The InvestarIndia.com Rules - Terms & Conditions of Service

Welcome to InvestarIndia.com! We hope you'll enjoy and participate in the many services found on our site but first things first: By using our service, you're agreeing to be bound by these terms and conditions. If you don't wish to be bound by what you read below, you shouldn't register with InvestarIndia.com. We may change these terms at any time but will notify you in advance of any material changes; your continued use of InvestarIndia.com means that you accept any new or modified terms and conditions. So please check back here from time to time.

By registering, you certify that all information you provide in the registration is accurate. InvestarIndia.com users may only maintain one active registration. In other words, it's one registration per person. By accepting this agreement, you certify that you personally have no other registration with InvestarIndia.com.

As a registered user, you can change your password at any time. For more information on that, you can click the My Investar tab once you login. Also, if you forget either your password or user name, you can go to this page and by just inserting your e-mail address you'll get your info in an instant.

Our Content Is Copyrighted

The content on this site is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws and is the property of InvestarIndia.com and/or the providers of the content under license. By "content" we mean any information, mode of expression, or other materials and services found on InvestarIndia.com. This includes message boards, chats, software, our writings, graphics, and any and all other features found on the site. That's right, content means the whole shebang. You can find more information on Copyright Law and the Internet at: http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html

You may make one copy of the content you find on this site for your personal, non-commercial use, provided that any material copied remains intact and includes the following notice: "Copyright 2006 InvestarIndia.com. All rights reserved." Any other copying, distribution, storing, or transmission of any kind, or any sort of commercial use ofour content is prohibited without our prior written permission.

Please note that, notwithstanding the foregoing, when you post content (such as a message board post) on our site,you are not somehow surrendering your copyright in that message. By registering with us, you agree that InvestarIndia.com has an unlimited license to republish anything you post in our areas, but, aside from that, you retain the right to use your words however you want. If you don't want us to republish your words, then don't post them on our site. We'll only republish your posts in context and we'll credit you (under your user name) as author. We won't republish your posts in advertising without your permission. And we promise not to make fun of you, unless you make a really bad market prediction.

Conduct

InvestarIndia.com champions active and open debate among our members. All we ask is that it's done in a lawful and civil manner - be it posting on our boards or using our system to email a poster directly. Accordingly, you agree to use InvestarIndia.com for lawful purposes only. You may not use or allow others to use your InvestarIndia.com membership to:

  • Post or transmit any content that is disruptive, uncivil, abusive, vulgar, profane, obscene, hateful, fraudulent, threatening, harassing, defamatory, or which discloses private or personal matters concerning any person;
  • Post or transmit any material that you don't have the right to transmit under law (such as copyright, trade secret or securities) or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as nondisclosure agreements);
  • Post, transmit, or link to sexually explicit material;
  • Impersonate any person, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
  • Post or transmit any advertising, promotional materials, or other forms of solicitation including chain letters and pyramid schemes;
  • Intentionally violate the laws, rules, and regulations of the SEBI, BSE and NSE and the national or other securities exchanges, especially and including the rule against making false or misleading statements to manipulate the price of any security;
  • Intentionally violate any other applicable law or regulation while accessing and using our site;
  • Offer, sell, or buy any security; and
  • Post or transmit any file that contains viruses, corrupted files, "Trojan Horses," or any other contaminating or destructive features that may damage someone else's computer.

InvestarIndia.com may at any time, without prior notice and at our sole discretion, remove any community, post or terminate your membership for violating the above (and if we may say so, reasonable) provisions. You agree to indemnify InvestarIndia.com and hold us harmless from any actions, claims, proceedings, or liabilities arising out of your violation of these terms and conditions. You're responsible for all statements made and acts that occur through the use of your user name and password. So please don't disclose your password to anybody. If it has been lost or stolen, let us know as soon as possible. For more information on posting, please read our Posting Guidelines.

Disclaimer of Warranties and Liabilities

InvestarIndia.com is a site meant for social investing to encourage like minded people to collaborate together on investing better. We can't and we don't warrant the completeness or accuracy of the content found in our areas, or its usefulness for any particular purpose. And although we have the hardest-working, most talented techies in the business, InvestarIndia.com also makes no promises that our content or the service itself will be delivered to you uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free. In fact we're not making any promises or warranties except that we won't intentionally lie to you.

Now what does all this mean? It means that you agree that under no circumstances will InvestarIndia.com be liable for direct, indirect, incidental, or any other type of damages resulting from your use, or downloading of any content on our site. This includes, but is no way limited to, loss or injury caused in whole or in part by our negligence or by stuff beyond our control in creating or delivering any portion of InvestarIndia.com.

One of our principal tenets here at InvestarIndia.com is that the best person to handle your finances is YOU and by your use of our service, you're agreeing that you bear responsibility for your own investment research and investment decisions. You also agree that InvestarIndia.com will not be liable for any investment decision made or action taken by you or others based upon reliance on news, information, or any other material published by InvestarIndia.com. InvestarIndia.com relies on various sources of information that we believe to be accurate and reliable. However, we make no claims or representations as to the accuracy, completeness, or truth of any material contained on our site. There are literally thousands of contributors here, most, we believe, with incredibly interesting and insightful information and opinions to share. But we can't and won't take responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or even the truth of every post on our service. Remember: All information and content provided on InvestarIndia.com is to be used on an "as is, with all faults, we're not perfect" basis.

Information about Hosting Provider

The InvestarIndia.com website is hosted at ServerBeach.

Everything Else

If any provision in this Agreement is invalid, unenforceable, or nonsensical, the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect. This Agreement is and always will be governed by the laws of India, the United States of America and the State of California.