Terms and Conditions

A. About patasala.in

The domain name, website and the apps are owned, registered and operated by Sruta DigitalSolutions Private Limited, a private company incorporated under the (Indian) Companies Act, 2013, and having its registered office at Premier, 202, 2nd Floor, Above Khelkart, Madhapur Hyderabad Telangana (hereinafter referred to as “” or “ us” or “we” or “our” or “Company”). These terms and conditions (“Terms and Conditions”), are between Company and you, (hereinafter referred to as “You” or “Your” or “User(s)”). By accessing our website https://patasala.in. (“Website”) and/or our app ‘patasala.in’(“App”) Website and Apps together shall be referred to as “patasala.in Platform”, you agree to be bound by the provisions of these Terms and Conditions.

B. patasala.in Platform
  1. These Terms and Conditions apply to all Users of the patasala.in Platform, including educators who are also contributors of User Content on the platform. The patasala.in Platform includes all aspects of the Website and Apps which includes but is not limited to products, software and services offered via the patasala.in Platform, such as the patasala.in online Platform, patasala.in Subscription, and any other service or application that Company introduces from time to time [hereinafter the software product accessible via web, App and the like shall be referred to as PPP].
  2. This patasala.in Platform is an online platform that supports and facilitates the online creation of educational videos/or tutorials, by the Users of the patasala.in Platform and acts as an intermediary between the educator and the User. Such content uploaded through the use of the Platform shall hereinafter be referred to as “User Content”. You agree and acknowledge that Company has no control over and assumes no responsibility for the User Content and by using the patasala.in Platform, you expressly relieve the Company and patasala.in Platform from any and all liability arising from the User Content.
  3. The patasala.in Platform may include or contain links to any third-party websites that may or may not be owned or controlled by Company. Company has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party websites. In addition, Company will not and cannot censor or edit the content of any third-party site. By using this platform, you expressly relieve Company from any and all liability arising from your use of any third-party website or services. However, we recommend that before you use any third-party services or website you read and understand the terms and conditions and privacy policy of each such website that you visit. If any user content in the PPP or third party links in the user content is found inappropriate, it is your responsibility to notify us at support@patsala.in email address within 24 hours from the time of such observation, and you shall be held personally liable for the damages caused due to your communication to third party without notifying us.
  4. Subject to these Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy and all other rules and policies made available or published elsewhere, Company hereby grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, limited license to use the patasala.in Platform in accordance with these Terms and Conditions.
  5. You agree and acknowledge that Company shall have the right at any time to change or discontinue any aspect or feature of the patasala.in Platform, including, but not limited to, the User Content, hours of availability and equipment needed for access or use. Further, we may discontinue disseminating any portion of information or category of information may change or eliminate any transmission method and may change transmission speeds or other signal characteristics. We reserve the right to refuse access to the patasala.in Platform, terminate accounts, remove or edit contents without any notice to You.
C. patasala.in Platform Accounts

In order to access some of the features of the patasala.in Platform, you may have to create your account with patasala.in Platform. You agree and confirm that you will never use another User’s account nor provide access to your account to any third-party. When creating your account, you confirm that the information so provided is accurate and complete. Further, you agree that you are solely responsible for the activities that occur on your account, and you shall keep your account password secure and not share the same with anyone. You must notify us immediately of any breach of security or unauthorized use of your account. At no point in time will Company be liable for any losses caused by any unauthorized use of your account, you shall solely be liable for the losses caused to Company or others due to such unauthorized use, if any. Company takes no responsibility for any User Content that is uploaded on the patasala.in Platform, and further, the User shall be solely responsible for his or her own actions in utilizing such User Content and availing the patasala.in Platform provided herein.

