This website: www.splainer.in ("Website") is owned and operated by Splainer Media ("Company"). Through the
Website, the Company allows users to access current affairs content and other news content on the payment of a
subscription fee ("Services"). The terms 'Company' or 'us' or 'we' refer to the owners of this Website. The term
'you' refers to the subscriber of the Services on the Website.
By browsing, viewing, using the Website and subscribing to the Services provided therein you consent to and agree
to comply with these terms and conditions of subscription ("Terms").
The Company provides the Services subject to the notices, terms, and conditions set forth in these Terms. In
addition, when you subscribe to the Services, you will be subject to the rules, guidelines, policies, terms, and
conditions applicable to such Services, which will be deemed to be incorporated into these Terms by reference. The
Company reserves the right to change or modify the Website, the contents thereof and these Terms at any time
without any prior intimation to you. All modifications will be posted on the Website and will become effective
immediately upon such posting to the Website. Please review these Terms regularly to remain informed of any
change. These Terms were last modified on June 2, 2020.
While you may visit the Website without registration or subscription, some portions of the Website may be
accessible by subscription only. You may subscribe to the Services on the Website only after registering with the
Website. Additionally, you shall have to check the box confirming that you have read and agreed to these Terms and
the Company's Privacy Policy available at Policy.
The information sought at the time of registration may include your username, name, age, email address, gender,
age range and phone number. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password
and for restricting access to your computer or mobile phone, and agree to accept responsibility for all activities
that occur under your account or password. All actions performed by any person using your account and password
shall be deemed to have been committed by you and you shall be liable for the same.
Subscription services include access to behind the paywall content ("Subscription Services"). All viewers of the
Website can read up to five editions of daily splainer per month, but everyday access to our daily news edition is
available to paid subscribers of the Subscription Services alone. The Company may vary the access rights of users
engaged in accessing the Website without a paid subscription at any time at the Company's sole discretion. With
respect to paid subscribers, any revision of access rights will take effect on the completion of such user's
current subscription term.
Subscription packages and price may also vary in time. The Company reserves the right to introduce new
subscription packages from time to time.
The Company will try to process your subscription promptly but does not guarantee that your subscription will be
activated by any specified time. By submitting your payment and other subscription details, you are making an
offer to us to buy a subscription. Your offer will only be accepted by us and a contract formed when we have
successfully verified your payment details and email address, at which point we will provide you with access to
your subscription. The Company reserves the right to reject any offer in its discretion, for any or no reason.
The subscription fees and any other charges due from you in connection with your subscription for the Subscription
Services (including any applicable taxes) shall be as per the rates in effect at the time at which it is charged
("Subscription Fees").
When you purchase a subscription with the Website, you must provide us with complete and accurate payment
information. By submitting payment details you promise that you are entitled to purchase a subscription using
those payment details. If we do not receive payment authorization or any authorization is subsequently cancelled,
we may immediately terminate or suspend your access to your subscription. In suspicious circumstances we may
contact the issuing bank/payment provider and/or law enforcement authorities or other appropriate third parties.
If you are entitled to a refund under these terms and conditions we will credit that refund to the card or other
payment method you used to submit payment, unless it has expired in which case we will contact you.
The Company uses the services of third party payment service providers to process your payment of the Subscription
Fees. Accordingly your usage of such third party services shall be in accordance with the terms and conditions of
adopted and implemented by such service provider, and the Company shall not be responsible for any failed or
incomplete fulfilment of any payment instructions issued by you through such service provider or any actions taken
by the Company in respect of the same.
Subscription Fees will be billed at the beginning of your subscription and any renewal of your subscription. As a
general matter, all our fees and charges are non-refundable. We reserve the right to issue refunds or credits at
our sole discretion. If we do issue a refund or credit, we are under no obligation to issue the same or similar
refund in the future. We may change the Subscription Fees and charges then in effect, or add new fees or charges
which will take effect that the end of your subscription period, by giving you notice in advance and an
opportunity to cancel. If you believe someone has accessed the Website using your account and password without
your authorization, please immediately us at talktous@splainer.in.
The current schedule of Subscription Fees is available at subscribe. We may revise the
Subscription Fees from time to time. You agree to pay the fees at the rates applicable at the time and place of
purchase your subscription. The term and duration of subscriptions to Subscription Services offered by the Company
are listed in the schedule of Subscription Fees referenced above. Eligibility for any discounts is ascertained at
the time you subscribe and cannot be changed during the term of your subscription.
