We welcome you (“you” or the “user”) as a reader, editor, author, or contributor of this website, and we encourage you to join our community. Before you participate, however, we ask that you please read and agree to the following Terms of Use (“Terms of Use”). 

Non-admin user contributions are offered under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License with any additional conditions as mentioned in this page.

Summary of Terms of Use

You are free to:

Read and Print the content and other media free of charge.

Share and Reuse our content and other media with permission, unless the content is licensed under or derived from an open source license. 

Contribute To by writing blogs and commenting on the contents where commenting is open.

Under the following conditions:

Responsibility – You take responsibility for your blogs (since we only host your content). We will try our best to correct any technical mistakes in the post, but we don't guarantee it. 

Civility – You support a civil environment and do not harass other users.

Lawful Behavior – You do not violate copyright or other laws.

No Harm – You do not harm our technology infrastructure.

Terms of Use and Policies – You adhere to the below detailed Terms of Use and to the applicable community policies when you visit our sites or participate in our communities.

With the understanding that:

You License Freely Your Contributions – you generally must license your contributions and edits to our sites or Projects under a free and open license (unless your contribution is in the public domain).

No Professional Advice – the content of articles and other projects is for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice.

Detailed Terms of Use

Overview

These Terms of Use tell you about our public services, our relationship to you as a user, and the rights and responsibilities that guide us both. We want you to know that we host an incredible quantity of educational and informational content, some of which is contributed and made possible by users like yourself. Generally we do not monitor, or delete content. This means that editorial control of the blog or content you post is in the hands of you. We merely host those contents. The community - the network of users who are constantly building and using the various sites or Projects - are the principal means through which the goals of the mission are achieved. The community contributes to and helps govern our sites. 

Open source contents

Legal responsibility

You are welcome to join as a contributor, editor, or author, but you should follow any policies that govern the site as a whole and the respective sections or pages. Please be aware that you are legally responsible for all of your contributions, edits, and re-use of the website content under any applicable laws (which may include the laws where you live or where you view or edit content). This means it is important that you use caution when posting content. In light of this responsibility, we have some rules about what you cannot post, most of which is either for your own protection or for the protection of other users like yourself. Please keep in mind that the content we host is for general informational purposes only, so if you need expert advice for a particular question, you should seek the help through the contact form or of a licensed or qualified professional. We also include other important notices and disclaimers, so please read these Terms of Use in their entirety.

Objectionable, erroneous or copyright content

You may find some material objectionable or erroneous: Because we provide a wide array of content that is produced or gathered by us from various sources and also by our fellow users, you may encounter material that you find offensive, erroneous, misleading, mislabeled, or otherwise objectionable. We therefore ask that you use common sense and proper judgment when using our services. You can always use the contact form to contact us for any clarification or help. 

Usually we write an article after learning from various sources over a period of time and hence some of the sentences, examples etc. might be similar or same to other materials available. You can always use the contact form to contact us for bringing any such mistakes to our notice and we will immediately take the necessary steps to either remove it or provide an acknowledgement on that content based on mutual agreement with you.

Refraining from Certain Activities

We encourage you to be civil and polite in your interactions with others in the community, to act in good faith, and to make edits and contributions aimed at furthering the mission of the shared Project. Certain activities, whether legal or illegal, may be harmful to other users and violate our rules, and some activities may also subject you to liability. Therefore, for your own protection and for that of other users, you may not engage in such activities on our sites. These activities include:

Harassing and Abusing Others

• Engaging in harassment, threats, stalking, spamming, or vandalism; and 
• Transmitting chain mail, junk mail, or spam to other users.

Violating the Privacy of Others

• Infringing the privacy rights of others under any applicable laws (which may include the laws where you live or where you view or edit content);
• Soliciting personally identifiable information for purposes of harassment, exploitation, violation of privacy, or any promotional or commercial purpose not explicitly approved by us; and
• Soliciting personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18 for an illegal purpose or violating any applicable law regarding the health or well-being of minors.

