Last Updated: 17 March, 2025
Terms of Use and Terms of Service
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The terms 'Pralekha’, “this website”, “our website”, “Site” or “Sites”, “we”, “us” or “our”, which are used throughout this Terms of Use document refer to the website Pralekha, its owners, the managers and associates. The terms “you”, “your”, “visitor” or “user” refers to you, the user or the visitor of this website.
By visiting Pralekha and using its products or services, you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions (including the Privacy Policy). We may change these terms and conditions at any time. Your continued use of Pralekha means that you accept any new or modified terms and conditions that we come up with. We encourage you to re-visit this this web page from time to time, to be updated of any changes.
1. Description of Service
Pralekha is a website or a group of websites or services with a broad array of web-enabled information and resources on various topics, (the “Site” or “Sites”), any part or content or features of the Site, including, but not limited, to RSS feeds, APIs, and other features or downloads, or any subscriptions, or any services or contents that Pralekha offers (hereinafter collectively termed as the “Service” or “Services”). Any and all features, content, code or programming that augments, changes or enhances the Services, shall be subject to the Terms. You agree that the Service is provided "AS-IS" and that Pralekha assumes no responsibility for any losses you incur as a result of failure on our part to make available any of the properties or services contemplated by these Terms, whether now in service or a future feature, service or property.
2. Your Acceptance of Terms
By using our Sites or Services, you agree, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by and to comply with these Terms of Use and Terms of Service as they may be amended from time to time, together with any other posted guidelines or rules applicable to any specific product or service. You will not use this website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms and Conditions. If you do not accept these Terms and Conditions you should not use or access the Sites or Service.
By visiting our site "Pralekha", you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions. Pralekha may modify these Terms of Use, or any part thereof, or add or remove terms at any time, and such modifications, additions or deletions will be effective immediately as soon as it is updated here on this web page. Your use of our Site or Service after such changes or updates shall be deemed as your acceptance of such modifications, additions or deletions. If you do not accept these Terms and Conditions then you must immediately stop using the Website.
3. Restrictions on use of marks and materials
The Trademarks, names, marks and logos appearing on this website are, unless otherwise noted, are trademarks owned by or licensed to Pralekha. Your use of these marks, except as provided in these Terms and Conditions, is prohibited. You are prohibited from using our trademarks without our express written consent. You are prohibited from using our trademarks in a misleading manner or for any purpose that may be deemed by us as a misuse of our trademarks. From time to time on this website, Pralekha makes fair use of trademarks owned and used by third parties. Pralekha makes no claim to ownership of such marks that are not owned by us.
The contents of Pralekha which is created or owned by us and also the contents that are licensed to us, such as text, graphics, images, pictures and any other media or content on this website (hereby collectively termed as the "Content"), any scripts, codes, software or any other programs used to help or facilitate the functioning or features of our website (hereby collectively termed as the "Site Infrastructure") (and "Content" and "Site Infrastructure" are hereinafter collectively termed as the "Site Material") are protected by copyright laws. Unless otherwise mentioned, our Site Material is copyrighted material.
These Terms and Conditions do not grant you any licence whatsoever to the Site Material. Pralekha authorises you to view and download a single copy of the Site Material for your non-commercial personal use only. Unauthorised use of the Site Material violates copyright, trademark, and other laws. You agree to retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the original Site Material on any copy of such material.
Except as expressly provided herein, you may not sell, modify, copy, reproduce, republish, display, distribute, manipulate, upload, transmit or otherwise use the Site Material in any way, in any form, in any language, for any public, commercial or non-commercial purpose. Use of the Site Material on any other website, app, any form of online or offline platform, in print, or in a networked environment is prohibited. Pralekha and its authors retain all intellectual property rights in the Site Material. Unauthorised usage, publication or redistribution of the content or Site Material in any form is strictly prohibited.
All materials on this website, unless otherwise noted, are owned by or licensed to Pralekha. On certain occasions, including, but not limited to, posts and articles, we may use an image or media which does not belong to us and has a different licence. We may also use third-party scripts or services to help or facilitate the functioning or features of our website. For example, an image having a Creative Commons licence. Such usage of external media will be notified along with the media in the article or post where it is used, including a link to its licence and attribution as required and if required by its author. Pralekha makes no claim to ownership of such materials that are not owned by us.
