MERITNATION- Terms of Use
Services Offered
The services of this website www.meritnation.com (“Website”) are available only to the registered users (“Users”) on a single user basis, for a particular period of time on making the stipulated payment and abiding by the applicable terms and conditions. The said services are personal in nature and cannot be assigned or transferred to or shared with any other person other than the registered users. The services offered by Applect Learning Systems Pvt. Ltd. (“Meritnation”), the company that owns and operates the Website, are listed in detail on the Website.
 
By registering yourself as a user and subscribing to avail the services of this Website, it will be deemed that you have read, understood and agreed to fully abide by all the terms and conditions of the Website as contained herein. Further, by registering on the Website, you agree to: 
The right to use the services of the Website is on revocable license / permission basis as per the terms and conditions contained herein. Except the usage of the services during the license period, the registered users shall not have any right or title over the Website or any of its contents.
 
In order to use Meritnation online services, you must obtain access to the World Wide Web, either directly or through devices that access web-based content, and pay any service fees associated with such access. In addition, you will need to have access to all equipment necessary to make such a connection to the World Wide Web, including a computer and modem or other access devices.
 
User Obligations
In consideration of your use of the services, you agree to provide correct, precise, up-to-date and complete information about yourself as required by the service's registration form wherever necessary; and maintain and promptly update the registration data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete.
 
If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not up-to-date or incomplete, or if Meritnation has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, Meritnation has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the services (or any portion thereof).
 
If you are directly subscribing as a user of this Website, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years of age and that you possess the legal right and capacity to use the services of Meritnation in accordance with the stated terms and usage policies. In cases, where a minor below the age of 18 years of age, wants to use this website, such a user shall duly register himself through his parent/ guardian and such a parent/ guardian hereby agrees to accordingly register and supervise usage by, and be responsible for the action of any such minors who use the computer and/or password to access the Meritnation. The parent/ guardian shall enter into this agreement on behalf of such minor, and bind himself/herself in accordance with all terms and conditions herein.
 
Purchasing and Ordering Disclaimer
 
Make Your Own Decisions:
If you are making important purchasing or planning decisions, whether personal or business decisions, you should look at an actual demonstration model of any product you are considering before making your important purchasing or planning decisions. (Contact a supplier, store, or manufacturer regarding looking at any demonstration units.) All decisions made would be entirely your prerogative and Meritnation does not claim to offer any advice, either legal or financial.
 
Pricing
ALL PRICES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. EVERY EFFORT HAS BEEN MADE TO ENSURE ACCURATE PRICING OF THE PRODUCTS FEATURED ON OUR WEBSITE. IN THE EVENT A PART OR ACCESSORY IS ORDERED AND THE LISTED PRICE HAS CHANGED, YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED PRIOR TO OUR PROCESSING YOUR ORDER. PURCHASE "AS IS." YOU AGREE THAT ALL PRODUCTS PURCHASED BY YOU THROUGH THIS WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED UNDER WARRANTIES, IF ANY, OF THE MANUFACTURER ONLY, AND NOT BY MERITNATION. ALL PRODUCTS ARE PROVIDED BY MERITNATION ON "AS IS" BASIS WITH NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND FROM MERITNATION.
 
