Terms of Service
First Published: February 7, 2014
Last Updated: October 15, 2026
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the Digital Pradesh website, its articles, webpages, tools, software, digital content and other services made available through it (collectively, the “Website” or “Services”).
In these Terms, “Digital Pradesh”, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to the publisher and operator of the Website, including IR Digital Media where applicable. “You” and “your” refer to any visitor or other person accessing or using the Website or Services.
By accessing or using the Website, you acknowledge that you have read these Terms. If you do not agree with them, you must discontinue use of the Website.
Please also read our Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy. Nothing in these Terms excludes a right or remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded under applicable law.
1. Acceptance and Scope
These Terms apply to visitors, readers, registered users, contributors and other persons who access or use the Website, subject to any separate written agreement applicable to a particular service.
Additional conditions may apply to specific tools, software, downloadable resources or other features. Where such conditions are expressly presented, they should be read together with these Terms. If a specific written agreement conflicts with these Terms, the specific agreement shall govern that conflict to the extent stated in it and permitted by law.
2. Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms to reflect changes in the Website, our services, security practices or applicable law. Revised Terms will be published on this page with an updated revision date. Material changes may also be notified through the Website or another reasonable channel where appropriate.
Changes shall apply from the stated effective date, subject to applicable law and any rights or obligations that have already accrued. Continued use after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms to the extent permitted by law.
3. Permitted Use
You may access and use the Website for lawful browsing, reading, research, education, reference and other legitimate purposes, subject to these Terms and applicable law.
You must not:
- Use the Website for an unlawful purpose or to violate another person’s legal rights.
- Attempt to gain unauthorised access to accounts, servers, databases, administrative interfaces or restricted systems.
- Interfere with the security, integrity, availability or normal operation of the Website.
- Upload or transmit malware, malicious code, fraudulent requests or other harmful material.
- Impersonate another person, misrepresent your identity or authority, or knowingly submit false information.
- Circumvent authentication requirements, technical access controls or reasonable security measures.
- Use the Website to harass, threaten, defraud or unlawfully harm another person.
- Infringe intellectual property rights or otherwise misuse the Website in violation of applicable law.
We may take reasonable technical and legal measures to protect the Website, its content, infrastructure and users against misuse, security threats and unlawful activity.
4. Limited Licence
Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable permission to access and use publicly available portions of the Website for lawful purposes.
This permission does not transfer ownership of any content, software, design, trademark or other intellectual property. Unless permitted by applicable law or expressly authorised in writing, you must not systematically copy, republish, redistribute, commercially exploit or create a competing content database from material available on the Website.
Software, downloadable files, open-source components and third-party materials may be governed by separate licence terms. Those terms apply to the relevant components where applicable.
5. Intellectual Property Rights
Unless otherwise stated, original articles, photographs, graphics, illustrations, logos, branding, layouts, designs, software and compilations published on the Website are owned by, controlled by or licensed to their respective rights holders, including Digital Pradesh or IR Digital Media where applicable.
Except as permitted by applicable law or an applicable licence, you must not reproduce, republish, modify, translate, distribute, publicly display, commercially exploit or create derivative works from protected material without the required permission.
Limited quotations, citations, links and other uses permitted by applicable law may be made subject to the relevant legal conditions. Attribution alone does not replace permission where permission is legally required.
Third-party names, logos, trademarks and other materials remain the property of their respective owners. Their appearance on the Website does not necessarily imply endorsement, sponsorship or affiliation.
Requests for permission to reproduce content and complaints concerning intellectual property may be submitted through our Contact Us page.
6. Automated Access, Crawling, Scraping and Data Use
6.1 Unauthorised Automated Access
You must not use bots, crawlers, spiders, scrapers, data-mining tools or similar automated systems to access, extract, copy, download or systematically collect Website content in a manner that violates these Terms, bypasses technical controls, infringes intellectual property rights, interferes with Website operations or breaches applicable law.
Unauthorised bulk downloading, systematic copying, database extraction, circumvention of access restrictions and automated collection for commercial republication or competing services are prohibited unless expressly authorised or otherwise permitted by applicable law.
