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(collectively the ‘Service’). By registering for or using the Service or any portion of it you accept the Terms.</p> <p>The terms constitute an agreement between you and VisionRI Connexion Services Private Limited including its affiliates and suppliers (collectively ‘VisionRI’), defining your and Devdiscourse’s rights and responsibilities with respect to the Service.</p> </li> <li> <strong>Registration and Termination</strong> <p>To use a Service, you may need to register and create an account with a username and a password. You may need to provide us with certain personal and other information. VisionRI may verify your email address before your account can be used.</p> <p>You agree to provide truthful and complete information when you register for the Service and to keep that information updated. You must take due care to protect your username and password against misuse by others and promptly notify VisionRI about any misuse. You are personally responsible for any use of the Service.</p> <p>You may terminate your registration if you no longer wish to use the Service. After termination, you will no longer have access to the Service. VisionRI may terminate your registration or restrict your access to certain parts of the Service if VisionRI reasonably believes that you have breached the Terms. </p> </li> <li> <strong>Licenses</strong> <p>VisionRI grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable license, revocable at any time at VisionRI’s sole discretion, to access and use the Service strictly in accordance with the Terms. Use of the Service does not grant you any intellectual property rights in or to any information or content in the Service.</p> <p>As part of the Service, VisionRI may provide you with content developed by VisionRI or its licensors (‘Content’). VisionRI grants you a non-exclusive and perpetual license to use Content for the purpose it is intended, unless otherwise defined in the applicable Terms or the purchase order. You are bound by any restrictions applicable to specific Content you obtain through the Service. Any license acquired to third-party Content is a binding agreement between you and the third-party Content provider. You have only the rights to the Content which are expressly granted here.</p> <p>As part of the Service, VisionRI may provide you with certain software developed by VisionRI or, its licensors (‘Software’). Your use of Software may be subject to separate terms and conditions that you must accept before using the Software. If there are no separate terms and conditions applicable to such Software, the following terms apply: VisionRI grants to you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to install and use the Software on your computer and/or mobile device. You may not copy the Software, except to make a single archival backup copy. You may not distribute, transfer the right to use, modify, translate, reproduce, resell, sublicense, rent, lease, reverse engineer, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code of or make derivative works of the Software. For open source licensed software, applicable open source license terms apply.</p> <p>You may be able to submit information or content (‘Material’) to the Service. VisionRI does not claim ownership in your Material. Your submission of Material does not transfer ownership of rights of the Material to VisionRI. VisionRI is only distributing the Material and is not responsible for editorial control over it. By submitting Material to the Service you grant VisionRI a world-wide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, assignable, fully paid-up, royalty-free, perpetual and irrevocable license to use, copy, publicly perform, display, distribute in any media and modify the Material to incorporate the Material into other works, and to grant similar sub-licenses to the extent necessary for VisionRI to provide the Service. You may be able to adjust this grant in the privacy and other settings of the Service.</p> <p>You are solely responsible for taking backup copies of the data you store on the Service, including Content you upload. If the Service is discontinued or cancelled, VisionRI may permanently delete your data. VisionRI has no obligation to return data to you after the Service is discontinued or cancelled.</p> </li> <li> <strong>Using the Service</strong> <p>You agree to:</p> <ul> <li>Comply with applicable laws, the Terms and good manners;</li> <li>Use the Service only for your personal, non-commercial purposes;</li> <li>Not submit unlawful, offensive, inaccurate, misleading, abusive, pornographic, harassing, libellous, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, paedophilic, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, racially or ethically objectionable, disparaging, relating to or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise inappropriate material.</li> <li>Not to upload or share any information that impersonates another person, threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of any country worldwide.</li> <li>Obtain any consents, permission or licenses that may be legally required for you to submit any Material;</li> <li>Respect the privacy of others;</li> <li>Not distribute or post spam, unreasonably large files, chain letters, pyramid schemes, viruses; or</li> <li>Not use any other technologies or initiate other activities that may harm the Service, or the interest or property of the Service users.</li> <li>Not to use any automated systems or means to access, acquire, copy or monitor any part of the service.</li> <li>Be responsible for the consequences related to the Material that you post.</li> <li>To report any abuse of the above terms info@devdiscourse.com</li> </ul> <p>VisionRI may but has no obligation to:</p> <ul> <li>Monitor or moderate any Content or Material;</li> <li>Remove any Material from the Service; and</li> <li>Restrict access to any part of the Service at any time in its sole discretion.