RULES & REGULATIONS / TERMS OF USE
TERMINOLOGY IN THIS DOCUMENT:
The following is an “Agreement” between “You” and “The Company”.
ACCEPTANCE
The Company offers services with unstinted efforts through the platform Kisanjagat.com, that enables the users to connect with each other globally and exchange their opinions, avail information and updates on farming, farming technology, sell or buy Agri products worldwide, get advice on sustainable Agriculture and much more related to its allied sectors. The use of the platform Kisanjagat.com is governed by this agreement. By registering on this platform, you agree that you are accepting these terms and conditions in full. If you do not agree to or wish not to be bound by the Agreement, you may not access or use the Platform.
We shall change, modify, amend or update this agreement from time to time without any prior notification and the amended and restated terms and conditions of service shall be effective immediately upon posting on the platform. If you do not accept or adhere to the changes, you must stop using the platform. Your continuous use of the platform and any of our services will signify your acceptance of the changed terms and also this entire terms and conditions.
ELIGIBILITY
The Users who are complying with the following norms are eligible to use the platform
REGISTRATION ON THE PLATFORM
You will be able to use the Platform only after completing your registration process and thereafter you shall access it with the login credentials. You agree to provide all the personal details asked for during the registration process and you also assure that the details are correct, complete and current. The personal data we collect is only to identify the legal user of the platform and the protection of your personal data will be completely governed by our Privacy policy. By becoming a Registered user, you consent to your personal data to be included in our database, website / Mobile app, other services provided by the company and authorize the Company to share such information with other users, Third parties, Affiliates, Corporates and Advertisers for advertising and marketing. You shall modify and maintain the up to date details using your Account settings as and when it is needed. Upon your registration, the Platform administrator will automatically be added as a friend to your account and you shall chat directly with the administrator for any queries. You shall receive the administrator response within a business day or two and the necessary support actions will be taken care of. On successful registration, you will be automatically added to certain groups based on your location, crops groups of your location and some more important groups determined by the platform. You can always feel free to join other groups or leave from any of these groups based on your preferences.
COLLABORATION
You shall make friends, share your ideas, exchange views, gain knowledge and information with any of the registered users on the platform. You shall collaborate with each other in a healthy manner keeping in mind not to annoy or instigate the other users of the platform. You are provided with multiple channels to interact with the users and you agree to use it wisely without any violation of this agreement. The company is not responsible for your or any other user’s activities conducted on the platform, and shall not be liable to any member in connection with any damage suffered by anyone as a result of any such user's conduct. You shall also unfriend or block any user if you are not interested to interact. You shall invite your friends and others to the platform via “Invite Friends” option.
CONTENTS AND ITS RESTRICTION
You agree to post contents / articles / images / videos or information in any form related to either agriculture or its allied products/services only. Platform acts as a content integrator only and is not responsible in any way for the authenticity of the information displayed or provided by you. You are the sole owner and responsible for all the posts / images / information / videos and any other content you post on the platform. You must assure the correctness of the content prior to posting it on the platform. You hereby represent, warrant and agree that you shall be solely responsible for ensuring that any material or information you post on the platform or provide to the platform for authorization and display does not violate any Third Party Rights and is posted only with the permission of the concerned. The company shall provide only the platform for sharing the contents and to verify its trueness is vested with the users. Any contents appearing like advertisements should not be posted on the platform. Any such advertising / marketing contents if identified in the platform by the administrator, shall be immediately removed without any prior notice or information. The contents posted in the platform will be sent to the administrator or group admins and based on its genuineness, approval or rejection will be done at the sole discretion of the administrator/group admin. You are responsible to check whether the content is relevant, true and required for the agriculture stakeholders before it is posted. Contents approved by the administrator will subsequently appear in the feed and if it does not appear within 2 days, it implies that your content has been rejected. To help and support our platform to maintain good standards , you shall even report the content you believe that violates the agreement or seems irrelevant or incorrect.
You hereby represent, warrant and agree that information submitted to the platform for display will not:
MARKET PLACE
We provide a complete digital marketplace for all the agriculture stakeholders and users. You agree to post only the agri related and allied products/services for buy / sale / rent. It is only a platform to digitally advertise your products or requirements and the company shall not be involved in any of these transactions and outcomes. You shall contact the respective buyer or seller via this platform and all the transactions like buying, selling or renting done thereafter will be at your own risk. You are advised to be careful before indulging in any of these activities and the company cannot be held responsible for any disputes arising from these transactions.
MARKET PRICES
The market prices provided on the platform are collected from various online sources and such sources will also be displayed for your reference. Despite that we shall try to accommodate as much as we could, to provide the market prices for the entire agricultural products is not feasible. Market price data provided is to only evaluate or forecast your trading activities and the company does not guarantee the same and also cannot be held liable for any incorrect data.
