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1. GENERAL

In terms of Information Technology statutes, this document is an electronic record. Being generated by a computer system it does not require any physical or digital signatures.

This document is published in accordance with the provisions of Information Technology regulations that require publishing the rules and regulations, privacy policy, and Terms of Use for access or usage of:

  1. The website www.avinav.org (hereinafter referred to as ‘Website’) and the IOS/Android application ‘avinav’ (hereinafter referred to as "Application" or “App”), owned by Avinav Consulting. , a Partnership incorporated under the Partnership Act, 1932, (hereinafter called as “Partnership”, having its registered office at 347 Vardhman Sunrize Plaza, LSC Plot No. 1, Vasundhra Enclave, Delhi-110096, India. Represented by its members, where such expression shall, unless repugnant to the context thereof, be deemed to include its respective legal heirs, representatives, administrators, permitted successors and assigns;
  2. For the purpose of these Terms of Use, along with any amendments to the same, and wherever the context so requires "You" or "User" shall mean any natural or legal person who has agreed to become a user of the Website/App by logging into the Website/App. The Website/App also provides certain services without registration/acceptance, and such provision of services does not absolve You of this contractual relationship. The term "We", "Us", "Our", ‘Partnership’ shall mean Avinav Consulting; “Agreement” shall mean and refer to this Terms of Service, including any amendments that may be incorporated into it. “Agreement Period” shall refer to the period for which the User engages the services of the Website/App. “Third Party” shall mean and refer to any individual(s), Company, or entity apart from the User and the Partnership. 
    The headings of each section in this Agreement are only for the purpose of organizing the various provisions under this Agreement in an orderly manner. These headings shall not be used by either party to interpret the provisions contained under them in any manner. Further, the headings have no legal or contractual value.
  3. By using the Website/App, You accept and agree to be bound by this Agreement, the Privacy Policy, as well as rules, guidelines, policies, terms, and conditions applicable to any service that is provided by the Website/App, that shall be deemed to be incorporated into this Terms of Use and shall be considered as part and parcel of this Terms of Use. Your use of Our Website/App is evidence that You have read and agreed to be contractually bound by these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy. Please read both carefully. The use of this Website/App by You is governed by this policy and any policy so mentioned by terms of reference. If you do not agree with any of these terms, please discontinue using the Website/App
  4. We hold the sole right to modify the Terms of Service without prior permission from You or providing notice to You. The relationship creates on You a duty to periodically check the Terms of Service and stay updated on its requirements. If You continue to use the Website/App or avail of any of its services without registration following such change, this is deemed as consent by You to the so amended policies. Your continued use of the Website/App is conditioned upon your compliance with the Terms of Service, including but not limited to compliance with the Terms of Service even after alterations if any.

2. ONLINE PLATFORM

The Website/App is an online portal, where certain industry sectors, like auto components, automotive, aviation, aerospace, defense, space, homeland security, infrastructure, tourism, hospitality, IT, and BPM will become Users. The Users may also ask for questions from Avinav Consulting on a paid or free basis. The questions would be mainly on consulting certain regulatory and tax matters, market research, planning, seeking approvals, etc.

Users will get updates on regulations, taxes, industry news, etc. They can also ask questions relating to their business operations, like an inbound investment, joint ventures, setting up wholly-owned subsidiaries, various tax and regulatory registrations, advisory services, market research analysis, etc.

The free Users or limited rights Users will not be able to get certain details of paid Users.

By virtue of agreeing to these Terms of Service, all users/members of the Website have given their express consent to the Website Owner or the Company for displaying their advertisement on the website and that later in the future they cannot raise an objection to the same.

NOTE: All information provided by the member companies/Users should be true and correct, if for some reason the information is found to be false, the website/App reserves the right to remove the member profile of such company from the website/App. The User/member company shall not claim refunds for any subscription payments made.

