TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE

  1. These terms and conditions of use ("Terms") form a legally binding agreement between You and Us, Inshorts Pte. Ltd. ("Inshorts", "Our", "We").

  1. Please spend time reading these Terms before you download or use this App, and let Us know at legal@inshorts.group if You have any questions regarding the same. We will try our best to answer Your queries.

  1. By downloading the App you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms do not download the App.

  1. DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION

  1. There are certain words and phrases that are used throughout these Terms and which have specific meanings (these are known as defined terms). You can identify these defined terms because they start with capital letters (even if they are not at the start of a sentence). We will usually explain the meaning of a defined term the first time it is used in these Terms, or else it will have one of the following meanings:

  1. "App" means the mobile platform Crux downloadable from Google Play/App Store and owned by Us, including any updates thereof.

  1. “AppStore” means the service provided by Apple Inc. and/or its affiliates, a third party, through which You may use in order to download the App.

  1. “AppStore Terms and Conditions” means terms and conditions that apply to the use of AppStore platform and as available at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/us/terms.html.

  1. "Google Play" means the service provided by Google Ireland Limited, a third party, and/or it’s affiliates, through which You may use in order to download the App.

  1. "Google Play Terms of Service" means terms of service that apply to the use of Google Play and available at https://play.google.com/about/play-terms.html.

  1. "User" or "You" or "Your" refers to a natural person who has accepted these Terms in order to download and use the App.

  1. Any reference to the singular includes a reference to the plural and vice versa, and any reference to one gender includes a reference to other gender(s), unless explicitly provided for.

  1. Headings and captions are used for convenience only and not for interpretation of the Agreement.

  1. Any reference to a natural person shall, include his/her heirs, executors and permitted assignees and any reference to a juristic person shall, include its affiliates, successors and permitted assignees, unless repugnant to the context.

  1. BEFORE YOU USE THIS APP

  1. The App has not been developed to meet your individual requirements. Please check that the facilities and functions of the App (as described on the Appstore or Google Play) meet your requirements before you download it.

 

  1. By downloading and/installing this App or accessing or using the App or any of the content available within the App from any device, you confirm that:

  1. You have read and accepted these Terms;

  1. You are aged 18 or over and you are legally capable of entering into a binding agreement with us;

  1. You are not legally prohibited from using the App.

  1. If you download the App onto any phone or other device not owned by You, You must have the owner's permission to do so. You will be responsible for complying with these Terms, whether or not You own the phone or other device.

  1. PROVISION OF THE APP

  1. The App is designed to provide You an in-app browsing experience through an embedded browser. We do not create any news or content or information; but the App provides a brief summary (60 (sixty) words or less) of publicly available content.

  1. In order to provide the App to You, We may request You to register and/or provide information about yourself. You must ensure that any information provided by You will always be true, accurate, complete and updated. If You have a password for registration, You shall not share or disclose it to any third party, nor allow any third party to use Your password to gain access to the areas and services for registered users. We may refuse or remove or suspend Your registration at any time.

  1. CHANGES TO THE APP AND THESE TERMS

  1. We may stop provision of the App (or any part of the App), permanently or temporarily, to You or to Users generally or may modify or change the nature of the App at Our sole discretion, without any prior notice to You.

  1. From time to time we may automatically update the App and change the services provided through the App to improve performance, enhance functionality, reflect changes to the operating system or address security issues. Alternatively, we may ask you to update the App for these reasons.

  1. If you choose not to install such updates or if you opt out of automatic updates you may not be able to continue using the App.

  1. We may need to change these terms to reflect changes in law or best practice or to deal with additional features which we introduce. While the App is available to You free of cost, We may amend these Terms and impose a cost for use of the App in future.

  1. We will notify you of a change when you next start the App.

  1. If you do not accept the notified changes you may not be permitted to continue to use the App and the Service.

  1. USING THE APP

  1. The content displayed on the App is for Your non-commercial and personal use. You are not allowed to copy, reproduce, alter, modify, create derivative works of, or publicly display any content displayed on the App.

