We strive to enhance your experience in availing our services. To keep the things smooth, fun and running, we have listed some policies in the terms you would expect. The larger parts of these policies are strapped with legal seriousness and might have an old authoritative feel; hence don’t truly reflect the bond we nurture with our users and supporters. We suggest you to please have a closer look and contact us if you have any queries.

Gaatha- a tale of crafts
At Gaatha, we started with an aim of connecting Indian craftsmen with the people across the globe and create a worthwhile dialogue between them. We ensure that any person visiting our website and availing our services should have a joyous experience. By abiding to the terms and conditions mentioned in this page, you will help us in continuing towards our aim.

This document is an electronic record in terms of Information Technology Act, 2000 of INDIA and rules there under as applicable and the amended provisions pertaining to electronic records in various statutes as amended by the Information Technology Act, 2000. This electronic record is generated by a computer system and does not require any physical or digital signatures.

This document is 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 user agreement for access or usage of www.gaatha.com website.

User Agreement

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE ("AGREEMENT" OR "TERMS OF USE") CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE WEBSITE AND SERVICES OFFERED BY ‘Gaatha’. THIS AGREEMENT SETS FORTH THE LEGALLY BINDING TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE AT http://www.gaatha.com (THE "SITE") AND ALL SERVICES PROVIDED BY GAATHA ON THE SITE.

By using the site in any manner, including but not limited to visiting or browsing the Site, you (the "user" or "you") agree to be bound by this Agreement, including those additional terms and conditions and policies referenced herein and/or available by hyperlink. This Agreement applies to all users of the Site, including without limitation users who are vendors, customers, merchants, contributors of content, information and other materials or services on the Site.

Amendments in the terms of use
The Company reserves the right to change this Website and/or alter the terms and conditions of this User Agreement at any time and retains the right to deny access to anyone who the Company believes have violated the provisions of this User Agreement. You are advised that any amendment to the User Agreement or rules and policies incorporated herein by reference will only be notified on the Website on publicly accessible links and you agree by accessing, browsing or using this website that this constitutes sufficient notice for all purposes against you. The revised version/ terms shall be effective from the time that the Company posts the same on the Website. [In the event, that the User Agreement includes a substantial change, the Company will provide 30 days' prior notice of such substantial change by posting the same on the Website. For the purposes of this User Agreement, 'substantial change' means a change to the terms of this User Agreement that reduces your rights or increases your responsibilities.]

By impliedly or expressly accepting this User Agreement, You also accept and agree to be bound by Gaatha Rules and Policies listed here-under

Gaatha Buyer Policy | Gaatha Sellers Policy | Gaatha Privacy Policy

If you have any queries regarding our terms please feel free to contact us here.

What is Gaatha ?
Gaatha acts as a venue to allow users, who comply with Gaatha's policies to offer, sell and buy certain goods within a fixed-price format. Besides the initial vendor screening phase, Gaatha is not directly involved in the transaction between buyers and sellers. As a result, Gaatha has no control over the quality, safety, morality or legality of any aspect of the items listed, the truth or accuracy of the listings, the ability of sellers to sell items or the ability of buyers to pay for items. Even though Gaatha does pre-screen vendors and the content or information provided by Vendors; Gaatha cannot ensure that a buyer or seller will actually complete a transaction.

What terms need to be explained here?
Qualifying Payment - is made when the buyer, via a gateway of Gaatha’s choice under the implicit consent of the seller makes a payment of the fair amount for goods as specified by the seller, and only when such a payment is credited within [2] days to the companies bank account.

Delivery/Delivered - means physical delivery of the items to the buyer (for which a Qualifying Payment has been paid by the buyer) by the seller through a reputed courier service or by the Gaatha Logistic Partner at the address communicated by the buyer on the Website during initiating the transaction.

Dispatch/Dispatched - shall mean that the items (for which a Qualifying Payment has been paid by the buyer) have been dispatched by the seller through a reputed courier service or by the Gaatha Logistic Partner, and are en route to the address communicated by the buyer on the Website. Dispatch shall at the most take 7 days for national or international courier.

