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Terms & Conditions

Introduction

Welcome to LinkingHuts! These Terms & Conditions list out your responsibilities in your use of LinkingHuts’ website, mobile apps, and services, as a registered LinkingHuts User. By clicking “I Agree”, at the time of creating your account, you are agreeing to the Terms & Conditions mentioned herewith. Therefore, it’s imperative that you read these legally binding Terms & Conditions carefully.

LinkingHuts is a Global Connectivity Platform - Transforming Connectivity of People, Businesses & Government Bodies Across the World. We use “LinkingHuts” (which refers to the LinkingHuts website, iOS and Android apps - also referred to as our “Services”) that provide you with access to the platform. We also use “LinkingHuts” to refer to the companies operating our Services.

In case any part of these Terms & Conditions applies only to a specific type of User(s) i.e. an Individual User or a Business User, it might either be specifically called out or if not specifically called out, then only the relevant users, to whom that part is applicable, need to consider the same & others may just ignore it.

Registration and Account Security

Here are some commitments you make to us relating to registering and maintaining the security of your account:

Eligibility - Individual Users

Not to share your account password with anyone else & not to allow someone else to use your personal account or do anything else that might endanger or compromise the security of your account.
Not to provide any false personal information on LinkingHuts.
To keep your contact information updated at all points of time.
That you are above the age required by the laws of your country to create an account or otherwise use our Services.
Convicted sex offenders are not eligible for LinkingHuts accounts; and we may also deny, disapprove or disable any account registrations we think would harm LinkingHuts.

Eligibility - Business Users

Not to share your account password with anyone else (except the people authorized by you) & not to allow someone unauthorized to use your Business account or do anything else that might endanger or compromise the security of your account.
To only use the Business’ real name, not a pseudonym.
Not to provide any false personal information on LinkingHuts, or create an account for any business other than your own, without permission from the real business owner.
To keep your contact information fully accurate and updated at all point of times.
That if your business requires consent to use social media services where you live, please do not use our services or provide any data to us till you obtain the requisite consent. Illegal Businesses are not eligible for LinkingHuts accounts; and we may also deny, disapprove or disable any business account registrations we think would harm the LinkingHuts platform & its users.
That in case your account is disabled by us for any reason, you will not create another account without our permission.
To submit accurate registration information. Providing false registration information violates our norms and could constitute a crime.

Privacy

Your privacy is very important to us. We designed our Policy to make important disclosures about how you can use LinkingHuts to share with others and how we collect and can use your content and information. We encourage you to read the Policy, and to use it to help you make informed decisions.

We are sure that you do not want spam or marketing phone calls from third parties, so we will never sell or rent your personal information to third parties, and for any reason, we won’t even share it with a third party unless we have your authorization. Privacy Policy explains how we handle member and visitor data collected and generated in the course of visiting or using LinkingHuts. Please read it, as it forms an important & integral part of this agreement.

If you are a non-India member or visitor, then by continuing to use LinkingHuts, you authorize us to transfer, store & process your data outside your home country, including to and in India. LinkingHuts will only transfer personal data as permitted by law, and will take steps intended to ensure appropriate protection of your personal information; please review our privacy policy for details. If you have questions, please Contact Us.

Content & Information

You retain all ownership rights to the text, photos, videos, and other content you submit to LinkingHuts (collectively, your “Content”). You give us permission, in the form of a non-exclusive transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free worldwide license, to use, copy, share and publish your content based on your account specific LinkingHuts settings and the selections you make when posting and as otherwise described in our Privacy Policy. In addition:

This IP License ends when you delete or remove your IP content or deactivate your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.
When you delete or remove IP content, it is deleted or removed in a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin on a computer. However, you understand that removed content may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time (but will not be available to others).
When you use an application, the application may ask for your permission to access your content and information as well as content and information that others have shared with you. We require applications to respect your privacy, and your agreement with that application will control how the application can use, store, and transfer that content and information. (To learn more about Platform, including how you can control what information other people may share with applications, read our Privacy Policy,.)

Feedback

We would always appreciate & look forward to your feedback or other suggestions about LinkingHuts, but you understand that we may use your feedback or suggestions without any obligation or liability to compensate you for offering them (just as you have no obligation to offer them to us).

