Terms of Use

Introduction

VyapaarJagat.com (a unit of Aequitas Information Technology Pvt Ltd.)(“VyapaarJagat.com”, “us”, “we” or “our”) provides an in-depth, incisive, and actionable expertise through a group of distinguished men and women from across the globe, to add value to your business (more particularly set out in Clause 2.1 (Use of Website) (“Content”). VyapaarJagat.com’s Global Leadership Committee strives to get the latest and most filtered leadership knowledge from the world with a single objective to keep you ahead of the curve. By accessing the website at [www.VyapaarJagat.com] (“Website”) or by otherwise accessing any content found on the Website, you (“you” or “your” or “user”) are entering into an agreement with VyapaarJagat.com and agree to the terms that follow (the “Terms of Use”), whether or not you have registered with the Website. The Website is owned and operated by [VyapaarJagat.com].

Please read these Terms of Use before accessing or using the Website or Content or downloading any content from the Website, as they contain important information regarding your legal rights, remedies and obligations.

[A verifiable parental consent is required for you to create a membership account, if you are under the age of [18], or from the European Union.]

We may revise these Terms of Use from time to time, so please check this web page each time you visit the Website. If you continue to use the Website after we post the revised Terms of Use, it shall mean you have agreed to the new terms.

Please review our [Privacy Policy] to learn more about how we use any information provided by you.

If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, please do not complete the registration process and/or use the Website.

Use of Website 

The Website can be used to facilitate entrepreneurs, professionals and young leaders to subscribe for the following Content:

Meetings & Network Building: Meeting with a bunch of members & strangers to talk business. 

  • 1st Week – Virtual Meet with Local + National Members + Industry Leaders. 
  • 3rd Week – In Person Business Workshop & Networking with Local + National Members + Industry Leaders + Visitors
  • Local Annual Conference & Awards, one-of-a-kind city networking events built around learning and engagement.
  • Random Meets & Programs for the members
  • Random Virtual or In Person Trainings & Webinars 

Media Exposure: Build your personal & business brand through media exposure

  • VyapaarJagat.com offers members the opportunity to establish yourself as an inspirational leader by featuring your own journey on VyapaarJagat.com, Video Interview on Vyapaar Jagat TV and publishing authored knowledge articles on VyapaarJagat.com
  • Get Business listed on Vyapaar Jagat Directory for lifetime (Unique virtual space to showcase your product and services)
  • Increase authority and credibility
  • Making a difference in the lives of others.
  • Becoming better-known, well-known, or famous.
  • Develop lasting relationships with your target audience
  • Helps you to build authority + Great PR + Great positive exposure for your business
  • Gain broad international recognition and significant market visibility

Forums & Advisory Board: Provides a safe forum for working out issues and exploring opportunities

  • A community fellowship that fuels your entrepreneurial journey & helps you to realize “Sky is the limit”
  • Imagine a Community that surrounds you, while you are on your Entrepreneurial Journey and works for you as board of advisors.
  • A community who think critically in your difficult situations and arrive at smarter decisions for your growth.
  • It’s available to you during your entire journey, whether the journey is smooth or challenging one at any point of time.
  • It shows you ways to achieve your full potential in business and personal life through life-enhancing connections, shared experiences and collaborative learning.
  • A group of Entrepreneurs & Decision makers, where you can be vulnerable & applauded. 
  • Members & experts inspire new perspectives.
  • Gain new perspectives and get massive results.

Business Power Teams: A Power Team is a group of individuals who have actively committed to generate business for each other.

  • A Power Team is a group of related professions that work with the same clients but do not take business away from each other.
  • A Contact Sphere is a group of symbiotic professions who have a good opportunity to provide referrals to each other.
  • Meet with your Power Team regularly, or at minimum every other week.
  • Consist of 8-18 business leaders from non-competing categories
  • Each team will have common target customer base
  • Power Team can arrange industry visits, power meeting by inviting industry leaders or meeting client in group.

Access to Global Network: Connect.VyapaarJagat.com is a social media platform for VyapaarJagat.com Leaders to establish new relations.

  • Our members have exclusive access to like-minded leaders across the globe
  • Opportunity to collaborate, learn and build new relations
  • Grow Your Network
  • Engage with other executives in our networks. Share their experience and give you confidence in your daily decisions.
  • Receive personalized connections to your inbox; connect on your own time.
  • With access to global thought leaders, our members benefit from best practices and trends shaping business through intimate sessions with influencers from around the world.

