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Terms & Conditions
e-Shabda is owned by Cygnet Enterprise Private Limited (hereinafter referred to as Company). The Company is registered in India and the services that we offer are governed by the applicable laws of India. No warranties of any kind are provided to the compliance of the information shown on these websites. Accessing our websites is conditional on your agreement and all information contained in it and all matters which arise between you and us will be governed by the Indian Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 or any amendment thereof. Access is further conditional on your agreement that any dispute or matter which arises between you and us will be dealt with exclusively by the Courts of Ahmedabad, Gujarat and E-SHABDA reserves the right to deny access to our websites without any further notice.
You are offered to access the sites under condition that you won’t modify the terms, conditions, and notices mentioned below. There is an agreement created for you regarding the usage of our site, including:
- You must be 18 years of age or over and have legal capacity.
- You warrant that all information you provide about yourself or anyone else shall be true and accurate.
- The website must not be used for speculative, false or fraudulent business transactions.
This website is for your personal and non-commercial use. The content and information used on the site includes price and availability of services and the background used to provide such content and information, is proprietary to E-SHABDA. Accordingly, as a condition of using or website, you agree not to use its contents or information for any commercial or non-personal purpose. In addition, whether or not you have a commercial purpose, you agree not to:
- Access, monitor or copy any content or information of these web “sites” using any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means or any manual process for any purpose without express written permission of E-SHABDA.
- Violate the restrictions in any robot exclusion headers on these web “sites” or bypass or circumvent other measures employed to prevent or limit access of our website
- Take any action or use any device, routine or software that imposes, or may impose, in the discretion of E-SHABDA, an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our website, which inhibits or interferes with the running of our booking operations
- The transmission of threatening, defamatory, pornographic, political, or racist material or any material that is otherwise unlawful is expressly prohibited.
- E-SHABDA reserves the right to deny you the access to our site if anytime it is affected by outside factors which are beyond our control
We shall not be liable for any loss or damage of whatever nature, which may arise directly or indirectly, from the use of any of the information or material contained in our website and access any other information or material via web links from these websites. These exclusions of liability apply only to the extent permitted by law and, except for information or material accessed via our website or supplied by an identified Third Party, which is consistent with our applicable booking conditions. If any of these exclusions, in whole or part, is found to be unlawful, void or for any other reason unenforceable, that exclusion or part of the exclusion shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the other exclusion(s) or part(s) of the exclusion(s) in question.
Disclaimer:
The website of E-SHABDA makes every effort to ensure that any materials or rates displayed on this website are accurate at the date of issue. Changes in market conditions or circumstances may occur after the issue date which may make information displayed on this website no longer accurate or no longer reflect the current position. The team of E-SHABDA, hereby expresses disclaims to any representation or warranty in relation to the accuracy, completeness, quality or adequacy of any contents of this website. All offers, prices, and conditions of sale may be subject to change without notice.
E-SHABDA will not be responsible for any losses if, for any reason, the debit/credit card, billing address and/or credit card verification number cannot be verified in a timely manner, nor are we responsible for any changes in rates or any other charges that may occur during the verification or billing process.
E-SHABDA will also not be liable to pay any compensation if we (the company) or you (the customer) are forced to cancel the services as a result of situations outside our control which we, could foresee or avoid, even with all due care. For example war or threat of war, civil strike, industrial disputes, natural disaster or terrorist activity.
The information provided by E-SHABDA is for informational purposes only, and does not constitute solicitation or any sort of advice.
Transmission of information is not intended to, and does not constitute, the formation of any sort of relationship between E-SHABDA and any other party.
This website also provides links to other internet sites. E-SHABDA is not responsible for the content of those other sites.
This website is provided "AS-IS," and "AS AVAILABLE."
