Terms & Conditions

Women in Film India (“WIF India”) is pleased to provide you access to its website. These terms of use govern your use and our provision of the platform, Women in Film India: [www.womeninfilmindia.org]. PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE (“TERMS”) CAREFULLY BEFORE USING OUR PLATFORM. 

Contract between You and Us

This is a contract between you (“You”) and WIF India, a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956.  You must read and agree to these Terms before using or accessing our Platform. You agree that by clicking, “Sign Up” or similar, you are agreeing to enter into a legally binding contract with WIF India. If you do not agree to this contract (“Contract” or “Terms of Use”), do not click, “Sign Up” (or similar) and do not access or otherwise use our Platform. If you wish to terminate this contract, at any time you can do so by closing your account and no longer accessing or using our Platform. These Terms supersede prior agreements or arrangements.

Registered users of our Platform are “Members” and unregistered users are “Visitors”. These Terms apply to both Members and Visitors. 

Use of our Platform is available only to persons who can form a legally binding contract under the Indian Contract Act, 1872. 

Supplemental terms and conditions may apply to some our Platform, such as rules for a particular service or other activity, or terms that may accompany certain content accessible through our Platform.  Supplemental terms and conditions will be disclosed to You in connection with the applicable service or activity. Any supplemental terms and conditions are in addition to these terms, and in the event of a conflict, prevail over these Terms.

WIF India may amend these Terms at WIF India’s sole discretion and make best efforts to notify You when major changes are made. Your continued use of our Platform following the posting of changes and/or modifications will constitute Your acceptance of the revised Terms. Nothing in these Terms shall be deemed to confer any third-party rights or benefits upon You. Notwithstanding the above, if any change to these Terms is found invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that change is severable and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining changes or conditions.

WIF India may immediately terminate this contract with respect to You (including Your access to our Platform) if You fail to comply with any provision of these Terms.

You undertake and warrant that You will periodically review the Terms provided at [www.womeninfilmindia.org] and that Your consent to the same shall be construed by the continuous access or use of our Platform. 

Purpose

Our Platform is designed to promote and encourage women  filmmakers in India and provide them with a platform to meet, exchange ideas, learn, and find opportunities for collaboration. WIF India provides a platform where creative minds can approach each other for collaboration for future projects. 

In the event, You are interested in contacting any Member using our Platform, You may intimate WIF India regarding the same. WIF India shall then basis your i.e., the contacting party’s requirements liaise between the Members. It is hereby clarified that the parties may at their sole discretion conduct a due diligence of the other party at any time before entering into a written contract, and Magnetar shall in no manner be responsible or liable for any claims from any party.

WIF India shall not be liable for any disputes arising between the parties who meet/e-meet each other through the Platform. For clarity, WIF India will only act as a platform to connect the parties. If there is any dispute between the parties including but not limited to with respect to plagiarism or copyright infringement, WIF India shall not be made a party to such dispute. All such disputes should be resolved between the parties without any recourse to WIF India in any manner whatsoever.

 

You hereby agrees to indemnify and hold harmless and keep indemnified WIF India and its assignees/licensees from and against any and all loss, damages, claims arising from or out of or in connection with (a) any obligation, representation, warranty, undertaking or covenant hereby made/agreed/undertaken by You under these Terms turning out to be false, untrue, misleading, incorrect and/or breached; (b) any third party claims including but not limited to  the intellectual property rights of a third party.

You acknowledge and agree that WIF India will collect and receive personally identifiable information submitted by You, including without limitation, Your name, age, gender, phone number, physical address, Permanent Account Number and/or Aadhar Number, and such information will be used by WIF India for purposes of performing its obligations under these Terms.  

You further acknowledge and agree that WIF India may disclose, at its sole discretion, such information to its affiliates and other Members for the purpose stated hereunder and You shall have no objection and/or claim against Magnetar in respect thereof. 

WIF India does not verify, endorse or take responsibility for the accuracy, currency, completeness or quality of the information or content contained on the Platform. All trademarks, service marks, trade names, trade dress and other intellectual property rights on our Platform are owned by us or our licensors or licensees or any affiliate companies.  Except as we specifically agree in writing, no element of our Platform may be used or exploited in any way. We do not transfer title to any portion of our Platform to You. Nothing provided by any brand owned or licensed by WIF India should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppels or otherwise, any license or right of use of any trademark displayed on our Platform without the written permission of Magnetar.  

  • Account

Our Platform requires You to create an account to participate.  

You may register yourself on the Platform in order to become a Member on our Platform by creating an account and signing up on the Platform. You shall provide a valid email address and mobile number, as mentioned on your Aadhaar card.  

