Terms of Use
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TERMS OF USE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE, PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE.
1. General.
Welcome to Pathivukal.Com at Pathivukal.Com. Pathivukal.Com is an online service operated by Infowhiz Systems Inc. (“Pathivukal.Com”) that provides users with access to discover, read and purchase literary works from content providers through multiple electronic interfaces including the Pathivukal.Com’s website, mobile applications, web applications or “widgets”, and other applications (the “Service”).
By registering, accessing or using the Service you signify that you have read, understand and agree to be bound by these terms of use (these “Terms of Use” or this “Agreement”), whether or not you are a Registered User of the Service. You are only authorized to use the Service (regardless of whether your access or use is intended) if you agree to abide by all applicable laws and to this Agreement. Pathivukal.Com reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or delete portions of these Terms of Use at any time without further notice. If Pathivukal.Com does this, Pathivukal.Com will post the changes to these terms and conditions on the Service. Your continued use of the Service after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised terms and conditions.
If you do not comply with this Agreement at any time, Pathivukal.Com reserves the right to immediately cancel or terminate your access to the Service (or any part thereof) and/or your user account, if any. In Pathivukal.Com’s sole discretion and without prior notice or liability, Pathivukal.Com may discontinue, modify or alter any aspect of the Service including, but not limited to: (i) restricting the time the Service is available; (ii) restricting the amount of use permitted; and (iii) restricting or terminating any user’s right to use the Service. You agree that any termination or cancellation of your access to, or use of, the Service may be effected without prior notice. If you do not abide by the terms of this Agreement, you agree that we may immediately deactivate or delete your user account, if any, and all related information and/or files in your user account and/or bar any further access to such information and/or files and/or the Service (or part thereof). Further, you agree that Pathivukal.Com shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination or cancellation of your access to, or use of, the Service. You acknowledge that your only right with respect to any dissatisfaction with any modification or discontinuation of or to the Service, or any policies or practices by Pathivukal.Com in providing the Service, including without limitation any change in content, is to cease using the Service and cancel or terminate your subscription or Registered User account, as applicable.
2. Registered Users.
The Service is open to the public but certain portions, components, content and features of the Service (including purchases or access to eBooks) are only available
to individuals who register with Pathivukal.Com and create a user account on the Service (each, a “Registered User”). If you are a Registered User then you agree to the following:
(i) in consideration of your use of the Service, you represent that you are of the age of majority in the jurisdiction in which you reside, or 13 years old or older up to the age of majority in the jurisdiction in which you reside with the express written consent of your parent or legal guardian, and are not a person barred from receiving services under the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada or other applicable jurisdiction.You also agree to: (a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by any registration form(s) on the Service, including your geographical location and billing address (the “Registration Data”); and (b) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, Pathivukal.Com has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Service (or any portion thereof);
(ii) Registered Users will receive a password and account designation upon completing the Service registration process. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and account and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account. You agree to: (a) immediately notify Pathivukal.Com of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security; and (b) ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session.
Any personal information you provide in the registration form will be collected in accordance with, and for the express purposes set out in the Pathivukal.Com’s Privacy Policy.
3. Restrictions on Use.
These terms apply to all users of the Service, whether or not you are a Registered User.
A. You shall use the Service for lawful purposes only. you shall not post or transmit through the Service any material that (i) violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others, (ii) is unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, vulgar, obscene, profane or otherwise objectionable, or (iii) encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, gives rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any law. Without Pathivukal.Com’s express prior approval, you shall not post or transmit through the Service any material that contains advertising or any solicitation with respect to products or services. You shall not use the Service to advertise or perform any commercial solicitation, including, without limitation, the solicitation of users to become subscribers of other on-line information services. Any conduct by you that in Pathivukal.Com’s discretion restricts or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying the Service will not be permitted.
