PRIVACY POLICY OF ENGLISH GURUKUL

TERMS OF USE Contact Us

1. ABOUT US

Orit Sciences Private Limited having its registered office at WeWork Embassy TechVillage, Block L, Devarabisanahalli, Outer Ring Rd, Bellandur, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560103, Karnataka, is engaged in developing and imparting English language skills through vernacular means for building foundation for students during their school journey by leveraging powerful technological tools. It includes concept sheets, videos, simulations, practice questions, translation guide etc. that are based upon the prescribed English curriculum for the specified grade (hereinafter referred to as “English Gurukul”, or “we” or “us” or the “Company”).

2. GENERAL

2.1. Our Terms of Use defines the terms and conditions under which you are allowed to use the Website/Online Content and describes the manner in which we shall treat your account while you are registered with us. The Terms of Use herein are inclusive in nature and non-exhaustive and will deem to include any further terms which are conveyed via mail or along with material disbursed or sold. If you have any questions about any part of the Terms of Use, feel free to contact us at E-Mail.

2.2. This Terms of Use supersedes all previous oral and written terms and conditions (if any) communicated to you.

2.3. Your accessing or using our Site, Application or Services by means of a computer system or a hand device or any other electronic means, in any manner whatsoever, including and not limited to visiting, surfing and copying, downloading, uploading of any content whether in text, numeric, drawing etc, (hereinafter collectively referred to as ‘the Website’) shall mean that you have read, understood and have consented to be bound by our Terms of Use, without any modification.

2.4. Your submission of any personal information shall be governed by our Terms of Use (in particular, by the Privacy Policy) as applicable and provided on our website.

2.5. Your agreement to our Terms of Use shall operate as a binding agreement between you and English Gurukul in respect of the use of the site, application or availing of services.

2.6. Any term used in this Terms of Use and not defined herein shall have the meaning as defined in the Privacy Policy.

2.7. Words denoting the singular shall include the plural and vice versa.

2.8. Words denoting any particular gender shall include all genders.

2.9. The headings and subheadings herein are included for convenience and identification only and are not intended to describe, interpret, define, or limit the scope, extent, or intent of this Terms of Use or the right to use the Website by the Users contained herein or any other section or pages of the Website in any manner whatsoever.

3. TERM AND TERMINATION

3.1. This Term of Use will remain in full force and effect while you use the Website in any form or capacity.

3.2. The Company reserves the right to terminate your access to the Website and this Term of Use in the event of the following by You-

·         breach of any terms contained herein

·         misrepresentation of information

·         any unlawful activity or

·         any information submitted by You to the Company through the Website is unable to be verified or is authenticated.

3.3. Clauses under the headings User Covenants, Limitation of Liability, Indemnity, Disclaimer, Intellectual Property Rights, Dispute Resolution shall continue and survive the termination of this Terms of Use.

4. DEFINITION

4.1. Subscription Fees / Affiliation Charges – Charges Paid by School for getting access to English Gurukul Website in accordance with the modules being subscribed for various grades and children.

4.2. English Gurukul Learning Program – The digital content, in the form of written, audio or video or any combination thereof developed by the Company as a tool for imparting English Language skills to students of various grades as a supplement to regular curriculum prescribed by the respective educational body or Board.

4.3. Student Fee – Fee paid by or for or on behalf of a student for taking English Gurukul Learning Program.

4.4. Terms of Use – Terms of Use means this document read together with the privacy policy, disclaimers, and other policies applicable in general and/ or specific to this Website.

4.5. Website - The Website of the Company that can be accessed through specific URL being provided by the Company from time to time to its various users.

5. APPLICABILITY

5.1. This Terms of Use applies to you whether you are:

·         A Teacher who has been associated with us or seeks to be associated with us as a Teacher for teaching English Gurukul Learning Program to the student(s) (“Teachers”, “You” or “User”); or

·         A student or a parent or a legal guardian, using our website (“You”, or “User”); or

·         5.1.3. A School, academy, tuition or a coaching centre using English Gurukul Learning Program (“You”, or “User”); or

·         Otherwise, a user of the Website (“you” or “User”).

5.2. This Terms of Use applies to your visit to and your use of the Website, as well as to all information provided by you on the Website at any given point in time.

6. PURPOSE OF THE WEBSITE

6.1. The Website of the Company is meant to provide information to the public about the -

·         Company.

