Terms & Conditions
Big Classes allows you to access its website (www.BigClasses.com) and all the content in them on certain terms and conditions specified below. By accessing or subscribing to any part of this site, you are explicitly agreeing to the terms and conditions below.
These terms and conditions were updated as on <<Date>>, and Big Classes reserves all rights to change, modify or alter these terms and conditions at any point of time with or without notifying existing users and subscribers. If you do not agree to the new terms and conditions you should not use BigClasses.com and other associated sites. Paid users will be refunded the unexpired portions of their subscriptions on a pro rata basis if they send us an email within 24 hours of changes made in the terms and conditions.
The references in these terms and conditions to "Big Classes" (or "we", "us" or "our") refer to the company Big Classes or any associate/subsidiary concern that may be operating the website www.BigClasses.com and its associate websites.
From time to time Big Classes or BigClasses.com may run competitions, prize schemes, promotions and surveys on all its websites. These may be subject to additional terms and conditions that will be specified at the time they are run.
Access to Big Classes and related websites
All content - textual, still pictures, graphs, voice or video - made available on Big Classes sites (including content available on our email newsletters and SMS services) (hereinafter referred to as the "content") belongs to Big Classes or its content partners or licensors. Big Classes or its partners/licensors own all intellectual property rights (including copyright and database rights) in the content. You may retrieve and view content on a computer screen, PDA or mobile telephone, print individual pages on paper (but not photocopy them) and store such pages in electronic form on disk or on your mobile telephone (but not on any server or other storage device connected to a network) for your personal, non-commercial use.
You may not use the Big Classes sites for any unlawful purpose. Except as indicated above, you may not reproduce, publish, broadcast, transmit, modify, adapt, create derivative works of, store, archive or in any way commercially exploit any of the content. Without limitation, you may not do any of the following without prior written permission from Big Classes (and neither may you allow a third party to do any of the same:
- Redistribute or resell any of the content, including our headlines
- Create a database in electronic or structured manual form by systematically downloading and storing all or any of the content; or
- Deep link to, frame, spider, harvest or scrape the content or otherwise access the content for similar purposes; or
- Use any machine, electronic, web-based or similar device to read or extract the content by automated techniques.
Reprint and republication rights
Requests to republish or redistribute content should be addressed to Big Classes syndication service team at __________@BigClasses.com.
Links to Big Classes websites
If you would like to link to any of the Big Classes sites, please read and comply with the following guidelines and all applicable laws. A site or service that links to Big Classes site:
- May display a Big Classes logo
- May not distort or alter the size or appearance of the logo;
- May link to the homepage of a Big Classes site or any other site Big Classes has given prior written permission;
- Must not in any way imply that Big Classes is endorsing it or its products or services;
- Must not misrepresent its relationship with Big Classes or present false information about Big Classes;
- Must not be a site or service that infringes any intellectual property or other right of any person or that otherwise does not comply with all relevant laws and regulations;
- Must not be a site or service that contains content that could be construed as distasteful or offensive to public morality and ethics.
Big Classes expressly reserves the right to require that any link in breach of these terms and conditions be removed and to take whatever other action it deems appropriate.
Privacy policy and registration
All information received by you from your use of the Big Classes sites will be used by Big Classes in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
On registration, you must provide Big Classes with accurate, complete registration information and it is your responsibility to update and maintain changes to that information on the applicable Big Classes site registration pages. This is particularly important if you subscribe to any paid services or newsletters of Big Classes.
Each registration is for a single user only. On registration, you will choose a user name and password (ID). Big Classes does not permit any other person sharing your user name and password or access through a single name and password being made available to multiple users on a network. Big Classes may cancel or suspend your access to the Big Classes sites if you do this without further obligation to you.
You are responsible for all use of the Big Classes sites made by you or anyone else using your ID and for preventing unauthorized use of your ID. If you believe there has been any breach of security such as the disclosure, theft or unauthorized use of your ID or any payment information, you must notify Big Classes immediately by e-mailing ________@BigClasses.com. We recommend that you do not select an obvious user password (such as your name) and that you change it regularly.
If you provide Big Classes with an email address that will result in any emails or SMS messages from Big Classes being sent to you via a computer network or telephone operated or owned by a third party (e.g. your employer or your institution) then you warrant that you are entitled to receive those messages. You also agree that Big Classes may refrain from sending messages to you without notifying you, even if you have subscribed to receive them, if we receive a request from a third party to stop sending emails or SMS messages to you.
Technical requirements and site security
Payments to Big Classes online are facilitated through ________________.com. Any payments made through www.Big Classes.com must meet the terms and conditions.
