Terms of Use / Service Agreement

 

Welcome to Shubhbandhan.com, the No.1 Matrimonial Services provider exclusively for Gujaratis.

In order to use the Shubhbandhan.com Site ("Site"), you must register as a member of the Site ("Member") and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use ("Agreement"). If you wish to become a Member and communicate with other Members and make use of the Shubhbandhan.com service ("Service"), you must read these Terms of Use and follow the instructions in the Registration process. This Agreement sets out the legally binding terms for your membership. This Agreement may be modified by Shubhbandhan.com from time to time, effective upon notice to you(via or email or any other manner as considered appropriate) as a Member.

 
By becoming a member of Shubhbandhan.com and/or using the Services of the Site, you unconditionally and irrevocably confirm that you have read the provisions and diclaimer and agree to abide by them.

 
Eligibility. 

To register as a member of Shubhbandhan.com or use this Site, you must legallybe of marriageable age as per the laws of India (currently, 18 (eighteen) years or over for females and 21 (twenty one) years or over for males). Membership in the Service is void where prohibited. By using this Site, you represent and warrant that you have the right, authority, and capacity to enter into this Agreement and to abide by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

 

Terms Of Use by Members.

You may terminate your membership at any time, for any reason by writing to Shubhbandhan.com. In the event you terminate your membership, you will not be entitled to a refund of any unutilized subscription fees. Shubhbandhan.com may terminate your access to the Site and/or your membership for any reason effective upon sending notice to you at the e-mail address you provide in your application for membership or such other e-mail address as you may later provide to Shubhbandhan.com. If Shubhbandhan.com terminates your membership in the Shubhbandhan.com Service because you have breached the Agreement, you will not be entitled to any refund of any unused Subscription fees. Even after this Agreement is terminated, certain provisions will remain in effect of this Agreement.

1. The Shubhbandhan.com Site is for the personal use of individual members only, and may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavours. This includes providing links to other web sites, whether deemed competitive to Shubhbandhan.com or otherwise. Organizations, companies, and/or businesses may not become Members of Shubhbandhan.com and should not use the Shubhbandhan.com Service or Site for any purpose, and it is clarified that the services provided are for natural persons only. Illegal and/or unauthorized use of the Site, including unauthorized framing of or linking to the Site will be investigated, and appropriate legal action will be taken, including without limitation, civil, criminal, and injunctive redress.

 

1. shubhbandhan.com presumes that each and every single member / user / visitor, who logs on to the website has an intention to get married / enter into a matrimonial alliance and not otherwise. Shubhbandhan.com is not a dating website and shall not be used to post any obscene material. Registration with the Site shall be considered to be a deemed confirmation of any and all information provided by the user. Each user agrees that to provide information which is true, correct and to the best of such user’sknowledge. Under no circumstances shall shubhbandhan.com be responsible for any loss or damage resulting from anyuse of the Site or the Service and / or any Content posted on the web Site or transmitted to users / Members. The exchange of matrimonial profile(s) through or by shubhbandhan.com should not in any way be construed as a matrimonial offer and/or recommendation from or by shubhbandhan.com. Shubhbandhan.com shall not be responsible for any loss or damage to any individual arising in/out of, or subsequent to, matrimonial relations established pursuant to use of the service provided by shubhbandhan.com.

 

1. Any advice, counselling, recommendations or information provided at Shubhbandhan.com including information of Shubhbandhan.com members may not be necessarily correct, true or reliable, and that any reliance placed thereon and any action taken on the basis thereof shall be entirely / solely at the risk of the person or persons placing such reliance or taking such action. Visitors wishing to use the information so provided are advised to conduct their own due diligence, in respect of the site content sought to be taken advantage of, at their own initiative, cost and effort. shubhbandhan.com does not advise / recommend to its users / visitors to establish any contact / interaction with any other user / member / visitor or any such Profile(s) as displayed in the website based on the data / information as furnished in such users profile / photograph etc. and the user / visitor opting to build contact or interact shall do it solely at his / her own risk. Despite taking measures to verify all user information, shubhbandhan.com cannot and will not be held responsible or liable, in any manner whatsoever, in respect of any reliance placed on any information displayed / placed on the website, as the same merely purports to serve as a general indication of thescenario in relation thereto.