4. Licence
Pralekha hereby grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-assignable and non-transferable Licence to access its Sites and Services provided and expressly conditioned upon your agreement that all such access and use shall be governed by all of the terms and conditions set forth in this User Agreement.
Licence to use Pralekha: Pralekha is intended solely for your personal and non-commercial use. You may view, download for caching and purely personal viewing purposes only, and print pages from the website, provided that:1. You must not act in a way that may cause harm to us or to a third party. You must not violate any laws, or violate any of our or any third party’s intellectual property or any other proprietary or legal rights. You must not attempt to or encourage or support anyone else's attempt to alter, modify, circumvent, reverse engineer, decrypt, or cause any obstacle or nuisance to our Service, or interfere with the proper functioning of our Service, or any Site Material or content of our Service, or make any unauthorised access or use of our Service.
2. You must not republish any Site Material or content on our Services in any form, (including, but not limited to, republication on another website or medium, on any electronic or in printed form, in any language and in any format.), or reproduce or store material from this Service in any public or private electronic retrieval system.
3. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, or otherwise exploit any Site Material or content on our Service for any commercial or non-commercial purpose, without our express written consent.
4. You must not edit, manipulate, or modify any Site Material or content on our Service.
5. You must not use any automated tools to access, copy, scrape, or republish the Site Material or content of our Service. This includes, but not limited to, using any software programs or scripts or robots, spiders, services, manual or automatic tools to scrape, read or cache content in an automated manner for a purpose other than your personal viewing.
6. You must not use our Service or Site Material or content on our Service to train any "artificial intelligence" (AI) systems or any other machine learning or to develop any software programs or scripts.
7. You must not cause any disruptions in our Service or overload our or our service provider's network or infrastructure. You must not cause any damage or modifications to our Service.
8. You must not cache and archive Site Material or content on our Service. Public search engines are allowed to cache and archive only for the purpose of creating search indices.
9. You must not alter or modify the functioning or appearance of our Service or any Site Material or content on our Service, including any advertising. You must not use any technologies or applications which may facilitate such actions, while using or accessing our Service.
10. In the instances where you may be permitted to download a copy of our Site Material, you must not make any changes to or deletion of author attribution, trademark legends or copyright notices. You acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading Site Material.
Violating the restrictions on the use of our Service or Site Material or breaching our terms and conditions may result in legal penalties against the individuals who participate in such actions and also against those who help them to do so.
5. Limitation of Liability
PRALEKHA DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THIS WEBSITE WILL OPERATE ERROR-FREE OR THAT THIS WEBSITE AND ITS SERVERS OR ANY SERVERS THROUGH WHICH IT MAY BE SERVED ARE FREE OF COMPUTER VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL MATERIAL. IF YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR SITE MATERIAL RESULTS IN ANY COSTS OR EXPENSES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE NEED FOR SERVICING OR REPLACING EQUIPMENT OR DATA, PRALEKHA SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE COSTS OR EXPENSES.
THIS WEBSITE AND ITS MATERIAL ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AT YOUR OWN RISK" BASIS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. PRALEKHA, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTIES RIGHTS, AND THE WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE. ALTHOUGH PRALEKHA STRIVES TO PROVIDE THOROUGH AND ACCURATE MATERIALS ON THIS WEBSITE, WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES ABOUT THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS, OR TIMELINESS OF THE MATERIAL, SERVICES, SOFTWARE, TEXT, IMAGES, GRAPHICS, AND LINKS.