Use of Website
 
Prohibited Activities
 
You represent, warrant, covenant and undertake that you shall not host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any information on the Website, that:
  1. belongs to another person and to which you do not have any right to;
  2. is grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, libellous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatever;
  3. harm minors in any way;
  4. infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights;
  5. violates any law for the time being in force;
  6. deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of such messages or communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in nature;
  7. impersonate another person;
  8. contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource;
  9.  threatens  the unity,  integrity, defence,  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  any  other nation.
You further represent, warrant, covenant and undertake that your use of the Website shall not:
  1. violate any applicable local, provincial, state, national or international law, statute, ordinance, rule or regulation;
  2. interfere with or disrupt computer networks connected to the Website;
  3. impersonate any other person or entity, or make any misrepresentation as to your employment by or affiliation with any other person or entity;
  4. forge headers or in any manner manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any user information;
  5. upload, post, transmit, publish, or distribute any material or information for which you do not have all necessary rights and licenses;
  6. upload, post, transmit, publish or distribute any material which infringes, violates, breaches or otherwise contravenes therights of any third party, including any copyright, trademark, patent, rights of privacy or publicity or any other proprietary right;
  7. interfere with or disrupt the use of the Website by any other user, nor "stalk", threaten, or in any manner harass another user;
  8. upload, post, transmit, publish, or distribute any material or information which contains a computer virus, or other code, files or programs intending in any manner to disrupt or interfere with the functioning of the Website, or that of other computer systems;
  9. use the Website in such a manner as to gain unauthorized entry or access to the computer systems of others;
  10. upload, post, transmit, publish or distribute any material or information which constitutes or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to other liability, or otherwise violate applicable law;
  11. 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, libellous, vulgar, obscene, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable;
  12. reproduce, copy, modify, sell, store, distribute or otherwise exploit for any commercial purposes the Website, or any component thereof (including, but not limited to any materials or information accessible through the Website);
  13. use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Website;
  14. take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Website infrastructure;
  15. any interpretation of test results or study material other than as a tool of learning and enhancing knowledge; or
  16. the tests and exercises are created for you to test your understanding of concepts and are not to be interpreted as a sample question paper for any examinations.
Any content uploaded by you on the Website shall be subject to relevant laws and may be disabled and/or may be subject to investigation under appropriate laws. Furthermore, if you are found to be in non-compliance with the laws and regulations, these terms, or the privacy policy of the Website, Meritnation may terminate your account/block your access to the Website and Meritnation reserve the right to remove any non-compliant content uploaded by you on the Website.
 
Meritnation reserves the right to remove any content or links that allegedly infringes any other person's copyright at any point of time.
 
Software (if any) that is made available to download from the Website, excluding software that may be made available by end-users through a Communication Service, (Software) is the copyrighted work of the software provider. Your use of the Software is governed by the terms of the end user License Agreement unless you first agree to the License Agreement terms.
 
Meritnation reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate or refuse all or part of its services, for any reason without notice to you.
 
Delivery Policy
Delivery means the digital download or the physical delivery of subscribed content to the customers. At present we have two modes of delivery - online digital download from the website and physical shipment like DVD.
The physical medium is shipped only to addresses in India as of now
 
Disclaimer
 
Meritnation currently provides users with access to a rich collection/compilation of online educational information and related resources etc. As a user of the Website, you understand and agree that all the services provided are on an AS-IS basis and Meritnation assume no liability for the accuracy or completeness or use of, nor any liability to update, the information contained on the Website
 
The information/material provided on the Website is provided on an “As Is” basis. Meritnation does not warrant the accuracy, completeness, non-obsolescence, non-infringement, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose of the information available through the services on the Website. Meritnation also does not guarantee that the services will be error free, or continuously available, or that the service will be free of viruses or other harmful components.
 
Some contents on the site may belong to third parties. Such contents have been reproduced after taking prior permission from the said party and the copyright of such contents would remain exclusively with the said third party. Meritnation shall not be responsible for any mistakes which might appear in such contents.
 
Meritnation disclaims all responsibility for any loss, injury, liability or damage of any kind resulting from and arising out of, or any way related to:
Limitation of Liability
Under no circumstances shall Meritnation be liable to any User for:
No Liability
It is the endeavour of Meritnation to ensure that the information provided on the Web site is accurate but does not guarantee or warrant its accuracy, adequacy, correctness, validity, completeness or suitability for any purpose, and accepts no responsibility with respect to the information on the Website. Use of this Website, by implication, means that you have gone through and agreed to abide by the Terms and Conditions and the Disclaimers of this Website. Meritnation does not claim that the information downloaded are up to date, correct and error free or that the servers that make Meritnation site available, are free of viruses or harmful components. Any reliance on the service or database available through this service, is at the user's own risk. Though due care has been taken to make the database completely reliable and error-free, Meritnation claims exemption from any liability arising out of any such error in the data base.
 
Third Party Advertising
There may be third party information, advertisement, and schemes displayed through this Web site. Meritnation disclaims, to the fullest extent permissible, the correctness, viability, availability, merchantability or fitness of such information, advertisement and scheme. Meritnation hereby declares that the advertisers and their clients etc. are neither its agent, partner or principal and Meritnation does not provide any guarantee or warranty or any representation on behalf of any of the advertisers or their clients.
 
