Terms & Services (Privacy)

By visiting, accessing, or using our site, you signify that you have the right, authority and capacity to enter into this Agreement, that you have read and understand this Agreement, and that YOU AGREE TO ABIDE BY ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING AUTO-RENEWALS OF YOUR SUBSCRIPTION AND PROVISIONS GOVERNING DISPUTE RESOLUTION. PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICES.

Introduction

This document (the “Terms”) together with the India Privacy Policy (collectively the “Agreement”) sets out the terms and conditions governing visits, access and use of the service by the end user (“you”). The term “you” includes additional registered users whenever permitted under the applicable subscription, visitors, and others who access or use any of the Services.

The “Services” means the service branded our site, that are compatible for similarly situated digital music services. These may include, but are not limited to websites and applications for desktops, tablets and mobile handsets, set-top boxes and stereo equipment. The Services also include your ability to edit certain Service Content.

Content restrictions

The Services contains content, such as sound recordings, audiovisual works, other video or audio works, clips, images, graphics, text, software, works of authorship, files, documents, applications, artwork, trademarks, trade names, metadata, album titles, sound recording titles, artist names, intellectual property, or materials relating thereto or any other materials, and their selection, coordination and arrangement (collectively, the “Service Content”). The Service Content is the property of our site and/or third parties and is protected by copyright under both India and foreign laws. 

Media

All uploaded files (On the Apps, website, SoundCloud, YouTube Music, YouTube, and Google Drive) are usually publicly accessible. Without written permission from Akathkatha.in or [email protected] or [email protected] you are not supposed to duplicate and upload on any other area of the internet. You can download it for personal use only. Any media files, playlists, and content can’t be replaced in any other way on any of the platforms on the internet.

Google Drive

We have purchased the Google one on Google Drive to upload our own created audios that we record during live programs happening at our ਗੁਰੂਦਵਾਰਾ ਨਾਮ ਸਿਮਰਨ ਘਰ | Gurudawara Naam Simran Ghar on daily basis. Our official account at Google that is bind with Drive is [email protected]
All playing and downloading we allowed from this Google Drive account or linkage being done at our official website (https://Akathkatha.in) or Apps that we created/creating on PlayStore and App Store for Users/People(Sangat). Creating duplicate copies of audio for commercial use or any other unlawful will be considered under the above said policies as stated.

Our motto is to provide a Google Drive platform directly or integration within our Apps or Website to provide convenience to our users/sangat/people and better management of resources across all platforms. Users/Sangats are free to download or play these audios for personal use only from our official Google Drive, Website, and Apps. In case anyone does not agree with our stated terms and conditions can stop using our services across all platforms.

User content

We are just giving the login option to create your playlists from the uploaded audio or video files that are solely created by us at our location as mentioned in the Contact Us. Therefore any other information that you are entering in the creation of the account is solely being used for better experiences while playing audio files on our Website, Apps, or our other official platforms of streamings. To the extent allowed by the Services, any musical works (sound recordings and underlying musical compositions), audiovisual works (including but not limited to YouTube music videos, clips and so-called “behind the scenes” audiovisual content), other video or audio works, images, graphics, text, works of authorship, files, documents, applications, artwork, trademarks, trade names, metadata, album titles, sound recording titles, artist names, intellectual property, or materials relating thereto or any other materials that you submit to the Service (“User Content”) are generated, owned and controlled solely by you and/or your licensees. We do not claim any intellectual property ownership rights in any User Content. After directly sending (“submitting”) your User Content to the Services, you continue to retain any intellectual property ownership rights that you may have in your User Content, subject to the license below. 

“Personal Information” means any information that relates directly or indirectly to you or allows someone to identify you and/or your transaction with us , including, for example, your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, contact list, information about your transactions in relation to the Services such as reward points, reward points account balances, redemption history, account activities, device location as well as any other non-public information about you that is associated with or linked to any of the foregoing data. “Anonymous Information”, means, data that is not associated with or linked to your Personal Information including, aggregated information. Anonymous Information does not, by itself, permit the identification of individual persons.

In order to enable us to provide you this Service we may need to and/or may be required to collect, record, hold, use, disclose and store (i.e. “process”) Personal Information and Anonymous Information, including, but not limited to:

(a) Information you provide to us through your relationship with us, including but not limited to, information provided by you when using the Services, when interacting with the Merchants, when taking part in customer surveys, competitions and promotions. Examples include:

SoundCloud

We have purchased the Next PRO subscription on SoundCloud to upload our own created audios that we record during live programs happening at our ਗੁਰੂਦਵਾਰਾ ਨਾਮ ਸਿਮਰਨ ਘਰ | Gurudawara Naam Simran Ghar on daily basis. Our official account at SoundCloud is–> https://soundcloud.com/akathkatha.
All playing and downloading we allowed from this SoundCloud account or linkage being done at our official website (https://Akathkatha.in) or Apps that we created/creating on PlayStore and App Store for Users/People(Sangat). Creating duplicate copies of audio for commercial use or any other unlawful will be considered under the above said policies as stated.

Our motto is to provide a SoundCloud platform directly or integration within our Apps or Website is to provide convenience to our users/sangat/people and better management of resources across all platforms. Users/Sangats are free to download or play these audios for personal use only from our official SoundCloud account, Website, and Apps. In case anyone does not agree with our stated terms and conditions can contact us for further discussion and stop using till then.

Mobile/IoT APPs

We (akathkatha.in) provided all rights and permissions to our audios, videos, documents, catalogs, and discovery services to APPTEC24 LTD. (Official website–> https://www.apptec24.de/). For developing our APPS on PLAY Store (google platform) and APP Store (Apple platform). APPTEC24 is our only official partner to build, test, and publish our “Akathkatha” app on these platforms directly or indirectly with all means of building the best internet practices for the best customer/user/sangat/people experiences.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Personal Information from you, such as your first and last name, profile picture, photos or avatar, gender, age, ethnicity, religion, marital status, educational level, interests, hobbies, precise location-based information, e-mail and mailing addresses, phone numbers, device ID numbers and passwords when you create an account for our Services (“Akathkatha.in Account”), and any other information you directly give us through the Services (including, but not limited to messages that you send through the Services).
Information about your interactions with the Services including, your engagement with particular Merchants, and the products and services you have purchased.
Information you disclose through your interactions with the Merchants.
Information necessary to complete a transaction through the Services, including your name and shipping information where applicable.
Information such as files and messages that you store using your Akathkatha.in Account.
Information from written communications when you provide us feedback or contact us e.g. your name and e-mail address, as well as any other content included in the e-mail, in order to send you a reply.
Any additional information (due to extraordinary circumstances or due to the nature of our interaction with you) such as health and physical condition, health condition of individuals in your household, result of your health test(s) if any, body temperature, whether you had self-isolated when unwell, political view or affiliations, etc.