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FIRST SEEN 2026-09-22 · VERSION 20260922_rev01 · FIRST CAPTURED VERSION

What changed, in plain language

Indiatimes added a new clause banning anyone from scraping, mining, or otherwise using its website content to train AI models or build datasets, with the company reserving the right to monitor for violations and pursue legal action including injunctions and damages. No changes were made to how the company collects, uses, or shares your personal data.

Changes that may affect you

New restriction on copying or mining site content, with legal risk for violatorsMINOR

USER OBLIGATIONS

This clause technically applies to 'any person or entity,' which could include an ordinary reader who copies articles for personal research, AI experiments, or archiving — not just commercial AI companies. If you do that, the company could pursue legal action and demand damages as if you owed a licensing fee. In practice this is aimed at large-scale scrapers and AI companies, not typical browsing or reading, but it is a new obligation that didn't exist before.

“no person or entity may access, copy, extract, scrape, crawl, index, cache, mine or otherwise use the content of this Site, in whole or in part, for the purpose of”

Changelog

+ ADDEDNew ban on using site content for AI training or data mining
Indiatimes added a new section that says no one may copy, scrape, crawl, or otherwise use the content on its site to train AI or machine learning models, build datasets for that purpose, or run commercial text/data mining, unless the company gives written permission. It applies whether the copying is done by a bot or by hand. Search engines indexing content just to show search results are still allowed.
no person or entity may access, copy, extract, scrape, crawl, index, cache, mine or otherwise use the content of this Site, in whole or in part, for the purpose of
+ ADDEDCompany can monitor and pursue legal action over content scraping
The company added language saying it may monitor and block automated access that breaks the new AI/data-mining rule, and can seek court orders and damages (calculated as if you owed a commercial licensing fee) against violators.
Company may monitor, detect and block automated access that violates this clause and may seek legal remedies including injunctive relief and damages computed by reference to the commercial licence fee that would otherwise have applied.

Full text changes

COLOUR MARKS THE SEVERITY OF A FLAGGED CLAUSE · + AND − MARK ADDED AND REMOVED

 Any Content uploaded by you shall be subject to relevant laws and may disabled, or and may be subject to investigation under appropriate laws. Furthermore, if you are found to be in non- compliance with the laws and regulations, these Terms, or the privacy policy of the Website, we may terminate your account/block your access to the Website and we reserve the right to remove any non-compliant Content uploaded by you. Additionally, unlawful content will be removed on being notified by a government agency or by an order of any court or as required under applicable laws.
 Any Content and or comment uploaded by you, shall be subject to relevant Indian laws and may be disabled, or and may be subject to investigation under appropriate laws. Furthermore, if you are found to be in non-compliance with the laws and regulations, these terms, or the privacy policy of the Website, the Company shall have the right to immediately terminate/block your access and usage of the Website and the Company shall have the right to immediately remove any non-compliant Content and or comment, uploaded by you subject to retaining such information as required under applicable laws and shall further have the right to take recourse to such remedies as would be available to the Company under the applicable laws.
 TIL reserves the right to preserve records of content transmitted by it as required under applicable laws.
+**AI and Text/Data Mining Restriction:**
+Except as expressly permitted under a separate written licence from the Company, no person or entity may access, copy, extract, scrape, crawl, index, cache, mine or otherwise use the content of this Site, in whole or in part, for the purpose of
+(a) training, developing, testing or improving any artificial intelligence, machine learning, large language model or similar technology;
+(b) building or supplementing any dataset intended for such purposes;
+(c) any commercial text and data mining activity; or
+(d) any other automated or technology-enabled summarization or aggregation in order to generate real-time answers, outputs or derivative content, in each case where such use has not been expressly approved by the Company in writing.
+This restriction applies regardless of whether such access is automated (including via bots, crawlers, spiders or scraping tools) or manual, and constitutes an express reservation of rights for the purposes of applicable copyright and text-and-data-mining laws. For the avoidance of doubt, indexing of the content by a search engine solely for the purpose of returning search results (and not for AI model training or, generative summarisation) is not restricted by this clause unless separately notified.
+Company may monitor, detect and block automated access that violates this clause and may seek legal remedies including injunctive relief and damages computed by reference to the commercial licence fee that would otherwise have applied.
 **Grievance Redressal**
 Redressal Mechanism: Any complaints or concerns with regards to Content and /or breach of these Terms shall be taken up with the designated Grievance Officer for respective website as mentioned below via in writing or through email at their respective email id, signed with the electronic signature to the respective Grievance Officer.
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