Terms & Condition
1. The Platform is owned and operated by rishtedari.com Internet Services, a division of Rishtedari Associates. (hereinafter referred to as ”Company”), which term shall, for the purposes hereof, be deemed to include its subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, shareholders, directors, executives, officers, employees, agents, attorneys, accountants, and any person vested with any responsibility for any task relating to the affairs of the company.
2. The Platform is intended only to serve as a preliminary medium of contact and information for Users who have a bona fide intention to enter into a matrimonial alliance (“Purpose”). The Platform does not purport to be a marriage or business bureau or a dating /contact website.
3. Company collects information/data including, without limitation, e-mail id, address, first name, last name, telephone/mobile number, date of birth, age, gender, ethnic/cultural background, appearance, religion, occupation, preferences, lifestyle information, general geographical location (“User Data”) from Users in order to enable them to create their profiles on the Platform. Apart from this, certain other health-related information, including physical and mental disabilities are also collected. The User Data so collected is entered in a program specially devised for matching profiles and to provide matches for Users based on their pre-selected partner preferences criteria. User Data is displayed only after taking prior consent of Users. The company does not collect financial information of Users such as credit card/debit card numbers/bank account numbers etc. The company shall not be able to provide access to the Platform and/or create profiles of Users if the requisite User Data is not provided by the Users. User hereby consents to the usage of his/her User Data to be displayed to other Users on the Platform.
Users hereby give us permission to use the information about their activities and actions that they have taken on the Platform in connection with ads, offers, and other sponsored content that the Company displays on the Platform, without charging any fees to the Users. The Company uses data and information about Users to make relevant suggestions and recommendations to its Users.
4. Users undertake to use the Platform for their personal purposes. Using content from the Platform for creating derivative works with a commercial motive without prior written consent from the Company is strictly prohibited.
5. Any advice, counseling, recommendations, or information provided on the Platform including information of Users may not be necessarily correct, true, or reliable, and any reliance placed thereon and any action taken on the basis thereof shall be entirely / solely at the risk of the concerned User. Users hereby agree that access to the content available on the Platform is provided by Company to Users on an ‘AS-IS’ and ‘AS-AVAILABLE’ basis. Users wishing to use the information so provided are advised to conduct their own due diligence, in respect of the content on the Platform, at their own initiative, cost, and effort. The company does not advise/recommend a User to establish any contact/interaction with other Users or any based on the data/information as furnished in such User’s profile/photograph etc. and the User opting to build contact or interact shall do it solely at his / her own risk. The company cannot be held responsible or liable, in any manner whatsoever, in respect of any reliance placed on any information displayed/placed on the Platform, since the same purports merely to act as indicators of the general scenario on the related behalf.
6. Company does not authenticate, vet, screen, endorse or investigate any information or assertion comprised in the matrimonial listings, or any other content on the Platform, nor does it in any manner whatsoever certify or attest the same to be correct or true. It does not endorse matches and profiles in any manner, but an implied presumption is cast on the Users that the information(s) furnished are exclusively / solely to carve out / frame a suitable profile for the purpose of matrimonial alliance based on the partner preferences criteria set by the Users. All due diligence, effort, and initiatives must be exercised by those wishing to use any information found on the Platform and should take adequate precautions with the full and complete knowledge that all information contained in the matrimonial listings has been placed there directly by Users of the Platform without any prior intimation, consent or verification of or by Company. Users of the Platform are prohibited from uploading, posting, transmitting, updating, or sharing any information that: a) belongs to another person and to which the user does not have any right to;
b) 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; harm minors in any way;
c) infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights;
d) violates any law for the time being in force;
e) deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of such messages or communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in nature; impersonates another person;
f) contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of the Platform; 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 cognizable offense or prevents investigation of any offense or is insulting any other nation.
Company may, without notice in its sole discretion, and at any time, terminate or restrict a User’s usage or access to the Platform (or any part thereof) and/or take down any content uploaded by a User for any reason, including, without limitation, that Company based on its judgment and perception believes the User has violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of these Terms.