·         the services and incidental services provided by the Company including without limitation, the information pertaining to the English Gurukul Learning Program.

6.2. The Website facilitates the services rendered by the Company, and provides for, including and limited to the registration of the schools, teachers, parents/ legal guardians of the student(s) and the student(s), desirous of being part of the English Gurukul Learning Program, on the Website.

6.3. The Website facilitates to create/ register an account with us for availing English Gurukul Learning Program.

7. USE OF THE WEBSITE

7.1. Your access of the Website will solely be at the discretion of the Company.

7.2. The Company authorizes you to access the Website solely, to acquire information or enrol/ register or be part of the English Gurukul Learning Program of the Company.

7.3. The Company reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to suspend/ prohibit/ restrict your ability to use or access the Website (or a part thereof) at any time, while the Company investigates complaints or alleged violations of this Terms of Use, or for any other reason, whatsoever, including but not limited to your misusing the Website in any manner.

7.4. The use of the Website is governed by the Company’s Privacy and other Policies which you hereby undertake to adhere to immediately upon first access of the website. The Company’s Privacy and other Policies set forth its standard practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information that it obtains about you in connection with the Services and such other issues as stated in such Policies.

8. USE OF THE ACCOUNT CREATED/REGISTERED ON THE WEBSITE

8.1. Your access of the account registered on the Website, will solely be at the discretion of the Company.

8.2. You shall not allow any party other than yourself or the children for whom the account is created/ registered in case you are a School) to use or have access to the account registered on the Website or disclose to any third party any content of the account registered on the Website.

8.3. Any violation of the term of the above-mentioned sub-clause will be viewed seriously by us and we reserve the right to take all action under this Terms of Use or under the law against you to prevent any illegal use, disclosure, or access by/ to you or any third party.

8.4. The Company reserves the right to accept or reject or suspend or put on hold, your registration on the Website.

9. USER COVENANTS

9.1. By registering on the Website or contacting us through the Website, you represent that you are not a minor and legally entitled to contract under applicable law, and are not barred by any law, in any jurisdiction or bound by any agreement that restricts your right to accept the Terms of Use or use the Website.

9.2. In the event you are a minor as per applicable law, or if you are barred by any law, in any jurisdiction or bound by any agreement that restricts your right to access the Website, you may not register or contact us through the Website, however, your parents/ legal guardian/teachers/School, as the case may be, may contact us on your behalf provided they are compliant to clause 9.1.

9.3. You understand and agree that you are solely responsible for compliance with any and all laws, rules, regulations, and Tax obligations that may apply to your use of the Site, Application, Services, and English Gurukul Learning Program.

9.4. You agree that this Terms of Use shall be subject to any law for the time being in force and that You shall be bound by any restrictions or conditions that may be applicable to you, like You will not host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update, collect, store, or share any information that -

·         9.4.1. belongs to another person and to which you do not have any right;

·         9.4.2. is grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, libellous, invasive of another\'s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating to or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatsoever;

·         harms minors in any way;

·         infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights;

·         violates any law for the time being in force;

·         deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of such messages or communicates any information which is grossly false, offensive or menacing in nature;

·         impersonates or defames us or any other person;

·         contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer resource; and

·         threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign states, or public order or causes incitement to the commission of any cognisable offence or prevents investigation of any offence or is insulting to any other nation.

·         You are also prohibited from and you agree that you shall not be:

·         using the Site, Application, Services or English Gurukul Learning Program for any commercial or other purposes that are not expressly permitted herein this Terms of Use;

·         using, copying, mirroring, framing, displaying English Gurukul’s Website, English Gurukul Learning Program or any content therefrom, without our prior written consent.

·         violating or attempting to violate the integrity or security of the Website;

·         transmitting any information on or through the Website that is disruptive or competitive to the provision of the services provided by the Company;

·         intentionally submitting on the Website any incomplete, false or inaccurate information;

·         using any engine, software, tool, agent or other device or mechanism (such as spiders, robots, avatars or intelligent agents) to navigate or search the Website;

·         attempting to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any part of the Website;

·         copying or duplicating in any manner any of the information available from the Website; and

·         framing or hotlinking or deep linking any contents from the Website.

10. USER’s PERSONAL INFORMATION

10.1. To enroll/register or be part of the English Gurukul Learning Program of the Company, you may be required to provide your or students demographic details like name, age, mobile or phone number, and/or address; without limiting the generality of foregoing, you are required to provide accurate and complete information.

