Introduction
Thank you for using VATTAM. Vattam is here to inspire people, so that, together, let’s create something impactful.
Vattam.org makes available information, materials, and contents on this website, subject to the following terms and conditions. By accessing this site, you agree to the terms and conditions as outlined in this legal notice. Vattam.org reserves the right to change these terms and conditions from time to time at its sole discretion.
Definition
Throughout this Agreement, we may use certain words or phrases, and it is important that you understand the meaning of them. The list is not all-encompassing and no definition should be considered binding to the point that it renders this Agreement nonsensical:
“Agreement” refers to these Terms of Service;
“Service” refers to the services that we provide, including all our contents (including but not limited to articles, images, audios, videos, animations and many more) and our Site itself;
“Site” refers to our website, www.vattam.org;
“VATTAM” refers to our company, known as “Vattam Foundation”; our Site; our Service; or a combination of all or some of the preceding definitions, depending on the context in which the word is used;
“User” refers to anyone who uses our Service, including general visitors to our Site;
“You” refers to you, the person who is entering into this Agreement with VATTAM.
What we Offer
Vattam, for now, is starting as a positive media network that introduces a new perspective of looking at ourselves and the world around us.
We create content that will help us to change the way we think, and helps us to see through the lies of the existing system.
We publish articles that will help us to unlearn the old definitions; educate us on changing the perspectives through which we look at our life and look for the solutions to build a self-reliant livelihood.
We create content to build a community where we share our perspectives, ideas, ideologies, identify fields and areas where we can work, what we can solve, how we can change and discuss and act together.
Eligibility
You must be the minimum age required to enter into a contract in the area in which you reside, and, in any event, must not be less than 18 years of age.
You must, if signing up on behalf of an organization, be authorized by that organization to bind it to this Agreement and you agree that you and the organization will be jointly and severally liable for any breaches hereof.
You must provide us with personal information and other information that we deem necessary to provide you with our Service.
Nature of Service
The information contained in this website and its related social media pages is for general informational purposes only. They do not constitute advice and should not be relied upon in making (or refraining from making) any decision of any nature.
While we, Vattam.org aspire to keep the information on this website and its related social media pages accurate and up to date, we make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the website and related social media pages, or the information, products, services, linked pages, or related graphics contained on the website and related social media pages for any purpose.
Our website may contain any links to other external sites in some our articles, web pages/ documents. We do not take responsibility for the accuracy of the contents in those sites. The hyperlink given to external sites do not constitute an endorsement of information, products or services offered by these sites.
Our forum and community spaces may contain opinions and comments from anyone using our website and Vattam does not endorse the information or take any legal responsibility for the opinions expressed herein.
DISCLAIMERS
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH OR UNDERSTAND THE FOLLOWING TERMS, DO NOT USE OR ACCESS THIS WEBSITE OR RELATED ENTITIES.
VATTAM DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO ANY MATTER WHATSOEVER RELATING TO THE SERVICE AND ANY INFORMATION, OPINION, PERSPECTIVE OR IDEOLOGY PROVIDED HEREIN, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES.
IN NO EVENT WILL VATTAM, ITS HEIRS OR ASSIGNS, BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY (i) FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF PROGRAMS OR INFORMATION, AND THE LIKE), OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE AVAILABILITY, USE, RELIANCE ON, OR INABILITY TO USE THE WEBSITE OR ANY ‘INFORMATION’, EVEN IF WE, VATTAM SHALL HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE; OR (ii) FOR ANY CLAIM ATTRIBUTABLE TO ERRORS, OMISSIONS, OR OTHER INACCURACIES IN, OR DESTRUCTIVE PROPERTIES OF ANY ‘INFORMATION’.
YOU AGREE THAT WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE TO YOU FOR ANYTHING THAT WE MAY OTHERWISE BE RESPONSIBLE FOR, IF IT IS THE RESULT OF EVENTS BEYOND OUR CONTROL, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROTESTS, WARS, INSURRECTION, RIOTS, TERRORISM, CRIME, LABOR SHORTAGES (INCLUDING LAWFUL AND UNLAWFUL STRIKES), EMBARGOES, DISRUPTIONS, COMMUNICATION DISRUPTION, UNAVAILABILITY OF PAYMENT PROCESSORS, FAILURE OR SHORTAGE OF INFRASTRUCTURE, SHORTAGE OF MATERIALS, OR ANY OTHER EVENT BEYOND OUR CONTROL.
