by a Thinker, Sailor, Blogger, Irreverent Guy from Madras

Terms of Use



revised 26 Aug 2017
revised 01 Aug 2016
revised 15 Aug 2015
original 13 Aug 2014

Terms of Use/Service

Terms of Use for using this blog-website www.MadrasNow.com (earlier at and now permanently redirected from www.madmadrasi.net) with the name, style and banner of Monkeyshines (earlier known as Monkeyshine Nutworks), and the authors (from now referred as 'we' or 'us' or 'our' or 'here') and  purchase of any goods or services from us.

Modification of these Terms of Use:

We reserve the right to change or modify any of the terms at any time, and such changes will immediately become effective upon posting of such changes in this page. Your continued access or use of this Blog-Website (and associated content including associated social media and cloud storage) will imply your full acceptance of the same.

Compliance:

India does not have a Online or Distance Selling Act as yet (Aug 2017).  These Terms & Conditions (from now referred as 'Terms') is based on the UK Act of same name, which itself complies with the EU regulations.

Privacy Policy & Cookies:

As we are hosted in Google's Blogger platform, including but not limited to Google AdSense, and payment gateway is PayPal, all their privacy & cookie policies apply.

In addition, we use 3rd party utilities, including but not limited to ShareThis and Disqus, whose privacy & cookie policies also apply.

Email IDs which are filled in the forms or as part of purchases or other communication is retained only for transaction records, and/or notification of updates, and may be automatically added into Gmail contacts.  We will never sell, share or disclose any such information collected to any others, except as above, and in cases where we are required by law to pass on information or if we believe action is necessary for prevention of fraud, cyber crime, or to protect us, or the rights, personal safety of person/s.

Suitability:

We do not give any guarantee as to the suitability of the documents, booklets, periodical or anything written (from now referred as 'publication') by us.  Any purchase is 'AS-IS', 'AS AVAILABLE', 'WHAT-IS' basis.  There are no warranties, express or implied,   Content of publications may differ from what is shown/described here.

Delivery:

Deliver shall be effected within 6-8 hours of purchase intimation from PayPal, for publications which have not passed their 'DO-BY' date.  DO-BY date is the day, month, year on which the procedure listed in the publication is to be performed.  After DO-BY dates, the delivery time may take up to 24 hours or more.

Cancellation & Refund:

In line with the UK Act, Regulation 13 (1) (e) The Right to Cancel an order is not applicable to the supply of newspapers, periodicals or magazines.  As the publications are periodicals - published annually for the occasion - cancellation of orders and refund do not arise.

Usage:

Requires you to: Keep the license and copyright notice included in this page ( www.MadrasNow.com/) as a link or text  when you use them in your works.
It permits you to: Freely download and use the material published here, in whole or in part, for personal, and/or private use.  No permission is granted for company internal, or commercial purposes.
It forbids you to: Hold the authors and/or publishers liable for damages as material is provided without warranty; Hold the creators or copyright holders liable; Redistribute any piece of material, even for personal use, without proper attribution

License:

We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited, personal, non-commercial license to access and make use of the publications and not to reproduce, duplicate, adapt, copy, share, sell, resell, transmit or otherwise exploit for any commercial purpose. This authorization shall not constitute a transfer of title.

Syndication:

If you are interested in publishing any article on this blog, please use the Blogger 'Contact Form' form on the footer or by email to mad.madrasi (at) gmail (dot) com .

In general, we do not mind if you re-publish any article on this blog, provided:
  • it is strictly non-commercial usage;
  • you do not distort the argument / ideas;
  • give absolute, full credit to the web address www.MadrasNow.com; and,
  • provide a 'dofollow' link to this blog URL.

Disclaimer

  • The opinions and views expressed here are my own, definitely not plagiarised, not even 'inspired'
  • The opinions and views may change over time & may not reflect earlier or later writing
  • Every effort has been made to present facts truly, fairly and accurately but nothing is guaranteed
  • Reliance on any content & information here is provided 'as-is' and does not create any warranty - you use or do not use them at your own risk
  • Some content &/or information present here may be copyright, trademark or intellectual property of (other) respective owners
  • In such cases, there is no intention to infringe on such rights and their 'fair use' here is for academic, demonstrative, judgmental and/or editorial purposes only

Forward-Looking Statement:

In addition to what is written under 'Disclaimer' sub-heading, this website includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the safe harbour provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.  As India does not have laws concerning such 'forward-looking-statements' as on date (August 2017), this website takes recourse to that US Law,

The statements are based upon the current beliefs and expectations of the authors and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. There are no guarantees that future events will materialize exactly as opined here, as underlying assumptions if proven to be inaccurate or risks or uncertainties materialize, actual results may drastically vary from those visualised in the forward-looking statements.  The authors undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

DMCA:

This information is for anyone that wishes to challenge our “fair use” of copyrighted material under the US DMCA Act or the EU Copyright Directive.

If you are a legal copyright holder or a designated agent for such and you believe that content residing on or accessible through our website infringes a copyright and falls outside the boundaries of “Fair Use”, please send a notice of infringement by contacting us either through the Blogger 'Contact Form' in the footer, or by email to mad.madrasi (a) gmail (dot) com.

We will respond and if notice is given of an alleged copyright violation we will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to the material(s) in question.  All 3rd party material posted on this website is copyright the respective owners / authors. We make no claim of copyright on such material.

Copyright:

Creative Commons License
Monkeyshines is authored under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Permissions beyond the scope of this license may apply as detailed above.
For any clarifications, please contact us through the 'Blogger Contact Form' in the footer of this page.


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