10.2. You hereby authorize the Company to

·         use your submitted information to contact you through SMS, e-Mail, WhatsApp or any other medium not specified.

·         maintain a record of your queries, visit of the Website, and/ or feedback; and

·         use all submitted information by you in such manner, as we may deem fit or necessary.

·         User Submissions

You understand that when using the Website, you may be exposed to content from a variety of sources that are not owned or created by the Company, and that the Company is not responsible for the accuracy, usefulness, safety, or intellectual property rights of or relating to such content, and you agree and assume all liability for your use. You hereby do waive, any legal or equitable rights or remedies you have or may have against the Company with respect thereto.

11. SCHOOL / TEACHER’s RELATED

11.1. Eligibility Criteria

·         You are eligible to register as a School / Teacher if you able to demonstrate certain capabilities in terms of IT Infrastructure as per the standards and specifications laid by the Company, which shall be subject to change from time to time.

·         If and wherever applicable, You should be affiliated with any of the Government recognised body in terms of the New Education Policy, 2020.

·         You should be willing to conduct the sessions/classes in the school or at designated premises or digitally.

·         You have to provide certain information required on the Website. You shall ensure that the information provided by You in the Website\'s registration form is complete, accurate and up to date.

·         You will not be considered as an employee or partner of the Company at any stage while you are registered as Teacher or School.

11.2. Facilitation for your registration by the Company The Company shall allow and facilitate your registering, only if You have provided to the Company certain information required, on the Website or otherwise, as may be stipulated from time to time. After the completion of the registration on the Website or otherwise by you and post evaluating and analysing your information, the representatives of the Company will contact You.

11.3. Obligations of the Teacher or School

·         You shall establish and maintain such facilities and such appropriate, attractive, accessible premises, if applicable, for running the English Gurukul Learning Program.

·         You shall always perform your obligations in professional, ethical, legal and socially responsible manner and shall not involve yourself in any act involving moral turpitude or any act which may give rise to anti-national feelings or discrimination based on caste, creed, sex or religion or involve in any act which may cause mental or physical injury to any of the students.

·         You undertake the responsibility of conducting interactive sessions with students and their parents/ guardians with the aim to facilitate an understanding of English Gurukul Learning Program and address all academic and non-academic queries / issues raised by the concerned person attending such interactive session to their satisfaction.

·         You shall not have any claim, whatsoever, on the content relevant to run the program, including worksheets, tablet-based apps, software and any other learning material including the logo and brand name of the Company (“Content”) and shall not acquire any right, title or interest in or to the Intellectual Property.

·         You shall also endeavour to protect the confidential information and goodwill of the Company

·         You agree to fully indemnify English Gurukul, its directors, its employees, its officers from any claim, damage, loss, decree, order, judgment, expense, liability or financial obligation of any nature whatsoever arising out of your negligence, default, action, omission, breach of any applicable laws and any illegal conduct.

11.4. Refund of Fee shall be entertained in accordance with the Terms of Use and is linked to lapse of time, which shall be subject to discretion of the Company considering other special terms that may be agreed upon at the time of enrolment or affiliation or registration.

11.5. Holidays and Pause Policy

·         In the English Gurukul system, the School, Teacher, or the student are allowed to exercise holidays in accordance with the system followed as per the academic year or prescribed curriculum.

·         English Gurukul does not observe any holidays in the academic calendar year.

11.6. English Gurukul Learning Program Transfer Policy

·         Upon request under certain circumstances, which shall be identified at the sole discretion of the English Gurukul, the Program can be transferred from School to another.

·         In case of the student transfer, the number of classes of the student remains as it is, depending on the tenure of the subscription.

·         Student fee per class for the transferred student will be as per the class structure

11.7. Demo Allocation/Conversion Policy

·         Student demo assignment will be as per the sole discretion of English Gurukul and no fees or charges shall be paid for the same.

·         Demo can be assigned to any teacher, from time to time, depending on the availability of their slot, historical demo conversion, compliance, retention, and such applications.

12. PARENTs/STUDENTs ENROLLED/SEEKING TO ENROL RELATED

12.1. Information to the Parent

·         The Company may make available the facility of enrolling Your child/children for English Gurukul Learning Program after You have provided the Company information as required by way of a written / online application submitted to the Company (the “Information”) and subject to the endorsement by the School in this behalf.

·         You shall ensure that the Information provided by You in the Website\'s registration form or otherwise is complete, accurate and up to date.