We may restrict or block automated activity that threatens security, degrades performance, circumvents access restrictions or otherwise violates these Terms. We reserve any lawful remedies available to us.
6.2 Search Engines and Legitimate Crawlers
Good-faith crawling for legitimate search indexing is permitted where it respects applicable law, published crawling directives, reasonable technical restrictions and the Website’s operational requirements.
Automated services should respect the directives published in our robots.txt file, where applicable. Compliance with robots.txt does not, by itself, grant permission to reproduce or commercially exploit copyrighted content.
Automated access for AI training, dataset creation, bulk content collection, commercial aggregation or similar purposes may require separate authorisation where required by applicable law, a relevant licence or our technical access restrictions. Nothing in this section overrides a legal exception or permission that applies independently.
We may change crawling permissions and technical restrictions from time to time, subject to applicable law and any licence or agreement already granted.
7. User Submissions and Contributions
If you submit comments, corrections, feedback, photographs, documents, articles or other material, you are responsible for ensuring that your submission is lawful and that you have the rights and permissions necessary to provide it.
You must not submit material that unlawfully infringes intellectual property rights, violates privacy, contains unlawful threats or harassment, or otherwise breaches applicable law.
By voluntarily submitting material for publication or editorial consideration, you grant us permission to review, edit for clarity, formatting, length or compliance, and publish the material where appropriate, subject to any separate agreement and applicable law. This permission does not transfer ownership of your work unless a separate written agreement expressly provides otherwise.
Submission does not guarantee publication, continued availability or a particular editorial outcome. We may decline, edit, moderate or remove submitted material for legitimate editorial, legal, safety or operational reasons.
Corrections, complaints or questions about contributions may be submitted through the Contact Us page.
8. News, Editorial Content and Informational Disclaimer
The Website publishes news, analysis, commentary, educational material and other information for general informational purposes. Although we endeavour to maintain accuracy and update material when appropriate, we do not guarantee that every item is complete, current, error-free or suitable for every reader’s circumstances.
News reports may describe allegations, preliminary findings, investigations, legal proceedings or information that subsequently changes. Readers should consider the publication date, any subsequent updates and the sources identified in the report.
Unless expressly stated otherwise, Website content is not a substitute for professional legal, financial, medical, tax or other specialist advice. You are responsible for evaluating the relevance of the information to your circumstances and obtaining independent advice where appropriate.
Content is provided on an informational basis and should not be treated as a guarantee of any particular result. Nothing in this section excuses a legal duty that applies to the publisher or limits any right that cannot lawfully be excluded.
9. Third-Party Websites, Services and Advertising
The Website may contain links to external websites, embedded media, advertisements, analytics tools or other services operated by third parties. These third-party services may be governed by their own terms, privacy policies and technical practices.
Unless expressly stated, a link or advertisement does not mean that we endorse, verify or guarantee the third party, its products, claims or services. We do not control external websites and are not responsible for their content, availability, security or practices to the extent that such responsibility may lawfully be excluded.
Users should exercise independent judgement before relying on third-party information or interacting with external services.
10. Website Availability and Technical Changes
The Website and Services are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We do not guarantee continuous, uninterrupted, secure, timely or error-free availability.
Access may be interrupted or restricted because of maintenance, software updates, hosting failures, network problems, security incidents, third-party outages or circumstances beyond our reasonable control.
We may modify, suspend, restrict or discontinue any part of the Website for operational, security, legal or technical reasons. We do not guarantee that any particular feature, tool, article, file or resource will remain available indefinitely.
11. Security and User Responsibility
You are responsible for using appropriate security measures on your own devices and networks when accessing the Website. You should exercise caution when opening external links, downloading files or interacting with third-party content.
If the Website provides accounts or restricted access, you are responsible for keeping your credentials confidential and for activity carried out through your account, subject to applicable law and any security failure not attributable to you.
You should notify us through the Contact Us page if you become aware of a security issue involving the Website or suspect unauthorised access to an account associated with it.
12. Disclaimer of Warranties
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Website, its content, information, tools, software and features are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without warranties or guarantees of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory.
