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Terms & Conditions

Terms & Conditions

  1. General
    This page states the Terms and Conditions under which you (User) may visit this Website. Please read this page carefully. If the Users do not accept the Terms and Conditions stated here, we would request the Users to exit this site. The Tobacco Institute of India (Institute) reserves its right to revise these Terms and Conditions at any time by updating this posting and without giving any prior notice. Users should visit this page periodically to re-appraise themselves of the Terms and Conditions.
  2. Use of Content
    1. The Institute licenses the User to view, download and print the contents of the Website, provided that such content is used for personal and/or non-commercial purposes only.
    2. Content from the Website shall not be used, modified or exploited by Users for any commercial and non-private purposes without the prior written consent of the Institute.
    3. Users may access and use the Website for legal purposes only. Users may not use the Website in order to transmit, distribute, store or destroy material (a) that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offence or violate any applicable law or regulation; (b) in a manner that will infringe the copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property rights of others or violate the privacy or publicity of other personal rights of others; or (c) that is libellous, defamatory, pornographic, profane, obscene, threatening, abusive or hateful.
    4. Apart from bona-fide search engine operators and use of a search facility, as may be provided on the Website, no person may use or attempt to use any technology or applications (including web crawlers, web spiders or similar) to search or copy content from the Website for any purpose whatsoever, without the prior written consent of the Institute.
    5. All licenses and/or permissions granted in terms of this are provided on a non-exclusive and non-transferable basis and may be terminated or cancelled by The Institute at any time without giving reasons therefor.
  3. Intellectual Property Rights
    All intellectual property on the Website, including but not limited to content, trademarks, domain names, patents, design elements, software, databases, text, graphics, icons and hyperlinks are the property of or licensed to the Institute. Subject to the rights licensed to the User in clause 2, all other rights to intellectual property on the Website are expressly reserved.
  4. Security Rules
    1. Users are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the Website, including, without limitation,
      1. accessing data not intended for such User or logging into a server or account which the User is not authorized to access,
      2. attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization,
      3. attempting to interfere with service to any User, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus or “trojan horse” to the Website, overloading, “flooding”, “mail bombing” or “crashing”, or
      4. sending unsolicited electronic mail, including promotions and/or advertising of any products or services.
    2. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. The Institute will have the right to investigate occurrences that they suspect as involving such violations and will have the right to involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting Users who are involved in such violations.
  5. Links to/from other Websites
    1. This Website contains links to other websites. These links are provided solely as a convenience for the Users. Wherever such link/s lead to websites which do not belong to the Institute, the Institute is not responsible for the content of such websites and does not make any representations regarding the correctness or accuracy of the content on such websites. If the Users decide to access such websites, they do so at their own risk.
    2. Similarly, this Website can be made accessible through a link created by other websites. Access to this Website through such link/s shall not mean or be deemed to mean that the objectives, aims, purposes, ideas, concepts of such other websites or their aim or purpose in establishing such link/s to this Website are necessarily the same or similar to the idea, concept, aim or purpose of this Website or that such links have been authorised by the Institute.
    3. The Institute is not responsible for any representation/s of such other websites while affording such link and no liability can arise upon the Institute consequent to such representation, its correctness or accuracy. In the event that any link/s afforded by any other website/s is derogatory in nature to the objectives, aims, purposes, ideas and concepts of this Website and such event is brought to the notice or is within the knowledge of the Institute, civil or criminal remedies as may be appropriate shall be invoked.
  6. Indemnity
    The User agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Institute and/or its members, their officers, directors, employees and agents, from and against any claims, actions or demands, including without limitation reasonable legal and accounting fees, alleging or resulting from the User’s use of the Website material or the breach of these Terms and Conditions.
  7. Disclaimer
    1. The Institute (including its members, employees and other affiliates agents) shall not be liable for any damage, loss or liability of any nature, whether based on warranty, contract, tort, or any other legal theory, incurred by whomever and resulting from:
      1. access to this Website;
      2. access to other websites linked in this Website;
      3. inability to access this Website;
      4. inability to access websites linked to in this Website;
      5. content available on this Website;
      6. services available from this Website; and
      7. downloads and use of content from this Website.
    2. The Website is supplied on an “as is” basis and has not been compiled to meet the User’s individual requirements. It is the responsibility of the User to satisfy himself or herself that the content available from and through this Website meets the User’s individual requirements and is compatible with the User’s computer hardware and/or software. If the User’s use of the Website results in the need for servicing or replacing equipment or data, the Institute is not responsible for those costs.
    3. Information, ideas and opinions expressed on this Website should not be regarded as professional advice or the official opinion of the Institute and Users are encouraged to consult professional advice before taking any course of action related to the information, ideas or opinions expressed on the Website.
    4. The Institute does not make any warranties or representation that content and services available from the Website will in all cases be true, correct or free from any errors. While all reasonable care has been taken in providing the content on this Website, the Institute shall not be responsible or liable as to the completeness or correctness of such information and any or all consequential liabilities arising out of use of any information or contents on this Website.
    5. The Institute does not make any warranties or representations that the Website shall be available at all times.
  8. Privacy
    1. The Institute may electronically collect, store and use the following personal information of Users:
      1. name and surname;
      2. contact numbers;
      3. non-personal browsing habits and click patterns;
      4. e-mail address/es;
      5. IP address/es; and
      6. any other information as disclosed by the User
    2. The Institute collects, stores and uses the abovementioned information for the following purposes:
      1. to communicate requested information to the User; and
      2. to compile non-personal statistical information about browsing habits, click-patterns and access to the Website.
    3. Information detailed above is collected either electronically by using cookies or is provided voluntarily by the User. Users may determine cookie use independently through their browser settings.
    4. The Institute may collect, maintain, save, compile, share, disclose and sell any information collected from users, subject to the following provisions:
      1. The Institute shall not disclose personal information of Users unless the User consents thereto;
      2. The Institute shall disclose information without the User’s consent only if required by any court of law or any governmental agency under any applicable law; and
      3. The Institute may compile, use and share any information that does not relate to any specific individual.
    5. The Institute owns and retains all rights to non-personal statistical information collected and compiled by the Institute.
    6. The Institute does not require the Users to share their Sensitive Personal Data or Information. For the purposes of this clause, the expression “Sensitive Personal Data or Information” shall have the meaning assigned to the expression under the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011.

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