Events: Events range from large-scale executive summits to more intimate workshops and business tours

  • Local Annual Conference & Awards, you will be invited to attend one-of-a-kind city networking events built around learning and engagement.
  • The most anticipated events of the year are the Vyapaar Jagat Convention & Awards, StartUp Mela, Greenpreneur Convention & Awards and Fempreneur Conference & Awards. This is the culmination of a year of opportunities, relationships and meaningful change and is truly Where Leaders Connect.
  • Held throughout the year, VyapaarJagat.com events offer provocative learning programs, renowned speakers.
  • Opportunity to Become a Speaker in VyapaarJagat.com Events
  • Random programs for Members

Recognition: India’s first rated awards which has three-stage process including pre-scoring to determine shortlists, rating/voting & reviews by viewers and final evaluation process by jury. 

  • Award assessment: 75% through Jury assessment & 25% through Public Votes
  • Nominee gets personalized creative & voting link for promoting on their own social media & WhatsApp community
  • Nominee gets an opportunity to be voted by their near and dear ones through their own social media
  • Online branding with a reach of millions of impressions for your brand
  • Entry to attend the Offline Award felicitation ceremony
  • Branding on all of our external media partnerships (print media, television & other digital media platforms)
  • Promote your innovation in the marketplace by using the Vyapaar Jagat Award badge/seal

You may view the upcoming Content as an unregistered visitor to the Website; however, if you wish to access the Content, you must first create a membership account [Promotional members data or media content will be accessible publicly].

VyapaarJagat.com makes available an online platform which provides Content for entrepreneurs, professionals and young leaders. VyapaarJagat.com’s responsibilities are limited to providing the Content through the Website, unless expressly specified otherwise on the Website.

The Platform provides easily accessible content, connections and communications that powers brand and business objectives generated, developed or produced by the Company or aggregated, obtained and/or licensed through third party sources.

Promptly and efficiently responding to Your queries or issues relating to Your Account and the services availed through the Platform.

The aforementioned services shall be collectively referred to as the “Services”. The Company may, at its discretion, add, modify, or remove any of the Services listed above from time to time without special notice. The Company may also, at its discretion, have terms and conditions specific to any category or section in addition to these Terms

In case of any dissatisfaction with the Services, You shall first file a formal complaint with the customer service of the Company, prior to pursuing any other recourse. The complaints can be lodged at hello@vyapaarjagat.com, and by lodging a complaint You agree to provide complete support to the customer service team with such reasonable information as may be sought by them from You. The Company shall aim to resolve the complaints as soon as possible.

The Company does not (i) adopt any ‘unfair trade practices’ either on the Platform or otherwise with respect to the Services; and (ii) discriminate between Users of the same class or arbitrarily classify the Users.

Membership Account

In order to access the Content displayed on the Website, you will have to create a membership account with VyapaarJagat.com. VyapaarJagat.com does not provide any Content directly, it only acts as a platform through which the Content is displayed, [and the transaction for each account will take place through the respective brand site]. You represent, warrant and covenant that, information and content provided by you, including, but not limited to, information during creating a membership account on the Website:

is owned by you, and that you otherwise have all necessary rights to such content and the rights to use it, and for its use as per these Terms of Use;

is true, accurate, current and complete, and not misleading, and does not violate these Terms of Use; and

shall not cause injury to any other person.

You agree not to use another user’s membership account nor provide access to your membership account to any third party. Further, you agree to keep your account password secure and that you shall be responsible for any activity that may occur on your membership account. 

You shall not disclose and shall maintain in strict confidence of your Website login id and credentials. If you know or suspect that someone else knows your Website login id, you should notify us by contacting hello@vyapaarjagat.com immediately, failing which VyapaarJagat.com may temporarily suspend your membership account. VyapaarJagat.com shall not be held liable for any loss that may occur due to the unauthorised access by any person with your Website login id.

VyapaarJagat.com takes no responsibility for any Content or third party services that are displayed on the Website, and further, you shall be solely responsible for such actions by making use of such Content.

Restrictions on use of Website 

You are granted permission to access and use the Website and Content displayed on the Website as set out in these Terms of Use, provided that:

You agree not to distribute any part or Content of the Website without VyapaarJagat.com’s prior written consent.

You agree not to use the Content displayed on the Website for any commercial purposes unless you obtain VyapaarJagat.com’s prior written approval. Further, the Committee Members shall not use the content, for any reason whatsoever, created with VyapaarJagat.com without VyapaarJagat.com’s prior written consent. 

