Terms of Service

Introduction

The following terms and conditions, along with all other terms and legal notices located on collegedost.in (collectively, “Terms”), govern Your use of collegedost.in (the “Website”). The Website is owned and operated by College Dost (hereinafter referred to as “Company”).

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) constitute a legally binding agreement (“Agreement”) between the user who visits the Website in connection with use of our services, or whose information Company otherwise receives in connection with the services provided through its education business (“You”) and the Company governing Your access to and use of the Platform, including any subdomains thereof, and any other websites through which the Website makes its services available (collectively, “Site”), our mobile, tablet and other smart device applications, and application program interfaces (collectively, “Application”). The Application and Site are collectively termed as “Platform”.

Access to any part of the Platform or any content downloaded from it is contingent on Your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms and Privacy Policy. If You do not understand and agree to be bound by all Terms and the Privacy Policy, do not use this Platform.

These Terms are binding upon You and Your heirs, representatives, successors and assigns, as may be applicable. The headings of the several articles and subdivisions of these Terms are inserted solely for the convenience of reference and shall have no further meaning, force or effect.

Additionally, basis services chosen, certain product specific conditions may apply.

1. ELIGIBILITY

You represent and warrant that:

  1. You are competent to enter into a valid binding contract as per the applicable laws. If You are a resident of the European Union the minimum age for these purposes shall be 16, however if local laws require that You must be older in order for the Platform to lawfully provide the services in the Platform to You then that older age shall apply as the applicable minimum age.
    In all jurisdictions outside the European Union, if You are under the age of 18 or the age of majority in Your jurisdiction, You must use the Platform under the supervision of Your parent, legal guardian or responsible adult.
    By accessing or using the Platform You represent and warrant that You fulfil the requirement of minimum age and have the legal capacity and authority to enter into a contract as per the applicable laws.
    You are not under any legal or other disability which limits Your ability to comply with these Terms or to install and use the products You purchase with minimal risk of harm to You or others. You further represent that You are not purchasing the products/services for resale to others and will not do so without the Company’s prior written consent.
  2. You are eligible to conduct the purpose “hereinafter defined” lawfully

2. REGISTRATION

On registration You agree to:

  • Make Your contact details available to partners/business associates of the Platform, You may be contacted by Platform or its partners for additional information and registration process through email, telephone and SMS.
  • Receive promotional mails/special offers from Platform or any of its partner websites/applications. If You do not wish to be contacted by Platform, please modify the settings at the time of registration or in the “Accounts & Settings” section on the Platform.
  • Be contacted by College Dost in accordance with the settings set by You.

3. PURPOSE

The Platform is made available for use to help students get details, discover & research on colleges, courses and exams of their interest and for allied services related thereto. Platform also helps connect colleges/educational institutes/coaching centres etc. with prospective students who may be of interest to them. User’s contactable information will be shared with Colleges/Educational Institutes/coaching centres etc either if they have shown interest in that Colleges/Educational Institutes/coaching centres etc or they have shortlisted the user as potential candidate for admission.

Study Abroad section of Platform also assists students in completing and submitting their applications to universities abroad. (“Purpose”).

4. USE TO BE IN CONFORMITY WITH THE PURPOSE

The Platform (including the Platform and related products) or Service or Product that You subscribe to or use (whether the same is paid for by You or not) is meant for the Purpose and only Your exclusive use. Copying or downloading or recreating or sharing passwords or sublicensing or sharing in any manner which is not in accordance with these terms, is a misuse of the Platform or Service or Product and Company reserves its rights to act in such manner as to protect its loss of revenue or reputation or claim damages including stopping Your service or access and reporting to relevant authorities. In the event You are found to be copying or misusing or transmitting, scraping or crawling any data or photographs or graphics or any information available on the Platform or Service of Product for any purpose other than that being a bonafide purpose, we reserve the right to take such action that we deem fit including stopping access and claiming damages.