·         If You provide any Information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete (or becomes untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete), or the Company has reasonable grounds to suspect that such Information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, the Company has the right to refuse or cancel the enrolment of Your child.

13. ENGLISH GURUKUL’s RIGHT AND OBLIGATIONS

13.1. General

·         The Company reserves the right to disable such information that is in contravention of Clause 9, upon obtaining knowledge by itself or having been brought to actual knowledge by an affected person or otherwise, in writing or through email about any such information as mentioned in Clause 9 above. The Company shall be entitled to preserve such information and associated records, as it may deem fit, for production to governmental authorities for investigation purposes.

·         The Company may disclose, or transfer information provided by you to its affiliates in other countries, and you hereby consent to such transfer. Please be informed that the SPI Rules only permit the Company to transfer sensitive personal data or information under the SPI Rules including any information, to any other body corporate or a person in India, or located in any other country, that ensures the same level of data protection that is adhered to by the Company as provided for under the SPI Rules, only if such transfer is necessary for the performance of the lawful contract between the Company or any person on its behalf and the user or where you have consented to data transfer.

·         The Company may in its absolute discretion, but without being under any obligation to do so, update, amend or supplement the information provided in the English Gurukul Learning Program.

·         English Gurukul may terminate your account or restrict your use of the Website for convenience at any time with or without providing you 30 days\' notice via email to your registered email address or by any other means.

13.2. School / Teacher’s Related

·         The Company reserves the right to refuse the School / Teacher as a registrant without providing any reasons.

·         Any information provided by you is found to be untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete (or becomes untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete), or the Company has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, the Company reserves the right to not register/ associate you as a teacher or suspend/ terminate your association with English Gurukul as a Teacher, as the case may be.

·         The Company shall provide content, branding as well as the learning material to the School / Teacher(s). Company reserves it right to charge for such services from teacher(s).

·         The Company shall provide you with an online teacher student interface through which You can upload student performances and other parameters required for assessing students. You will be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the account information required to login to the interface and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under account. The Company cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with these conditions, or otherwise.

·         The Company shall conduct regular training and interaction sessions with Teacher(s) through respective School for quality control.

·         All class logs will be evaluated, and teachers will be given feedback. English Gurukul reserves the right to transfer students to other teachers in case of poor-quality metrics, disciplinary issues and any such factor which may impede in the attainment of successful learning outcomes of the student.

·         Any commercial arrangement between the teacher and the parents/ guardians of the student outside of the parameters of the English Gurukul agreement shall be viewed as a serious and material breach of the agreement inviting legal action and termination, apart from teacher being liable for compensation and penalties payable to English Gurukul.

·         To continuously improve the quality, English Gurukul shall require teachers to achieve proficiency badges or certifications for continued teaching privileges.

·         The Company shall provide printed marketing material to the School and/or Teacher.

13.3. Parent’s Related

·         The Company shall provide the necessary support to the Teacher(s)s to enable an enriching experience for the students enrolled in the English Gurukul Learning Program.

·         Subject to Article 17 below, any instance of misconduct or misdemeanour by the School / Teacher through the use of English Gurukul Learning Program against You or Your child/children shall be reported to the Company and the Company shall take reasonable efforts to immediately suspend the association of the School / Teacher with the Company depending on the veracity of the complaint filed in this behalf.

14. PAYMENTS

14.1. All payments hereunder shall be made into the bank account specified in writing on the Invoice through normal / digital banking channels.

14.2. The Fees shall be payable in accordance with the Schedule as shall be communicated by the Company at the time of enrolment or registration.

15. REFUNDS

The policy for refund of money (“Refund Policy”) is applicable only to Schools, Teachers and Students (through Parents) whosoever has paid the Fees in accordance with this Terms of USE for the unconsumed subscription period

16. THIRD PARTY INFORMATION

The Website may provide information regarding third party website(s), affiliates, or business partners, contain links to their website/portals and/or any other information. Such information and links are provided solely for the purpose of your reference. The Company is not endorsing the material or any information on the Website, is not responsible for such errors and representation nor the Company is associated with it and you shall access these websites at your own risk. Further, it is up to you to take precautions to ensure that whatever links you select or software you download from the Website, is free of such items such as, but not limited to, viruses, worms, trojan horses, defects, and other items of a destructive nature.

17. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

All the intellectual property used on the Website (including the Content) by the Company, service providers or any third party shall remain the property of the Company, service provider or any other third party, as the case may be. You agree not to circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with security related features of the Website or features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any materials or enforce limitations on use of the Website or the materials therein. The Website is protected to the maximum extent permitted by copyright laws, other laws, and international treaties. Content displayed on or through the Website is protected by copyright as a collective work and/or compilation, pursuant to copyrights laws. The materials on the Website or otherwise shall not be modified, copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, sold, compiled, posted, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including but not limited to, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or other means.

18. REGISTRATION AND DATA PRIVACY

18.1. The terms “personal information” and “sensitive personal data or information” are defined under the SPI Rules, and are dealt in the Privacy Policy, which the User has the responsibility to read and understand the usage of such information by the Company.

18.2. The Company may in relation to the Website, collect information relating to the devices through which you access the Website, and anonymous data of Your usage. The collected information will be used only for improving the quality of the Website and to build new services. You hereby authorise and permit the Company to collect the aforesaid information.

18.3. Policy for NDNC

By using the Website and/or registering yourself, you authorize us to contact you via email or phone call or sms and offer you our services, imparting product knowledge, offer promotional offers running on website & offers offered by the associated third parties, for which reasons, personally identifiable information may be collected. And irrespective of the fact that you might have registered yourself under DND or DNC or NCPR service, you still authorize us to give you a call from English Gurukul for the above-mentioned purposes till 365 days of your registration with us. This Privacy Policy covers English Gurukul’s treatment of personally identifiable information that English Gurukul collects when you are on the English Gurukul site, and when you use English Gurukul’s services. This policy also covers English Gurukul’s treatment of personally identifiable information that English Gurukul’s business partner shares with English Gurukul. This policy does not apply to the certain English Gurukul services, when you visit English Gurukul pages, and when you enter promotions. English Gurukul may also receive personally identifiable information from our business partners. When you register with English Gurukul, we ask for your full name, contact no and email. Once you register with English Gurukul and sign into our services, you are not anonymous to us. Also, during registration, you may be requested to register your mobile phone and email id, pager, or other device to receive text messages, and other services to your wireless device. By registration you authorize us to send SMS/email alerts to you for your login/otp details and any other service requirements or some advertising messages/emails from us.

18.4. The Website allows the Company to have access to registered Users’ personal email or phone number, for communication purposes.

18.5. The Company shall not be responsible in any manner for the authenticity of the personal information or sensitive personal data or information supplied by the User to the Company or to any other person acting on behalf of the Company.

18.6. The User is responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the User’s account access information and password if the User is registered on the Website. The User shall be responsible for all usage of the User’s account and password, whether or not authorized by the User. The User shall immediately notify the Company of any actual or suspected unauthorized use of the User’s account or password. Although the Company will not be liable for your losses caused by any unauthorized use of your account, you may be liable for the losses of the Company or others due to such unauthorized use.

18.7. If a User provides any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete (or becomes untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete), or the Company has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, the Company has the right to discontinue the right of the User to use the English Gurukul Learning Program at its sole discretion.

18.8. The Company may use such information collected from the Users from time to time for the purposes of debugging customer support related issues.

 

19. NON SOLICITATION

You agree that without English Gurukul’s prior written consent you shall not directly or indirectly or through any persons subject to your direction or control;

19.1. solicit or encourage any person to leave English Gurukul or English Gurukul Learning Program or other service of English Gurukul or its Affiliates; or

19.2. otherwise divert or attempt to divert any business from the Company; or

19.3. interfere with the relationships between the Company and any of its customers, teachers, suppliers or others with whom English Gurukul have business relationships or otherwise.

20. RELATIONSHIP

The User acknowledges and agrees that the use of Company’s website or English Gurukul Learning Program does not, and shall not be deemed to

20.1. direct or control the User generally or otherwise;

20.2. create or establish any employment, partnership, joint venture, principal-agent or any other such relationship, except as may be created or established by execution of a separate valid document in form of a Contract, Agreement or otherwise.

21. AUTHORITY FOR LIMITED USE

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, English Gurukul grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to -

21.1. use the Website, English Gurukul Learning Program or any services provided by English Gurukul;

21.2. download and install Application on mobile handset or computer system or any other electronic means, solely for your own personal and non-commercial use.

22. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

22.1. In no event, including but not limited to negligence, shall the Company, or any of its directors, officers, employees, agents or content or service providers (collectively, the “Protected Entities”) be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages arising from, or directly or indirectly related to, the use of, or the inability to use, the Website or the content, materials and functions related thereto (including the Content), even if such Protected Entity has been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event shall the Protected Entities be liable for:

·         any content posted, transmitted, exchanged or received by or on behalf of any User or other person on or through the Website;

·         any unauthorized access to or alteration of your transmissions or data; or

·         any other matter relating to the Website.

22.2. In no event shall the total aggregate liability of the Protected Entities to a User for all damages, losses, and causes of action (whether in contract or tort, including, but not limited to, negligence or otherwise) arising from this Terms of Use or a User’s use of the Website exceed, in the aggregate the amount paid by the user in the three (3) month period prior to the event giving rise to the liability.

23. INDEMNITY

23.1. You hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, consultants, licensors, agents, and representatives from any and all third party claims, losses, liability, damages, and/or costs (including reasonable attorney fees and costs) arising from

·         your access to or use of the Website in any fraudulent manner;

·         your enrolment or attending of any course or any loss, damage, injury etc arising thereto to any person or otherwise;

·         violation of Terms of Use or Company Policies;

·         infringement, or infringement by any other user of your account with the Company; and

·         infringement of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity. The Company will notify you promptly of any such claim, loss, liability, or demand, and in addition to your foregoing obligations, you agree to provide us with reasonable assistance, at your expense, in defending any such claim, loss, liability, damage, or cost.

24. MODIFICATION

24.1. The Company may, at any time and without having to serve any prior notice to you, upgrade, update, change, modify, or improve the Website or English Gurukul Learning Program or any part thereof in such manner as it may deem fit, and such upgrade, update, change, modify, or improve shall be deemed to be applicable from the time they are posted.

24.2. The Company may, at any time and without having to serve any prior notice to you, upgrade, update, change, modify, or improve the contents of the Terms of Use, in full or any portion thereof, for any reason, whatsoever, and at any time, and such upgrade, update, change, modify, or improve shall be deemed to be applicable from the time they are posted.

24.3. The Company also reserves the right to alter or remove any content from the Website without any notice and without any liability.

24.4. You are, therefore, requested to read the Terms of Use at regular intervals and it shall be your responsibility to be updated with the changes, modification, alterations so made.

24.5. Your use of the Website following any such modification constitutes your agreement to follow and be bound by the Terms of Use, so modified.

25. ASSIGNMENT

User shall have no right to assign or transfer any rights covered under this Terms of Use, by operation of law or otherwise, except by English Gurukul’s prior written consent. Transfer of any terms of this Terms of Use, without English Gurukul’s consent, will be null and of no effect. However, English Gurukul reserve the right to transfer at its sole discretion any terms or every terms of this Terms of Use without restriction/obligation of any kind. This sub clause shall be bind and shall inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors, and permitted assigns.

26. SEVERABILITY

If any provision of this Terms of Use is determined to be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part, such invalidity or unenforceability shall attach only to such provision or part of such provision and the remaining part of such provision and all other provisions of this Terms of Use shall continue to be in full force and effect.

27. WAIVER

27.1. No provision of this Terms of Use shall be deemed to be waived and no breach excused unless such waiver or consent shall be in writing and signed by the Company.

27.2. Any consent by the Company to, or a waiver by the Company of any breach by you, whether expressed or implied, shall not constitute consent to, waiver of, or excuse for any other different or subsequent breach.

28. FORCE MAJEURE

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be liable for any delays or failures in performance resulting from acts beyond its reasonable control including, without limitation, acts of God, business slowdown, acts of war or terrorism, shortage of supply, breakdowns or malfunctions, interruptions or malfunction of computer facilities, or loss of data due to power failures or mechanical difficulties with information storage or retrieval systems, labour difficulties or civil unrest.

29. ANTI-BRIBERY AND ANTI-CORRUPTION

The User’s acknowledge and undertake that they are and shall always be in compliance with applicable Laws relating to anti-bribery and anti-corruption. They further represent and warrant that they shall not take any action that could result in liability for the Company and/or the Protected Person under any anti-corruption or anti-bribery laws. The Users shall neither indulge themselves nor allow any other person to indulge into any kind of activities relating to corruption and bribery. They further shall promptly report to the Company any request received by such User for any undue financial or other advantage of any kind in connection to the Company or in connection to the clauses of this Terms of Use.

30. DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND GOVERNING LAW

30.1. This Terms of Use is published in compliance of, and is governed by the provisions of Indian law, including, but not limited to -

·         the Indian Contract Act, 1872;

·         the Information Technology Act, 2000 (the “IT Act”);

·         the rules, regulations, guidelines and clarifications framed under the IT Act, including the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Information) Rules, 2011 (the “SPI Rules”);

·         the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011 (the “IG Rules”); and

·         the Consumer Protection Act, 1986.

30.2. This Terms of Use shall be governed by the laws of India and the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of courts in Bengaluru.

30.3. In case of any dispute, the parties shall strive to resolve it with mutual Terms of Use, in the event the dispute persists, the dispute shall be referred to a sole arbitrator appointed with mutual consent between the parties and the matter shall be subject to the jurisdiction of Delhi. The Company shall not be liable for any damages, claims, losses, expenses, costs, obligations and liabilities, resulting from any fraudulent or illegal or unauthorized act of its employees or representatives in the performance of their duties.

30.4. English Gurukul\'s rights granted hereby are cumulative and in addition to any rights it may have at law or equity.

31. DISCLAIMER

31.1. This Terms of Use does not alter in any way the terms or conditions of any other agreement you may have with us, or our subsidiaries or affiliates.

31.2. If you are using the Website on behalf of any other person or entity or otherwise, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to accept these terms on behalf of such person’s or entity\'s or otherwise, and that this Terms of Use shall be equally binding upon you and upon the person or the entity or otherwise on whose behalf you are using the site, application or services.

31.3. The Company, its employees and advisors make no representation or warranty and shall incur no liability to any person, including any User or Teacher, and such User and / or Teacher hereby waive all their respective rights against the Company, if any, under any law, statute, rules or regulations or tort, principles of restitution or unjust enrichment or otherwise for any loss, damages, cost, or expense which may arise from or be incurred or suffered on account of

·         anything contained in the Terms of Use or on account of the English Gurukul Learning Program or otherwise, including the accuracy, adequacy, correctness, completeness or reliability of the material provided by the Company and any assessment, assumption, statement or information contained therein or deemed to form part of English Gurukul Learning Program;

·         any statement, action, deed of any nature committed by any User. The Company accepts no liability of any nature, whatsoever, whether resulting from negligence, act of imposing corporal punishment on students, any event of physical or sexual harassment or otherwise howsoever caused by Teacher.

31.5. The Company collects, directly or indirectly, and displays on the Website, information, comments, experiences of the Teachers and the Users. Although the Company screens and vets the information and comments collected and /or submitted by the Teacher(s)s and the Users, it cannot be held liable and / or responsible for any inaccuracies or incompleteness represented from it, despite such reasonable effort. The Parties agree that the Company shall have no liability, whatsoever, in respect of any claim that may arise against any party consequently or in relation to any information, comments or statement of any Teacher and / or User which is posted on its Website.

31.6. The Company assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable for, any damages to, or viruses that may infect User’s equipment on account of User’s access to, use of, or browsing the Website or the downloading of any material, data, text, images, video content, or audio content from the Website. If a User is dissatisfied with the Website, User’s sole remedy is to discontinue using the Website.

31.7. The Website is provided to you on “As Is” basis. The Company hereby disclaims all representation(s) and/or warranty(ies), either express or implied, including without limitation, warranties of fitness for particular purpose, title, non-infringement. In addition, thereto, the Company makes no representations, warranties or guarantees that:

·         this Website shall be free from any error, loss, destruction, damage, corruption, attack, viruses, interference, hacking, other security intrusion,

·         the use or results of the use of the Website (including all of its content) is or will be accurate, reliable, current, and/or uninterrupted, and the Company disclaims any liability relating thereto.

32. NOTICES

All notices and communications shall be in writing, in English and shall be deemed given if delivered personally or by commercial messenger or courier service or mailed by registered or certified mail (return receipt requested) or sent via email, with due acknowledgment of complete transmission to the following address: Adarsh Palm Retreat Apartments, M-304, Tower 6, Devarabisenahalli, Outer Ring Road Bangalore - 560103, Karnataka

33. GRIEVANCE OFFICER / NODAL OFFICER

If you find any discrepancies or have any grievance related the quality of content being offered including the digital information as being part of the English Gurukul Learning Program, you may contact the designated Grievance / Nodal Officer whose details shall be published and updated on the Website from time to time.