Welcome to www.thebetterindia.in. This website is owned and operated by Starry Eyes Media Pvt. Ltd. (“we”, “us” and “our”). For the purpose of these Terms & Conditions, wherever the context so requires “you”, “your”, or “user” shall mean any natural or legal person who uses the Platform for availing the Services.

This Website is directed at and only meant to be used by you for the purpose of accessing and consuming the online service provided by us in relation to our variety of content.

• This document is an electronic record in terms of:

  (i) Information Technology Act, 2000;

  (ii) the rules framed there under as applicable;

  (iii) the amended provisions pertaining to electronic records in various statutes as amended by the Information Technology Act, 2000. This electronic record is generated by a computer system and does not require any physical or digital signatures.

• This document is published in accordance with the provisions of Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules made thereunder that require publishing the rules and regulations, privacy policy and terms of use for access or usage of our Platform thebetterindia.in (“Website”)
• These Terms & Conditions read along with the Privacy Policy constitute a legal and binding agreement between you and the Company and govern your use of the Services provided through the Webiste. By using or visiting the Platform, or by using any content or information provided as part of the Platform/Services, you shall be deemed to have read, understood and accepted to be bound by these Terms of Use.
• We reserve the right to make changes to these Terms & Conditions at any time. Any such modifications will become effective immediately upon posting to the Platform and your continued use of the Platform, and/or the Services constitutes your agreement to such modifications. you agree to periodically review the current version of these Terms of Use as posted on the Platform. In order to access or use the Platform, you must be “competent” to contract, as understood within the meaning of the Indian Contract Act, 1872. You may not use our Services if you are a minor. By using the Services, we reserve the right to terminate your subscription and /or refuse to provide you with access to the Services if it is discovered that the consent to use the products or Services is not made by you, or if we find out that you are a minor, or any information provided by you is inaccurate. You may not access or use the Platform and/or the Services if we have previously banned you from the Platform or deactivated your account.

Please read the following terms and conditions carefully before using our website. Your use of our service provided online is subject to your acceptance and compliance with the following terms and conditions, as may be modified, altered, or updated from time to time. If you do not accept the following terms and conditions, you are advised not to use our website for any online service provided by us.

This website provides a number of Online based services.

The following terms and conditions are legally binding on you (“the User”) and our Company –

1. Registration on Website:

   A user can create an account, by registering on the Website, to avail of our Services or place an order of a product, or even place orders as a “Guest”. The registration should be made with a valid and unique email ID and password. Valid mobile numbers can also be used for creating an account on our website www.thebetterindia.in reserves the right to accept or not accept any User from registering on the Website, in its sole discretion, without providing any reasons thereof. The Platform also gives you the option of subscribing to our newsletter. In order to do subscribe, you will be required to provide us with your e-mail ID.

2. Services:

   The Platform is a content distribution, marketing and advertising platform which allows you to read and view stories, videos, articles, images, news etc. (“Services”).

3. Warranty for your submission to the Platform:

   If you may submit your content to the company for publishing on the website, you will own the information you provide to the Company, and you may request its deletion at any time. Any information you submit to us is at your own risk. By providing information to us, you represent and warrant that you are entitled to submit such information and the same is not confidential and not in violation of any law, contractual restrictions or other third-party rights (including any intellectual property rights).

4. Links:

   As part of the advertising and marketing services offered the Company, the Platform may contain links to other websites. The Linked Sites are not under the control of Platform and/or the Company. We are not responsible for the content of any Linked Site, or any changes or updates to the Linked Site. On accessing the Linked Sites, you shall be governed by the terms of use, privacy policy and any other additional policies of the said Linked Sites. You further acknowledge and agree that the Company shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of any such content, advertising, products, services or other materials available on or through any Linked Sites or for any errors, defamatory content, libel, slander, omissions, falsehoods, obscene content, pornographic material, or any profanity contained therein.

5. User Feedback/Comments/Suggestions:

   When you give your feedback, comments or suggestions on our content or website, you must take care that your feedback does not contain any confidential information or is not in violation of any third party right including intellectual property rights; shall not be unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libellous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or is otherwise inappropriate as under any appropriate law;

However, we are not under any obligation of confidentiality, express or implied, regarding your Feedback and we reserve the right to use or disclose such your Feedback for any purpose, in any way, as we deem fit; and we reserve the right to reject, remove, delete or edit such feedback, at any time, without any reason, without providing any notice.

7. Indemnification:

   You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Company, and our affiliates, officers, partners, employees, consultants and representatives, from and against all losses, expenses, damages, costs, claims and demands, including reasonable attorney’s fees and related costs and expenses, due to or arising out of your failure to comply with these Terms & Conditions; or where any information you submit, email, or otherwise transmit to us violates third party rights or Applicable Laws.

8. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution:

   These Terms of Use shall be governed by and constructed in accordance with the laws of India without reference to conflict of laws principles. The courts in Bangalore, India shall have the exclusive jurisdiction to determine any disputes arising in relation to, or under these Terms & Conditions.

9. Grievance Officer

   In accordance with the Information Technology Act, 2000 and rules made there under, the name and contact details of the Grievance Officer are provided below.
   E-mail ID: info@betterindia.in

10. Intellectual Property Rights:

    All contents included on this website, such as text, graphics, visual design, trademarks, user interfaces, photographs, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is our exclusive property as well as its contents. The compilation of all content on this site is our exclusive property. All software used on this site is our property and is protected by trade dress, copyright, patent, and trademark laws.

10. Limitation of Liability:

    In no event, we shall, or any of our officers, directors, and employees, shall be held liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, or consequential damages arising out of or in any way connected with the use of this Website.

11. Third-Party:

    This website may provide links and pointers to other Internet sites, which may be maintained by other Third Parties and we are in no way, responsible for the contents of any product or services provided by such Third Party. Our website is hosted with Third-Party data Hosting specialists.

12. Assignment:

    We are entitled to assign, transfer, and subcontract its rights and/or obligations under these Terms and Conditions without any notification to any User. However, Users are not allowed to assign, transfer, or subcontract any of your rights and/or obligations under these Terms and Conditions.

13. Severability:

    If any of the provisions of these Terms and Conditions is found to be invalid under any applicable law, such provisions shall be deleted without affecting the remaining provisions herein.

14. General:

    We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to change/alter/modify these Terms and Conditions at any time by posting the changes on the website. Any changes are effective immediately upon posting to the website. User’s continued use of the website thereafter constitutes an agreement for the User to all such changed Terms and Conditions. We may, with or without prior notice, terminate any of the rights granted by these Terms and Conditions. Users shall comply immediately with any termination or other notice, including, as applicable, by ceasing all use of the website.

Nothing contained in these Terms and Conditions shall be construed as creating any agency, partnership, affiliation, joint venture or other forms of joint enterprise between us. Our failure to require your performance of any provision hereof shall not affect our full right to require such performance at any time thereafter, nor shall our waiver of a breach of any provision hereof be taken or held to be a waiver of the provision itself.

15. Others:

    By using this website User represent and warrant that:

• By agreeing to these Terms & Conditions, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site. You may not use our products for any illegal or unauthorized purpose nor may you, in the use of the Service, violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright laws). You must not transmit any worms or viruses or any code of a destructive nature. A breach or violation of any of the Terms will result in an immediate termination of your Services.
• All registration information submitted by User is truthful and accurate and that the User agrees to maintain the accuracy of such information.
• User membership is solely for User’s personal use and not for commercial use. Any use of this website or its content other than for personal purposes is prohibited.
• User’s personal and non-commercial use of this website shall be subjected to the following restriction:
• User shall not reverse engineer, modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, download, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information or software obtained from the Website;
• User shall not remove any copyright, trademark registration, or other proprietary notices from the content. Users further agree not to access or use this website in any manner that may be harmful to the operation of this website or its content.
• User will not post, submit, upload, distribute, or otherwise transmit or make available any software or other computer files that contain a virus or other harmful component, or otherwise impair or damage the website and/or services or any connected network, or otherwise interfere with any person or entity/s use or enjoyment of the website and/or services.
• Users will not engage in any form of antisocial, disrupting, or destructive acts, including “flaming,” “spamming,” “flooding,” “trolling,” “phishing” and “griefing” as those terms are commonly understood and used on the internet.
• Users will not delete or modify any content of the website and/or services, including but not limited to, legal notices, disclaimers, or proprietary notices such as copyright or trademark symbols, logos, that User does not own or have express permission to modify.
• Users cannot and will not assure that other users are or will be complying with the foregoing rules or any other provisions of these terms of use, as agreed between User and us. The user hereby assumes all risk of harm or injury resulting from any such lack of compliance.
• The user confirms and understands that all information, content, and material contained in the website and/or services belongs to Starry Eyes Media Pvt. Ltd. All trademarks, services marks, trade names, and trade dress are proprietary to Starry Eyes Media Pvt.
  Ltd. No information, content or material from the website and/or services may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted or distributed in any way without the company’s express written permission.
• For the purpose of this Terms & Conditions, “Applicable Law” shall mean, any statute, law, regulation, ordinance, rule, judgment, notification, rule of common law, order, decree, bye-law, government approval, directive, guideline, requirement or other governmental restriction, or any similar form of decision of, or determination by, or any interpretation, policy or administration, having the force of law of any of the foregoing, by any authority in India having jurisdiction over the matter in question, whether in effect as of the date of these Terms & Conditions or thereafter.