Engaging in False Statements, Impersonation, or Fraud

• Intentionally or knowingly posting content that constitutes libel or defamation;
• With the intent to deceive, posting content that is false or inaccurate;
• Attempting to impersonate another user or individual, misrepresenting your affiliation with any individual or entity, or using the username of another user with the intent to deceive; and
• Engaging in fraud.

Committing Infringement

• Infringing copyrights, trademarks, patents, or other proprietary rights under applicable law.

Misusing Our Services for Other Illegal Purposes

• Posting child pornography or any other content that violates applicable law concerning child pornography;
• Posting or trafficking in obscene material that is unlawful under applicable law; and
• Using the services in a manner that is inconsistent with applicable law.

Engaging in Disruptive and Illegal Misuse of Facilities

• Posting or distributing content that contains any viruses, malware, worms, Trojan horses, malicious code, or other device that could harm our technical infrastructure or system or that of our users;
• Engaging in automated uses of the site that are abusive or disruptive of the services and have not been approved by us;
• Disrupting the services by placing an undue burden on the website or the networks or servers connected with the website;
• Disrupting the services by inundating the websites with communications or other traffic that suggests no serious intent to use the website for its stated purpose;
• Knowingly accessing, tampering with, or using any of our non-public areas in our computer systems without authorization; and
• Probing, scanning, or testing the vulnerability of any of our technical systems or networks unless all the following conditions are met:
  • such actions do not unduly abuse or disrupt our technical systems or networks;
  • such actions are not for personal gain (except for credit for your work);
  • you report any vulnerabilities to us; and
  • you do not undertake such actions with malicious or destructive intent.

We reserve the right to exercise our enforcement discretion with respect to the above terms.

Trademarks

Although you have considerable freedoms for re-use of the content on the website, it is important that we protect our trademark rights so that we can protect our users from fraudulent impersonators. Because of this, we ask that you please respect our trademarks, if any. All our trademarks belong to us, and you should let us know about any use of our trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, or domain names using the contact form or email.

Licensing of Content

Different site contents are licensed differently: Contents written by admins such as admin, heartin or sneha are by default copyrighted and should be reproduced with permission; in other cases we will try to mention it explicitely. If any content (article, blog etc.) is licensed under or derived from an open source license, we will not hold any copyright to those contents and those materials will be licensed similarly, but by default, such materials should be used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. We will try to mention those license terms explicitely for those contents, but in case we miss to mention the license or the acknowledgement, please bring it to our notice and we will do the needful as soon as possible. If in doubt, please ask. Any contents written by other users than site admins will be by default licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, in other cases in cluding other licenses it should be mentioned explicitely.

DMCA Compliance

We want to ensure that the content that we host can be re-used by other users without fear of liability and that it is not infringing the proprietary rights of others. In fairness to our users, as well as to other creators and copyright holders, our policy is to respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the formalities of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Pursuant to the DMCA, we will terminate, in appropriate circumstances, users and account holders of our system and network who are repeat infringers.

Third-party Websites and Resources

You are solely responsible for your use of any third-party websites or resources. Although the website contain links to third-party websites and resources, we do not endorse and are not responsible or liable for their availability, accuracy, or the related content, products, or services (including, without limitation, any viruses or other disabling features), nor do we have any obligation to monitor such third-party content.

Disputes and Jurisdiction

We hope that no serious disagreements arise involving you, but, in the event there is a dispute, we encourage you to seek resolution through the contact form or email. If you seek to file a legal claim against us, you agree to file and resolve it exclusively in Bangalore state in India.

Limitation on Liability

We will not be liable to you or to any other party for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data, or other intangible losses, regardless of whether we were advised of the possibility of such damage. In no event shall our liability exceed one thousand Indian Rupees (Rs 1000.00) in aggregate. In the case that applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you, although our liability will be limited to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

Thank You

We appreciate your taking the time to read these Terms of Use, and we are very happy to have you contributing to the website and using our services. Through your contributions, you are helping to build something really big that provides education and information to many who might otherwise lack access, but also a vibrant community of like-minded and engaged peers, focused on a very noble goal.

Attribution

This terms of use has been derived from ososys.com/terms-of-use.