Last Updated: January 19, 2026, 12:00PM IST

Terms of Use

Welcome to Bhagavat by Times (“https://www.bhagavat.co.in/”) owned, managed and operated by Times Internet Limited (hereinafter referred to as the “Company”, “TIL”, “we” or “our”, which expression shall unless the same be repugnant to the context or meaning thereof be deemed to mean and include its affiliates, subsidiaries, successors in business and assigns).

ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS OF USE

Please read the following terms and conditions as these terms of use (“Terms”) constitute a legally binding agreement between you and the Company regarding your browsing, access and use of the Site and any functionalities, features, information, contests, services, products offered by the Company including but not limited to delivery of specialized content, subscription based services, content and premium services via the Site, any mobile or internet connected device or otherwise (the “Service”).

“User”, “you” or “your”: means any person, who is accessing, using the Site, in any manner whatsoever, and is of 18 years of age or older, capable to enter into a legally binding agreement.

By accessing the Site or Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms. You hereby represent and warrant to the Company that you are at least eighteen (18) years of age or above and are capable of entering, performing and adhering to these Terms and that you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions. While individuals under the age of 18 may access and use the Site, they shall do so only with the involvement & guidance of their parents and / or legal guardians. You agree to register prior to uploading any content and / or comment and any other use or Services of this Site and provide your details including but not limited to complete name, age, email address, residential address, contact number. You hereby consent to our use of your email address, contact number or other personally identifiable information to send you messages, information, updates, communications or other notifications. This applies to all Users of the Service.

The Company reserves the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these Terms at any time by posting the amended Terms. Please check these Terms periodically for changes. Your continued use of the site or Services after the posting of changes constitutes your binding acceptance of such changes. In addition, when using any particular services, you may be subject to any posted guidelines, rules, product requirements or sometimes additional terms applicable to such services. All such guidelines, rules, product requirements or sometimes additional terms are hereby incorporated by reference into the Terms.

Further, TIL reserves the right to suspend / cancel, or discontinue any or all channels, products or service at any time without notice, make modifications and alterations in any or all of the content, products and services contained on the Site without prior notice.

CONTENT OWNERSHIP AND LIMITED LICENSE

“Company Content” means Company’s content, including but not limited to, Company trademarks and logos made available through the Site and Services, excluding Third Party Content and User Submissions.

“Third Party Content” means any third-party services, resources, content or information that you may be able to access, review, display or use via the Site or the Services.

“User Submissions” means the text, data, graphics, images, photos, video or audiovisual content, hypertext links and any other content that the Company allows its users to uploads, posts, flips, compiles or otherwise provided to Company via the Site and Services, as applicable.

Ownership

The Site, Services and the Company Content are protected by copyright, trademark and other applicable laws. Except as expressly provided in these Terms, Company and its licensors exclusively own all right, title and interest in and to the Site, Services, and the Company Content, including all associated intellectual property rights. You may not remove, alter or obscure any copyright, trademark, service mark or other proprietary rights notices incorporated in or accompanying the Site, Services or Company Content. Company claims no ownership interest in any Third Party Content and expressly disclaims any liability concerning those materials.

Limited License

Subject to your compliance with the Terms herein, the Company hereby grants you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, freely revocable license to use the Services for personal and non-commercial use only. Except for the foregoing limited license, no right, title or interest shall be transferred to you. Content on the Site and/or the Services is provided to you “AS IS” for your information and personal use only and may not be used, copied, reproduced, distributed, transmitted, broadcast, displayed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any other purposes whatsoever without the prior written consent of the respective owners. We reserve all rights not expressly granted in and to the Site and/or the Services and the content. These Terms do not authorize you to, and you may not, reproduce, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, communicate to the public, make available, create derivative works of or otherwise use or exploit any Third-Party Content or User Submissions in violation of applicable copyright law. Any unauthorized use of the contents or the Services will result in termination of the limited license granted by the Company and cancellation of your membership. Use of Site or the Services for any unauthorised purpose may result in severe civil and criminal penalties. The Company does not promote, foster or condone the copying of content, or any other infringing activity and the owners of Third-Party Content or User Submissions may have the right to seek damages against you for any such violation.