  1. Accuracy and correctness of the information provided by You:
    • Whilst using this Platform an obligation is cast upon You to only provide true and correct information and in the case of creating a profile You undertake to at all times keep the information up to date.
    • We reserve the right to remove/suspend any content or profile providing false/incorrect or incomplete or outdated information or masquerading/impersonating as someone else.
    • Keep Your contact details upto date, wrong and false details by themselves can be a cause for termination of services. Also as a consequence we may not be able to reach You.
  2. Security of Log in credentials and Responsibility of content/activities:
    • Do not share passwords, be responsible in what You post
    • If You have registered on the Platform, the safety and security of Your log in credentials is Your responsibility, do not share these with anyone.
    • You are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with the Platform. It is presumed that all activity happening through a user’s account on the Platform are being done after having obtained proper authorizations and all lawful permissions as may be applicable.
    • The Platform may contain links to third party websites/apps, these links are provided solely as convenience to You and the presence of these links should not under any circumstances be considered as an endorsement of the contents of the same, if You choose to access these websites/apps You do so at Your own risk.

5. USE OF PLATFORM

The Platform and the services and products offered via the Platform are meant for only for legitimate and lawful uses which fall within the scope of the Purpose and are meant only for Your exclusive use. The Company has the sole and absolute right to determine whether a specific type of action or use falls within the scope of the Purpose or not.

The following actions will inter alia constitute a misuse of the Platform and are strictly prohibited:

  1.  Copying, extracting, downloading, sharing, modifying, selling, storing, distributing, making derivate works from or otherwise exploiting any content, data, information, including profiles, photographs and/or graphics, available on the Platform and/or any services or products of the Company, in any manner or for any purpose which is not, consistent with the Purpose and/or in accordance with these Terms. You are expressly prohibited from using or exploiting the Platform and/or any content or data provided therein for: (a) any commercial purposes without prior written consent of the Company; and/or (b) undertaking any business activity which is in competition with the business of the Company;
  2. Using or attempting to use any automated program, software or system or any similar or equivalent process (including spiders, robots, crawlers, browser plug-ins/extensions/add-ons, iframes on third party sites, mirroring, HTML parsers etc.) to access, navigate, search, copy, monitor, download, scrape, crawl or otherwise extract in any manner, any data or content from the Platform;
  3. Modifying Platform services or their appearance using any technology or overlay any additional offering on top of Platform services or simulate Platform services or its functions in any manner whatsoever without explicit consent from the Company.
  4. Gaining or attempting to gain unauthorized access (inter alia by hacking, password “mining” or any other means) to: (a) any portion or feature of the Platform or any of the services or products offered on or through the Platform which are not intended for You; (b) any server, Platform, program or computer systems of the Company or any other third parties and/or Users;
  5. Accessing the Platform through interfaces other than those expressly provided by Company;
  6. Attempting to breach or breaching any security or authentication measures set up by the Company in relation to the Platform and/or attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Company’s system or network;
  7. Scraping, downloading (including bulk-downloading), replicating or otherwise extracting any information or data from the Platform (by any process, whether automatic or manual) to offer any products or services which are similar to or may in any manner compete with the products or services of the Company;
  8. Reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembling, deciphering or otherwise attempting to do any of the aforesaid or deriving the source code for the Site or Application or any related technology or any part thereof;
  9. Circumventing or attempting to circumvent any technological protections used or employed by the Company or by any third party in order to protect the content on the Platform and/or to exclude robots, spiders etc. from crawling and /or scraping content from the Platform.
  10.  Interfering with or disrupting or attempting to interfere with or disrupt (including by using any device, software or routine), the use of the Platform or any computer networks connected to the Platform, by any other User;
  11.  Impersonating any other person or entity, or making any misrepresentation as to Your employment by or affiliation with any person or entity;
  12.  Forging headers or in any manner manipulating identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any user information;
  13.  Stalking, threatening, or in any manner harassing any other User;
  14.   Imposing an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Platform infrastructure;
  15.  Engaging in “framing,” “mirroring,” or otherwise simulating the appearance or function of the Platform (or any part thereof) and providing deeplinks into this Platform (or any part thereof) without prior permission of Company;
  16.  Spamming the Platform/Company or any other Users including by uploading, posting, emailing, transmitting or otherwise making available either directly or indirectly, any unsolicited bulk e-mail or unsolicited commercial e-mail.
  17.  Hosting, modifying, uploading, posting, transmitting, publishing, or distributing any material or information that: (a) Violates any applicable local, provincial, state, national or international law, statute, ordinance, rule or regulation for the time being in force; (b) Belongs to another person and to which You have no right; (c) Infringes, breaches or otherwise contravenes the rights of the Company or any third party, including any copyright, trademark, patent, rights of privacy or publicity or any other proprietary rights; (d) Contains computer viruses, or other computer code, files or programs designed to disrupt, destroy or interfere with or limit the functioning of the Platform, or any other computer system or resource; (e) Is grossly harmful, harassing, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, disparaging, relating to or encouraging money laundering or gambling in any manner, any content which is or may potentially be perceived as being harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, blasphemous, vulgar, pornographic, paedophilic, obscene, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatsoever; (f) Which constitutes or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to other liability, or otherwise violate applicable law; (g) That deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of such messages or communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in nature; (h) That harms minors in any way; (i) That threatens the unity, integrity, defense, 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.