D. Subscription & Eligibility

Patasala.in Subscription (the "Subscription Service") is a personalized Subscription that offers, recommends and helps you upload your digital educational content created and make live streaming of your educators (collectively, "Educational Content") in the category of your interest. You can access the Subscription and Educational Content, through our website or mobile application by subscribing to any category of your choice from the available subscription plans (“Subscription”). The Subscription will allow you access to upload your courses/classes for the students that are on-going during your Subscription Period. The same shall be accessed by the students and parents/guardian. We personalize content and features them as part of the Subscriptions, including showing you recommendations on Educational Content in the subscribed category, features and other related categories that might be of interest to you. We also endeavour to continuously improve the Subscriptions and subscription plans to improve your subscription experience. Subject to payment of the Subscription fee, and your compliance with all terms and conditions, We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, limited license, during the applicable Subscription Period, to access and view and attend live-streamed classes/courses of the Educational Content in accordance with the terms and conditions, for personal, non-commercial, private use only. We may automatically remove you access to the Educational Content from your Compatible Device after the end of the Subscription Period or in accordance with any restriction mentioned.

E. Access, Permissions and Restrictions

We hereby grant you permission to access and use the patasala.in Platform as set forth in these Terms and Conditions, provided that:

  1. You agree not to distribute in any medium any part of the platform or the content without our prior written authorization.
  2. You agree not to alter or modify any part of the patasala.in Platform.
  3. You agree not to use the patasala.in Platform for any of the following commercial uses unless you obtain our prior written approval:
    • the sale of access to the platform;
    • the sale of advertising, sponsorships, or promotions placed on or within the platform or content; or
    • the sale of advertising, sponsorships, or promotions on any page or website that provides a similar platform as that of patasala.in Platform.
  4. You agree to receive installs and updates from time to time from us. These updates are designed to improve, enhance and further develop the Platform and may take the form of bug fixes, enhanced functions, new software modules and completely new versions. You agree to receive such updates (and permit us to deliver these to you) as part of your use of the platform.
  5. You agree not to use or launch any automated system, including without limitation, “robots,” “spiders,” or “offline readers,” that accesses the Platform in a manner that sends more request messages to 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, we grant the operators of public search engines permission to use spiders to copy materials from the site 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. We reserve the right to revoke these exceptions either generally or in specific cases at any time with or without providing any notice in this regard. You agree not to collect or harvest any personally identifiable information, including account names, from the patasala.in Platform, nor to use the communication systems provided by the patasala.in Platform (e.g., comments, email) for any commercial solicitation purposes. You agree not to solicit, for commercial purposes, any Users of the patasala.in Platform with respect to User Content.
  6. You may post reviews, comments and other content, send other communications, submit suggestions, ideas, comments, questions or other information as long as the content is not illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringement of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings or any other form of spam. Further, you give us limited, royalty free, worldwide, non-exclusive license to use the User Content and communication in developing its platform and in any of its marketing or promotional activities.
  7. In your use of the patasala.in Platform, you will at all times comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
  8. We reserve the right to discontinue any aspect of the Platform at any time with or without notice at its sole discretion.
F. OBLIGATIONS OF EDUCATOR
  1. As a User, you are responsible for keeping the data, content and settings up to date according to the changes in your institution.
  2. Any customizations that the User requires from patasala.in platform shall be discussed and a timeline will be determined to complete them. Both parties will adhere to the dates of the timelines within reasonable conditions. and based on the timeline the customizations will be completed.
