Your Free Service (YFS) Terms of Use
These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your use of this website/application owned and operated by The Hot Week (the “Company”), and the content and community services offered herein (“Service”).
- Acceptance: Please read these Terms carefully before using this site. If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not use this site.
- Registration and Termination:
To use a Service, you may need to register and create an account with a username and a password. You may need to provide us with certain personal and other information. The Company may verify your email address before your account can be used. You agree to provide truthful and complete information when you register for the Service and to keep that information updated. You must take due care to protect your username and password against misuse by others and promptly notify the Company about any misuse. You are personally responsible for any use of the Service. You may terminate your registration if you no longer wish to use the Service. After termination, you will no longer have access to the Service. The Company may terminate your registration or restrict your access to certain parts of the Service if the Company has reason to believe that you have breached these Terms. - Licenses:
The Company grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable license, revocable, at the Company’s sole discretion, right to access and use the Service strictly in accordance with the Terms. Use of the Service does not grant you any intellectual property rights in or to any information or content in the Service. As part of the Service, the Company may provide you with content developed by the Company or its licensors (“Content”). The Company grants you a non-exclusive license to use the Content for the purpose it is intended, unless otherwise defined in the Terms or an applicable purchase order. The Company, however, retains the right to withdraw the aforementioned license at its sole discretion. You are bound by any restrictions applicable to specific Content you obtain through the Service. Any license acquired to third-party Content is a binding agreement between you and the third-party Content provider. You only have such rights to the Content as are expressly granted herein. Any liability arising out of your use of the Content shall be solely your responsibility, and the Company shall not take any responsibility for the same. - Using the Service:
You agree to:
- Comply with applicable laws, these Terms, and good ethics and manners.
- Use the Service only for your personal, non-commercial purposes.
- Not submit unlawful, offensive, inaccurate, misleading, abusive, pornographic, harassing, libelous, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pedophilic, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, racially or ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating to or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise inappropriate material.
- Not use any automated systems or means to access, acquire, copy, or monitor any part of the Service.
- Be responsible for the consequences related to the Material that you post.
- Report any abuse of these Terms.
- Content:
Before downloading or accessing any Content, please check whether the Content you wish to access is restricted by age or marked as potentially ‘offensive’ or ‘explicit’. The Company shall not be responsible for any claims or offense caused or suffered by you accessing such Content. You agree to use the Content only for your personal, non-commercial purposes and in accordance with the applicable laws, additional terms, guidelines, and policies. - Notices:
The Company may post notices within the Service or send you notices about products and Services to the email address or telephone number you have provided to us. Your continued use of the Service constitutes your receipt of all notices regardless of delivery method. - Fees:
Your use of the Service may be or may become subject to charges. The Company assumes no responsibility for the payment of any charges of your service providers. - Order and Payment Terms:
“Order” shall mean the selection of payable Content and/or subscription to Content offered by the Company and available in the Service. All Orders are subject to acceptance by the Company. You agree to pay the charges related to your Order and to use the Content solely as permitted in these Terms. - Feedback to the Company:
By submitting any ideas, feedback, and/or proposals (“Feedback”) to the Company through the Service or other means, you acknowledge and agree that the Company may use, distribute, exploit, and further develop and modify Feedback for any purpose. - Social Activities and Location Sharing:
You may use features in the Service to share your location, status, content, Materials, or personal information or to interact with other users, sites, and services. By using these features, you agree that the Company may use and provide that information to other services and persons with whom you choose to interact or share this information. - Availability and Technical Requirements:
The availability of Content and the Service may vary and is subject to the Company’s sole discretion. The Company may change, correct, or discontinue the Service in whole or in part. - Links to Third Party Sites and Content:
The Company may include access to sites and services on the Internet or preloaded clients that enable you to interact with sites and services that are owned or operated by third parties and that are not part of the Service. - Advertisements:
Service may include advertisements. Advertisements may be targeted to the content or information stored on the Service, queries made through the Service, or other information. - Personal Data:
The Privacy Policy and any additional privacy information made available to you govern the use of your personal data. - Limitation of Liability:
The Service is provided on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis. The Company is not liable for any direct damages caused by your use or inability to use the Service. In no case will the Company be liable for any indirect, incidental, punitive, or consequential damages resulting from your use or inability to use the Service. - Indemnification:
You agree to defend and indemnify the Company from and against all third party claims and all liabilities, assessments, losses, costs, or damages resulting from or arising out of (i) your breach of these Terms, (ii) your infringement or violation of any intellectual property rights, other rights or privacy of a third party, or (iii) misuse of the Service by a third party where the misuse was made possible by your failure to take reasonable measures to protect your username and password against misuse. - Miscellaneous:
These Terms are governed by the laws of India. The Company may modify these Terms at any time without prior notice. Your continued use of the Service constitutes your consent to any changes and modification. - Intellectual Property:
The Service, Content, and Software are protected under copyright laws. The Company retains all rights, titles, and interests in the Service, its Content, the Software, and in all other Company products, software, and other properties provided to you or used by you through the Service. - Assignment:
The Company may assign its rights and obligations under these Terms to its subsidiaries or to any company under common control with the Company. - Grievance Readdress:
The Hot Week Limited, Zurich, Switzerland which owns and operates digital news platforms, has appointed a Grievance Officer for readdress of grievances E-mail: grievanceofficer@thehotweek.com