You agree not to use or launch any automated system, including without limitation, “robots,” “spiders,” or “offline readers,” that accesses the Website in a manner that sends more request messages to VyapaarJagat.com’s servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional on-line web browser. 

In your use of the Website, you will at all times comply with all applicable laws and regulations.

VyapaarJagat.com, at its sole discretion, may discontinue any aspect of the Website at any time with or without notice.

Payment Terms

The information relating to the accepted payment methods on the Platform shall be displayed during the purchasing process.

To the extent permitted by applicable law and subject to the Privacy Policy, You acknowledge and agree that the Company may use certain third-party vendors and service providers, including payment gateways, to process payments and manage payment card information.

In order to avail the Services, You undertake to use and provide valid bank details or other details required for facilitating payment towards the Services (“Payment Details”). By providing the Payment Details, You represent, warrant, and covenant that: (1) You are legally authorized to provide such Payment Details; (2) You are legally authorized to perform payments using such Payment Details; and (3) such action does not violate the terms and conditions applicable to Your use of such Payment Details or applicable law. You may add, delete, and edit the Payment Details You have provided from time to time through the Platform.

Except to the extent otherwise required by applicable law, the Company is not liable for any payments authorized through the Platform using Your Payment Details. Particularly, the Company is not liable for any payments that do not complete because: (a) Your bank account or any other payment did not contain sufficient funds to complete the transaction; (b) You have not provided the Company with correct Payment Details; (c) Your payment card has expired; or (d) circumstances beyond the Company’s reasonable control (such as, but not limited to, power outages, interruptions of cellular service, or any other interferences from an outside force) prevent the execution of the transaction.

The Platform shall not be responsible for any unauthorised transactions conducted on our Platform using Your Payment Details. The Platform shall not be obligated to refund any money to You in such instances.

Subscription fees

The subscription fees of each of the Services shall be displayed on the Platform. The prices mentioned at the time of subscribing the Service shall be the price charged at the time of providing the Service. All the Services listed on the Platform will be available for subscription at Indian Rupees. The subscription fees for the Services may be modified from time to time.

The Users will be informed about any additional charges, fees, and costs if any that may be levied on the subscription for the Services on the Platform at the checkout page during a transaction. The Company does not manipulate the subscription fees for any Services offered on the Platform.

Refunds and Cancellations

Refunds: The policy for refund of monies with respect to cancellation of subscription or for any other purpose, shall be communicated to the User, from time to time, through the Terms, or push notifications on the Platform, or any other mode of communication as specified in this Terms or as determined by the Company. The Company shall remit payments towards accepted refund requests of Users in compliance with applicable laws. Amount once paid for attending an event, sponsoring an event, nomination for an award, exhibiting product/service, new or renewal of membership will not be refunded in any circumstances.

Cancellations: You may cancel a subscription without charge at any time before the Company accepts the subscription. The cancellation policy including with respect to cancellation fee with respect to an subscription accepted by the Company, shall be communicated to the User, from time to time, through the Terms, or push notifications on the Platform, or any other mode of communication as specified in this Terms or as determined by the Company. The Company does not unilaterally cancel a subscription for any reason. No payment will be refunded on cancellation of subscription.

Termination of Membership Account

VyapaarJagat.com will terminate your membership account, in the following circumstances:

On occurrence of any event;

If you breach the Terms of Use;

If you infringe any copyright;

If you violate any applicable law;

If your use of the Website disrupts the operations of our business or affects any other user; or

If your behaviour is regarded as inappropriate or unlawful or illegal or which would bring any claims against VyapaarJagat.com.

If we have reasons to believe that the Website has been or may be misused, then we reserve the right to suspend your membership account or require you to change your password. 

Any termination of your membership account shall not affect any liability previously incurred by you.

Intellectual Property

You agree and acknowledge that all information and Content displayed on, transmitted through, or used in connection with the Website, including for example reviews, directories, guides, text, photographs, images, illustrations, audio clips, video, html source and object code, trademarks, logos, and the like (hereinafter, collectively referred to as “IP Content”), as well as its selection and arrangement, shall always belong and remain the property of VyapaarJagat.com. You shall protect the VyapaarJagat.com’s contractual, statutory and rights under applicable law on the Website with the same degree of care used to protect your own proprietary rights. You agree to notify the VyapaarJagat.com by sending an email to [insert email address here] promptly upon becoming aware of any unauthorized access or use by any person or of any claim that the Website infringes upon any copyright, trademark, or other contractual, statutory or rights under any applicable law.

The IP Content on the Website is protected by trademark, copyright and other laws in India as well as globally.