VATTAM does not make any medical claims and no articles on this website or its related social media pages is intended to offer medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. We do not dispense medical advice, prescribe, or diagnose illness. By providing the information contained herein, Vattam.org is not attempting to diagnose, treat, cure or mitigate any disease or medical condition in any individual or community. The views, commentaries, analyses and nutritional advice expressed by VATTAM are not intended to be a substitute for a one-on-one relationship with a qualified healthcare professional and are not intended as medical advice. Any reliance you place on such information is strictly at your own risk, and of your own free will.
VATTAM strongly encourages you to make your own healthcare and nutritional decisions based upon your research and experience and in partnership with a qualified health care professional, particularly if you have a severe medical condition. Medical and health related information and analyses provided on Vattam.org are intended to offer a range of information, opinions, experiences and sources, to help you make positive choices for the health of your own body and mind, in order to help your body heal itself. Before beginning any type of natural, integrative or conventional treatment regime, it is advisable to seek the advice of a licensed health care professional, and to practice informed discernment at all times.
By reposting information and opinions from other sources, not original to Vattam, including but not limited to materials re-posted in whole or in part from other websites, Vattam does not endorse the information or opinions expressed herein, does not guarantee the accuracy or impartiality of that information, and assumes no legal responsibility for any claim, loss or damage arising from that information or information referenced within.
Rules of Use
Interactive areas of the Vattam website and our social media accounts are intended to encourage active and thoughtful public discussion and/or provide a way for you to share your opinions.
We welcome your opinions. We know our perspectives may differ and so we expect your opinions to be different from ours. But, we want you to explain your opinion in detail rather than just expressing whether you agree or disagree to the perspective.
Expressing our thoughts and sharing the underlying reasons behind what we believe will only make us have a look at our thinking patterns. That will help everyone to understand how our perspectives differ and will lead to a meaningful conversation.
Please remember that you are participating in a community that is intended for all our users. We reserve the right to remove any content posted on the Vattam website and our social media accounts at any time for any reason without notice. Decisions as to whether content violates any of the posting rules of our website will be made by Vattam in its discretion after we have actual notice of such posting.
- Please be polite in the way you communicate and continue the conversation.
- Don’t insult anyone taking part in the conversation.
- We want you to discuss about the ideas and ideologies. Don’t insult someone whose perspectives differ from yours.
- Do not post defamatory, false or misleading information.
- Do not use language that could insult or offend other users.
- Do not submit comments that are unlawful, harassing, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually orientated or racially offensive.
- Do not submit any comments that contain personal information. Do not advertise or promote any products or services.
- Do not spam or flood the forum. Only submit a comment once. Do not resubmit the same, or similar, comments.
- Keep your comments relevant to the discussion topic.
- Do not infringe on anyone’s intellectual property rights.
- Do not hack, crack, phish, SQL inject, or otherwise compromise the security or integrity of the Vattam website, its service, or its users’ computers.
Fair Use Permit
This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to educate the people around us and advance our understandings of political, environmental, educational, medical, economic and scientific and many other existences and surroundings.
We believe this constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 52 of The Copyright Act, 1957. The provision permits limited use of copyright material without the owner’s authorization, here the allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, education and research.
Our Copyright
We believe no one creates anything for themselves. We create to help and share. We create content to share our perspectives and ideologies. We want everyone to know, read, comment, criticize, accept and share our ideologies.
But, in sharing a part of the article or a single image or any other platform without our website‘s link may not help in understanding our thoughts, instead they can be misleading depending on the content or the circumstances in which the content gets shared.
Also, we may use content that have been copyrighted by some individual or companies or organizations under the fair use policy. By sharing such materials you may infringe on the intellectual property of their works which might lead to legal complications.
So, we kindly ask you to share our content only using our website’s link or from our social media accounts. Don’t edit, copy, download, distribute, display, disseminate, or otherwise reproduce any of the information on the site without receiving our prior written permission.
If you want to adapt our content to any of your creative work useful for the society, we will be happy to support you based on the motive of your work, with/without any contributions. So, do drop an email to contact@vattam.org by mentioning COPYRIGHTS REQUIRED (in CAPS) at the start of subject line in the email, so as to ensure the efficient handling of your submission.