6. RESTRICTION REGARDING MATERIALS

All information, documents, software, images, photographs, text, services and other similar materials (collectively, “Materials”) contained in this Platform if provided by Company or its third party authors, developers and vendors (“Third Party Providers”) and are capable of being so protected are the copyrighted work of Company and/or the Third Party Providers. Except as stated herein, none of the Materials may be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior express written permission of Company or the Third Party Provider. No part of the Platform, including logos, graphics, sounds or images, may be reproduced or retransmitted in any way, or by any means, without the prior express written permission of Company. You also may not, without College Dost’s prior express written permission, “mirror” any Materials contained on this Platform on any other server.

Nothing on this Platform shall be construed as conferring any license under any of College Dost’s or any Third Party Provider’s intellectual property rights, whether by estoppels, implication, or otherwise. You acknowledge sole responsibility for obtaining any such licenses.

Permission is granted to display, copy, distribute and download College Dost’s Materials on this Platform provided that: (1) both the copyright notice identified below and this permission notice appear in the Materials, (2) the use of such Materials is solely for personal, non-commercial and informational use and will not be copied or posted on any networked computer or broadcast in any media, and (3) no modifications of any of the Materials are made. This permission terminates automatically without notice if You breach any of these Terms. Upon termination, You will immediately destroy any downloaded or printed Materials. Any unauthorized use of any Materials contained on this Platform may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, and other related laws and may have various legal consequences.

Materials provided by Third Party Providers have not been independently authenticated in whole or in part by Company. The Platform does not provide, sell, license, or lease any of the Materials other than those specifically identified as being provided by Company. Company is committed to respecting others’ intellectual property rights, and we ask our users to do the same. Company (hereinafter referred to as “We”) may, in its sole discretion, terminate or restrict the access rights of users who infringe or otherwise violate others’ intellectual property rights

7. DISCLAIMER FOR WEBSITES THAT WE LINK TO

We use our best endeavours to ensure that:

  • the websites/apps we select for inclusion in the Platform work, and continue to work properly;
  • their content remains acceptable and useful; and
  • their operation will not be injurious to our users’ devices.

We explicitly disclaim, and will not accept any responsibility for any of the following in respect of the sites that we link to:

  • Infection by computer viruses
  • Damage caused by downloaded software
  • Technical problems, failures and speed of operation
  • Libelous or illegal material
  • The quality or truth of any material, or advice that is offered

8. PRIVACY

The Privacy Policy of the Platform explains how we may use Your personal data, we will at all times respect and ensure adherence to the privacy policy, additionally various settings are provided to help You to be able to control the manner in which others may be able to view Your information as chosen by You to be displayed on Your profile and the manner in which You may have chosen to be contacted. Any feedback provided by a user shall be deemed as non-confidential to the user.

9. PAYMENT TERMS

YOU ARE REQUESTED TO HONOUR YOUR PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS TO THE COMPANY.

Payments for the services offered by the Platform shall be on a 100% advance basis. The payment for service once subscribed to by you is not refundable and any amount paid shall stand appropriated. Refund, if any, will be at the sole discretion of the Company.

