Membership Registration Agreement

Article 1: General Rules

Section 1: Purpose

1. The purpose of this agreement is to define all issues relating to the conditions and procedures of use of all Services ("services" defined as all contents including news articles, pictures, image, illustrations, music files, video files, and other formats and diverse services) between the customer (herein referred to as "Member") and MyNews Interactive, and to define all other necessary particulars.

Section 2: Effectuation and Amendments

1. Services are provided on condition that the Member accepts this Agreement without changes. Clicking "Agree" means the Member accepts this Agreement.

2. This Agreement takes effect when it is published online. MyNews may make amendments at its discretion as circumstances necessitate, and any such changes take effect by being posted on the service page or upon notification to the Member through other means.

3. The Member may choose to stop using Services and withdraw Membership if he does not agree to amendments to this Agreement. The Member is assumed to have agreed to changes if he continues to use Services after amendments have been made to this Agreement.

Section 3: Rules Not Included in This Agreement

1. Issues not defined in this Agreement are defined by the related laws of the Republic of India where applicable.

2. Services not defined by this agreement will require Member acceptance to (a) separate agreement(s).

Article 2: Membership Registration and Use of Services

Section 1: The Establishment of a Use Contract

1. A Use Contract is established upon MyNews acceptance of the user's application for use and the user's acceptance of the Agreement.

2. A person desiring to register as a Member and use Services must provide a pre-determined amount of personal information. The personal information provided by the user is thoroughly protected in accordance with the Republic of India's Personal Information Protection Policy.

3. Member information provided by the Member at registration is considered genuine. Members who do not provide genuine information may not receive legal protection.

4. Persons under the age of 14 may become Members with the approval of a legal guardian, in accordance with the related laws.

1) Should a person under the age of 14 desire to accept the Agreement, his legal guardian must provide his legal name, and contact information to be approved by MyNews , having overseen the process of Membership application by the person under the age of 14.

2) MyNews reserves the right to require additional confirmation of the legal guardian's consent by telephone, facsimile, postal mail, email, or other means, and in some cases may seek other reasonable methods of confirmation that the legal guardian has truly consented.

3) MyNews approves applications for Membership by persons under the age of 14 after confirmation of the consent of the person's legal guardian.

4) The legal guardian may retract consent at any time, but does not gain exemption from responsibility for the Member's use of Services during the period during which the legal guardian provided consent.

5. Persons residing overseas and non-Indian citizens residing in India and who therefore lack a Resident Registration Number must provide documented proof of identity via facsimile or file attachment in order to complete the Membership application process. Such applicants must provide that documentation within one month of applying in order to be recognized as a Member.

Section 2: Approval of Application

1. MyNews approves applications for use of services when the Member has stated all information accurately. MyNews does not approve applications in circumstances falling under "Reasons for Rejecting Application for Membership."

2. Reasons for Rejecting Application for Membership

1) The use of a name that is not the legal name of the applicant.

2) The use of a Resident Registration Number that is not that of the applicant.

3) The submission of false information at time of application.

4) Application with intent to harm good morals and manners or social peace and order.

5) Failure to meet other conditions for application as defined by MyNews.

Section 3: Limits to Use of Services

1. In principle Services may be used 24 hours a day every day of the year, without regard to legal holidays but with exception to special instances where MyNews operational or technical circumstances incur momentary suspension of Services.

2. Some Services provided by MyNews require Member registration and use with a username and password.

Section 4: Benefits of Membership

1. Membership is free of charge.

2. The Member is automatically invited to participate in various events and programs organized for Members by MyNews. MyNews or assumes the Member agrees to abide by all rights and duties relating to participation in such events and programs at the time of Membership application.

Article 3: Termination of Contract and Restrictions on Use of Services

Section 1: Termination of Contract and Prohibitions on Use of Services

1. The Member may discuss complaints about the handling of Member information on bulletin boards such as the open bulletin board for each Service.

2. A Member seeking to terminate the Service contract must do so himself by applying for termination on the personal information management page.

3. A Member who has terminated Membership may re-register for Membership within 3 months under the same username, as the Member's username will be preserved for that period. After three months the Member must re-register under a different username.

4. MyNews may terminate a Member's contract or suspend use of Services for a set period without prior notification in any of the following instances.

1) Behavior that is contrary to public order or good morals and manners.

2) Criminal behavior.

3) Planning or acting on plans to use Services with the goal of harming the national or public interest.

4) Use of someone else's username and password.

5) Defamation of character or behavior injurious to another individual.

6) Registering as a Member twice under different usernames.

7) Actions hampering the positive use of Services, such as deliberate harm to Services.

8) Behavior that violates the pertaining laws or conditions of use as defined by MyNews.

Section 2: Procedures in Prohibiting Use

1. When MyNews seeks to restrict use by a Member the Member or his representative will be informed via email or telephone of the reason, when the time restriction is to begin and period of restriction of use. In urgent cases MyNews may suspend membership without notification.