E-SHABDA DOES NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTIES THAT THE CONTENT AND/OR INFORMATION AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS WEBSITE ARE ACCURATE, RELIABLE, OR CURRENT. E-SHABDA DISCLAIMS, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMISSIBLE, ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
No Unlawful or Prohibited Use
As a condition of your use of this Web site, you authorize to our team of E-SHABDA that you will not use this Web site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You are specifically prohibited from use of this site for the following:
- Actions that impose unreasonably large load on the website's infrastructure, including but not limited to 'SPAM' or other such unsolicited mass e-mailing techniques.
- Upload, post, email or otherwise transmit information which you do not have a right to transmit under any law or contractual relationship.
- Violating any applicable local, state, national or international law including, but not limited to, any regulations having the force of law.
Disclaimer should also have acknowledgement of trademarks and declare no relationship with any trademarks like google, Facebook etc which may have been referenced anywhere on the site.
Copyright
All information, content and material ("Content") comprising or made available by E-SHABDA through this website (including, without limitation, any computer source or object code comprising this website) is owned by or licensed to E-SHABDA, which retains all rights in this Content.
All Content, including, but not limited to the website design, text, drawings, photographs, and graphics, are protected by copyrights owned by E-SHABDA.
The Content and any and all such copyrighted material may not be modified, copied, distributed, downloaded, displayed, e-mailed, transmitted, sold or otherwise transferred, conveyed or used in any form or by any means, in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of the respective copyright owner. E-SHABDA grants you permission to display, copy, distribute, print and/or download the Content on this website for your personal, non-commercial Except as expressly authorized by the E-SHABDA, if you display, copy, distribute, print and/or download the Content on this website, you may not modify such Content, and you must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the Content. The permission granted herein terminates automatically if you breach these Terms of Use. Upon termination of the permission, you must immediately and permanently delete and destroy any Content you displayed, copied, distributed, printed and/or downloaded.
E-SHABDA, the "http://www.e-shabda.com/" are either registered trademarks, trademarks, trade names, or otherwise protected property of E-SHABDA and may not be used, copied or imitated without the prior written consent of E-SHABDA.
E-SHABDA’s intellectual property may not be used in connection with any information that is not provided by E-SHABDA, or in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among consumers, or in any manner that disparages E-SHABDA.
Other trademarks, trade names, company names, service marks and otherwise protected property displayed on this website are the property of their respective owners and are subject to the terms and conditions applied by those owners to their intellectual property.
The compilation of the Content on this website is the exclusive property of E-SHABDA and is protected by international copyright law.
You may not mirror any Content contained in this website or any other website or server.
You may not copy, print, download, upload, post or otherwise distribute on this website anything protected by copyright or other proprietary rights unless the owner of the applicable copyright or proprietary right has given you express authorization for such copying, printing, downloading, uploading, posting or distribution on the web.
The unauthorized use, uploading, posting, and/or distribution of Content protected by copyright or other proprietary rights is illegal and may subject the person violating such rights to civil penalties and criminal prosecution. E-SHABDA its officers, directors, employees, agents, administrators and any such similarly situated persons or entities are not liable for damages caused by any infringement resulting from your actions involving copyrighted or proprietary right protected material.
Terms of use of E-SHABDA’s website
E-SHABDA maintains this website by proceeding past the Home Page and using our website, you are acknowledging that you have read and understood, and that you agree to comply with and be bound by, these terms of use ("Terms of Use"). You also agree to comply with all laws and regulations applicable to the use of this website, to the use of the Internet, and to the activities involved in using this website. Please review the following terms carefully.
Compliance with Law
This website is owned by E-SHABDA. Visitors who choose to use this website do so on their own initiative and are solely responsible for compliance with all laws, rules and regulations applicable to the use of this website and the information, content, material and services contained herein.
Venue and Jurisdiction
Claims relating to this website, to the use of this website, and to the information, content and material available through this website are governed by the laws of India. You hereby unconditionally, voluntarily and irrevocably consent to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts situated in Ahmedabad, in any claim or dispute concerning, relating to, or arising from this website and any information received through this website.
