Terms of Use

100 Feet Road Ventures Private Limited, recognised as a new startup by the ministry of corporate affairs in January 2023, owns and operates thearcweb.com. “We”, “us”, “our services/ products” and “company” on this page refer to 100 Feet Road Ventures. “You” implies the visitor, user or member of the said website.

When you access or use the website — including the content, products, features and services — you accept our terms and conditions set out below and agree to be bound by them. Please go over the details as they form a legal agreement between you and the company with respect to your use of the website.

The company holds exclusive rights to change the website, its functionalities and offerings and revise or amend the content at any time without prior notice. Their availability, too, can change, and they can be withdrawn. No liability can be forced on the company over such decisions, which are the its prerogative. Similarly, our terms and rules can change without notice.

The dates of the updates will be mentioned on relevant pages. You should check them periodically. If you keep viewing or using the website/services after the modifications, it is understood that you have reviewed and accepted the changes.

All the content and data on the website is for general information and knowledge. It does not constitute financial or investment advice of any kind, and we do not directly or indirectly encourage any action. Please rely on your judgement and conduct due diligence.

Additional riders and requirements, listed out on this page, also apply, and you agree to follow relevant laws of the land. You should not visit or use our website/services if you object to the policies. 100 Feet Road Ventures reserves the right to temporarily or permanently block your access to the website/services or your account for any violation of the agreement.

Ownership

Copyright, intellectual property, trademark and other relevant laws/legal provisions protect our website, services, products and material (logo, trademark, published information, etc) worldwide. Unless explicitly mentioned, the company has exclusive right and control over them.

You understand and agree that 100 Feet Road Ventures Private Limited and its founders/editors have created, revised, selected, compiled and arranged the services, products and content by devoting substantial resources (time, effort, money). Therefore, they form valuable intellectual property of the company. You agree to satisfy all reasonable requests made by us to safeguard our contractual, statutory and other rights.

Our website may feature third-party links and content, including data, with proper attribution. It is a reasonable expectation that this material from respective primary sources is accurate. Separately, there may also be user submissions (text, data, links, etc). We do not claim to own or be responsible for the material in either of the two cases and are not liable for it. If the material is incorrect, necessary revisions/action may or may not be undertaken.

Reasonable Restrictions

1. You will NOT tinker with or obscure any trade/service mark, promotional tagline/identity and visual brand elements of 100 Feet Road Ventures.
2. You agree NOT to copy, duplicate, change, reproduce/republish, broadcast, stream, distribute/share, archive or display our proprietary services and content, whether in part or full, without our express prior approval. The same applies to thirty-party content and user submissions appearing on the website. These parties may seek damages from you if you reproduce their material without proper authorisation.
3. You agree NOT to sell, license or commercially distribute our products, services, licensed and downloadable material and any part/element of the website. You will NOT develop commercial databases or platforms with our proprietary services and content. The same applies to thirty-party content and user submissions appearing on the website.
4. You will NOT create any derivative works from our material. Works based on our branding/content may include montages, wallpaper, videos, desktop themes, greeting cards and other merchandise — all of which is prohibited without the company’s nod in writing. The rule holds true even if you intend to give away the derivative materials for free.
5. Our content and services should NOT be misused/exploited in any way, particularly in a manner that adversely impacts 100 Feet Road Ventures’ ability to earn revenue.
6. As a responsible user, you should NOT post or transmit any material with a software virus or any computer file/code that can hamper, damage or limit our website/services.
7. Do NOT upload or send us material that is defamatory, inappropriate or unlawful, or that contains details which are subject to contractual obligations, non-disclosure agreements and other highly restrictive clauses.
8. Do NOT illegally download content or store it in a way that violates your user agreement.
9. Do NOT create a false impression by trying to pass off our material or any part of the website as your or another person/entity’s work.

Conditional Access

Provided you adhere to our terms, the company provides you with access to the website for strictly personal use. This access is limited, non-transferable and revocable. No right, title or interest of the company is granted to you.

Using the website/services for any unauthorised or unapproved purpose may lead to civil and criminal penalties.

User Submissions

A user submission feature/forum may be provided on the website. If that happens, you agree to share only authentic and accurate material, for which you bear full responsibility.