Any material downloaded and used shall be at the risk of the user and no services utilised by this Web site shall create any warranty. Meritnation shall not responsible if any information/page is downloaded from Meritnation and after downloading complete/partial, text/information is altered/removed/obscured contained therein.
 
Meritnation and/or its respective suppliers make no representations about the suitability, reliability, availability, timelines, of the products and services contained on the Web site for any purpose. All products, services are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. and/or its respective suppliers hereby disclaim all warranties and conditions with regard to this information, products, services including all implied warranties and conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement.
 
In no event shall Meritnation and/or its suppliers be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential damages or any damages whatsoever including, without limitation, damages for loss of use, data or profits, arising out of or in any way connected with the use or performance of the Meritnation Web site, with the delay or inability to use the Meritnation Web site or related services, the provision of or failure to provide services, or for any information, software, products and services obtained through the Meritnation Web site, or otherwise arising out of the use of Meritnation Web site, whether based on contract, negligence, strict liability or otherwise, even if Meritnation or any of its suppliers has been advised of the possibility of damages.
 
Indemnification
As a user of this Web site, you agree to protect and fully compensate Meritnation and its domain's associates, such as, service providers and technology partners, from any and all third party claims, liabilities, damages, expenses and costs, including, but not limited to, all legal expenses, arising from your use of services on this domain, your violation of the terms or your infringement by any other use of your account, of any intellectual property or other right of anyone.
 
Legal Jurisdiction
The laws of the Republic of India shall govern any dispute arising from the use of this Web site and the courts in New Delhi, India alone shall have exclusive jurisdiction to deal with all such matters.
 
General
This Agreement does not in any manner create any relationship whatsoever as between you and the Meritnation, either as a joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship. Performance of this agreement by Meritnation is subject to existing laws and legal process in India, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of the rights of Meritnation to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of Meritnation or information provided to or gathered by Meritnation with respect to such use.
 
Unless otherwise specified herein, this Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the user and Meritnation with respect to the Meritnation site and it supersedes all prior communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and Meritnation with respect to the Meritnation site.
 
Copyright Information
 All material available on this website Meritnation.com including but not limited to, its design, text, graphics, screen shots, files and the selection and arrangement thereof is protected by copyright laws. (Depicted as ｩ Applect Learning Systems Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved.)
 
 Access to the Meritnation services and content is subject to these terms and conditions. These Terms and Conditions contain warranty disclaimers guidelines for link to other websites & linking disclaimer and limitation on use.
 
 Meritnation grants user of this website the permission to reproduce copies of the material contained therein strictly for personal information/private use and non- commercial use only.
 
Rights and Permissions
Excepting for Private use and non- commercial use, none of the Contents may be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted electronically or mechanically, transmitted, recorded, in any manner, photocopied, or reproduced without prior written consent of Meritnation. Any other use of materials on this website, including any commercial use, reproduction for purposes other than that noted above, modification, distribution, or republication without the prior written consent of Meritnation is strictly prohibited and may violate copyright or trademark laws.
 
The owners of the intellectual property, copyrights and trademarks are Meritnation, its affiliates or third party licensors. Any modification, copying, reproduction, republishing, uploading, posting, transmitting or distributing any material on this Website including text, graphics, code and/or software is expressly prohibited.
 
No recourse shall be taken against Meritnation for any alleged or actual infringement or misappropriation of any proprietary rights in your communications to Meritnation. At any stage, it is believed that the contents appearing on this Website constitutes copyright infringement of another person's rights, the user may communicate the same to us.
 
Notice of Copyright Infringement We are not liable for any infringement of copyright arising out of materials posted on or transmitted through the Website, or items advertised on the Website, by end users or any other third parties. In the event you have any grievance in relation to any content uploaded on the Website, you may contact our Grievance Officer; or write at the following address:
A-221, Applect Learning Systems
Okhla Phase 1
New Delhi- 110020
We request you to please provide the following information in your complaint:- (a) A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner for the purposes of the complaint. (b) Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed. (c) Identification of the material on our website that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity. (d) The address, telephone number or e-mail address of the complaining party. (e) A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law. (f) A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice of copyright infringement is accurate, and that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the right that is allegedly infringed
 
