TERMS OF USE

By using this Website and/or its related mobile APP or by clicking a box that states that the user accepts and agrees to these terms of use (which terms of use are hereinafter referred to as “Terms of Use”), the user is confirming that the user has read, understood and accepted these Terms of Use. If the user does not agree to these Terms of Use, the user is not permitted to use this Website.

Any complaints or grievances regarding the use or information posted on this website, may be sent to compliance@mmtv.in

This website www.manoramanews.com, and/or its related mobile App and/or any part thereof (“Website”) is owned by MM TV Limited (“Site Owner”) a company validly existing under the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 and having its registered office at Door No.XII/1359, KVMM Building, K.K.Road, Kottayam, Kerala – 686001 and administrative office at Door No.2/275A, National Highway Bypass Road, Aroor Post, Alappuzha District, Kerala – 688534. The Website contains materials which is derived in whole or part from materials supplied by the Site Owner, its group companies, various News agencies and other sources (including content partners). For the purpose of these Terms of Use, the expression “User” shall mean any person (including a Registered User) who accesses or uses the Website and the expression ‘Registered User’ shall mean a User who has registered himself/herself with the Website for accessing the content on the Website.

a) User hereby represents and warrants to the Site Owner that User is at least 18 (eighteen) years of age or above and is capable of entering, performing, and adhering to these Terms of Use of the Website and that the User hereby agrees to familiarize himself/herself with the Terms of Use as well as other terms and guidelines found throughout this Website and abide by them. If the User is dissatisfied with the Website or any portion thereof, or with any of these Terms of Use, the User’s sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using this Website.

b) The User can view pages/sections/activities of/on the Website without registering on the Website. However, is the User opts he/she may register on the Website. The User shall be required to provide some personal information, when the User creates a Registered User Account, including the User’s email address/ mobile number and demographics which is used to protect the Registered User’s account from unauthorized access. In certain cases, the Website may also allow the User to log into the Website through other social media accounts mentioned on the login page from time to time

c) If a User uses the Website, the User shall be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the User’s ID and Password and for restricting access to User’s computer, computer system and computer network. The User shall be responsible for all activities conducted under the User’s ID.

d) The User agrees, inter alia, to (i) Provide true, accurate, current and complete information about the User in the registration form required to be filled in to create a Registered User Account (such information being the "Registration Data"); (ii) Maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If the User provides any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or if the Site Owner has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or not in accordance with the Terms of Use, the Site Owner has the right to indefinitely suspend or terminate the User’s registration with the Website and refuse to provide the User with access to the Website. Site Owner reserves its right to delete and cancel any user account if it is found to violate any terms of the Website

e) The User understands and acknowledges that the Website is intended only for providing news, News and Current affairs content, podcast and other related services for personal, non-commercial use only. If the User comes to know of any content that is fictitious/false or otherwise not in conformity with the Terms of use or otherwise offends the User in any manner, the User agrees to immediately send a complaint to xxx@manoramanews.com enabling the Site Owner to take appropriate action.

a) The Site Owner hereby grants the User a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-commercial, limited license to use the Website, subject to the unconditional acceptance of the Terms of Use governing this Website.

b) User hereby agree and assure the Site Owner that the Website shall be used for lawful purposes only and that the User will not violate laws, regulations, ordinances or other such requirements of any applicable Central, State or local government or any other international laws.

c) Site Owner grants the User limited license to only access and make personal use of the Website. User agree not to, directly or indirectly download or modify / alter / change / amend / vary / transform / revise / translate / copy / publish / upload post / distribute or otherwise disseminate any content on Website, or any portion of it; or delete or fail to display any promotional taglines included in the Website either directly or indirectly, except with the express consent of the Site Owner.

d) The Website is deemed to be used by the User when it is accessed by the User by any means and/or when it is loaded and/or continues to be loaded in the temporary or permanent memory of the User’s computer, mobile phone, or a similar system or in the internet browser thereof.

e) The right to use the website is Personal to the User and is not transferable to any other person or entity. The Site Owner’s own records of the use of the Website and transactions concluded therein, maintained through computer systems or otherwise shall be accepted as conclusive and binding for all purposes. The User’s use of this Website may be terminated at any time by Site Owner at the sole and absolute discretion of the Site Owner, without any reason or notice being required to be given to the User.

User shall use the Website for lawful purposes only. User shall not post or transmit through the Websites any material which violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others, which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, vulgar, obscene, profane or otherwise objectionable, which encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give right to civil liability or otherwise violate any law, or which contains advertising or any solicitation with respect to products or services. Any conduct by a User that in the Site Owner's discretion restricts or inhibits any other User from using or enjoying Website will not be permitted. User shall not use the Website to advertise or perform any commercial solicitation, including, but not limited to, the solicitation of users to become subscribers of other on-line information services competitive with the Website.

a) The Site Owner will terminate a User's access to the Website if the User is determined to be an infringer.

b) The Site Owner reserves the right to decide whether a User Submission is appropriate and is not in violation of these Terms of use including but not limited to, the prohibitions relating to display/ submission of pornography, obscene or defamatory material on or in relation to the Website.

c) The Site Owner may remove any User Submissions and/or terminate a User's access for uploading any material in violation of these Terms of use at any time, without prior notice and at its sole discretion.

d) Site Owner reserves the right to deny, at its sole discretion, any User access to this Website or any portion thereof without notice.

The Site Owner allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or third party service providers, to display advertisements and to provide certain third party services within the Website. It is the Users responsibility to make informed decisions after weighing the options before the User. The User's use of each such other websites is subject to the terms of use and other terms and guidelines, if any, contained within each such other website. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send advertisements and links that appear on the Website directly to the User’s browser. They automatically receive the User’s IP address when this happens. They may also use other technology (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content the User sees.

a) The User agree that while using this Website and any services made available through the website the User shall not host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, store, update or share any information or content on or through this Website that:

i) Belongs to another person and to which the User do not have any right;

ii) Is defamatory, obscene, pornographic, pedophilic, invasive of another's privacy (including bodily privacy), insulting or harassing on the basis of gender, libelous, hateful, racially or ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating to or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise unlawful or inconsistent with or contrary to the laws in force;

iii) In any manner is harmful to child;

iv) Infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights;

v) violates any law for the time being in force;

vi) Deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of the message or knowingly and intentionally communicates any information which is patently false or misleading in nature but may reasonably be perceived as a fact;

vii) Impersonate another person;

viii) Contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource;

x) 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;

b) Any content and or comment uploaded by User, shall be subject to relevant Indian laws and may be disabled, or and may be subject to investigation under appropriate laws. Furthermore, if User is found to be in non-compliance with the laws and regulations, these terms, or the privacy policy of the Website, the Site Owner shall have the right to immediately terminate/block the User’s access and usage of the website and the Site Owner shall have the right to immediately remove any non-compliant Content and or comment, uploaded by the User and shall further have the right to take recourse to such remedies as would be available to the Site Owner under the applicable laws. c) This Website is intended for human users only. Automated data collection, web scraping, AI Bot crawling, any form of AI tool usage or any other automated activity is strictly prohibited. Unauthorized automated access may result in legal action.

a) Unless otherwise stated, copyright and all intellectual property rights in all material presented on the Website (including but not limited to text, software, photo, audio, video, graphical images, music or sound), trademarks and logos appearing on Website are the property of the Site Owner, its parent, affiliates and associates and are protected under applicable Indian laws. User agree not to use any framing techniques to enclose any trademark or logo or other proprietary information of the Site Owner; 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 Website / 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.

b) User may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit, any of the content, in whole or in part. Except as otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law, no copying, redistribution, retransmission, publication or commercial exploitation of downloaded material will be permitted without the express permission of the Site Owner and the copyright owner and the burden of determining that any material is not protected by copyright rests with User.

c) The foregoing provisions are for the benefit of the Company, its subsidiaries, affiliates and its third party content providers and licensors and each shall have the right to assert and enforce such provisions directly or on its own behalf.

a) User may communicate to the Site Owner through various modes namely phone, email, or contact Us form. to provide (i) feedback about the general feature of the website or content posted on the Website; (ii) raise complaint about the services of the Website or content available on the Website; (iii) raise queries about the website or general information about the Website.

b) Site Owner may communicate to the User through various modes namely phone, email, social media channels (FB, Twitter, Whatsapp, Insta, Etc) to provide (i) response to queries/feedback; (ii) information about the new products and/or services of the Site Owner, its group companies, affiliate companies, or 3rd Parties; (iii) intimation regarding the products features, renewal, upgrades, etc.

This Website service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. Except as warranted in these terms, the Site Owner expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied or statutory, including, but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, data accuracy & completeness in the Website or any part thereof or any transactions entered into through the Website, and any warranties relating to viruses and non-infringement in the Website or any transactions entered into, through the Website. The Site Owner makes no warranty that the Website will meet the User's requirements, or that the Website will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error free; nor does the Site Owner make any warranty as to the results that may be obtained from the use of the Website or as to the accuracy or reliability of the information/material on the Website. The Site Owner makes no representations or warranties, either express or implied that the use of the Website will not infringe any patent, copyright or other right of any third party. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by the User through, or from, the Website shall create any warranty not expressly stated herein.

a)The User agrees that Site Owner shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, (including, but not limited to, damages caused by personal injury, loss of profits, use, data or other intangible, business interruption, loss of privacy, or any other pecuniary loss) to the User or any third party resulting from the (i) errors, mistakes, or inaccuracies of content, (ii) Personal injury or property damage, of any nature whatsoever, resulting from the User’s access to and use of the Website, (iii) any unauthorized access to or use of the Website and secure servers, and/or any and all personal information and/or financial information stored therein, (iv) any interruption or cessation of transmission to or from the Website, (v) any bugs, viruses, trojan horses, or the like, which may be transmitted to or through the Website by any third party, and/or (vi) any errors or omissions in any content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use by the User of any content posted, emailed, transmitted, or otherwise made available on the Website, whether based on warranty, contract, tort, or any other law, and whether or not the Site Owner is advised of the possibility of such damages. The foregoing limitation of liability shall apply to the fullest extent permitted by law. The User specifically acknowledges that the Site Owner is only providing a platform at its absolute discretion to share certain information and shall not be liable for:-

i) User submissions or the defamatory, offensive, or illegal conduct of any third party and that the risk of harm or damage from the foregoing rests entirely with the User.