You may print or download extracts from the Site only for your personal / individual, non-commercial use only. You must not retain any copies of these pages saved to disk or to any other storage medium except for the purposes of using the same for subsequent viewing purposes or to print extracts for personal / individual use.

TIL forbids you from any attempts to resell or put to commercial use any part of the Site; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of the Site or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of any other merchant; any renting, leasing, or otherwise transferring rights to the Site / Service; displaying the name, logo, trademark or other identifier of another person (except for indiatimes.com or you) in such a manner as to give the viewer the impression that such other person is a publisher or distributor of the Service on the Site, or any data gathering or extraction tools; or any use of meta tags. You may not (whether directly or through the use of any software program) create a database in electronic or structured manual form by regularly or systematically downloading and storing all or any part of the pages from the Site.

No part of the Site may be reproduced or transmitted to or stored in any other web site, nor may any of its pages or part thereof be disseminated in any electronic or non-electronic form, nor included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without prior written permission. Requests to republish TIL’s material for distribution should be addressed to Times Syndication Services at E-Mail - tss@timesgroup.com.

Business Communication

The Company may send communications to users in connection with events, including for the purposes of sharing ticket confirmations, event-related updates, reminders, and responding to user queries.

By providing their contact details and email IDs and opting to receive such communications, users expressly consent to being contacted by the Company through email and WhatsApp for the aforesaid purposes.

The contact details shared by users for this purpose shall be processed in accordance with the Company’s Privacy Policy. Users may opt out of non-essential communications at any time in the manner specified in the Privacy Policy.

THE SERVICE REGISTRATION AND ACCESS TO USE

Registration

To register for the Services, you may be required to open an account by completing the registration process (i.e. by providing us with current, complete and accurate information as prompted by the applicable registration form). You will also choose a password and a username. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account. In particular, as a parent or legal guardian, you acknowledge and assume sole responsibility to ensure that content which is meant for mature audiences (i.e, above the age of majority) is not accessed by children. Hence, you may not share your log in credentials with your children. You expressly agree to absolve the Company of any responsibility / liability in this regard.

TIL shall retain your registration information after cancellation or withdrawal of your registration as required under applicable law(s).

Event Terms & Conditions

1. Nature of the Events

Each event is a one-time, on-ground spiritual event conducted within India only. Users acknowledge that the event experience may involve religious, cultural, and traditional practices, and agree to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with the sanctity and spirit of the events. Entry to each event is granted solely on the basis of a valid ticket purchased online via the Site and/or our authorized channels only. Each ticket provides access only to the specific event at the date, time, and venue mentioned on the ticket.

2. Ticket Purchase & Usage

Tickets may be purchased solely through the Site or any official online platform(s) authorised by the Company. Tickets purchased through unauthorised channels, third-party resellers, or offline sources shall be deemed invalid and shall not entitle the holder to entry.

• Each ticket permits entry to one individual only, unless the ticket category explicitly provides otherwise.
• Tickets are issued for a specific event, date, time, and venue, and may not be used for any other event or on any other date.
• The purchase of a ticket does not guarantee any specific seating arrangement, view, proximity to performers or speakers, or uninterrupted access, unless expressly mentioned as part of the ticket category.

3. Non-Refundable & Non-Transferable Policy

All tickets purchased for the event are strictly non-refundable and non-transferable, except where a refund is expressly required under applicable Indian law.

Tickets may not be reassigned, resold, exchanged, gifted, sublicensed, or otherwise transferred to any other individual or entity.

No refunds, credits, or substitutions shall be issued on account of:

• Change in personal circumstances
• Inability to attend the event
• Late arrival
• Partial attendance
• Weather conditions that do not render the event unsafe
• Any reason not directly attributable to cancellation of the event by the Company

Any attempt to transfer, resell, or commercially exploit a ticket may result in cancellation of the ticket without refund and denial of entry to the venue.

4. Event Changes or Cancellation

The Company reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to reschedule, modify, relocate, postpone, or cancel the event, in whole or in part, including for circumstances beyond its reasonable control. Such circumstances may include, without limitation:

• Acts of God, natural calamities, adverse weather conditions
• Government orders or restrictions, denial or withdrawal of permissions
• Public health or safety concerns, security risks
• Unavailability of speakers, performers, or venue infrastructure (each, a ‘Force Majeure Event’)

In the event of cancellation by the Company, any refund, credit, or alternate arrangement, if offered, shall be communicated to ticket holders exclusively through official channels and shall be subject to the Company’s discretion and applicable statutory requirements.