Be A Good Member

At LinkingHuts, we believe that good behavior by Individual Users & Business Users is the foundation of healthy relationships amongst them. Our Community Guidelines outline our expectations regarding appropriate use of LinkingHuts, including how users interact with each other. We respect other people's rights, and expect you to do the same.

In using LinkingHuts and its user-to-user transactional features, you, like every user, are acting on your own behalf and are responsible for your own decisions and actions, including posting content and interacting with users you meet through LinkingHuts. You need to ensure that all users feel welcome, safe, and respected.

Though it’s our constant endeavor to keep LinkingHuts safe, we cannot guarantee or promise it. We need your help to keep LinkingHuts safe, which includes the following commitments by you:

You will not provide content that you don’t have the right to publish or that is defamatory, infringing, illegal, spam, or unauthorized. You will not engage in unlawful multi-level marketing, such as pyramid schemes, or violate any law or another person’s rights. If you believe content on LinkingHuts infringes your copyright, you can Contact Us.
You will not collect users' content or information using automated means (such as bots, scrapers, etc.) without our permission. If you collect user data, you must obtain consent and post a clear privacy policy.
We may remove any content you post if it violates our Terms & Conditions or policies. Repeat intellectual property violations may lead to account deactivation.
We do not proactively monitor content, but we may suspend or deactivate your account if you breach our Terms or harm the community.
If you write a recommendation or comment about another user, be truthful and do not share confidential or sensitive information without their consent.
You will not upload viruses or malicious code.
You will not solicit login credentials or access accounts not belonging to you.
You will not promote events or activities of hate groups or terrorist organizations.
You will not post content (posts, messages, polls, comments, etc.) that:
- Insults or targets groups based on race, ethnicity, religion, caste, gender, orientation, politics, age, or disability.
- Uses derogatory racial terms or dehumanizing language.
- Uses inflammatory language about people accused of crimes.
- Discriminates, bullies, harasses, or threatens others or their views, even in disagreement.
- Is defamatory, obscene, pornographic, incites violence, or constitutes hate speech.
- Relates to spamming, over-posting, campaigning, or unauthorized advertising and solicitations.
- Air personal grievances or shames others publicly — LinkingHuts is not a platform for resolving disputes.
We may delete offensive content reported by other users. We want everyone to feel welcome on LinkingHuts. See our check our Community Guidelines.for more info.
You will not develop third-party apps with alcohol, dating, or mature content without proper age-based restrictions as per applicable law.
You will not use LinkingHuts for unlawful, misleading, or malicious activities.
You will not disrupt LinkingHuts services with actions like denial-of-service attacks or interface tampering.
You will not encourage or assist violations of our Terms or policies.

Disputes Between Users: Waiver of Claims Against LinkingHuts

In the online world, Users sometimes disagree. While we hope other users will be friendly, we don’t control and aren’t responsible for their actions; we encourage you to do your own research before deciding to do business with another user. If you have a dispute with another LinkingHuts user, we hope that you will be able to work it out amicably. However, if you cannot, please understand that LinkingHuts is not responsible for the actions, content, information or data of its users or any of the third parties; each user is responsible for their own actions, content, data and behavior, when using LinkingHuts. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you release us (and our officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, employees and any other representative) from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes. If you have a dispute with LinkingHuts, you agree to Contact Us and try to resolve the dispute informally before pursuing other avenues.

Child Endangerment or Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation (CSAE)

Individual or Business Accounts, creating, uploading or distributing content at LinkingHuts that facilitates the exploitation or abuse of children will be subject to immediate removal from LinkingHuts. This includes all child sexual abuse material (CSAM). It is illegal and our Terms of Service prohibit using LinkingHuts and its services to store or share this content. CSAM consists of any visual depiction, including but not limited to photos, videos and computer-generated imagery, involving the use of a minor engaging in sexually-explicit conduct.

We prohibit Users that endanger children at LinkingHuts Platform. This includes, but is not limited to the use of LinkingHuts Platform to promote predatory behavior towards children, such as:

Inappropriate interaction targeted at a child (for example, groping or caressing).
Child grooming (for example, befriending a child online to facilitate, either online or offline, sexual contact and/or exchanging sexual imagery with that child).
Sexualization of a minor (for example, imagery that depicts, encourages or promotes the sexual abuse of children or the portrayal of children in a manner that could result in the sexual exploitation of children).
Sextortion (for example, threatening or blackmailing a child by using real or alleged access to a child’s intimate images).
Trafficking of a child (for example, advertising or solicitation of a child for commercial sexual exploitation).

