ApnaCircle.com ("the Website") is a social and career networking website owned and operated by ApnaCircle Infotech Private Limited ("ApnaCircle") that allows members to create profiles and signup for events online. Website provides a platform to its members to upload their entire resume, information, get recommendations and allow it to be shared within their own network or on public domain. By accessing or using this Website, you signify to have read, understood and agreed to be bound by this Terms & Conditions (“T&C”) whether or not you register as a member ("Member"). In the event of any inconsistency between the Website’s Privacy Policy and this T&C, this T&C shall be supreme...

This T&C describe terms which you have agreed before accessing and using the Website. If you wish to become a Member, communicate with other Members and make use of the Website services (the "Service"), please read this T&C and indicate your acceptance by following the instructions in the Registration process. If you do not agree to the terms of this T&C, you should not use or access the Website.

Website may modify this T&C from time to time and any such modification shall be effective upon posting on the Website. You will be bound by the changes to this T&C when you use the Service after any such modification is posted. This T&C includes the Website's policy for acceptable use and content posted on the Website, your rights, obligations and restrictions regarding your use of the Website, Service and the Website's Privacy Policy.

Please choose carefully the information you post on the Website and that you provide to other Members. Your Website profile should not include the following items: photographs posted by you should not contain nudity, violence, or offensive subject matter. In case of information provided by other Website Members being inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive, Website will bear no responsibility and liability for such material or acts.

Website reserves the right, at it's sole discretion, to reject, refuse to post or remove any posting (including email) by you, or to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the Website and/or Services at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice, and without any liability.

By participating in any offline Website’s event, you agree to release and hold ApnaCircle harmless and indemnified from any and all losses, damages, rights, claims, and actions of any kind including, without limitation, personal injuries, death, and property damage, either directly or indirectly related to or arising from your participation in any such offline Website’s event.

1. Eligibility :- Member should be competent to contract as per Section 11 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 (“Act”). Persons ‘Incompetent to Contract’ are not eligible to use the Website. Persons incompetent to enter into a valid contract in terms of the Act shall not be allowed to register as a Member on the Website. By using the Website and the Service, you represent and warrant that all registration information you submit is truthful and accurate and that you agree to maintain the accuracy of such information. You further represent and warrant that you are 18 years of age or older and that your use of the Website shall not violate any applicable law or regulation. If the Website investigates and found that you misrepresented to be of 18 years of age or more, then your legal guardian shall be liable for all your acts, deeds and misrepresentations. By registering on this Website, you further represent that you have informed your legal guardian about all the terms and conditions of this T&C. Your Membership is solely for your personal use, and you shall not authorize others to use your account, including your profile or email address. You are solely responsible for all Content published or displayed through your account, including any email messages, and for your interactions with other members. Website reserves its right to terminate your Account and refuses to provide access to the website in event, ApnaCircle suo-moto and / or upon investigation discovers that you are incompetent to enter into a contract in terms of the Act.
   
   
2. Term/Fees :- This T&C shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Website, its Service, and you are a Member of the Website. You may terminate your membership at any time, for any reason by following the instructions on the member page. Website has the absolute right to terminate membership, delete Members profile and any content or information that have posted on the Website for any reason, or no reason, at any time in its sole discretion, with or without notice. Furthermore, Member agree that all terminations shall be made in Website’s sole discretion and that Website shall not be liable to Member nor to any third-party for any termination of Member’s account or access to the Website Service. If the Website terminates your Membership in the Service because you have breached the T&C, you shall not be entitled to the refund of any unused portion of subscription fees. Even after membership is terminated, this T&C will remain in effect, including sections 6, 7, 9 and 11-16. Website's Terms of Use and/or subscription fees that were provided to you at registration may change from time to time. By using the Service and by becoming a Member, you acknowledge that Website reserves the right to charge for the Service and has the right to terminate a Member's Membership should Member breach this T&C or fail to pay for the Service, as required by this T&C.
   
   
3. Non Commercial Use by Members :- The Website is for the personal use of Members only and should not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by the management of the Website. Illegal and/or unauthorized use of the Website, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of Members by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email or unauthorized framing of or linking to the Website will be investigated. Commercial advertisements, affiliate links, and other forms of solicitation may be removed from member profiles without notice and may result in termination of membership privileges. Appropriate legal action will be taken by the Website for any illegal or unauthorized use of the Website.
   