7. Company reserves the right to remove/delete any content/message/photo(s) / profile or cancel the registration/membership of a User either upon a complaint received from another User or upon discovery of the same on its own or based on its sole judgment and perception and it shall without notice stop providing the service entitled to a User and forfeit all other incidental service(s) with immediate effect along with the fee/tenure of registration as well as take appropriate legal action against such User. By listing a profile on the Platform, it is deemed that the said User has an intention to get married and in case it appears to Company that at the time of listing the profile or subsequently such User had no intention to enter into a matrimonial alliance or has changed his/her intention, then Company shall reserve the right to remove/delete such profile from the Platform and initiate prosecution under the law or take such steps as may be advised from time to time. By using the Platform, it is deemed that the User agrees not to post any content or views that may be considered threatening, abusive, vulgar, obscene or otherwise objectionable or act illegally or otherwise harass another user; put wrong or misleading information in any of the details of his/her own profile; impersonate another or use the site for any commercial purposes; or interfere with or disrupt the operation of this site, or disobey any reasonable requirements, procedures or policies imposed by Company from time to time.
8. Company shall not be held responsible for any interactions/ passing of information(s) etc. between any User via e-mail, chat, or any other medium with another User and Company has no obligation, to monitor any such disputes arising between the Users and Company shall not be a party to such dispute/litigation etc.
9. Company reserves the absolute right to modify or amend or delete, in any manner as it deems fit, any content of any matrimonial listing placed on the Platform in order to ensure compliance with the rules of such placement (which may include, without limitation, the efforts and initiatives by Company to maximize response to matrimonial listings), prima facie accuracy and the prevailing laws in force for the time being, especially those relating to prohibition of any indecent, unlawful or obscene content. The company reserves the absolute right to delete any profile if it finds that the same person has created multiple profiles on the Platform. Even if different profiles have been created with the same contact details, Company will reserve the absolute right to delete all such profiles. If any member refuses to give consent to a physical address verification that Company has requested then Company will have the absolute right to either put a "Not Verified" stamp on the profile or to delete the profile.
10. Websites to which links are given on the Platform and the contents thereof are the sole responsibility of the promoters of such websites and Company does not, in any manner whatsoever, recommend, authenticate, endorse, verify or certify these websites or any contents or links there. Company does not take any responsibility for the privacy practice adopted by such other websites and therefore Company recommends Users to read the privacy statement of each and every website that they visits. Company also does not take any responsibility or endorse the authenticity of the other online services displayed on the Platform which may offer various services like a lucky draw, win a free trip, win free tickets, astrology, palmistry, numerology etc. User of the Platform shall at its sole risk and responsibility click and surf on to such other website(s) / links which is/are being displayed on the Platform. Users shall always bear in mind that at a single stroke/click of the mouse on such links/website, it gets connected through the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) / Internet Protocol (IP) network of the said Users and not through the IP of the Platform. Company also does not suggest/encourage Users to furnish personal information and specially the Profile ID / User Name of the User on the Platform to such or any other website(s).
11. Company hereby specifically disclaims any liabilities or warranties or guarantees, express, specific or implied, which may be attributable, in any manner whatsoever, to the existence, promotion, canvassing, contents, links, information or discontinuance of the Platform. No claims for damages, restitution, loss-of-profits, or any other pecuniary, civil or criminal plaints, which may be said to arise out, or on account, of any matter contained or related to the Platform, shall lie or be deemed to be sustainable against Company.
12. Users who visit the Platform are classified by Company as Users with incomplete or complete profiles. Both these types could further be free members or paid members. The company reserves the absolute right to modify, amend, change, curtail or expand any privileges, rights, benefits, liabilities or responsibilities of all types of paid Users or free Users as it deems fit and these will be instantly applicable to all past, present and future Users. The quantum of these benefits and even the benefits in totality will be at the sole discretion of the Company. The company will determine at its own discretion how many benefits it offers to every free User. The company will simultaneously offer different levels of benefits to different free Users Benefit restrictions to free Users will be done via multiple means including restricting access, spam filters, quotas etc.