B. All content on the Service, including but not limited to designs, text, graphics, pictures, video, information, applications, software, music, sound and other files, and their selection and arrangement (“Site Content”), are the proprietary property of Pathivukal.Com or its licensors with all rights reserved. No Site Content may be modified, copied, distributed, framed, reproduced, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted, transmitted, or sold in any form or by any means, in whole or in part, without Pathivukal.Com’s prior written permission. Provided that you are eligible for use of the Service and subject to these Terms of Use, you are granted a limited license to access the Service and the Site Content and to download or print a copy of any portion of the Site Content to which you have properly gained access solely for your personal, non-commercial use, provided that you keep all copyright and other proprietary notices intact. You may not upload or republish Site Content on any Internet, Intranet or Extranet site or incorporate the information in any other database or compilation, and any other use of the Site Content is strictly prohibited. The foregoing license is subject to these Terms of Use and does not include use of any data mining, robots or similar data gathering or extraction methods.
Any use of the Service or the Site Content other than as specifically authorized herein, without the prior written permission of Pathivukal.Com, is strictly prohibited and will terminate the license granted herein. Such unauthorized use may also violate applicable laws including without limitation copyright and trade-mark laws and applicable communications regulations and statutes. Unless explicitly stated herein, nothing in these terms and conditions shall be construed as conferring any license to intellectual property rights, whether by estoppel, implication or otherwise. This license is revocable by Pathivukal.Com at any time without notice and with or without cause.
C. You shall not upload, post or otherwise make available on the Service any material protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right without the express permission of the owner of the copyright, trademark or other proprietary right and the burden of determining that any material is not protected by copyright rests with you. You shall be solely liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights, proprietary rights, or any other harm resulting from such a submission. By submitting material to any public area of the Service, you automatically grant, or warrant that the owner of such material has expressly granted Pathivukal.Com the royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, display, translate and distribute such material (in whole or in part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or hereafter developed. You also permit any other user of the Service to access, view, store or reproduce the material for that user’s personal use. You grant Pathivukal.Com the right to edit, copy, display, publish and distribute any material made available on the Service by you. The foregoing does not apply to literary works provided to Pathivukal.Com for sale on the Service by a publisher or other content provider.
D. You may not obscure or misrepresent your geographical location, forge headers, use proxies, use IP spoofing or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any message or transmittal you send on or through the Service. You may not pretend that you are, or that you represent, someone else, or impersonate any other individual or entity.
E. You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the Service, including, without limitation:
(a) accessing data not intended for you, including logging into a server or account which you not authorized to access;
(b) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization;
(c) using any “deep-link”, “page-scrape”, “robot”, “spider” or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Service or any Site Content, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Service or any Site Content, to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or information through any means not purposely made available through the Site;
(d) taking any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the infrastructure of the Service or Pathivukal.Com’s systems or networks, or any systems or networks connected to the Service or to Pathivukal.Com’
(e) conducting a reverse look-up, tracing or seeking to trace any information on any other user, Registered User or visitor to the Service, or any other customer of
Pathivukal.Com, to its source, or exploit the Service or any service or information made available or offered by or through the Service, in any way where the purpose
is to reveal any information, including but not limited to personal identification or information, other than your own information, as provided for by the Service;
(f) attempting to interfere with, disrupt or disable service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of “denial of service” attacks, overloading, “flooding”, “mailbombing” or “crashing”;
(g) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or newsgroup posting;
(h) disrupt network nodes or network services or otherwise restrict, inhibit, disrupt or impede Pathivukal.Com’s ability to monitor or make available the Service; or taking any action in order to obtain services to which you are not entitled.
Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. Pathivukal.Com will investigate occurrences which may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting any user (whether or not a Registered User) who is involved in such violations.
4. Disclaimer of Warranty; Limitation of Liability. A. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT USE OF THE WEBSITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. NEITHER Pathivukal.Com, ITS AFFILIATES NOR ANY OF
THEIR RESPECTIVE EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, THIRD PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS OR LICENSORS WARRANT THAT THE SITE WILL BE
UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE; NOR DO THEY MAKE ANY WARRANTY AS TO THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM USE OF THE WEBSITE, OR AS TO THE ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY INFORMATION, SERVICE OR MERCHANDISE PROVIDED THROUGH
THE WEBSITE.
B. THE WEBSITE IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. ADDITIONALLY, THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES AS TO THE RESULTS OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE WEBSITE.