The Company shall not be liable for any incidental or consequential costs incurred by Users, including travel, accommodation, or other personal expenses in relation to the event.

5. Entry & Verification

Entry to the event venue is subject to presentation of a valid ticket in digital or printed form and compliance with all security, frisking, and verification procedures prescribed by the Company or the venue authorities.

The Company reserves the right to conduct identity verification of each User at its sole discretion for security, regulatory, or operational reasons.

Entry may be denied or revoked at any time if:

• The ticket is found to be invalid, duplicated, altered, or tampered with
• The User refuses to comply with security procedures
• The User is found to be in violation of these Terms or any applicable venue rules or protocol

6. Code of Conduct

Users are required to maintain discipline, decorum, and respectful behaviour at all times during the event, keeping in mind the spiritual and devotional nature of the gathering.

Any behaviour that is disruptive, abusive, unsafe, offensive, or inappropriate, or that interferes with the experience of other attendees, performers, or speakers, is strictly prohibited.

The Company and/or venue authorities reserve the right to remove any User from the venue without refund if, in their reasonable opinion, the User’s conduct is in violation of these Terms or the applicable venue rules, or poses a risk to public order, safety, or the sanctity of the event.

7. Photography and Recording

Unauthorised photography, videography, live streaming, or any commercial exploitation of any part of the event by any User or third parties is strictly prohibited without the prior written consent of the Company.

The Company shall have the unrestricted right to photograph, film, record, or otherwise capture the event and the User’s participation therein, including their name, likeness, voice, image, appearance, attributes and any interactions at the event (“Event Materials”). By attending the event, each User expressly consents to such recording and irrevocably grants the Company a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, and irrevocable licence to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, publish, distribute, publicly display, communicate to the public, and otherwise exploit the Event Materials, in whole or in part, in any manner and in any media now known or hereafter devised, for promotional, marketing, editorial, commercial, archival, or any other lawful purpose, without any further consent, approval, notice, or compensation, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, each User waives any and all claims, including claims relating to privacy, publicity, moral rights, or similar rights, arising out of or in connection with the Company’s use of the Event Materials.

8. Liability Waiver

Attendance at the event is voluntary and at the User’s own risk. The Company shall not be responsible or liable for any personal injury, illness, medical emergency, loss, theft, or damage to personal belongings of the User occurring before, during, or after the event, except to the extent required under applicable law.

The Company shall also not be liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of your attendance at the event.

Users are responsible for their own health, safety, and well-being and are advised to exercise appropriate caution, particularly in crowded areas or during activities involving sound, movement, or traditional practices.

9. Payment & Transaction

All payments for tickets are processed through secure third-party payment gateways.

The Company shall not be responsible for:

• Any payment failures, transaction errors, delays in confirmation, or issues arising due to banks, payment service providers, or technical glitches beyond its control

A ticket purchase shall be deemed complete only upon successful confirmation of payment, and such confirmation shall constitute final acceptance of the ticket purchase.

10. Governing Law & Jurisdiction

These Terms & Conditions shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of India.

Any disputes shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of courts in Delhi.

11. Acceptance of Terms

By purchasing a ticket and/or attending the event, the User confirms that they have read, understood, and agreed to these Terms & Conditions in full.

If you would like to cancel your registration then please contact etlangsupport@timesinternet.in.

Geographic Limitation

The Site and/or the Services are controlled and offered by the Company from its facilities in the territory of India. Company makes no representations that the Site or Services are appropriate or available for use in other locations. If you are accessing or using the Site or Services from other jurisdictions, you do so at your own risk and you are responsible for compliance with local law. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Site or Services may contain or provide links to content hosted on website located outside of India.

Access to use

To access the Services, you will be asked to enter your individual username and password, as chosen by you during your registration. Therefore, the Company does not permit any of the following:

• Any other person sharing your account and Password;
• Any part of the Site being cached in proxy servers and accessed by individuals who have not registered with the Company as users of the Site; or
• Access through a single account and Password being made available to multiple users on a network.

