Terms of Service

General

Except as expressly provided in a particular “Legal Notice” on particular web pages, the Terms of Service and its referenced parts constitute the entire agreement between you and TheSouthReports.com with respect to the use of TheSouthReports.com websites and services, superseding any prior agreements. The section titles in this agreement are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. The Terms of Service is accepted upon your use of the websites and services and is further affirmed by you becoming a member. TheSouthReports.com reserves the right to change the Terms of Service at any time. The changes will appear on this web page.

Access to and use of websites and services

TheSouthReports.com is accessible to anyone with Internet access. Access to and use of TheSouthReports.com websites and services are subject to the Terms of Service as described below and all applicable laws and regulations.

Please read this agreement carefully before using the website or any services offered by TheSouthReports.com. By accessing any services offered by TheSouthReports.com, you accept, without limitation or qualification, all of the Terms of Service as stated below. If you do not wish to be bound by the Terms of Service, you should not access or use any website or service offered by TheSouthReports.com.

Your use of TheSouthReports.com is at your own risk. If you are dissatisfied with any of the websites, services, materials or other contents of TheSouthReports.com or with the Terms of Service, TheSouthReports.com’s Privacy Policy, Copyright Policy or other policies, your sole remedy is to discontinue use of TheSouthReports.com.

Minimum age

TheSouthReports.com is not directed to users younger than 13 and is offered only to users 13 years of age or older. Any person who provides his or her personal information through TheSouthReports.com represents that she or he is 13 years of age or older.

Services

TheSouthReports.com contains discussion forums, chat rooms, review sections, photo galleries, member timelines and other interactive features (collectively, the “service”). You acknowledge and agree that all information, code, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, pictures, graphics, video, chat, messages, files, links and other materials (collectively, “content”), whether posted publicly or privately, are the sole responsibility of the person from which such content originated. This means that you, and not TheSouthReports.com, are entirely responsible for all content that you publish, post, upload, distribute, disseminate or otherwise transmit (collectively, “post”) via the service.

TheSouthReports.com does not attempt to monitor the entire content of the service (including but not limited to the discussion of forums) and takes no responsibility for such content. Instead, TheSouthReports.com merely provides access to such content as a service to you.

By its very nature, the content posted on the service (including but not limited to the discussion forums) may carry offensive, indecent, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate material, or in some cases, postings that have been mislabelled or are otherwise deceptive. Under no circumstances will TheSouthReports.com be liable in any way for any content, including, but not limited to, for any errors or omissions in any content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any content posted via the service. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such content.

No endorsement

TheSouthReports.com does not endorse, support, represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any communications or content posted via the service. These communications and posts express the views of the author and not necessarily the views of TheSouthReports.com. You acknowledge that any reliance on content posted via the service (including but not limited to the discussion forums) will be at your own risk.

No obligation to monitor

TheSouthReports.com does not control the information delivered via the service, and TheSouthReports.com has no obligation to monitor the content of the service. However, TheSouthReports.com reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, for any reason whatsoever, in TheSouthReports.com’s sole discretion.

Registration

When you register to the Service, you must:

  1. Personally provide true, accurate and complete registration information on the registration form (collectively, the “registration data”),
  2. Maintain and promptly update the registration data as necessary to keep it true, accurate, current and complete,
  3. Fully read and agree to the entire Terms of Service for TheSouthReports.com
  4. Confirm and validate your email address as part of the registration process.

As part of the registration process, you will be asked to select a username and password and you will be responsible for all activities occurring under your username and for keeping your password secure. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or if TheSouthReports.com has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, TheSouthReports.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). You may only register one account with the following exception: You may register a second account to post information on the forums that you perceive as personal and prefer not to be publicly associated with your first account. Registering additional accounts with the purpose of violating the Terms of Service will result in the appropriate administrative action being applied to all registered accounts (as well as all duplicate accounts being terminated).

Closing account

If at any time you wish to close your registered account you can do so by clicking on ‘Leave The South Reports’ in your profile page settings. Or you can email us at for assistance with the closure of your registered account.

Members

The term “member” refers to a user of the site who has completed registration and has obtained a username. A member is in no way affiliated, paid by, or otherwise compensated by TheSouthReports.com. Members have no control over the operation or presentation of TheSouthReports.com other than the ability to post and in some cases to moderate content in discussion forums. These limited abilities should in no way imply a relationship or affiliation with TheSouthReports.com. Their actions and liabilities are fully bound by the Terms of Service. Any opinions or statements made by a member do not necessarily reflect the opinions or beliefs of TheSouthReports.com.

TheSouthReports.com’s rights

If TheSouthReports.com discovers content or communications that allegedly do not conform to any term of the Terms of Service, TheSouthReports.com may investigate the allegation and determine in good faith and in its sole discretion whether to remove or request the removal of the communication or content. TheSouthReports.com will have no liability or responsibility for performance or non-performance of such activities. TheSouthReports.com reserves the right to terminate or restrict your access to any or all of the service at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever.