   
4. Events : -Events that are sexually explicit are not allowed. Events that market a single product or pressure members to purchase something are not allowed. Events that are hateful to a specific ethnic group, gender, class or sexual orientation are not allowed. Events run in conjunction with another site are not allowed unless explicit approval is received from the company. On the General Calendar, events that solely promote drinking or smoking are not allowed. On the General Calendar, Singles Events are not allowed.
   
   
5. Classifieds :- Do not post ads for the same item more than once - multiple postings will be removed. Advertising for work-at-home jobs, typing jobs, multilevel marketing of any nature, gaming, and adult websites is strictly prohibited. Advertise only appropriate items in their corresponding sections. Please respond only to ads posted by emailing the posting party, or by contacting the posting party through the method listed within the ad. Postings that disparage or attempt to negatively impact any parties posted to this Website will be removed, and your access WILL BE restricted! Please respect these rules to help us continue to provide this free resource to the members of ApnaCircle. Report all questionable ads to support@ApnaCircle.com.
   
   
6. Proprietary Rights in Content on ApnaCircle.com :- Website owns and retains all proprietary rights of the Website and the Service. The Website contains copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary information of Website and its licensors. Except for that information which is in the public domain or for which you have been given written permission, you shall not copy, modify, publish, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any such proprietary information.
   
   
7. Content Posted on the Site :- You understand and agree that Website may review and delete any content, messages, Website Messenger messages, photos or profiles (collectively, "Content") that in the sole judgment of Website violate this T&C or which may be offensive, illegal or violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of any Member. B) You are solely responsible for the Content that you publish or display (hereinafter, "post") on the Service or any material or information that you transmit to other Members. C) By posting any Content to the public areas of the Website, you hereby grant to Website the non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, publicly perform and display such Content on the Website. This license will terminate at the time you remove such Content from the Website. You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by you on the Website or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth in this section, and (ii) your Content does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyright rights, or other intellectual property rights of any person. You agree to pay for all royalties and fees owing any person by reason of any Content you post on the Website. D) The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited on the Website. Website reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action in its sole discretion against anyone who violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending communication from the Service and terminating the membership of such violators. Prohibited Content includes Content that: i) is patently offensive and promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual; ii) harasses or advocates harassment of another person; iii) involves the transmission of "junk mail", "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing or "spamming"; iv) promotes information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous; v) promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files; vi) contains restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page); vii) provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under 18; viii) provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses; ix. solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users; or x) involves commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes; xi) for band profiles, uses sexually suggestive imagery or any other unfair, misleading or deceptive content intended to draw traffic to the profile. E) You must use the Service in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations. F) You shall not include in your Member profile any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs or email addresses. G) You shall not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, any Member to buy or sell any products or services through the Service. You shall not transmit any chain letters or junk email to other Members. Although Website cannot monitor the conduct of its Members off the Website, it is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from the Service in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person, or in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any Member without their prior explicit consent. In order to protect our Members from such advertising or solicitation, the Website reserves the right to restrict the number of emails which a Member may send to other Members in any 24-hour period to a number which the Website deems appropriate in its sole discretion. H) You shall not cover or obscure the banner advertisements on your personal profile page, or any Website page via HTML/CSS or any other means. I) Any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to add friends, is prohibited. J) You shall not attempt to impersonate another user or person who is not a member of the Website. You shall not use the account, username, or password of another Member at any time nor shall you disclose your password to any third party or permit any third party to access your account.
   
   
8. Copyright Policy :- You shall not post, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights. It is the policy of the Website to terminate membership privileges of any member who repeatedly infringes copyright of others. Without limiting the foregoing, if you believe that your work has been copied and posted on the Service in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our Copyright Agent with the following information: an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Website; your address, telephone number, and email address; a written statement by you that you have a good faith and belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.
   
   
9. Member Disputes :- You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Website Members. The Website, reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members.
   
   
10. Privacy :- Use of the Website and / or the Service is also governed by our Privacy Policy. Before proceeding further, kindly visit our Privacy Policy.
    