13. Payments for the services offered on the Platform shall be on a 100% advance basis. The payment for service once subscribed to by the User is not refundable and any amount paid shall stand appropriated. Refund if any will be at the sole discretion of the Company and it offers no guarantees whatsoever for the accuracy or timeliness of the refunds reaching the User’s card/bank accounts. Company gives no guarantees of server uptime or applications working properly. All is on a best effort basis and Company’s liability for losses, damages and claims hereunder is limited to refund of amount only. Company undertakes no liability for free services. Company reserves its right to amend / alter or change all or any disclaimers or these Terms 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. The continued usage of the Platform by a User shall constitute deemed acceptance by the User of the amended Terms.
14. The User is solely and exclusively responsible for maintaining confidentiality of the User password and User identification and all activities and transmission performed by the User through his/her 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 Company 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 / offline. Company uses reasonable care as is necessary to ensure that all or any data / information does not fall in the wrong hands. The weak link in credit card transaction is securely storing the data once received; therefore Company does not store or keep credit card/debit card/bank account. For the purposes of ensuring the maximum security for the financial information of a user (such as credit card/debit card/internet banking data) all such online payment transactions are carried out directly on the secured platforms of payment gateways and not on the Platform.
15. Company does not warrant that the Platform will be uninterrupted or error-free. Company provides the service on an "as is" basis. However, Company will take all reasonable steps to provide its users with error free, uninterrupted user experience. There may be delays, omissions, and interruptions in the availability of the Platform. Users acknowledge that use of the Platform is solely at their cost and risk. Company is not responsible for suspension of the services on the Platform, irrespective of the reason for such interruption / suspension. Company may discontinue or change the services on the Platform or its availability at any time, and the User is also free to stop availing the services on the Platform at any time.
16. The Company uses third party payment gateways on the Platform and failures in these gateways would be communicated to the users as it is. Extra currency/conversion charges/deductions/error issues from payment gateway shall not be the responsibility of the Company.
17. Company has complete rights in the Platform and the services provided thereunder. The Platform contains to the extent protected by applicable laws, copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary information of its owners and its licensors. Except for that information which is in the public domain or for any other information/display for which permission have not been obtained from Company, Company reserves the right to proceed/initiate appropriate steps under the prevailing law against infringement of the said proprietary rights for illegal copying, modifying, publishing, transmitting, distributing, performing, displaying, or selling of any such proprietary information.
18. Company reserves the right to verify the authenticity of Content posted on the site. Company if circumstances warrant may call for / ask any of its Users to provide documentary or other form of evidence supporting the information / User Data posted on the Platform and the User, without any protest shall produce such documentary / other evidence in support of such information and if the User fails to produce such information within a reasonable or stipulated time frame, Company may, in its sole discretion, terminate the profile/access to the Platform and forfeit the advance without a refund and take appropriate steps under the provisions of law. Company also reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action without limitation at its sole discretion against any User who violates / misuses the online services and terminating the profile/access to the Platform of such violators without prior intimation who utilise the Platform in any manner which brings into disrepute or impairs the interests and functioning of Platform or the Company.
19. Company does not take the responsibility of any information posted by its Users on the Platform, any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights and in case Company receives/discovers any such infringement, the said User may be called for / asked to furnish / provide evidence / relevant information in support of such display like an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest or a description of the copyrighted work that may have been infringed or information or a written statement that the User under bona-fide faith belief that the disputed information does not lead to any authorized use or infringement of copyright etc, under the law or a statement that the User is liable to penalty of perjury in case any of the information/statement furnished is proved otherwise or a declaration that the information displayed/posted is accurate and the User is itself the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.