By voluntarily submitting it, you grant the company an eternal, worldwide and royalty-free licence to process, publicly display/share and use the material (including feedback) in the company’s communication/works. Such submissions do not form a new relationship or modify the existing one, described at the beginning on this page, between you and the company. No payment of any sort will be made by us for user submissions, all of which are voluntary.

Please note that any content and comment shared by you will come under Indian laws. We do not claim ownership rights over user submissions/posts and third-party content, or take financial and legal liability for the material’s accuracy and appropriateness and its use by others.

The company has no obligation to oversee your website access or review/edit any user submissions/posts and third-party material. However, it can do so for the purpose of operating the website, ensuring compliance with the terms of use and honouring applicable laws and orders of a court, an administrative agency or a government body.

We reserve the right to not publish/display user submissions or delete them following a genuine complaint/objection. The same applies if the post is deemed to be inappropriate or running afoul of laws. Your access/account can be suspended or permanently blocked in that case. We have the right to preserve records of the problematic content as required by relevant laws.

You understand and agree that the company shall not be responsible/liable for any use of your post/material by a third party.

Before posting any material, you should check if you fulfil the following criteria:

• You are the owner of the material.
• Or you have the consent/right/licence to share it.
• You are not posting stuff that is misleading, patently false and libellous or amounts to copyright infringement and violation of someone’s exclusive rights (privacy, trademark, intellectual property, etc).

In case you post content/data for which you hold no right/licence or that which is false, you may have to face any legal action the rightful owner/s and offended parties initiate.

Communities

The terms and guidelines laid down in the section above also hold true for any community service we may provide. Members with proper access can share content in communities. We cannot guarantee the accuracy and quality of such material.

By using the community service, you agree NOT to upload or post any material/opinions that are hateful, abusive, defamatory, inappropriate in any way or invasive of someone’s privacy. You must respect relevant laws while participating in communities. You should not engage in cyberstalking or be a nuisance to other visitors/members of the website.

You alone are responsible for your interactions, including any disagreement, with other users of the site. You should be careful and exercise sound judgement before divulging personal details to other members. You hereby agree to take precautions in any dealing (online or offline) with others. You agree to use our website/services and read available content at your risk and discretion.

The company holds the right to contact users as per applicable laws. This may be necessary to check adherence to policies and rules. You will cooperate with the company in any investigation into suspected illegal, fraudulent or improper activity conducted through the website. On its part, the company is required to cooperate with local, state and central authorities and government agencies.

Registration

To use our website, you may be asked to register and open a personal account by providing your current, accurate and complete details (see more on this topic on the Privacy page). You will set a unique username/ID and password and are responsible for protecting the login credentials of your account, which is non-transferable and revocable.

The company may send you information about its various services/offerings from time to time. This may be done directly or through relevant third parties.

You are solely responsible for all activities that occur from/under your account. You agree to alert the company if there is any unauthorised access or a security breach in your account. The company won’t bear liability for any loss that you may incur when someone misuses your password/account. You, though, may be held liable for losses the company suffers in such a situation.

The company can reject any username you select and/or revoke your claim to any previously chosen username. It can give that username to any other member or entity.

We do NOT permit:

• Any user sharing their account and password, and multiple people using our services from the same account without our explicit permission.
• Any section of the website being cached on proxy servers and accessed by people who have not registered as users with the company.

If such or any type of misuse is discovered, we can revoke access rights without notice and block access of all users from that IP address.

You can decide to discontinue your account for any reason and convey the same by writing to us. The company, too, reserves the right to suspend or shut your account without notice over any infraction of the terms and conditions. As required by law, we may retain your registration/account records after the cancellation/closure.

Paid & Login Services

The company may offer subscription/paid services or grant conditional access to certain types of content and features. For instance, an article may be behind the paywall and full access could be given after the reader registers and/or makes a payment. What part of the article or feature would be displayed outside and after the paywall is the prerogative of the company and its editors.

You hereby understand that the website/services and its contents may suffer a technical glitch and/or have errors. These include pricing and subscription details. While an incorrect price may be mentioned because of a mistake or glitch, we are not under any obligation to offer a subscription at that rate.

Apart from the fee for any subscription or paid service, prevalent taxes are also applicable. You must pay all taxes/levies associated with the purchase. In addition to these, you are responsible for paying internet or telecom charges that you may incur while using the services.

The complete details of subscriptions or paid services will be stated here if and when they are rolled out. These will include the duration of the plan, payment cycle, renewal, refund and cancellation.