Visitor on-line Conduct
- You agree to use this website only for lawful purposes.
- You agree to use this website only for its intended purposes.
- E-SHABDA reserves the right to prohibit any conduct involving this website that it deems to be inappropriate. You agree not to disrupt this website.
- You agree not to interfere with or compromise the security of this website, or any computer, server, account, network, data, software and/or hardware associated with this website.
- You agree not to disrupt or interfere with any other visitor’s use of this website.
- You agree not to attempt to obtain access to any portion of this website, any computer, server, account, network, software and/or hardware associated with the website, from which you are restricted.
- You agree that you are solely responsible for any actions you undertake while visiting this website and that you will comply with all applicable local, state, national and international laws and regulations applicable to this website and the Internet, including all applicable copyright.
Limitation of Liability
E-SHABDA AND ITS AFFILIATED PARTIES WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE AND/OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE. Neither E-SHABDA, nor any of our affiliated parties, nor any other party involved in creating, producing, serving, hosting, maintaining and/or updating this website shall be liable, under any circumstances for any damages, including but not limited to direct indirect, incidental, punitive, and/or consequential damages, and including but not limited to damages arising from mistakes, omissions, interruptions, deterioration or corruption of files, deletion or corruption of e-mail, errors, loss of data, loss of profits, defects, viruses, and/or delays, that result from your use of or inability to use this website, resulting from any acts or omissions, including but not limited to acts of God, network failure, hardware or software failure, theft unauthorized access, our negligence or your own errors or omissions, and any other cause, even if E-SHABDA has been advised of the possibility of such damages. You agree that this section applies to all content available through this website. In any jurisdiction where exclusion or limitation of liability for any type of damages is prohibited, E-SHABDA’ liability is limited to the maximum extent allowed by that jurisdiction.
Change of Terms
By using this website, you agree to these Terms of Use as well as any posted changes to these Terms of Use. We reserve the right to change these Terms of Use at any time.
We ask that you review these Terms of Use from time to time to ensure you are familiar with the most current version of it.
Hold Harmless
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold E-SHABDA and its Affiliated Parties harmless from and against all damages, losses, costs and expenses that E-SHABDA or any of its Affiliated Parties may incur as a result of your use of this website or your use of the Content and other information available through this website.
Severability
If any provision of these Terms of Use is held invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part in any jurisdiction, that provision shall be ineffective in that jurisdiction without affecting the validity of enforceability of the remaining provisions of these Terms of Use.
Headings of the Terms of Use
The section headings used in these Terms of Use are for reference and the convenience of the readers and shall not constitute part of these Terms of Use for interpretation purposes.
Integration Clause
These Terms of Use constitute the entire and only agreement between you and E-SHABDA, and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous agreements, representations, warranties and understandings with respect to the website, the Content, or the other information provided by or through the website, and the subject matter hereof. E-SHABDA’s failure to enforce any provision of this Agreement shall not be deemed a waiver of such provision, nor of the right to enforce such provision.
Privacy Policy
E-SHABDA recognizes that retaining your trust is one of the most important thing for our business and protecting your privacy is our highest priority.
We have prepared this Privacy Policy to help you understand how our website safeguards the personal information you provide to us on our websites, via email or through our service providers and distribution partners. E-SHABDA is not responsible or accountable for the privacy information or practices of any third party such as third-party operating any site to which our websites contains a link. By downloading, accessing or using our websites, or providing information to us in connection with our websites, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.
E-SHABDA is committed to protecting your online privacy while you browse our website.
We urge you to read the privacy policy in its entirety so you will understand all of the practices and procedures we follow relating to your online privacy.
What this Privacy Policy Covers
In this privacy policy, E-SHABDA will inform you about the type of information that is collected about you on this website, how the information is collected, what the information will be used for and to whom it will be given. This privacy policy will also tell you how to limit our use of your personal information.