To the extent legally permissible, we disclaim warranties concerning accuracy, completeness, reliability, availability, suitability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility and the absence of errors, interruptions or harmful components.
We do not warrant that information published on the Website will meet your particular requirements, produce a specific result or remain current after publication. You use the Website and rely on its general informational content at your own discretion and risk.
We do not guarantee the accuracy, availability, quality or reliability of third-party websites, advertisements, embedded content, external services or materials linked from the Website.
Nothing in this section excludes any warranty, representation, obligation or consumer protection that cannot lawfully be excluded or disclaimed under applicable law.
13. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Digital Pradesh, IR Digital Media and the persons responsible for operating the Website shall not be liable for loss or damage arising from access to, use of, inability to use or reliance on the Website or its content where such liability may lawfully be excluded.
This limitation includes, where legally permissible, indirect, incidental, consequential, special or economic losses, loss of data, loss of opportunity, interruption of business and losses arising from reliance on inaccurate, incomplete, outdated or unavailable information.
We shall not be responsible, to the extent permitted by law, for failures or conduct attributable to third-party networks, hosting providers, external websites, advertising services, embedded content or other systems outside our reasonable control.
You acknowledge that the Website is made available for general informational and other stated purposes and that you remain responsible for evaluating information before acting upon it.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where such exclusion or limitation is prohibited by law. In particular, these Terms do not purport to exclude liability that cannot legally be excluded for fraud, wilful misconduct or other non-excludable conduct or obligations, or to remove a mandatory statutory right or remedy.
14. Indemnification
To the extent permitted by applicable law, you may be responsible for losses, claims and reasonable costs directly arising from your unlawful use of the Website, your material breach of these Terms or your infringement of another person’s rights.
This section does not impose liability for matters attributable to our own unlawful conduct, remove any legal defence available to you or require indemnification where such a requirement would be unenforceable under applicable law.
15. Suspension and Termination
We may suspend, restrict or terminate access to all or part of the Website where reasonably necessary to address a security risk, suspected unlawful activity, material breach of these Terms, abuse of the Website or a legal or operational requirement.
Where appropriate and practicable, we may provide notice or an opportunity to resolve the issue. Advance notice may not be possible where immediate action is reasonably necessary to protect the Website, users or third parties, or to comply with law.
Suspension or termination does not remove rights or obligations that accrued before the relevant action. Any continuing obligations shall be determined in accordance with these Terms and applicable law.
16. Privacy and Cookies
Our handling of personal information and use of cookies or similar technologies are described in our Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy.
These policies should be read together with these Terms. Where consent is required by applicable law for a particular use of personal information or a cookie, these Terms do not replace that consent requirement.
17. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution
These Terms are governed by the laws of India, subject to applicable legal protections and conflict-of-law principles.
Where a dispute arises, the parties may attempt to resolve it through good-faith communication using the Contact Us page. This is an optional first step and does not prevent a person from approaching a competent court, consumer commission, regulator or other authority where permitted by law.
Disputes shall be brought before courts or other forums having jurisdiction under applicable law. Nothing in these Terms creates exclusive jurisdiction in a location where such jurisdiction would be unlawful or overrides the jurisdiction of a competent statutory authority or forum.
18. Severability and Waiver
If any provision of these Terms is held invalid, unlawful or unenforceable, that provision shall be interpreted or limited to the minimum extent necessary where legally possible. The remaining provisions shall continue to apply to the extent permitted by law.
Failure or delay in exercising a right under these Terms does not, by itself, constitute a waiver of that right.
19. Entire Agreement
These Terms, together with the policies and guidelines expressly incorporated into them, govern your general access to and use of the Website, subject to any separate written agreement that applies to a particular service.
Nothing in this section excludes rights, obligations or protections that arise under applicable law and cannot lawfully be excluded by agreement.
20. Contact Information
For questions about these Terms, website content, permissions, intellectual property, security concerns or other matters relating to the Website, please contact the Digital Pradesh Team through our Contact Us page.
Please include the relevant page URL and a clear description of your query where appropriate. Avoid sending unnecessary sensitive personal information.
Digital Pradesh Team
For website-related enquiries, please use the Contact Us page.