    
11. Disclaimers :- The Website is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate Content posted on the Website or in connection with the Service provided, whether caused by users of the Website, Members or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Service. Website is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any user of the Website or Member of the Service. The Website assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, any user or Member communication. The Website is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any email or players due to technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Website or combination thereof, including any injury or damage to users and/or Members or to any person's computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading materials in connection with the Website and/or in connection with the Service. Under no circumstances shall the Website be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal injury or death, resulting from use of the Website or the Service or from any Content posted on the Website or transmitted to Members, or any interactions between users of the Website, whether online or offline. The Website and the Service are provided on "AS-IS" basis and the Website does not assume any responsibility for prompt or proper delivery, or retention of any user information or communications between users / members. The Website assumes no responsibility for the accuracy or existence of any communications between users / members. The Website expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether expressed or implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. The Website cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of the Website and / or the Service.
    
    
12. Limitation on Liability :-IN NO EVENT SHALL ApnaCircle.com BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE WEB SITE OR THE SERVICE, EVEN IF ApnaCircle.com HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, ApnaCircle.com’S LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO ApnaCircle.com FOR THE SERVICE DURING THE TERM OF MEMBERSHIP.
    
    
13. Disputes :- In the event of any dispute about or involving the Website and / or the Service, by using the Website, or any difference or question arising out of or in respect of this T&C or the commission of any breach of any terms thereof or in any manner whatsoever in connection with it, the same shall be referred to the Sole Arbitrator, appointed by ApnaCircle for arbitration and proceedings shall be in accordance with Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996. The decision or award so given by the Arbitrator shall be binding on the parties hereto. The T&C between User/ Member and ApnaCircle will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India and the place of Arbitration shall be New Delhi only.
    
    
14. Indemnity :-You agree to indemnify and hold ApnaCircle, its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, and other partners and employees, harmless from any and all losses, liabilities, claims or demands, including but not limited to attorneys' fees made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Service in violation of this T&C and/or arising from a breach of this T&C and/or any breach of your representations and warranties set forth above, arising from your use of this service. This expressly includes your responsibility for any and all liability arising from the violation or infringement of proprietary rights or copyrights and any libelous or unlawful material. , The Website shall not be held responsible for any interactions/ passing of information(s) etc. between any user / member / visitor via e-mail, chat or any other mediation with another member / user / visitor and ApnaCircle has no obligation, to monitor any such disputes arising between the users / members and ApnaCircle shall not be a party to such dispute / litigation etc. ApnaCircle.com is a wholly owned subsidiary of Viadeo, S.A France (“Viadeo”). By accessing this Website or registering as Member of this Website, you agree and confirm that you have read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of Viadeo S.A. France as mentioned on its website www.viadeo.com and you represent not to violate the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of Viadeo. You agree to indemnify and hold Viadeo, its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, and other partners and employees, harmless from any and all losses, liabilities, claims or demands.
    
    
15. Severability and Integration :-This T&C and any supplemental terms, policies, rules and guidelines posted on the Website constitute the entire T&C between Member and the Website and supersede all previous written or oral T&C. If any part of this T&C is held invalid or unenforceable, that portion shall be construed in a manner consistent with applicable law to reflect, as nearly as possible, the original intentions of the parties, and the remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect.
    
    
16. Other :- This T&C is accepted upon your use of the Website and is further affirmed by you becoming a Member of the Service. This T&C constitutes the entire T&C between you and the Website regarding the use of the Website and/or the Service. The failure of the Website to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this T&C shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. This T&C operates to the fullest extent permissible under law. If any provision of this T&C is declared to be unlawful, void or unenforceable by Law or Indian Courts, that provision is deemed severable from this T&C and does not affect the validity and enforceability of other remaining provisions. The section titles in this T&C are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. Please contact us with any questions regarding this Agreement. ApnaCircle.com is a trademark of ApnaCircle, unless otherwise authorized by ApnaCircle, Members shall be liable for any infringement of the trademark of ApnaCircle. Member agrees and accepts all the terms of the T&C unconditionally and intends to be legally bound by them by accessing and using the Website. If you do not agree with the terms of the T&C, please exit the Website. I HAVE READ THIS T&C AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED ABOVE.