C. IN NO EVENT WILL Pathivukal.Com, OR ANY PERSON OR ENTITY INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING OR DISTRIBUTING THE WEBSITE OR THE CONTENT INCLUDED THEREIN, BE LIABLE IN CONTRACT, IN TORT (INCLUDING FOR ITS OWN NEGLIGENCE) OR UNDER ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY (INCLUDING STRICT LIABILITY) FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, CONSEQUENTIAL OR SIMILAR DAMAGES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOST PROFITS OR REVENUES, LOSS OF USE OR SIMILAR ECONOMIC LOSS, ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE WEBSITE. YOU HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL APPLY TO ALL USE OF AND CONTENT ON THE WEBSITE. APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY OR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN NO EVENT SHALL Pathivukal.Com’S TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES AND CAUSES OF ACTION WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING ITS OWN NEGLIGENCE) OR UNDER ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY (INCLUDING STRICT LIABILITY) EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU, IF ANY, FOR ACCESSING THIS WEBSITE.
D. THE ABOVE DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY APPLIES TO ANY DAMAGES OR INJURY CAUSED BY ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INACCURACY, 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 THIS WEBSITE, WHETHER FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORTIOUS BEHAVIOR (INCLUDING STRICT LIABILITY), NEGLIGENCE, OR UNDER ANY OTHER CAUSE OF ACTION. YOU SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT Pathivukal.Com IS NOT LIABLE FOR THE DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF OTHER USERS OR THIRD-PARTIES AND THAT THE RISK OF INJURY FROM THE FOREGOING
RESTS ENTIRELY WITH YOU.
5. Monitoring.
Pathivukal.Com shall have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the content of the Service including any chat rooms and forums, to determine compliance with these Terms of Use and any operating rules established by Pathivukal.Com and to satisfy any law, regulation or authorized government request. Pathivukal.Com shall have the right in its sole discretion to edit, refuse to post or remove any material submitted to or posted on the Service. Without limiting the foregoing, Pathivukal.Com shall have the right to remove any material that Pathivukal.Com in its sole discretion, finds to be in violation of the provisions hereof, its CONTENT POLICY [INCLUDE LINK], or otherwise objectionable. Although Pathivukal.Com reserves the right to remove, without notice, any posting for any reason, Pathivukal.Com has no obligation to delete submissions that you may find objectionable or offensive.
6. Indemnification.
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Pathivukal.Com and its affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims, actions, demands, damages, costs, liabilities, losses and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of your use of the Service.
7. Trademarks.
Pathivukal.Com, Pathivukal.Combooks.com and related words, domain names and logos are trade-marks and the property of Pathivukal.Com Inc. All other trade- marks, product names and company names or logos cited herein are the property of their respective owners.
8. Third Party Content.
Pathivukal.Com has no more editorial control over content than does a public library, bookstore, or newsstand. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including content providers and users, are those of the respective author(s) or distributor(s) and not of Pathivukal.Com. In many instances, the content available through the Service represents the opinions and judgments of the respective content provider or user. Pathivukal.Com neither endorses nor is responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice or statement made on the Service by anyone other than authorized Pathivukal.Com employee spokespersons while acting in their official capacities.
9. Literary Works.
All literary works at Pathivukal.Combooks.com are the exclusive property of the publisher or its licensors and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. The download of these literary works is intended for Pathivukal.Com’s Registered Users’ personal and non-commercial use. Any other use of literary works downloaded from Pathivukal.Combooks.com is strictly prohibited. Registered Users may not modify, transmit, publish, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display, or in any way exploit, any of the content of these literary works, in whole or in part. By downloading literary works from Pathivukal.Combooks.com, the Registered User hereby acknowledges and agrees to these terms.
10. Public Domain.
Some of the literary works offered on the Service have been identified as being in the public domain by certain content providers. Pathivukal.Com does not verify the accuracy of public domain designations and is not liable for any damage that may result from the downloading or other use of such literary works by you. If you do not reside in the relevant jurisdiction for which the public domain designation has been made, it is your responsibility to check the laws of your country of residence prior to downloading or accessing such literary works.
11. Miscellaneous.
Infowhiz Systems. Inc. controls Pathivukal.Com from its offices within the Province of Ontario, Canada. The Service can be accessed from all provinces and territories of Canada and from other countries around the world. As each of these jurisdictions have laws that may differ from those of the Province of Ontario, by accessing the Service, you agree that all matters relating to access to, or use of, the Service, or any other hyperlinked website, shall be governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein. You also agree and hereby submit to the non-exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of the courts of the Province of Ontario and acknowledge that you do so voluntarily and are responsible for complying with all local laws.
