Terms & Conditions

The Terms and Conditions (the “Terms”) form a legally binding agreement between you (the “User”, “you” or “your”) and Mindrolling, the operator of the website at mindrollingtrusts.com and all related digital properties, applications and services (together, the “Site”).
By accessing, browsing, creating an account on, posting any material to, or using the Site in any way, you confirm that you have read these Terms, understand them, and agree to be bound by them in full. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Site immediately.

1. Definitions and Interpretation
In these Terms, unless the context requires otherwise:
“Content” means all text, articles, essays, ideas (in any form), photographs, images, graphics, illustrations, audio, video, software, code, data, databases, compilations, metadata and any other material of any kind that appears on, is transmitted through, or is made available via the Site.
“User Content” means any comment, remark or other material posted, uploaded or submitted by a User on or through the Site.
“Rights Holder” means Mindrolling, any individual author, any named contributor, or any third-party licensor whose ownership of particular Content is clearly and precisely indicated/cited with that Content.
“Services” means all features, functions, services and offerings available through the Site from time to time, including any paid, membership or commercial features that may later be introduced.
“Intellectual Property Rights” means copyright, neighbouring rights, related rights, trade marks, trade names, domain names, design rights, database rights, rights in computer software, rights in confidential information, and all other intellectual or industrial property rights, whether registered or unregistered, together with all applications, renewals and extensions of those rights, anywhere in the world.
Headings are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation. Words in the singular include the plural and vice versa. The word “including” means “including without limitation”.

1. Eligibility and Account Registration
You may create an account and use the Site only if you have legal capacity to enter a binding contract under the laws that apply to you and under the laws of India, and only if you are not barred from receiving the Services under any applicable law.
By creating an account or continuing to use the Site you represent and warrant that you have that legal capacity and that all information you provide is true, accurate and complete.
You are solely responsible for keeping your account credentials confidential and secure, and for every activity that occurs under your account, whether or not you authorised it. You must notify Mindrolling immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use or any other security breach.
Mindrolling may, at its sole discretion and without prior notice or liability, refuse registration, suspend, restrict or permanently close any account, and delete associated data, for any reason that is a breach of any policy of Mindrolling. This includes cases where Mindrolling believes the user lacks legal capacity or that continued access would breach these Terms or applicable law.

1. Limited Licence to Use the Site
Subject to your full and continuing compliance with these Terms, Mindrolling grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and fully revocable licence to access and use the Site solely for your own personal, non-commercial purposes and only in accordance with these Terms.
This gives you no ownership or proprietary interest in the Site, the Services or any Content. Mindrolling may modify, suspend, limit or revoke the licence at any time, in whole or in part, without notice or liability.

1. Intellectual Property Rights
All Content on the Site is protected by Intellectual Property Rights arising under the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, the WIPO Copyright Treaty, the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, the laws of India, and other applicable international and domestic rules.
Each item of Content belongs to the publisher, the individual author, a named contributor or a licensed third-party rights holder, as specifically indicated with that item. The Rights Holder retains all exclusive rights, including the right to reproduce the work in any material form (including electronic storage and transient digital reproduction), the right to distribute copies to the public, the right to communicate the work to the public, the right to make the work available online, the right of public performance, the right to adapt, translate or modify the work, and the right to create derivative works. The Rights Holder also retains all rights in rights-management information and technological protection measures.
You may share a direct hyperlink to any publicly accessible page on the Site. You may quote a short extract of Content solely for criticism, review, commentary, news reporting or non-commercial promotion, but only if every one of the following conditions is met at the same time:
(a) the source is clearly, prominently and accurately attributed;
(b) the extract does not form a substantial part of the original work, judged both by quality and by quantity; and
(c) the use does not compete with, substitute for, reduce the value of, or harm the legitimate interests of the Rights Holder in the original work.
Social-media posts that contain only a brief quotation or headline together with a direct link to the original page are permitted under the same conditions. Private study, research and fair reporting of current events are also permitted within those limits. Any use that fails to meet all of the stated conditions is unauthorised and infringes Intellectual Property Rights.
Commercial reproduction, sale, hire, rental, redistribution, systematic scraping, bulk downloading, commercial storage, data mining, training of artificial-intelligence systems, or any other form of exploitation is prohibited unless the relevant Rights Holder has given prior written permission. The creation of derivative works, translations, adaptations or compilations is likewise prohibited without that prior written permission.
Content that belongs to third-party licence holders remains their exclusive property. These Terms give you no right, title or interest in such material.
All rights not expressly granted in these Terms are fully and irrevocably reserved by the respective Rights Holders. No implied licence arises from the mere presence of Content on the Site, from any sharing or embedding tools, or from any earlier decision not to enforce these Terms. Any limited permission that has been given may be withdrawn at any time, with or without cause, and without notice or liability.
The Site’s Copyright Policy is incorporated into these Terms and forms part of them. If there is any conflict between these Terms and the Copyright Policy on a question of intellectual property, the provision that gives greater protection to the Rights Holder shall apply.