  3. From the date of access to the patasala.in Platform, you shall keep the platform up to date with the latest version of the same as made available by Company from time to time.
  4. You shall make all payment of Subscription Fee/Charges levied by Company on a timely basis as required.
  5. You shall perform your obligations hereunder in a competent and professional manner.
G. Content and Conduct
  1. As a User, you may submit User Content on the Platform, including videos and User comments. You understand that we do not guarantee any confidentiality with respect to any User Content you submit.
  2. You shall be solely responsible for your own User Content and the consequences of submitting and publishing such User Content on the patasala.in Platform. You affirm, represent, and warrant that you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to publish the User Content that you submit; and you grant limited license to Company to all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to such User Content for publication on the patasala.in Platform pursuant to these Terms and Conditions for the duration the said User Content is available on platform.
  3. For clarity, you retain your ownership rights in your User Content. However, by submitting User Content to us, you hereby grant us limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licensable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, display, publish, make available online or electronically transmit, the User Content in connection with the patasala.in Platform and Company (and its successors’ and affiliates’) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the patasala.in Platform in any media formats and through any media channels. You also hereby grant each User of the patasala.in Platform a limited, non-exclusive license to access your User Content through the platform. The above licenses granted by you in the User Content you submit to the patasala.in Platform terminate within a commercially reasonable time after you request Company to remove or delete your videos from the platform provided you pay the mutually agreed amount that Company incurred in providing the patasala.in Platform to you. You understand and agree, however, that we may retain, but not display, distribute, or perform, server copies of your videos that have been removed or deleted. The above licenses granted by you in User comments and testimonial you submit are perpetual and irrevocable.
  4. You further agree that User Content you submit on the patasala.in Platform will not contain third party copyrighted material, or material that is subject to other third party proprietary rights, unless you have permission from the rightful owner of the material or you are otherwise legally entitled to post the material and to grant us all of the license rights granted herein.
  5. Furthermore, you confirm that the User Content uploaded by you is not: False, inaccurate or misleading; Infringe any third party’s copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy; Violate any law, statue, ordinance or regulation; defamatory, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing; obscene or contain pornography. Contain any viruses, trojan horses, worms, cancelbots or other computer programming routines that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information.
  6. You understand and confirm that you shall not during your use of the patasala.in Platforms at any time post or publish any content, comments or act in any way which will amount to harassment of any other User, whether a learner or an educator. If at any given point it comes to the notice of Company that you are engaged in any kind of harassment of other Users, then in such a case you agree that we shall have the sole right to suspend/terminate your account with immediate effect and without any notice of such suspension or termination and we also reserve the right in our sole discretion to initiate any legal proceedings against you in such cases. Company at its sole discretion may process any audio or audio-visual content uploaded by you to the patasala.in Platform to confirm if the same is in accordance with the internal quality requirements and is compatible with the platform.
  7. Company does not endorse any User Content submitted on the patasala.in Platform by any User or other licensor, or any opinion, recommendation, or advice expressed therein, and expressly disclaims any and all liability in connection with User Content. Company does not permit copyright infringing activities and infringement of intellectual property rights on the platform, and we will remove all User Content if properly notified that such Content infringes on another’s intellectual property rights. We reserve the right to remove User Content without prior notice if it has reason to believe that the User Content infringes any copyright.
H. patasala.in Intellectual Property Right