User hereby irrevocably accepts to receive the tax invoice as soft copy through emails.

Notwithstanding anything contained in any other agreement or arrangement, by whatever name called, the performance obligation of the Company (service provider) is to provide access of its on-line portal to the customer for the duration of the subscription period & reference to any usage, by whatever name called or any other performance obligation, if any, is to provide the upper limit for consumption, which by itself, does not create any additional performance obligation upon the Company

The Company offers no guarantees whatsoever for the accuracy or timeliness of the refunds reaching the Customers card/bank accounts.

In the event of any suspension or termination of services on account of non-compliance of these Terms of Use, any payment made to the Company by you shall stand forfeited with immediate effect.

The User acknowledges and agrees that Company/Platform, at its sole discretion and without prejudice to other rights and remedies that it may have under the applicable laws, shall be entitled to set off the amount excess paid by a subscriber/user against any amount(s) payable by User to Company under any other agreement or commercial relationship towards other products/services. The Company gives no guarantees of server uptime or applications working properly. All is on a best effort basis and liability is limited to refund of amount only.

The User or customer shall be required to promptly provide copy of TDS certificate to the Company as mandated under law for tax deducted at source from the payments made to the Company. Any loss on account of non availment or disallowance of such TDS credit in view of any lapse as per this clause or as required under applicable law on the part of User or customer shall entitle the company to seek reimbursement or indemnification

Users, buying the products online are redirected to third party gateways for completing payment transactions. These transactions happen on third party network and hence not controlled by Company.

A User through his user identification and shall be solely responsible for carrying out any online or off-line transaction involving credit cards / debit cards or such other forms of instruments or documents for making such transactions and Company assumes no responsibility or liability for their improper use of information relating to such usage of credit cards / debit cards used by the subscriber online / off-line

The Company shall not be liable for any loss or damage sustained by reason of any disclosure (inadvertent or otherwise) of any information concerning the user’s account and / or information relating to or regarding online transactions using credit cards / debit cards and / or their verification process and particulars nor for any error, omission or inaccuracy with respect to any information so disclosed and used whether or not in pursuance of a legal process or otherwise

10. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

The Company expressly disclaims warranties of any kind for any use of or any access to the Platform, to any material, information, links, or content presented on the web pages at the Platform, to any external website linked thereto, and to any external material, information, links, or content linked thereto. The Platform, and any material, information, links, and content presented on the web pages at the Platform, as well as any external website and any external material, information, links, and content linked thereto, are provided on an “as is” basis, without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. The Company has no control over any external website or over any external material, information, links, and content linked to the Platform. Certain jurisdictions do not permit the exclusion of implied warranties and the foregoing exclusions of implied warranties may not apply to You. The Platform and its internal web pages may be unavailable for online access from time to time and at anytime; there are no guarantees and no warranties of online availability, impressions, and click-throughs. The entire risk as to the performance of, or non-performance of, or arising out of the use of, or the access of, or the lack of access to the Platform, to any material, information, links, or content presented on the web pages at the Platform, to any external website linked thereto, or to any external material, information, links, or content linked thereto, is borne by the user, visitor, customer, or other person.

11. CONTENT AND LIABILITY DISCLAIMER

Platform is an intermediary as defined under sub-clause (w) of Section 2 of the Information Technology Act, 2000.

Company shall not be responsible for any errors or omissions contained on any Company website, and reserves the right to make changes anytime without notice. Mention of non-College Dost products or services is provided for informational purposes only and constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation by Company. References to [top], [recommended], [trending] or [popular], are not in the nature of an endorsement but generated based on user feedback, algorithmic matching of your interests and preferences (such as age, subject matters of interest, location, your activity on the platform), offerings made by third parties on the platform, etc. All Company and third-party information provided on any Company Platform is provided on an “as is” basis.

Views expressed by the users are their own, College Dost does not endorse the same. No claim as to the accuracy and correctness of the information on the site is made although every attempt is made to ensure that the content is not misleading. In case any inaccuracy is or otherwise improper content is sighted on the Platform, please report it to report abuse

This Platform could include unintended inaccuracies or typographical errors. Company and the third-party providers may make improvements and/or changes in the products, services, programs, and prices described in this Platform at any time without notice. Changes are periodically made to the Platform.