  1. You will need to download and install the App from Google Play/App Store in order to use it. You may need to download and update the relevant latest versions of the App and any relevant updates provided by Us in order to continue using it.

  1. You will use the App only for such purposes as is permitted by (a) these Terms; and (b) any law, regulation applicable in the country of which You are a citizen, in which You are a resident or from where You use the App, and You will not infringe our intellectual property rights or those of any third party in relation to your use of the App.

  1. For Your use of the App, Inshorts grants You a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to install and use the App on Your iOS or android device. However, You shall not copy the App or any of its components, except for the purpose of making a single archival back up copy.

  1. Inshorts also grants You a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access such content on the App which is owned by Inshorts. Inshorts does not grant or purport to grant any licence in relation to any third party’s content.  To use any content owned by a third party, You may require a license from such third party, We don't license such content to You and Your use of content owned by a third party is governed by applicable terms and conditions prescribed by such third party.

  1. RESTRICTIONS ON YOUR USE

  1. You will not use the App or any content provided in the App for any purpose that is illegal, unlawful or prohibited by these Terms.

  1. You will not access (or attempt to access) Our content by any means other than through the App, unless You have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate written agreement with Inshorts.

  1. You will not redistribute, sublicense, rent, publish, sell, assign, lease, market, transfer, or otherwise make the App or any component or content therein, available to third parties.

  1. You will not circumvent or disable any digital rights management, usage rules, or other security features of the App; remove, alter, or obscure any proprietary notices (including copyright notices) on any portion of the App; and not use the App in a manner that threatens the integrity, performance, or availability of the App.

  1. You will not attempt to or engage in any activity that may:

  1. reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise extract the source code related to the App or any part thereof, unless it is expressly permitted by Inshorts to You in writing or is required by the applicable law;

  1. use any robot, spider, retrieval application, or other device to retrieve or index any portion of the App or content thereof;

  1. collect information about users of the App for any illegal or unlawful purpose;

  1. create any user accounts by automated means or under false or fraudulent pretenses for using the App;

  1. transmit any viruses, worms, defects, trojan horses, or any items of a destructive nature through or into the App;

  1. use the App in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair, or undertake any action which is harmful or potentially harmful to, any of the servers, networks, computer systems or resources connected to any of the servers connected, directly or indirectly to the App, or interfere with any other Users’  use and enjoyment of the App; or

  1. carry out any denial of service (DoS, DDoS) or any other harmful attacks on the App or; disrupt or place unreasonable burdens or excessive loads on, or interfere with or attempt to make, or attempt any unauthorized access to the App or any part of the App or any user of the App.

  1. You will not impersonate another person or impersonate, guide or host on behalf of, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent Your affiliation with any person or entity, including, but not limited to Our officials, employees, agents, partners, affiliates, dealers and franchisees.

  1. REPORTING VIOLATIONS AND CONTENT TAKEDOWN

  1.  If You find any content on the App which falls under any of the prohibited categories of content listed in section G(5), (6) above or which you believe may infringe the rights of any third party, You can inform us of such a violation of these Terms by writing to Us at legal@inshorts.group with

  1. a screenshot or sharing the link of the infringing post; and

  1. Your reasons for objecting to such content.

  1. Your reports of violation of these Terms will be processed within reasonable time by Our Content Moderation Team.

  1. If You have any objections against any action taken by Us pursuant to clause H(1) above, You can inform us of Your reasons for such objections by writing to Us legal@inshorts.group.

  1. In case a publisher or a legal representative of a publisher sees content on the platform that's not sourced pursuant to a commercial agreement then they can write to us at legal@inshorts.group with a partnership or any other request.

  1. We will review Your objections, and reserve the right to modify/retain our decision on any complaint against content shared on the App.

