Welcome to Bharatam
Bharatam - India's first Social Network started, managed & developed by Indians that enable Indians to connect with each other, build communities and grow businesses. These Terms govern your use of Bharatam, Messenger and the other products, features, apps, services, technologies and software that we offer, except where we expressly state that separate terms (and not these) apply. These Products are provided to you by Bharatam.
We don't charge you to use Bharatam or the other products and services covered by these Terms & it will be FREE for forever. Instead, businesses and organisations pay us to show you ads for their products & services. By using our Products, you agree that we can show you ads that we think will be relevant to you and your interests. We use your limited personal data to help determine which ads to show you. Advertisers only gets location, gender, age & profile activeness filters to run their ads.
We don't sell your personal data to advertisers, and we don't share information that directly identifies you (such as your name, email address or other contact information) with advertisers unless you give us specific permission. Instead, advertisers can tell us things such as the kind of audience that they want to see their ads, and we show those ads to people who may be interested. We provide advertisers with reports about the performance of their ads that help them understand how people are interacting with their content.
1. The services, we provide
Our mission is to give people the power to build community & bring the India closer together. To help advance this mission, we provide the products and services described below to you:
2. How our services are funded
Instead of paying to use Bharatam & the other products and services we offer, by using the Bharatam Products covered by these Terms, you agree that we can show you ads that businesses and organisations pay us to promote on and off the Bharatam. We use your personal data, such as information about your location, gender, age & profile activeness filters to run their ads, to show you ads that are more relevant to you.
Protecting people's privacy is central to how we've designed our ad system. This means that we can show you relevant and useful ads without telling advertisers who you are. We don't sell your personal data. We allow advertisers to tell us things such as their business goal, and the kind of audience that they want to see their ads (for example, people between the ages of 18-35 who like cycling). We then show their ad to people who might be interested.
We also provide advertisers with reports about the performance of their ads to help them understand how people are interacting with their content on and off Bharatam. For example, we provide general demographic and interest information to advertisers (for example, that an ad was seen by a woman between the ages of 25 and 34 who lives in Madras and likes software engineering) to help them better understand their audience. We don't share information that directly identifies you (information such as your name or email address that by itself can be used to contact you or identifies who you are) unless you give us specific permission.
We collect and use your personal data in order to provide the services described above for you. You have controls over the types of ads and advertisers you see, and the types of information we use to determine which ads we show you.
3. Your commitments to Bharatam and it's community.
We provide these services to you and others to help advance our mission. In exchange, we need you to make the following commitments:
You may not upload viruses or malicious code, or do anything that could disable, overburden or impair the proper working or appearance of our Products. You may not access or collect data from our Products using automated means (without our prior permission) or attempt to access data that you do not have permission to access.
We can remove or restrict access to content that is in violation of these provisions without any explanation to user. We also can remove or restrict access to your content, services or information if we determine that doing so is reasonably necessary to avoid or mitigate adverse legal or regulatory impacts to Bharatam.3.3.1. Permission to use content that you create and share: Some content that you share or upload, such as photos or videos, may be protected by intellectual property laws.
3.3.2. You own the intellectual property rights (things such as copyright or trademarks) in any such content that you create and share on Bharatam and the other Bharatam products you use. Nothing in these Terms takes away the rights you have to your own content. You are free to share your content with anyone else, wherever you want. However, to provide our services, we need you to give us some legal permissions (known as a ‘licence') to use this content. This is solely for the purposes of providing and improving our Products and services as described in Section 1 above.
3.3.3. Specifically, when you share, post or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights on or in connection with our Products, you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free and worldwide licence to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate and create derivative works of your content (consistent with your privacy settings). This means, for example, that if you share a photo on Bharatam, you give us permission to store, copy and share it with others (again, consistent with your settings) such as service providers that support our service or other Bharatam Products you use.This licence will end when your content is deleted from our systems.
You can delete content individually or all at once by deleting your account. Learn more about how to delete your account. You can download a copy of your data at any time before deleting your account.
When you delete content, it's no longer visible to other users; however, it may continue to exist elsewhere on our systems where:
Date of Publishing: 26 January 2021