Terms and Conditions

INTRODUCTION:

  • You are entering into this User Agreement (also referred to as "the Agreement") with www.legalforge.in (also referred to as "we" and "us").
  • The Agreement specifies the terms and conditions applicable to your use of our services available under the domain and sub-domains of www.legalforge.in.
  • The Agreement shall be effective from 20th July 2024.
  • You are strongly recommended to read, agree with and accept all of the terms and conditions of the Agreement, which include those terms and conditions expressly set out below and those incorporated by reference, before you may become a member of www.legalforge.in.
  • You are further strongly recommended that, as you read the Agreement, you also access and read the information contained in the other pages and websites referred to in this document, as they may contain further terms and conditions that apply to you as a user of our services.
  • You agree that by clicking "Join Now", "Sign Up" or similar, registering, accessing or using our services (described below), you are agreeing to enter into a legally binding contract with us. By acceptance of the terms and conditions of this Agreement and by creating a new account, you agree to be bound by this Agreement. Such acceptance shall have the same legal effect as your written signature set forth in a written document containing the terms and conditions of this User Agreement.
  • You shall not use or access our services if you do not agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of the Agreement.
  • www.legalforge.in reserves its right to amend the Agreement from time to time. If we make material changes to it, we will provide you notice through our services, or by other means, to provide you the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective. We agree that changes cannot be retroactive. Your continued use of our services after we publish or send a notice about our changes to these terms means that you are consenting to the updated terms as of their effective date.

MEMBERSHIP ELIGIBILITY:

  • Our services are available only to those individuals who can form legally binding contracts under applicable law.
  • Your account and User ID cannot be transferred or sold to any other party.
  • If you are registering as a business entity, you represent that you have the requisite authority to bind the entity into this Agreement.
  • Our services or products are not aimed at minor, i.e., person who is less than 18 years of age. In case we discover that we received any information from a minor in violation of this policy, we will delete that information immediately. If you believe we have received any information from or about anyone under the age of 18, please contact us immediately.

FEES AND SERVICES:

  • Joining our service does not entail any charges.
  • Subscription fees is applicable in cases where you make a request for and receive consultations and agreement generation through our services.
  • We reserve our right to bring in changes to our Fees from time to time. Our changes to the fees are effective after we provide you with at least 30 days’ notice of the changes by posting the changes in this Agreement.
  • We may, in our sole discretion, change some or all of our services that we provide under www.legalforge.in.
  • In the event, we introduce a new service, the fees for that service would be provided / intimated / notified at the launch of the service.
  • Unless otherwise stated, all fees are quoted in Indian Rupees (INR).
  • You are responsible for paying all fees associated with using our service and our website and all applicable taxes.

FACILITATOR:

  • We are not a law firm, or a legal service provider nor are law firm representative and/or the authorized representative of the legal service provider.
  • We only act as a Facilitator providing a platform to allow users to generate agreements in a predefined format.
  • We take no responsibility to have any control over the quality, accuracy, timeliness or legality of the requests and the responses, or the truth or accuracy of the requests and / or responses.
  • You understand that any inaccuracy or incompleteness of the information may have an adverse / material impact on the purpose for which it is being used. Hence, we shall not be liable for any liability arising out of the use of any such information received through us.

IDENTITY VERIFICATION:

  • We use many techniques to identify our users when they register on our site. We have established a user-initiated communication system wherein user fills in their details, unique identity details, personal information, etc.
  • You also have the option to appoint the authorized person on your behalf to upload and verify documents and authorize the audit or business partner. By doing so you completely assume responsibility for the act of person authorized by you to verify the information and/or upload any document.
  • Such details and information provided by the user at the time of registration shall be kept confidential by us
  • The data provided by the user at the time of registration shall be verified by us through various regulatory databases or through professionals such as Lawyer/CA/CWA.

YOUR INFORMATION:

  • "Your Information" is defined as any information you provide to us or other users in the registration or agreement generation process, in any message area or through any email feature.
  • You are solely responsible for Your Information, and we act as a passive conduit for online distribution and publication of Your Information. Hence, we shall not made be liable for any dispute arising out of the use of any such information.