Article 4: Responsibility

Section 1: MyNews' Obligations

1. MyNews will make Services available to Members, barring special circumstances.

2. MyNews or is obligated to provide Services in a continuous and stable manner in accordance with this Agreement, and to restore Services when they are discontinued for unavoidable reasons without delay. However, in cases of natural calamity, states of emergency, and other unforeseen events MyNews may temporarily suspend Services.

3. MyNews will deal immediately with views and complaints presented by the Member when determined to be legitimate.

4. MyNews or will not leak or distribute the Member's personal information as learned from the Membership registration process to third parties without the Member's consent. Exceptions include when a state agency demands such information in accordance with the Republic of India's "Basic Law on Electronic Communication," when such information is demanded as part of a criminal investigation or by the Republic of India's "Information and Communication Ethics Committee," MyNews will disclose the Member's personal information when the request is consistent with the procedures required by the pertinent laws.

5. MyNews may share Member information with sites with which MyNews has signed cooperative agreements in order to further the ease of use of the MyNews site and MyNews may transmit a cookie to the Member's computer for that purpose.

6. MyNews may use all or part of the Member's information for statistical purposes relating to business operations, within the limits outlined in "5" above.

Section 2: Obligations of the Member

1. All responsibility regarding the Member's username and password lies with the Member.

2. The Member may not transfer or give his username to another individual.

3. The Member must inform MyNews by email or other method of any wrongful use of his username.

4. The Member must abide by this Agreement and the related laws of the Republic of India as they apply.

Article 5: Posted Material

Section 1: The Member's Posted Material

1. MyNews may delete material posted by the Member without prior notification in the following instances.

1) If the Member's material damages, abuses, appropriates, threatens, or is harassment of another individual's privacy, rights to announce pertinent information, or other legal rights.

2) If the Member's material prints, mails, posts, distributes, or disseminates titles, names, material, or data that is illegal, inappropriate, profane, libelous, infringing, pornographic, or vulgar.

3) If the Member uploads files that are software of other material protected by the Republic of India's "Intellectual Ownership Law." Exceptions are when the Member maintains ownership or managerial rights over the material or has obtained consent regarding its use.

4) If the Member uploads files that contain viruses or are otherwise contaminated and as such can harm computers, or uploads similarly harmful software or programs.

5) If the Member advertises or sells products or services with commercial intent.

6) If the Member engages in data collection, contests, pyramid sales activities, or sends "letters of luck" (designed to be sent to large numbers of people that encourage further circulation).

7) If the Member downloads material he knows or reasonably can be believed to have known was posted by another site user and as such cannot be lawfully circulated.

8) If the Member removes material that consists of software or other material that has the author's name, legal or other appropriate information, trademark, source, or other descriptions and markings falsified or removed.

9) If the Member limits or prohibits another Member from using or enjoying Services.

10) If the Member posts material that includes pornographic content harmful to public order or good morals and manners, content that either promotes or attacks a specific religion, or other improper material such as content that incites regional sentiments.

Section 2: Copyright

The rights and responsibilities regarding general posted material lies with the Member who posts the material.

Section 3: MyNews' Responsibility for Posted Material

1. MyNews is not obligated to inspect all posted material. However, MyNews reserves the right to disclose information pertaining to the material in order to satisfy legal or regulatory requirements or legal government requests, and to refuse to edit or post material or information either partially or entirely, completely at the discretion of MyNews.

2. All Services regarding posted material is public communication and not private, and the Member recognizes that material he posts may be read by other individuals without his knowledge. The Member must be careful about information through which readers might be able to identify individuals or their children.

3. MyNews reserves the right to end the Member's access to all or part of bulletin boards for any reason and without notification.

4. MyNews clearly denies all forms of responsibility for posted material and responsibility incurred by the Member's use of MyNews bulletin board Services.

Article 6: The Provision of Information and Advertisements.

1. The Member's personal information will be thoroughly protected, and it may be shared in accordance with Article 4, Section 1, Item 5.

2. MyNews may transmit needed information to the Member via electronic or postal mail. The Member may refuse to receive information by choosing that option in the course of Membership registration or by making changes in his Membership information.

3. MyNews may provide Members with commercial advertisements via email at the request of advertisers and based on the judgment of MyNews.

Article 7: General Matters

1. This Agreement is governed by the applicable laws of the Republic of India. The Member agrees that any dispute arising from use of Services or any other related dispute falls entirely under the jurisdiction of the court with jurisdiction over MyNews. The use of the MyNews or site is not permitted in areas that do not recognize the legal validity of this Agreement.

2. The Member agrees that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or representation exists between the Member and MyNews as a result of the use of the MyNews site. MyNews or is governed by existing laws and legal procedures in the course of implementing this Agreement. No part of this Agreement harms MyNews' right to abide by government, judicial, or law enforcement authority request or demand in relation to information gathered or provided by MyNews or in the course of providing or the use of Services.

3. When the applicable laws render invalid or inexecutable any provision or provisions of this Agreement, including the aforementioned denial of responsibility the provision or provisions so legally rendered invalid or inexecutable will be replaced by (a) valid and executable provision or provision(s) that are as consistent as possible with the original intent of the provision or provisions determined, in any way, to be legally invalid or inexecutable.

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