User Content
The Site allows registered Users to post comments and certain other limited forms of User Content. By posting User Content you grant Mindrolling a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, non-transferable licence to host, store, reproduce, display and distribute that User Content solely for the purpose of operating, displaying and improving the Site and the Services.

This licence ends automatically when you delete the User Content or close your account, except that Mindrolling may retain copies for a reasonable period for backup, archival, legal or security purposes. Mindrolling will not sublicense User Content for independent commercial exploitation outside the Site.

You represent and warrant that:
(a) you own or control all rights in the User Content that are needed to grant the licence above;
(b) the User Content does not infringe any Intellectual Property Right, privacy right, publicity right or other right of any third party;
(c) the User Content is not unlawful, defamatory, obscene, harassing, hateful or otherwise prohibited by law; and
(d) you have full legal capacity to grant the licence.

Mindrolling has no obligation to monitor or pre-screen User Content. Mindrolling may, at its reasonable discretion and without liability, review, refuse, remove, disable or delete any User Content that breaches these Terms or applicable law. Mindrolling accepts no responsibility or liability for any User Content or for any loss arising from it.

1. Prohibited Conduct
You must not, and must not attempt to:
(a) scrape, crawl, harvest or use any automated system, robot or similar tool to access, monitor or copy any part of the Site;
(b) circumvent, disable or interfere with any security feature, access control or technological protection measure on the Site;
(c) upload, transmit or introduce any virus, malware, Trojan horse, worm, logic bomb or other harmful material;
(d) impersonate any person or entity, or misrepresent your identity or affiliation;
(e) post or transmit any material that constitutes, or could reasonably be seen as, incitement to violence, hate speech directed at a protected characteristic, or any other material that is illegal;
(f) use the Site for any commercial purpose, including advertising or solicitation, without Mindrolling’s prior written permission;
(g) reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise try to obtain the source code or underlying structure of any part of the Site;
(h) place an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Site’s infrastructure; or
(i) use the Site in any other way that breaches these Terms or any applicable legal jurisprudence.
Any breach of this clause is a material breach of these Terms. It may result in immediate suspension or termination of your access, deletion of your account, and the pursuit of all available legal remedies.

Nature of Content and Freedom of Expression Guidelines
The Site publishes, hosts and makes available Content across a broad range of subjects, including, without limitation, political, legal, economic, scientific, technological, historical, cultural, philosophical, educational, social and current-affairs topics, together with opinion, commentary, criticism, analysis, satire, research, archival material and other forms of lawful expression.
Mindrolling recognises the importance of freedom of expression, intellectual inquiry and the lawful exchange of ideas. Nothing in these Terms creates any right or entitlement for any person to have any Content or User Content published, hosted, retained, distributed or made available through the Site.
Mindrolling retains sole and exclusive editorial discretion, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to determine whether any Content or User Content will be accepted, published, edited, corrected, updated, annotated, fact-checked, modified, translated, categorised, indexed, archived, republished, restricted, suspended, removed, disabled, de-indexed or otherwise made available, in whole or in part, at any time, for any reason or for no reason, with or without prior notice, and without incurring any liability or obligation to any person.
Mindrolling endeavours to ensure that Content published through the Site complies with applicable law. Publication of any Content does not constitute a representation, warranty or guarantee that such Content is complete, accurate, current, lawful in every jurisdiction, free from error or suitable for any particular purpose. Content may contain inaccuracies, omissions, typographical errors, evolving information or opinions, and may be corrected, updated, modified or withdrawn at any time without notice.
The Site does not promote, endorse, encourage or knowingly facilitate violence, terrorism, hatred, discrimination, unlawful conduct or any activity prohibited under applicable law. The publication, discussion or analysis of controversial, sensitive, offensive or unpopular subjects is undertaken solely for lawful journalistic, educational, academic, historical, research, archival, informational, analytical, literary or public-interest purposes and does not, by itself, constitute endorsement, approval or encouragement of the matters discussed.
Unless expressly stated otherwise, no Content made available through the Site constitutes, or is intended to constitute, legal, financial, investment, tax, accounting, medical, healthcare, psychological, professional or other regulated advice, nor should any Content be relied upon as a substitute for independent professional advice. Users are solely responsible for exercising their own independent judgment and for obtaining advice from appropriately qualified professionals where required.
Publication, hosting, reproduction, quotation, syndication, embedding, linking to or making available any Content, User Content or third-party material does not constitute, and shall not be interpreted as constituting, endorsement, verification, certification, adoption or approval by Mindrolling of any opinion, statement, allegation, factual assertion, interpretation, conclusion or viewpoint expressed therein. Opinions expressed by contributors, users, interviewees, guest authors or third parties are solely those of their respective authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Mindrolling.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Mindrolling expressly disclaims all representations, warranties, guarantees and conditions, whether express, implied or statutory, relating to any Content, including any warranty of accuracy, completeness, reliability, timeliness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement or uninterrupted availability. Users access, interpret and rely upon all Content entirely at their own risk. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Mindrolling accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary or other loss, damage, liability, claim, cost or expense arising from or relating to the access to, use of, interpretation of or reliance upon any Content made available through the Site.
Users are solely responsible for ensuring that their access to and use of the Site, and any reliance placed upon its Content, complies with the laws applicable in the jurisdiction from which they access the Site.