3. MEMBERSHIP

If a customer wants to avail of services of the Website/App and use it, registration is required. As a part of the registration, We collect information such as your name, gender, name of your company, name of CEO of your company, basic demographic or company data, key contact person, key public relation contact, address of the company, factory or manufacturing unit details, industry, products/services offered, etc.

Membership of this Website/App is available only to those above the age of 18, barring those “Incompetent to Contract” which inter alia include insolvents. If You are a minor and wish to use the Website/App, You may do so through Your legal guardian. The Partnership/Website/App reserves the right to terminate Your account on knowledge of You being a minor and having registered on the Website/App or availing any of its services.

Further, at any time during Your use of this Website/App, including but not limited to the time of registration, You are solely responsible for protecting the confidentiality of Your username and password, and any activity under the account shall be deemed to have been done by You. In the case that You provide Us with false and/or inaccurate details or we have reason to believe that You have done so, We hold the right to permanently suspend Your account.

4. RIGHTS AND LIMITS

You own all of the content, feedback, and personal information you provide to us, but you also grant us a non-exclusive license to it.

We'll honor the choices you make about who gets to see your information and content.

You promise to only provide information and content that you have the right to share, and that your profile will be truthful.

As between you and Us, you own the content and information that you submit or post to the Services and you are only granting Us the following non-exclusive license: A worldwide, transferable, and sub-licensable right to use, copy, modify, distribute, publish, and process, information and content that you provide through our Services, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or others. These rights are limited in the following ways:

  1. You can end this license for specific content by deleting such content from the Services, or generally by closing your account, except
    1. to the extent, you shared it with others as part of the Service and they copied or stored it
    2. for a reasonable time, it takes to remove from backup and other systems.
  2. We will not include your content in advertisements for the products and services of others (including sponsored content) to others without your separate consent. However, we have the right, without compensation to you or others, to serve ads near your content and information, and your comments on sponsored content may be visible as noted in the Privacy Policy.
  3. We will get your consent if we want to give others the right to publish your posts beyond the Service. However, other Members and/or Visitors may access and share your content and information, consistent with your settings and degree of connection with them.
  4. While we may edit and make formatting changes to your content (such as translating it, modifying the size, layout, or file type, or removing metadata), we will not modify the meaning of your expression.
  5. Because you own your content and information and we only have non-exclusive rights to it, you may choose to make it available to others, including under the terms of a Creative Commons license.

You agree that we may access, store, and use any information that you provide in accordance with the terms of the Privacy Policy and your privacy settings.

By submitting suggestions or other feedback regarding our Services to Us, you agree that We can use and share (but does not have to) such feedback for any purpose without compensation to you.

You agree to only provide content or information if that does not violate the law nor anyone's rights (e.g., without violating any intellectual property rights or breaching a contract). You also agree that your profile information will be truthful. We may be required by law to remove certain information or content in certain countries.

5. LIMITS

We have the right to limit how you connect and interact with our Services. We're providing you notice about our intellectual property rights. We reserve the right to limit your use of the Services, including the number of your connections and your ability to contact other Members. We reserve the right to restrict, suspend, or terminate your account if We believe that you may be in breach of this Agreement or law or are misusing the Services (e.g. violating any Do and Don'ts). We reserve all of its intellectual property rights in the Services. For example, SlideShare, Stylized, the SlideShare, and “in” logos and Our other trademarks, service marks, graphics, and logos used in connection with our website/app are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Partnership. Other trademarks and logos used in connection with the Services may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

6. COMMUNICATIONS:

By using this Website/App, it is deemed that You have consented to receive telephonic calls, SMSs, and/or emails from Us at any time We deem fit. Such communications shall be sent to You on the telephone number and/or email address provided by You for the use of this Website/App which is subject to our Privacy Policy. These communications include but are not limited to contacting you through information received from Third Parties. Such communications by Us are for purposes that inter alia include clarification calls, marketing calls, and promotional calls. In case You wish to stop receiving notifications from Us with regard to marketing and promotional calls/ with regard to any communication received from Us, You may do so by sending an email to [email protected].

