Terms of Service

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS OF SERVICE (the "TERMS") CAREFULLY BEFORE USING ANY MELSSCRM SERVICE. THE USE OF ANY MELSSCRM SERVICES WILL SIGNIFY YOUR AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, DO NOT PROCEED.

Purpose of Agreement

The melssCRM Services are made available to you subject to the following terms and conditions. We may also offer other services under different terms and conditions. You may use melssCRM Services only if you are above 13 years of age. By using melssCRM Services you represent that you are 13 years or older.

Description of Service

We provide services for customer relationship management application (the "Service" and "Services"). You may connect to the Services using any Internet browser. You are responsible for obtaining access to the Internet and the equipments necessary to use the Services. You may create, edit, publish and share the contents of your melssCRM accounts.

Modification of Terms of Service

We may modify the Terms upon notice to you at any time. These modifications may include, without limitation, payment for the Services. You will be provided notice of any such modification by electronic mail or by publishing the changes on the website http://www.melsscrm.com/crm/html. You will be provided the option to terminate your use of the Services if the Terms are modified in a manner that substantially affects your rights in connection with use of the Services. Your continued use of the Service after notice of any change to the Terms will be deemed to be your agreement to the amended Terms.

Member Registration Obligations

In consideration of your use of the Services, you agree to: a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the Registration Process "Registration Data"); and b) maintain and promptly update your Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current, and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, outdated, or incomplete, or if melssCRM has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, outdated, or incomplete, melssCRM may terminate your Account and refuse current or future use of any or all of the Services.

Personal Information and Privacy

Personal information you provide to melssCRM through the Service is governed by melssCRM Privacy Policy and applicable laws related to personal information. Your election to use the Service indicates your acceptance of the terms of the melssCRM Privacy Policy. You are responsible for maintaining confidentiality of your username, password and other sensitive information. You are responsible for all activities that occur in your Account and you agree to inform us immediately of any unauthorized use of your Account by email to [email protected] or by calling us on any of the numbers listed on https://www.melsscrm.com/support. We are not responsible for any loss or damage to you or to any third party incurred as a result of any unauthorized access and/or use of your Account, or otherwise.

Communications from CRM

The Service may include certain communications from melssCRM, such as service announcements, administrative messages and newsletters. You understand that these communications shall be considered part of using the Services. As part of our policy to provide you total privacy, we also provide you the option of opting out from receiving newsletters from us. However, you will not be able to opt-out from receiving service announcements and administrative messages.

Fees and Payments

Subscriptions to paid Services are available on monthly, quarterly and yearly subscription plans. melssCRM reserves the right to change the subscription fee and to charge for use of Services that are currently available free of charge. You will not be charged for using any Service unless you have opted for a paid subscription plan. Information on the subscription options and charges for all paid Services is available at http://www.melsscrm.com/plans.

Restrictions on Use

In addition to all other terms and conditions of this Agreement, you shall not: (i) transfer or otherwise make available to any third party the Services; (ii) provide any service based on the Services without prior written permission; (iii) use the third party links to sites without agreeing to their website terms & conditions; (iv) post links to third party sites or use their logo, company name, etc. without their prior written permission; or (v) use the Services for spamming and other illegal purposes.

Spamming and Illegal Activities

You agree to be solely responsible for the contents of your transmissions through the Services. You agree not to use the Services for illegal purposes or for the transmission of material that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, pornographic, obscene, or otherwise objectionable, offends religious sentiments, promotes racism, contains viruses, or that infringes or may infringe the intellectual property or other rights of another. You agree not to use the Services for the transmission of "junk mail", "spam", "chain letters", "phishing" or unsolicited mass distribution of email. We reserve the right to terminate your access to the Services if there are reasonable grounds to believe that you have used the Services for any illegal or unauthorized activity.

Inactive User Accounts Policy

We reserve the right to terminate unpaid accounts that are inactive for a continuous period of 120 days. In the event of such termination, all data associated with such account will be deleted. We will provide you prior notice of such termination and backup of your data by email. The data deletion policy may be implemented with respect to any or all of the Services.

