Terms and conditions
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These Terms of Use govern your usage of the website https://flipkartacademy.com/, its mobile application, and m-site (hereinafter referred to as the “Platform”) owned and operated by Flipkart Internet Private Limited, a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956 with its registered office at Buildings Alyssa, Begonia & Clover, Embassy Tech Village, Outer Ring Road, Devarabeesanahalli Village, Bengaluru – 560103, Karnataka, India, and its affiliates (collectively “Flipkart, we, our, us”). ACCESSING, BROWSING OR OTHERWISE USING THE SITE INDICATES YOUR AGREEMENT TO ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS UNDER THESE TERMS OF USE, SO PLEASE READ THE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE PROCEEDING. By impliedly or expressly accepting these Terms of Use, You also accept and agree to be bound by Flipkart Policies (including but not limited to Privacy Policy available at Privacy) as amended from time to time.
By creating an account on the Platform or accessing or using our Platform, you agree to enter into a legally binding contract with Flipkart (even if you are using third party credentials or using our Platform on behalf of a company). If you do not agree to these Terms of Use (“TOU”), do not create an account or access or otherwise use our Platform. If you wish to terminate this contract at any time, you can do so by closing your account and no longer accessing or using our Platform.
With the exception of the following, Flipkart owns all information, content, material, trademarks, service marks, trade names, and trade secrets found on the Platform, including but not limited to the software, text, images, graphics, video, script, and audio. Without prior written consent from Flipkart, no proprietary information may be copied, downloaded, reproduced, altered, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way. Additionally, nothing on this Platform will be interpreted as giving the user a license or any other right, interest, or title to any of Flipkart’s intellectual property rights. You may own the medium on which the information, content or materials resides, but Flipkart shall at all times retain full and complete title to the information, content or materials and all intellectual property rights inserted by Flipkart on such medium.
The information available on the Platform is on best effort basis and Flipkart disclaims all liability for any error and accuracy that may be available on the Platform. Flipkart reserves the right and discretion to make any changes/corrections or withdraw/add contents at any time without notice. Flipkart does not provide any warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, timeliness, performance, completeness or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on the Platform for any particular purpose. You acknowledge that such information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Opinions and viewpoints may be present in some of the Platform’s material. Flipkart disclaims all liability for such views and any assertions that may arise from them. Furthermore, Flipkart makes no guarantees or representations of any kind concerning the completeness, adequacy, quality, or content of such data and information.
You must register with the Platform and keep an account with it in order to have access to the Platform and utilize its services. You will be asked to provide specific information, such as your name, cellphone number, email address, residence address, and any other facts the Platform deems essential. Regarding information giving, it should be emphasized that:
- It is entirely your obligation to make sure that the account information you give is correct, comprehensive, and up to date. You will be in charge of any activity that takes place under your account and of keeping the account information private. You commit to (a) making sure you log out of your account successfully at the conclusion of each session and (b) promptly alerting Flipkart to any unauthorized use of your account. Without imposing any obligation on Flipkart, we may ask you to change your password or suspend your account for as long as we think it is necessary if there is cause to suspect that there may be security breach or account misuse. Any loss or harm resulting from your noncompliance with this clause will not be our responsibility.
- You understand that Flipkart cannot guarantee that the Platform will always be accessible and that your ability to utilize your account depends on outside variables such internet service providers and network availability.
- In addition to the disclaimers set forth in the Terms, Flipkart shall not be liable to You for any damages arising from Your inability to log into Your account and access the services of the Platform at any time.
By using the Platform, you guarantee that all the information you provide is accurate and complete. If you’re under 18, you must have the consent of a parent or legal guardian. Flipkart reserves the right to cancel your account or deny access to its Platform if you’re under 18 without consent or if you provide inaccurate information. You are responsible for ensuring you meet the eligibility requirements. Minors must get parental/guardian consent before sharing personal information on the Platform.
You agree to protect Flipkart, its employees, and agents, from any claims, damages, or losses arising from your use of the Platform, violation of terms, infringement of third-party rights, or harm caused by your use of the Platform. This clause shall survive the termination of this contract.
Flipkart isn’t liable for any special, indirect, or consequential damages resulting from your use of the Platform.
If you breach these terms, Flipkart may be irreparably harmed and seek legal remedies like injunctions. Flipkart may also disclose your account information to legal authorities in case of violations. Violating these terms could lead to civil or criminal liability.
These terms are governed by Indian law, and any disputes will be resolved in Bangalore courts.
Flipkart can change, modify, suspend, or discontinue any aspect of its Platform without notice. Flipkart can also modify these terms without prior notice. Flipkart is under no obligation to maintain or continue any aspect of the Platform.
