Terms and Conditions

The Children’s Book Bin provides this site (LittleAuthors.IN) which shall be available for use, subject to the following conditions. By visiting the www.littleauthors.in (the “Site”), you accept these conditions. In the event you do not accept any of these conditions, please do not to avail any of the services on the Site. Upon availing any service, you will deemed to have accepted the following conditions. Further the use of the Site, will be subject to the guidelines, terms and agreements applicable to the business of LittleAuthors.IN and The Children’s Book Bin.

These Terms of Use are an electronic record in the form of an electronic contract formed under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the Rules made thereunder and the amended provisions pertaining to electronic documents/records in various statutes as amended by the Information Technology Act, 2000. These Terms of Use are generated by a computer system and do not require any physical, electronic or digital signature.

THIS DOCUMENT IS PUBLISHED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF RULE 3(1) OF THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (INTERMEDIARIES GUIDELINES) RULES, 2011 THAT REQUIRES PUBLISHING THE RULES AND REGULATIONS, PRIVACY POLICY AND TERMS OF USE FOR ACCESS OR USAGE OF THIS SITE.

Copyright

All content included on this Site, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is the property of The Children’s Book Bin, LittleAuthors.IN or its affiliates or its content suppliers and protected by international copyright laws for the time being in force. The compilation of all content on this Site is the exclusive property of LittleAuthors.IN, and all software used on this Site is the property of LittleAuthors.IN, its affiliates or its software suppliers and protected by international copyright laws for the time being in force.

Trademarks

LittleAuthors.IN, the LittleAuthors.IN logo and other marks indicated on our Site are intellectual property rights of LittleAuthors.IN. LittleAuthors.IN’s trademarks and intellectual property rights may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not provided by LittleAuthors.IN, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among users, or in any manner that discredits LittleAuthors.IN or its affiliates. All other trademarks not owned by LittleAuthors.IN or its affiliates that appear on this Site are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with, connected to, or sponsored by LittleAuthors.IN or its affiliates.

License and Site access

LittleAuthors.IN grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of this Site and not to download (other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with express written consent of LittleAuthors.IN and / or its affiliates, as may be applicable. This limited license does not include any resale or commercial use of this Site or its contents; any derivative use of this Site or its contents; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. This site or any portion of this Site (including but not limited to any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information) may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express written consent of LittleAuthors.IN and / or its affiliates, as may be applicable. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of LittleAuthors.IN or its affiliates without their express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilizing LittleAuthors.IN ‘s or its affiliates name or trademarks without their express written consent. Any unauthorized use terminates the permission or license granted by LittleAuthors.IN and / or its affiliates. You may not use any logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark of LittleAuthors.IN or its affiliates as part of the link without their express written permission.

Your activity on the LittleAuthors.IN

The Site is intended for the exclusive purpose of aggregating literary content, identifying offerings, customising them, and then providing access to the same to subscribers, users and patrons of LittleAuthors.IN for their personal consumption and for domestic purposes and for no other purposes. LittleAuthors.IN and its affiliates reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, or remove or edit content in their sole discretion.

The Site shall not be used in any way that causes, or is likely to cause, the Site or access to it to be interrupted, damaged or impaired in any way.

You, and not LittleAuthors.IN, are responsible for all electronic communications and content sent from your computer/laptop/mobile device to LittleAuthors.IN and you must use the Site for lawful purposes only and only in accordance with the applicable law. You will be liable for all uses of the account whether or not such use is authorized by you, including but not limited to submitting information or answering questions through this Site.  LittleAuthors.IN is not liable for password breaches.

User Information

Users are solely liable for the authenticity of the information provided by them. LittleAuthors.IN does not guarantee the authenticity of the information that is obtained from users either as a part of the registration process or for a purpose of providing a service. LittleAuthors.IN agrees to maintain the confidentiality of such information on mutually agreeable terms and to share it with third parties with the consent of the users and for the purpose agreed.

User License

If User submits material, and unless we indicate otherwise, User grants  LittleAuthors.IN and its affiliates a nonexclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable,  perpetual and fully sub licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media for as long as you are permitted to grant the said licence under applicable law. You hereby grant LittleAuthors.IN and its affiliates and sub licensees the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, if they choose. LittleAuthors.IN has the right but not the obligation to monitor and edit or remove any activity or content. LittleAuthors.IN takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content submitted by the User or any third party.