Dispatch Details - would entail all necessary information related to the dispatch of the purchased product that Gaatha is obligated to provide to the user on its site until delivery is achieved. (This is based on the data provided by the logistics partners).

User Information - means and shall include any confidential and/or personally identifiable information or other information provided to the Company or other Users of the Website at the time of registration with the Website, buying or listing process or through any email feature and shall include without limitation your name, email address, billing/shipping address, phone number and partial banking / financial information (Gaatha shall under no circumstance unless needed for compliance purposes choose to store your end-to-end banking/financial information, especially passwords; any such information may only be collected and shared ‘with and on’ the direction of our partnering payment Gateway ).

Valid Card - means any valid credit card/ valid debit card/ valid cash card or any other card of whatsoever nature issued by Visa or MasterCard and/or by any Issuing Bank or any institution designated to issue such cards and lawfully owned by the User of the card at the time of the Transaction as well as at the time of Refund, if any.

Issuing Bank - in respect of a buyer, means any bank that has issued a Valid Card (credit/ debit/ cash card) to the buyer or the branch of a bank which maintains a Valid Bank Account in the name of buyer; with which the buyer makes payment of the Transaction Price. [Gaatha may add or remove or suspend any one or more banks directly or through any payment gateway facilitators, and such change shall come into effect upon the same time as being posted on the Website.]

Logistics Partner - shall mean reputable logistics and courier company(s) appointed by the Gaatha that will provide various services of collection and delivery of items, between the seller and the buyer.

Transaction - means every electronically generated valid purchase order placed by the Buyer for purchasing the items listed by the Seller on the Website.

Transaction Price - means the price to be paid for the items to be purchased by the buyer for every Transaction and this price shall include, if applicable, the shipping charges, insurance charges and all other taxes, duties, costs, charges and expenses in respect thereof as charged by the seller and/or Gaatha.

Valid Bank Account - shall mean a valid and operational bank account in the name of the User of which the User is the rightful and legal owner having the ability to issue cheques/ demand drafts and make deposits, which in respect of the buyer shall be referred to as the Buyer Bank Account and in respect of the Seller be referred to as the Seller Bank Account. [Both the Buyer Bank Account and Seller Bank Account are required to be with a branch of a nationalized bank as per applicable Indian laws or other banks which are registered with or approved by Reserve Bank of India and such branch and/or account of the Buyer and Seller supports Reserve Bank of India’s electronic / online banking system including, without limitation, National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) and/or Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS)].

Eligibility - This Website may only be used or accessed by such persons who can form legally binding contracts under Indian Contract Act, 1872. Persons who are 'incompetent to contract' within the meaning of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 including minors, persons of unsound mind, and un-discharged insolvents are not eligible to use the Website. A minor is not allowed to access or register as a User or sell or purchase any items on the Website.

If you represent and are registering as a business entity, by accepting the User Agreement you represent that such entity has sufficient authority under applicable law to enter into the User Agreement and you are duly authorized by the business entity to accept this User Agreement and you have the authority to bind that business entity to this User Agreement.

Registration - You are solely responsible for maintaining secrecy and confidentiality of your username and password. You hereby acknowledge and accept that the website will grant access to any person who has obtained your username and password in the same manner as it would have granted access to you and you are responsible for all activities conducted under your username and password. The Company, its employees or associates will not be responsible in any manner for losses occurring from such breach of secrecy of your username and password on your side.

You agree that your sole purpose of registering or using the Website is to buy or sell unique handicraft products including green-crafted and ethnic products or similar hand-made goods (that are permitted to be bought and sold under applicable law) and you shall not use this Website for any other purpose including for selling or buying products other than as mentioned above or products that are not allowed under applicable law to be sold or bought by you in any manner.