Limitation of liability: By using the Platform, you agree that the liability of Flipkart, its parents, affiliates, related companies, officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives, partners and licensors, shall be limited to the maximum extent permissible by applicable law. In no case shall Flipkart, its directors, officers, employees, affiliates, agents, contractors, principals, or licensors be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, special, or consequential damages arising from your use of the Platform or any Content or for any other claim related in any way to your access to the Platform, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any Content or information on the Platform, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of the Platform and/or reliance on any Content or information on the Platform.
Indemnification: You shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless Flipkart its owners, affiliates, subsidiaries, group companies, partners (as applicable), and their respective officers, directors, agents, and employees (” Indemnified Parties”), from and against any claim, demand, damages, obligations, penalty, losses or actions (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) made by any third party against the Indemnified Parties or imposed against the Indemnified Parties, due to or arising out of your or your affiliate’s or relative’s: (a) breach of these Terms, the Privacy Policy and/or any other policies; or (b) violation of any applicable law, rules, regulations; or (c) violation of the rights (including infringement of intellectual property rights) of a third party or Flipkart; or (d) unauthorized, improper, illegal or wrongful use of your account (including by you or by any person, including a third party, whether or not authorized or permitted by you). This indemnification obligation will survive the expiry or termination of these Terms and/or your use of the Platform.
Disclaimer: The Platform provided “as is” without warranties. Flipkart disclaims all warranties, including implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Flipkart is not liable for any damages arising from using the Platform. You use of the Platform and its content at your own risk.
General Provisions:
Notices from Flipkart will be sent to your account email or as a general notification on the platform. Notices to Flipkart should be sent to scoa@flipkart.com
These terms, along with the Privacy Policy and other applicable guidelines, constitute the entire agreement between you and Flipkart regarding your use of the platform and services.
You cannot transfer your obligations or rights under these terms to a third party. Flipkart can transfer its rights to third parties without your consent.
In the event that any provision of this TOU shall be deemed by any court having jurisdiction thereon to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall in no way affect or prejudice the legality, validity or enforceability of any other term or condition of this TOU. If any provision of this TOU shall be deemed by such court to be unenforceable because such provision is too broad in scope, such provision shall be construed to be limited in scope to the extent such shall deem necessary to make it enforceable, and if any provision shall be deemed inapplicable by any such court to any person or circumstances, it shall nevertheless be construed to apply to all other persons and circumstances.
The failure of any Party to enforce any term or provision hereof shall not be construed to be waiver of such term or provision and shall in no way affect the right of such Party thereafter to enforce such term or provision or any term or provision hereof.
Your relationship with Flipkart is on a principal to principal basis and by accepting these Terms of Use you agree that Flipkart is an independent contractor for all purposes.
Flipkart provides these terms to inform you of the rules governing your use of its platform and services. You acknowledge that you have had a reasonable opportunity to review these terms and agree to them.
Survival: You acknowledge that your representations, undertakings, and warranties and the clauses relating to indemnities, limitation of liability, grant of license, governing law shall survive the efflux of time and the termination of these Terms
Force Majeure: You agree that Flipkart shall be under no liability whatsoever to you in the event of non-availability of the Platform or any portion thereof, occasioned by an Act of God, war, disease, revolution, riot, civil commotion, strike, lockout, flood, fire, satellite failure, failure of any public utility, man-made disaster, satellite failure or any other cause whatsoever beyond the control of Flipkart.
Cookies: We send cookies (small files containing a string of characters) to your computer, thereby uniquely identifying your browser. Cookies are used to track your preferences, help you login faster, and aggregated to determine user trends. This data is used to improve our Platform, such as providing more content in areas of greater interest to a majority of users. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Some of our features and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.
Links: We may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve our customized content. Clicking on links may take you to sites outside our domain. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. These Terms of Use applies solely to information collected by our Website.
Alerts: We may alert you by email or phone (through SMS/call/WhatsApp) to inform you about new service offerings of the Company and its subsidiaries/affiliates or other information which we feel might be useful for you, through the Company or its subsidiaries/affiliates.
Public Forums: When you use certain features on our website like discussion forums and you post or share your personal information such as comments, messages, files, photos, will be available to all users, and will be in the public domain. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or when posting on our forums this information may become publicly available.
Security: We are concerned about safeguarding the confidentiality of your Information. We provide physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect Information we process and maintain. For example, we limit access to this Information to authorized employees only who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our Platform. Please be aware that, although we endeavor to provide reasonable security for information we process and maintain, no security system can prevent all potential security breaches.
User communications: When you send an email or other communication to us, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our Platform.
Changes to this Statement: As the Company evolves, our Terms of Use will need to evolve as well to cover new situations. You are advised to review these Terms regularly for any changes, as continued use is deemed approval of all changes.