 

1. shubhbandhan.comdoes not authenticate, vet, screen, endorse or investigate any information or assertion comprised in the matrimonial listings, or any other content on the website unless specifically stated, nor does it in any manner whatsoever certify or attest the same to be correct or true. However in the interest of all its users, shubhbandhan.com strongly advicesall its users to submit true copies of supporting documents as identity and address proof, to ensure that all profiles are authentic.It does not recommend matches and profiles in any manner, but an implied presumption is cast on the users / members that the information(s) furnished are exclusively / solely to curve out / frame a suitable profile for the purpose of matrimonial alliance and they are true and correct. All due diligence, effort and initiatives must be exercised by those wishing to use any information found on the website, and should take adequate precautions with the full and complete knowledge that all information contained in the matrimonial listings have been placed there directly by visitors to the website without any prior intimation, consent or verification of or by shubhbandhan.com.\

 

1. Multiple profiles of the same person are not allowed on Shubhbandhan.com. Shubhbandhan.com reserves the right to deactivate all multiple profiles without any refund of subscription fees.You may not do the following:

 

1. engage in advertising, or solicitation of other Members to buy or sell any products or services through the Service.
2. transmit any chain letters or junk e-mail to other Shubhbandhan.com Members. Although Shubhbandhan.com cannot monitor the conduct of its Members off the Site, it is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from the Service in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person, or in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any Member without their prior explicit consent. In order to protect Shubhbandhan.com and/or our Members from any abuse / misuse, Shubhbandhan.com reserves the right to restrict the number of communications / profile contacts & responses / e-mail which a Member may send to another Member which Shubhbandhan.com deems appropriate in its sole discretion. 
3. use any automated processes, including IRC Bots, EXE's, CGI or any other programs/scripts to view content on or communicate / contact / respond / interact with Shubhbandhan.com and/or its members. 

Proprietary Rights in Content on Shubhbandhan.com.

Shubhbandhan.com owns and retains other proprietary rights in the Shubhbandhan.com Site and the Shubhbandhan.com Service. The Site contains the copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary information of Shubhbandhan.com, and its licensors. Except for that information which is in the public domain or for which you have been given permission, you may not copy, modify, publish, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any such proprietary information.

If Shubhbandhan.com detects any fraudulent activity, it will report the same to Cyber Crime Cell. Also, Shubhbandhan.com will help its users to report frauds on Shubhbandhan.com to the Cyber Crime CellThrough this initiative, Shubhbandhan.com wishes to bring its users closer to Mumbai Police, and make the site more safe and secure.Shubandhan.com encourages all its users to be cautious against fraudsters asking for money, favours etc. To report any fraud or misuse, write to us withfull details of your case.

 

Content posted on the Site.

You understand and agree that Shubhbandhan.com may delete any content, messages, photos or profiles (collectively, "Content") that in the sole judgment of Shubhbandhan.com violate the Terms of Use or which might be offensive, illegal, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of other Shubhbandhan.com and/oritsMembers. You are solely responsible for the Content that you publish or display (hereinafter, "post") on the Shubhbandhan.com service, or transmit to other Shubhbandhan.com Members. Shubhbandhan.com reserves the right to verify the authenticity of Content posted on the site. In exercising this right, Shubhbandhan.com may ask you to provide any documentary or other form of evidence supporting the Content you post on the site. If you fail to produce such evidence, Shubhbandhan.com may, in its sole discretion, terminate your membership without a refund.

By posting Content to any public area of Shubhbandhan.com, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to Shubhbandhan.com, and other Shubhbandhan.com Members, an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully-paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute such information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.

 

The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited on the Site. Content that is:

1. patently offensive to the online community, such as Content that promotes racism, bigotry , hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual; 
2. harasses or advocates harassment of another person involves the transmission of "junk mail", "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing or
3. "spamming" promoting information that you know is false, misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libellous.
4. promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;
5. contains restricted or password only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page); 
   displays pornographic or sexually explicit material of any kind; 
   provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under 18; 
   provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses; 
6. solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users; and

engages in commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and pyramid schemes. 
You must use the Shubhbandhan.com Service in a manner consistent with any and all applicable local, state, and federal laws and regulations. 
 

Copyright Policy.