You agree to provide and maintain accurate, current and complete information, including Your contact information for notices and other communications from WIF India. You shall provide WIF India with your complete details to create a profile. You agree to inform WIF India immediately of any changes to the information that You provided when registering. You agree not to impersonate or misrepresent Your affiliation with any person or entity, including using another person’s username, password or other account information, or another person’s name or likeness.  You agree that WIF India may take steps to verify the accuracy of information you provide. You may never use another’s account without permission. You undertake not to impersonate any person or entity, falsely state or otherwise misrepresent Your affiliation with a person or entity or disguise the origin of any content, stalk or otherwise harass another person.

Passwords and Security

You are responsible for taking reasonable steps to maintain the confidentiality of Your username and password, and You are responsible for all activities under Your account that You can reasonably control. You should take all necessary steps to ensure that the password is kept confidential and secure and You agree to promptly notify us if You have any reason to believe any unauthorized use of Your username, password or other account information, or of any other breach of security that You become aware of involving our Platform. Although WIF India will not be liable for Your losses caused by any unauthorized use of Your account, You may be liable for the losses of WIF India or others due to such unauthorized use.

The security, integrity and confidentiality of Your information are extremely important to us. We have implemented technical, administrative and physical security measures that are designed to protect Your information from unauthorized access, disclosure, use and modification.

  • Electronic Communications

When You use our Platform, or send e-mails to us, You are communicating with us electronically. You consent to receive communications from us electronically. We will communicate with You by e-mail, SMS, phone call or by posting notices on this Platform. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to You electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. You shall communicate electronically with us at [info@wifindia.org].  You further acknowledge and agree that any such communication, by phone or SMS, would constitute a “Transactional Message” as per the Telecom Commercial Communication Customer Preference Regulations, 2010, notified by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.

Collection and Storage of Information

WIF India may collect, directly from You and/or from a third-party source, and thereafter store, inter alia, all the information provided to WIF India when a User registers on the Platform including all the information detailed in these Terms (“Information”). 

Depending on the circumstances, Information may constitute Sensitive Personal Data or Information (“SPDI”), as defined in the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011 (“Privacy Rules”), and would be collected, stored, processed, transferred, disclosed and destroyed in accordance with the WIF India’s privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”). 

By using the Platform and/or by clicking accept, you expressly consent to the collection and use of your Information in accordance with these Terms and the Privacy Policy.

Transfer of Information 

The Company may transfer and/or disclose your Information to its affiliates, group entities for the limited purpose as mentioned herein. Information will be transferred in accordance with applicable laws, and only to entities and jurisdictions which ensure the same or greater level of data protection that is adhered to by the Company under the Privacy Rules.

By using the Platform, and by clicking accept, you expressly consent to the transfer and disclosure of your Information in such manner, and to such recipients, as set out in the clause above. You further agree and acknowledge that such transfer is necessary for the purpose herein.

  • Your Conduct

You must not use our Platform in any way that causes, or is likely to cause, the Platform or access to it to be interrupted, damaged or impaired in any way. You understand that You, and not WIF India, is responsible for all electronic communications and content sent from Your device to WIF India and You must use the Platform for lawful purposes only. You must not use the Platform for any of the following:

  1. For fraudulent purposes, or in connection with a criminal offense or other unlawful activity;
  2. To upload, send, use or reuse any material that does not belong to You; or is illegal, offensive (including but not limited to material that is sexually explicit content or which promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm), deceptive, misleading, abusive, indecent, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, libelous, obscene, pornographic, pedophilic or menacing; ethnically objectionable, disparaging or in breach of copyright, trademark, confidentiality, privacy or any other proprietary information or right; or is otherwise injurious to third parties; or relates to or promotes money laundering or gambling; or is harmful to minors in any way; or impersonates another person; or threatens the unity, integrity, security or sovereignty of India or friendly relations with foreign States; or objectionable or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatsoever; or which consists of or contains software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings or any spam;
  3. To cause annoyance and/or inconvenience;
  4. Create a false identity, misrepresent your identity, create a Member profile for anyone other than yourself (a real person), or use or attempt to use another’s account;
  5. Develop, support or use software, devices, scripts, robots, or any other means or processes (including crawlers, browser plugins and add-ons, or any other technology) to scrape our Platform or otherwise copy profiles and other data from our Platform.
  6. Override any security feature or bypass or circumvent any access controls or use limits of our Platform (such as caps on keyword searches or profile views);
  7. Copy, use, disclose or distribute any information obtained from our Platform, whether directly or through third parties (such as search engines), without the consent of WIF India; 
  8. Disclose information that you do not have the consent to disclose (such as confidential information of others (including your employer);
  9. Use bots or other automated methods to access our Platform, add or download contacts, send or redirect messages; 
  10. Monitor our Platform’s performance or functionality for any competitive purpose; 
  11. Engage in “framing”, “mirroring”, or otherwise simulating the appearance or function of our Platform.    

