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| 1 | 1 | **TERMS OF USE** |
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| 3 | Welcome to Sportskeeda. This domain bearing name; [www.sportskeeda.com](https://www.sportskeeda.com/) is owned by Absolute Sports Private Limited ("Company"), a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956 and having its registered address at Om Chambers, 2nd floor, 648/A-4, Binnamangala, 1st Stage, Indiranagar, Bangalore, Karnataka-560038, India. By visiting our site you are agreeing to be bound by the following terms and conditions. Please read these terms and conditions before using, or submitting content in any form or medium for publication on, sportskeeda.com. We may change these terms and conditions at any time. Your continued use of sportskeeda.com implies that you accept any new or modified terms and conditions that we come up with. Please re-visit the 'Terms of Use' link at our site from time to time to stay updated with any changes that we may introduce. | |
| 3 | Welcome to Sportskeeda. This domain bearing name; [www.sportskeeda.com](https://www.sportskeeda.com/) is owned by Absolute Sports Private Limited (â€Companyâ€), a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956 and having its registered address at Om Chambers, 2nd floor, 648/A-4, Binnamangala, 1st Stage, Indiranagar, Bangalore, Karnataka-560038, India. By visiting our site you are agreeing to be bound by the following terms and conditions. Please read these terms and conditions before using, or submitting content in any form or medium for publication on, sportskeeda.com. We may change these terms and conditions at any time. Your continued use of sportskeeda.com implies that you accept any new or modified terms and conditions that we come up with. Please re-visit the 'Terms of Use' link at our site from time to time to stay updated with any changes that we may introduce. | |
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| 5 | 5 | If you do not agree with any of the terms and conditions stipulated under this Terms of Use document, you must immediately cease accessing and using the Sportskeeda website. |
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| 7 | 7 | The terms 'sportskeeda.com' and 'Sportskeeda' are used through this entire Terms of Use document to refer to the website, the Company and the employees, associates and affiliates of the Company. |
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| 9 | 9 | **1\. REGISTRATION** |
| 33 | 33 | a. The Sportskeeda website (including all text, photographs, graphics, video and audio content contained on our site) is protected by copyright as a collective work or compilation under the copyright laws of India and other countries, and we (subject to the rights of our licensors and licensees under applicable agreements, understandings and arrangements) have all rights therein. All individual articles, blogs, videos, content and other elements comprising our site are also copyrighted works, and we (subject to the rights of our licensors and licensees under applicable agreements, understandings and arrangements) have all rights therein. You must abide by all additional copyright notices or restrictions contained on our site. |
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| 35 | 35 | b. By posting or submitting User Content on or to our site (regardless of the form or medium with respect to such content, whether text, videos, photographs, audio or otherwise), you are giving us, and our affiliates, agents and third party contractors the right to display or publish such content on our site and its affiliated publications (either in the form submitted or in the form of a derivative or adapted work), to store such content, and to distribute such content and use such content for promotional and marketing purposes. |
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| 37 | 37 | c. You shall be solely responsible for your own submissions and the consequences of posting or publishing them. In connection with each of your submissions, you affirm, represent, and/or warrant that: (I) you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize us to use all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to any and all such submissions to enable inclusion and use of such submissions in the manner contemplated by us and these Terms and Conditions; and (II) you have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in such submissions to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to enable inclusion and use of such submissions in the manner contemplated by us and these Terms and Conditions. In furtherance of the foregoing, you agree that you will not: (I) submit material that is copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third party proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission from their rightful owner to post the material and to grant us all of the rights granted herein; (II) publish falsehoods or misrepresentations that could damage us or any third party; (III) submit material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, violate any law, or is otherwise inappropriate; or (IV) post advertisements or solicitations of business. We reserve the right to remove or not publish submissions without prior notice. You understand that when you submit content in any form to sportskeeda.com we may authorize such content to be distributed or syndicated to or published on other Sportskeeda-branded environments. |
