Terms of Service - The Indian Institute of Digital Art & Animation

TERMS OF SERVICE

Please read the following terms carefully before using this service. This agreement was written in English (US). To the extent any translated version of this agreement conflicts with the English version, the English version controls.

1. Introduction
This Terms of Service Agreement made between The Indian Institute of Digital Art & Animation (henceforth IIDAA) of the first part and You of the second part is subject to these terms, without prejudice to any additional terms which may be part of an agreement specific to the service you wish to avail of. Your agreement with IIDAA will always include, at a minimum, the terms and conditions set out in this document.

IIDAA conducts courses in the Animation, Photography & Game Designing domains.

2. Accepting the Terms

2.1 IIDAA shall interact with customers / clients through e-mail, SMS, a form on our website, chat program on our website and phone call, Skype or similar service. By clicking a button or checkbox on a website. you accept and agree to the terms, where this option is made available to you by IIDAA in the user interface for any offering.
2.2 We use your information to send you marketing communications, communicate with you about our Services and let you know about our policies and terms. We also use your information to respond to you when you contact us.
2.3 In order to use the offering, you must first agree to the terms. You may not use the offering if you do not accept the terms.

3. Provision of the offering by IIDAA

3.1 IIDAA will attempt to continuously innovate in order to provide the best possible offering for its users. You acknowledge and agree that the form and nature of the offering which IIDAA provides may change from time to time.
3.2 You acknowledge and agree that IIDAA may stop (permanently or temporarily) providing the offering (or any features within the offering) to you or to users generally at IIDAA's sole discretion.
3.3 You acknowledge and agree that if IIDAA disables access to your account or login route, you may be prevented from accessing the offering, your account details or any files or other content which is contained in your account.
3.4 You acknowledge and agree that while IIDAA may not currently limit your use of the offering in any way, it may do so if that use hinders with the ability of IIDAA to carry on its operations or the ability of other customers to use the offering.
3.5 The supply of the offering will be subject to your making payments, if any, at the regular intervals as stated in the contract for the service. In the event that your account is terminated or access is disabled, or the service is permanently or temporarily stopped, IIDAA's liability shall extend only to forfeiting the outstanding amount due for the current billing cycle. IIDAA shall not be made liable or called on to repay any amount paid during any previous billing cycle.
3.6 IIDAA shall not be responsible for any loss or damage caused by a modification of the features, limitation of use of the offering or the discontinuation altogether thereof.

4. Use of the offering by you

4.1 In order to access certain offering, you may be required to provide information about yourself as part of the registration process for the service, or for your continued use of the offering. You agree that any registration information you give to IIDAA will always be accurate, correct and up to date. IIDAA can share customer/ client information with employees and agents (for eg. you may share addresses with delivery agents), any company which acquires IIDAA, to the Government or law enforcement agencies (if officially requested or required by Order, Notification, Statute or Court Order) and with anyone else, with the consent of the customer / client.
4.2 You agree to use the offering only for your personal, non-commercial use and for purposes that are permitted by (a) the terms and (b) any applicable law, regulation or guidelines.
4.3 You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the offering by any means other than through the interface that is provided by IIDAA, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with IIDAA. You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the offering through any automated means (including through the use of scripts or web crawlers).
4.4 You agree that you will not engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the offering (or the servers and networks which are connected to the offering).
4.5 Unless you have been specifically permitted to do so in a separate agreement with IIDAA, you agree that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell the offering for any purpose.
4.6 You agree that you are solely responsible for (and that IIDAA has no responsibility to you or to any third party for) any breach of your obligations under the Terms and for the consequences (including any loss or damage which IIDAA may suffer) of any such breach.

5. Your passwords and account security

5.1 You agree and understand that you are responsible to IIDAA and to third parties for maintaining the confidentiality of passwords associated with any account you use to access the offering. You will be solely responsible for all activities that occur under your account.
5.2 IIDAA will take due care to ensure the confidentiality of your credentials. You agree and acknowledge that in the very unlikely event of your credentials becoming known to a third party on account of an intrusion into IIDAA database, IIDAA shall not be made liable for the resulting damages.
5.3 If you become aware of any unauthorized use of your password or of your account, you agree to notify the concerned official at IIDAA immediately.