You agree to provide true, accurate and complete information while registering or for any other purpose when prompted to do so on the Website. You are prohibited from misrepresenting your identity and agree not to represent yourself as another User or login/register using the identity of any other person. You are responsible to maintain and promptly update the information provided while registering or for any other purpose on the Website to ensure that the information provided by you is true, accurate, current and complete at all times. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete or the Company has reasonable grounds to deduce that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or not in accordance with this User Agreement, the Company reserves the right to indefinitely suspend or terminate or block your use or access to the Website in any manner whatsoever.

Seller Registration - To be eligible to sell items on the Website, the prospective seller is required to raise a registration request in the Gaatha website here. Subsequently Gaatha representatives will respond and after thorough due diligence around handicraft ethos, quality, fair process, eco-friendly materials and other packaging and delivery time assurances and verifications, register the seller.

Buyer Registration - Other than being a User, there is no separate registration requirement for buyers.

Terms of Use
You understand and agree that the Company and the Website merely provide hosting services to its Users who access the Website for purchase and sale of unique handcrafted products (that are permitted to be bought and sold under applicable law). All items advertised and/or listed on the Website and the contents therein are advertised and listed by Users and are third party purchasers and/or sellers as the case may be. You also give permission to the Website and the Company to store details and records of your usage of the Website indefinitely. However, this does not constitute any obligation on the part of the Company or the Website to do so.

Currently the membership on the Website is free and the Company does not levy any charges/fees for browsing or buying on the Website. However, for the purposes of listing any item on the Website to be sold or availing other services provided by the Company through the Website such as packing, warehousing, courier etc., the Seller may be charged fees. The Company reserves the right to introduce new services or modify the existing services provided on the Website. Additionally, the Company at its sole discretion may introduce fees for the new services provided or amend/ introduce fees for the existing services, as the case may be. Changes to the User Agreement or any of the rules and policies of the Company shall be posted on the Website and such changes shall automatically become effective immediately after they are posted on the Website.

All fees/ charges shall be quoted in Indian Rupees and shall be payable to Gaatha Handicrafts Private Limited within such time as specified in the invoice. You are responsible for paying all charges/ fees associated with the use of the Website and shall be liable to pay any and all applicable taxes, charges, cesses etc. which may be levied. In case of any non- payment, the Company reserves the right to issue a warning or temporarily/ indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership with the Website and disallow access to the Website. The Company also reserves the right to take any legal action against you in case of any non- payment of charges/fees to the Company.

If you purchase anything on the Website, you agree to also comply with the terms and conditions set out in the Policy for Buyers incorporated herein by reference.

If you propose to sell anything on the Website, you agree to also comply with the terms and conditions set out in the Policy for Sellers incorporated herein by reference.

The Company has no control over third parties and contents generated by the Users on the Website.

Any information provided by you to the Company or submit on the Website or provide or display to other Users of the Website in the registration, buying or listing process, in the feedback area or through any e-mail communication is solely your responsibility and the Company or the Website merely is a platform where such information is distributed, published, displayed or used by Users. The Company or the Website is not liable for accuracy, appropriateness or legality of such information.

User Obligations
All contractual terms of the manner and terms and conditions of delivery, payment, insurance etc. between the buyer and the seller shall be independently agreed with the other users of the Website that you may transact with.

You will treat the Website as a mere passive conduit which is used as a platform by Users to create listings or provide information for the purpose of selling their items so that such information can be discovered and read by other Users of the Website who may wish to purchase such items from other Users or provide feedback on items they have purchased or sellers who have sold any item to them.