COOKIES:

  • We use cookies to store visitor preferences, record session information record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, alert visitors to new areas that we think might be of interest to them when they return to our website, record past activity at a website in order to provide better service when visitors return to website, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, and to customize web page content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends.
  • Most browsers are set up to accept cookies, but you can change your settings to have your browser notify you when you receive a new cookie or you can change your settings to refuse to accept cookies.

RESTRICTED ACTIVITIES:

  • Your Information (or any items listed) and your activities on our website shall not
    (a) be false, inaccurate or misleading;
    (b) be fraudulent;
    (c) infringe any third party’s copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
    (d) violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing consumer protection or antidiscrimination);
    (e) be defamatory, trade libelous, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing;
    (f) be obscene or contain child pornography;
    (g) contain any viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, easter eggs or other computer programming routines that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information; and
    (h) create liability for us or cause us to lose (in whole or in part) the services of our ISPs or other suppliers.
  • You may not authorize or request any agreement generation on our site (or consummate any transaction that was initiated using our service) that, by authorizing or paying to us the usage fee or the final value fee, could cause us to violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation.

LICENSE:

  • By registering / subscribing to our services, you provide us with a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable (through multiple tiers) license towards use of Your Information, to exercise the copyright, publicity, and database rights (but no other rights) you have in Your Information, in any media now known or not currently known, with respect to Your Information.

OWNERSHIP OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:

  • We shall have and retain all rights, title, and interest in all Intellectual Property relating to our Service or arising out of the relationship described in this Agreement.
  • "Intellectual Property" means all ideas, discoveries, inventions, developments, designs, improvements, trademarks, service marks, trade secrets, proprietary information, programs, source code, object code, applications for patents, patents, copyrights (for the duration thereof, including renewals, extensions, and reversions thereof), copyrightable works, and the goodwill associated therewith, including enhancements, improvements, and derivative works, either presently existing or hereinafter arising.
  • You hereby assign and transfer to us any and all rights in any such Intellectual Property, either presently existing or hereinafter arising, and agree to take such actions, at our expense, as we may reasonably request to secure such rights for us.
  • You agree not to offer services or assist others in offering services that would compete in any way with the services offered by us while being a registered user of our service, and for a period of three (3) years from the date of the last login.

INFORMATION CONTROL:

  • We do not control the information provided by other users that are made available through our system. We strongly advise use of caution, common sense, and safe practices when using our services.

Agreements:

  • You agree and understand the Agreements Generated shall be final.
  • If the agreement is generated and purchased, no such agreement can be revoked.

INDEMNITY:

  • As we are only a Facilitator, in the event that you have any dispute with one or more users, you agree to release us and our officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures and employees, from any claims, demands and damages (actual and / or consequential) arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes.
  • You shall indemnify, defend and hold us and our officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures and employees harmless from and against any and all third-party claims, losses and damages, liability, costs, including attorney’s fees, against, or incurred by, us to the extent such claims, damages, liability and costs result directly or indirectly from:
    (a) your negligence or intentional conduct; or
    (b) Your breach of obligations under this Agreement including, but not limited to, any breach which results in the unauthorized and/or non-permissible use of information obtained through our service or any other such service under this Agreement.

CUSTOMER SUPPORT:

  • Our Customer Support is available Mondays through Fridays between the hours of 10:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. Indian Standard Time,.
  • Our Customer Support shall be available free of charge by telephone or by email at one or more phone numbers or email addresses specified on our website www.legalforge.in.

FRAUD:

  • Without limiting any other remedies, we may suspend or terminate your account if we suspect that you (by conviction, settlement, insurance investigation, or otherwise) have engaged in fraudulent activity in connection with our site.

ACCESS AND INTERFERENCE:

  • You agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other automatic devices, or manual process to monitor or copy our web pages or the content contained herein without our prior expressed written permission.
  • You agree that you will not use any device, software or routine to bypass our security features or to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of our site or any activities conducted on our site.
  • You agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure. Much of the information on our site is updated on a real-time basis and is proprietary or is licensed to us by our users or third parties.
  • You agree that you will not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, create derivative works, or publicly display any content (except Your Information) from our website without our prior expressed written permission or the appropriate third party.