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| 39 | d. Unless expressly permitted, you may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, enter into a database, display, perform, modify, create derivative works from, transmit or in any way exploit any part of sportskeeda.com or any content thereon, except as permitted under the last sentence of this Section 3(d) and except that you may make one print copy that is limited to occasional articles of personal interest only. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing (but subject to the last sentence of this Section 3(d)), you may not distribute any part of this site or any content thereon over any network, including, without limitation, a local area network, or sell or offer it for sale. In addition, these files may not be used to construct any kind of database. Just as we, from time to time, excerpt materials from other sources in order to support the various commentaries and writings contained herein, we respect the right of others to make "fair use" of the materials contained on our site; accordingly, you may from time to time excerpt and use materials set forth on this site consistent with the principles of "fair use". | |
| 39 | d. Unless expressly permitted, you may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, enter into a database, display, perform, modify, create derivative works from, transmit or in any way exploit any part of sportskeeda.com or any content thereon, except as permitted under the last sentence of this Section 3(d) and except that you may make one print copy that is limited to occasional articles of personal interest only. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing (but subject to the last sentence of this Section 3(d)), you may not distribute any part of this site or any content thereon over any network, including, without limitation, a local area network, or sell or offer it for sale. In addition, these files may not be used to construct any kind of database. Just as we, from time to time, excerpt materials from other sources in order to support the various commentaries and writings contained herein, we respect the right of others to make “fair use†of the materials contained on our site; accordingly, you may from time to time excerpt and use materials set forth on this site consistent with the principles of “fair useâ€. | |
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| 41 | 41 | e. We are concerned about the integrity of sportskeeda.com when it is viewed in a setting created by a third party that includes advertising or other materials that we have not authorized to be displayed with the content of our site. Neither you nor any third party shall make use of the contents of sportskeeda.com in any manner that constitutes an infringement of our rights, including copyright or that has not been authorized by us. |
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| 43 | 43 | **5\. RESTRICTIONS ON USE** |
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| 45 | 45 | a. The Sportskeeda website contains material which is derived in whole or in part from material supplied by the Company, its group companies, various news agencies and other sources (including content partners), and is protected by international copyright and trademark laws. The restrictions on use of the material and content on the Sportskeeda website by the Subscriber are specified below. Except where specifically authorised, the Subscriber may not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute in any way any material from the Sportskeeda websites including code and software. |
| 49 | 49 | c. The Company shall have the right at any time to change or discontinue any aspect or feature of the Sportskeeda website, including, but not limited to, content, hours of availability and equipment needed for access or use. |
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| 51 | 51 | **6\. DELAYS IN SERVICES** |
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| 53 | 53 | a. Sportskeeda (including its and their directors, employees, affiliates, agents, representatives or subcontractors) shall not be liable for any loss or liability resulting, directly or indirectly, from delays or interruptions due to electronic or mechanical equipment failures, telephone interconnect problems, defects, weather, strikes, walkouts, fire, acts of God, riots, armed conflicts, acts of war, or other like causes. Sportskeeda shall have no responsibility to provide you access to sportskeeda.com while interruption of sportskeeda.com due to any such cause continues. |
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| 55 | 57 | **7\. USE OF DISCUSSION THREADS, COMMENTS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION FORUMS** |
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| 57 | 59 | a. If this website contains discussion threads, comment portals, or other message or communication facilities (collectively, "Forums"), you agree to use the Forums only to send and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular Forum. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a Forum, you shall not do any of the following: |
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| 59 | 61 | i. Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others. |
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| 61 | 63 | ii. Publish, post, distribute or disseminate any defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful material or information. |
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| 63 | 65 | iii. Upload files that contain software or other material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy of publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents. |
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| 65 | iv. Upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's computer. | |
| 67 | iv. Upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another’s computer. | |
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| 67 | 69 | v. Conduct or forward surveys, contests, or chain letters. |
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| 69 | 71 | vi. Download any file posted by another user of a Forum that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner. |
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| 71 | 73 | **8\. EQUIPMENT AND OPERATION** |