Copyright Infringement
We don’t intend to use your copyrighted materials for commercial purposes. But, if you are the copyright owner of an image or any other material that appears on this website or its related social media pages and other entities, and would like it removed please contact us by sending an email to contact@vattam.org with the details of the content which is being infringed and our website’s link where the infringement has been made. We will remove your copyrighted material and alter our content suitably.
We encourage you to mention COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT (in CAPS) at the start of subject line in the email, so as to ensure the efficient handling of your submission.
Your Copyright
By contributing and submitting content (including text, photos and videos, etc.,) for publishing on Vattam, you agree that the content does not infringe or violate someone else’s rights or otherwise violates the law. You also grant Vattam a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to publicly display your content on vattam.org and its associated publishing mediums of all sorts and social media pages.
Revocation of Consent
We may revoke our consent for your use of any of our intellectual property, or any other permission granted to you under this Agreement, at any time. If we so request, you must take immediate action to remove any such usage in your works, even if it would cause a loss to you.
Intellectual Property
“Vattam” is a brand and a style used by us to uniquely identify our site and service. You agree not to use this phrase anywhere for your commercial works and businesses without our prior written consent. Additionally, you agree not to use our style or copy the look and feel of our website or its design, without our prior written consent for starting your own competing business.
CLAIMS & WARRANTIES
WE MAKE NO CLAIMS OR WARRANTIES AS TO THE CREDIBILTY OF OUR SERVICE OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOU AGREE THAT YOU ARE RELEASING US FROM ANY LIABILITY THAT WE MAY OTHERWISE HAVE TO YOU IN RELATION TO OR ARISING FROM THIS AGREEMENT OR FROM ANY OF OUR SERVICES.
YOU AGREE THAT WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE IN ANY WAY FOR DAMAGES CAUSED BY THIRD PARTIES WHO MAY USE OUR SERVICES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PEOPLE WHO COMMIT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENT, DEFAMATION, TORTIOUS INTERFERENCE WITH ECONOMIC RELATIONS, OR ANY OTHER ACTIONABLE CONDUCT TOWARDS YOU.
YOU AGREE THAT WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY FAILURE OF THE GOODS OR SERVICES OF OUR COMPANY OR A THIRD PARTY, INCLUDING ANY FAILURES OR DISRUPTIONS, UNTIMELY DELIVERY, SCHEDULED OR UNSCHEDULED, INTENTIONAL OR UNINTENTIONAL, ON OUR WEBSITE WHICH PREVENT ACCESS TO OUR WEBSITE TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY.
Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless for any claims which may arise from or relate to this Agreement or the provision of our service to you, including any damages caused by your use of our site or acceptance of the offers contained on it.
Law & Jurisdiction
This Agreement is governed by the laws in force in the country of India. The offer and acceptance of this contract are deemed to have occurred in India. By accessing our website from anywhere outside of India, you have given us your permission to abide to the laws of India. You have given your consent to override the rights in your jurisdiction and you will agree to comply with all our local laws. And the jurisdiction of any disputes shall be limited exclusively to Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.
Assignment of Rights
You may not assign your rights and/or obligations under this Agreement to any other party without our prior written consent. We may assign our rights and/or obligations under this Agreement to any other party at our discretion.
Suspension & Termination
If you do not adhere to our rules of usage of our website, we reserve the right to suspend or ban your account at our sole discretion. Here are some reasons why we might do so:
- Breaching the terms aforementioned and forthcoming;
- Serious failure to respect the spirit and tone of the community;
- Conduct that demand a disproportionate amount of our time.
The length of a suspension or whether we ban someone depends on all the circumstances. Bans are generally for extreme cases and repeated serious abuse. If we suspend or ban your registration, you must not attempt to re-register or submit content (e.g. using someone else’s account), without our permission.
Privacy
We respect the privacy and security of our Users. You understand that by using our website, you give consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personally identifiable information as well as any non-personally identifiable information, as described in more detail in our Privacy Policy.
Amendments
We may amend this Agreement from time to time, at our sole discretion. After the amendment, we will update this page accordingly and you are advised to check for the changes in this Agreement. Your continued use of this site after any such amendments will constitute your acceptance.