Warranties and limitation of liability
The Big Classes content is for your general information and use and is not intended to address your particular business or other requirements. In particular, the content does not constitute any form of advice, recommendation, representation, endorsement or arrangement by Big Classes and is not intended to be relied upon by users in making (or refraining from making) any specific investment or other decisions.
Appropriate independent advice should be obtained before making any such decisions. Any agreements, transactions or other arrangements made between you and any third party named on (or linked to from) the Big Classes sites are at your sole risk and responsibility. Any information that you receive via the Big Classes sites whether or not it is classified as "real time", may have ceased to be current by the time it reaches you and share price information may be rounded up/down and therefore will not be entirely accurate. Big Classes is not responsible for any use of the content by you outside its scope as stated in these terms and conditions.
What we do not guarantee
Big Classes does not give any warranties in respect of the business on sites. To the extent allowed by applicable law, Big Classes hereby disclaims all other warranties, conditions or duties of every nature whatsoever (except any duties of good faith), including without limitation, any implied warranties of satisfactory quality, merchantability or of fitness for a particular purpose, any express or statutory warranties, and any warranties or duties regarding accuracy, timeliness, completeness, performance, availability, lack of negligence or of workmanlike effort. Neither do we provide any warranty that the Big Classes sites are free from infection by viruses or anything else that has contaminating or destructive properties.
Our liability exclusion
To the full extent allowed by applicable law, you agree that Big Classes will not be liable to you for any losses which relate to your business or investment choices or which are not a direct consequence of your use of the Big Classes sites (including lost profits or loss of privacy or loss of or damage to data) or which arise as a result of you using the Big Classes sites outside the scope of these terms and conditions.
In addition to but separate from the above specific exclusion and to the full extent allowed by applicable law, you also agree that Big Classes will not be liable to you for any other indirect, special, consequential incidental, punitive or exemplary damages whatsoever that arise out of or are related to your use of the Big Classes sites.
Your remedies
Big Classes shall use reasonable endeavors to promptly remedy any faults in the Big Classes sites of which it is aware.
You agree that your only other remedy (including for negligence) for any damages that you incur arising out of your use of the Big Classes sites (to the extent that Big Classes' liability is not excluded by this section 5) is as follows:
If you have subscribed to receive any paid for services, your remedy is limited to the direct damages you actually incur arising out of your use of the Big Classes sites. This is subject to a limit equal to the annual fee (or any other period) paid by you to Big Classes pursuant to these terms and conditions during the year in which the damage is incurred. You may at your option receive paid services to the equivalent value of this limit in place of monetary damages.
If a court of competent jurisdiction determines that either of the above limits on our liability is unenforceable, then you agree that in any event our total liability to you shall not exceed damages greater than the value of the relevant annual subscription fee.
Other information
Without limiting the above, Big Classes is not liable for matters beyond its reasonable control. Big Classes does not control telephones, third party communications networks (including your internet service provider) or the internet or the acts of third parties.
Third Party Sites and Services
The Big Classes sites may contain links to other Internet websites or online and mobile services provided by independent third parties ("Third party sites"), either directly or through frames. Third party sites may be co-branded with Big Classes and so include Big Classes' trade mark. Big Classes is not responsible for the availability or content of Third party sites and will not be a party to, or in any way responsible for, any transaction concerning goods or services available from such Third party sites. If you purchase products or services from a Third party site your contract for such products or services will be with the third party and not with Big Classes. Our privacy policy does not apply to Third party sites.
The Big Classes sites contain advertising and sponsorship. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on the Big Classes sites comply with international and national law. Big Classes will not be responsible for any error or inaccuracy in advertising or sponsorship material.
Choice of Law and Jurisdiction
These terms and conditions shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with laws of the Government of India. Users of Big Classes websites also explicitly agree that only courts in India shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute which may arise out of, under, or in connection with these terms and conditions, and for those purposes irrevocably submit all disputes to the jurisdiction of Indian courts.
General
You may not assign, sub-license or otherwise transfer any of your rights under these terms and conditions.
If any provision of these terms and conditions is found to be invalid by any Indian court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of that provision will not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these terms and conditions, which shall remain in full force and effect.
Failure by either party to exercise any right or remedy under these terms and conditions does not constitute a waiver of that right or remedy. Headings in these terms and conditions are for convenience only and will have no legal meaning or effect.
The official address of Big Classes
All communication, including notices and legal communications, should be addressed to ___________________, at the above address.
Changes to Terms and Conditions
These terms and conditions are effective from ____________________.