All the Contents on the Website including but not limited to copyright, patents, trademarks, design rights and other intellectual property rights whether registered or unregistered, are exclusive property of VyapaarJagat.com. You must at all times abide by all copyright notices and restrictions contained on the Website.

You may not, republish any portion of the IP Content on any internet, intranet or extranet site or incorporate the IP Content in any database, compilation, archive or cache. You may not distribute any IP Content to others, whether or not for payment or other consideration, and you may not scrape, modify, copy, frame, cache, reproduce, sell, publish, transmit, display or otherwise use any portion of the IP Content. You agree not to decompile, reverse engineer or disassemble any Content accessible through the Website, not to insert any code or product or manipulate the content of the Website in any way that affects any user’s experience, and not to use any data mining, data gathering or extraction method.

Indemnity

You/user (“Indemnifying Party”) hereby agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the VyapaarJagat.com, its affiliates, and their respective officers, partners, employees, directors, agents, advisors and Content provider, (each individually, an “Indemnified Party” and, collectively, the “Indemnified Parties”) at any time and from time to time, from and against any and all claims, losses, damages, liabilities, fines, penalties, costs, fees and expenses (including, without limitation, any amounts paid in settlement, interest, court costs, out of pocket fees and other expenses of investigations, attorneys, consultants, financial advisors and other experts), suffered or incurred, whether or not arising out of any third-party claim (collectively, “Losses”), to which any Indemnified Party may become subject, insofar as such Losses arise directly or indirectly out of the following:

any inaccuracy in or any misrepresentation or breach of any of the representations and warranties by you under these Terms of Use;

any breach or failure by you to perform any covenant, undertaking or obligation under these Terms of Use;

any fraud, misconduct and/ or negligence on your part; and/or

the use of the membership login provided to you, or your use of the Website.

The indemnification rights of the Indemnified Parties under these Terms of Use are independent of, and in addition to, such other rights and remedies they may have at applicable law or in equity or otherwise, including the right to seek specific performance, recession, restitution or other injunctive relief, none of which rights or remedies shall be affected or diminished by the other. Further, you acknowledge that the Indemnified Parties, other than VyapaarJagat.com, are intended third party beneficiaries of

this Clause, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in these terms of use, the Indemnified Parties shall be entitled to enforce their indemnity right hereunder.

Indemnification Procedure:

An Indemnified Party may make an indemnity claim by giving notice to the Indemnifying Party of the Losses or of the commencement of any proceeding against VyapaarJagat.com and/or any Indemnified Party with respect to which such Indemnified Party seeks indemnification. Such notice (“Claim Notice”) shall be in writing and shall specify the matter which gives rise to the claim and the amount of Loss in respect of such claim.

The Indemnifying Parties shall, within 5 (five) days of receipt of the Claim Notice: (i) pay to the Indemnified Party(ies) the amounts set out in the Claim Notice; and (ii) provide written notice to the Indemnified Party that the Indemnifying Party disputes such Claim Notice specifying in reasonable detail the reason(s) for such dispute, pursuant to which the Indemnified Party(ies) may opt to resolve the dispute regarding such claim in accordance with Clause (Governing Law and Jurisdiction).

Communications

You hereby expressly agree to receive communications by way of SMS, telephone calls, WhatsApp /or e-mails from the Company and other third parties duly authorised by the Company. You hereby expressly consent to the monitoring and recording, by the Company of any and all communications between You and the Company or its agents, employees, consultants, contractors, or representatives of the Company or of their authorised partners, and such monitoring or recording waives any further notice or consent requirement under the applicable laws.

Behavioral Targeting/ Re-Targeting

We partner with third parties to manage our advertisements on other sites. Our third party partners may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on this site and other sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests.

Disclaimer of Liability 

VyapaarJagat.com shall not be responsible for any damage suffered by you from use of the Website. This includes loss of revenue/data resulting from delays, pricing issues or interruptions while using the Content as may occur because of any act/ omission. This disclaimer of liability also applies to any damages or injury caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of record, whether for breach of contract, tortuous behavior, negligence, or under any other cause of action.

In no event will VyapaarJagat.com, its affiliates, agents, suppliers or licensors be liable for indirect, special, incidental, and/or consequential damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of business information or other pecuniary loss) that may arise directly or indirectly from the use of (or failure to use) or reliance on the Content, even if VyapaarJagat.com has been advised of the possibility that such damages may arise. VyapaarJagat.com does not guarantee the accuracy, content, or timeliness of the Content displayed on the Website or that they are free from viruses or other contaminating or destructive properties.