What Information Do We Collect?
Personal Information
When you sign up to become a Registered User/Client/Publisher/Purchaser/End user you may be required to provide us with personal information about yourself, such as your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address (collectively, the “Personal Information”). We do not collect any Personal Information from you when you use our website or Platform unless you provide us with the Personal Information voluntarily (for example, by registering to use the Platform, requesting quote/live demo or joining our e-mail list).
Billing Information
In order to submit orders through the Platform, you will be required to provide certain information in addition to the Personal Information noted above. Such information may include a debit card number, credit card number, billing address, and similar information (collectively, the “Billing Information”).
Geo-location Information
In order to provide access to the Service while you are using a mobile device, we automatically collect geo-location information from your mobile device, your wireless carrier, or certain third-party service providers (“Geo-location Information”). Collection of such Geo-location Information occurs only when the platform is running on your mobile device. You may decline to allow us to collect such Geo-location Information, in which case e-Shabda will not be able to provide certain services to you. Because your Geo-location Information is subject to abuse by others, please be sure to manage your mobile device and privacy preferences on the Platform on an ongoing basis.
Other Information
In addition to the Personal Information, the Billing Information, and the Geo-location Information, we may collect additional information (collectively, the “Other Information”). Such Other Information may include:
From Your Activity.
Information that we automatically collect when you use the Platform, such as the type of device from which you access the Platform, your IP addresses, browser type and language, referring and exit pages and URLs, date and time, amount of time spent on particular pages, what sections of the Platform you visit, what you order, and similar information concerning your use of the Platform.
Cookies and How We Use Them?
Generally cookies identify the user and not the computer. Also it is required that if financial transaction are being carried out by the site every transaction is authorized explicitly by the user and no financial information is either cached or stored in cookies.
"Cookies" are pieces of information that are stored by your web browser on your computer's hard disk, for record-keeping purposes. Cookies only identify your computer and not you personally.
E-SHABDA makes use of cookies to store your preferences, record session information, collect information on how you visit and access our websites, and to tailor our web pages to your needs. We also use cookies to analyze and measure the effectiveness of our email communications, website features and offerings, and advertisements. Most web browsers allow you to turn off cookies; however, turning off cookies will limit your use of our websites.
How We Use and Disclose Your Personal Information
We use your personal information in the following ways:
- To provide you with the information you request about our services
- To send you email messages and information
- To confirm your orders
- To ensure you are correctly billed
- To measure and track demographic details about our customers
- To target content on our website to more closely match your interests
- To target the appropriate content for email marketing messages to better match your interests
- We will provide you with choices regarding the use and disclosure of your Personal Information for marketing purposes.
If you connect to E-SHABDA through any social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, the information that you will share with those sites is governed by their privacy policies.
Some of the Personal Information we collect is shared with our service providers (e.g. CC Avenue, Adobe) who are directly involved in fulfilling the services you have made from us. We only provide our service providers with your name and your local contact details and not any other Personal Information. If you decide to provide any Personal Information directly to our service providers, we recommend that you review the respective service providers's privacy policy to determine how they may use or disclose your Personal Information.
We also share your Personal Information with third parties contracted to provide us with marketing and data reporting services who are bound by an obligation of confidentiality and with other third-party marketing partners.
We currently contract with several third-party online partners to help manage and optimize our Internet business and communications. We use the services of third-party marketing companies to help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising and how visitors use our website. To do this, we use web beacons and cookies provided by such marketing companies in connection with our websites. The information we collect helps us learn things like what pages are most attractive to our visitors, which of our products most interest our customers, and what kinds of offers our customers like to see. If you do not want to help us learn how to improve our site, products, offers and marketing strategy, you can "opt-out" of our ability to analyze such data by clicking here..