CONTENTS AVAILABLE ON THE PLATFORM
The company strives hard and periodically takes adequate measures to provide you with the best, relevant and latest information. However, this does not create any liability for the company for any shortcomings with regard to the contents posted. The company shall not be responsible for any incorrect or misleading information available on the platform. The company does not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any information, or advertisements or any content contained on, distributed through, or linked, downloaded or accessed on the platform, or the quality of any products, information or other materials displayed, or obtained by you as a result of an advertisement or any other information or offer in or in connection with the service. You hereby acknowledge that any reliance upon any content shall be at your own discretion and risk. The company reserves the right in its sole discretion to remove any material/content/photos/offers displayed on the platform which it reasonably believes is unlawful, violates the terms and conditions and/or Agreement or is otherwise found inappropriate in the company’s opinion. Platform reserves the right to cooperate fully with the Governmental authorities, private investigators and/or injured third parties in the investigation of any suspected criminal or civil wrongdoing.
DELETED CONTENTS
When you delete the contents posted by you, it shall no longer be visible to anyone, including wherever shared by other users. Sometimes it may continue to exist elsewhere if immediate deletion is not possible due to technical limitations. However, the deleted content shall be erased subsequently within 30 days from the date of deletion. If you notice a deleted content visible even after the 30 days, please contact our support team and advise to remove this immediately. Until complete deletion of the content you will be considered as its sole owner.
JOB PORTAL
The platform makes available any Job advertisements related to agriculture only and it may also direct you to the third party websites. You shall be able to delete the Job posting within 24 hours of posting and for deletion thereafter, you shall contact the administrator to get it done. You will not be able to edit the job posting but you can mark it “as closed”. The platform or the company does not exercise any control over the Job Advertisements and its advertisers or their contents as well as the details provided by the job applicants. The company assumes no responsibility and disclaims all liability for the content, accuracy, completeness, legality, reliability, or availability of any job ads, company pages, screener questions, responses, candidate details and any other. As a Job applicant, by creating a profile or uploading your resume on the platform, you are requesting and authorizing the platform to make available your resume to third parties, such as employers, that the platform believes may have an interest in the same. The company does not guarantee the validity of a job offer and cautions you to verify the same before taking adverse decisions on current employment. You are solely responsible for verifying the accuracy and genuinity of any employer or job offer. Also employers are responsible to verify the accuracy of the details provided by the job applicants and to decide on their suitability for your requirements. We shall not be held liable for any miscommunications/ misinterpretations / incomplete information or any consequences arising thereafter in this regard.
ACCOUNT SUSPENSION OR TERMINATION
We shall suspend or disable your access to your account or delete your account, if we come to understand and determine that you clearly, seriously or repeatedly attempt or attempted to breach this agreement. We may also suspend or terminate your account if you repeatedly infringe other people's intellectual property rights or where we are required to do so for legal reasons. In connection with any of the agreement breach, the services platform may suspend or terminate the account of any user as deemed appropriate in its sole discretion. User(s) agree that the platform shall have no liability to any User(s), including consequential or any other damages in the event platform takes any of the actions mentioned in this section and that you agree to bear all the related risks in such instances. Banning the user or terminating an account of the user is at the discretion of the administrator and it shall be done without providing any reason. Where we take such action you will have an option to request a review, unless doing so may expose us or others to legal liability; harm one community of users; compromise or interfere with the integrity or operation of our services, systems or Products: or where we are restricted to technical limitations; or where we are prohibited due to legal reasons.
ACCOUNT DELETION
The company has the sole right to delete your account for any legal reasons. Also, you have the access to delete your account, where you shall delete your account permanently from the platform via Settings menu. Once deleted, all your details will be removed from the platform within 30 days. If you wish to join us again and avail our services, you may have to start a new account.
PLATFORM UPGRADATION
Whenever you download or use our platform, it is taken for granted that you give us permission to download and install updates to the software as and when available.