We will take appropriate action, which may include reporting to the Appropriate Government Authorities, if we become aware of content with child sexual abuse material. If you believe that a child is in danger of or has been subject to abuse, exploitation or trafficking, please contact your local law enforcement agencies.

In addition, any content that appeals to children but contains adult themes is not allowed, including, but not limited to:

Content with excessive violence, blood and gore.
Content that depicts or encourages harmful and dangerous activities.

We also don’t allow content that promotes negative body or self-image, including content that depicts, for entertainment purposes, plastic surgery, weight loss, and other cosmetic adjustments to a person's physical appearance.

Measures to Ensure Child Safety

Following are the measures taken by LinkingHuts to ensure Child Safety at its Platform:

LinkingHuts provides an in-app mechanism for user feedback. Users can Contact Us to submit their feedback, concerns or reports regarding Child Safety.
LinkingHuts takes appropriate action, including but not limited to removing Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), after obtaining actual knowledge of it.
LinkingHuts complies with applicable child safety laws and regulations, including but not limited to, having a process in place to report confirmed CSAM to the concerned Government Authority.

Restrictions from Our Licensors

Some of the information and services available through LinkingHuts are licensed from third parties and covered by these third-party terms and disclosures:

Some data on LinkingHuts could be licensed from licensors like Google Maps etc. You may not directly or indirectly sell, distribute, reverse engineer, or sublicense any such licensed content (or any portion thereof) on LINKINGHUTS other than as part of our services. Duplication of this data is strictly prohibited.
Some map information, business address information, and contact information could also be licensed from third parties, including Google, Inc. via its Maps API. Google Maps and Places information, if any, is provided subject to Google’s Terms of Service, including the Google Maps/Google Earth APIs Terms of Service, and its privacy policy.
You may not sublicense, resell, or otherwise distribute any data from our third-party licensors to any third party; it is only for your internal personal use.
Users of our iOS application are subject to the following terms required by Apple: To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple does not have any warranty obligation with respect to the LinkingHuts iPhone app. Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims by you or any third party relating to the LinkingHuts iPhone app or your possession or use of it, including, but not limited to: (i) product liability claims; (ii) any claim that the LinkingHuts iPhone app does not conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement; (iii) claims arising under consumer protection or similar legislation; or (iv) any infringement of a third party’s intellectual property rights. Where permitted by law, Apple, its subsidiaries and our other suppliers are third-party beneficiaries of this agreement, but no one else is. Without limiting the foregoing, (1) upon your acceptance of this agreement, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce it against you as a third-party beneficiary, and (2) Apple is not a party to this agreement and is not responsible for the LinkingHuts iPhone app or its contents.

Special Provisions Applicable to Business Pages

If you have a Business Page on LINKINGHUTS, you agree to our Business Pages Terms. In addition, your advertising or other commercial or sponsored activity or content placed on LINKINGHUTS or if you run a promotion or an offer from your Business Page, it will have to comply with our APC (Advertising, Promotion & Content) Policy for a Business Page.

About Commercial Content

Our goal is to deliver advertising and other commercial or sponsored content that is valuable to our users and advertisers. In order to help us do that, you permit us to display your name and/or profile picture with your content or information, on any of the advertisement or promotion material without any compensation to you.

Special Provisions Applicable to Software

You will not modify, create derivative works of, decompile, or otherwise attempt to extract source code from us, unless you are expressly permitted to do so under an open source license, or we give you express written permission. If you are a developer or operator of a Platform application or website or if you use Social Plugins, you must comply with our platform policies.
If you download and install the LinkingHuts app, we give you a limited non-transferable license to use it only to access and use LinkingHuts on your own behalf through your iOS or Android product; additional terms may apply from the site you download it from (Apple App Store or Google Play Store) or the manufacturers of your device or software. You also agree that from time to time, the software may download and install upgrades, updates and additional features from us in order to improve, enhance, and further develop the software.