You agree and undertake not to host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any information or list any information or item that:

-belongs to another person and to which You do not have any right to;

-is grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, pedophilic, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatsoever; or unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing including but not limited to "indecent representation of women" within the meaning of the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986;

-harm minors in any way;

-infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights or third party’s trade secrets or rights of publicity or privacy or shall not be fraudulent or involve the sale of counterfeit or stolen items;

-violates any law for the time being in force;

-deceives or misleads the addressee/ users about the origin of such messages or communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in nature;

-impersonate another person or use an anonymous proxy;

-contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource; or contains any trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, easter eggs or other computer programming routines that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, diminish value of, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information;

-shall not be false, inaccurate or misleading;

-shall not, directly or indirectly, offer, attempt to offer, trade or attempt to trade in any item, the dealing of which is prohibited or restricted in any manner under the provisions of any applicable law, rule, regulation or guideline for the time being in force;

-may give rise to liability on part of the Website or the Company or cause any hindrance (in whole or in part) with respect to the services of ISPs or other suppliers of the Website or the Company; and

-link directly or indirectly to or include descriptions of items that are (i) prohibited under the User Agreement or any other applicable law for the time being in force including but not limited to the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, the Drugs And Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954, the Indian Penal Code, 1860, Information Technology Act 2000 as amended time to time and rules there under or (ii) are at the same time listed for sale on a web site other than the Website. You shall not promote any website or webpage or link on the Website.

-In case of any violation of the above provisions, the Company has the right to immediately terminate the access or usage rights of the user to the Website without any notice and any such violative information that is displayed or submitted on the Website can be removed immediately and completely.

-You shall be responsible for keeping backup versions of the information and data provided by you. You hereby agree that you will not expect the Website to restore or keep back up of your information and data and not hold the Website or the Company accountable for any loss of data in any circumstances.

You shall not, either alone or in conjunction with other users, manipulate or attempt to manipulate the prices of any item being sold or purchased on the Website. You will also refrain from accessing information or databases in an unauthorized manner from the Website or servers where information or databases are kept.

You shall not attempt to or circumvent or manipulate any of the obligations conferred on you by this User Agreement. If such attempt is discovered, it will constitute sufficient ground for termination of access to the Website and also for taking appropriate legal action.

In case of any transaction or attempted transaction pertaining to any item listed on the Website which is a violation of this User Agreement or applicable laws comes to your knowledge, you shall forthwith take all steps to inform the Company of such violation.

If you choose to provide feedback on the Website which is visible to other users, you shall exercise due care while making comments and not make any comments that are not factual in nature and shall not post defamatory or illegal or offensive/ obscene contents.

You undertake not to disclose or distribute any other User's Information to a third party, or use the Information for any unauthorized purpose including for the purposes of marketing unless you have obtained the User's express consent to do so.

You shall not place any advertisements on the Website in any manner except via our formal vendor advertising service. Further, you shall not use the Website to promote your own or any other persons business or interests on the Website except for providing description on a listing for a specific item, unless permitted by the Company in writing.

You shall not attempt to 'double dip' during the course of a dispute by receiving or attempting to receive funds from the Company and/or its service providers and/or the buyer or seller as the case maybe.

Disclaimers
The Website is only a platform where users may meet and interact with one another for their transactions. The Website or the Company is not and cannot be a party to or control in any manner any transaction between two users of the Website.

All commercial / contractual terms are offered by and agreed to between buyers and sellers alone as per principal to principal bipartite contractual obligations. The commercial / contractual terms include without limitation price, shipping costs, payment methods, payment terms, date, period and mode of delivery, warranties related to items listed for sale. The Company does not have any control and neither does it determine or advise or in any way involves itself in the offering or acceptance of such commercial / contractual terms between buyers and sellers. Further, you understand that a listing may end if another User buys the item, or the User who made the listing chooses to end the same or if the listing expires after a stipulated period of time.

The Company is not liable or responsible for any non-performance or breach of any contract entered into between the Users (i.e. buyer and seller) including but not limited to non Delivery or non receipt, non payment, damage, breach of representations and warranties provided by the seller or any fraud as regards the items listed on the Website. The Users acknowledge that the Company will not be liable for any damages, interests or claims etc. resulting from not processing or any delay in processing a Transaction/ Transaction Price which is beyond the control of the Company. The Company shall not and is not required to mediate or resolve any dispute or disagreement between users.