20. Company has no obligation to monitor the activities of its Users. However, Company has the right to monitor the Platform electronically from time to time and to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or another governmental request, to operate the Platform properly, or to protect itself or its Users. The company also reserves the right to refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, that, in its sole discretion, are unacceptable, undesirable, or violative of the provision of law.
21. The usage of this Platform and any disputes/issues arising out of it shall be subject to the applicable laws in force for the time being in Lucknow irrespective of conflicting provisions of law and to the exclusive jurisdiction of courts located in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
22. In case Company receives any incriminating evidence/complaint against any User from other Users of the Platform or if Company, through data available to it from its servers, suspects misbehavior on any User’s part, it reserves the right to impose restrictions on the User’s account which include but may not be confined to preventing the User under question from making multiple contacts and restricting the user to only contact members whose desired partner profile the User satisfies.
23. All services which are defined by the time period indicated in months shall imply 1 month to be equal to 30 days and for any longer durations service, the total duration in days will be the number of months multiplied by 30.
24. Company guidelines prohibit members to give their name and/or contact details in any form - Email, Phone nos., Messenger Ids, Postal address etc in any fields other than the specific ones where the same information is asked. If any member puts the above information in any field other than the one meant for that purpose then the Company screening team will remove the same.
25. Users of the Platform are consenting for receiving
a) Membership Emails: Emails conveying the benefits of paid membership to Users. These are sent to the Email address mentioned by the Users in their profile.
b) Important Notifications from the Platform – Messages/notifications are sent to Users to inform them of various alerts related to usage of the Platform. . These will be communicated to the Users by Email/app notifications etc. or on their Landline/Mobile from a non-140 number via SMS/MMS/VMS/USSD/IVR/Calls etc.
c) Membership SMSes/Calls: SMSes or phone calls shall be sent conveying the benefits of paid membership to Users. Users will receive these calls or SMS on any of the phone numbers mentioned by Users on their profile, if they have subscribed to calls/ SMS in their alert manager settings.
26. Promotional Mails - . Promotional emails are sent to members on their Email ids, if they have subscribed to promotional emails in their alert manager settings.
27. If a member does not wish to receive communication from the Company then he needs to go to the "Settings" section in his profile and choose/disable for the modes (Emails / SMS / Calls / USSD / Messenger messages / IVR) and types of communication which User either wants to or does not want to receive. Types of communication are the specific messages based on profile attribute or Platform interactions between members. Platform may also provide for different message types and modes, other alternative ways to unsubscribe".
28. Users who sign up for Assisted Services allow the Company to find suitable candidates/prospects on their behalf as per their instructions via Telephone, SMS, profile action on the Rishtedari Platform, face-to-face interaction, or any other means/modes of communication.
29. Creation of duplicate profile on Rishtedari platform is completely suspended. In any case, if the user has forgotten the password they can use the reset password option.
Eligibility
The minimum age for registering is 21 years for girls and 21 years for boys. Membership to the Site is void where prohibited.
You are not disabled by any law from entering into a contract.
This site is not meant to encourage and/or promote illicit sexual relations or extramarital affairs.
Other Terms of Use by Members
You consent to receive communications from us electronically. We will communicate with you by e-mail or by posting notices on this site. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. You may not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, other Members to buy or sell any products or services through the Service. You will not transmit any chain letters or junk email to other Members. You understand and agree that Rishtedari.com may delete any content, messages, photos or profiles that in the sole judgment of Rishtedari.com violates this Agreement or which might be offensive, defamatory, illegal or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of other Rishtedari.com Members. You are solely responsible for the content that you publish or display on the Site through the E-Matrimonials or send to other Members. You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Members. Reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members.
Disclaimers
Rishtedari.com is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate content posted on the website or in connection with the Rishtedari.com service, whether caused by users visiting the website, Members, or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Service nor for the conduct of any user and/or Member of the Rishtedari.com Service whether online or offline.
Note: Contains the entire agreement between you and Rishtedari.com regarding the use of the Site and/or the Service. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, the remainder of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect.