Privacy Policy & Terms of Service

We will ask you when we need information that identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact you. Generally, this information is requested when you are registering for Bloochip products or services. If you choose a service or transaction that requires payment, we will request personal information necessary for billing and/or shipping including your credit card number or Bank Account Number.

To make the site easier for you to use by not making you enter your personal information more than once;
To deliver services that you request or purchase;
To help you quickly find products, services or information on Bloochip.com and on it's network web sites;
To help us create and publish content most relevant to you; and
To alert you to product/service upgrades, special offers, updated information and other new services from Bloochip.

We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, including packaging, mailing and delivering purchases, answering customer questions about products or services, sending postal mail and processing event registration. We will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose. Bloochip may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Bloochip or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Bloochip and its family of Web sites, or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Bloochip, its Web sites, or the public. Your information may be stored and processed in India or any other country in which Bloochip or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using this site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.

Bloochip reserves the right to update the Privacy Policy at any time without notice to you. This document was last updated on November 1, 2005. For further information or queries, contact us at info@bloochip.com.

Unless otherwise specified, the Services are for your personal and non-commercial use. User must abide by the Privacy Policy. Any software / graphics / articles that is made available to download from our Web site is the copyrighted work of Bloochip and/or its suppliers.

Permission to use Documents (such as white papers, press releases, datasheets, userguides and FAQs) from the Services is granted, provided that the below copyright notice appears in all copies and that both the copyright notice and this permission notice appear,

"Use of such Documents from the Services is for informational and non-commercial or personal use only and will not be copied or posted on any network computer or broadcast in any media, and no modifications of any Documents are made. Accredited educational institutions, such as universities, private/public colleges, may download and reproduce the Documents for distribution in the classroom. Distribution outside the classroom requires express written permission. Use for any other purpose is expressly prohibited by law, and may result in severe civil and criminal penalties. Violators will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible."

Documents specified above do not include the design or layout of the bloochip.com Web site or any other Bloochip owned, operated, licensed or controlled site. Elements of Bloochip Web sites are protected by trademark, unfair competition, and other laws and may not be copied or imitated in whole or in part. No logo, graphic, sound or image from any Bloochip Web site may be copied or retransmitted unless expressly permitted by Bloochip.

Bloochip has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However, Bloochip reserves the right to review materials posted to the Communication Services and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. Bloochip reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time, without notice, for any reason whatsoever. Bloochip reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as Bloochip deems necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in Bloochip's sole discretion. Always use caution when giving out any personally identifiable information about yourself or your children in any Communication Services. Bloochip does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Communication Services and, therefore, Bloochip specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Communication Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Communication Services.

Implement customization to to suit your own needs of your web site
Create applications which interface with the operation of the Software provided said application is an original work

permit other individuals to use the Software except under the terms listed above
reverse engineer, disassemble, or create derivative works based on the Software for distribution or usage outside your own needs excluding those applications described above
use the Software in such as way as to condone or encourage terrorism, promote or provide pirated Software, or any other form of illegal or damaging activity
modify and/or remove any copyright notices or labels on the Software on each page (unless full license is purchase) and in the header of each script source file
distribute the Software
distribute individual copies of files, libraries, or other programming material in the Software package
distribute or modify proprietary graphics, HTML, or CSS packaged with the Software for use in Software applications other than the product itself without written permission from Bloochip.

The Software is provided on an "AS IS" basis, without warranty of any kind, including without limitation the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the Software is borne by you. Should the Software prove defective, you and not Bloochip assume the entire cost of any service and repair. In addition, the security mechanisms implemented by Bloochip Infoline Pvt. Ltd. have inherent limitations, and you must determine that the Software sufficiently meets your requirements. This disclaimer of warranty constitutes an essential part of the agreement.

Title, ownership rights, and intellectual property rights in the Software shall remain with Bloochip. The Software is protected by copyright laws and treaties. Title and related rights in the content generated through the Software is the property of the applicable content owner and may be protected by applicable law. This License gives Bloochip no rights to such content.

This Agreement will terminate automatically if you fail to comply with the limitations described herein. On termination, you must destroy all copies and usage of the Software within 48 hours.

Bloochip reserves the right to publish a selected list of users of the Software. Bloochip reserves the right to change the terms of this Agreement at any time however those changes are not retroactive to past releases. Changes to the Agreement will be announced via email using the Bloochip email notification list. Failure to receive notification of a change does not make those changes invalid. A current copy of this Agreement will be available on the Bloochip web site.

Skin packs and Language packs are defined as the group of code, text, and graphics that are exported from the Software using the provided functions of the Software Administration Control Panel.

Technical support will not be provided for third-party modifications to the Software including modifications to code, Skin packs, and Language packs to any license holder. If the Software is modified using a third-party modification instruction or otherwise, technical support may be refused to any license holder.

Authorization to remove output of copyright notices can be obtained from Bloochip for a one time fee and on request. This fee authorizes you to remove the output of copyright notices: it does not give you authorization to remove any copyright notices in the program source files nor any other rights.

This Agreement shall be governed by the Laws of the Republic of India. Any action in regard to this Agreement or arising out of its terms and conditions shall be instituted and litigated in the District Court in Bhubaneswar. Each of the parties consents to jurisdiction in such Court and agrees that service of process as provided by the states and rules of civil procedures of the Republic of India shall be sufficient.

Bloochip Infoline Pvt. Ltd., Tower 2000, Mancheswar, Bhubaneswar - 751 010, INDIA. For questions, write to the above address, email info@bloochip.com, or call +91 674 3090268.

Bloochip reserves the right to update the Terms of Use at any time without notice to you. This document was last updated May 05, 2003. For further information or queries, contact us at info@bloochip.com.