If the Company reasonably believes that an account and password is being used / misused in any manner, the Company shall reserve the right to cancel access rights immediately without notice, and block access to all users from that IP address. Company reserves the right to reject any username selected by you and/or revoke your right to any previously selected username and give such username to any other person or entity in Company’s sole discretion and without any liability to you. Furthermore, you shall be entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify the Company immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. The Company will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or account, however, you could be held liable for losses incurred by the Company or another party due to someone else using your account or password. If messages sent to an email address provided by you and associated with your account are returned as undeliverable or wrong address; Company reserves the right to terminate your account immediately with or without notice to you and without any liability to you or any third party

Availability

The availability of content through the Services may change from time to time. You are responsible for all Internet access charges. Please check with your internet provider for information on possible internet data usage charges.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

The Site or the Services may contain the links or pointers to other websites, but you should not infer or assume that the Company operates, controls, or is otherwise connected with these other websites. When you click on a link within the Site, the Company may not warn you that you have left the Site and are subject to the terms and conditions (including privacy policies) of another website. Please be careful to read the terms of use and privacy policy of any other website before you provide any confidential information or engage in any transactions. You should not rely on these Terms to govern your use of another website.

The Company is not responsible for the content or practices of any other website even if it links to the Site and even if the website is operated by a company affiliated or otherwise connected with the Company. You acknowledge and agree that the Company is not responsible or liable to you for any content or other materials hosted and served from any website other than the Site.

ADVERTISING MATERIAL

Part of the Site or the Services may contain advertising information or promotion material or other material submitted to the Company by third parties. The responsibility for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on the Site complies with applicable international and national law lies exclusively with the party providing the information/material. Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of advertisers 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 advertiser. Before relying on any advertising material, you should independently verify its relevance for your purpose and should obtain appropriate professional advice. The Company shall not be responsible nor liable for any loss or claim that you may have against an advertiser or any consequential damages arising on account of your relying on the contents of the advertisement.

COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

For information about the Company´s policies and practices regarding the collection and use of your personally identifiable information, please read the Privacy Policy as available on the Site. The Privacy Policy is incorporated by reference and made part of these Terms. Thus, by agreeing to these Terms, you agree that your presence on the Site and use of the Services are governed by the Company’s Privacy Policy in effect at the time of your use. The Company reserves the right to disclose any information including the personal details that is required to be shared, disclosed or made available to any governmental, administrative, regulatory or judicial authority under any law or regulation applicable to the Company. Company may also share certain filtered information, i.e. including email IDs or any other relevant information, to Company’s third-party business partners who may contact you to enable you to have a better experience on the Site or to avail certain benefits specially made for you. Company may, if you so choose, send direct mailers to you at the address given by you. You have the option to ‘opt-out’ of these direct mailers by way of links provided at the bottom of each mailer. Company respects your privacy and if you choose to not receive such mailers, Company will take all steps to remove you from the list.

YOUR OBLIGATIONS

You hereby agree and assure the Company that the Site and/or the Services shall be used for lawful purposes only and that you will not violate any laws, regulations, ordinances or other such requirements of any applicable Central, State or local government or any other international laws. You specifically agree to comply with the requirements of the Information Technology Act, 2000, as also rules, regulations, guidelines, bye laws and notifications made thereunder, while on the Site. You further concur that you shall not:

