8. User Contributions & Rules of User conduct
By using this Website, you represent that you have read, accepted and are bound by the conditions contained in this Agreement. To assist the smooth functioning of this M&M Website, we expect users of the Website to follow these few basic guidelines (which form part of the terms and conditions for access and use of the M&M Website) as are acceptable for a user policy:
a. Access to Website is free and Users (Registered or Guest) can browse the information/products/services for free unless they avail a service or product that is not free of cost. M&M, reserves the right, and may levy certain charges and fees in the future for any of the product or services available on the Website. You agree to pay any such fee as may be applicable to the services or product that You avail.
b. You shall be responsible for all Your fee and/or payment related obligations and M&M reserves the right to suspend the services/account or terminate Your membership in case You do not fulfil Your payment related obligations in full. We also reserves the right to take legal action in case of non-payment of fees.
c. You acknowledge and agree that You shall not use the details of credit card/debit card/net-banking or any other payment instrument which is not lawfully owned by You.
d. M&M, from time to time, may contact third party payment processing service providers to facilitate payment of orders that You place on our Website which includes payment gateway service providers, banks, financial institution etc. You shall be responsible to abide by all rules/regulations/guidelines as issued and applicable to online payments, including those issued or provided by such third parties.
e. When purchasing a product or service on the Website, you may be redirected to a payment gateway website for the purpose of completing online payment for such product or service. When You make the payment through third party payment gateway, such third parties process Your Payment to M&M, provided You comply with all applicable rules and regulations. M&M shall not be responsible for any failure/decline in making payment due to any reason (including without limitation exceeding limit, wrong details etc.) as M&M does not control such third parties. In case of any failure during the payment process, please email at at [email protected]. Please note that the payment gateway service provider will have access to your personal and financial information you provide during your purchase and payment, and may use such personal and financial information for providing you the financial services required for the transaction. For all uses that the payment gateway service provider may make, please refer to the payment gateway service provider’s own terms and conditions. The Company shall not be liable or responsible for any acts or omissions by any third-party service provider.
f. The Company does not assume any obligation to monitor the User Contributions that you may post on its Website. The content standards specified here apply to any and all User Contributions and use of Interactive Services. User Contributions must in their entirety comply with all applicable Indian and international laws and regulations. Without limiting the foregoing, User Contributions must not, and you warrant that your User Contributions do not:
- Contain any material that is defamatory, obscene, indecent, abusive, offensive, harassing, violent, hateful, inflammatory, blasphemous, libelous, or otherwise objectionable.
- Promote sexually explicit or pornographic material, violence, or discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
- Violate the legal rights (including the rights of publicity and privacy) of others or contain any material that could give rise to any civil or criminal liability under applicable laws or regulations or that otherwise may be in conflict with these Terms and our Privacy Policy.
- Be likely to deceive any person, or cause inconvenience or be likely to upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
- Promote any illegal activity, or advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act.
- Impersonate any person, or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person or organization, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to any other User’s account.
- Involve commercial activities or sales, such as contests, sweepstakes and other sales promotions, barter or advertising.
- Give the impression that they emanate from or are endorsed by us or any other person or entity, if this is not the case.
- Belong to another person and to which the User does not have any right to.
- Deceive or mislead the Company or any third-party about the origin of such messages or in any other manner.
- Contain material or software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of the Website or any connected computer resource.
- Access the Website, features or any of the services offered on or through the Website, by hacking, password mining or any other illegitimate means or through automated means including robot, deep link, page scrape.
- probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Website or any network connected to the Website, nor disrupt, interfere, breach the security or authentication measures on the Website or any network connected to the Website or cause any harm to the Website, system resources, servers of M&M connected to or accessible through the Website. You may not reverse look-up, trace or seek to trace any information on any other user, of or visitor to, the Website, or any other customer of M&M, including any other Account on the Website not owned by You, to its source, or exploit the Website or service or information made available or offered by or through the Website, in any way whether or not the purpose is to reveal any information, including but not limited to personal identification information, other than Your own information, as provided for by the Website.
- Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded.
If you believe that the Website or any User Contributions violate your copyright, please send us a notice of such copyright infringement to enable us in taking an appropriate action or decision.
Any User Contribution you post to the Website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. By providing any User Contribution on the Website, you grant us and our affiliates and service providers, and each of their and our respective licensees, successors and assigns the right to use, reproduce, modify, perform, display, distribute and otherwise disclose to third parties any such material or for any purpose, without any financial or other obligation to you.
You represent and warrant that all of your User Contributions do and will comply with these Terms and that you own or control all rights in and to the User Contributions and have the right to grant the license granted above to us and our affiliates and service providers, and each of their and our respective licensees, successors and assigns. While, using some of the tools/features, you may find involvement of of/ by third parties, and Your use of them is also subject to the policies of such third-parties.
