Terms of Use

This Terms of Use policy applies to the use of the Akal Information Systems Ltd website hosted on https://www.akalinfo.com. Throughout these terms, "Akal Information Systems Ltd," “AKAL,” "We," "Us", “It’s”, and "Our" refer to Akal Information Systems Ltd and "You", "Your", and "User" refer to the user of Akal Information Systems Ltd. Its usage will be subject to the following "Terms of Use", which the user affirmatively accepts by using our site. Please read these Terms of Use carefully and ensure you understand them before using the site.

We reserve the right to modify the site's content (including the terms of use policy) at any time. Users should monitor the site for changes and continue using based on their agreement to such changes.

PURPOSE:

akalinfo.com is intended only to serve as a preliminary medium of contact and exchange of information for its users / members / visitors who have a bonafide intention to contact and/or be contacted for the purposes of staffing, payrolling and technology services.

USE TO BE IN CONFORMITY WITH THE PURPOSE:

akalinfo.com (and related products) or service or product that is subscribed to or used (whether the same is paid for by you or not) is meant for the Purpose and only the exclusive use of the subscriber/ registered user. Copying or downloading or recreating or sharing passwords or sublicensing or sharing in any manner which is not in accordance with these terms is a misuse of the Platform or service or product and AKAL reserves its rights to act in such manner as to protect its loss of revenue or reputation or claim damages including stopping your service or access and reporting to relevant authorities. In the event you are found to be copying or misusing or transmitting or crawling any data or photographs or graphics or any information available on akalinfo.com for any purpose other than that being a bonafide Purpose, we reserve the right to take such action that we deem fit including stopping access and claiming damages.

The site is a public site with free access and Akal Information Systems Ltd. assumes no liability for the quality and genuineness of responses. AKAL cannot monitor the responses that a person may receive in response to information he/ she has displayed on the site. The individual/company would have to conduct its own background checks on the bonafide nature of all response(s).

Akal Information Systems Ltd. will not be liable on account of any inaccuracy of information on this website. It is the responsibility of the visitor to further research the information on the site. Any breach of privacy or of the information provided by the consumer to AKAL to be placed on the website by technical or any other means is not the responsibility of Akal Information Systems Ltd. AKAL does not guarantee confidentiality of information provided to it by any person acquiring/ using all/any information displayed on the akalinfo.com website or any of its other websites / domains owned and operated by Akal Information Systems Ltd.

Akal Information Systems Ltd. does not share personally identifiable data of any individual with other companies / entities without obtaining permission except with those acting as our agents. AKAL shall share all such information that it has in its possession in response to legal processes, such as a court order or subpoena. The user shall not utilize the services offered by AKAL in any manner so as to impair the interests and functioning of Akal Information Systems Ltd. The user undertakes not to duplicate, download, publish, modify and distribute material on akalinfo.com unless specifically authorized by AKAL in this regard.

The user undertakes to use akalinfo.com for his/ her own purposes. Using content from akalinfo.com for derivative works with a commercial motive without prior written consent from Akal Information Systems Ltd. is strictly prohibited.

Users undertake that the services offered by Akal Information Systems Ltd. shall not be utilized to upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available either directly or indirectly, any unsolicited bulk email or unsolicited commercial email. Akal Information Systems Ltd. reserves the right to filter and monitor and block the emails sent by you/ user using the servers maintained by Akal Information Systems Ltd. to relay emails. All attempts shall be made by Akal Information Systems Ltd. and the user to abide by International Best Practices in containing and eliminating Spam.

Users shall not spam the platforms maintained by Akal Information Systems Ltd. or indiscriminately and repeatedly post jobs/ forward mail indiscriminately etc. Any conduct of the user in violation of this clause shall entitle Akal Information Systems Ltd. to forthwith terminate all services to the user without notice and to forfeit any amounts paid by him.

The user shall not upload, post, transmit, publish, or distribute any material or information that is unlawful, or which may potentially be perceived as being harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, vulgar, obscene, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable.

The user expressly states that the resume/ insertion or information/ data being fed into the network of Akal Information Systems Ltd. by the user is correct and complete in all respects and does not contain any false, distorted, manipulated, fraudulent or misleading facts or averments. AKAL expressly disclaims any liability arising out of the said resume insertion/information/ data so fed into the network of Akal Information Systems Ltd. by the user. Further, the user agrees to indemnify Akal Information Systems Ltd. for all losses incurred by Akal Information Systems Ltd. due to any false, distorted, manipulated, defamatory, libelous, vulgar, obscene, fraudulent or misleading facts or otherwise objectionable averments made by the user on the network of AKAL.