Privacy Policy
Last updated on March 18, 2011
Infowhiz Systems Inc..(referred to herein as “We”, “Our” or “Us”) considers the protection of your personal information a top priority when you (“You” or “Your”)
use Our Pathivukal.Com Service. If You decide to access the Pathivukal.Com Service, Your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and
Our Terms and Conditions of Use. Our Policy regarding the collection, use and disclosure, if any, of personal information can be broken down into the 10 principles
covered in Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”).
1. ACCOUNTABILITY
•We are responsible for personal information under Our control.
•We have designated a Privacy Officer who is accountable for Our compliance with this Policy and all applicable privacy laws.
•All Our employees are responsible for day-to-day compliance.
•When We use trusted third parties, including Our affiliates and subsidiaries, to act on Our behalf by performing such functions as fulfilling orders, delivering
packages, processing credit card payments or providing customer service, contractual or other appropriate means are used to ensure compliance by such third
parties with this Policy and all applicable privacy laws.
•Our Website may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage Our users to be aware when
they leave Our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to
information collected by Us pursuant to the Pathivukal.Com Service. Please review the Terms of Use for more information..
(a) User Accounts and Personal Information
•Purchasing and submitting content from the Pathivukal.Com Service requires a user to register for an account. Personal information is required, including Your real
name, email address, password, and country of residence. If You are logged in, You will be identified by Your user name. This may be Your real name if You so
choose, or You may choose to publish under a pseudonym, whatever user name You selected when You created Your account.
•When making a purchase on Pathivukal.Com We will ask You for more information as is necessary to complete Your purchase, and will store that information in
Your account until You tell Us to remove it.
•We ask for some personal information when You create a Pathivukal.Com user account, including Your email address and a password, which is used to protect
Your account from unauthorized access.
•We may record information about Your usage, such as when and how often You use the Pathivukal.Com Service as well as information You display or click on
within the Pathivukal.Com Service (including UI elements, settings, and other information), and may share this information to trusted third parties, including Our
publishers or other suppliers of content.
•For magazine and newspaper subscriptions, We may be required to share personal information and other data regarding your account to Our publishers or other
suppliers of content, for their internal use only including for sales reports and aggregate circulation reporting. If you give Your consent, the applicable publisher or
supplier of content may contact you for marketing purposes.
•We may use Your usage information to vary Your experience. For example, We may present content that We think would be of interest to You, based on the
information We record about Your usage.
•When You visit Pathivukal.Com, We will collect Your browser type and IP address and may use that information to vary Your experience.
•If You are logged in, We may associate that information with Your account.
•We may use clear GIFs (a.k.a. “Web Beacons”) in HTML-based emails sent to Our Users to track which emails are opened by recipients.
•Any personal information or content that You voluntarily disclose online (in comments, reviews, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by
others. If You contribute to the Pathivukal.Com Service, You are publishing every word You post publicly. If You write something, assume that it may be retained
forever.
(b) Email
•When You create a Pathivukal.Com account, You can select whether We, or our trusted third parties, can send You emails related to the Pathivukal.Com Service
or the products purchased by You. You can change this option at any time via Your Account Settings.
•We reserve the right to send You important account related emails from time to time even if You have opted not to receive emails from us.
(c) Passwords
•Your User account is protected by a password chosen by You. Passwords protect the integrity of Your account.
•All Users are encouraged to select strong passwords and never to share them. You are prohibited from knowingly exposing the password of another User to public
release either directly or indirectly.
•Protect against unauthorized access to Your password and to Your computer by logging off once You have finished using a shared computer.
(d) Children Under 18 Years of Age
•You must be 13 years and older to register to use the Pathivukal.Com Service. As a result, the Pathivukal.Com Service does not specifically collect information
about children. If We learn that the Pathivukal.Com Service has collected information from a child under the age of 13, We will delete that information as quickly as
possible. Minors between the ages of 13 and the age of majority in the jurisdiction in which such minor resides must receive their parents’ permission before using
Pathivukal.Com or sending information about themselves or anyone else over the Internet.
