with the above condition. Certain elements of the Site will contain material submitted by users. Uttarakhand News Network accepts no responsibility for the content accuracy conformity to applicable laws of such material. You will indemnify and hold harmless Uttarakhand News Network against all third-party claims demands and actions brought against Uttarakhand News Network which arises from or relates to the material submitted by you.

Citizen journalism

uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in provides facility to post news, stories of events near you or events that affect you, or your own take on issues making headlines. Uttarakhand News Network is not responsible or liable for in any manner whatsoever for any information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, audio-video, messages, or other materials ("hereinafter referred to as Content") that is uploaded, posted, transmitted or otherwise made available on the websites. Uttarakhand News Network is not the owners of the Content. The Content is user generated which is offered by third parties and provided on "as is" basis. The owner of the Content has granted an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free right and license to the Uttarakhand News Network to use, publicly display, publish, reproduce, distribute, broadcast the Content on any medium. You subscribe to use the Content at your sole risk. The Parties do not necessarily control the Content posted on the websites and as such, make no representations or warranties about, or guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the Content. Under no circumstances will the Parties be liable in any way for any Content. Uttarakhand News Network shall have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to refuse, move, delete, edit or otherwise modify any Content that is objectionable/defamatory/violates the law of India or any country where content is visible or consumable.

Right to remove inappropriate messages

We reserve the right to remove any messages we deem to be inappropriate i.e racist sexist or threatening. Messages using inappropriate language will also be removed. We do not wish to be censors but our forums must remain civilized and respect the rights of others.

Acceptance of Privacy Policy

By using Uttarakhand News Networks sites and services you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Statement. If you do not agree or are not comfortable with any policy described in this Privacy statement your only remedy is to discontinue use of Uttarakhand News Network sites. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Statement at any time.

Registration

To sign in for newsletters, notifications, or to join contests, campaigns, gain access to and/or to log on to the exclusive content areas, guests of the Site are required to register with the Site. However, parents and guardians of children below the age of 18 years are required to approve and accept the member registration of any such child or on behalf of such child who is below the age of 18 years before such child can enjoy the benefits of the Site. 
Any and all contests and campaigns hosted or conducted on the Site are subject to the terms and conditions as set out on the Site and you are requested to read the same before participating in the same.
By registering, you certify that all information you provide, now or in the future, is accurate. uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to deny you access to this website or any portion thereof without notice for the following reasons
(a) immediately by uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in for any unauthorized access or use by you
(b) immediately by uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in if you assign or transfer (or attempt the same) any rights granted to you under this Agreement;
(c) immediately, if you violate any of the other terms and conditions of this User Agreement.

Individual Registration Access and Exchange of Information

For certain services such as personal web pages, shopping etc. registration by the visitor is required. To register for these services, you have to open an account by completing the registration process (i.e. by providing us with current complete and accurate information as prompted by the applicable registration form). You also will choose a password and a user name. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account. By registering you agree to the following terms in addition to any other specific terms which shall be posted at an appropriate location of the Site. Each registration is for a single individual user only.

To access these services, you will be asked to enter your individual User Name and Password as chosen by you during your registration. Therefore, we do not permit any of the following

1. Any other person sharing your account and Password.

2. Any part of the Site being cached in proxy servers and accessed by individuals who have not registered with Uttarakhand News Network as users of the Site; or

3. Access through a single account and Password being made available to multiple users on a network.

If Uttarakhand News Network reasonably believe that an account and Password is being used / misused in any manner Uttarakhand News Network shall reserve the right to cancel access rights immediately without notice and block access to all users from that IP address.

Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify Uttarakhand News Network immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. Uttarakhand News Network will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or account. However, you could be held liable for losses incurred by Uttarakhand News Network or another party due to someone else using your account or password.

Termination of Account

Uttarakhand News Network reserves its right to refuse service restrict suspend terminate your account.

User information

By accessing and registering on the website uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in, the user agrees that Uttarakhand News Network can store, access personal details/information provided at the time of registration for later use either by itself or its affiliates and subsidiaries including Google Analytics, and Facebook. This website uses cookies and cache. By using this website and agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in to track you through use of cookies in accordance with the terms of the privacy policy. On this website, User is allowed to follow other users, bloggers, and authors. Some personal information, like name and image given by a user at the time of registration is visible to other users.

Data Protection

Uttarakhand News Network may send information and offer products and services to you from time to time. For further details relating to our policy relating to such offer please refer to our privacy statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing Uttarakhand News Network reserves the right to disclose any information in response to / that it is required to be shared disclosed or make made available to any governmental administrative regulatory or judicial authority under any law or regulation applicable to Uttarakhand News Network.

Further Uttarakhand News Network can (and you authorize Uttarakhand News Network to) disclose your name, street, address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number, email and company name to Intellectual Property rights owners as we in our sole discretion believe necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud intellectual property infringement piracy or other unlawful activity.

Please see our privacy policy for details of how personally identifiable information is collected and may be processed or shared with others. You will find the complete online Privacy Policy at https://www.uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in/privacy-policy.
For any queries and concerns related to your personal information and privacy, you can contact uttarakhandnewsnetwork1@gmail.com.

Prohibition for Copyright & retransmission of information

Uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in, as well as the design and information contained in this site, or its subsidiaries and affiliates, is the valuable, exclusive property of uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in, and nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as transferring or assigning any such ownership rights to you or any other person or entity.
You may not resell, redistribute, broadcast or transfer information, software and applications or use the information, software, and applications provided by uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in in a searchable, machine-readable database unless separately and specifically authorized in writing by uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in prior to such use. You may not rent, lease, sublicense, distribute, transfer, copy, reproduce, publicly display, publish, adapt, store or time-share uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in, any part thereof, or any of the software, application or information received or accessed therefrom to or through any other person or entity unless separately and specifically authorized in writing by uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in prior to such use. In addition, you may not remove, alter or obscure any copyright, legal or proprietary notices in or on any portions of uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in without prior written authorization.
The copyright and no retransmission of information clause above also applies to all content available on the site including digital content, PDF, ePaper, ePaper PDF, images, videos, reports or any other content format and bars any unauthorized download, modification and circulation of any such information. It is a legal offense to unofficially download the Uttarakhand News Network e-paper and share its PDF file on social sites and messenger groups. Appropriate legal action will be taken against the guilty person.

Copyright and Trademarks

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 this site are the property of Uttarakhand News Network. its parent affiliates and associates and are protected under applicable Indian laws. You agree not to use any framing techniques to enclose any trademark or logo or other proprietary information of Uttarakhand News Network; or remove conceal or obliterate any copyright or other proprietary notice or any credit-line or date-line on other mark or source identifier included on the Site / Service including without limitation the size colour location or style of all proprietary marks. Any infringement shall be vigorously defended and pursued to the fullest extent permitted by law. The trademarks, names, logos and service marks (collectively “trademarks”) displayed on this website are registered and unregistered trademarks of Uttarakhand News Network or its group companies. Nothing contained on this website should be construed as granting any license or right to use any trademark without the prior written permission of the website owner.

Notice of Copyright Infringement

Uttarakhand News Network is not liable for any infringement of copyright arising out of materials posted on or transmitted through the site or items advertised on the site by end users or any other third parties. Our policy is to comply with all Intellectual Property Laws and to act expeditiously upon receiving any notice of claimed infringement. If you believe that your work has been reproduced on this website in a manner that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide a notice of copyright infringement containing all of the following information:

1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner for the purposes of the complaint.

2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed.

3. Identification of the material on our website that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity.

4. The address telephone number or e-mail address of the complaining party.

5. A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner its agent or the law.

6. A statement under penalty of perjury that the information in the notice of copyright infringement is accurate and that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the right that is allegedly infringed.

All notices of copyright infringement should be sent to: uttarakhandnewsnetwork1@gmail.com.

Copyright Notice
Copyright ©2035 Uttarakhand News Network. All rights reserved.
This disclaimer/terms of service notification is subject to change without notice.

Limited Permission to Copy

Uttarakhand News Network grants you permission to only access and make personal use of the Site and You agree not to directly or indirectly download or modify / alter / change / amend / vary / transform / revise / translate / copy / publish / distribute or otherwise disseminate any content on Uttarakhand News Networks Site / Service or any portion of it; or delete or fail to display any promotional taglines included in the Site / Service either directly or indirectly except with the express consent of Uttarakhand News Network. However you may print or download extracts from these pages for your personal / individual non-commercial use only. You must not retain any copies of these pages saved to disk or to any other storage medium except for the purposes of using the same for subsequent viewing purposes or to print extracts for personal / individual use.

Uttarakhand News Network forbids you from any attempts to resell or put to commercial use any part of the Site; any collection and use of any product listings descriptions or prices; any derivative use of the Site or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of any other merchant; any renting leasing or otherwise transferring rights to the Site / Service; displaying the name logo trademark or other identifier of another person in such a manner as to give the viewer the impression that such other person is a publisher or distributor of the Service on the Site or any data gathering or extraction tools; or any use of meta tags. You may not (whether directly or through the use of any software program) create a database in electronic or structured manual form by regularly or systematically downloading and storing all or any part of the pages from this site.

No part of the Site may be reproduced or transmitted to 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. Requests to republish Uttarakhand News Networks material for distribution should be addressed to uttarakhandnewsnetwork1@gmail.com.

Prohibited use of content & services

As a condition of your use of the Services you will not use the Services for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms and conditions and notices. You may not use the Services in any manner that could damage disable overburden or impair any Uttarakhand News Networks server or the network(s) connected to any Uttarakhand News Network server or interfere with any other parties use and enjoyment of any Services. You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any Services other accounts computer systems or to any of the Services through hacking password mining or any other means. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available through the Services. The contents of the Services, including the Site, are intended for your personal, non-commercial use. All materials published or available on the Services (including, but not limited to text, photographs, images, illustrations, designs, audio clips, video clips, “look and feel,” metadata, data, or compilations, all also known as the "Content") are protected by copyright, and owned or controlled by uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in.
uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in also owns copyright in the selection, coordination, compilation, and enhancement of such Content. You shall abide by all additional copyright notices, information, or restrictions contained in any Content accessed through the Service. Non-commercial use does not include the use of Content without prior written consent from uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in in connection with:
(1) the development of any software program, including, but not limited to, training a machine learning or artificial intelligence (AI) system; or
(2) providing archived or cached data sets containing Content to another person or entity.
You may not access or use, or attempt to access or use, the Content and Services to take any action that could harm uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in. Without Uttarakhand News Network’s prior written consent, you shall not:
(1) access any part of the Services, Content, data or information you do not have permission or authorization to access or for which uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in has revoked your access;
(2) use robots, spiders, scripts, service, software or any manual or automatic device, tool, or process designed to data mine or scrape the Content, data or information from the Services, or otherwise use, access, or collect the Content, data or information from the Services using automated means;
(3) use the Content for the development of any software program, including, but not limited to, training a machine learning or artificial intelligence (AI) system.
(4) use services, software or any manual or automatic device, tool, or process designed to circumvent any restriction, condition, or technological measure that controls access to the Services in any way, including overriding any security feature or bypassing or circumventing any access controls or use limits of the Services;
(5) cache or archive the Content (except for a public search engine’s use of spiders for creating search indices);
(6) take action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our network or infrastructure; and
(7) do anything that could disable, damage or change the functioning or appearance of the Services, including the presentation of advertising.
Engaging in a prohibited use of the Services may result in civil, criminal, and/or administrative penalties, fines, or sanctions against the user and those assisting the user.

User Conduct and Obligations

You hereby agree and assure Uttarakhand News Network that the Site/Services shall be used for lawful purposes only and that you will not violate laws regulations ordinances or other such requirements of any applicable Central State or local government or any other international laws. You further concur that you will not through Site/Service:

1. Post distribute or otherwise make available or transmit any software or other computer files that contain a virus, trojan horses, time bombs, bots, botnets, malicious content, content theft data manipulation threats or any other harmful programs or elements or component.

2. Delete from the Site any legal notices, disclaimers or proprietary notices such as copyright or trademark symbols or modify any logos that you do not own or have express permission to modify.

3. Not use the Site / Service in any manner that could damage, disable overburden or impair and not to undertake any action which is harmful or potentially harmful to any Uttarakhand News Networks server or the network(s) computer systems / resource connected to any Uttarakhand News Network server or interfere with any other parties use and enjoyment of the Site/Service.

4. Obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available through the Site/Service.

5. Engage in any activity that causes / may harm minors or

6. Perform any activity which is likely to cause such harm

7. Impersonate any person or entity including but not limited to Uttarakhand News Networks official forum leader guide or host or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.