1. Third-Party Links, Social Media and External Material
The Site may contain links to third-party websites, may embed external material, and may maintain official accounts on social-media platforms. Mindrolling does not control, endorse or assume responsibility for any third-party content, website or service, or for any activity that takes place on those external platforms. Your use of any third-party material is entirely at your own risk.
Activity on any social-media platform is governed solely by that platform’s own terms of service. These Terms govern only the use of Mindrollingtrusts.com. Content that originates on the Site remains protected by the Intellectual Property Rights described in these Terms even when it is shared or linked on external platforms.

1. Disclaimer of Warranties
THE SITE, THE SERVICES AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, MINDROLLING DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS AND AVAILABILITY.
Mindrolling does not warrant that the Site will operate without interruption or error, that it will be secure, or that it will be free from viruses or other harmful components.

1. Limitation of Liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, MINDROLLING AND ITS OFFICERS, TRUSTEES, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, LICENSORS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF (OR INABILITY TO USE) THE SITE, THE SERVICES OR ANY CONTENT, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY OR ANY OTHER THEORY, EVEN IF MINDROLLING HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH LOSS.

IN NO EVENT SHALL MINDROLLING’S TOTAL LIABILITY ARISING FROM THESE TERMS OR THE SITE EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL AMOUNT YOU PAID TO MINDROLLING IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM, OR (B) FIVE HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLARS (USD 500) OR THE EQUIVALENT IN LOCAL CURRENCY.

These limitations apply even if any limited remedy fails of its essential purpose. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law (including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud).

1. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Mindrolling and its officers, trustees, directors, employees, agents, licensors and service providers from and against all claims, demands, actions, damages, losses, liabilities, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) that arise from or relate to:
(a) your use of the Site;
(b) your User Content;
(c) your breach of these Terms;
(d) your violation of any law; or
(e) your violation of any third-party right.
Mindrolling may, at its own expense, assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter that is subject to indemnification by you. In that case you must cooperate fully in the defence.

1. Termination
Mindrolling may suspend, restrict or permanently terminate your access to the Site and delete your account and related data where you materially breach these Terms or applicable law, or where continued access would create a significant legal or security risk.

Where practicable, Mindrolling will give reasonable prior notice. In cases of serious or repeated breach, imminent harm, or legal requirement, termination or suspension may occur immediately without prior notice.

On termination, all licences and rights granted to you under these Terms end at once. Provisions that by their nature should continue after termination (including those on Intellectual Property Rights, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, governing law and general provisions) shall survive.

1. Changes to these Terms
Mindrolling may amend these Terms from time to time. The revised version will be posted on the Site and will show the date of the latest change.

For material changes, Mindrolling will provide reasonable notice (for example by a prominent site notice or, where an email address is associated with your account, by email). Your continued use of the Site more than thirty (30) days after the revised Terms are posted and notice is given constitutes your acceptance of the changes. If you do not agree to the revised Terms you must stop using the Site. You are responsible for reviewing the Terms periodically.

1. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution
These Terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or with the Site (including non-contractual disputes), are governed by the laws of India, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.

Subject to Mindrolling’s right to seek interim or protective relief in any competent court, and subject to any mandatory rights you may have under the consumer-protection or other laws of your country of residence, the courts at New Delhi, India, have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes arising from these Terms or the Site.

1. General Provisions
If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, it shall be modified to the minimum extent needed to make it valid and enforceable, or if that is not possible it shall be removed. The remaining provisions continue in full force.
Any failure or delay by Mindrolling in enforcing a right under these Terms does not waive that right. Any waiver must be in writing and signed by an authorised representative of Mindrolling.
These Terms, together with the Copyright Policy and any other policies expressly incorporated by reference, constitute the entire agreement between you and Mindrolling on the subject matter and replace all earlier agreements, representations and understandings, whether written or oral.
You may not assign or transfer any of your rights or obligations under these Terms without Mindrolling’s prior written consent. Any attempted assignment in breach of this clause is void. Mindrolling may assign its rights and obligations freely.
Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, employment or agency relationship between you and Mindrolling.

1. Contact
All notices and communications under these Terms should be sent to the contact details published on the Site.
By using Mindrollingtrusts.com you confirm that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by these Terms in full.