The patasala.in Platform, the processes, and their selection and arrangement, including but not limited to all text, graphics, User interfaces, visual interfaces, sounds and music (if any), artwork and computer code on the patasala.in Platform is owned and controlled by Company and the design, structure, selection, coordination, expression, look and feel and arrangement of such content mentioned hereinabove is protected by copyright, patent and trademark laws, and various other national and international IPR laws and regulations. For clarity, content in the above sentence shall not include User Content. Unless otherwise indicated or anything contained to the contrary, or any proprietary material owned by a third-party and so expressly mentioned, Company owns all IPR to and into the trademark “PATASALA.IN”, and the patasala.in Platform. The mark “patasala.in” is the sole property of Company. Reproduction in whole or in part of the same is strictly prohibited unless used with an express written permission from Company.

I. Refunds

Any refunds that are to be processed shall be processed in accordance with Company’s refund policy.

J. Electronic Communication

When you visit Platform or send email to us, you are communicating with us electronically. By communicating with us, you consent to receive communication from us electronically. We will communicate with you by email or posting notices on patasala.in Platform. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, disclaimers, offers and other communications that are provided to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communication should be in writing.

K. Termination of Account
  1. Company will terminate a User's access to the patasala.in Platform, if the Users breaches any terms of these Terms and Conditions.
  2. Violation of any applicable laws;
  3. your use of the patasala.in Platform disrupts our business operations or affects any other party/ User; or
  4. you have behaved in a way, which objectively could be regarded as inappropriate or unlawful or illegal or which would bring any claims against Company
L. Effective of Termination

In case any of the above-mentioned cases occur, Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate or suspend the User’s account with immediate effect. Upon suspension or termination of the User’s account:

  1. We shall at its sole discretion withhold or stop any and all payments that are to be made to such User and evaluate the pay-outs. Payments shall only be made for all legitimate work that is not subject matter of any violation or dispute.
  2. Payments shall not be made for the work that is the subject matter of any of the breaches.
  3. User access shall be terminated immediately, and the User shall not be able to access the said terminated account.
M. Confidentiality

You will not without obtaining prior written consent of Company, disclose to third party any Confidential Information (as defined below) that is disclosed to you during the term of your use of the Platform. For the purpose of this clause Confidential Information shall include but shall not be limited to employee details, User list, business model, processes, ideas, concepts etc. relating to patasala.in Platform which are not available in the public domain. You acknowledge and agree that the Confidential Information so provided to you shall at all time be the property of Company and any breach of the same shall cause irreparable damage to us.

N. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Company, its parent corporation, officers, directors, employees and agents, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees) arising from: (i) your use of and access to the Platform; (ii) your violation of any term of these Terms and Conditions; (iii) your violation of any third party right, including without limitation any copyright, property, or privacy right; (iv) any claim that your User Content caused damage to a third party; or (v) violation of any applicable laws. This defence and indemnification obligation will survive these Terms and Conditions and your use of the patasala.in Platform.

O. Eligibility to use and Acceptance of the Terms and Conditions

You affirm that you are either more than 18 years of age, or possess legal parental or guardian consent, and are fully able and competent to enter into the terms, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations, and warranties set forth in these Terms and Conditions, and to abide by and comply with these Terms and Conditions. Company reserves the right to refuse access to use the Platforms to any Users or to suspend and/or terminate access granted to existing registered Users at any time without according any reasons for doing so. We provide these Terms and Conditions with our platform so that you know what terms apply to your use. You acknowledge that we have given you a reasonable opportunity to review these Terms and Conditions and that you have agreed to them. You agree and acknowledge that your use of the patasala.in Platform is subject to the most current version of the Terms and Conditions made available on the platform at the time of such use.

P. Force Majeure

Company shall not be liable for failure to perform, or the delay in performance of, any of its obligations if, and to the extent that, such failure or delay is caused by events substantially beyond the its control, including but not limited to acts of God, acts of the public enemy or governmental body in its sovereign or contractual capacity, war, terrorism, floods, fire, strikes, epidemics, civil unrest or riots, power outage, and/or unusually severe weather.

Q. Information Technology Act

These Terms and Conditions are published in accordance with the provisions of Rule 3 (1) of the Information Technology (Intermediaries guidelines) Rules, 2011 that require publishing the rules and regulations, privacy policy and terms and conditions for access or usage of the Platform. You are advised not to post any information or messages that are, or that may be construed, as being malicious , defamatory, inappropriate, slanderous, pornographic or otherwise sexually oriented or that makes attacks on or the otherwise opines or comments on any individuals or groups of individuals, educational institutions or any other entities whatsoever (whether companies, firms, or any other institutions). You also agree not to post any information to which you do not have copyrights or other appropriate permissions to post in a public forum. Your failure to comply with these terms may result in removal of your postings without prior notice to User. The IP address of all posts is recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions.

R. Other Laws

Certain laws require to maintain data with respect to the Platform and other personal information in a prescribed format and Company will use all the information to the extent required in compliance with the applicable laws and as may be directed or amended from time to time.

S. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

The Terms and Conditions are governed by and constructed in accordance with the laws of India, without reference to conflict of laws principles and you irrevocably and unconditionally submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located in Hyderabad, Telangana India.

T. Modification, Amendment or Termination

Company may, in its sole discretion, modify or revise these Terms and Conditions and policies at any time, and you agree to be bound by such modifications or revisions. Your continued use of the Platform post any modification of the Terms and Conditions shall be taken as your consent and acceptance to such modifications. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall be deemed to confer any third-party rights or benefits.