Terms and Conditions of use

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE.

Welcome to the website of the ‘Maharshi Adhyatma Vishwavidyalay’ ( hereinafter referred to as “The Site”). The Site is owned and operated by the‘Maharshi Adhyatma Vishwavidyalay’ (“MAVV”) a non profit organisation registered in Bharat (India). By accessing the site You (the person visiting and/or using the Site) convey your unconditional acceptance to these Terms of Use. Your use of this Site is expressly conditioned upon your acceptance of the following Terms of Use. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, you are not authorized to use the Site or download its material. In addition, when using particular features and services on the Site, you will be subject to additional guidelines and rules applicable to such features and services, whether incorporated herein by reference or not.

Table of Contents

1. Purpose of the site

2. General content

3. Copyright and ownership of materials

4. Disclaimer of warranties and liability

5. Limitation of liability

6. Amendment of terms

7. Applicable law

8. Termination

1. Purpose of the Site

To inculcate spiritual training to the curious students in the world
To carry spiritual researches and to involve students/people from various strata of the society to gain matter of fact information
To spread the research findings through teaching to students joining the ‘Maharshi Adhyatma Vishwavidyalay’
To help other researchers in the field of spiritual research

2. General content

2.1 Modification of the Site and the Services: We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to terminate, change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the Site, including, but not limited to, content, features or hours of availability. We may also impose limits on certain features of the Site or restrict your access to part of or the entire Site without notice. We may suspend or terminate your member account or your use of the Site at any time, at our discretion without assigning any reason whatsoever. You accept and acknowledge that the decision to do so will be final and binding upon you without any cause for grievance.

2.2 Content errors: This Web site may contain typographical errors or inaccuracies and may not be complete or current. The Site therefore reserves the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies or omissions and to change or update information at any time without any prior notice. Please note that such errors, inaccuracies or omissions may relate to (but not be limited to) articles on the Site and the information is subject to change without notice.

2.3 Contents clause: The contents of the site are uploaded in good faith, expressly with a view to educate people and without any intention whatsoever to hurt any theology, a person or a group of persons or to create hatred or enmity between people. The content on this website, including the services offered are provided in good faith, without any prejudice to any person, culture, religion or nationality and with no intention to create any disharmony, antagonism, hatred or ill-will between any fractions of society or to create, promote or propagate any kind of superstition or blind faith. Some of the content published on the site may be a part of spiritual/religious researches. By such publication/s, the Site does not offer an alternative to medical or such other sciences. The results of following any of the content may vary from person to person. The person following any of the content bears the liability of the outcomes. Any reactions based on the contents, forms and depictions, giving rise to any actions will not make this Site liable in any law, criminal, civil or otherwise and/or in torts impliedly or in any way.

3. Copyright and ownership of materials

© Maharshi Adhyatma Vishwavidyalay, All rights are jointly reserved with ‘Maharshi Adhyatma Vishwavidyalay’. Maharshi Adhyatma Vishwavidyalay is, unless otherwise stated, the owner and possessor of all copyrights, trademarks and all other intellectual proprietary rights in the Site and its contents. Any form of reproduction of the Site or any part thereof is prohibited other than in accordance with the law. All logos, brands, marks headings, labels, names, signatures, numerals, shapes or any combinations thereof, appearing on this Site, except as otherwise noted, are properties either owned or used under licence, by Maharshi Adhyatma Vishwavidyalay and / or its associate entities who feature on this website. Reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited, provided however that the Site will have no objection to reproduction in the following manner and no other.

You shall not reproduce such content from the Site for any form` of communication to the public for commercial or any other purposes without prior written permission of Maharshi Adhyatma Vishwavidyalay. Any unauthorized use terminates the permission or license granted by the Site. Please contact us via our contact us form for such permission. To better meet your requirements, do provide us with a clear understanding of how the content is proposed to be used (specific content for which permission is sought, type of media to be communicated through, type of publication, purpose, date(s), etc.). Permissions are granted on a per-item, per-usage basis. Requests for permission should include the article or other text or image that is desired along with the context in and method by which it will be reproduced. Materials used in printed matter require proper attribution, and two copies of the printed piece(s) must be mailed to the address provided to you.
No part of the website shall be recopied to slander, defame or demean Maharshi Adhyatma Vishwavidyalay. This also includes any insinuations with regards to reproduced content that demeans or lowers the value of the content of the website.
Pictures and videos obtained from the Site shall not be added to any stock photo/video collection. Copyright and credit must be attributed to Maharshi Adhyatma Vishwavidyalay each time an image/video is used after prior written permission from Maharshi Adhyatma Vishwavidyalay.

Data-mining: You may not without our prior written permission use any computer code, data mining software, “robot”, “bot”, “spider”, “scraper” or other automatic device, or program, algorithm or methodology having similar processes or functionality, or any manual process, to monitor or copy any of the web pages, data or content found on this Site or accessed through this Site.

Mass downloading: You shall not engage in the mass downloading of files from this Site without obtaining prior written permission from Maharshi Adhyatma Vishwavidyalay. You shall not engage in any practices that slow down the computer processing power of this Site for purposes other than those permitted above; or flood this Site with electronic traffic designed to slow or stop its operation.