(e) Cookies
•Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that We transfer to Your computer’s hard drive through Your Web browser to enable Our systems to recognize Your browser
and tell Us how and when pages in Our website are visited and by how many people. Pathivukal.Com cookies do not collect personal information, and We do not
combine information collected through cookies with other personal information to tell Us who You are or what Your screen name or e-mail address is.
•The “help” portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct You on how to prevent Your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the
browser to tell You when You receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. We recommend that You leave the cookies activated because cookies may
allow You to make use of some Pathivukal.Com Service features.
•Some of Our business partners, like Our advertisers, may use cookies on Our website. We have no access to, or control over, these cookies.
(f) Private Logging
•Every time You visit a web page, You send information to the web server. Most web servers routinely maintain access logs with a portion of this information, which
can be used to get an overall picture of what pages are popular, what other sites link to this one, and what web browsers people are using.
•These logs are used to produce site statistics; the raw log data is not made public.
•Log data may be examined by developers and administrators in the course of solving technical problems and in tracking down badly-behaved web spiders that
overwhelm the site. IP addresses of Users, derived either from those logs or from records in the database are frequently used to correlate usernames and network
addresses in investigating abuse of the Pathivukal.Com Service, including vandalism, harassment of other users, or other disruptions of the site.
2. IDENTIFYING PURPOSES
•We collect Your personal information for the general purpose of providing You with the Pathivukal.Com Service as described in the Terms of Use and for any
specific purposes identified in, or in accordance with, this Policy. Without limiting the foregoing, we collect personal information in order to fulfill Your orders, process
Your payments, collect amounts You owe, respond to Your requests for information and service, communicate with You, conduct internal research to understand
Your needs and improve Our service, enforce Our Terms of Use; manage and administer Our Pathivukal.Com business, where required, to provide sales reports to
Our publishers and other suppliers of content, and as otherwise required or permitted by law.
•Unless the purpose is self-evident due to the nature of the transaction in question, We will identify the purposes for which personal information is collected at or
before the time the information is collected.
•The proposed purposes will be described in a reasonably understandable manner.
•An example of a self-evident purpose is requesting the name and address of the person during the Pathivukal.Com Service registration process in order to provide
such User with access to the service.
3.CONSENT
•We will collect, use or disclose Your personal information only with Your knowledge and consent, except where required or permitted by law or this Policy.
•We will not make Your consent a requirement to the supply of a product or a service other than required to be able to supply the product or service.
•Consent can be express or, in some circumstances, implied, and given in writing, by using or not using a check-off box, electronically, orally (in person or by
telephone), or by Your conduct, such as use of a product or service.
•In determining the type of consent to obtain, We will consider all relevant factors, including the sensitivity of the information and Your reasonable expectations.
•You may withdraw Your consent at any time, on reasonable notice, subject to legal or contractual restrictions. We will inform You of the implications of doing so.
Your withdrawal will apply to future collection, use or disclosure only.
4.LIMITING COLLECTION
•Our collection of personal information will be limited to what is necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy or which we otherwise identify at or before the time
of collection.
•We will collect personal information by fair and lawful means.
5. LIMITING USE, DISCLOSURE, AND RETENTION
•Personal information will not be used or disclosed for purposes other than those for which it was collected, except with Your consent or as required or permitted by
law or this Policy.
•It will be retained only as long as necessary for these purposes or as required by law.
•For greater certainty, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, it is Our policy that personally identifiable data collected in the Pathivukal.Com Service server
logs may be released by Our system administrators in the following situations:
1.In response to a court order, subpoena or other compulsory legal process;
2.With permission of the affected User;
3.To Our executives, legal counsel, or their designees, when necessary for investigation of abuse complaints;
4.Where the information pertains to page views generated by a spider or bot and its dissemination is necessary to illustrate or resolve technical issues;
5.Where the User is causing damage or degradation to the Pathivukal.Com Service or persistently behaving in a disruptive way, data may be released to assist in the
targeting of IP blocks, or to assist in the formulation of a complaint to the relevant Internet Service Providers;
6.Where it is reasonably necessary to protect Our rights, property or safety, or the rights, property or safety of the Users of the Pathivukal.Com Service or the
public;
7.To trusted third parties, including Our affiliates and subsidiaries, who act on Our behalf in providing the Pathivukal.Com Service, and, in the case of newspaper and
magazine subscriptions, to Our publishers and other suppliers of content (in which case contractual or other appropriate means will be used to ensure compliance by
such third parties with this Policy and all applicable privacy laws).