We may also use or disclose Personal Information as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public or government authorities (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, or that of our affiliates, you or others; or (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
We may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose. In some instances, we may combine Other Information with Personal Information (such as combining your name with your geographical location). If we combine any Other Information with Personal Information, the combined information will be treated by us as Personal Information, as long as it is so combined.
Our Security and Storage Measures
E-SHABDA seeks to maintain the integrity and security of your Personal Information. We use industry-standard protocols while receiving and transferring your Personal Information.
We seek to store your Personal Information in secure operating environments that are not accessible to the general public. We also ensure that the security measures are in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of your Personal Information by our employees or third parties, however, no data transmission over the Internet or data storage environment can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot give an absolute assurance that the information you provide to us will be secure at all times. E-SHABDA will not be held responsible for events arising from unauthorized access to your Personal Information. We will rely on you for telling us if you experience any unusual events that may indicate a breach in your information security. We will then seek to investigate whether the security breach was related to the data transmissions from our website and let you know what steps can be taken to rectify the problem. Further action, such as reporting incidents to the police or other proper authorities, may also be required.
Links to Other Web Sites
Our website may contain links to other Internet websites. We encourage contributors and other third parties to implement policies and practices that respect your privacy. We are not, however, responsible for any other website’s privacy practices or website content.
We are not responsible for the content, accuracy or opinions expressed in such websites, and such websites are not investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy or completeness by E-SHABDA. Inclusion of any linked website on our website does not imply approval or endorsement of the linked website by us. If you decide to leave our website and access these third-party sites, you do so at your own risk
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
E-SHABDA reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy by posting the changes on its website. You can determine when this Privacy Policy was last updated by reviewing the "LAST UPDATED" legend below. We ask that you review this privacy policy from time to time to ensure that you are familiar with the latest version of the policy.
Contacting Us
To correct or update any other Personal Information, or if you have any questions about E-SHABDA website’s Privacy Policy, then please email our Privacy Officer at privacy@e-shabda.com.
Acceptance of E-SHABDA’s Privacy Policy
By using this website, you agree to the terms of, as well as any posted changes to, this Privacy Policy.
If you do not agree to the terms of our Privacy Policy, DO NOT use our website.
S K Rana (એસ. કે. રાણા)
Description
In recognition of his outstanding performance as a participant at the Summer Institute in English sponsored by the University Grants Commission in 1967, S.K. Rana was deputed by M.S. University of Baroda to do a course at Central Institute of English, Hyderabad. At the end of the course he was awarded Post Graduate Diploma in the Teaching of English. He also has an M.A. in English Language and Literature awarded to him by Gujarat University, Ahmedabad in the year 1961.
He has taught University and College teachers of English at three Summer Institutes. These Summer Institutes were sponsored by University Grants Commission and conducted by Department of English of M.S. University of Baroda in the years 1972, 1973 and 1977.
He has also taught English in programmes organized, among others, by All India Radio (broadcasts meant for secondary school teachers) and I.A.S. Training Centre of M.S. University of Baroda for its trainees.
All through his teaching career of thirty-two years at M.S. University of Baroda he has been deeply interested in English usage. For him—to use Samuel Johnson’s words—“the allurements of emendation are scarcely resistible.” He has written 140 articles on the correct use of English and these have been published in The Times of India and The Indian Express publications. These articles were widely and warmly praised by readers.
S.K. Rana has also published a few articles of a non-critical nature. Most noteworthy among these is an article published by SPAN magazine which is brought out by American Center, New Delhi. The title of this article is ‘American Girl in an Indian Home’ and it was published in SPAN magazine’s issue of January 1994. This article was subsequently published in a university-level textbook Indian Prose for Effective Communication (Macmillan).
Included in this textbook are writings of such luminaries as Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, Rabindranath Tagore, M.K. Gandhi, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Jawaharlal Nehru, C. Rajagopalachari, R.K. Narayan, B.R. Ambedkar, Swami Vivekananda, Khushwant Singh, R.K. Srinivasa Iyengar and Sri Aurobindo.