LIMITATIONS ON LIABILITY
We work hard to provide the best platform and to specify clear guidelines for our users. The platform is provided “ as is where is“ and we make no assertions that it will always be safe, secure or error-free, and that it will function without any disruptions, delays or imperfections. To the extent permitted by law, we also disclaim all warranties including the express warranty, implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title or non-infringement. We do not (are not in a position to) control or direct what members do or say and we will not be held responsible for their actions or conduct (whether online or offline) or any contents they share which may include offensive, inappropriate, obscene, unlawful and other objectionable contents. As we cannot predict issues that may arise on the platform, our liability is limited to the fullest extent permissible by laws applicable and under no circumstances will the company be liable to you for any loss in profits and revenues, information, data, consequential / unanticipated, special, indirect, exemplary, punitive or incidental damages arising or even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
DISCLAIMER
The platform and its services provided by the company hereby expressly disclaims any and all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to any warranties of condition, quality, durability, performance, accuracy, reliability, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. All such warranties, representations, conditions, undertakings and terms are hereby excluded. The Company does not represent or warranty that the manufacture, importation, distribution, offer, display, purchase, sale and/or use of products or services offered or displayed on the services provided does not violate any third party rights; Any material downloaded or otherwise obtained through the platform is done at your sole discretion and risk and you are solely responsible for any damage to your computer system/mobile or loss of data that may result from the download of any such material. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from the services shall create any warranty not expressly stated herein. Under no circumstances shall the services be held liable for any delay or failure or disruption of the content or services delivered through it resulting directly or indirectly from acts of nature, forces or causes beyond its reasonable control, including without limitation, Internet failures, computer, telecommunications or any other equipment failures. You hereby further agree to indemnify and save the services provided, the company, its affiliates, directors, officers and employees harmless from any and all losses, claims, liabilities (including legal costs on a full indemnity basis) which may arise from your breach of any representations and warranties made by you to the services provided. You hereby further agree that the services provided and the company is not responsible and shall have no liability to it, for any material posted by others, including defamatory, offensive or illicit material and that the risk of damages from such material rests entirely with you. The SMS, WhatsApp, push notifications, Email alerts and/or other alerts will be sent to you by the company but neither the company/platform shall be responsible for any failure of such alerts if there are any issues in the platform or in the communications. The company through its services at any point of time does not guarantee any form of sales leads or any number of sales leads. The services provided by the company are subjected to change from time to time and no intimation or information is necessary for the changes in the services to be considered effective. Any claims made against the company shall only limit the total amount you have paid for the products and services provided by us. The company is under no duty and does not by the Agreement, Proposal or Terms of Service undertake a duty to monitor, supervise, or “police” your activities and disclaims any responsibility for any use or misuse of the company's products/services and/or its resources/network. The company has no obligation to any person who has not entered into an agreement with us. The company is not a party to any order, sale or contract which arises between the user and any party using the services provided. The company shall not be liable for the claims and liabilities arising out of the user buying or using products listed in the services provided or by making use of the information provided in the same. No additional terms and conditions proposed by the members in the course of the transactions will bind “The company.”
In no event shall the company be liable to the user or any third parties for any inability to use the services provided (whether due to disruption, limited access, changes to or termination of any features on the Website/Mobile application or otherwise), any delays, errors or omissions with respect to any communication or transmission, or any damage (direct, indirect, consequential or otherwise) arising from the use of or inability to use the services provided or any of its features. The company shall not be held responsible for any of the third party content appearing on the platform.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
The Company is the sole owner or lawful licensee of all the rights to the platform and its content. The content of the platform means its design, layout, text, images, graphics, sound, video and any other made available by the company. Such contents of the platform, the company embodied trade secrets and intellectual property rights are protected under worldwide copyright and other laws. All titles, ownership and intellectual property rights on the platform and its content shall remain with the company. In no event shall the company be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, or consequential damages of any kind whatsoever with respect to the services, materials and the products. All content made available on the platform by the company is subject to copyright issues. The company believes that you agree not to copy, download & reproduce any information, text, images, files, databases or listings available on the platform or use the platform for such violations for the purpose of reselling or redistributing, mass mailing or otherwise commercially exploiting the contents of the platform. It is strictly prohibited and may invite necessary stern legal action. As a condition of your access to use of the platform, you agree that you will not use the services to infringe the intellectual property rights of others in any way. The Company is the sole owner of the platform in the form of Website and Mobile app provided to you as a part of your registration and you shall be additionally liable to the “play store and app store” terms and conditions.
You solely represent, warrant and agree to: (a) provide the Company with true, accurate, current and complete information to be displayed on the platform. (b) maintain and promptly amend all information to keep it true, accurate, current and complete.
LIMITS ON USING OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
We retain all rights to the contents that we have and made available on the platform such as but not limited images, designs, videos or sounds and are covered under Intellectual Property Rights. After obtaining the proper written prior consent from us, you shall use our copyrights or trademarks (or any similar marks) as expressly permitted by us in that consent.
GOVERNING LAWS
We try to provide clear and specific rules so that we can limit or hopefully avoid any disputes from arising. But, if a dispute does arise, it’s useful to know up-front where it can be resolved and what will apply. In this case you agree that the claim must be resolved exclusively in the District Court of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. You also agree that you submit personal jurisdiction of the above-mentioned Court for the purpose of litigating any such claim, and that the laws of the Government of India will govern these terms and any claim, without regard to conflict of law provisions.