The User is solely responsible for maintaining confidentiality of the User password and user identification and all activities and transmission performed by the User through his user identification and shall be solely responsible for carrying out any online or off-line transaction involving credit cards / debit cards or such other forms of instruments or documents for making such transactions and Akal Information Systems Ltd. assumes no responsibility or liability for their improper use of information relating to such usage of credit cards / debit cards used by the subscriber online / off-line.

The User/ Subscriber/ Visitor to akalinfo.com and/or its affiliated websites does hereby specifically agree that he/she shall, at all times, comply with the requirements of the Information Technology Act, 2000 as also rules, regulations, guidelines, bye laws and notifications made thereunder, while assessing or feeding any resume/ insertion or information/ data into the computers, computer systems or computer network of AKAL. The said User/ subscriber/ visitor to akalinfo.com and/ or its affiliated websites does further unequivocally declare that in case he violates any provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and/or rules, regulations, guidelines, byelaws and notifications made thereunder, he shall alone be responsible for all his acts, deeds and things and that he alone shall be liable for civil and criminal liability there under or under any other law for the time being in force.

The User is solely responsible for obtaining, at his own cost, all licenses, permits, consents, approvals and intellectual property or other rights as may be required by the user for using the Service.

The following actions will inter alia constitute a misuse of the services offered by akalinfo.com and are strictly prohibited:

1. Copying, extracting, downloading, sharing, modifying, selling, storing, distributing, making derivative works from or otherwise exploiting any content, data or information, including profiles, curriculum vitae, photographs and/ or graphics, available on akalinfo.com and/ or any services or products of the Company, in any manner or for any purpose which is not consistent with the Purpose and/ or in accordance with the Terms of Use. Users are expressly prohibited from using or exploiting akalinfo.com and/ or any content or data provided therein for:
   1. any commercial purposes such as creating alternate databases, extending access to info@akalinfo.com to third parties without prior written consent of the Company; and/ or
   2. undertaking any business activity which is in competition with the business of the Company; and/ or
   3. for seeking fees in any name whatsoever; and/or
      1. approaching candidates/ jobseekers for any purposes other than for specific existing vacancies; and/or
      2. Sharing access with persons who are not contracted with the Company.
   4. Reselling the products/services offered by the Company.
2. Using or attempting to use any automated program, software or system or any similar or equivalent process (including spiders, robots, crawlers etc.) to access, navigate, search, copy, monitor, download, scrape, crawl or otherwise extract in any manner, any data or content including but not limited to adding or downloading profiles, contact details, or send or redirect messages from www.akalinfo.com.
3. Gaining or attempting to gain unauthorized access (inter alia by hacking, password “mining” or any other means) to: (a) any portion or feature of akalinfo.com or any of the services or products offered on or through akalinfo.com which are not intended for you; (b) any server, website, program or computer systems of the Company or any other third parties and/or Users;
4. Modifying the services provided through akalinfo.com or their appearance using any technology or overlay any additional offering on top of such services or simulate akalinfo.com services or its functions in any manner whatsoever without explicit consent obtained in writing by approaching us.
5. Accessing akalinfo.com through interfaces other than those expressly provided by Company;
6. Attempting to breach or breaching any security or authentication measures set up by the company in relation to akalinfo.com and/or attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the company’s system or network;
7. Scraping, downloading (including bulk- downloading), replicating or otherwise extracting any information or data from akalinfo.com (by any process, whether automatic or manual) to offer any products or services which are similar to or may in any manner compete with the products or services of the Company;
8. Reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembling, deciphering or otherwise attempting to do any of the aforesaid or deriving the source code for the Site or Application or any related technology or any part thereof;
9. Circumventing or attempting to circumvent any technological protections used or employed by the Company or by any third party in order to protect the content on akalinfo.com and/or to exclude robots, spiders etc. from crawling and /or scraping content from http://akalinfo.com/
10. Bypassing or Circumventing or trying to circumvent any service limits including but not limited to Search limits, Captcha limits and occurrences on different triggers
11. Interfering with or disrupting or attempting to interfere with or disrupt (including by using any device, software or routine), the use of akalinfo.com or any computer networks connected to http://akalinfo.com/, by any other User;
12. Developing, using or attempting to use any automated program, scripts, robots, third party software or system or any similar or equivalent process (including spiders, robots, crawlers, browser plug-ins/extensions/add-ons, iframes on third party sites, mirroring, HTML parsers etc.) to access, navigate, search, copy, monitor, download, scrape, crawl or otherwise extract or modify in any manner, any data or content from akalinfo.com without explicit consent obtained in writing by approaching us.
13. Impersonating any other person or entity, or making any misrepresentation as to your employment by or affiliation with any person or entity;
14. Forging headers or in any manner manipulating identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any user information;
15. Stalking, threatening, or in any manner harassing any other User;
16. Imposing an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on akalinfo.com infrastructure;
17. Engaging in “framing,” “mirroring,” or otherwise simulating the appearance or function of akalinfo.com(or any part thereof) and providing deeplinks into akalinfo.com (or any part thereof) without prior permission of Company;
18. Spamming akalinfo.com, Company or any other Users including by uploading, posting, emailing, SMS, transmitting or otherwise making available either directly or indirectly, any unsolicited bulk e-mail or unsolicited commercial e-mail.
19. Using akalinfo.com or the contact details of Users for transmitting marketing and promotional mailers/ offensive messages/ messages or communications using any media that are unrelated to recruitment or sending unsolicited commercial communications with misleading subject lines in order to intentionally obfuscate the original message.
20. Hosting, modifying, uploading, posting, transmitting, publishing, or distributing any material or information that:
    1. Violates any applicable local, provincial, state, national or international law, statute, ordinance, rule or regulation for the time being in force;
    2. Belongs to another person and to which you have no right;
    3. Infringes, breaches or otherwise contravenes the rights of the Company or any third party, including any copyright, trademark, patent, rights of privacy or publicity or any other proprietary rights;
    4. Contains computer viruses, or other computer code, files or programs designed to disrupt, destroy or interfere with or limit the functioning of http://akalinfo.com/, or any other computer system or resource;
    5. Is grossly harmful, harassing, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, disparaging, relating to or encouraging money laundering or gambling in any manner, any content which is or may potentially be perceived as being harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, blasphemous, vulgar, pornographic, paedophilic, obscene, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatsoever;
    6. Which constitutes or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to other liability, or otherwise violate applicable law;
    7. That deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of such messages or communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in nature;
    8. That harms minors in any way;
    9. That threatens the unity, integrity, defense, security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign states, or public order or causes incitement to the commission of any cognisable offence or prevents investigation of any offence or is insulting to any other nation.

