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Terms of Use

Last modified: 9th November 2011

This page (together with the documents referred to on it) sets out the terms of use on which you may make use of our website www.bollywoodchat.org (our “Site”), whether as a guest or a registered user.

Please read these terms of use carefully before you use the Site. By using our Site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our Site.

Please note that you must be 13 years or over to use this Site. If you are under 13 years old you must not use this Site.

Information about us

www.bollywoodchat.org is a Site operated by Bollywood Chat. We are based in England and Wales with our servers hosted in the UK and USA. 

Accessing our Site

You must not tell any other person your username and password or allow any other person to use your username and password to access a registered area nor must you access a registered area on any other person’s behalf.

You are responsible for maintaining the security of your username and password. You must not leave your computer unattended whilst logged into a registered area. You must not write down or record your username and password in a way that would allow another person to use them.

You will be held responsible for any unauthorised use that is made of the website under your username or password.

If you believe that another person has discovered your username and password or that any unauthorised use has been made of your username and password you must notify us immediately.

We reserve the right to suspend the use of your username and password without notice if we believe that an unauthorised person may have access to them.

When using our site, you must comply with the provisions of our Acceptable Use Policy.

In addition to these Terms of Use, our Acceptable Use Policy and our Privacy Policy, the use of this Site is subject to any other legal terms which are applicable to you as a registered user and which are posted in those areas from time to time.

Intellectual property rights

The design of this website and all content and technology used or appearing on the site is the copyright of Bollywood Chat or its licensors or the third parties whose technology is being used, and all rights are reserved. Nothing in this website should be taken as conferring any licence or right to use any trade mark displayed on the website without the prior written approval of the trade mark owner.

We grant you a personal, non-transferable and non-exclusive right and licence to use this Site; provided that you do not (and do not allow any third party to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, reverse assemble or otherwise attempt to discover any source code, sell, assign, sublicense, grant a security interest in or otherwise transfer any right.

Disclaimer

Any comments or other material posted on our Site is not intended to amount to advice and no reliance should be placed on these such materials.  We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any user of our Site.
Any material displayed on our Site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of companies and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:

• All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
• Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our Site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our Site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for:
• loss of income or revenue;
• loss of business;
• loss of profits or contracts;
• loss of anticipated savings;
• loss of data;
• loss of goodwill;
• wasted management or office time;
• and for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.

This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Information about you and your visits to our site

We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy. By using our Site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

Uploading material to our site

Whenever you upload material to our Site, or to make contact with other users of our Site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.  You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.

Any material you upload to our Site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our Site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of our Site.

We have the right to remove any material or posting you make on our Site if, in our opinion, such material does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

Viruses, hacking and other offences

You must not misuse our Site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Site, the server on which our Site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Site. You must not attack our Site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Site will cease immediately.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our Site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

Linking to our site

You may link to any page on our site, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

Links from our site

Where our Site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only.  We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. 

Jurisdiction and applicable law

The English courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our Site. These terms of use are governed by English law.

Variations

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our Site.