The Company does not make any representation or warranty as to the attributes (such as quality, worth, marketability, merchantability, usefulness) of the items proposed to be sold or offered to be sold or purchased on the Website. In particular, the Company does not implicitly or explicitly support or endorse the sale or purchase of any items on the Website. The Company shall not be liable for any errors or omissions, whether on behalf of itself or third parties.

The Company does not make any representation or warranty as to the attributes (such as legal title, creditworthiness, identity etc.) of any of its users. You are advised use your best judgment and independently verify the bona fides of any particular User that you choose to deal with on the Website.

The Website is only a venue through which Users can reach a larger base to buy and sell unique handcrafted products. The Company is only providing a platform in form of the Website for communication and a hosting service for information and it is agreed that the contract for sale of any of the items shall be a strictly bipartite contract between the seller and the buyer. At no time shall any right, title or interest over the items vest with the Company nor shall the Company have any obligations or liabilities in respect of such contract. The Company is not responsible for unsatisfactory or delayed performance of sellers or damages or delays as a result of items being out of stock, back ordered or otherwise unavailable. All items offered by sellers are only for a restricted time and only for the available supply as offered by sellers.

The Company and its suppliers, affiliates and service providers make available the Website and services on an "as is" basis and without any warranty or condition, express, implied or statutory and specifically disclaim any implied warranties of title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. The Company specifically disclaims any such warranty. You expressly agree that the use of the Website and payment facility is at your own risk.

You release and indemnify the Company and/or any of its officers and representatives from any cost, damage, liability or other consequence of any of the actions of the users of the Website and specifically waive any claims that you may have in this behalf under any applicable law. The Company cannot control the information provided by other Users, which is made available on the Website notwithstanding the Company's reasonable efforts in that behalf. You may find other User's information to be offensive, harmful, inaccurate, or deceptive. Please use caution and practice safe trading when using the Website. Please note that there may be risks in dealing with foreign nationals, underage persons or people acting under false pretense.

Limited liability of the Company
In no event shall the Company or its suppliers, affiliates and service providers be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses arising (in any manner whatsoever, including but not limited to negligence) out of or in connection with the Website, services provided by the Logistics Partner or any other services or this User Agreement.

The Company liability in any circumstance is limited to the amount of charges/ fees, if any, paid by you to the Company. The Company, its associates, affiliates and service providers and technology partners make no representations or warranties about the accuracy, reliability, completeness, and/or timeliness of any content, information, software, text, graphics, links or communications provided on or through the use of the Website or that the operation of the Website or the Logistics Partner will be error free and/or uninterrupted. The Company provides no guarantee to its Users in respect of the products sold on the Website. Consequently, the Company assumes no liability whatsoever for any monetary or other damage suffered by you on account of:
The delay, failure, interruption, or corruption of any data or other information transmitted in connection with use of the Website. Any delay, failure, interruption or errors in the operation of the Website or the Logistics Partner.

Indemnity
You shall indemnify and hold harmless the Company and the Company's parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, third-parties and their respective officers, directors, agents, and employees, from any claim or demand, or actions including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party or penalty imposed due to or arising out of your breach of the User Agreement including the rules and policies incorporated herein by reference, or (ii) your violation of any law, rules or regulations or the rights of a third party.

Payment
Payments for the items on the Website can be made through the payment gateway partnered with by the company, or such other method of payment as may be permitted by the Company on the Website in its sole discretion.

For the purposes of buying and/or selling any item listed on the Website, you agree and undertake not to make payments in any manner other than as provided, without the prior consent of the Company.
You acknowledge and accept that you have specifically authorized the Company to collect, process, facilitate and remit payments and/or the Transaction Price to and from other Users in respect of Transactions.