All material on the Website is the copyrighted and the intellectual property of VyapaarJagat.com (“VyapaarJagat.com IP Assets”). All of the VyapaarJagat.com IP Assets are protected under the applicable intellectual property laws of the jurisdiction of each user and there are no implied waivers from VyapaarJagat.com. The information, text, graphics, images, photographs, videos, sounds, links and all other information published or otherwise contained on the Website are either owned exclusively by VyapaarJagat.com or licensed by VyapaarJagat.com. Unless specifically provided, the VyapaarJagat.com IP Assets shall not be copied, distributed, displayed, reproduced or transmitted, reversed engineered, modified in any form or by any means whether electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written express approval of

VyapaarJagat.com (which shall be at the discretion of VyapaarJagat.com). All rights are reserved by VyapaarJagat.com. Without limitation you may not, without such approval from VyapaarJagat.com, create derivative works from any part of the Website or commercialise any information, products or services obtained from any part of the Website. [Information procured from a third party may be the subject of copyright owned by that third party.] Unauthorized use of the Website and/or the materials contained on the Website may violate applicable copyright, trademark or other intellectual property laws or other laws. You must retain all copyright and trademark notices, including any other proprietary notices, contained in the materials. The use of such materials on any other website or in any environment of networked computers is strictly prohibited.

VyapaarJagat.com, its affiliates, subsidiaries, their respective directors, officers, employees (“VyapaarJagat.com or Aequitas Information Technology Pvt Ltd”) do not make any representations and warranties about the completeness, reliability and accuracy of this information. VyapaarJagat.com or Aequitas Information Technology Pvt Ltd EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL AND ANY IMPLIED OR EXPRESS WARRANTIES. VyapaarJagat.com or Aequitas Information Technology Pvt Ltd ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY WHATSOEVER IN RESPECT OF, OR ARISING OUT OF, OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE CONTENTS AND INFORMATION ON THIS WEBSITE. BY ACCESSING THIS WEBSITE, YOU EXPRESSLY WAIVE ALL AND ANY LIABILITY OF VyapaarJagat.com or Aequitas Information Technology Pvt Ltd, IF ANY AND ANY ACTION YOU TAKE UPON THE INFORMATION YOU FIND ON THIS WEBSITE, IS STRICTLY AT YOUR OWN RISK.

From our Website, you can visit other websites by following hyperlinks to such external sites. While we strive to provide only quality links to useful and ethical websites, we have no control or access over the content and nature of these sites or any payment links and whether such payment links are genuine or otherwise. These links to other websites do not imply or deemed to imply a recommendation for all the content found on these sites. Site owners and content may change without notice and may occur before we have the opportunity to remove a link which may have gone ‘bad’.

We do not claim ownership of any third party trademarks, service marks, logos or any other intellectual property rights and such rights belong to the respective owners. VyapaarJagat.com and its affiliates are not responsible for and expressly disclaim all warranties of any kind with respect to third party content, products and services.

You acknowledge that the disclaimers of liability set forth in these Terms of Use are an integrant to VyapaarJagat.com’s ability to make the Content available to you on an economically feasible basis.

Waiver 

No failure or delay by VyapaarJagat.com in exercising any right, power or remedy under these Terms of Use shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of the same preclude any further exercise thereof, or the exercise of any other right, power or remedy. Without limiting the foregoing, no waiver by VyapaarJagat.com of any breach of any provision of these Terms of Use shall be deemed to be a waiver of any subsequent breach of that or any other provision of these Terms of Use. 

Force Majeure

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in these Terms of Use, any delay or failure in performance or interruption of the delivery of the Content displayed on the Website, by VyapaarJagat.com and its affiliates, that may result directly or indirectly from any cause or circumstance beyond our reasonable control, including but not limited to failure of electronic or mechanical equipment or communication lines, or other interconnect problems, computer viruses, unauthorised access, theft, operator errors, earthquakes or natural disasters, strikes or other labour problems, wars, or governmental restrictions, shall not be deemed to be breach of these Terms of Use, and VyapaarJagat.com and its affiliates’ obligations under these Terms of Use shall remain suspended for the duration of the aforementioned events.  

Entire Agreement 

These Terms of Use constitutes the entire agreement between you and VyapaarJagat.com with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all other oral or written representations, understandings or agreements relating to the subject matter hereof.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India.

All disputes arising out of these Terms of Use shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in [Ahmedabad].

YOU HAVE READ THESE TERMS OF USE AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED ABOVE