sivaya.org Usage Terms & Conditions:
1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
sivaya.org provides Tamil scriptures in the web portal in many different language scripts. At any time sivaya.org or its owner or volunteers will not be responsible for any damages arise due to use of this website or its contents.
2. CONTENT
sivaya.org will not be responsible for scriptures with error or faulty transcriptions in the contents provided.
The links or audio/video part or meaning is not part of the sivaya.org and use is restricted to the artist or owners terms and conditions. You are free to use lyric content of this website, copy or store or reproduce for personal and non-profit purposes. Not all the lyrics were authenticated against the source. The lyric contents and accuracy may change time to time without notice.
3.POSTING
You understand that all postings, messages, text, files, links, images, photos or other materials ("Content") posted on, transmitted through, or linked from the Service, are the sole responsibility of the person from whom such Content originated. More specifically, you are entirely responsible for all Content that you post, email or otherwise make available via the Service. You understand that sivaya.org does not control, and is not responsible for Content made available through the Service, and that by using the Service, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent, inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise objectionable. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, that you may not rely on said Content, and that under no circumstances will sivaya.org be liable in any way for any Content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed or otherwise made available via the Service.
You acknowledge that sivaya.org does not pre-screen or approve Content, but that sivaya.org shall have the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion to refuse, delete or move any Content that is available via the Service, for violating the letter or spirit of the Terms or for any other reason including technical or management difficulties.
You acknowledge and agree that sivaya.org may, in its sole discretion, preserve or disclose Content, as well as email addresses, IP addresses, time stamps, and other user information, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: comply with legal process; enforce the Terms; respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third-parties; or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of sivaya.org, its users or the general public.
Although sivaya.org does not claim ownership of content that its users post, by posting Content to any public area of the Service, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to sivaya.org an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute said Content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, said Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing. Additionally, you will defend and indemnify sivaya.org from any third party claim related to a breach of any of the foregoing representations and warranties.
Content displayed on or through the Service is protected by copyright as a collective work and/ or compilation, pursuant to copyrights laws, and international conventions. You agree not to reproduce, duplicate or copy Content from the Service, and agree to abide by any and all copyright notices displayed on the Service.
sivaya.org does not sell or rent customer's personal information (email addresses, physical addresses, etc.).
sivaya.org has no reason to believe that this policy will change, but if a change does occur, it will be posted to this page.
4. ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS
When you visit sivaya.org or send emails to us, you are communicating with us electronically. You consent to receive communications from us electronically. We will communicate with you by email or by posting notices on this site. 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.
5. CONDUCT
You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available Content:
that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, pornographic, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, or harms minors in any way; that harasses, degrades, intimidates or is hateful toward an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age, or disability;
that impersonates any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a sivaya.org employee, or falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity;
that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent. that is deceptive, misleading, deceitful, misinformative, or constitutes "bait and switch";
that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party, or Content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships. that constitutes or contains unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation. that includes links to commercial services or web sites, except as allowed in "small business ads".
that advertises for sale weapons or explosives; controlled substances (including but not limited to) tobacco products, alcoholic beverages, pharmaceuticals, illegal drugs; stolen or counterfeit items; goods or services that do not in fact exist; items that violate or infringe the rights of others; any items you do not have the right to sell; any dangerous items.
that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive number of messages (flooding attack) to the Service, or that otherwise negatively affects other users' ability to use the Service; that employs misleading email addresses, or forged headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin of Content transmitted through the Service;
Additionally, you agree not to: contact anyone who has asked not to be contacted. "stalk" or otherwise harass anyone collect personal data about other users for commercial or unlawful purposes. use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from the Service - exception is made for government agencies, internet search engines (e.g. Google) and non-commercial public archives (e.g. archive.org).
6. LIMITATIONS ON SERVICE
You acknowledge that sivaya.org may establish limits concerning use of the Service, including the maximum number of days that Content will be retained by the Service, the maximum number and size of postings, email messages, or other Content that may be transmitted or stored by the Service, and the frequency with which you may access the Service. You agree that sivaya.org has no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any Content maintained or transmitted by the Service. You acknowledge that sivaya.org reserves the right at any time to modify or discontinue the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice, and that sivaya.org shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.
You agree that sivaya.org, in its sole discretion, may delete or deactivate your account or membership, block your email or IP address, or otherwise terminate your access to or use of the Service (or any part thereof), immediately and without notice, and remove and discard any Content within the Service, for any reason, including, without limitation, if sivaya.org believes that you have acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the Terms. Further, you agree that sivaya.org shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your access to the Service. Further, you agree not to attempt to use the Service after said termination.
7. DEALINGS WITH ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS
Your interactions with organizations and/ or individuals found on or through the Service, including payment and delivery of goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such organizations and/or individuals. You agree that sivaya.org shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings.
8. COPYRIGHTS
You agree not to sell, resell or exploit for any commercial and marketing purposes, any aspect of the Service except your postings or contents.
9. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES / LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
You understand and agree that: sivaya.org disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. The Service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, and you should not rely upon it. Your use of the Service is at your sole risk, and sivaya.org shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages (even if sivaya.org has been advised of the possibility of such damages), resulting from any aspect of your use of or interaction with the Service. Any warranty not set forth in this Terms document, including any set forth by sivaya.org employees or representative, will be invalid. If any of the above provisions are void under governing law, our liability shall be limited to the extent permitted by law.
10. INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify and hold sivaya.org, its officers, and its employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorney fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of Content you submit, post or make available through the Service, your use of the Service, your violation of the Terms, or your violation of any rights of another.
11. GENERAL INFORMATION
The Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and sivaya.org and govern your use of the Service, superceding any prior agreements between you and sivaya.org. The Terms and the relationship between you and sivaya.org shall be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and sivaya.org agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the county of Contra costa, California. The failure of sivaya.org to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the Terms is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Terms remain in full force and effect. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the Service or the Terms must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.
12.NOTICE AND PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide sivaya.org the written information specified below. Please note that this procedure is exclusively for notifying sivaya.org that your copyrighted material has been infringed.
An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed upon; A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site; Your address, telephone number, and email address; A statement by you that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf. sivaya.org for notice of claims of copyright infringement on its site can be reached as follows: admin@sivaya.org
If in error copyright infringement is found in sivaya.org site, sivaya.org will promptly delete the materials and links within 7 working days and no monetary compensation will be provided.