The Company shall make reasonable efforts to ensure that requests for electronic debits and credits involving Issuing Bank are informed to the Nodal Bank (defined below) in a timely manner. However, a number of factors that are outside of the Company's control (including without limitation actions of Issuing Bank, Nodal Bank and the bank or credit / debit/ cash card and/or banks or financial institution infrastructure or indirectly through payment gateway facility providers or through any such facility authorized by the Reserve Bank of India to provide enabling support facility for collection and remittance of payment where the Transaction Price is remitted and/or refunded) may delay the time within which the Transaction Price are collected/ remitted by the Company. The Company neither makes any representations nor makes any warranties regarding the amount of time needed to complete processing, including delays in the banking system and nor shall the Company be liable for any actual or consequential damages arising from any claim of delay.

The Company has appointed Citibank Ltd., a banking company incorporated under the laws of United States of America and having its Head Office at New York and operating in India and having an office inter alia at Citibank NA, Citibank Card Centre, Citi Tower, 61 Dr. S S Rao Road, Parel, Mumbai 400012 as the nodal bank. The Company reserves the right to, at its sole discretion, replace or remove any nodal bank (Nodal Bank) without providing any intimation.

Any claim for refund of any payment made to the Company, for any reason whatsoever, shall be to the account of the Seller and the Company shall not be responsible for the same including but not limited to service charges or any other fees/ charges.

You agree and accept that the Company is neither acting as trustee nor acting in a fiduciary capacity with respect to the Transaction or the Transaction Price, while providing any method of payment to its Users.

Consent and Privacy Policy
By using the Website and/or by providing your information, you consent to the collection and use of such information disclosed by you on the Website, by the Company. The personal information / data including but not limited to the Information provided by You to the Website during the course of a Transaction shall be treated as strictly confidential and retained in accordance with the Privacy Policy which is incorporated herein by reference and applicable laws and regulations including but not limited to Information Technology Act, 2000 and rules there under. The Company does not sell or rent or otherwise disclose your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent and the Company only uses your information in the manner described in the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to your Information being transferred or used in this way please do not use the Website.

The Company views the protection of user’s privacy as a very important community principle. The Company clearly understands that you and the personal information provided by you is one of the most important assets to the Company. The Company stores and processes the information provided by you in computers located in India that are protected by physical as well as reasonable technological security measures and procedures.

Breach
Without limiting other remedies that the Company may pursue, the Company may at its sole discretion take such action as it deems fit including but not limited to cancellation of the Transaction or payments made, limit your activity, immediately remove your information or listings, or end your listing, warn other Users of your actions, forthwith temporarily/indefinitely suspend or terminate or block your membership, and/or refuse to provide you with access to the Website or initiate any legal action it may deem fit, particularly in the event:

-You breach any of the provisions of this User Agreement including any of the rules and policies, documents, terms and conditions made thereunder which are incorporated therein by reference;

-The Company is unable to verify or authenticate any information provided by you;

-The Company believes that your actions may cause legal liability to the Company, other Users or yourself.

No actions, omissions or decisions taken by the Company shall waive any rights or claims that the Company may have against the User.

Any User that may have been suspended or blocked may not register or attempt to register with the Website or use the Website in any manner whatsoever until such time that such User is reinstated by the Company. Notwithstanding the above, if you breach the User Agreement or the rules and policies and other documents incorporated therein by reference, the Company reserves the right to recover any amounts due and owed by you to the Company and to take strict legal action including but not limited to referral to the appropriate police or other authorities for initiating criminal or other proceedings.

Grievance Redressal Mechanism

In case of any grievance, objection or complaint on your part with respect to the Website, other Users or the Company, including any complaints or enquiry about suspension, termination or blocking of your membership or right to use the Website, you should promptly raise such grievance or complaint with the designated Grievance Officer and provide him / her with all necessary information and/or documents to enable the Company/ Grievance Officer to resolve the issue.

The name and contact details of the Grievance Officer is published on the Website as required under the provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules made thereunder.

General
None of the provisions of this User Agreement shall be deemed to constitute a partnership or agency between you and the Company and you shall have no authority to bind the Company in any manner whatsoever.