In addition, You may also be contacted by Third Parties who may have access to the information disclosed by You or to whom We may have disclosed Your information for purposes such as, but not limited to, statistical compilations.

The sharing of the information provided by You shall be governed by our Privacy Policy at www.avinav.org.

7. ACCOUNT REGISTRATION AND OBLIGATIONS

All Users have to register and login for availing of services on the Website/App.

You must keep your account and registration details current and correct for communications related to your purchases from the Website/App. By agreeing to the Terms of Use, the user agrees to receive promotional communication and newsletters from the Partnership and its partners or staff member or associate. The user can opt-out from such communication and/or newsletters either by unsubscribing on the Website/App itself or by contacting the customer services team and placing a request for unsubscribing.

You will keep your password a secret.

You will not share an account with anyone else and will follow our rules and the law.

As between you and others, your account belongs to you. You agree to (1) try to choose a strong and secure password; (2) keep your password secure and confidential; (3) not transfer any part of your account (e.g., connections, groups) and (4) follow the law and the Dos and Don'ts below. You are responsible for anything that happens through your account unless you close it or report misuse. Note that for Premium Services purchased by another party for you to use (e.g. Recruiter seat bought by your employer), the party paying for the Premium Service controls such an account (which is different from your personal account) and may terminate your access to it.

8. USER’S OBLIGATIONS

The User undertakes to fulfill the following obligations. Failure to satisfy any of these obligations gives Us the right to permanently suspend Your account and/or claim damages for any losses that accrue to Us or additional costs that may be imposed on us.

  1. You hereby certify that you are at least 18 years of age.
  2. You agree to ensure the email address provided in your account registration is valid at all times and shall keep your contact information accurate and up-to-date.
  3. You agree to comply with all local laws and regulations governing the downloading, installation, and/or use of the Website/App, including, without limitation to, any usage rules set forth in this Agreement.
  4. You shall provide accurate information to us and keep it updated.
  5. You shall use your real name on your profile.
  6. You shall use the services in a professional manner.
  7. You undertake not to:
    1. Act dishonestly or unprofessionally, including by posting inappropriate, inaccurate or objectionable content;
    2. Add content that is not intended for, or inaccurate for, a designated field (e.g. submitting a telephone number in the title or any other field, or including telephone numbers, email addresses, street addresses, or any personally identifiable information for which there is not a field provided by website/App);
    3. Create a false identity on the Website/App;
    4. Misrepresent your current or previous positions and qualifications;
    5. Create a Member profile for anyone other than yourself (a real person or entity);
    6. Use or attempt to use another’s account;
    7. Harass, abuse or harm another person;
    8. Send spam or other unwelcomed communications to others;
    9. Scrape or copy profiles and information of others through any means (including crawlers, browser plugins, and add-ons, and any other technology or manual work);
    10. Act in an unlawful, libelous, abusive, obscene, discriminatory, or otherwise objectionable manner;
    11. Disclose information that you do not have the right to disclose (such as confidential information of others (Including your employer or entity));
    12. Violate the intellectual property or other rights of website/App, including, without limitation using the word ‘website/App’ or our logos in any business name, email, or URL;
    13. Cut, copy, distribute, modify, recreate, reverse engineer, distribute, disseminate, post, publish or create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information or software obtained from the Website/App. For the removal of doubt, it is clarified that unlimited or wholesale reproduction, copying of the content for commercial or non-commercial purposes, and unwarranted modification of data and information within the content of the Website/App is not permitted. Should You want to engage in one or more such actions, prior permission from Us must be obtained;
    14. access (or attempt to access) the Website/App and/or the materials or Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by the Website/App. The use of deep-link, robot, spider or other automatic devices, program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Website/App or Content, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Website/App or, materials or any Content, to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or information through any means not specifically made available through the Website/App is prohibited. You acknowledge and agree that by accessing or using the Website/App Services, You may be exposed to content from other Users or Third Parties that You may consider offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable. We disclaim all liabilities arising in relation to such offensive content on the Website/App. Further, You may report such offensive content;
    15. use the Website/App or in any manner that may impair, overburden, damage, disable or otherwise compromise (i) Partnership’s services; (ii) any other party's use and enjoyment of Partnership’s services; or (iii) the services and products of any Third Party (including, without limitation to, the Authorized Device);
    16. use the Services or Materials for any unlawful purposes or to conduct any unlawful activity, including, but not limited to, fraud, embezzlement, money laundering, or identity theft;
    17. abuse, harass, threaten, defame, disillusion, erode, abrogate, demean, or otherwise violate the legal rights of others;
    18. engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts access to the Website/App or the Services (or the servers and networks which are connected to the website/app);
    19. upload or distribute files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of the Website/App or another's a mobile phone;
    20. download any file posted on the Website/App that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner;
    21. probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Website/App or any connected network, nor breach the security or authentication measures on the Website/App. You may not reverse look-up, trace or seek to trace any information on any other user, of or visitor to, the Website/App, or exploit the Service or information made available or offered by or through the Website/App, 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/app ;
    22. disrupt or interfere with the security of, or otherwise cause harm to, the Website/App, systems resources, servers or networks connected to or accessible through the Website/App or any affiliated or linked website or apps;
    23. use the Website/App or any material or Content for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use, or to solicit the performance of any illegal activity or other activity which infringes the rights of this Website/App or other Third Parties;
    24. violate any applicable laws or regulations for the time being in force within or outside your home country;
    25. violate any code of conduct or other guidelines, which may be applicable for or to any particular Service;
    26. Publish, post, disseminate, any information which is grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatever; or unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing including but not limited to "indecent representation of women" within the meaning of the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986.
    27. threaten the unity, integrity, defense, security or sovereignty of your home country, friendly relations with foreign states, or public order or causes incitement to the commission of any cognizable offense or prevents investigation of any offense or is insulting any other nation;
    28. disseminate information through the Website/App that is false, inaccurate, or misleading, or violate any applicable laws or regulations for the time being in force in or outside your home country.