• circumvent, remove, alter, deactivate, degrade or thwart any of the content protections in the Site or the Services.
• either directly or through the use of any device, software, internet site, web-based service, or other means copy, download, stream capture, reproduce, duplicate, archive, distribute, upload, publish, modify, transform, publish translate, broadcast, perform, display, sell, transmit, disseminate or retransmit the content or any portion thereof or delete or fail to display any promotional taglines included in the Site / Service either directly or indirectly unless expressly permitted by the Company;
• either directly or through the use of any device, software, internet site, web-based service, or other means remove, alter, bypass, avoid, interfere with, or circumvent any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices marked on the content or any digital rights management mechanism, device, or other content protection or access control measure associated with the content including geo-filtering mechanisms
• use the Site or the Services in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair and not to undertake any action which is harmful or potentially harmful to any of the Company servers, or the network(s), computer systems / resource connected to any of the Company servers, or interfere with any other party´s use and enjoyment of the Site or the Services;
• obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available through the Site/Services;
• perform any activity which is likely to cause such harm;
• carry out any “denial of service” (DoS, DDoS) or any other harmful attacks on Site or internet service or;
• use the Site or the Services for illegal or unlawful purposes;
• disrupt, place unreasonable burdens or excessive loads on, interfere with or attempt to make or attempt any unauthorized access to Site or any the Company website or the website of any the Company´s customer;
• forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any content transmitted through the Site or the Services;
• attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services, other accounts and computer systems through hacking, password mining or any other means. You shall not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available through the Site or the Services;
• incorporate the Site or Services into or retransmit via, any hardware or software application or make it available via frames or in-line links unless expressly permitted by the Company in writing;
• create, recreate, distribute or advertise an index of any significant portion of the Site or Services unless authorized by the Company;
• use or launch any “robots”, “spiders”, “offline readers” etc. or any other automated system, that accesses the Site or the Services in a manner that sends numerous automated requests to the Site´s servers in a given period of time, which a human cannot reasonably send in the same period by using conventional web browsing application or tool(s) for similar purposes;
• Send or post any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, email, junk mail, spam, chain letters or other form of solicitation like solicit login information or access an account belonging to someone else;
• Use the Site, Services or Company Content for any commercial purpose or the benefit of any third party or in any manner not permitted by these Terms of Use;
• Impersonate or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity;
• Encourage or enable any other individual to do any of the foregoing.

In addition, you are strictly prohibited from creating derivative works or materials that otherwise are derived from or based on the content or Company Content in any way, including montages, mash-ups and similar videos, wallpaper, desktop themes, greeting cards, and merchandise, unless it is expressly permitted by the Company in writing. This prohibition applies even if you intend to give away the derivative materials free of charge.

If you are a publisher of news and current affairs content, then in addition to compliance with other terms mentioned herein, you shall also furnish details of your user accounts on our services to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting as required under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (“Rules”) and you shall comply with all applicable laws including said Rules. TIL may, at its discretion, provide such publishers who have provided information under said Rules to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, a demonstrable and visible mark of verification as being publishers, which may be visible to all users of the service.

The Site may permit you to post user submissions including but not limited to reviews of content available through the Services, comments on such content etc. You understand that these User Submissions, once posted by you, are visible to all members since it is a public forum.

More specifically, when you review / rate any content available on the Services (as per functionality made available on the Site), you give the Company express rights and consent to display your rating / review in relation to the relevant Content on the Site, including making it available to other members for viewing. If you do not want your User Submissions / reviews / ratings to be shared in a public forum, do not use these features.

These features may change without notice to you and the degree of associated information sharing and functionality may also change without notice.

The Company is free to use any comments, information, ideas, concepts, reviews, or techniques or any other material contained in any communication you may send to us (“User Feedback”), including responses to questionnaires or through postings to the Services / the Site and User Submissions, without further compensation, acknowledgement or payment to you for any purpose whatsoever including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products and creating, modifying or improving the Services. By posting / submitting any User Feedback / User Submission on the Site, you grant the Company a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free irrevocable, sub-licensable license and right in such User Feedback / User Submission to the Company, including the right to display, use, reproduce or modify the User Feedback / User Submission in any media, software or technology of any kind now existing or developed in the future.

Operators of public search engines have the permission to use functionalities like spiders to copy materials from the Site for the sole purpose of creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials. We reserve the right to revoke these exceptions either generally or in specific cases, in our sole discretion. You agree not to collect or harvest any personally identifiable information, including account names, from the Site, nor to use the communication systems provided by the Site for any commercial solicitation purposes. You agree not to solicit, for commercial purposes, any users of the Site with respect to its User Submissions.

You shall be financially responsible for your use of the Services (as well as for use of your account by others, including without limitation minors living with you). You undertake to supervise and be responsible for all usage of minors and access of the Site under your name or account and absolve the Company from any liability on this account. You also warrant that all information supplied by you or members of your family for using the Services and accessing the Site, including without limitation your name, email address, street address, telephone number, mobile number, credit card number is correct and accurate. Failure to provide accurate information may subject you to civil and criminal penalties.