Except as explicitly stated otherwise, any notices directed to the Company shall be given by email to cc@gaatha.com and any notices to you by the Company shall be provided to the email address provided by you during the registration process. Notice shall be deemed given 24 hours after email is sent, unless the sending party is notified that the email address is invalid. Alternatively, we may give you notice by registered mail, postage prepaid and return receipt requested, to the address provided to us during the registration process. In such case, notice shall be deemed given 3 days after the date of mailing.

If any clause of this User Agreement or the application thereof to any User or circumstance shall be deemed invalid, void or for any reason unenforceable to any extent, the remainder of this User Agreement and the application of such unenforceable provision to Users or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid or unenforceable shall not be affected thereby, and each provision of this User Agreement shall be valid and enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law.

This User Agreement together with the rules and policies incorporated herein by reference constitutes the entire understanding and agreement between You and the Company with respect to the subject matter herein.

The Company at its sole discretion shall be entitled to assign or transfer its rights and obligations under this User Agreement hereunder to any other person without your prior consent provided that the Company assigns this User Agreement on the same terms or such terms that are no less favourable to you.

All remedies of the Company under this User Agreement whether provided herein or conferred by statute, civil law, common law, custom or trade usage, are cumulative and not alternative and may be enforced successively or concurrently.

Arbitration

If any dispute arises between you and the Company during your use of the Website or any service incidental to the Website or thereafter, in connection with the validity, interpretation, implementation or alleged breach of any provision of the User Agreement, or the rules, policies and documents incorporated therein by reference, the dispute shall be referred to a sole arbitrator who shall be an independent and neutral third party identified by the Company whose decision shall be final. The place of arbitration shall be Ahmedabad. The Arbitration & Conciliation Act, 1996, shall govern the arbitration proceedings. The arbitration proceedings shall be in the English language.

Governing law
This User Agreement and all rules, policies and documents incorporated by reference shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of India and the Courts in Ahmedabad shall have exclusive jurisdiction.

This document is an electronic record in terms of Information Technology Act, 2000 and the amended provisions pertaining to electronic records in various statutes as amended by the Information Technology Act, 2000. This electronic record is generated by a computer system and does not require any physical or digital signatures.

Privacy Policy
We promise unreservedly never to share your account information with anyone without your explicit permission.

Payment Processing

Gaatha is a secure site and provides the same level of security as offered by larger internet retailers. Point the mouse over the seal or click on it to view more details. These seals are a way for our customers to know that Gaatha has the stamp of approval from leading authorities for secure e-business transactions and meant to serve as proof that our site can be trusted.
Protecting your privacy is important to Gaatha. Please take a moment to learn how we handle your personal information:

Payment Processing

Protecting your privacy is important to Gaatha. Please take a moment to learn how we handle your personal information:

1. Why we collect personal information
Gaatha collects personal information for the sole purpose of simplifying the checkout process.

2. How we collect personal information
We ask for some basic contact information when you register on our website. In addition, we may ask for your contact information when you correspond with us or call us to make a purchase. We will never collect any information without your explicit permission.

3. When we disclose personal information
We will never disclose your personal information without your explicit permission. We give our courier company your delivery information, which is used for shipping and delivery purposes only.

4. How we protect your personal information
Gaatha offers the same degree of security as that offered by major online retailers (e.g. Amazon.com). We do not store or ever have access to your credit card number.

5. Access to your personal information
You always have access to the information we have about you. To review and update your personal contact information, simply view your account profile.

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6. Collecting other personal information
When you browse Gaatha's website, you are able to do so anonymously. We do not collect personal information when you browse. Your browser, however, does automatically tell us the type of computer and operating system you are using. Like almost all other websites, we use cookie technology. When you first connect to our site, the cookie identifies your browser with a unique, random number. The cookies we use do not reveal any personal information about you. We use cookies to study traffic patterns on our site so we can make the site even more efficient.

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7. Our commitment to privacy
Gaatha may contain links to other sites. Gaatha does not share your personal information with those websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices. The Gaatha Customer Privacy Policy is subject to change. We request you to review the privacy policy regularly for any changes.

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