The material, information, links, and content presented on and by this Platform is of a general nature only and is not intended to address the specific circumstances, requirements, or any other needs of any particular individual or entity. It cannot be guaranteed that the material, information, links, and content presented on and by this Platform is comprehensive, complete, accurate, sufficient, timely, or up to date for any particular purpose or use. The material, information, links, and content presented on and by this Platform should not be considered as professional, legal, business, financial, investment, or purchasing advice (if You need specific advice, You should always consult a suitably qualified professional). This Platform is sometimes linked to external Platforms over which Company has no control and assume no responsibility, and are in no way acting as a publisher of material, information, links, and content contained on external linked websites. Links may become invalid, may expire, or may become misdirected at any time. Links are provided as a convenience and do not necessarily constitute, signify, or otherwise imply an endorsement by, or an endorsement for, or a relationship with, or connection to Company. The statements expressed on external linked websites are not those of Company; and users are advised that Company does not maintain editorial control over external linked websites or determine the appropriateness regarding the material, information, links, and content contained on external linked websites. Company has no control over any external website or over any external material, information, links, and content linked to the Platform

12. LICENSE DISCLAIMER

Nothing on any Company website shall be construed as conferring any license under any of College Dost’s or any third party’s intellectual property rights, whether by estoppel, implication, or otherwise.

‘COLLEGE DOST’ DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, WITH REGARD TO ANY INFORMATION (INCLUDING ANY SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, OR SERVICES) PROVIDED ON ANY ‘COLLEGE DOST’ PLATFORM, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

13. DISCLAIMER OF ONLINE AVAILABILITY, IMPRESSIONS, AND CLICK-THROUGH

In addition to the other disclaimers and limitations discussed in this notice, there are no guarantees and no warranties regarding online availability, impressions, and click-through of the Website, its web pages, the Application and any material, information, links, or content presented on the web pages that may be accessible through the Platform. Platform reserves the right although it is under no obligation to ensure that advertising sponsors and advertising must be approved by Company before the posting of any advertising material, information, links, content, banners, and graphics on the Platform, however, the same may be reported by contacting us. Any advertising should be related to interactive digital television and related subject areas. Company reserves the right to accept or to reject any advertising sponsor or any advertising for any reason.

14. PURCHASING AND ORDERING DISCLAIMER

Make Your own decisions:

If You are making or planning to make any decision, whether personal or business decisions, based on the content on the site, You should conduct an independent verification before making Your important decision. In the case of any listings or banners displaying any content related to any educational products, You may contact the institution/individual directly. All decisions made would be entirely Your prerogative and Company does not claim to offer any advice, either legal or financial. Company doesn’t take any ownership, directly or indirectly towards any person whatsoever, with respect to banners hosted on its Platform by its customers, which are strictly in the nature of sale of space by Platform & it has not carried out any independent verification on the authenticity or compliance requirements, as may have been required under any law for the time being in force, of such images/ banners/ listings.

READ THESE TERMS. IN PURCHASING/SUBSCRIBING TO A PRODUCT/SERVICE OFFERED ON THIS PLATFORM YOU ARE ADVISED TO READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY BEFORE PROCEEDING FURTHER. YOU HEREBY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO THE TERMS BELOW. IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND AND AGREE WITH THESE TERMS THEN DO NOT PLACE AN ORDER FOR A PRODUCT/SERVICE.

PRICING. ALL PRICES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. EVERY EFFORT HAS BEEN MADE TO ENSURE ACCURATE PRICING OF THE PRODUCTS/SERVICES FEATURED ON OUR PLATFORM. IN THE EVENT A PART OR ACCESSORY IS ORDERED AND THE LISTED PRICE HAS CHANGED, YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED PRIOR TO OUR PROCESSING YOUR ORDER.