ii) The use or the inability to use the services provided by the Website

iii) The delivery or the inability to deliver the services provided by the Website.

iv) The performance or the inability to perform the services provided by the Website

v) Any costs or consequences resulting from the above acts/omissions or resulting from the access to, or alteration of User's transmissions or data.

b) The User further agrees that the Site Owner shall not be liable to the User or any third party for any damages arising from any error, interruption, suspension or termination of, or in, the Website, including but not limited to direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, whether such interruption, suspension or termination was justified or not, negligent or intentional, inadvertent or advertent.

c) This Website may contain links to websites operated by parties other than the Site Owner, which will cause the User to leave this Website or have access to other websites. The User's use of each such other websites is subject to the terms of use and other terms and guidelines, if any, contained within each such other website. In the event that any of the terms contained herein conflict with the terms of use or other terms and guidelines contained within any such website, then the terms of use and other terms and guidelines for such other website shall prevail with regard to the use of the other website. The linked websites are not under the control of the Site Owner and the Site Owner is not responsible for the contents of any linked web site or any link contained in a linked web site, or any changes or updates to such Websites. The Site Owner is providing these links to the User only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by the Site Owner of the other website.

d) The User agrees that the Site Owner is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness or availability of information, content and materials found on other websites that link to or from the Website. The Site Owner cannot ensure that the User will be satisfied with any services that the User purchases from a third-party/ other website that links to or from the Website or third-party information, content or materials contained on this Website (including, without limitation, User-Generated Content contained in the Website).

e) The Site Owner does not endorse any of the merchandise, nor has the Site Owner taken any steps to confirm the accuracy, completeness or reliability of, any information, content or materials contained on this Website or on any other third-party website. The Site Owner does not make any representations or warranties as to the security of any information, content or materials (including, without limitation, credit card and other personal information) the User might be requested to give to any third party. The User hereby irrevocably waives any claims against the Site Owner with respect to information, content and materials contained on the Websites (including, without limitation, User-Generated Content), on third party websites, and any information, content and materials Users provide to such third party websites (including, without limitation, credit card and other personal information). The Site Owner strongly encourages the Users to make whatever investigation the User feels necessary or appropriate before proceeding with any online or offline transaction with any third party.

User agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Site Owner, its affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against all claims and expenses, including attorney's fees, arising out of the use of the Website by the User.

Although the Website may be accessible worldwide, the Site Owner makes no representation that materials on the Website are appropriate or available for access in locations outside India or that the Website complies with the laws that are applicable in any jurisdiction that is outside India. Accessing the Website from territories where the content is deemed illegal is prohibited. A User accessing the Content from outside India does so at his/her own initiative and is responsible for compliance with local laws.

a) The Site Owner reserves the absolute discretion to modify the Website or to amend / supplement any of these Terms of Use, at any time. The above mentioned amendments / supplements shall automatically become binding on the User, as soon as the said amendment or supplement is made to the Terms of Use, and is published on the Website.

b) All copyright over the editorial content is the exclusive property of the Site Owner and any use of such content without prior permission will be dealt as per the law.

c) The User acknowledges that the Site Owner has no responsibility or liability for the action of other users of the Website

d) The Site Owner may sub-contract and/or employ any affiliate to carry out any of its obligations under these Terms of use. The Site Owner may transfer or assign its rights and obligations under this contract to any third party without requiring any consent of the Registered Users or any other Users. The Registered User agrees that his/her User ID and password shall be used by him / her alone and shall not be transferred / assigned or permitted to be used by any other person.

e) The Website, these Terms of Use and the User’s use of the Website is governed solely by Indian law irrespective of where the whole or any part of the data is located or accessed, location of servers or the services provided by the Website may be physically located and without regard to conflict of law principles in other jurisdictions. Use of this Website is unauthorized and prohibited in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these Terms of Use including without limitation, this paragraph. The Site Owner accepts no liability whatsoever, direct or indirect for non-compliance by the User with the laws of any country other than that of the Republic of India. The User agrees that the Courts in the city of Kottayam, Kerala, India, alone shall have jurisdiction with regard to any dispute between the User and the Site Owner excluding all other Courts anywhere in the world that may otherwise have had such jurisdiction.

For more information about the Website’s terms and conditions of use, write to the Site Owner.

In the event you come across any concerns in our service, then please be free to contact us:

Email id: editorial@mmtvin

Contact No: 0478 - 2840000

Address: MM TV Limited, NH Bypass Road, Aroor Post, Alappuzha District, Kerala - 688534