BREACH:

  • Without limiting other remedies, we may immediately remove you, warn our community of your actions, issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide our services to you, if:
    (a) you breach this Agreement or the documents it incorporates by reference;
    (b) we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us; or
    (c) we believe that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us.

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS; IDENTIFIERS AND PASSWORDS; BINDING EFFECT:

  • You will receive and transmit information to us over the Internet using SSL technology and 2048-bit encryption. If you believe that your identification code and password have been lost, stolen or compromised in any respect, please notify us immediately at support@legalforge.in
  • Communications using the identification code and password received after we have had an opportunity to respond to your notice will not be valid or effective.

PRIVACY:

  • We do not sell or rent your personal information, data to any third parties and we only use your information for the purpose of agreement generation and as described in the Privacy Statement.
  • We view protection of users’ privacy as a very important community principle.
  • We understand clearly that you and your information are one of our most important assets.
  • We store and process your information located on the cloud server Amazon Web Services (AWS) that are protected by physical as well as technological security devices.
  • All Your Information, including financial information, residing within our secure processing controls will be maintained and stored according to our stated privacy policies.
  • We take no responsibility for Agreement Details once this data is no longer within our control (e.g. data downloaded by the user, or mailed).
  • Our Privacy Statement shall be read as part of this Agreement.

CONFIDENTIALITY:

  • Confidential Information shall include all information relating to your data, information or other information furnished, disclosed or transmitted; whether in oral, written or other form by you to us.
  • We agree that we will hold in strict confidence all confidential information obtained during the course of our assignment and will not disclose such information to any third party without your express written permission, except if required by law.
  • This clause shall be valid and operational notwithstanding the termination of this Agreement for any reason whatsoever.

AUTHORIZATION:

  • You can authorise us to partner with audit or business entity, either particular branches or entity as a whole, which shall be operational for a period you want to.
  • You may provide this authorisation in the form of a client engagement letter.
  • You warrant that the release of the partner’s information will not result in a breach of any applicable data privacy legislation.

AUDIT RIGHTS:

  • We may, from time to time, conduct various audits of your practices and procedures to determine your compliance with this Agreement. You will reasonably cooperate in all those audits.
  • We may conduct on-site and/or off-site audits of your facilities as we determine during normal business hours, and upon reasonable notice.

NO WARRANTY:

  • We, our subsidiaries, employees and our suppliers provide our web site and services on an "as is" basis without any warranties of any kind.
  • We, to the fullest extent permitted by law, disclaim all warranties, including the warranty of merchantability, non-infringement of third-parties’ rights, and the warranty of fitness for a particular purpose.
  • We makes no warranties about the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or timeliness of the services or any content therein.
  • We do not warrant that the websites or the servers which make our online services available are free from viruses or any other harmful elements.

LIABILITY LIMIT:

  • In no event shall we, our subsidiaries, employees or our suppliers be liable for lost profits or any special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of or in connection with our site, our services or this agreement (however arising, including negligence). The user shall have no liability with respect to the service for consequential, exemplary, special, incidental, or punitive damages even if it has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
  • Our liability, and the liability of our subsidiaries, employees, and suppliers, to you or any third parties in any circumstance is limited to the amount of fees you pay to us in the 12 months preceding the first date on which such liability arose.

DATA USAGE:

  • You entitle us to use Your Information to connect with all the users of our system request for resolving their queries, providing them necessary training, taking a feedback and making them familiar with its products.
  • However, in no case such Your Information would be shared with any third party apart from providing necessary data for providing uninterrupted services to the Clients.

DATA PROTECTION:

  • The information provided on our website shall not be used, copied or distributed in any form, without our prior written approval.
  • You are hereby allowed to use this site solely for your own personal use and not for republication, distribution, assignment, sublicense, sale, preparation of derivative works, or other use.
  • You agree not to copy materials from the website, reverse engineer or break into the website.
  • Your use of this website is at our sole discretion and we may terminate your use to this website at any time.
  • All contents included on this site is and shall continue to be our sole property or its content suppliers and is protected under applicable laws of copyright, patent, trademark, and other proprietary rights.
  • Under no circumstances, you will acquire any ownership rights or other interest in any content by or through your use of this site.
  • This site and its content is a copyrighted material of www.legalforge.in
  • Other product and company names mentioned on this Site are trademarks of their respective owners.

