Terms and Conditions

BY USING OR ACCESSING SAKALAPUJA WEBSITE YOU AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS (THE “AGREEMENT”) GOVERNING YOUR USE OF SAKALAPUJA.COM (THE “SERVICE”).

THIS AGREEMENT SHALL APPLY TO YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE, REGARDLESS OF ANY OTHER TERMS AND CONDITIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE PROPOSED AND/OR ANY OTHER TERMS THAT MAY HAVE BEEN AGREED BETWEEN YOU AND GOKARMA TECH SOLUTIONS LLP.

IN THE EVENT OF ANY CONFLICT OR INCONSISTENCY BETWEEN THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND ANY OTHER TERMS, THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT SHALL PREVAIL. BY ACCESSING AND USING THE SERVICE, YOU CONFIRM YOUR AGREEMENT TO THESE TERMS.

1. DEFINITIONS

a. ‘Customer Data’ -any data, information or material provided or submitted by you to the Service in the course of using the Service;
b. ‘Effective Date’ -the earlier of the date this Agreement is accepted or the date you begin using the Service;
c. ‘Initial Term’- the initial period during which you are obliged to pay for the Service;
d. ‘IPR’ -unpatented inventions, patent applications, patents, design rights, copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade names, domain name rights, mask work rights, know-how and other trade secret rights, and all other intellectual property rights, derivatives thereof, and forms of protection of a similar nature anywhere in the world;
e. ‘License Term(s)’- the period(s) during which authorized Users are licensed to use the Service;
f. ‘Service’ -the specific edition of sakalapuja developed, operated, and maintained by sakalapuja, accessible via a designated web site or IP address, to which you are being granted access under this Agreement;
g. “Unacceptable Content” -any material of any nature whatsoever which is or contains any material that:
(i) is or may be defamatory, libellous, obscene, in contempt of court or in contravention of any law or regulation or infringes the rights of any third party; and/or (ii) promotes violence or discrimination based on race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, physical disability, mental disability, age or which promotes any illegal activities; and/or (iii) is a Virus;

h. ‘User’ –You, your employees, representatives, consultants, contractors or agents who are authorized to use the Service and have been supplied user identifications and passwords by you (or by sakalapuja at your request);
i. ‘sakalapuja’- means the website at www.sakalapuja.com and mobile app/platform.
j. ‘Users’ shall have the meaning given in clause 5.2 (below);
k. “Virus” any virus, worm, Trojan horse, logic bomb, time bomb, back door, trap door or any other similar form of code intended, or having that effect, to cause harm, damage or to prevent or restrict the use of any computer system or data; and
l. ‘You’ or ‘Your’ any person, School, Local Authority or other organization accessing the Service.

2. DURATION

1. This Agreement shall commence on the day you create an order or do a guest check-out (Effective Date) and continue until the end of the Initial Term. At the end of the Initial Term, unless otherwise agreed, this Agreement shall automatically renew for either one year or a period equal to the Initial Term, whichever is the less, at the current rate then payable for the Service.

2. Either party may terminate this Agreement by giving not less than thirty (30) days’ notice prior to the end of the then current Licence Term.

3. ACCESS GRANT AND RESTRICTIONS

1. In consideration of your payment of the relevant fees, sakalapuja agrees to provide you with access to the Service. Such access shall be solely to support your own personal or religious purposes of a non- commercial nature and be in respect of that number of concurrent Users agreed between you and sakalapuja.

2. You may produce copies of any instructions provided by sakalapuja and distribute such copies to Users to enable them to use the Service. This shall be without prejudice to the provisions of clause 5.

11. FEES AND PAYMENTS

The fees and payments of the services are listed on the website, however these may vary depending on the choice, time, facilities selected in the subscription. Any fixed rate apart from that is communicated shall be in writing by sakalapuja. Fees once received can only be refunded as per the refund and cancellation policy by sakalapuja. At the time of renewal of Service, sakalapuja may communicate revised pricing for its services. Discounts are for limited period only. sakalapuja reserves the right to withdraw any scheme without any prior notice. For more information on Refund and Cancellation, kindly refer to the Policy here. .

4. YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

1. sakalapuja may alter user names or passwords upon reasonable notice. Your user name(s) and any password(s) are non-transferable and you are not permitted to disclose or share the same with anyone else. No third party may share your account.

2. No part of the Service may be cached in proxy servers or accessed by individuals who have not registered with sakalapuja as users of the Service. If you do disclose or share your account with any third party or allow any third party to use the Service on your behalf, you agree to indemnify sakalapuja for any losses or damages incurred by sakalapuja as a result of your actions. If sakalapuja reasonably believes that an account is being used in any way which is not permitted by sakalapuja, sakalapuja reserves the right to cancel access rights immediately without notice and to block access to all users from that account.

3. You are solely responsible for acquiring and maintaining all computer hardware and sakalapuja mobile app/ website, telephone and communications equipment needed for access to and use of the Service.

4. You own and have sole responsibility for the accuracy, quality, integrity, legality, reliability, appropriateness, and IPR ownership or right to use of all Customer Data and sakalapuja shall not be responsible or liable for the deletion, correction, destruction, damage, loss of or failure to store any Customer Data.

5. You agree to ensure that no User will introduce any Virus into any computer equipment or system or sakalapuja mobile app/ website of sakalapuja. You further agree to use virus-checking sakalapuja mobile app/ website before downloading any material from the Internet and, unless otherwise agreed, shall be responsible for applying anti-virus sakalapuja mobile app/ website to protect your machines and networks.

6. You agree to ensure that no User will use the Service for the purposes of storing, transmitting or receiving any Unacceptable Content.

5. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1. Title to any sakalapuja mobile app/ website supplied by sakalapuja shall at all times remain vested in sakalapuja or its licensors. At no time shall you or any User gain any title to any such sakalapuja mobile app/ website.
2. Subject always to the provisions of Clause 5.1, sakalapuja hereby grants to you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the sakalapuja mobile app/ website provided to you (if any) by sakalapuja for use with the Service (the “User sakalapuja mobile app/ website”). You shall and ensure that Users shall treat the Service and any User sakalapuja mobile app/ website like any other copyrighted material (e.g. a book or musical recording) except that you may either:
3. You undertake not to perform (nor allow any User to perform) any of the acts referred to in this Clause 5.3 except to the extent and only to the extent permitted by law as a lawful user of the Service and/or User sakalapuja mobile app/ website and only then for the specific limited purpose permitted by law or in this Agreement. You undertake (including on behalf of all Users):
3.1. not to copy the Service and/or User sakalapuja mobile app/ website (other than for normal system operation and as expressly specified in this Agreement) nor otherwise reproduce the same;
3.2. not to translate, adapt, vary, or modify the Service and/or User sakalapuja mobile app/ website;
3.3. not to disassemble, decompile or reverse engineer the Service and/or User sakalapuja mobile app/ website;

3.4. not to remove, obscure or alter any notice of patent, copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice on the Service and/or User sakalapuja mobile app/ website;
3.5. not to sub-license, distribute, rent, lease, or otherwise transfer the Service and/or User sakalapuja mobile app/ website or any unique access code or copy the Service and/or User sakalapuja mobile app/ website other than as expressly provided in this Agreement;
3.6. not to make the Service and/or User sakalapuja mobile app/ website accessible by any type of broadcast or transmission, including but not limited to broadcast or transmission by cable, Internet, television, satellite, or telephone;