You may not redistribute, circumvent or disable any content protection system or digital rights management technology used with our Platform; decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise reduce our Platform to a human-readable form; remove identification, copyright or other proprietary notices; or access or use our Platform in an unlawful or unauthorized manner or in a manner that suggests an association with our Platform.

  • Disclaimers and Limitation on Liability

THE INFORMATION ON OUR PLATFORM IS “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”. WE DISCLAIM ALL CONDITIONS, REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES NOT EXPRESSLY SET OUT IN THESE TERMS.

WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOST PROFITS, REVENUE OR SAVINGS OR OTHER ECONOMIC LOSS, LOSS OF OR DAMAGE TO DATA OR LOSS OF BUSINESS OR GOODWILL AND OR PROPERTY DAMAGE, EVEN IF WE WERE ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, NOR SHALL WE BE HELD LIABLE FOR DELAY OR FAILURE IN PERFORMANCE RESULTING FROM CAUSES BEYOND OUR REASONABLE CONTROL.

IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH OUR PLATFORM, OR WITH THESE TERMS, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE ACCESSING OR USING OUR PLATFORM.

UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED, OUR PLATFORM IS PRESENTED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF BRINGING PROFESSIONALS TOGETHER AND FOR OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF INDIA. WIF India MAKES NO REPRESENTATION THAT MATERIALS, CONTENT ON THE PLATFORM ARE APPROPRIATE OR AVAILABLE FOR USE IN OTHER LOCATIONS. THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO ACCESS THIS PLATFORM FROM OTHER LOCATIONS DO SO ON THEIR OWN INITIATIVE AND ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPLIANCE WITH LOCAL LAWS, IF AND TO THE EXTENT LOCAL LAWS ARE APPLICABLE.

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND UNDERTAKE THAT YOU ARE ACCESSING OUR PLATFORM AND TRANSACTING AT YOUR OWN RISK AND ARE USING YOUR BEST AND PRUDENT JUDGMENT BEFORE ENTERING INTO OUR PLATFORM. WE SHALL NEITHER BE LIABLE NOR RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ACTIONS OR INACTIONS OF MEMBERS NOR ANY BREACH OF CONDITIONS, REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES BY THE MEMBERS AND HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM AND ANY ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND LIABILITY IN THAT REGARD. WE SHALL NOT MEDIATE OR RESOLVE ANY DISPUTE OR DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND THE MEMBERS.

  1. Additional Restrictions on Use of the our Platform

You agree not to knowingly or recklessly introduce a virus or other harmful component, or otherwise tamper with, impair or damage our Platform or connected network, or interfere with any person or entity’s use or enjoyment of our Platform.  Additionally, You agree not to access, monitor or copy any element of our Platform using a robot, spider, scraper or other automated means or manual process without our express written permission.     

You agree not to use or launch any automated system, including without limitation, “robots,” “spiders,” or “offline readers,” that accesses our Platform in a manner that sends more request messages to WIF India’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. Notwithstanding the foregoing, WIF India grants the operators of public search engines permission to use spiders to copy materials from the Platform for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent necessary for creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials. WIF India reserves the right to revoke these exceptions either generally or in specific cases. 

  1. Third Party Hyperlinks

The appearance of external hyperlinks and/or other elements generated by third parties on this Platform does not constitute endorsement by WIF India and/or its affiliate companies of the opinions or views expressed by such third parties’ websites. WIF India does not verify, endorse or take responsibility for the accuracy, currency, completeness or quality of the content contained on these third parties’ sites. Furthermore, WIF India is not responsible for the information offered, accessed, obtained by or advertised at such third parties’ sites. As such, WIF India will not be responsible for content provided on any third party website, and further WIF India will under no circumstances be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental or special loss or other damage, whether arising from negligence, breach of contract, defamation, infringement of copyright or other intellectual property rights, caused by the exhibition, distribution or exploitation of any information or content contained within these third party hyperlinked websites. 

  1. Your Content and Account

User Generated Content

Our Platform may allow You to communicate, submit, upload or otherwise make available text, images, or other content (“User Generated Content”), which may be accessible and viewable by the public. You may not submit or upload User Generated Content that is unlawful, abusive, tortuous, profane, pedophilic, racially or ethnically or otherwise objectionable, defamatory, harassing, threatening, bigoted, hateful, violent, vulgar, obscene, pornographic, or otherwise offensive or that harms or can reasonably be expected to harm any person or entity, whether or not such material is protected by law.