Termination and suspension

You agree that TheSouthReports.com may, without prior notice and for any reason whatsoever, immediately terminate or suspend (for a period of time determined at the sole discretion of TheSouthReports.com) your member account and access to the service. Cause for such termination may include, but not be limited to, (a) breaches or violations of the Terms of Service or other incorporated agreements or guidelines, (b) requests by law enforcement or other government agencies, (c) a request by you, (d) discontinuance or material modification to the service (or any part thereof), (e) unexpected technical or security issues or problems, (f) extended periods of inactivity, and/or (g) you have engaged in fraudulent or illegal activities.

Termination or suspension of your member account may include, but not be limited to, (a) removal of access to the service, (b) deletion of your password and all related information, files and content associated with or inside your member account (or any part thereof), and (c) barring further use of the service (or any part thereof). Further, you agree that all terminations and suspensions shall be made at TheSouthReports.com’s sole discretion and that TheSouthReports.com shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any suspension or termination of your account or access to the service (or any part thereof). You agree that if your member account is terminated or suspended you will not attempt to bypass the termination or suspension by any method including, but not limited to, registering additional member accounts.

Privacy

You acknowledge that the service contains public and not private communications and content, and that therefore others may read your communications and content you posted without your knowledge. Always use caution when posting any personally identifying content about yourself, your children or anyone else via the service. Generally, any communication or content that you post to the service is considered to be non-confidential. If a particular feature of the service permits the submission of communications that will be treated by TheSouthReports.com as confidential, that fact will be explicitly stated on those pages. Your use of TheSouthReports.com is also subject to our Privacy Policy.

Storage

Many features of the service store information on behalf of users. Examples include, but are not limited to, email messages, personal messages, images, profile information, chat, web pages, calendar functions, timelines and posts. TheSouthReports.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to limit the amount of storage space available per user or to delete materials stored for an excessive period while the user’s account has been inactive.

Nuking and archiving

You may request removal of content that you have posted yourself. In contrast, you agree to resolve directly and exclusively with third parties any disputes you may have about messages that they posted. In this regard, you understand that TheSouthReports.com does not monitor or control the content or communications posted by others, and instead simply provides a service by allowing users to access content via the service that has been made publicly available.

Member disputes

You are solely responsible for your interactions with other members. TheSouthReports.com reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other members.

Permitted uses

You agree that you are responsible for any content and communications that you post and for any consequences thereof. You agree to use the service (including but not limited to the discussion forums) only to send and receive messages, material, and in general content that is in conformity with or permitted by law (legal), proper and if part of the discussion forums then also related to the particular subject matter. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using the Service, you will not:

  1. Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others;
  2. Post content intended to degrade, intimidate, or incite violence or prejudicial action against a broad demographic or group of people identified by a unifying trait or characteristic (discrimination). For instance, racist or sexist content may be considered hate speech;
  3. Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate or offer to do the same any inappropriate, defamatory, infringing, obscene, or unlawful material, information, or in general, content;
  4. Post any content that infringes any patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret or other proprietary right of any party (the “Rights”), unless you are the owner of the rights or have the permission of the owner to post or transmit content;
  5. Post any files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another’s computer;
  6. Advertise or offer to sell any goods or services for any commercial purpose, other than in areas of the service that are intended for such uses;
  7. Advertise or offer to sell any services or products on the forums without the written permission of TheSouthReports.com;
  8. Post so-called SPAM;
  9. Conduct or forward surveys, contests, pyramid schemes or chain letters, other than in areas of the service intended for such uses;
  10. Download any file posted by another user that you know, or reasonably should know, that cannot be legally distributed in such manner;
  11. Impersonate another person or entity, or falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is posted;
  12. Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the forums;
  13. Make comments in a post either direct or implied toward another member that are purposely designed to upset, antagonize, make fun of, belittle, or otherwise instigate an argument that takes away from the personal enjoyment of the service by other users;
  14. Post any information obtained or originally transmitted in confidence or with the implied belief that the message was to be kept in confidence without the express permission of the original author of the communication. Additionally any direct communication (with the exception of publicly viewable posts on the discussion forums) between administrators or moderators and a member are strictly prohibited from being posted to the discussion forums or retransmitted in any way;
  15. Start a topic duplicating a previous topic or portion of a topic that was determined to be a violation of the Terms of Service by a moderator or administrator;
  16. Use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other device to retrieve or index any portion of the service or collect information about users for any unauthorized purpose;
  17. Submit content that falsely expresses or implies that such content is sponsored or endorsed by TheSouthReports.com;
  18. Create user accounts by automated means or under false or fraudulent pretences; and
  19. Condone or instruct, either directly or indirectly, others on how to commit fraudulent or illegal immigration activities in any way, shape, manner or method.

