Terms & Conditions

Find below the Terms & Conditions of usage of the website ywc.thehindu.com

1. User Agreement

You (the user) can access ywc.thehindu.com subject to the terms and conditions of use, as changed / updated from time to time entirely at the discretion of THG Publishing Private Limited as set out below. This Agreement is for an indefinite term and you understand and agree that are bound by such terms till the time you access this site.

2. Changes

THG reserve the right to add to or change/modify the terms of this Agreement including but not limited to suspend / cancel, or discontinue any or all channels, or service at any time without notice, make modifications and alterations in any or all of the content, products and services contained on the site without prior notice. You will be deemed to have accepted such change/s if you continue to access the Site subsequent to such changes

3. Registration

When you register, you are registering as a personal user of ywc.thehindu.com or its allied sites, Access to registration areas is via your email address and password THG allows you to access the registration areas of the site on the basis that:

your email address and password are personal to you and may not be used by anyone else to access ywc.thehindu.com. All minors shall register as user by their guardians (for minors below 18 years of age by their natural guardians) and/or ( for minors below 21 years age by their legal guardians/others) by providing the details at the time of signing up.
you will not do anything which would assist anyone who is not a registered user to gain access to any registration area of ywc.thehindu.com
you do not maliciously create additional registration accounts for the purpose of abusing the functionality of the site, or other users; nor do you seek to pass yourself off as another user
you comply with these terms and conditions.

If, for any reason, we believe that you have not complied with these requirements, we may, at our discretion, cancel your access to the registration areas of ywc.thehindu.com and without giving you any advance notice.

4. Charges

Any payment or subscription paid is non-refundable. We reserve the right to change subscription and/or membership fees any time without prior notice.

5. Copyright and Trademarks

Unless otherwise stated, copyright and all intellectual property rights in all material presented on the site (including but not limited to text, audio, video or graphical images), trademarks and logos appearing on this site are the property of THG, its parent, affiliates and associates and are protected under applicable laws. The copyright of content provided by content partners belongs to the content partners and has curated for use on this website. Any infringement shall be vigorously prosecuted and pursued to the fullest extent permitted by law.

6. Termination of Registration

THG reserves the right to terminate the agreement at any point of time without notice to you in case of breach of the terms and conditions. The agreement shall terminate and your email address and password will become invalid on ywc.thehindu.com.

7. Limited Permission to Copy

You are permitted to print or download extracts from these pages for your personal non-commercial use only. Any copies of these pages saved to disk or to any other storage medium may only be used for subsequent viewing purposes or to print extracts for personal use. You may not (whether directly or through the use of any software program) create a database in electronic or structured manual form by regularly or systematically downloading and storing all or any part of the pages from this site. No part of the Site may be reproduced or transmitted to or stored in any other web site, nor may any of its pages or part thereof be disseminated in any electronic or non-electronic form, nor included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without prior written permission.

Third Party Material

You will see advertising material submitted by third parties on ywc.thehindu.com. Individual advertisers are solely responsible for the content of advertising material which they submit to us, including ensuring that it complies with relevant legislation. We accept no responsibility for the content of advertising material, including, without limitation, any error, omission or inaccuracy therein.

8. E-Mail Services

You agree to not use the service to:

upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable.

harm minors in any way.

impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, an THG’s official, forum leader, guide or host, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.

forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any content transmitted through the service.

upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements).

upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights (“Rights”) of any party.

upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or un-authorised advertising, promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other form of solicitation.

9. Disclaimer

All the contents of this Site are only for general information or use. They do not constitute advice and should not be relied upon in making (or refraining from making) any decision. Any specific advice or replies to queries in any part of the Site is/are the personal opinion of such experts/consultants/persons and are not subscribed to by this Site. The information from or through this site is provided on “AS IS WHERE IS” basis, and all warranties, expressed or implied of any kind, regarding any matter pertaining to any goods, service or channel, including without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement are disclaimed and excluded.

THG shall not be liable, at any time for damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of business projects, or loss of profits) arising in contract, tort or otherwise from the use of or inability to use the Site, or any of its contents, or from any act or omissions a result of using the Site or any such contents or for any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of information contained on the site. No representations, warranties or guarantees whatsoever are made as to the accuracy, adequacy, reliability, completeness, suitability or applicability of the information to a particular situation.

Certain links on the Site lead to resources located on servers maintained by third parties over whom THG has no control or connection, business or otherwise as these sites are external to THG. You agree and understand that by visiting such sites you are beyond the THG website. THG therefore neither endorses nor offers any judgment or warranty and accepts no responsibility or liability for the authenticity/availability of any of the goods/services/or for any damage, loss or harm, direct or consequential or any violation of local or international laws that may be incurred by your visit and/or transaction/s on these sites.

10. Force Majeure

Although THG will do its best to provide constant, uninterrupted access to ywc.thehindu.com, we do not guarantee this. THG shall not accept any responsibility or liability for any interruption or delay

11. Governing Law

This agreement shall be governed by the Indian Law.

12. Jurisdiction

The Courts in Chennai in India shall have the exclusive jurisdiction to the exclusion of other courts and applicable law will be Indian Law.