You may not post, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights. Without limiting the foregoing, if you believe that your work has been copied and posted on the Shubhbandhan.com service in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our Copyright Agent with the following information: an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the our Site; your address, telephone number, and e-mail address; a written statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf. Shubhbandhan.com's Copyright Agent for Notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reached by writing to the Mumbai address located under the Help/Contact section on the site.

 

Member Disputes.

You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Shubhbandhan.com Members. Shubhbandhan.com reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members. Shubhbandhan.com also reserves the right to take appropriate action against errant members. However, Shubhbandhan.com is not obliged to share such action with the other members, including the complainants.

 

Privacy

Use of the Shubhbandhan.com Site and/or the Shubhbandhan.com Service is governed by our Privacy Policy. For clarification purposes, Site stores all IP addresses of Members for a period of one year from the time of deactivation of his/her Shubhbandhan.com account.

 

Disclaimers. 

Shubhbandhan.com is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate Content posted on the Site or in connection with the Shubhbandhan.com Service, whether caused by Users, Members or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Service, nor for the conduct of any User and/or Member of the Shubhbandhan.com Service whether online or offline. Shubhbandhan.com assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, User and/or Member communications. Shubhbandhan.com is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line-systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of e-mail or players on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any web site or combination thereof, including injury or damage to Users and/or Members or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from participating or downloading materials in connection with the Shubhbandhan.com Site and/or in connection with the Shubhbandhan.com Service. Under no circumstances will Shubhbandhan.com be responsible for any loss or damage resulting from anyone's use of the Site or the Service and/or any Content posted on the Shubhbandhan.com Site or transmitted to Shubhbandhan.com Members. The exchange of matrimonial profile(s) through or by "Shubhbandhan.com" should not in any way be construed as any matrimonial offer and/or recommendation from/by Shubhbandhan.com. Shubhbandhan.com shall not be responsible for any loss or damage to any individual arising out of, or subsequent to, matrimonial relations established pursuant to the use of Shubhbandhan.com. The Site and the Service are provided "AS-IS" and Shubhbandhan.com expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. Shubhbandhan.com cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from the use of the Site and/or the Shubhbandhan service.

 

Limitation on Liability.

Except in jurisdictions where such provisions are restricted, in no event will Shubhbandhan.com be liable to you or any third person for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages, including also lost profits arising from your use of the Site or the Shubhbandhan.com Service, even if Shubhbandhan.com has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, Shubhbandhan.com’s liability to you for any cause whatsoever, and regardless of the form of the action, will at all times be limited to the amount paid, if any, by you to Shubhbandhan.com, for the Service during the term of membership. Shubhbandhan.com does not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free. Shubhbandhan.com provides the service on an "as is" basis. However, shubhbandhan.com will take all reasonable steps to provide its users with error free, uninterrupted user experience. There may be delays, omissions, and interruptions in the availability of the Service. The user/member acknowledges that use of the Service is solely at their cost and risk. shubhbandhan.comis not responsible for suspension of the Service, irrespective of the reason for such interruption / suspension. Any claim shall be limited to the amount paid, if any, for use of the Service during the previous 12 months. shubhbandhan.commay discontinue or change the Service or its availability at any time, and the user/member is also free to stop availing the Service at any time. 
 

Disputes. 

If there is any dispute about or involving the Site and/or the Service, by using the Site, you agree that the dispute will be governed by the laws of the State of Maharashtra, India without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You agree to personal jurisdiction by and venue in the state and central courts of Mumbai, India.

 

Indemnity. 

You agree to indemnify and hold Shubhbandhan.com, its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, and other partners and employees, harmless from any loss, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorney's fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Service in violation of this Agreement and/or arising from a breach of these Terms of Use and/or any breach

Of your representations and warranties set forth above.

 

Other  
By becoming a Member of the Shubhbandhan.com service, you agree to receive certain specific e-

mails from shubhbandhan.com.

This Agreement, accepted upon use of the Site and further affirmed by becoming a Member of the Shubhbandhan.com service, contains the entire agreement between you and Shubhbandhan.com regarding the use of the Site and/or the Service. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, the remainder of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect.

By joining Shubhbandhan.com, you confirm that you have read the above provisions and agree to abide by them. Please contact us with any questions regarding this service agreement.