  1. TERMINATION

  1. We may end your rights to use the App by contacting You if:

  1. you have failed to comply with these Terms in a serious way. If what you have done can be put right we will give you a reasonable opportunity to do so.

  1. We are required to do so by law (for example, where the access to and/or provision of the App to You becomes, unlawful);

  1. The third party, if any, from whose platform you downloaded the App (e.g. Google or Apple) has terminated its relationship with Us or ceased to offer the related services to Us or to You; or

  1. We choose to stop making the App available for any reason, for instance because it is no longer commercially viable or feasible for us to continue providing the App to You; or

  1. To terminate these Terms you can stop using the App at any time.

  1. CONSEQUENCES OF TERMINATION

  1. Some of the provisions of these Terms are intended to create rights and obligations that, by their nature, will continue after the Agreement terminates (for instance clauses K,N,O,P,R) and those provisions will continue to apply after the Agreement is terminated.

  1. If we end your rights to use the App and Services:

  1. You must stop all activities authorised by these terms, including your use of the App and any Services.

  1. You must delete or remove the App from all devices in your possession and immediately destroy all copies of the App which you have and confirm to us that you have done this.

  1. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

  1. Your use of the App is, and at all times shall be, governed by and subject to the laws regarding copyright, trademark, patent, and trade secret ownership and use of intellectual property. You agree to abide by laws regarding copyright, trademark, patent, and trade secret ownership and use of intellectual property, and You shall be solely responsible for any violations of any laws and for any infringements of any intellectual property rights caused by Your use of the App through Your device.

  1. Inshorts owns and retains all the intellectual property rights to the summarized content made available to You through the App by Inshorts but does not claim ownership rights to the original sources of information, which are instead held by the sites to which the App may link You.

  1. All trademarks, brands and service marks of the App are the property of Inshorts only. Inshorts owns all of the copyrights and database in relation to the App.

  1. The App and any underlying technology or software used in connection with the App may contain rights of Inshorts or its affiliates or any third party. For use of any third party's intellectual property, You may need to get permission directly from the owner of the intellectual property.

  1. Any intellectual property which is not specifically mentioned to be owned by InShorts is owned by their respective owners and the owners have a right to take appropriate actions against You for any violation, infringement or passing off.

  1. Inshorts respects the intellectual property rights of others and does not hold any responsibility for any violations of any intellectual property rights by You.

  1. PRIVACY

  1. Our Privacy Policy [a]provides information about Our collection and use of personal information when You use the App.

  1. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of passwords associated with any device You use to access the App. Accordingly, You are solely responsible for all activities that occur with Your device. If You become aware of any unauthorized use of Your device, You will notify the relevant authorities as soon as possible.

  1. OUR LIABILITY

  1. We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to You where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

  1. If We fail to comply with these Terms, We will be responsible for loss or damage the You suffer that is a foreseeable result of Our breach of these Terms or our negligence, but We will not be responsible for any loss or damage that is not foreseeable. Loss or damage is foreseeable if it was an obvious consequence of Our breach or if it was contemplated by You and Us at the time that You accepted these Terms.

  1. The App is for domestic and private use. If you use the App for any commercial, business or resale purpose we will have no liability to You for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

  1. YOUR LIABILITY

  1. Any failure by You to comply with these Terms may result in a legal liability upon You.

  1. You will be responsible for any losses, expenses or other costs incurred by Us which are caused by:

  1.  Your use of the App in any way that is not permitted under these Terms;

  1.  Your breach of any rules, regulations and/or orders under any applicable law; or

  1. Your breach of any of Your obligations under these Terms.

  1. NO WARRANTIES

  1. We shall use all reasonable efforts to make the App available to You in the in accordance with good industry standards. However, to the extent permitted by law, We disclaim all warranties in relation to the App, whether express or implied, including but not limited to:

  1. the App being constantly available or available at all;

  1. installation or un-installation choices in relation to the App being successfully executed in all cases;

  1. that App will always function without disruptions, delay or errors;

  1. Your personal ability to use the App;

  1. Your satisfaction with the use of the App;

  1. the accuracy of the data provided by the App;

  1. [the security and privacy of Your data, to the extent it is possible under applicable law];

  1. that all bugs or errors in relation to the App will be corrected;

  1. that the App will be compatible with all devices and all networks;

  1. that the App is fit for a particular purpose or use; or

  1. that the App and the contents thereof are accessible in every location.