We do not claim ownership to Your User Generated Content; however, You grant us a non-exclusive, sub licensable, irrevocable perpetual and royalty-free worldwide license under all copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, privacy and publicity rights and other intellectual property rights to use, reproduce, transmit, print, publish, publicly display, exhibit, distribute, redistribute, copy, index, comment on, modify, adapt, make available and otherwise exploit, commercially or otherwise, such User Generated Content, in whole or in part, in all media formats now known or hereafter devised (including in connection with our Platform and on third-party sites and platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and X), in any number of copies and without limit as to time, manner and frequency of use, without further notice to You, with or without attribution, and without the requirement of permission from or payment to You or any other person or entity. The User Generated Content may be subject to such additional terms and conditions provided by WIF India at the time of submission.

You represent and warrant that Your User Generated Content conforms to these Terms and that You own or have the necessary rights and permissions, without the need for payment to any other person or entity, to use and exploit, and to authorize us to use and exploit, Your User Generated Content in all manners contemplated by these Terms.  You agree to indemnify and hold us and our subsidiary and affiliated companies, and each of their respective employees and officers, harmless from any demands, loss, liability, claims or expenses (including attorneys’ fees), made against us by any third party arising out of or in connection with our use and exploitation of Your User Generated Content. You also agree not to enforce any moral rights, ancillary rights or similar rights in or to the User Generated Content against us or our licensees, distributors, agents, representatives and other authorized users, and agree to procure the same agreement not to enforce from others who may possess such rights. WIF India reserves the right to decide whether the User Generated Content or any other content violates this Terms.

  • Claims against Objectionable Content

We operate on a “notice and takedown” basis. If You believe that any content on our Platform is illegal, offensive (including but not limited to material that is sexually explicit content or which promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm), deceptive, misleading, abusive, indecent, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, libelous, obscene, pornographic, pedophilic or menacing; ethnically objectionable, disparaging; or is otherwise injurious to third parties; or relates to or promotes money laundering or gambling; or is harmful to minors in any way; or impersonates another person; or threatens the unity, integrity, security or sovereignty of India or friendly relations with foreign States; or objectionable or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatsoever; or which consists of or contains software viruses, (“Objectionable Content”), please notify us immediately by sending us a notice. WIF India will make all reasonable endeavours to remove such Objectionable Content complained about within a reasonable time.

  • Other content

In the event a user uses a false e-mail address, impersonates any person or entity, or otherwise misleads as to the origin of any content, WIF India reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove, refuse, delete or edit any content that in the sole judgment of WIF India violates these Terms and, or terminate Your permission to access or use this Platform. If You do post content or submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, You (a) grant WIF India and its affiliates a non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual and fully sub licensable rights to use, reproduce, publish and display such content throughout the world in any media; and (b) WIF India and its affiliates and sub-licensees the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, if they choose.

You agree to indemnify WIF India and its affiliates for all claims brought by a third party against it or its affiliates arising out of or in connection with a breach of any of the warranties.  

  1. Additional Provisions

WIF India has the right to temporarily suspend or terminate the contract with You with immediate effect if there are reasons to suspect that You have violated the Terms or any applicable laws, rules and regulations or, additionally, if User is otherwise using our Platform in a way that may cause damage to WIF India or any third party. 

If You are dissatisfied with our Platform, the materials available on it, or with these Terms, Your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue accessing or using our Platform.

These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Republic of India. You waive any claims that You might have against WIF India based on any other jurisdiction including your own.

If any provision of these Terms shall be unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these Terms and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

The provisions of these Terms, which by their nature should survive the termination of these Terms, shall survive such termination.

No waiver of any provision of these Terms by us shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such provision or any other provision, and our failure to assert any right or provision under these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

These Terms of Service, and any rights and licenses granted hereunder, may not be transferred or assigned by You, but may be assigned by WIF India without restriction.

Please read the conditions of use carefully before using our Platform. By using our Platform, you signify your agreement to be bound by these conditions.

  • Force Majeure

 

WIF India shall not be liable to you for any breach of its obligations or termination under these Terms arising from causes beyond its reasonable control, including, but not limited to, pandemics, fires, and other acts of God, terrorism, strikes, delay caused by transport disputes, failure to provide a course caused by a death in the trainer’s family, illness of the trainer, Government edict of regulation.

  1. Grievance officer

The name and contact details of Our Grievance Officer/customer care are as follows:

Email: info@wifindia.org

The Grievance Officer/customer care can be contacted to report abuse, or to complain against any content hosted, transmitted, published, updated or shared on the Platform.