If we incorrectly state a price to you whether online or otherwise, we are not obliged to provide you with a
subscription at that price, even if we have mistakenly accepted your offer to buy a subscription at that price,
and we reserve the right to subsequently notify you of any pricing error. If we do this, you may cancel the
subscription without any obligation to us and we will refund you any money you have paid us in full, or you may
pay the correct price. If you refuse to exercise either of these choices then we may cancel your subscription and
will refund you any money you have paid us in full. We will always act in good faith in determining whether a
genuine pricing error has occurred.
Subscription and access to content services fall under the purview of Service Tax as per the current indirect
taxation policy, Government of India. Taxes are applicable for consumption of content on the website and other
products of the Company uniformly for customers based in India and outside the country. Unless otherwise
indicated, prices stated on our website are exclusive of applicable Service Tax, any applicable value added tax
(VAT) or other sales taxes.
You can choose a subscription of the term and duration offered by the Company as listed in the schedule of
Subscription Fees referenced above. These Terms shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Services.
Your subscription will renew automatically until it is cancelled in accordance with this section. For annual
subscriptions, we will notify you of the pending renewal of your subscription at least 15 days prior to the date
your subscription renews, except as otherwise required by law. For all subscriptions, you must cancel your
subscription before it renews in order to avoid billing of subscription fees for the renewal term.
Subscription to the Website commences immediately on the realisation of payment of the Subscription Fees, and
there can be no cancellation once the subscription is active.
If you chose to pay annually, at least 15 days before each renewal you will be sent a reminder notice stating the
rate that will apply for the renewal period. Unless you notify us before the end of your annual subscription
period that you no longer wish to receive it, your annual subscription will renew for another year. We will charge
the subscription using the same card or other payment method that you previously used.
You do not have any right to cancel your subscription or any part of it until the end of your then current
subscription period. Although you may notify us of your intention to cancel at any time, such notice will only
take effect at the end of your then current subscription period, and you will not receive a refund (except in the
limited circumstances set out in these Terms). You may notify us of your wish to cancel your subscription by
contacting our team at talktous@splainer.in. You must provide at least 5
business days advance notice for this to be implemented.
The Company reserves the right to suspend or terminate your subscription if you breach these Terms, with or
without notice and without further obligation to you. We may also suspend or terminate your subscription if we are
prevented from providing Services to you by circumstances beyond our control. The Company may, in exceptional
circumstances, cease to publish the Website, the Website content or cease to provide subscription Services. The
Company will give you at least 15 days' notice of this, if possible. If we do so, then we will have no further
obligation to you except for a refund of the unexpired period of your paid subscription. This means that we will
refund you with any amounts that you have paid us in advance that relate to any remaining and unexpired period of
your subscription.
In addition to any subscription fees you pay, you are responsible for paying any internet connection or other
telecommunications charges that you may incur by accessing the Website or using the Services available on it.
This Website is controlled and operated by the Company. All materials, including illustrations, statements,
opinions, views, photographs, products, images, artwork, designs, text, graphics, logos, button icons, images,
audio and video clips and software (collectively, "Content") are protected by copyrights, trademarks and other
intellectual property rights that are owned and controlled by us or by other parties that have licensed their
material to us. Except where otherwise agreed in writing with the Company, material on the Website is solely for
your personal, non-commercial use. Except as provided below, you must not copy, reproduce, republish, upload,
post, transmit or distribute such material in any way, including by e-mail or other electronic means and whether
directly or indirectly and you must not assist any other person to do so. Without the prior written consent of the
Company, modification of the materials, use of the materials on any other web site or networked computer
environment or use of the materials for any purpose other than personal, non-commercial use is a violation of the
copyrights, trademarks and other proprietary rights, and is prohibited. Any use for which you receive any
remuneration, whether in money or otherwise, is a commercial use for the purposes of this clause.
You may occasionally distribute a copy of an story, or a portion of an story, from the Website in non-electronic
form to a few individuals without charge, provided you include all copyright and other proprietary rights notices
in the same form in which the notices appear and original source attribution.
While you may occasionally download and store stories from the Website for your personal use, you may not
otherwise provide others with access to such stories. The foregoing does not apply to any sharing functionality we
provide through the Website that expressly allows you to share stories or links to stories with others. In
addition, you may not use stories you have downloaded for personal use to develop or operate an automated trading
system or for data or text mining.
You agree not to rearrange or modify the Content available through the Website. You agree not to display, post,
frame, or scrape the Content for use on another website, app, blog, product or service, except as otherwise
expressly permitted by these Terms. You agree not to create any derivative work based on or containing the
Content. The framing or scraping of or in-line linking to the Services or any Content contained thereon and/or the
use of webcrawler, spidering or other automated means to access, copy, index, process and/or store any Content
made available on or through the Services other than as expressly authorized by us is prohibited.