•In addition, Your personal information may be used and disclosed or transferred to one or more other parties, including Our affiliates and subsidiaries, (individually, a
“Third Party”) during the course of a purchase and sale transaction, merger, amalgamation, consolidation, joint venture or other type of business combination,
reorganization or restructuring or financing of all or part of Our business or assets (a “business transaction”), including for the purpose of permitting a Third Party to
determine whether to proceed with such business transaction.
•In such case, We will disclose Your personal information only if:
1.the personal information is necessary for the parties to determine whether to proceed with the business transaction and, if the determination is to proceed, to carry
out and complete the business transaction;
2.the Third Party has entered into an appropriate agreement under which the use and disclosure of Your personal information is restricted to:
•(i) purposes that relate to the business transaction; and
•(ii) where the business transaction is completed, those purposes for which the information was initially collected or subsequently authorized by You;
3.the disclosure is only of personal information collected by Us as part of the Pathivukal.Com Service; and
4.where the business transaction is completed, such Third Party is required to continue to use and disclose Your personal information in a manner that is, in all material respects, consistent with the provisions of this Policy, unless You consent otherwise. Subject to any legal and contractual restrictions, You will be notified as soon as reasonably possible following the completion of any business transaction during which, or as a result of which, Your personal information was transferred or disclosed to a Third Party. You agree that such notice may be given by posting an announcement on the Pathivukal.Com Website.
6.ACCURACY
•We will keep Your personal information as accurate, complete and up-to-date as necessary for the purposes for which it is to be used.
7.SAFEGUARDS
•We will protect personal information by security safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information, including through the use of the following measures:
physical (e.g., locked filing cabinets, restricted access, appropriate disposal of personal information), organizational (e.g., security clearances, access only on a “need to know” basis), technological (e.g., passwords, encryption) and training of employees.
8.OPENNESS
•Information about Our policies and practices relating to the management of personal information will be made readily available to individuals
9.INDIVIDUAL ACCESS
•Upon request, We will inform You of the existence, use and disclosure of personal information relating to You and, except in certain circumstances, give You access to that information. You have the right to challenge the accuracy and completeness of Your information and have it amended as appropriate.
•In certain circumstances permitted by law, access to Your personal information will not be provided to You. Some examples of these circumstances are where the information contains references to other individuals, cannot be disclosed for legal, security or commercial proprietary reasons, or is subject to solicitor-client or litigation privilege.
•We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of thirteen or knowingly allow such persons to register. If You are under the age of thirteen, please do not attempt to register or send any information about Yourself to Us, including Your name, address, telephone number, or email address. In the event that We learn that We have collected personal information from an individual under the age of thirteen, We will remove that information as quickly as possible. If You believe that We might have any information from or about a person under the age of eighteen, please Contact Us.
10.CONTACTING US AND/OR CHALLENGING COMPLIANCE
For anything to do with this Policy, including questions or comments, or to challenge Our compliance with this Policy, please contact Us as follows:
Privacy Officer Nav Giri
Navgiri@rogers.com
We will inform individuals who make enquiries or lodge complaints about Our enquiry or complaint procedures, as applicable. If a complaint is found to be justified, We will take appropriate measures, including, if necessary, amending Our policies and practices.
Effective Date of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of February 23rd, 2011 and last updated March 18, 2011.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
This Policy is subject to PIPEDA and/or any other applicable privacy laws and Our right to amend this Policy from time to time, in Our sole discretion. By using the Pathivukal.Com Website, You signify Your agreement to this Policy. If We make material changes to this Policy, We will notify You by posting an announcement on the Pathivukal.Com Website. Changes to this Policy will become effective when those changes are posted to the Pathivukal.Com Website. Your continued use of the Pathivukal.Com Website and Pathivukal.Com Service following the posting of any changes to this Policy shall constitute Your acceptance of those changes