Access Point

Our website/services are controlled and offered by a company (100 Feet Road Ventures) incorporated in India. We make no claims that the website/services would be available for use or work without interruption in other locations. If you access the website from other jurisdictions, you do so at your risk. You must also comply with the laws there. Please note that our website may have links to content hosted on websites registered abroad.

External Links

The website may contain links or mentions of external platforms. 100 Feet Road Ventures does not own, control or operate these platforms. When you actively click on a link and are automatically directed to the corresponding site, you are subject to its terms and conditions, including privacy rules, which, again, we do not control. You can tell where you are by checking the URL in the address bar on your browser.

Please read that site’s terms before you divulge any personal information or initiate transactions. We are not responsible or liable for your activity on external sites and their content and practices.

Advertisements

Our website may display advertising and promotional material. It’s the responsibility of the party/entity providing the material for inclusion on the website to ensure that it adheres to applicable international and national laws.

If you, the user, engage with promotions, buying goods or a service from the advertiser/provider, or undertake any business dealing, the said activity will be strictly between you and the advertiser/provider. We do not take any responsibility here for any dispute or undesirable outcome/experience. Before believing any ad, you should independently verify whether it serves your purpose and seek professional advice.

Collection Of Personal Data

To know how your details are gathered and used by us, please check the ‘Privacy’ page, which is a part of our terms and conditions. By accepting the terms, you agree that your presence on the website and use of our services are governed by the said privacy policy.

The company holds the right to make any information, including personal data, available to any government, administrative, regulatory and judicial authority under applicable laws and provisions.

Third-Party Apps

The website/services may feature necessary and optional third-party applications or widgets. You understand and accept that if you enable these applications for use with the services, we may give them access to your data for the interoperation of the apps with the website.

We bear no responsibility for any disclosure, revision or deletion of the data resulting from any such access by third-party app providers. Also, as stated earlier, in all such cases, the data will be subject to the privacy policies of third-party app providers.

You also acknowledge that the functionalities interoperating with third-party apps or widgets depend on the continuing availability of these APIs. The providers can discontinue the arrangement, and we may stop offering such functionalities. You won’t be entitled to any compensation (refund, credit, etc). To avoid any doubt or misunderstanding, we may prevent users from installing or enabling certain third-party apps for use with the services.

User Obligations

1. You hereby agree and assure the company that the website/services will be used for only lawful purposes and that you won’t flout guidelines, regulations and other provisions of relevant central, state and local laws as well as international laws.
2. You agree to satisfy the requirements of the Information Technology Act, 2000, when you are on the website.
3. You shall NOT circumvent, remove, modify, disable or thwart content protections on the website.
4. You will follow copyright, trademark and other proprietary notices marked on our content in letter and spirit.
5. You WON’T build, recreate, distribute or advertise an index of any significant section of the website without the company’s permission.
6. You agree NOT to delete or fail to display promotional taglines included on the website. You WON’T forge headers or manipulate our identifiers to disguise the origin of any content transmitted through the website/services
7. You shall NOT interfere with any other user/party’s access to the website/ services. You won’t try to get unauthorised access to the services, other accounts and computer systems through hacking, password mining and other dubious methods. You shall NOT try to obtain any material that’s unavailable on the website by design.
8. You will NOT deploy or launch ‘robots’, ‘spiders’, ‘offline readers’ or other automated systems that send several automated access requests to our servers.
9. You shall NOT send or post unsolicited and unapproved ads, promotional material, email, junk mail, spam and chain letters. You will not solicit login information or access an account belonging to another user.
10. You may NOT transfer to another person the conditional, limited and revocable rights given to you for using the services in part or whole. Any such attempt is void.
11. You WON’T impersonate or misrepresent your association with any person or entity.
12. You agree NOT to gather or harvest personally identifiable information, such as usernames, from the website and the communication systems provided by the website for commercial solicitation. You will NOT solicit any users through our forums/communities for any commercial purpose.
13. You WON’T use any communication tool or other methods on the website to send unsolicited bulk emails and instant messages to users. We may terminate your account and/or take legal action if you are found to be breaching our terms of service.

If you are a publisher of news and current-affairs content, you will comply with our terms and also submit the details of your user accounts on our services to the ministry of information and broadcasting as required under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. You shall also satisfy all applicable laws.