Mobile Services
  1. The subscriber availing this service shall be deemed to have consented to be bound by all the applicable terms and conditions of this service.
  2. Decision of Meritnation regarding all transactions under this service shall be final and binding and no correspondence shall be entertained in this regard.
  3. Meritnation reserves the right to extend, cancel, discontinue, prematurely withdraw, change, alter or modify this service 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.
  4. Your mobile phone number (MSISDN) will be used during the transmission of text messages through the mobile service provider's server for SMS Service.
  5. The subscriber understands that he/she can avail SMS Services at his/her discretion and the said service shall be availed in such options as are made available by Meritnation from time to time.
  6. This service is subject to guidelines/directions issued by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India or any other statutory authority as applicable from time to time.
  7. The SMS or its contents once sent for availing the SMS services shall be treated as final and the same cannot be withdrawn, changed or retrieved subsequently under any circumstances.
  8. WAP Services enable you to access our Services and to submit and/or receive Content through your wireless Device. Your access to our WAP Services may be dependent on the wireless Device you use to access the applicable WAP services.
  9. Subscription Services provide you with access to certain Content for a selected period of time, which will be as indicated and chosen by you prior to purchase. The frequency with which you will receive the relevant Content will be notified to you at the time you subscribe for the service.
  10. You will not post or transmit any content that is abusive, obscene, racial, sexually oriented or against national interest. Meritnation reserves the right to suspend your account if any prohibitive or objectionable content is found and may further initiate appropriate legal proceedings against you.
  11. The Service is an additional service offered by Meritnation. The functions of the Service are dependent on the operator owning the network to facilitate this service (“Operator”), for which Meritnation does not undertake any responsibility for failure of this network transmission or failure of message transmission for any reasons whatsoever. From time to time, Meritnation may include additional features and services.
  12. Meritnation reserves the right to modify/delete the account contents at its own discretion without prior notice if the contents of profile are deemed unfit for broadcast.
  13. The subscriber must maintain such minimum balance in his/her prepaid account as is specified by Meritnation for availing the particular option offered under these services. All incidental costs/taxes/levies, if any, related to the VAS shall be entirely borne by the customer.
  14. The users specifically note and agree that the content and service or part thereof may be varied, added, withdrawn, withheld or suspended by Meritnation at its sole discretion without prior notice to the users.
  15. Meritnation shall not be liable for any costs, loss or damage (whether direct or indirect), or for loss of revenue, loss of profits or any consequential loss whatsoever as a result of the user using the Service.
  16. No reversal of deducted charges shall be allowed under any circumstances.
  17. The users shall remain solely responsible for all content, information, data originated from the users and transmitted via the Service (content), and the users shall accordingly indemnify Meritnation and / or the Operator, against all third party claims relating to the users content or due to the users act, negligence or omission.
  18. You are bound by the terms and conditions as mentioned herein and as stated on the Website.
  19. Message delivery is conditional to mobile Operator's technical infrastructure and its network uptime.
  20. By using various SMS based services from Meritnation, you agree to receive phone calls, messages etc. from Meritnation and/or its associates tailored to provide with better education related opportunities.
  21. Subscribing or using various paid/free services of Meritnation on SMS/Voice/WAP either directly or indirectly doesn't in any manner guarantee the user an admissions.
  22. Meritnation and/or its respective suppliers make no representations about the suitability, reliability, availability, timeliness, lack of viruses or other harmful components and accuracy of the information, software, products, services and related graphics contained within the, Meritnation sites/services for any purpose. All such information, software, products, services and related graphics are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. Meritnation and/or its respective suppliers hereby disclaim all warranties and conditions with regard to this information, software, products, services and related graphics, including all implied warranties and conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, workmanlike effort, title and non-infringement. Meritnation shall not be responsible or liable for any consequential damages arising thereto.
  23. By agreeing to register at Meritnation Mobile alerts, a user allows Meritnation to get in touch with him/her from time to time on events or offers regarding careers, admissions, jobs and ancillary services on mobile. This can include exciting offers, information, as well as promotions.
  24. The subscriber shall be required to comply with all directions/instructions etc. issued by Meritnation relating to the network, the services and any/all matters connected therewith and provide Meritnation all other and further information and co-operation as Meritnation may require from time to time.
  25. This service is live in India only.
 
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