You shall be responsible for obtaining and maintaining any equipment or ancillary services needed to connect to, access the Site or otherwise use the Services, including, without limitation, modems, hardware, software, and long distance or local telephone service. You shall be responsible for ensuring that such equipment or ancillary services are compatible with the Services.

You agree that the Company may directly or through third party service providers send information to you about the various services offered by the Company from time to time.

You agree that Company will have the right to investigate and take all appropriate legal action to prevent, stop or deter violations of any of the above, including infringement of intellectual property rights and Site and Services security issues. Company may involve and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who violate these Terms of Use or the rights of any third party.

You acknowledge that Company has no obligation to monitor your access to or use of the Site, Services or Company Content or to review or edit any User Submissions or Third Party Materials, but has the right to do so for the purpose of operating the Site and Services, to ensure your compliance with these Terms of Use, or to comply with applicable law or the order or requirement of a court, administrative agency or other governmental body. Company reserves the right, at any time and without prior notice, to remove or disable access to any Company Content, Third Party Materials, and any User Submissions and any other content, that Company, in its sole discretion, considers to be in violation of these Terms or otherwise harmful to the Site or Services.

PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES

You shall not host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, store, update or share any information on the Site, that —

1. belongs to another person and to which the User does not have any right;
2. is obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, invasive of another’s privacy including bodily privacy, insulting or harassing on the basis of gender, racially or ethnically objectionable, relating or encouraging money laundering or gambling (or an online game that causes harm or is detrimental to a User or a child) or promoting enmity between different groups on the grounds of religion or caste with the intent to incite violence;
3. is harmful to child;
4. infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights;
5. violates any law for the time being in force;
6. deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of the message or knowingly and intentionally communicates any information which is patently false or misleading in nature or, in respect of any business of the Central Government, is identified as fake or false or misleading by such fact check unit of the Central Government;
7. impersonates another person;
8. threatens the unity, integrity, defense, security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign States, or public order, or causes incitement to the commission of any cognizable offence or prevents investigation of any offence or is insulting other nation;
9. is in the nature of an online game that is not verified as a permissible online game;
10. is in the nature of advertisement or surrogate advertisement or promotion of an online game that is not a permissible online game, or of any online gaming intermediary offering such an online game;
11. contains software virus or any other computer code, file or program designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource;
12. is patently false and untrue, and is written or published in any form, with the intent to mislead or harass a person, entity or agency for financial gain or to cause any injury to any person; or
13. is misinformation powered by AI or deepfakes.

Violation of the foregoing provisions may attract legal consequences, including penal sanctions under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS), the Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act), and other applicable laws. Offences may be prosecuted under, but are not limited to, Sections 153, 292, 293, 354C, 419, 465, 469, and 505 of the BNS; Sections 43, 66, 66E, 66D, 66F, 67, 67A, and 67B of the IT Act; Section 29 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999; and Sections 51 and 63 of the Copyright Act, 1957.

TIL is under obligation to report legal violations to the law enforcement agencies under the relevant Indian laws applicable to the context.

You understand and agree that the Company may, but is not obligated to, review the User Submissions and may delete or remove it (without notice) in its sole and absolute discretion, for any reason or without assigning any reason.

Any content and or comment uploaded by you, shall be subject to relevant Indian laws and may be disabled, or and may be subject to investigation under appropriate laws. If you are found to be in non-compliance with the laws and regulations, these terms, or the Privacy Policy of the Site, the Company shall have the right to immediately terminate/block your access and usage of the Site and the Company shall have the right to immediately remove any non-compliant content and or comment, uploaded by you subject to retaining such information as required under applicable laws and shall further have the right to take recourse to such remedies as would be available to the Company under the applicable laws. Additionally, unlawful content will be removed on being notified by a government agency or by an order of any court or as required under applicable laws.

TIL reserves the right to preserve records of content transmitted by it as required under applicable laws.