No solicitation

You shall not distribute on or through the service or to any persons or entities identified via TheSouthReports.com any content or material containing solicitations or advertising of any kind without the express prior written permission of TheSouthReports.com. In the discussion forums you may discuss or recommend third-party websites, goods or services, so long as you have no financial interest in and receive no direct or indirect benefit from such websites, products or services, or the recommendation of such.

No resale of service

You agree not to sell, resell, or offer for any commercial purposes, any portion of the TheSouthReports.com website or services, use of the TheSouthReports.com websites and services, or access to the TheSouthReports.com websites and services.

Links to other sites

The TheSouthReports.com websites and services contain links to third party websites that are maintained by others. These links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by TheSouthReports.com of the contents on such third party websites. TheSouthReports.com is not responsible for the content of linked third party sites and does not make any representations regarding the content or accuracy of materials on such third party websites. If you decide to access linked third party websites, you do so at your own risk.

Advertisers

TheSouthReports.com may contain advertising and sponsorship. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on TheSouthReports.com is accurate and complies with applicable laws. TheSouthReports.com will not be responsible for the illegality of or any error or inaccuracy in any advertiser’s or sponsor’s materials.

Third party content

Third party content may appear on TheSouthReports.com websites and services or may be accessible via links from TheSouthReports.com. TheSouthReports.com shall not be responsible for and assumes no liability for any mistakes, misstatements of law, defamation, omissions, falsehood, obscenity, pornography or profanity in the statements, opinions, representations or any other form of content contained in any third party content appearing on TheSouthReports.com. You understand that the information and opinions in the third party content represent solely the thoughts of the author and is neither endorsed by nor does it reflect the beliefs of TheSouthReports.com.

Disclaimer of warranties

TheSouthReports.com websites and services (including but not limited to the discussion forums) and the information, software and other content available on or accessible via the websites and services is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis without warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including but not limited to warranties of title, non-infringement or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. TheSouthReports.com does not warrant that the website and services will meet your requirements or expectations, be uninterrupted or error-free or that any information, software or other material available on or accessible through the website and services is free of viruses, worms, trojan horses or other harmful components. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from any website or service of TheSouthReports.com , including but not limited to the discussion forums, shall create any warranty not expressly stated in the Terms of Service. TheSouthReports.com may make improvements and/or changes to its features, functionality, content or any other part of the websites and services at any time.

Limitation of liability / Disclaimer of damages

IN NO EVENT SHALL THESOUTHREPORTS.COM OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE TO ANY USER OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR LOST PROFITS) RESULTING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THESOUTHREPORTS.COM OR THE MATERIAL, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT THESOUTHREPORTS.COM IS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Unlawful activity

TheSouthReports.com reserves the right to investigate complaints or reported violations of our Terms of Service and to take any action we deem appropriate, including but not limited to, reporting any suspected unlawful activity to law enforcement officials, regulators, or other third parties and disclosing any information necessary or appropriate to such persons or entities relating to your profiles, email addresses, usage history, posted materials, IP addresses and traffic information.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold TheSouthReports.com and its owners, administration, agents, information providers, affiliates, and partners (collectively the “TheSouthReports.com parties”) harmless from any and all liabilities, losses, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorney’s fees, related to any violation of the Terms of Service by you (a “claim”). In the event a claim is brought against any TheSouthReports.com party or parties, TheSouthReports.com shall provide notice to you and shall have the right to retain counsel of its choosing to defend against such a claim. You agree to reimburse TheSouthReports.com for any costs (including reasonable attorney fees) or damages awards incurred in association with such defence. Furthermore, you agree to cooperate in good faith to assist TheSouthReports.com in such defence and any settlement negotiations related thereto, and to reimburse TheSouthReports.com for reasonable settlement amounts if any.

Violations

If you are aware of any violations of the Terms of Service, please report them to .

Remedies for violations

TheSouthReports.com reserves the right to pursue any and all legal and equitable remedies for violations of the Terms of Service, including but not limited to terminating any and all member accounts you may have and blocking access from a particular Internet address (or range of addresses) to any of TheSouthReports.com ‘s websites and services.

Severability of provisions

The Terms of Service incorporate by reference all notices and disclaimers contained on TheSouthReports.com and constitute the entire agreement between you and provider with respect to access to and use TheSouthReports.com. If any provision of the Terms of Service is found unlawful, void or unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from the remaining provisions and shall not affect their validity and enforceability.

Non-wavier

The failure of either party to enforce any rights hereunder shall not constitute a waiver of any terms or conditions of the Terms of Service.

Interpretation

This agreement governing the use of this website by the user will be interpreted and enforced in accordance with the laws of the Republic of India.