</li> </ul> </li> <li> <strong>Content</strong> <p>Before downloading or accessing any Content, please check whether the Content which you wish to access is restricted by age or marked as potentially ‘offensive’ or ‘explicit’. VisionRI shall not be responsible for any claims or offense caused or suffered by you accessing such Content. You agree:</p> <ul> <li>To use the Content only for your personal, non-commercial purposes;</li> <li>To use the Content in accordance with the restrictions set out in the applicable laws, additional terms, guidelines and policies or on the product pages that apply to that particular piece of the Content;</li> <li>Not to make copies, give, sell, resell, loan, rent, offer, broadcast, send, distribute, transfer, communicate to the public, reproduce, modify, display, perform, commercially exploit or make the Content available unless otherwise authorized in the applicable Terms and to advise VisionRI promptly of any such unauthorized use;</li> <li>Not to remove, circumvent, reverse engineer, decrypt, or otherwise alter or interfere with any applicable usage rules or attempt to circumvent digital rights management or copy protection features associated with the Content or any other technologies used to control the access to or use of the Content or its identifying information;</li> <li>Not to use any automated systems or means, except for those provided by us, for the selection or downloading of the Content;</li> <li>Not to give out your password or otherwise allow other people to access the Content. The restrictions on copying that apply to applicable media also apply to the Content accessed as part of this Service.</li> </ul> <p>The Content is owned and/or controlled by VisionRI and/or its respective licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. The third party Content provider is solely responsible for any Content it provides, any warranties to the extent that such warranties have not been disclaimed and for any claims you may have relating to that Content or your use of that Content. However, VisionRI reserves the right to enforce the third party Content license terms against you as a third party beneficiary of those terms. The third party Content providers are third-party beneficiaries under these Terms and may enforce the provisions that directly concern the Content in which they have rights. VisionRI may be acting as an agent for third party Content provider in providing the Content to you. VisionRI is not a party to the transaction between you and the third party Content provider for such Content.</p> </li> <li> <strong>Notices</strong> <p>VisionRI may post notices within the Service. VisionRI may also send you notices about products and Services to the email address or telephone number you have provided to us. You are deemed to have received such notices at the latest within seven (7) days from VisionRI sending or posting those. Your continued use of the Services constitutes your receipt of all notices regardless of delivery method.</p> </li> <li> <strong>Fees</strong> <p>Your use of the Service may be or may become subject to charges. Use of the Service may involve transmission of data through your service provider’s network. Prices listed within the Service do not include possible data transmission, text message, voice or other service provision charges by your network service provider.</p> <p>VisionRI assumes no responsibility for the payment of any charges of your service providers.</p> </li> <li> <strong>Order and Payment Terms</strong> <p>‘Order’ shall mean the selection of payable Content and/or subscription to Content offered by VisionRI at www.devdiscourse.com and available in the Service and submission of payment method, as well as submitting the order by selecting the ‘buy’, ‘ok’, ‘I accept’ or other similar confirmation of acceptance in the order flow or providing other indication of acceptance terms that are presented to you in the order flow.</p> <p>You agree that all Orders shall be legally valid and binding. All Orders are subject to acceptance by VisionRI.</p> <p>You may pay by credit or debit card, network service provider billing, or other payment methods if available.</p> <p>Your credit or debit card must have a billing address in the country where the Content is offered by the Service. VisionRI will charge your credit card or debit your bank account within a reasonable time after you have made your Order. All credit card payments are subject to validation checks and authorization by the card issuer.</p> <p>If you choose network service provider billing, charges will appear on your mobile phone bill or be deducted from your prepaid account if it is a prepaid account. Some network service providers may subject your usage of the Service to additional terms and conditions including placing limits on the amount of charges possible with network service provider billing. Charges in excess of network service provider limits or account balance may be rejected.</p> <p>You agree to pay the charges related to your Order, to ensure that the instrument of payment is valid at the time of the Order, that you are the rightful holder of the instrument and that the instrument is used within its credit limits.</p> <p>The Content that is delivered is licensed to you. You agree to use such Content solely as permitted in these Terms and in any additional terms that you may be presented in the order flow.</p> <p>The Service may offer subscriptions. You authorize the Service to place a periodical charge during the period of the subscription. The Service may also offer a trial period. If your Order involves a trial period, you may be charged when the trial period expires, unless you cancel in accordance with the subscription/trial terms.</p> <p>The prices in the Service may change from time to time. Prices include applicable taxes in effect at the time of your transaction, unless otherwise stated. There may be instances where you incur additional charges from your bank or credit card provider based on currency conversion rates used and/or additional fees assessed.</p> </li> <li id="use"> <strong>Privacy Policy</strong> <p>Devdiscourse (https://www.devdiscourse.com) and associated sub-sites are maintained by:</p> <div class="addresscard bg-highlight"> <p>VisionRI Connexion Services Private Limited <br/>SCO 179, Sector 7, Sonepat - 131001<br/>National Capital Region, Haryana, India</p> </div> <p>We can be reached by e-mail at info@devdiscourse.com</p> <p>Any personal information identifying any visitor to the Devdiscourse and associated sub-sites or Subscriber (Personal Information) if required, is asked for explicitly in the relevant page on the Devdiscourse and associated sub-sites. Personal Information is used to operate the Devdiscourse and associated sub-sites, and we may occasionally inform you of new features, services, and products from the Company.</p> <p>We may place a text file called a ‘cookie’ in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable the Devdiscourse and associated sub-sites to relate your use of the Devdiscourse and associated sub-sites to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided to the Devdiscourse and associated sub-sites.</p> <p>We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (Service Providers), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used. 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