General Terms

Liability Limits

You agree that LinkingHuts, its partner firms, any of its directors, employees, agents or representatives shall not be liable for any lost profits or special, incidental or consequential damages (however arising, including negligence) arising out of or in connection with LinkingHuts, including the LinkingHuts services, our software, your use of LinkingHuts or any LinkingHuts service, or this agreement and shall not be liable to you for more than $100. Some jurisdictions do not allow damages exclusions, so they may not apply to you.

Payments

If you make a payment on LINKINGHUTS, you agree to our Payment Terms unless it is stated that other terms apply.

No Warranty

LinkingHuts and the associated software and services are provided “as is.” We try to keep LinkingHuts up, bug-free, and safe, but you use it at your own risk. We are providing LinkingHuts as is without any express or implied warranties including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not guarantee that LinkingHuts will always be safe, secure or error-free or that LinkingHuts will always function without disruptions, delays or imperfections. We do not promise that any aspect of our software or service will work properly or continuously. We may add, change, or discontinue product features; if you are dissatisfied, your only remedy is to stop using LinkingHuts or the affected feature. Some jurisdictions do not allow warranty exclusions, so they may not apply to you.

Indemnity

LinkingHuts is not responsible for the actions, content, information or data of its users or any of the third parties; each user is responsible for its own actions, content, data and behavior. If someone brings a claim against LinkingHuts (whether against the company or any of its employees, directors, officers, representatives) based on a harm caused by you, you will be solely responsible for any legal consequences arising out of it and also agree to reimburse us for any costs we incur in defending against that claim, including all legal expenses as well as reasonable damages.

Termination

If you violate the letter or spirit of these Terms & Conditions, or otherwise create risk or possible legal exposure for us, we have the right to deactivate your account. You may also deactivate your account and delete the application from your device at any time.

Governing Law, Venue, and Jurisdiction

These Terms & Conditions are governed by Indian laws. You and LinkingHuts both agree that (i) any claim or dispute regarding LinkingHuts will be resolved exclusively by the state courts located in Gurgaon, Haryana, India or any other place of jurisdiction as decided by LinkingHuts and (ii) we each agree and submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction of this court for litigating such claims or disputes.

Miscellaneous

These Terms & Conditions include our:

Privacy Policy, Copyrights Policy, Cookies Policy, Business Pages Terms, APC (Advertising, Promotion & Content) Policy and Payment Terms – Applicable to all Users.
Just to reiterate, in case any part of the above Terms & Conditions apply only to a specific user(s) i.e. an Individual User or a Business User, it might either be specifically called out or if not specifically called out, then only the relevant users, to whom that part is applicable, need to consider the same & others may just ignore it. You agree that:

These Terms & Conditions do not create any agency, partnership, joint venture, employment, or franchise relationship.
Any unenforceable portion of these Terms & Conditions shall be enforced to the maximum extent possible, and the remaining portions will remain in full force and effect.
Our failure to act in a particular circumstance does not waive our right to act with respect to that or other circumstances. We shall be excused for any problem due to circumstances beyond our reasonable control.
Any amendment to these Terms & Conditions will be published at LinkingHuts Platform only.
All of our rights and obligations under these Terms & Conditions are freely assignable by us in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, or by operation of law or otherwise.
These Terms & Conditions do not confer any third-party beneficiary rights.
We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.
You will comply with all applicable laws when using or accessing LINKINGHUTS.
You represent and warrant that you are not (i) located in a country that is subject to the Indian Government embargo or has been designated by the Indian Government as a “terrorist supporting” country; and (ii) listed on any Indian Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. If you are located in a country embargoed by the Indian Government you will not engage in any activity on LinkingHuts.

You agree to have reviewed the following documents, which provide additional information about your use of LINKINGHUTS:

Amendment

We can either amend these Terms & Conditions or any of the above-mentioned policies which are also an integral part of these Terms & Conditions or integrate additional terms or new policies to these Terms & Conditions by notifying you of the changes at your LinkingHuts Account. If you keep using LinkingHuts after the amendment is effective, you accept and are bound by the new terms, policies or guidelines; if you disagree with the new terms, policies or guidelines, you should stop using LinkingHuts and deactivate your account. To make sure you are aware of the changes made, please review these Terms & Conditions periodically.