  1. The content in the App is provided for general information and entertainment purposes only. We do not offer advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of information obtained from the App. Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information provided by the App, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that such information is accurate, complete or up to date.

  1. The transmission of information via the internet or telephone networks is not completely secure. While We do Our best to protect Your information, InShorts cannot ensure the security of Your data transmitted via the internet, telephone or any other networks.

  1. GOVERNING LAW AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION

  1. The App may be controlled and operated through any country and may be subject to the laws of that country in which they are controlled and operated (although it we do not guarantee that it will always be accessible in every location). If You use the App from any location, then, You are responsible for compliance with the local laws applicable to You.

  1. This Agreement shall be governed by and shall be construed in accordance with the laws of Singapore. This means that Our contract with You under these Terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection these Terms (including non-contractual disputes or claims) will be governed by the laws of Singapore. However, as a consumer, if You are resident in the UK or a Member State of the EU and we direct this App to your home country you will benefit from any mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which You are resident.  Nothing in these Terms (including this section P) affects Your rights as a consumer to rely on such mandatory provisions of local law.

  1. You can choose whether to bring any dispute which may arise under these Terms to either the competent court of Singapore, or (if Your country of habitual residence is the UK or an EU Member State) to the competent court of Your country of habitual residence, which courts are – to the exclusion of any other court - competent to settle any of such a dispute.

  1. In the event of any dispute or difference between the You and Us, We will first try to resolve amicably through good faith negotiations. However, this does not prevent you from taking the dispute to a court if you wish to do so.

  1. NOTICES

  1. Inshorts may post notices within the App or send you notices on the e-mail address or the telephone number that You may have shared with Us. Your continued use of the App shall constitute Your receipt and acceptance of the notices sent to You.

  1. YOUR AGREEMENT WITH INSHORTS

  1. You are responsible for Your conduct and activities while using the App, and for any consequences thereof. Nothing in this Agreement should be construed to confer any rights to any third party.

  1. If any provision of the Agreement is found to be unenforceable under the applicable law, it will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of this Agreement. lf any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be deemed superseded by a valid enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remaining provisions shall be enforced.

  1. We may choose to not act with respect to a breach of these Terms by You or others but this does not mean that We cannot act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches. Our intended failure to exercise or enforce any provision of these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

  1. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if this happens and we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under the contract.

  1. You may only transfer your rights or your obligations under these terms to another person if we agree in writing.

  1. DISCLAIMER

  1. The contents provided through the App may include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Inshorts may make changes or improvements to the App at any time. The contents or any information available on the App is provided "as is" and "as available" and without warranties of any kind either expressed or implied, to the fullest extent permissible pursuant to applicable law. Inshorts does not warrant that the functions contained in the contents will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or the servers that make them available, are free of viruses or other harmful components. Inshorts makes no commitment to update the materials on the interface. The above exclusion may not apply to You, to the extent that applicable law may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties. To the extent it is possible to disclaim such liability under applicable law, Inshorts shall not be liable for any misuse or data theft as a consequence of Your use of the App.

  1. YOU EXPRESSLY REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU WILL NOT USE THE APP IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND, AGREE TO BECOME A PARTY TO, AND ABIDE BY ALL THE TERMS SPECIFIED IN THIS AGREEMENT. ANY VIOLATION OF THIS AGREEMENT MAY RESULT IN LEGAL LIABILITY UPON YOU. 

Last updated on February 19, 2021.