No Controlling Spam Policy or Unsolicited E-mails

You will not use any communication tool or other means available on the Site to transmit, directly or indirectly, any unsolicited bulk communications (including emails and instant messages). You may not harvest information about users of Company for the purpose of sending or to facilitate the sending of unsolicited bulk communications. We may terminate your access or use of the Site immediately, with or without any notice, and take any other legal action if you, or anyone using your access details to the Site, violates these terms. We may adopt any technical remedy (including any filtering technology or other measures) to prevent unsolicited bulk communications from entering, utilizing or remaining within our computer or communication networks. Such filtering technology or other measures may block, either temporarily or permanently, some e-mail sent to you through the Company’s websites.

TERMINATION OF ACCOUNT, SUSPENSION OR DISCONTINUATION OF THE SERVICE

The Company reserves the right to change, suspend, or discontinue temporarily or permanently, some or all of the Services (including the content and the devices through which the Services are accessed), with respect to any or all users, at any time without notice. You acknowledge that the Company may do so in its sole discretion. You also agree that the Company will not be liable to you for any modification, suspension, or discontinuance of the Services.

Company may retain any information and associated records that are required to be retained or preserved under applicable laws including post termination of your account and irrespective of whether such information or content has been removed or access to it has been disabled.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIABILITY

You understand and agree that the Company provides the Services on ´as-is´ ´with all faults´ and ´as available´ basis. You agree that use of the Site or the Services is at your risk. All warranties including without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, for the title and non-infringement are disclaimed and excluded.

No representations, warranties or guarantees whatsoever are made by the Company as to the (a) accuracy, adequacy, reliability, completeness, suitability or applicability of the information to a particular situation; (b) that the service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free; (c) the quality of any services, content, information, or other material on the Site will meet your expectations or requirements; (d) any errors in the Site will be corrected; (e) warranties against infringement of any third party intellectual property or proprietary rights; or (f) other warranties relating to performance, non-performance, or other acts or omissions of the Company, its officers, directors, employees, affiliates, agents, licensors, or suppliers.

The Company does not warrant that any of the software used and or licensed in connection with the Services will be compatible with other third-party software or devices nor does it warrant that operation of the Services and the associated software will not damage or disrupt other software or hardware.

Any transactions relating to sale/purchase of goods or services not directly offered by TIL are to be settled inter-se between the parties to such transaction and all warranties express or implied of any kind, regarding any matter pertaining thereto, including without limitation the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement are disclaimed by TIL. TIL merely endeavours to provide a platform where you and other party may interact, exchange information or carry out sale/purchase transactions on such terms and in the manner mutually agreed between you and the other party. TIL does not have any involvement in the actual transactions between the buyers and sellers in any way. It is only you, who is entirely responsible for all the activities, arising out of the transactions of sale/purchase of goods or services offered by any other party and not TIL. TIL will not be liable for any loss that you may incur, while selling or purchasing goods /services of the third party.

Under no circumstances will TIL be held responsible or liable, in any way, for any content which in Legal opinion is derogatory, threatening, defamatory, obscene or offensive or offends public sensibilities or morals and shall also not assume liability for any errors or omissions in any content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any content posted or uploaded on the Site, or any infringement of another’s rights, including intellectual property rights. You specifically agree that TIL is not responsible for any content sent using and/or included in TIL’s site/service by any third party.

Under no circumstances will the Company be liable to you, or any party for any direct or indirect damages of any kind resulting from the use of the Site. All warranties without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, workmanlike effort, title and non-infringement are disclaimed and excluded.

The Company, including its parent, affiliates, associates, successors, and assigns, and each of their respective investors, directors, officers, employees, agents, and suppliers (including distributors and content licensors), shall not be liable at any time for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive, or consequential damages, including without limitation damages for loss of profits, loss of business opportunities or projects, loss of use, loss or corruption of data, damage to computer systems, or any other commercial or economic losses.

This limitation applies to all claims arising out of or in any way connected with:

• the use of, or inability to use, the Site or the Services;
• the performance or non-performance of the Site or the Services;
• any delay, interruption, failure or error in the operation or transmission of the Site or the Services;
• any information, software, products, services, or related graphics obtained through the Site or Services;
• any viruses, communication failures, theft, destruction, unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of any information;
• or any act or omission resulting from the use of the Site or its contents.