9. COPYRIGHT

  1. All information, content, services, and software displayed on, transmitted through, or used in connection with the Website/App, including for example news articles, reviews, directories, guides, text, photographs, photos, pictures, videos, images, illustrations, audio clips, video, Html, source and object code, trademarks, logos, and the like (collectively and hereinafter referred to as the "Content"), as well as its selection and arrangement, is owned by Us. You may use the Content only through the Website/App, and solely for your personal, non-commercial use.
  2. You may not, republish any portion of the Content on any Internet, Intranet, or extranet site or incorporate the Content in any database, compilation, archive, or cache. You may not distribute any Content to others, whether or not for payment or other consideration, and you may not modify, copy, frame, cache, reproduce, sell, publish, transmit, display, or otherwise use any portion of the Content. You may not scrape or otherwise copy our Content without permission. You agree not to decompile, reverse engineer or disassemble any software or other products or processes accessible through the Website/App, not to insert any code or product or manipulate the content of the Website/App in any way that affects the user's experience, and not to use any data mining, data gathering or extraction method.
  3. Unless the Partnership has otherwise agreed to in writing, nothing herein gives the members a right to use any of the Partnership’s trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features, save according to the provisions of this Agreement.
  4. The Partnership has the right to use all logos, trademarks, brand names, service marks, domain names, and other distinctive brand features of the members registered on the website/app.