LEGAL COMPLIANCE:

  • You represent and warrant that you have read, understood and shall comply with all applicable Indian laws, regulations and judicial actions, including without limitation, all amendments thereto, and all other applicable federal or state legislation, regulations and judicial actions, as now or as may become effective.

NO AGENCY:

  • You and we are independent contractors, and no agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchiser-franchisee relationship is intended or created by this Agreement.

NOTICES:

  • Except as explicitly stated otherwise, any notices to us shall be given by postal mail to support@legalforge.in or to the email address as mentioned in MCA database
  • Any and all notices to you shall be given to your via the email address you provide to us during the registration process.
  • The 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 certified mail, postage prepaid and return receipt requested, to the registered address in MCA database or provided to us during the registration process.
  • In such case, notice shall be deemed given 3 days after the date of mailing.

COMPLAINTS AND DISPUTES:

  • Any complaints or disputes that you wish to raise regarding our services shall be addressed to Customer Support by mailing us at support@legalforge.in

GOVERNING LAWS AND ARBITRATION:

  • Any dispute or legal claim arising out of or in relation to this Agreement, shall be settled by sole arbitrator appointed by us, as per the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996.
  • The arbitration shall be held at Chennai, in English language only.
  • The award passed by the arbitrator shall be final and binding on both of us.
  • The Agreement shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the India only.

REFUNDS & CANCELLATION POLICY:

  • All the services purchased on www.legalforge.in are non-refundable and non-cancellable.

MISCELLENEOUS:

  • Headings are for reference purposes only and in no way define, limit, construe or describe the scope or extent of such section.
  • Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches.
  • English shall be the sole language of communication that shall be used for content on our website.
  • Any person or entity that relies on information obtained from the system does so at his or her own risk.
  • This Agreement sets forth the entire understanding and agreement between us with respect to the subject matter hereof.
  • If any provision of this document shall be deemed by any court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable or invalid, that provision shall be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary so that this document will otherwise remain in full force and effect.

ANNEXURE A

DATA PROCESSING PRINCIPLES

  • Purpose limitation: Personal data may be processed and subsequently used or further communicated only for purposes of agreement generation, verification or as described in the User agreement.
  • Data quality and proportionality: Personal data must be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date. The personal data must be adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purposes for which they are transferred and further processed.
  • Transparency: Data subjects must be provided with information necessary to ensure fair processing (such as information about the purposes of processing and about the transfer) unless such information has already been given by the data exporter.
  • Security and confidentiality: Technical and organizational security measures must be taken by the data controller that are appropriate to the risks, such as against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, presented by the processing. Any person acting under the authority of the data controller, including a processor, must not process the data except on instructions from the data controller.
  • Rights of access, rectification, deletion, and objection: Data subjects must, whether directly or via a third party, be provided with the personal information about them that an organization holds, except for requests which are manifestly abusive, based on unreasonable intervals or their number or repetitive or systematic nature. Provided that the User, authority has given its prior approval. The sources of the personal data need not be identified when this is not possible by reasonable efforts, or where the rights of persons other than the individual would be violated. Data subjects must be able to have the personal information about them rectified, amended, or deleted where it is inaccurate or processed against these principles. If there are compelling grounds to doubt the legitimacy of the request, the organisation may require further justifications before proceeding to rectification, amendment or deletion. Notification of any rectification, amendment or deletion to third parties to whom the data have been disclosed need not be made when this involves a disproportionate effort. A data subject must also be able to object to the processing of the personal data relating to him if there are compelling legitimate grounds relating to his particular situation. The burden of proof for any refusal rests on the User providing data, information, details or data importer, and the data subject may always challenge a refusal before the authority.
  • Sensitive data: The User, data importer shall take such additional measures (e.g. relating to security) as are necessary to protect such sensitive data in accordance with its obligations.
  • Data used for marketing purposes: Where data are processed for the purposes of direct marketing, effective procedures should exist allowing the data subject at any time to "opt-out" from having his data used for such purposes.