In case of any misuse of the services offered by akalinfo.com and its services, AKAL reserves its rights to take any actions as it may deem fit, including (i) suspending or terminating your access to akalinfo.com and/or the Akal Information Systems Ltd.’s products and/or service, forthwith and without any notice; (ii) removing or disabling any content which is non-compliant with the Terms and Conditions; and/or (iii) reporting the incident/ misuse to relevant authorities and/or initiating any legal proceedings. In case your misuse of akalinfo.com results in or is likely to result in any loss or depletion of revenue, reputation or customer base of AKAL, We additionally reserves our right to seek adequate relief against the said misuse, including relief by way of damages, injunction, etc. The user shall not infringe on any intellectual property rights of any person / entity or retain information / download any information from any computer system or otherwise with an intention to do so.

AKAL will make best efforts to do so but does not warrant that any of the websites or any affiliate site(s) or network system linked to it is free of any operational errors nor does it warrant that it will be free of any virus, computer contaminant, worm, or other harmful components. The subscription of a user shall be subject to Quotas as applicable and as advised. E-Mails provided as part of contact details are expected to be genuine and access to such email accounts is available to authorised personnel only.

AKAL shall not be held liable for any loss or damage sustained by reason of any disclosure (inadvertent or otherwise) of any information concerning the user's account and / or information relating to or regarding online transactions using credit cards / debit cards and / or their verification process and particulars nor for any error, omission or inaccuracy with respect to any information so disclosed and used whether or not in pursuance of a legal process or otherwise.

Payments for the services offered by akalinfo.com shall be on a 100% advance basis. Refund if any will be at the sole discretion of Akal Information Systems Ltd. AKAL offers no guarantees whatsoever for the accuracy or timeline of the refunds reaching the Customers card/bank accounts. AKAL gives no guarantees of server uptime or applications working properly. All is on a best effort basis and liability is limited to refund of the amount only. AKAL undertakes no liability for free services. AKAL reserves its right to amend / alter or change all or any disclaimers or terms of agreements at any time without any prior notice. All terms / disclaimers whether specifically mentioned or not shall be deemed to be included if any reference is made to them. AKAL reserves the right to extend, cancel, discontinue, prematurely withdraw, change, alter or modify its services or any part thereof including charges, at its sole discretion at anytime as may be required in view of business exigencies and/or regulatory or statutory changes.