4. Disclaimer of warranties and liability

The Site, and any content and materials available through the Site, are provided in good faith. Most of the content is obtained through various research, ancient scriptures and such other important resources and we make efforts to verify the accuracy of the content that we upload.
Having said this:

All content is provided “as is” and without warranties of any kind, either express or implied.
All users shall rely upon any content, at his own risk, as to costs and consequences thereof. The contents are not to be treated as an any alternative to modern science.
You (and not the Site) assume the entire cost of any necessary verification, maintenance, repair and/or correction of any relevant content.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, expressed or implied, including but not limited to the information provided on the website.

5. Limitation of liability

Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall Maharshi Adhyatma Vishwavidyalay, the Site, any subsidiary or affiliated organizations be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the Maharshi Adhyatma Vishwavidyalay materials and website.

Under no circumstances shall we or any of our associated partners, or any of our or their respective officers, directors, employees, agents or representatives (including volunteers), or any other party involved in creating, producing, transmitting or distributing the Site or any product sold or any services offered through the Site, or any part thereof, be liable for any general, punitive, exemplary, consequential, incidental, indirect or special damages whatsoever arising from or in connection with the Site or any content, products or services made available or listed on it, whether for breach of contract, negligence, strict liability or otherwise.

Without prejudice to the rights and contentions of Maharshi Adhyatma Vishwavidyalay, some states and/or jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so the above exclusion may not apply to you. In the event the foregoing limitation of liability is held to be unenforceable for any reason, then our maximum liability for any of the foregoing types of damages shall be limited to the amount that we receive for the transaction that gave rise to the claim.

You specifically acknowledge and agree that the Maharshi Adhyatma Vishwavidyalay is not liable for any defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct of any user. If you are dissatisfied, hurt, aggrieved or insulted with any of Maharshi Adhyatma Vishwavidyalay’s material, or with any of the Site’s Terms and Conditions, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the Site.

If any court of law, having the jurisdiction to decide on this matter, rules that any provision of these Terms is invalid, then that provision will be removed from the Terms without affecting the rest of the Terms. The remaining provisions of the Terms will continue to be valid and enforceable.

You acknowledge that the security of online transactions and the security of communications sent by electronic means or by post cannot be guaranteed. You provide information to us via the internet or by post at your own risk. We cannot accept responsibility for misuse or loss of, or unauthorised access to, your personal information where the security of information is not within our control.
You acknowledge that we are not responsible for the privacy or security practices of any third party (including third parties that we may disclose your personal information to). The collection and use of your information by such third parties may be subject to separate privacy and security policies.
We cannot guarantee 100% security of any information that you disclose online, and you do so at your own risk. You are required to register with the Site in order to enroll yourself to our spiritual discourses/training or for such other purposes provided on the site and for asking questions or to receive other information from us. At the time you register, you will create a password. Please remember your password as you will be asked to provide it each time you attempt to access your personal information. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and for all uses of your password, whether or not authorized by you. You should not disclose your password to any other person. In order to protect the security of your account and personal information, when your visit is complete you should be sure to log off of our website and shut down your browser. If you have any reason to believe that your account is no longer secure, you should promptly change your password in your profile.
If you suspect any misuse or loss of, or unauthorised access to, your personal information, please let us know immediately.
You are solely responsible for ensuring and maintaining the confidentiality of your username and password and for any and all activities, whether by you or anyone else that is conducted through your account. If any unauthorized person obtains access to your Maharshi Adhyatma Vishwavidyalay member account as a result of any act or omission by you, which results improper conduct of the account, you shall use your best efforts to ascertain the source and manner of acquisition and shall fully and promptly brief the Maharshi Adhyatma Vishwavidyalay. You also agree to cooperate and assist in any investigation relating to any such unauthorized access.

6. Amendment of the terms

We reserve the right to amend these Terms of use and any related (or incorporated) Terms and Conditions given on this website from time to time without notice to you. If we decide to change these Terms & Conditions we will post those changes here. We encourage you to visit this section of our Site regularly in order to remain informed of any changes. Any such amendment shall be effective with effect from the date the revised terms have been posted on the Site.

7. Applicable law

These Terms of Use are governed by and will be construed in accordance with the laws of Bharat (India) in the state of Goa, subjected to Ponda Jurisdiction. Any disputes or differences whatsoever arising under or in connection with and all matters incidental to these Terms of use, or your access or use of the Site shall be resolved by arbitration under the Arbitration and Negotiation Act by the arbitrator appointed by the Site. The seat of arbitration shall be Ponda, Goa, Bharat (India). Notwithstanding this, you agree that Maharshi Adhyatma Vishwavidyalay or the Site shall still be allowed to apply for injunctive remedies (or an equivalent type of urgent legal relief) in any jurisdiction.

8. Termination

This agreement is effective until terminated by the Maharshi Adhyatma Vishwavidyalay at any time. In the event of termination, you are no longer authorized to access the Site and the restrictions imposed on you with respect to material downloaded from the Site, the disclaimers and limitations set forth in this agreement shall survive. Therefore, we request you to regularly visit this page to keep yourself updated regarding changes.