You understand and acknowledge that you are responsible for any User Contributions you submit or contribute, and you, not the Company, have full responsibility for such content, including its legality, reliability, accuracy and appropriateness. We will be under no obligation (i) to maintain any User Contribution in confidence; (ii) to pay you any compensation for any User Contribution; or (iii) to respond to any of the User Contribution. We are not responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any User Contributions posted by you or any other user of the Website. We do not regularly review the posted User Contribution nor do we endorse any User Contribution on the Website. Notwithstanding the aforesaid, we reserve the right to remove any post or User Contribution made by you or any other user through any of the Interactive Services offered on the Website.
g. We collect information from a variety of sources as explained in our Privacy Policy. The term “Personal Data” means information relating to an identified or identifiable individual (i.e. a natural person). All of the information we collect about you is used to monitor the use of the site, develop world-class products and services of superior quality, and provide or make available for you additional services or products. Such use does not result in any personally identifiable information being collected or stored. By submitting your Personal Data through this Website, you shall be consenting to it being handled in accordance with the site's online Privacy Policy. You agree to provide true and complete information about yourself by registering on this site and you are solely responsible for protecting your password and all acts by way of use of your password. If you have submitted Personal Data through this Website and wish us to cease using it for the purposes submitted, please contact us.
h. Unless with our prior permission, no part of the Website may be reproduced or transmitted to or stored in any other Website, nor 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.
i. You have a limited permission to display, print or download extracts from these pages of the M&M Website for your personal, non-commercial and non-profit use only and you shall not be entitled to commercialise any such material or contents on the M&M Website in any way. Any other use or modification of the content of the Company’s web site without the Company’s prior written authorisation is prohibited. Framing this site or using our proprietary marks as meta tags by you or any person acting on your behalf, without our written consent is impermissible. Use of contact information provided on the site for unauthorized purposes, including marketing is prohibited. Any use intended to impede with the working of the site or to intercept any information from the site is prohibited.
j. You may not (whether directly or indirectly including through the use of any program) create a database in an electronic or other form by downloading and storing all or any part of the pages from the M&M Website without our prior written consent save as expressly authorised by an agreement in writing between us, provided any copies of the pages of the M&M Website which you save to disk or to any other storage system or medium may only be used for subsequent viewing purposes or to print extracts for personal non-commercial and non-profit use.
k. You may not amend, republish, distribute, reproduce, adapt or modify any of the materials on the M&M Website or use any of the materials for public performance or otherwise make commercial use of the M&M Website or any materials located on it without our prior written consent.
l. You cannot upload on the M&M Website or submit any content or otherwise distribute or publish through the M&M Website any matter or material which is or may be considered abusive, pornographic, illegal, defamatory, obscene, racist, threatening, harassing, deceptive, fraudulent, tortious; or which is otherwise unlawful, offensive, profane, or invasive of another's privacy or designed to cause disruption to any computer systems or network. We shall be entitled without liability to the user and at our discretion to remove any such content from our server immediately.
m. You shall not directly or indirectly: (i) decipher, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, or otherwise attempt to derive any source code or underlying ideas or algorithms of any part of the M&M Website, except to the extent applicable laws specifically prohibit such restriction; (ii) modify, translate, or otherwise create derivative works of any part of the M&M Website; or (iii) copy, rent, lease, distribute, or otherwise transfer any of the rights that you receive hereunder. You shall abide by all applicable local, state, national, and international laws and regulations.
n. You shall not, and shall not permit any third party using your account to, take any action, or submit any content, that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other right of any other person or entity, or violates any law or contract; you know is false, misleading, or inaccurate; constitutes unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or promotional material or any junk mail, spam, or chain letters; contains software viruses or any other computer codes, files, or programs that are designed or intended to disrupt, damage, limit, or interfere with the proper function of any software, hardware, or telecommunications equipment or to damage or obtain unauthorized access to any system, data, password, or other information of M&M or any third party; is made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence; or impersonates any person or entity, including any employee or representative of the Company.
o. You shall not: (i) take any action that imposes or may impose (as determined by M&M in its sole discretion) an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on M&M’s or its third-party providers’ infrastructure; (ii) interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of M&M Website or any activities conducted on the same; (iii) bypass any measures M&M may use to prevent or restrict access to the M&M Website (or other accounts, computer systems, or networks connected to the same); (iv) run mail list, listserv, or any form of auto-responder or "spam" on the M&M Website; or (v) use manual or automated software, devices, or other processes to "crawl" or "spider" any page of the M&M Website.
p. M&M Website cannot under any circumstances be used for commercial purposes by any user.
q. You grant us a royalty free irrevocable permission to reproduce, download and print your user submissions / User Contributions in any of the sections on the M&M Website. You grant to the Company the worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable, transferable right to (and to allow others acting on its behalf to) (i) use, edit, modify, prepare derivative works of, reproduce, host, display, stream, transmit, playback, transcode, copy, feature, market, sell, distribute, and otherwise fully exploit your User Contributions and your trademarks, service marks, slogans, logos, and similar proprietary rights in connection with (a) the Services, (b) the Company’s (and its successors' and assigns’) businesses, (c) promoting, marketing, and redistributing part or all of the Site (and derivative works thereof) or the Services in any media formats and through any media channels (including, without limitation, third-party Websites); (ii) take whatever other action is required to perform and market the Services; (iii) allow its Users to stream, transmit, playback, download, display, feature, distribute, collect, and otherwise use the User Contributions and Trademarks in connection with the Services; and (iv) use and publish, and permit others to use and publish, the User Contributions names, likenesses, and personal and biographical materials of you and the members of your group, in connection with the provision or marketing of the Services. The foregoing license granted to the Company does not affect your other ownership or license rights in your User submissions/ User Contributions, including the right to grant additional licenses to your User Contributions.
w. We reserve and retain the right or ability to remove the availability or ability of participants to post comments in the event of any breach of these acceptable use provisions.
x. We will enforce appropriate sanctions against any of the users of the M&M Website who are responsible for abuse of the M&M Website. Such sanctions may include, but are not limited to (a) a formal warning, (b) suspension of access through the M&M Website or machines, (c) suspension of access to the M&M Website, (d) termination of any registration of the user with M&M Website or services, and (e) appropriate legal action.