Your Content

In these Website Standard Terms and Conditions, “Your Content” shall mean any audio, video, text, images or other material you choose to display on this Website. You are solely responsible for all text, images, audio, video, location data, and all other forms of data or communication that you submit or transmit to, though, or in connection with the LittleAuthors.IN. You assume all risks associated with Your Content, including anyone else’s reliance on its quality, accuracy, or reliability, or any disclosure by you of information in Your Content that makes you personally identifiable. You represent that you own, or have the necessary permissions to use and authorize the use of Your Content by others who may access LittleAuthors.IN. You acknowledge that you may expose yourself to personal liability by posting on the LittleAuthors.IN You take sole responsibility for ensuring that Your Content does not contain any material that is illegal, is false, intentionally misleading, or defamatory, or violates any third-party right (such as copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, privacy right, right of publicity, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right). With respect to Your Content, by displaying it, you grant LittleAuthors.IN a non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub licensable license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute it in any and all media. Your Content must be your own and must not be infringing on any third party’s rights, individual or religious sentiments, or legislation in respective countries amounting to publishing of articles in Internet. LittleAuthors.IN reserves the right to remove any of Your Content from this Website at any time, and for any reason, without notice. You are also restricted to make any comments on this site

Privacy by Design

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures, in an effective way, in order to meet the requirements of GDPR Regulations and protect the rights of data subjects. We hold and process only the data absolutely necessary for the completion of our duties (data minimization), as well as limiting the access to personal data to those needing to act out the processing.

Disclaimer of warranties and limitation of liabilities

This Site is provided by LittleAuthors.IN on an “as is” and “as available” basis. LittleAuthors.IN makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the operation of this Site or the information, content, materials, or products included on this Site. you expressly agree that your use of this Site is at your sole risk. LittleAuthors.IN reserves the right to withdraw or delete any information from this Site at any time in its discretion.

You acknowledge and undertake that you are accessing the services on the Site and transacting at your own risk and are using your best and prudent judgment before entering into any transactions through the Site.

We further expressly disclaim any warranties or representations (express or implied) in respect of quality, suitability, accuracy, reliability, completeness, timeliness, performance, safety, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or legality of the products listed or displayed or transacted or the content (including product or pricing information and/or specifications) on the Site. While we have taken precautions to avoid inaccuracies in content, this Site, all content, information (including the price of products), software, products, services and related graphics are provided as is, without warranty of any kind.

Electronic Communications

When you visit the Site or send e-mails to us, you are communicating with us electronically. You consent to receive communications from us electronically. We will communicate with you by e-mail or by posting notices on this Site. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

Claims against Objectionable Content

If you believe that any content on the Site is illegal, offensive, deceptive, misleading, abusive, indecent, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, libellous, obscene, or menacing; ethnically objectionable, disparaging; or is otherwise injurious to third parties; or relates to or promotes money laundering or gambling; or is harmful to minors in any way; or impersonates another person; or threatens the unity, integrity, security or sovereignty of India or friendly relations with foreign States; or objectionable or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatsoever; or which consists of or contains software viruses, (“Objectionable Content”), please notify us immediately by email at support@littleauthors.in . Once we are notified of the same, LittleAuthors.IN will make all reasonable endeavours to remove such Objectionable Content complained about within a reasonable time.

Our Address

This Site is owned and operated by The Children’s Book Bin. You can contact us by writing to us at L1002 Orchard, Godrej Garden City, Ahmedabad 382470 or email at support@littleauthors.in.

Consent

As a part of any ongoing contests or otherwise, LittleAuthors.IN may invite submission for articles, stories, poems, and so forth (“Content”) from minors. Such Content may be eligible for publication on LittleAuthors.IN’s Site and/or payment as declared by LittleAuthors.IN.

You consent as a parent and/or legal guardian to a minor for such submission of personal information of the minor including but not limited to name, personal details, school details and so forth being submitted in context to submission for such Content. You further consent that such Content is subject to being edited and altered quantitatively and qualitatively to meet in-house requirements of LittleAuthors.IN.

Losses

We will not be responsible for any business loss (including loss of profits, revenue, contracts, anticipated savings, data, goodwill or wasted expenditure) or any other indirect or consequential loss that is not reasonably foreseeable to both you and us when you commenced using the Site.

Alteration of Service or Amendments to the Conditions

We reserve the right to make changes to our Site, policies, and these Terms of Use at any time. You will be subject to the policies and Conditions of Use in force at the time that you use the Site or that you order goods from us, unless any change to those policies or these conditions is required to be made by law or government authority (in which case it will apply to orders previously placed by you). If any of these conditions is deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining condition.

Events beyond our reasonable control

We will not be held responsible for any delay or failure to comply with our obligations under these conditions if the delay or failure arises from any cause which is beyond our reasonable control. This condition does not affect your statutory rights.

Waiver

If you breach these conditions and we take no action, we will still be entitled to use our rights and remedies in any other situation where you breach these conditions.

Applicable Law

By visiting this Site, you agree that the laws of India, as is applicable in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, will govern these Terms of Use and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and LittleAuthors.IN or its affiliates.

Disputes

Any dispute relating in any way to your visit to this Site shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.­­

Privacy

The Privacy Policy, which is elsewhere placed on the Site, shall be applicable to all interactions through the Site, and all information that may be collected through the Site.