PURCHASE “AS IS.” ALL PRODUCTS/SERVICES ARE PROVIDED BY THE COMPANY ON “AS IS” BASIS WITH NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND FROM THE COMPANY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION NO WARRANTIES AS TO THE NATURE AND QUANTUM OF RESPONSES TO ANY BANNER OR LISTING DISPLAYED ON THE PLATFORM.

15. YOUR RESPONSIBILITY; DAMAGE LIMITS.

YOU HAVE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY FOR USE OF THE PRODUCTS/SERVICES YOU PURCHASE THROUGH THIS PLATFORM. IN NO EVENT SHALL COLLEGEDOST.IN BE LIABLE TO YOU IN RELATION TO THE PRODUCTS/SERVICES, OR YOUR USE, MISUSE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PRODUCTS, FOR ANY (1) INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGE (INCLUDING LOSS OF BUSINESS, REVENUE, PROFITS, USE, DATA OR OTHER ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE); OR (2) DIRECT DAMAGES IN EXCESS OF THE AMOUNT YOU PAID THE COMPANY FOR THE APPLICABLE PRODUCT/SERVICE.

16. INDEMNIFICATION

BY ACCEPTING THESE TERMS OF USE, YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY AND OTHERWISE HOLD HARMLESS COMPANY, ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYERS, AGENTS, SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES AND OTHER PARTNERS FROM ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF, RELATING TO, OR RESULTING FROM YOUR USE OF THE PLATFORM INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO INFORMATION PROVIDED BY YOU OR ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE PLATFORM. ANY REFERENCE TO DUTIES AND TAXES ETC IN THESE TERMS OF USE SHALL INCLUDE GOODS AND SERVICES TAX (HEREIN REFERRED AS GST). ANY ADDITIONAL TAX LIABILITY ARISING ON ACCOUNT OF GST (WHETHER ON ACCOUNT OF INCREASE IN RATE OR ANY OTHER CHANGE UNDER THE TAX REGIME) WOULD BE RECOVERED OVER AND ABOVE THE AGREED CONTRACT PRICE / SERVICE FEE.

17. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

In no event and under no circumstances and under no legal theory, tort, contract, or otherwise shall Company be liable, without limitation, for any damages whatsoever, including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or punitive damages, arising out of any access to or any use of or any inability to access or use this Platform including any material, information, links, and content accessed through this Platform or through any linked external website/application.

Unless otherwise specified and notwithstanding anything contained in any other agreement or arrangement, by whatever name called, the performance obligation of the Company (service provider) is to provide access of its on-line portal to the customer for the duration of the subscription period & reference to any usage, by whatever name called or any other performance obligation, if any, is to provide the upper limit for consumption, which by itself, does not create any additional performance obligation upon Company.

18. TAXES

ANY REFERENCE TO DUTIES AND TAXES ETC IN THESE TERMS OF USE SHALL INCLUDE GOODS AND SERVICES TAX (“GST) OR VALUE ADDED TAX (VAT) AS PER LOCAL JURISDICTION OR ANY OTHER SIMILAR TAX OR DUTY, BY WHATEVER NAME CALLED (HEREIN REFERRED AS GST) AND SHALL BE CHARGED IN ADDITION TO THE BASIC AMOUNT, IN ACCORDANCE WITH RESPECTIVE LAWS & REGULATIONS.

YOU ARE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE TRUE & CORRECT INFORMATION AS REQUIRED UNDER TAX LAWS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SEZ UNIT OR USAGE THEREIN & COLLEGE DOST SHALL BE ENTITLED TO CONSIDER ANY INFORMATION AVAILABLE AS PER ITS RECORDS TO BE CORRECT & TRUE & DISCHARGE ITS TAX OBLIGATIONS ACCORDINGLY. IN CASE OF ANY DISCREPANCY OR CHANGE, THE USER IS REQUIRED TO PROMPTLY INTIMATE THE CORRECT OR UPDATED PARTICULARS TO THE COMPANY. THE COMPANY SHALL BE ENTITLED TO SEEK INDEMNIFICATION FROM USERS IF IT IS REQUIRED TO PAY ANY TAX, DUTY, FEE, INTEREST OR PENALTY IN VIEW OF INCORRECT OR INCOMPLETE INFORMATION OR DATA FURNISHED BY USER OR NOT GOT RECTIFIED/ UPDATED BY USER TIMELY.

19. TERMINATION/SUSPENSION

Company may, without notice in its sole discretion, and at any time, terminate or restrict Your use or access to the Platform (or any part thereof) for any reason, including, without limitation, that the company based on its judgement and perception believes You have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of these terms of use.

20. MISCELLANEOUS

20.1. AMENDMENT TO THESE TERMS

COMPANY RESERVES ITS RIGHT TO AMEND / ALTER OR CHANGE ALL OR ANY DISCLAIMERS OR TERM(S) OR CONDITION(S) OF AGREEMENTS AT ANY TIME WITHOUT ANY PRIOR NOTICE.

Businesses, environment and technology evolve and in order to accommodate the changing nature of the environment in which we operate as well to provide for any additional features that may be introduced in future, these Terms may need modifications or additions. Such modifications or additions shall be effective immediately upon posting of the modified Terms of Use on the Site.

You are advised to review the modified Terms of Use periodically to be aware of such modifications or additions and your continued access or use of the Site, shall be deemed conclusive proof of your acceptance of these Terms of Use, as amended/modified from time to time

20.2. DISPUTE SETTLEMENT

If any dispute arises between a user/users and Company arising out of use of the Platform or thereafter, in connection with the validity, interpretation, implementation or alleged breach of any provision of these Terms, the dispute shall be referred to a sole arbitrator who shall be an independent and neutral third party identified by the Company. Decision of the arbitrator shall be final and binding on both the parties to the dispute. The place of arbitration shall be New Delhi, India. The Arbitration & Conciliation Act, 1996 as amended, shall govern the arbitration proceedings.

The Company will not be party to any legal proceedings between a User (e.g. a subscriber) and a party contacted through the site. In case Company is made a party in any legal proceedings, costs will be recovered from the party on whose behest the Company is involved in the matter, to which it otherwise has no control. Company however will abide with any court order served on it through due process.

20.3. LOCAL LAWS

You are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws including but not limited to the export and import regulations of other countries, while consuming the information and the services as available through the Platform.

20.4. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

These Terms shall be governed by the laws of Republic of India. The exclusive forum for any disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms shall be a court of law located in Delhi, India.

20.5. ENTIRE AGREEMENT

These terms of use as amended from time to time constitute the entire agreement between You and company regarding the Platform. These Terms supersede all terms and conditions contained in any purchase order, order acknowledgment form, invoice or other business form submitted by You.

No advertisements, catalogues or other publications or statements, whether written or oral, regarding the performance of the Platform permitted under these Terms shall form part of these Terms.

20.6. SEVERABILITY

VOID PROVISIONS SHALL HAVE NO EFFECT ON THE VALIDITY OF OTHER PARTS OF THESE TERMS OF USE

If any provision of these Terms are held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, such provision will be changed and interpreted so as to best accomplish the objectives of the original provision to the fullest extent allowed by law and the remaining provisions of these Terms shall remain in full force and effect.

20.7. ASSIGNMENT AND DELEGATION

You may not assign or delegate Your rights under these Terms or the limited license that has been extended to You, and any assignment and/or delegation of these Terms or any sub licensing by You will be null and void, if case any case of this nature is brought to our notice in addition to any other remedies that we may have under the law, we reserve our rights to claim damages and seek an injunction against You.

20.8. AVAILABILITY OF SERVICES

Services are provided on a best efforts basis on an AS IS and AS AVAILABLE basis, all is on a best efforts basis, however, there are no server uptime guarantees.

Any regulations, guidelines, legislations or lawful orders of a court or a quasi-judicial body may require us to change alter or stop our services. Similarly, any force majeure events which are beyond our reasonable control, may cause an interruption in the services.

21. HOW YOU MAY CONTACT US

YOU MAY CONTACT US BY APPROACHING US AT info@collegedost.in

In case of any grievances related to content on the Platform please use the hyperlink available at Grievance.

Data Protection Officer/ Grievance Officer
College Dost
Email: info@collegedost.in
Phone: +91 9281014904