10. COPYRIGHT COMPLAINTS

We respect the intellectual property of others. If You believe Your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement or is aware of any infringing material on the Website/App, please contact Us at [email protected]. Information and Content provided by the User by providing information to, communicating with, and/or placing material on, the Website/App, including for example but not limited to, communication during any registration, You represent and warrant:

  1. You own or otherwise have all necessary rights to the content you provide and the rights to use it as provided in this Terms of Service;
  2. all information You provide is true, accurate, current, and complete, and does not violate these Terms of Service; and
  3. the information and Content shall not cause injury to any person or entity. Using a name other than your own legal name is prohibited.

You authorize us to share the information across all our affiliated Websites/Apps, to include the information in a searchable format accessible by users of the Website/App, and to use your name and any other information in connection with its use of the material you provide. You also grant the right to use any material, information, contained in any communication you send to us for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to developing, manufacturing, and marketing products using such information. All rights in this paragraph are granted without the need for additional compensation of any sort to you.

11. Hyperlinking Policy

Links to external websites/portals

At many places in this website/Apps, you shall find links to other websites/portals. The links have been placed for your convenience. We are not responsible for the contents and reliability of the linked websites and does not necessarily endorse the views expressed in those websites. The mere presence of the link or its listing on this Portal should not be assumed as an endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all the time and we have no control over the availability of linked pages.

Links of our Website / Apps by other websites

We do not object to you linking directly to the information that is hosted on this site and no prior permission is required for the same. However, we would like you to inform us about any links provided to this Portal so that you can be informed of any changes or updations therein. Also, we do not permit our pages to be loaded into frames on your site. The pages belonging to this site must load into a newly opened browser window of the User.

12. AMENDMENT

  1. We may modify, replace, refuse access to, suspend or discontinue the Services, partially or entirely, or add, change and modify prices for all or part of the Services for You or for all Users at any time and in Our sole discretion. These changes shall become effective upon providing a notice of the same to You via email/ the home screen of the Website/App. We further reserve the right to withhold, remove and or discard any content available as part of Your account, with or without notice, if deemed by Us to be contrary to this Agreement.
  2. The Website/App has no obligation to provide You with a copy of the information You or any other User provides on the Website/App or that the Website/App has accessed.
  3. Further, We reserve the right, in Our sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this Agreement at any time, effective upon the date of giving Users notice of the same. Notice shall be provided of such change via email to the Users and/ or by posting a notice on the home screen of the Website/App.

You and We both understand that there may be instances of difficulty in accessing or receiving email communication. We are not responsible if any email notice gets caught by Your SPAM folder, or if You do not see the email, or if You have given us an incorrect email id, or if for any other reason You do not receive the email notice. Therefore, we encourage you to frequently open the Website/App to monitor any changes. Your continued use of or access to the Services following the posting of any changes to this Agreement constitutes acceptance of those changes. We may also, in the future, offer new services and/ or features through the Website/App. Such new features and/ or services shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

13. INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to indemnify, hold harmless, and defend Us from and against any and all liability, loss, claim, damages, expense, or costs (including but not limited to attorneys' fees), incurred by or made by Us in connection with any claim arising from or related to:

  1. Your use or any Third Party’s use via Your account of the Service provided by the Website/App and its Content;
  2. Your disclosure of information to any Third Party, either through the Website/App or otherwise. (Please refer to our Privacy Policy for more details in this regard);
  3. Any breach or violation of this Agreement, including any amendment, or of any statute or regulation by You, or any Third Party through Your account.

You agree to fully cooperate in indemnifying Us at Your expense. You also agree not to reach a settlement with any party without Our consent.

14. DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY

The Partnership will not be responsible for any damage suffered by users from the use of the services on this system. This without limitation includes loss of revenue/data resulting from delays, pricing issues, or service interruptions as may occur because of any act/ omission. This disclaimer of liability also applies to any damages or injury caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of record, whether for breach of contract, tortuous behavior, negligence, or under any other cause of action.