6. Disclaimer of Consequential Damages
IN NO EVENT SHALL PRALEKHA, ITS AFFILIATES, MANAGERS, AUTHORS, ASSOCIATES, SUPPLIERS, OR ANY THIRD PARTIES MENTIONED ON THIS WEBSITE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) RESULTING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE MATERIAL ON THIS WEBSITE OR WEBSITES LINKED TO THIS WEBSITE, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT PRALEKHA IS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
7. Indemnity
By using this website, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Pralekha, its owners, authors, directors, managers, and agents, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal and accounting fees) that Pralekha may become obligated to pay arising or resulting from your use of the Site Material or your breach of these Terms and Conditions. Pralekha reserves the right to assume or participate, at your expense, in the investigation, settlement and defence of any such action or claim.
8. Advertisements and Promotions
Pralekha may run advertisements and promotions from third parties on this website.
The advertisements or promotions on Pralekha are served dynamically by third-parties through advertising networks or platforms which serve ads that are entirely programmatically selected to be displayed on our Site, and we may earn a commission through the advertisements, (hereinafter collectively termed as the “Advertisement” or “Advertisements”). Such advertisers are hereinafter collectively termed as the “Advertiser” or “Advertisers”.
Pralekha does not endorse any advertiser on its web pages in any manner. Pralekha is not responsible for any errors, omissions or representations in the Advertisements or on any of the advertiser's pages. Pralekha is not responsible for any kind of material or media or any links in the dynamically served Advertisements, any of the linked external websites or web pages or apps of the advertisers, and any of the contents or materials in those advertiser's websites or apps.
Your business dealings or correspondence with, or participation in promotions of, Advertisers through the Advertisements on Pralekha, and any terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such third-parties. Users are requested to verify the accuracy of all information on their own before undertaking any reliance on such information in the Advertisements.
Pralekha is not responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred by you as the result of any dealings between you and the advertisers or Advertisements, or as the result of the presence of third-party advertisers on this website, or as a result of you visiting any external third-party websites or apps or third-party services through any links in Advertisements.
Advertising that appears on Pralekha may partly help us to provide our Services to you and to maintain and make our Sites and Services available. You agree that that you will not, and will not use or permit any third party to, remove, obstruct, obfuscate, modify, or otherwise interfere with the delivery or display of advertisements on Pralekha or our Sites and Services.
9. Dealings with Third-Parties, Including Advertisers
Your contact and dealings with third-parties and Advertisers, including, but not limited to, Your registrations, accounts, participation in promotions and contests, found on or through the Service, including payment and delivery of related goods or services and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such third party or Advertiser. You agree that Pralekha shall not be liable or responsible for any loss or damage that you may suffer as a result of such dealings or as the result of the presence of such third parties or advertisers on the Service.
10. Links to External Websites
Pralekha contains links to websites owned by third parties, which we call “External Links”. These External Links are hyperlinks that lead you to an external or third-party website that is not owned or controlled by Pralekha, when users voluntarily click or tap on them. Third-party websites or apps that are linked on Pralekha through External Links are hereinafter collectively termed as “External Websites”.
10.1 External Links provided by Pralekha
External Links that are provided by Pralekha are not an endorsement by Pralekha of those External Websites or their contents.
Pralekha may provide External Links on its Content such as articles, posts, images, videos, or pages. These links to External Websites are included, for various reasons, including, but not limited to,
(a) To provide a link to further relevant or useful information on the subject matter, for further reading on the subject matter, or for citing a source of information by providing references to the source,
(b) We may also link to External Websites to provide credits or acknowledgements for any material used which is sourced from a third-party, for example, an image, either for the requirement of the licence or just to credit the source,
(c) External Links are selected and included by our authors or team to help you find more relevant related content.
(d) External Links maybe included in our posts or articles which contain Mentions and Reviews (described in below section 11, titled as Mentions and Reviews), solely for your convenience.
(e) External links may be a part of embedded contents from external sources or third-party websites or apps or third-party services, such as, embedded third-party contents like posts, tweets, videos, or maps, etc.
External Links may be included in the posts, pages, email newsletters, RSS or site feeds, and in other Contents on our Service.
These external links are neither endorsements nor advertisements, and Pralekha does not link to external websites in return for cash or services, as an affiliation, or for any other considerations. We provide the aforementioned External Links as a convenience to you, to cite a source or reference, to credit the sources or creators or authors, or in case they're a part of embedded content provided by from External Websites or sources or as required by terms of use of such third-party contents from External Websites or Sources.