6. Content in the offering

6.1 You understand that all information (such as data files, written text, computer software, or images) which you may have access to as part of, or through your use of, the offering are the sole responsibility of the person from which such content originated.
6.2 You should be aware that content presented to you as part of the offering, including but not limited to advertisements and promotional material of IIDAA or other companies, is protected by intellectual property rights which are owned by IIDAA, or the sponsors or advertisers who provide that content to IIDAA (or by other persons or companies on their behalf). You may not modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, copy or create derivative work based on this content (either in whole or in part) unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by IIDAA or by the owners of that content, in a separate agreement. Any content being disseminated using IIDAA's sales network or the product, service or platform may be pre-screened, reviewed, flagged, filtered, modified or simply refused or removed. Any spam or pornographic material and / or any illegal content will be immediately deleted and we reserve the right to take appropriate legal action.
6.3 You agree that you are solely responsible for (and that IIDAA has no responsibility to you or to any third party for) any content that you create, transmit or display while using the offering or for the consequences of your actions (including any loss or damage which IIDAA may suffer) by doing so.
6.4 You understand that by using the offering you may be exposed to content of other users that you may find offensive, indecent or objectionable and that, in this respect, you use the offering at your own risk. IIDAA shall not be made responsible for any repugnant content circulated on its offering by other users.
6.5 On noticing any such content, it is your duty to bring it to the attention of IIDAA officials immediately, who will take due care to delete it from the offering.

7. Intellectual Property rights

7.1 You acknowledge and agree that IIDAA (or IIDAA's licensors) owns all legal right, title and interest in and to the offering, including any intellectual property rights which subsist in the offering (whether those rights happen to be registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist). You further acknowledge that the offering may contain information which is designated confidential by IIDAA and that you shall not disclose such information without IIDAA's prior written consent.
7.2 Unless IIDAA has otherwise agreed in writing, nothing in the terms gives you a right to use any of IIDAA's trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features. You additionally agree that in using the offering, you will not use any trade mark, service mark, trade name, logo of any company or organization in a way that is likely or intended to cause confusion about the owner or authorized user of such marks, names or logos.

8. License from IIDAA

8.1 IIDAA gives you a personal non-exclusive license to use the software provided to you by IIDAA as part of the offering as provided to you by IIDAA. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling you to use and enjoy the benefit of the offering as provided by IIDAA, in the manner permitted by these terms.
8.2 You are not entitled to commercially exploit, either directly or by sale, or transfer commercially or profit from the offering and products.
8.3 You may not (and you may not permit anyone else to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract the source code of the software or any part thereof.
8.4 Unless IIDAA has given you specific written permission to do so, you may not assign (or grant a sub-license of) your rights to use the service or otherwise transfer any part of your rights to use the service.

9. Ending your relationship with IIDAA

9.1 The Terms will continue to apply until terminated by either you or IIDAA as set out below.
9.2 IIDAA may at any time, terminate its legal agreement with you if: (A) you have breached any provision of the terms (or have acted in manner which clearly shows that you do not intend to, or are unable to comply with the provisions of the terms); or (B) IIDAA is required to do so by law (for example, where the provision of the offering to you is, or becomes, unlawful)
9.3 When these terms come to an end, all of the legal rights, obligations and liabilities that you and IIDAA are subject to in relation to the obligation to maintain confidentiality or such other legal rights, obligations and liabilities which are expressed to continue indefinitely, shall be unaffected by this cessation.