This disclaimer applies whether the claim is based in contract, tort, strict liability, or any other legal theory, even if the Company has been advised of the possibility of such damages. The foregoing limitation shall apply to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

In the event any exclusion contained herein be held to be invalid for any reason and the Company or any of its affiliate entities, officers, directors or employees become liable for loss or damage, then, any such liability of the Company or any of its affiliate entities, officers, directors or employees shall be limited to not exceeding any ticket charges paid by you in the month preceding the date of your claim for the particular ticket or event (as the case may be) in question.

INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless, the Company, its affiliates, successors, and assigns, and each of their respective investors, directors, officers, employees, agents, and suppliers (including distributors and content licensors) from and against any losses, claims, damages, liabilities, including legal fees and expenses, arising out of:

• (a) your violation of these Terms, including but not limited to a claim arising out of a breach of your representations or warranties made hereunder;
• (b) your use or misuse of or access to the Site or the Services;
• (c) your violation of any law, regulation or third party right, including without limitation any copyright, property, or privacy right; or
• (d) any claim that you have caused damage to a third party.
• (e) any content or material submitted by you.

The Company reserves the right, at its own expense, to employ separate counsel and assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, and you agree to cooperate with the Company´s defence of these claims.

GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL MECHANISM

Redressal Mechanism: Any complaints or concerns with regards to content and or comment or breach of these terms shall be taken up with the designated Grievance Officer as mentioned below via in writing or through email signed with the electronic signature to the Grievance Officer-

Mr. Shinod Edakkad (“Grievance Officer”)
grievance.timeslanguages@timesinternet.in

Grievance Officer
Times Internet Limited
Plot No. 391, Udyog Vihar, Phase-III, Gurgaon-122016, Haryana, India
Ph: 0124-4518550

Notice of Copyright Infringement

Our policy is to comply with all intellectual property laws and to act expeditiously upon receiving any notice of claimed infringement. If you believe that any work has been reproduced on the Site in a manner that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide a notice of copyright infringement containing all of the following information:

• A. physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner for the purposes of the complaint.
• B. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed.
• C. Identification of the material on our Site that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity.
• D. The address, telephone number or e-mail address of the complaining party.
• E. A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
• F. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice of copyright infringement is accurate, and that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the right that is allegedly infringed.

GENERAL TERMS

Relationship

None of the provisions of these Terms shall be deemed to constitute a partnership or agency between you and the Company, and you shall have no authority to bind the Company in any manner whatsoever. This agreement is solely for your and the Company’s benefit and not for the benefit of any other person, except for permitted successors and assigns under this Agreement.

Assignment

You may not transfer to anyone else, either temporarily or permanently, any rights to use the Services or any part of the Services. Any attempt by you to do so shall be void. The Company may assign, transfer, delegate and/or grant all or any part of its rights, privileges and properties hereunder to any person or entity.

Force Majeure

Neither Party shall have any liability for any interruption or delay, in accessing the Site due to Force Majeure Event. For the purposes of this clause, ´Force Majeure Event´ means any event or circumstance or combination of events and circumstances which is reasonably beyond the control of the party affected thereby and which causes or results in default or delay in performance by such affected party of any of its obligations under this agreement and includes an act of God, war, hostilities, civil commotion, epidemics, lockdowns, strikes, lockouts and other industrial disputes.

Applicable Law

These Terms are governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of India without giving effect to principles of conflict of law. In the event of any dispute or claim by you against the Company, you agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts at New Delhi.

Limited Time to Bring Your Claim

You and the Company agree that any cause of action arising out of or related to the use of the Site or the Services must commence within one (1) year after the cause of action accrues otherwise, such cause of action will be permanently barred.

Survival

Rights and obligations under the Terms which by their nature should survive will remain in full effect after any termination or expiration.

Non-Waiver

Any express waiver or failure to promptly exercise any right under this agreement will not create a continuing waiver or any expectation of non-enforcement.

Entire Agreement

These Terms constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede and replace all prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, written or oral, regarding such subject matter.

The User hereby acknowledges and agrees that TIL reserves the right to collect information for the purpose of quality testing and feedback and may call/communicate with the user in relation to the same.