We always try to ensure that we only use and cite or refer to valid or authentic sources and try to ensure with the best of our efforts that such sources are authentic and reliable. We may also link to external sources for the sake of providing a reference even though we may not completely or partly agree to what was cited, depending on the context of including such an external source. However, we cannot provide a guarantee for any of the external sources or External Websites as to their reliability or their continued availability as they are not owned or controlled by us.
The External Websites linked through External Links are not under the control of Pralekha and Pralekha is not responsible for the contents of any linked external website or any link contained in a linked External Website, or any changes or updates to such External Websites. The inclusion of links to External Websites by Pralekha does not imply endorsement of External Websites or their contents.
10.2 User-Generated External Links
In addition to the above, there may be user-generated links to external websites. Although we may allow some links if they are relevant and do not violate our Comment Policy, Terms of Use, and Privacy Policy, any user-generated links to external websites are not endorsements by us, whether they be approved or unapproved, and should not be mistaken for an endorsement and we are not responsible for the contents or material found on any External Websites that is linked through this website.
10.3 External Links in Advertisements and Promotions
Refer to section 8 above, titled as Advertisements and Promotions.
10.4 Disclaimer for all kinds of External Links
Pralekha is not responsible for the contents of any External Websites that are linked through our Sites and Service and makes no representations regarding the contents or accuracy of materials on such External Websites.
By using Pralekha, you acknowledge and agree that Pralekha is not responsible for the availability, accuracy, or reliability of External Websites or resources, and Pralekha does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any third-party contents, advertising, products, or other materials on or available or accessible on such External Websites or resources that are linked through this website.
Further, you acknowledge and agree that Pralekha 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 your use of or reliance on any such third-party contents, goods or services available on or through any such external website or resource. If you visit any third-party or External Websites through the links on this website, you do so at your own risk. Consult the Uniform Resources Locator ("URL") address identified in your browser to determine whether you have linked to a third-party or an external website.
11. Disclaimer for the information provided on Pralekha
We make best possible efforts to keep the information we provide accurate, as far as rationally possible, but we give no guarantee for the information we provide, as despite our best efforts, there are chances of errors or discrepancies in the information.
By using Pralekha you acknowledge that you are solely responsible for verifying and using the information provided in Pralekha. By using Pralekha and the information it provides, you agree and acknowledge that Pralekha is not responsible for any kind of liabilities, damages or losses that occur from following the given information.
12. User Submissions
12.1. Unsolicited Submissions
Pralekha does not accept or consider any unsolicited ideas or materials, including, but not limited to, content, themes, articles, stories, experiences, tips, promotions, advertising, new products, tools, technology, new features, new sections, or any other kind of ideas or suggestions that that are unsolicited. Please do not send any original ideas, materials, or samples to us. This declaration is to avoid any misunderstandings or disputes in case any of Pralekha's contents, articles, products, or strategies might seem similar to unsolicited ideas submitted to us. Any similarity between an unsolicited submission and any product, Content or Site Material on Pralekha, or any strategy or operations by Pralekha, is purely coincidental. Despite this request that you should not send us unsolicited ideas or materials, if you still choose to send them to us, Pralekha cannot and does not guarantee that unsolicited ideas or materials will be regarded as confidential or proprietary and may use it in accordance with the terms in the section 12.2 below for Submitted Information. By sending an unsolicited submission you waive the right to make any claim against Pralekha or its associates or affiliates relating to any unsolicited submissions by you.
12.2. Submission of Comments and Feedback
Pralekha welcomes your comments and feedback on our website; however, you acknowledge that if you send us creative suggestions, ideas, recipes, notes, drawings, concepts, experiences, inventions or other information, (collectively, the "Submitted Information"), all Submitted Information shall be deemed, and shall remain the property of Pralekha. This applies to all the comments or feedback which may be sent through both the comment boards (which is publicly accessible) as well as the contact forms or feedback forms (which is submitted privately to us). By submission of any information to us, you assign to us and we shall own exclusively all rights to such Submitted Information of every kind and nature.