TO THE EXTENT ALLOWED UNDER LAW, WE (AND THOSE THAT WE WORK WITH TO PROVIDE THE SERVICES) (A) DISCLAIM ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS (E.G. WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY OF DATA, AND NONINFRINGEMENT); (B) DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT THE SERVICES WILL FUNCTION WITHOUT INTERRUPTION OR ERRORS, AND (C) PROVIDE THE SERVICE (INCLUDING CONTENT AND INFORMATION) ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS.

SOME LAWS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN DISCLAIMERS, SO SOME OR ALL OF THE DISCLAIMERS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

15. TERMINATION

We can each end this Agreement anytime we want.

We or You may terminate this Agreement at any time with notice to the other. On termination, you lose the right to access or use the Services. The following shall survive termination:

  • Our rights to use and disclose your feedback;
  • Members' and/or Visitors' rights to further re-share content and information you shared through the Service to the extent copied or re-shared prior to termination;
  • Any amounts owed by either party prior to termination remain owed after termination.

You can visit our Help Center to learn how to close your account, close your Pulse account, or close your Slideshare account.

16. DISPUTES ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT

All disputes involving but not limited to rights conferred, compensation, refunds, and other claims will be resolved through a two-step Alternate Dispute Resolution mechanism.

  1. Stage 1: Mediation. In case of a dispute, the matter will first be attempted to be resolved by a sole mediator who is a neutral third party and will be selected at the mutual acceptance of a proposed mediator by both parties. Both parties may raise a name for the sole mediator and in the case, both parties accept the proposed name, the said person shall be appointed as sole mediator. In case the parties are not able to reach a consensus within two proposed mediators, the Partnership reserves the right to decide the final mediator. The decision of the mediator is binding on both parties.
  2. Stage 2: Arbitration. In the event that the Parties are unable to amicably resolve a dispute by mediation, said dispute will be referred to arbitration by a sole arbitrator to be appointed by the Partnership, and the award passed by such sole arbitrator will be valid and binding on both Parties. The Parties shall bear their own costs for the proceedings, although the sole arbitrator may, in his/her sole discretion, direct either Party to bear the entire cost of the proceedings. The arbitration shall be conducted in English, and the seat of Arbitration shall be the city of New Delhi, India.

The formation, interpretation, and performance of this Agreement and any disputes arising out of it shall be governed by the law, rules, and regulations of New Delhi, India. The exclusive jurisdiction and venue for actions and disputes may be as mentioned above, and You hereby submit to the jurisdiction of such courts. All Users situated outside of India shall also be bound by the laws of New Delhi, India.

17. PRIVACY

We encourage you to read the Privacy Policy and to use the information it contains to make informed decisions regarding Your personal information. Please also note that certain information, statements, data, and content (such as but not limited to information related to your booking) which You provide on the Website/App are likely to reveal Your information about You. You acknowledge and agree that your submission of such information is voluntary on Your part. Further, You acknowledge, consent and agree that we may access, preserve, and disclose information You provide to Us at any stage during Your use of the Website/App. Disclosures of information to Third Parties are further addressed in Our Privacy Policy. The data collected from the Users as well as from the Service provider may be located in servers outside of India.

18. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS:

  1. Entire Agreement: This Agreement is the complete and exclusive statement of the agreements between You and Us with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all other communications or representations or agreements (whether oral, written, or otherwise) relating thereto.
  2. Waiver: The failure of either party at any time to require performance of any provision of this Agreement in no manner shall affect such party's right at a later time to enforce the same. No waiver by either party of any breach of this Agreement, whether by conduct or otherwise, in any one or more instances, shall be deemed to be, or construed as, a further or continuing waiver of any other such breach, or a waiver of any other breach of this Agreement.
  3. Severability: If any provision of this Agreement shall to any extent be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality, and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement shall in no way be affected or impaired thereby and each such provision of this Agreement shall be valid and enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law. In such case, this Agreement shall be reformed to the minimum extent necessary to correct any invalidity, illegality or unenforceability, while preserving to the maximum extent the rights and commercial expectations of the parties hereto, as expressed herein.