8. Take any action which encourages or consists of any threat of harm of any kind to any person or property.

9. Carry out any “denial of service” (DoS, DDoS) or any other harmful attacks on application or internet service or.

10. Make any inappropriate illegal or otherwise prohibited communication to any Newsgroup Mailing List Chat Facility or other Internet Forum.

11. Use the Site/Service for illegal purposes.

12. Disrupt place unreasonable burdens or excessive loads on interfere with or attempt to make or attempt any unauthorized access to any Uttarakhand News Network website or the website of any Uttarakhand News Networks customer.

13. Transmit through the Site any unlawful harassing libelous abusive threatening harmful vulgar obscene libelous hateful or racially ethnically or otherwise objectionable material of any kind or nature. This includes text graphics video programs or audio etc.

14. Collect or attempt to collect personally identifiable information of any person or entity without their express written consent and you shall maintain records of any such written consent throughout the terms of this agreement and for a period of 2 years thereafter.

15. Engage in antisocial disruptive or destructive acts including “flaming”, “spamming”, “flooding”, “trolling” and “griefing” as those terms are commonly understood and used on the Internet

16. Forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any content transmitted through the Site.

17. Upload post email transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising promotional materials “junk mail”, “spam”, “chain letters”, “pyramid schemes” duplicative messages or any other form of solicitation.

18. Encumber or suffer to exist any lien or security interest on the subject matter of this Agreement

19. Make any representation or warranty on behalf of Uttarakhand News Network.

20. You agree not to post, distribute, transmit or otherwise make available any data, text, message, computer file or other material that infringes and/or violates any right of a third party or any domestic or international law rule or regulation including but not limited to

21. Infringement of any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary rights of any third party including but not limited to the unauthorized copying of copyrighted material the digitization and distribution of photographs from magazines, books or other copyrighted sources and the unauthorized transmittal of copyrighted software.

22. Right of privacy (specifically you must not distribute another person‘s personal information of any kind without their express permission) or publicity.

23. Any confidentiality obligation.

24. Unless otherwise permitted you will: (i) display the Service on your Site in the exact form received by you and not modify or edit any of the foregoing without Uttarakhand News Networks prior written consent; (ii) ensure that the fundamental meaning of the Service is not changed or distorted; (iii) comply with all applicable laws and all limitations and restrictions (if any) placed by Uttarakhand News Network on the use display or distribution of any Service and (iv) not archive any of the Service for access by users at any future date after the Service has been removed from your Web site. You acknowledge that the service must link and redirect to the appropriate Uttarakhand News Networks Web page when a user clicks on the Service (e.g. a headline). You shall not display the Service in such a manner that does not allow for successful linking and redirection to and delivery of Uttarakhand News Networks Web page nor may you frame any Uttarakhand News Networks Web page.

No Controlling Spam Policy or Unsolicited E-mails

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Force Majeure

Uttarakhand News Network shall have no liability to you for any interruption or delay to access the Site irrespective of the cause.

Publication

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Other information

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General

These Terms of Use or User Agreement contain the entire understanding between you and the Site and supersede all prior understanding of the user and the Company in respect of the User's access or use of the Site.    
You further agree that you may use the Site for non-commercial purposes only. You may not submit Posts intended to promote and/or generate revenue for yourself and/or any third-party business activity. 
Any clause declared invalid shall be deemed severable and not affect the validity or enforceability of the remainder. These terms may only be amended in a writing signed by uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in.            
The Company makes no representation that materials on the Site are appropriate or available for use in other locations. Those who choose to access this site from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.
The terms of this agreement are exclusively based on and subject to Indian law. You hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in Uttarakhand, India in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of this website. This site is specifically for the user in the territory of India. Although the assess to users outside India is not denied, Uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in shall have no legal liabilities whatsoever in any law of any jurisdiction other than India.
We reserve the right to make changes to our site and these disclaimers, terms, and conditions at any time without any prior written or oral information to the user.
You agree that you will not seek any injunctive relief against Uttarakhandnewsnetwork.in nor claim any damages from Uttarakhand News Network  under any circumstance. Rights and obligations under the Terms which by their nature should survive will remain in full effect after termination or expiration of the Terms. Any express waiver or failure to exercise promptly any right under the Terms will not create a continuing waiver or any expectation of non-enforcement. If any provision of the Terms is held invalid by any law or regulation of any government or by any court or arbitrator the parties agree that such provision will be replaced with a new provision that accomplishes the original business purpose and the other provisions of the Terms will remain in full force and effect.

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