3.7. not to use the Service and/or User sakalapuja mobile app/ website to attract customers away from sakalapuja or to procure commercial advantage over sakalapuja or to use it in any other way which is likely to be directly or indirectly detrimental to sakalapuja or its business;
3.8. not to reproduce or transmit to or store in any Website any part of the Service or User sakalapuja mobile app/ website, nor disseminate in any electronic or non-electronic form any of the pages or parts thereof, nor include any of the foregoing in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service; and
3.9. not to enable a third party to do any of the acts set out in this clause 5.3.
4. If notified promptly in writing of any action (and all prior claims relating to such action) brought against you, based on a claim that any User’s use of the Service infringes a patent or copyright, sakalapuja will defend such action at its expense and pay the costs and damages awarded, provided that sakalapuja shall have sole control of the defence of any such action and all negotiations for its settlement or compromise. At any time during the course of any litigation arising out of a claim of infringement for a patent or copyright, or if in sakalapuja opinion, the Service is likely to become the subject of a claim of infringement of a patent or copyright, sakalapuja will at its option and expense either procure for you and any Users the right to continue using the Service, replace or modify the same so that it becomes non-infringing, or grant you a credit for the Service as depreciated and accept its return. Depreciation will be an equal amount over the lifetime of the Service as established by sakalapuja. sakalapuja will not have any liability to you under any provision of this clause if the infringement or claim thereof is based upon:
4.1. use of the Service in combination with other equipment or sakalapuja mobile app/ website not supplied by sakalapuja; or
4.2. the use of the Service in carrying out any patented process; or
4.3. Infringement as described in clause 5.6 (below).
5. Clause 5.4 (above) states the entire liability of sakalapuja with respect to infringement of patents or copyrights by the Service or any part thereof or by its operation. No costs or expenses will be incurred for the account of sakalapuja without the prior written consent of sakalapuja.
6. You will hold sakalapuja harmless against any expense, judgment, liability or loss, or infringement of any IPRs which results from sakalapuja compliance with your or any User’s instructions or use by sakalapuja of any Customer Data or other materials or information provided by you or any User.

6. TERMINATION

1. Either party may terminate this Agreement:
1.1. in accordance with clause 2.2 (above); 1.2. if the other party commits any material breach of this Agreement; 1.3. if the other party commits any other breach of this Agreement which is not remedied within thirty (30) days of a notice requiring such breach to be remedied; or 1.4. if the other party ceases to carry on business or substantial part thereof, commits an act of bankruptcy or is adjudicated bankrupt or enters into liquidation whether compulsory or voluntary other than for the purposes of amalgamation or reconstruction or compounds with its creditors generally or has a receiver or manager appointed over all or any part of its assets or suffers execution or distress or takes or suffers any similar action in consequence of debt or becomes unable to pay its debts as they fall due.
2. sakalapuja may terminate this Agreement forthwith (which would automatically terminate any related licence(s) if you fail to pay any sums to sakalapuja in respect of the Service on the due date of payment.
3. Subject to clause 6.4 (below), following termination of this Agreement, sakalapuja will make available to you a file of the relevant Customer Data within thirty (30) days of termination if you request this at the time of termination. 4. Where this Agreement has been terminated by sakalapuja pursuant to clauses 6.1.2 to 6.1.4 or clause 6.2 (above), your right to access or use Customer Data shall immediately cease and sakalapuja may withhold, remove and/or discard Customer Data without notice. Additionally, sakalapuja shall have no obligation to maintain or forward any Customer Data in such circumstances.

7. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

1. The Service has been manufactured or developed by sakalapuja or third parties to standard specifications. You accept that sakalapuja is acting only as a supplier and that it is your responsibility to verify that the Service will be suitable for your own requirements. There are no warranties, conditions, guarantees or representations as to description, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or other warranties, conditions, guarantees or representations relating to the Service, whether express implied by statute or otherwise oral or in writing except as provided in this Agreement and except as to statute implied terms as to title.
2. You agree that sakalapuja will not be liable for any loss arising out of the provision of goods or services by any company, organization or person other than sakalapuja or for any loss caused by your failure to perform your obligations under this Agreement. In particular but without limitation to the generality of the foregoing, sakalapuja shall not be responsible nor liable for your inability to access the Service or any impairment in using the Service where such inability or impairment results from any incompatibility between any hardware or sakalapuja mobile app/ website used by you, unless such items have been supplied by sakalapuja specifically for use with the Service.
3. sakalapuja liability shall be unlimited in respect of (a) any death or personal injury caused by its negligence or that of its employees, agents or contractors; (b) fraud; (c) under the Consumer Protection Act 1986; (d) for breach of any conditions as to title or quiet enjoyment implied by Sale of Goods Act 1930 (as amended) or Indian Contract Act (as amended) under any express indemnities contained in this Agreement; or (e) for any other matter in respect of which law prescribes that liability may not be excluded or limited.
4. Subject to clause 7.3 (above), sakalapuja shall not in any event be liable for any loss of profits, loss or corruption of data, loss of use, loss of goodwill, anticipated savings, loss of amenity, or any indirect, special or consequential losses, in each case howsoever arising, in connection with or arising out of the supply, functioning or use of the Service even if sakalapuja shall have been advised of the possibility of such potential loss and shall not be liable for any loss except as provided for in this Agreement.
5. Subject to clauses 5.4 and 7.3 (above), the maximum aggregate liability of sakalapuja whether in contract, tort, negligence, statutory duty or otherwise, for any loss or damage whatever arising from or in any way connected with the Service shall be limited to the fees paid or payable in respect of the Service. This limit shall also apply in the event that any exclusion or other provision contained in this Agreement is held to be invalid for any reason and sakalapuja becomes liable for loss or damage that could otherwise have been limited.

8. DATA PROTECTION

1. In this Agreement, the terms data controller, data processor, personal data, sensitive personal data and processing shall mean the personal data and sensitive personal data provided to sakalapuja in connection with the Service. Data protection law means applicable data protection legislation implementing the SPI Rules 2011 and any amendments, revisions, re-enactments or consolidations thereof.
2. You acknowledge that you are a data controller and that sakalapuja is a data processor.
3. sakalapuja shall:
3.1. use the Data only on your instructions as set out or referred to in this Agreement to provide the Service;
3.2. provide appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the security of the Data, in particular against unauthorized or unlawful access or processing, alteration, accidental loss or destruction of or damage to the Data; and
3.3. take all reasonable steps to ensure the reliability of any of its staff who have access to Data processed in connection with the Service.
4. The parties acknowledge that sakalapuja provision of the Service may require the transfer of Data to sakalapuja sub-contractors, servers (“Recipients”) in other countries having adequate protections in place for the purpose of the transfer of personal data. sakalapuja will be permitted to transfer Data to such Recipients provided that sakalapuja shall have entered into an agreement with the relevant Recipient based upon standard contractual clauses.
5. The parties also acknowledge that sakalapuja may also use services and/or products from other third parties in order to provide the Service and that, in doing so, sakalapuja may transfer Data to such third parties. This may include (by way of example only) third parties that provide online storage and other facilities.
6. You agree to comply with your obligations under the data protection laws in relation to its collection, processing and provision of Data to sakalapuja in connection with the Service.
7. You shall indemnify and keep sakalapuja indemnified against all costs, claims, losses, damages and expenses (including legal expenses) arising out of, or in connection with, any breach of this Clause 8 by you and/or your employees, agents and/or sub-contractors.
8. You acknowledge that sakalapuja is reliant on you for direction as to the extent to which sakalapuja is entitled to use and process the Data. Consequently, sakalapuja will not be liable for any claim brought by you or any data subject arising from any action or omission by sakalapuja to the extent that such action or omission resulted from your instructions.
9. sakalapuja may also use Your personal data in accordance with its Privacy Policy which can be found at http://www.sakalapuja.com/.

9. WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATION

sakalapuja service suggests only possibilities and therefore makes no warranties/ representations with respect to accuracy or significance of any aspect of outcome of any rituals, rites and astrological horoscope. Pandits and astrologer’s understanding and application or opinion on any particular procedure, practice, or point might differ. You may use your discretion before relying on any prediction/s or religious beliefs. sakalapuja is not responsible for any claims for negative / nonfunctioning of any prescription of advice/remedy provided by any of our service providers. The predictions are based on the study and views of our service providers and sakalapuja or the Company disclaims their responsibility to the fullest extent as per the applicable laws.

10. USE AND PROTECTION OF USER NAME AND PASSWORD

If you have been issued a user name and password for the purpose of gaining access to restricted areas of the Website, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your user name and password. You are no longer authorized to use, and you may not use, the user name and password if, at any time, you are no longer authorized to have access to the restricted areas of the Website, or if the conditions which entitle you to access cease to exist. You are responsible for all uses of your user name and password whether or not you have expressly or impliedly authorized such use. sakalapuja is entitled to rely on your compliance with the foregoing, and to assume that any person accessing restricted areas of the Website using your user name and/or password is you, or is authorized by you to enter into agreements or make warranties or representations on your behalf.

12. NOTICE

a. Any notices you may wish to serve on sakalapuja must be sent by first class registered post to sakalapuja registered office. Any such notice will be deemed delivered on receipt.
b. sakalapuja may give notice to you by means of a general notice on the Service, electronic mail to your email address on record in sakalapuja account information, or by registered mail to the address on your record held by sakalapuja. Any such correctly addressed notices shall be deemed to have been given upon the expiration of 48 hours after posting (if sent by registered post) or 12 hours after sending (if sent by email).

13. MODIFICATIONS TO TERMS

sakalapuja may add to or change the terms of this Agreement. It is your responsibility as a user to refer to the terms of this Agreement on accessing the Service. Changes will be effective immediately after posting to the Service and you will be deemed to have accepted any change if you continue to access the Service after that time.

14. ASSIGNMENT

This Agreement may not be assigned by you without the prior written consent of sakalapuja (which ) sakalapuja shall be entitled to refuse at its absolute discretion). sakalapuja shall be entitled to assign the benefit and/or burden of this Agreement to any other subsidiary (of any level) of sakalapuja upon giving notice to you to that effect. sakalapuja shall also be entitled to subcontract the performance of its obligations under this Agreement entirely at its discretion.

15. CUSTOMER MORE THAN ONE PERSON

Where any order for the Service has been made by two or more legal persons jointly, the liability of such persons and their obligations to sakalapuja under this Agreement shall be joint and several.

16. THIRD PARTY RIGHTS

Nothing in this Agreement shall confer on any third party any right or benefit under the provisions of the Contracts or otherwise.

17. GOVERNING LAW

This Agreement shall be governed by Indian law. The parties hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in Bangalore, Karnataka.

18. CHANGE OF TERMS

sakalapuja may add to or change the terms of this Agreement. It is your responsibility as a user to refer to the terms of this Agreement on accessing the Service. Changes will be effective immediately after posting to the Service and you will be deemed to have accepted any change if you continue to access the Service after that time.

19. FORCE MAJEURE

Neither party shall be liable to the other for any delay in nor failure to perform its obligations under this Agreement (other than a payment of money) provided that such a failure is due to causes beyond its reasonable control. Such causes shall include but are not limited to terrorism, fire, flooding, lightning, storm, power surges and failures, failure of suppliers, industrial disputes and other similar action, earth quakes and acts of God.

20. NON-WAIVER

Failure by either party to exercise or delay exercising any of the terms of this Agreement shall not constitute or be deemed to be a waiver of its rights under this Agreement nor prejudice its rights to take subsequent action.

21. NON-ENFORCEABILITY

The invalidity or unenforceability for any reason of any part of this Agreement shall not prejudice the continuation in force of any other part of this Agreement.