Unless otherwise specified and notwithstanding anything contained in any other agreement or arrangement, by whatever name called, the performance obligation of Akal Information Systems Ltd. (service provider) is to provide access of its on-line portal to the customer for the duration of the subscription period & reference to any usage, by whatever name called or any other performance obligation, if any, is to provide the upper limit for consumption, which by itself, does not create any additional performance obligation upon AKAL Information Systems Ltd.

Subscriber/ user acknowledges and agrees that Akal Information Systems Ltd./ http://akalinfo.com/, at its sole discretion and without prejudice to other rights and remedies that it may have under the applicable laws, shall be entitled to set off the amount paid or payable by a subscriber/user against any amount(s) payable by Subscriber/ user to Akal Information Systems Ltd. under any other agreement or commercial relationship towards other products/services.

AKAL further reserves its right to post the data on the website akalinfo.com or on such other affiliated sites and publications as Akal Information Systems Ltd. may deem fit and proper at no extra cost to the subscriber / user.

The subscription / agreement between Akal Information Systems Ltd. and the subscriber / user is not a "non-poach agreement" nor can the same be termed or used as an alternative to "non-poach agreement" in as much as Akal Information Systems Ltd. / akalinfo.com is a public site and all information posted by AKAL goes to the public domain except information / data which is specifically assigned a non-public / private character.

Any agreement for a subscription / usage entered into by Akal Information Systems Ltd. does not confer exclusivity of service on any subscriber / user.

Akal Information Systems Ltd. will not be party to any legal proceedings between a user (e.g. a subscriber) and a party contracted through the site. In case AKAL is implicated in any legal proceedings, costs will be recovered from the party that names Akal Information Systems Ltd. AKAL however will abide with any court order served on it through due process. Akal Information Systems Ltd. controls and operates this Platform from its headquarters in New Delhi and makes no representation that the materials on akalinfo.com are appropriate or available for use in other locations. If you use this Website from other locations, you are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws including but not limited to the export and import regulations of other countries. In case a person using the world wide web/ internet receives a spam or virus which includes a link to akalinfo.com or to any other site maintained, operated or owned by Akal Information Systems Ltd., it should not be held responsible for the same. AKAL assumes no responsibility for such mails.

The services provided by the websites maintained, operated or owned by Akal Information Systems Ltd. do not extend to acting as an agent (express or implied) on behalf of any subscriber or user.

Akal Information Systems Ltd. has no agents and does not operate through any agents save for those specifically mentioned on the home page of the website.

The Terms and conditions mentioned above regulate the usage of http://akalinfo.com/. Any person using akalinfo.com in violation of the stipulations contained in the Terms and Conditions of akalinfo.com shall render himself/ herself liable to appropriate action in a court of law both civil and criminal.

BY ACCEPTING THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY AND OTHERWISE HOLD HARMLESS AKAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS LTD., ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYERS, AGENTS, SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES AND OTHER PARTNERS FROM ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF, RELATING TO, OR RESULTING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES OBTAINED THROUGH akalinfo.com INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO INFORMATION PROVIDED BY YOU OR ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO HTTP://akalinfo.com/ ANY REFERENCE TO DUTIES AND TAXES ETC IN THESE TERMS OF USE SHALL INCLUDE GOODS AND SERVICES TAX (HEREIN REFERRED AS GST) FROM THE DATE GST LAW IS IMPLEMENTED IN INDIA. ANY ADDITIONAL TAX LIABILITY ARISING ON ACCOUNT OF INTRODUCTION OF GST (WHETHER ON ACCOUNT OF INCREASE IN RATE OR ANY CHANGE BROUGHT IN BY THE NEW TAX REGIME) WOULD BE RECOVERED OVER AND ABOVE THE AGREED CONTRACT PRICE / SERVICE FEE.

If any dispute arises between a user/ users and AKAL Information Systems Ltd. arising out of use of akalinfo.com or thereafter, in connection with the validity, interpretation, implementation or alleged breach of any provision of these Terms and Conditions, the dispute shall be referred to a sole arbitrator who shall be an independent and neutral third party identified by the Company. Decision of the arbitrator shall be final and binding on both the parties to the dispute. The place of arbitration shall be New Delhi, India. The Arbitration & Conciliation Act, 1996 as amended, shall govern the arbitration proceedings.

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by the laws of Republic of India. The exclusive forum for any disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms of Use shall be a court of law located in New Delhi, India.

The user of akalinfo.com is subject to the Privacy Policy available through this link.

In case of non compliance of these Terms and Conditions or Privacy Policy, Akal Information Systems Ltd. may terminate usage rights and take down any offending information that might have been uploaded by such subscriber/ user.

How to Contact Us

Questions or comments about these Terms of Use or the Site may be directed to info@akalinfo.com.

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