You further agree to abide by exclusionary protocols (e.g., Robots.txt, Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP),
etc.) that may be used in connection with the Services. You may not access parts of the Services to which you are
not authorized, or attempt to circumvent any restrictions imposed on your use or access of the Services.
As a general rule, you may not use the Content, including without limitation, any Content made available in any
commercial product or service, without our express written consent.
You may not create apps, extensions, or other products and services that use our Content without our permission.
You may not aggregate or otherwise use our Content in a manner that could reasonably serve as a substitute for a
subscription to the Website.
You may not access or view the Services with the use of any scripts, extensions, or programs that alter the way
the Services are displayed, rendered, or transmitted to you without our written consent.
You agree not to use the Services for any unlawful purpose. We reserve the right to terminate or restrict your
access to the Website if, in our opinion, your use of the Services may violate any laws, regulations or rulings,
infringe upon another person's rights or violate these Terms.
All content published on the Website (including any information we publish regarding third party products) is only
for your general information and entertainment purposes and is not intended to address your particular
requirements. In particular, content created by the Company, its syndication partners and including Contributed
Content and any other content provided by third parties and distributed by the Website, does not constitute any
form of advice, recommendation, representation, endorsement or arrangement by the Company. It is not intended to
be and should not be relied upon by users in making (or refraining from making) any personal decision.
Any agreements, transactions or other arrangements made between you and any third party named on (or linked to
from) the Website are at your own responsibility and entered into at your own risk.
The Company is constantly endeavouring to improve the quality of Services provided to you. Due to this, the form
and nature of Services provided may change from time to time without any prior notice to you. The Company reserves
the right to introduce and initiate new features, functionalities, components to the Website and/or Services
and/or change, alter, modify, suspend, discontinue or remove the existing ones without any prior notice to you.
Further, the Company is entitled to discontinue (either permanently or temporarily) one or more of the Services
provided or terminate the Website without any prior notice to you. The Company may also prescribe certain limits
on the use of the Website and/or Services or storage of Content at its sole discretion without any prior notice to
you while at all times complying with its Privacy Policy.
The Website, all the materials and Services, included on or otherwise made available to you through this Website
is provided by the Company "as is" and "as available" basis without any representation or warranties, express or
implied except otherwise specified in writing. Without prejudice to the forgoing paragraph, the Company does not
warrant that:
The Company, to the fullest extent permitted by law, disclaims all warranties, whether express or implied,
including the warranty of merchantability, fitness for particular purpose and non-infringement. The Company makes
no warranties about the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or timeliness of the Website, Content, Contributed
Content, Services, software, text, graphics and links.
The Company does not warrant that this Website; information, content, materials, or Services included on or
otherwise made available to you through this Website; their servers; or electronic communication sent from by
Company are free of viruses or other harmful components.
Nothing on this Website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind.
The information presented on this Website has been compiled by the Company from various sources including from external sources. No representation is made or warranty given as to the completeness or accuracy of such information. This Website may contain typographical errors, incomplete or out of date information. The Company reserves the right to make changes to the Content, Contributed Content and information on this Website, or to the services described therein, or update such information at any time without notice, but the Company makes no commitment to correct or update this information.
You (a) represent, warrant and covenant that no materials of any kind provided by you will (i) violate, plagiarise, or infringe upon the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy or other personal or proprietary rights; or (ii) contain libellous, Prohibited Content or other unlawful material; and (b) hereby agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Company and all of the Company's officers, directors, owners, agents, customers/clients, information providers, affiliates, licensors and licensees (collectively, the "Indemnified Parties") from and against any and all liability and costs, including, without limitation, reasonable advocate's fees, incurred by the Indemnified Parties in connection with any claim arising out of any breach by you of these Terms or the foregoing representations, warranties and covenants. You shall cooperate as fully as reasonably required in the defence of any such claim. The Company reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you.
These Terms will remain in full force and effect while you continue the use of the Website and/or avail of the Services at any level. The Company retains the right to deny access to the Website and/or the Services to anyone who it believes has violated any of these Terms or does not accept these Terms, and retains the right to terminate the subscription of such person. You may terminate these Terms of Use by cancelling your subscription.
In good faith, if you have reason to believe that any work copyrighted by you has been reproduced, embedded, or linked without any authorization on this Website, in a manner that constitutes an infringement of your copyright under Indian law, please compile the following information and email to: talktous@splainer.in.
This Website, including the Content and Contributed Content and information contained herein, and the provision of Services shall be governed by the laws of the Republic of India and the courts of Bengaluru, India shall retain exclusive jurisdiction to entertain any proceedings in relation to any disputes arising out of the same. As such, the laws of India shall govern any transaction completed using this Website.