Data Ownership

We respect your right to ownership of content created or stored by you. You own the content created or stored by you. Unless specifically permitted by you, your use of the Services does not grant melssCRM the license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, publish or distribute the content created by you or stored in your Account for melssCRM's commercial, marketing or any similar purpose. But you grant CRM permission to access, copy, distribute, store, transmit, reformat, publicly display and publicly perform the content of your account solely as required for the purpose of providing the Services to you.

User Generated Content

You may transmit or publish content created by you using any of the Services or otherwise. However, you shall be solely responsible for such content and the consequences of its transmission or publication. Any content that you may receive from other users of the Services, is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only and you agree not to use, copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license or otherwise exploit such content for any purpose, without the express written consent of the person who owns the rights to such content. In the course of using any of the Services, if you come across any content with copyright notice(s) or any copy protection feature(s), you agree not to remove such copyright notice(s) or disable such copy protection feature(s) as the case may be. By making any copyrighted/copyrightable content available on any of the Services you affirm that you have the consent, authorization or permission, as the case may be from every person who may claim any rights in such content to make such content available in the such manner. Further, by making any content available in the manner aforementioned, you expressly agree that melssCRM will have the right to block access to or remove such content made available by you, if melssCRM receives complaints concerning any illegality or infringement of third party rights in such content. By using any of the Services and transmitting or publishing any content using such service, you expressly consent to determination of questions of illegality or infringement of third party rights in such content by the agent designated by CRM for this purpose.

Sample files and Applications

melssCRM may provide sample files and applications for the purpose of demonstrating the possibility of using the Services effectively for specific purposes. The information contained in any such sample files and applications consists of random data. melssCRM makes no warranty, either express or implied, as to the accuracy, usefulness, completeness or reliability of the information or the sample files and applications.

Trademark

melssCRM, melssCRM logo, the names of individual melssCRM Services and their logos are trademarks of Mel Systems and Services Ltd. You agree not to display or use, in any manner, the melssCRM trademarks, without Mel Systems and Sevices Ltd.'s prior permission.

Disclaimer of Warranties

YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT THE USE OF THE SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN AS-IS-AND-AS-AVAILABLE BASIS. MELSSCRM EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. MELSSCRM MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR VIRUS FREE. USE OF ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICES SHALL BE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM, MOBILE TELEPHONE, WIRELESS DEVICE OR DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICES OR THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER WRITTEN OR ORAL, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM MELSSCRM, ITS EMPLOYEES OR REPRESENTATIVES SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TERMS.

Limitation of Liability

YOU AGREE THAT MELSSCRM SHALL, IN NO EVENT, BE LIABLE FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, OR OTHER LOSS OR DAMAGE WHATSOEVER OR FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, COMPUTER FAILURE, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION, OR OTHER LOSS ARISING OUT OF OR CAUSED BY YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, EVEN IF MELSSCRM HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY FOR ANY DISPUTE WITH MELSSCRM RELATED TO ANY OF THE SERVICES SHALL BE TERMINATION OF SUCH SERVICE. IN NO EVENT SHALL MELSSCRM'S ENTIRE LIABILITY TO YOU IN RESPECT OF ANY SERVICE, WHETHER DIRECT OR INDIRECT, EXCEED THE FEES PAID YOU TOWARDS SUCH SERVICE.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless melssCRM, its officers, directors, employees, suppliers, and affiliates, from and against any losses, damages, fines and expenses (including attorney's fees and costs) arising out of or relating to any claims that you have used the Services in violation of another party's rights, in violation of any law, in violations of any provisions of the Terms, or any other claim related to your use of the Services.

Arbitration

Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to the Terms shall be settled by binding arbitration in accordance with the commercial arbitration under the Indian Arbitration Act, 1996. Any such controversy or claim shall be arbitrated on an individual basis, and shall not be consolidated in any arbitration with any claim or controversy of any other party.

Termination

You agree that we may terminate your Member Account and access to the Services for reasons including, but not be limited to, breaches or violations of the Terms or the melssCRM Privacy Policy, a request by you to terminate your Account, discontinuance or material modification to the Services, unexpected technical issues or problems, extended periods of inactivity and requests by law enforcement or other government agencies. Termination of your melssCRM account includes termination of access to the Service, deletion of your Account information such as your e-mail ID and Password and deletion of data in your Member Account as permitted or required by law.

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If you have any questions or concerns regarding this agreement, please contact us at [email protected]

Last updated on: 15th August 2009