Indemnity:
You hereby indemnify and holds harmless the company including its officers and employees from and against all direct claims, suits, liabilities, damages, costs fees, including, without limitations, attorney’s fees, expenses or losses arising out of or resulting from the performance of the company. The company shall not be held liable for any loss of income/profits, indirect, specific, or consequential damages of any kind suffered by you for any reason.
Force Majeure:
The company shall not be held responsible for non-fulfillment of its obligations due to the exigency of one or more of the force majeure events such as but not Limited to acts of God, War, Flood, Earthquakes, Strikes, Lockouts, Epidemics, Pandemics, Business risks, Riots, Recession, Business continuity risks, Civil Commotion, acquisitions etc,.
PRIVACY POLICY
Personal Data
Personal data means any data that, either on its own or jointly with other data, can be used to identify a natural person or legal person. You directly provide us with such data when you use the services or interact with us or while contacting us for support. As permitted by law, we may also obtain data from public and commercial third-party sources. The personal data we collect may include but not limited to name, gender, enterprise name, postal and email addresses, phone number, login information (account and password), photos, certificate information, your company information and any other depending on the services that you use. We also collect details based on the information you provide us through messages in the form of queries or responses or interactions with our customer service support. We collect your pin code / postal code / zip code & other information about your location & your preferences to provide you with localized content. Your location will be used to update your products, your business group, your business & product catalogs, other places in the platform and shall be shared with others for providing services.
We may use your personal data for the following purposes:
Cookies and Similar Technologies
To enhance the quality of our services, the company may sometimes opt to use cookies. You can manage / delete cookies based on your own preferences. In addition to this, we may use other similar technologies for better results.
Log Files : We use your information in log files/database to analyze trend, administer our website, track visitors movement around our website, debug our software, quality testing and gather demographic information about our visitors as a whole.
Access and Control to Your Personal Data
It is your responsibility to ensure that all personal data submitted to the company is correct. The Company is dedicated to maintaining the accuracy and completeness of personal data and keeping the data up-to-date.
To the extent required by applicable law, you may (i) have the right to access certain personal data we maintain about you, (ii) request that we update or correct inaccuracies in that data, (iii) object or restrict our use of your personal data (iv) ask us to delete your personal data from our database.
The security of your personal data is of utmost concern to the company. The company uses appropriate measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, disclosure, use, modification, damage or loss. The company is committed to protecting your personal data; however, please understand that no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is secure and the company cannot be held liable for any damage or loss since no security measure is perfect & fool proof.
The company shall retain your personal information for no longer than is necessary for the purposes stated in this agreement, unless otherwise extending the retention period is required or permitted by law. The data storage period may vary with the services. The standards the company uses to determine the retention period is based on the time required to retain personal data for fulfilling business purposes including providing products and services; maintaining corresponding transactions and business records; controlling and improving the performance and quality of products and services; ensuring the security of systems, products, and services, handling possible user queries or complaints and locating problems, user’s permission for a longer retention period and whether the laws, contracts, and other equivalencies have special requirements for data retention. We will maintain your registration information as long as your account is necessary for service provision.
A child must not create the account without the consent of a parent or guardian. If a child's personal data is collected with prior parental consent, we will only use or disclose the data as permitted by law, with the explicit consent of the child's parents or guardians, or when necessary for the protection of the child. If we accidentally collect a child's personal data without verified prior consent from the child's parents, we will attempt to delete the data as soon as possible.
Third-Party Providers and Their Services
You may receive any alert from third parties other than the company and its partners ("third parties"). The company does not have the right to control such third parties, but you can choose whether to use those links, view the content or access the products / services provided by third parties.
The company cannot control the privacy practices and data protection policies of third parties that are not subject to this agreement. When you submit personal information to such a third party, please read and refer to the privacy protection policy of the respective third party.
International Transfers of Your Personal Data
As a global company, your personal data collected may be processed or accessed in the country/region where you use the services or in other countries/regions where the company or its affiliates, subsidiaries, service providers or business partners have a presence. These jurisdictions may have different data protection laws. In such circumstances, the company will take measures to ensure that data is processed as required by this policy and applicable laws, which includes when transferring the data subject’s personal data.
The Platform has a dedicated page for listing different language Agri Magazines, where the latest digital agri magazine editions from various third parties are showcased. The platform or the company does not take any responsibility for the contents of the magazines. The Magazine collaborators or the magazine providers are solely responsible for any discrepancy due to any content in their magazines.
CHARGES AND LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP
You shall use the platform at free of charge until any further notice from the company. The charges will be levied at the sole discretion of the company. You will then be subjected to the payment for further usage of the platform unless you have registered under the exemption of the company's offers. As per the exemption offer, you shall avail the Lifetime Membership offer for free.