10. EXCLUSION OF WARRANTIES

10.1 YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE OFFERING IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND THAT THE OFFERING ARE PROVIDED AS IS AND AS AVAILABLE.
10.2 IN PARTICULAR, IIDAA DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT TO YOU THAT: (A) YOUR USE OF THE OFFERING WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (B) YOUR USE OF THE OFFERING WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR FREE FROM ERROR, INCLUDING SPECIFICALLY FROM SERVER DOWNTIME, (C) ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED BY YOU AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF THE OFFERING WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, AND
10.3 ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE OFFERING IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND IIDAA WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR OTHER DEVICE OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL.
10.4 NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM IIDAA OR THROUGH OR FROM THE OFFERING SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TERMS.
10.5 IIDAA FURTHER EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANT-ABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

11. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

11.1 SUBJECT TO OVERALL PROVISION IN CLAUSE 11 ABOVE, YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT IIDAA SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR:

(A) ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES WHICH MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU, HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY. THIS SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, ANY LOSS OF PROFIT (WHETHER INCURRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY), ANY LOSS OF GOODWILL OR BUSINESS REPUTATION, ANY LOSS OF DATA SUFFERED, COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR OFFERING, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSS.
(B) ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE WHICH MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OR DAMAGE AS A RESULT OF:

(I) ANY CHANGES WHICH IIDAA MAY MAKE TO THE OFFERING, OR FOR ANY PERMANENT OR TEMPORARY CESSATION IN THE PROVISION OF THE OFFERING (OR ANY FEATURES WITHIN THE OFFERING).
(II) THE DELETION OF, CORRUPTION OF, OR FAILURE TO STORE, ANY CONTENT AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS DATA MAINTAINED OR TRANSMITTED BY OR THROUGH YOUR USE OF THE OFFERING.
(III) YOUR FAILURE TO PROVIDE IIDAA WITH ACCURATE ACCOUNT INFORMATION.
(IV) YOUR FAILURE TO KEEP YOUR PASSWORD OR ACCOUNT DETAILS SECURE AND CONFIDENTIAL.

12. Other content to which references are made, links are provided, etc.

12.1 The offering may include hyperlinks to other web sites or content or resources. IIDAA may have no control over any web sites or resources which are provided by companies or persons other than IIDAA.
12.2 You acknowledge and agree that IIDAA is not responsible for the availability of any such external sites or resources, and does not endorse any advertising, products or other materials on or available from such web sites or resources.
12.3 You acknowledge and agree that IIDAA is not liable for any loss or damage which may be incurred by you as a result of the availability of those external sites or resources, or as a result of any reliance placed by you on the completeness, accuracy or existence of any advertising, products or other materials on, or available from, such web sites or resources.

13. Changes to the Terms

13.1 IIDAA may make changes to the terms from time to time. The same will be communicated to you, on the website, without prior intimation to you. Your continued use of the offering will indicate your acceptance of the modified terms. When these changes are made, IIDAA shall make the amended copy of the terms available in an accessible location.
13.2 You understand and agree that if you use the offering after the date on which the terms have changed, or after the date by which you have to respond as per these terms has passed, IIDAA will treat your use as acceptance of the amended terms.

14. General legal terms

14.1 Sometimes when you use the offering, you may (as a result of, or through your use of the offering) use a service or download a piece of software, or purchase goods, which are provided by another person or company. Your use of these other offering, software or goods may be subject to separate terms between you and the company or person concerned.
14.2 The terms constitute the legal agreement between you and IIDAA and govern your use of the offering, but without prejudice to any additional terms which may be part of an agreement specific to the service you wish to avail of. (but excluding any offering which IIDAA may provide to you under a separate written agreement), and completely replace any prior agreements between you and IIDAA in relation to the offering.
14.3 You agree that if IIDAA does not exercise or enforce any legal right or remedy which is contained in the terms (or which IIDAA has the benefit of under any applicable law), this will not be taken to be a formal waiver of IIDAA's rights and that those rights or remedies will still be available to IIDAA.
14.4 If any court of law, having the jurisdiction to decide on this matter, rules that any provision of these terms is invalid, then that provision will be removed from the terms without affecting the rest of the terms. The remaining provisions of the terms will continue to be valid and enforceable.
14.5 The terms, and your relationship with IIDAA under the terms, shall be governed by the laws of india. You and IIDAA agree that any dispute will be referred to arbitration, with the arbitral panel consisting of three arbitrators, one arbitrator being chosen by each party and a third being jointly appointed by the two arbitrators so chosen.