Terms & Conditions

Business Insider is a web site owned by Business Insider, Inc., a Delaware corporation. Times Internet India (the “Company”) has a license from Business Insider, Inc. to bring a localized version of site to India.

These Terms of Use (“Terms / Terms of Use”) govern your use of the website and content offered through and any mobile or internet connected device or otherwise. You are invited to submit articles, post comments, sign up to receive newsletters and RSS feeds, and visit the Site. By using the Site, you expressly acknowledge and agree that any use of the Site will be in accordance with these Terms of Use.

These Terms of Use constitute a legally binding agreement between you and the Company regarding your use of the Site and any services offered by the Company including but not limited to delivery of content via the Site, any mobile or internet connected device or otherwise (the “the Service”). By accessing the Site or Service and/or by clicking “I agree”, you agree to be bound by these Terms. You hereby represent and warrant to the Company that you are at least eighteen (18) years of age or above and are capable of entering, performing and adhering to these Terms and that you agree to be bound by these Terms. While individuals under the age of 18 may utilize the Service of the site, they shall do so only with the involvement & guidance of their parents and / or legal guardians, under such Parent /Legal guardian’s registered account . You agree to register prior to uploading any content and / or comment and any other use or services of this site and provide your details including but not limited to complete name, age, email address, residential address, contact number.

Definition of “User” or “You”: means any person who accesses or avails this site of the Company for the purpose of hosting, publishing, sharing, transacting, displaying or uploading information or views and includes other persons jointly participating in using the site of the Company.

If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms of Use, you may not use the Site. The Company reserves the right to modify, add to, change, update or amend these Terms of Use at any time, at its sole discretion. You are responsible for checking these Terms of Use periodically to remain in compliance. By continuing to access the Site after any amendment to the Terms of Use, you convey your acceptance of these Terms and you also agree to be bound by any such changes/amendments.

The Company reserves the right to suspend / cancel, or discontinue this Site and Services at any time without notice, make modifications and alterations in any or all of the content contained on the Site without prior notice.

Grievance Redressal Mechanism: Any complaints or concerns with regards to content or to report any abuse of laws or breach of these terms may be taken up with the designated Grievance Officer as mentioned below via in writing or through email signed with the electronic signature to the Grievance Redressal Officer.

Our Facts, Opinions, Analyses, or Predictions May Be Wrong
The content of the Site is offered for general information, discussion, and entertainment purposes only. Some of the content is unmoderated by the Site and reflects the personal opinions of the posters. You agree to use your discretion in accessing any information on the Site.

Copyright and Trademarks Ownership
Unless otherwise stated, copyright and all intellectual property rights in all material presented on the Site (including but not limited to text, audio, video or graphical images), trademarks and logos appearing on this site are the property of the Company, its affiliates and / or business partners, and are protected under applicable Indian laws. You agree not to use any framing techniques to enclose any trademark or logo or other proprietary information of the Company, its affiliates and/ or business partners; or remove, conceal or obliterate any copyright or other proprietary notice or any credit-line or date-line on other mark or source identifier included on the Site / Service, including without limitation, the size, color, location or style of all proprietary marks. Any infringement shall be vigorously defended and pursued to the fullest extent permitted by law.

In consideration for your agreement to these Terms of Use, the Company grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Site. You may access the material on the Site only for your own personal, non-commercial use. The burden of determining that use of any information obtained from the Site is permissible rests with you. You agree not to directly or indirectly download or modify / alter / change / amend / vary / transform / revise / translate / copy / publish / distribute or otherwise disseminate any content on the Site / Service, or any portion of it; or delete or fail to display any promotional taglines included in the Site / Service either directly or indirectly, except with the express consent of the Company. However, you may print or download extracts from these pages for your personal / individual, non-commercial use only. You must not retain any copies of these pages saved to disk or to any other storage medium except for the purposes of using the same for subsequent viewing purposes or to print extracts for personal / individual use.The Company forbids you from any attempts to resell or put to commercial use any part of the Site; any collection and use of any descriptions or content; any derivative use of the Site or its contents; any downloading or copying of information for the benefit of any other merchant; any renting, leasing, or otherwise transferring rights to the Site / Service; displaying the name, logo, trademark or other identifier of another person in such a manner as to give the viewer the impression that such other person is a publisher or distributor of the Service on the Site, or any data gathering or extraction tools; or any use of meta tags. You may not (whether directly or through the use of any software program) create a database in electronic or structured manual form by regularly or systematically downloading and storing all or any part of the pages from this Site.

No part of this Site may be reproduced or transmitted to or stored in any other website, nor may any of its pages or part thereof be disseminated in any electronic or non-electronic form, nor included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without prior written permission. Requests to republish Company’s material for distribution should be addressed to Times Syndication Services at.

By posting to or otherwise engaging in any communication within the Site, you are granting the Site (or any of its assignees) a perpetual, royalty-free, and irrevocable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, create derivative works from, transfer, and sell any such information.

Unauthorized Use and Prohibited Activities
Unauthorized use of the Site in connection with the transmission of unsolicited e-mail, including the transmission of e-mail in violation of this policy, may result in civil, criminal, or administrative penalties against the sender and those assisting the sender.
You shall not host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any information on the Site, that —
a) belongs to another person and to which you do not have any right to;
b) is grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous defamatory, obscene, pornographic, pedophilic, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, including bodily privacy, insulting or harassing on the basis of gender, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise inconsistent with or contrary to the laws in force;
c) harm children in any way;
d) infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights;
e) violates any law for the time being in force;
f) deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of such messages or knowingly and intentionally communicates any information which is patently false or misleading in nature but may reasonably be perceived as a fact;
g) impersonate another person
h) contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource;
i) threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign states, or public order or causes incitement to the commission of any cognisable offence or prevents investigation of any offence or is insulting any other nation; or
j) is patently false and untrue, and is written or published in any form, with the intent to mislead or harass a person, entity or agency for financial gain or to cause any injury to any person.

Any Content uploaded by you shall be subject to relevant Indian laws and may be disabled, or and may be subject to investigation under appropriate laws. Furthermore, if you are found to be in non-compliance with the laws and regulations, these terms, or the privacy policy of the Site, the Company shall have the right to immediately terminate/block your access and usage of the Site and the Company shall have the right to immediately remove any non-compliant Content and or comment, uploaded by you, subject to storage post removal as required under applicable laws, and shall further have the right to take recourse to such remedies as would be available to the Company under the Indian laws. Additionally, unlawful messages will be removed on being notified by a government agency or by an order of any court.