User Responses

When you review/rate any content on the website, you give the company express rights and consent to display the review/rating. The company can use information, feedback, concepts, reviews, ideas or techniques stated in any communication you send our way, including responses to questionnaires or posts, to create marketing products and modify/improve the services. No compensation or acknowledgement will be extended for user submissions.

By submitting/sharing any user feedback or post on the website, you give the company a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive and irrevocable licence/right to display, use, reproduce or modify the feedback/post in any media, software or technology (existing currently or developed in future).

Search-engine operators can use functionalities like spiders to copy material from the website for the sole purpose of creating publicly available searchable indices of the material. But the same is NOT allowed for creating caches or archives of our material. We have the right to revoke these exceptions in all or select cases.

Disclaimer

The services, products and content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. 100 Feet Road Ventures Private Limited, its editors, directors, employees and partners do not guarantee the accuracy, reliability, completeness, usefulness, timeliness and suitability of any part of the services or licensed material.

We do not warrant that the website and services will be uninterrupted and free of errors. Or that the website, services and/or its servers, or any files made available for download on the website, will be free of computer viruses and problem-causing code. The company does not warrant that any software program/application used and or licensed in connection with the services will be compatible with other third-party software or equipment. It also does not warrant that operation of the services and associated software will not damage or slow down other software and hardware.

We make NO — and hereby specifically disclaim all — representations, endorsements, guarantees and warranties (express or implied) about the services, products, functionalities and content including without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement of third-party rights.

We do NOT warrant that:

• The quality of the services, content or other material on the website will meet all your expectations/requirements.
• Any/all errors on the website will be corrected.

You, the user, fully understand and agree that the use of the website/ services is completely at your risk. If you are not satisfied with the website/services and the featured content, the only solution for you is to stop using the services.

The company does not accept any obligations of confidentiality, non-disclosure or nonuse, except as explicitly mentioned herein, in an applicable order form and/or in the privacy policy.

Our website, services and content should not be seen as some form of financial or professional advice, view or recommendation. We are not an investment adviser or a broker. Nothing herein should constitute a sale or offer to buy, sell or recommend any securities and companies.

You should conduct proper and independent due diligence before making any investment or professional decision. The responsibility of all such decisions/conclusions rests with you.

The company cannot be held responsible/liable for any content which, in legal view, is derogatory, defamatory, offensive or threatening. It shall also not assume liability for any errors or oversight in any content or for any loss/damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any content posted on the website. You agree that the company bears no responsibility for any content sent using and/or included in the company’s website/services by third parties.

As a condition for using/accessing the website, services and content, you hereby waive and release all claims, causes of action and other rights that you may have against us arising from or linked to the review of any content/licensed material made available through the website.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the company, its employees, investors, directors, agents, officers and suppliers (including content licensors and distributors) from and against any losses, claims, damages and liabilities, including legal fees and expenses, arising from:

• Your violation of the terms agreement detailed on this page.
• Your access/use or misuse of the website/services.
• Your violation of any law, regulation or third-party right, including without limitation any intellectual property, copyright or privacy right.
• Any claim that you have caused damage to a third party.
• Any post, content or material submitted by you.

We hold the right to employ separate counsel and assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you. Hereby, you agree to cooperate in our defence of these claims.

Grievance Redressal

Complaints or concerns about content, any comment/post or breach of the terms will be taken up by the designated grievance officer.
Name: Aditi Shrivastava
Email: aditi@thearcweb.com

We respect intellectual property laws and our policy is to act swiftly when we receive a notice of alleged infringement. If you believe that any material has been reproduced on the website in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, kindly furnish a notice of copyright infringement containing all of necessary information.
Send it to:

Final Thoughts

We reiterate that no section or part of the terms and conditions should be deemed to form a partnership between you and the company. You have no right/authority to bind the company in any manner. This agreement and the terms of use are solely for your and the company’s benefit, and not for the interest of any other person/entity.

These terms of use are subject to and construed in accordance with Indian laws without giving effect to the principles of conflict of law. In case of a dispute or a claim by you against us, you agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of courts in Bengaluru. Any cause of action must commence within one year after the cause of action accrues. Or else, such cause of action will be permanently barred.

These terms make up the entire agreement between the company, 100 Feet Road Ventures Private Limited, and you, the visitor/user/member.