13. User Content
"User Content" or "user-generated content" is the content (text/media) generated by you or the user(/s) of this website. Currently, the User Content is limited to the comments submitted by you on Pralekha on the commenting features. The user of this website is solely responsible for any and all of their respective User Content. We do not control User Content, and you acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for any User Content and we make no guarantees regarding the accuracy, currency, suitability, or quality of any User Content, and we assume no responsibility for any User Content. Your interactions with other users on this website are solely between you and such user. You agree that Pralekha will not be responsible for any loss or damage incurred by you or any user as a result of any such interactions. We are under no obligation to become involved in a dispute between you and any user. You acknowledge that Pralekha has no obligation to monitor or delete any such derogatory User Content which other users may post about your User Content.
13.1. Commenting Guidelines
Users are advised to read our Comment Policy before commenting. The conditions for Commenting on Pralekha are that: You must not restrict or inhibit any other user from using the comment forms. You must not post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libellous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane or indecent information of any kind, including without limitation any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, national or international law. You must not post or publish any comment or material that includes any personally identifiable information about any individual, whether it belongs to yourself or any other individual. You must not post or transmit any information, code or other material which violates or infringes upon the rights of others, including material which is an invasion of privacy or publicity rights or which is protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right, or derivative works with respect thereto, without first obtaining permission from the owner or right holder, post or transmit any information, code or other material which contains a virus or other harmful component. You must not post, transmit or in any way exploit any information, code or other material for commercial purposes. You must not use the comment boards on Pralekha for posting or publishing comments or any material which contains advertising or promotional content or materials.
If you violate such terms, Pralekha may, without prior notice and without liability to you, forbid you from any and use of this website, delete your uploaded comments, and take any other action Pralekha deems appropriate in its sole discretion. Pralekha reserves the right to allow or remove any comment on its comment boards as it deems appropriate in its sole discretion. Pralekha reserves the right to discontinue allowing the commenting option at any time in its sole discretion, without prior notice and without liability to you.
Every comment entered on Pralekha will be moderated. Any forms of hate-speech, indecent remarks, and any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libellous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane comments, or any comments that violate these Commenting Guidelines, or any comments that Pralekha deems inappropriate, will be moderated or completely deleted at the sole discretion of Pralekha. Also, comments made with a fake/false i.d. or comments posted as impersonating any of the Authors at Pralekha or any other visitor or user, will be removed. We try our best to keep our comment sections free of abusive and derogatory comments but we cannot guarantee a 100% effective moderation at all times.
14. Advice
The contents or information on Pralekha do not constitute advice and should not be relied upon in making or refraining from making, any decision.
15. Disclaimer
You understand and agree that any material and/or data downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of Pralekha is done entirely at your own risk and discretion, and you will solely be responsible for any damage to your computer systems or loss of data that results from the download or use of such material and/or data. However, Pralekha will always strive to ensure that the content on its websites or other information channels are free of any virus or any malware.
16. Content changes and modification
Pralekha reserves the right to change, modify, add or remove (temporarily or permanently) the Sites or Service (partially or completely), without notice and you acknowledge that Pralekha shall not be liable to you for any such changes, modifications, additions or removals.
18. Miscellaneous
Pralekha, in our sole discretion, may terminate or suspend your access to all or part of our Sites or Services for any reason, including, but not limited to, a breach or circumvention of these Terms of Service, and our Terms of Service will continue to be applicable after such terminations or suspensions.
None of the provisions of these Terms and Conditions constitute any kind of partnership between you and Pralekha. The provisions of these Terms and Conditions do not give you any authority to bind Pralekha in any manner whatsoever.
Our failure to enforce any provision or to respond to a breach of these Terms of Service does not in any way constitute a waiver of our right to subsequently enforce the terms or take action on similar breaches later on.
If any of these Terms and Conditions should be determined to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason by any court of competent jurisdiction then such Term or Condition shall be severed and the remaining Terms and Conditions shall survive and remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.
Comments
Relevant, respectful comments and feedback are welcome. Please read the Comment Policy before commenting.