Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

By registering for, accessing or using taxcorp.in ("the Site", "we", "us", "our"), you ("you", "your") agree to be legally bound by these Terms of Service and by the policies referred to in them. If you do not agree, you must not use the Site.

These Terms are an agreement between you and TaxCorp Total Solution, B-306, Darshanam Oxy Park, Vasna Bhayli Road, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.

2. What taxcorp.in Is

taxcorp.in is a research library for Indian tax and corporate law. It gives subscribers searchable access to judgments, statutes, rules, notifications, circulars, articles and editorial material across Direct Tax, GST, Company Law, International Taxation, Customs & Excise, Service Tax, VAT and Accounting, and it sells e-books published by us.

3. Eligibility

You represent that:

• you are at least 18 years old;
• the details you give us on registration are true, and you will keep them current;
• if you are subscribing on behalf of a firm or company, you have authority to bind it; and
• your use of the Site complies with the law and with any professional rules that apply to you — for instance the ICAI Code of Ethics or Bar Council of India rules.

4. Your Account

4.1 One person, one account

An account is personal to you. Login details must not be shared, sold, or used by more than one person. A subscription bought for one person does not cover a firm; if you need access for colleagues, please talk to us about additional users.

4.2 One active session

You may be signed in on one device at a time. If you sign in elsewhere without signing out first, the Site will offer to sign you out everywhere so you can continue. This exists to stop account sharing, not to inconvenience you.

4.3 Security

You are responsible for what happens under your account. Tell us at once if you think someone else has your password.

5. Subscriptions & E-books

5.1 Research subscriptions

Subscriptions are sold by module — you choose the areas of law you want. They run for the term agreed in writing, and give access to the material in those modules for that term. They are arranged with us directly; please contact us for current pricing.

5.2 E-books

E-books are bought online. Each purchase grants you a personal, non-transferable licence for 12 months from the date of purchase, which lets you read the title online and download the PDF for your own use.

Some titles are included with a research subscription. If a title is included with a subscription you already hold, you do not need to buy it.

5.3 Nothing renews automatically

We do not hold a mandate against your card or bank account, and nothing is ever debited from you without a fresh payment made by you. When a term ends, access stops until you choose to renew.

6. Payment

• Online payments are processed by Razorpay. We never see or store your card details.
• Prices are in Indian Rupees and are shown before you pay. The price displayed at checkout is the price charged — there are no delivery, handling or processing charges added afterwards.
• Introductory or promotional prices apply only while advertised.
• Where a payment fails or is reversed by your bank, access may be suspended until it is settled.

If you need a tax invoice, ask us and we will issue one.

7. Refunds, Cancellation & Delivery

These are set out in full on their own pages, and form part of these Terms:

• Refund & Cancellation Policy — in short, digital purchases are delivered in full and immediately and are therefore not refundable on a change of mind; payment failures such as duplicate charges are refunded.
• Delivery Policy — in short, everything is digital, delivered to your account the moment payment succeeds. Nothing is posted.

Before buying an e-book, please read the free sample chapters we publish for it.

8. Permitted Use & Fair Use

You may use the Site for your own professional or business research, including advising your own clients. You may quote from and cite the material in your professional work — advice, opinions, pleadings and submissions — in the ordinary way.

Access is metered by reasonable daily limits on the number of documents viewed, printed and downloaded, and on sign-ins. These exist to distinguish normal professional use from bulk extraction and account sharing. They are generous for ordinary use, and we will discuss them with you if your genuine work needs more.

We may suspend access where usage indicates automated harvesting or sharing of an account.

9. Prohibited Uses

You must not:

• share your login, or let anyone else use your account;
• scrape, crawl, spider, bulk-download or otherwise systematically extract material from the Site, by any automated means;
• republish, redistribute, resell, sub-licence or make available our material — including e-book PDFs — to anyone else, whether or not for payment;
• build a competing database or product from our material;
• remove, alter or obscure any watermark, copyright notice or attribution;
• attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Site, other accounts, or the systems behind them, or to probe or test their security;
• interfere with the Site's operation or place an unreasonable load on it; or
• use the Site for anything unlawful.

10. Intellectual Property

10.1 Government material

Judgments, statutes, rules, notifications and circulars are public documents. Reproducing an Act of a legislature, or a rule or order made under it, is not an infringement of copyright — section 52(1)(q) of the Copyright Act, 1957. We claim no copyright in that underlying material, and neither does anyone else.

10.2 What we do own

Copyright in the following belongs to us or to our licensors:

• headnotes, catchnotes, summaries, digests and editorial notes;
• the selection, arrangement, indexing, tagging and compilation of the databases — which is protected independently of the documents in them;
• our e-books, including their commentary, checklists, tables and drafting formats;
• the Site's software, design and branding.

10.3 Your licence

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to access and use the material for the term you have paid for. Nothing is sold to you and no ownership passes.

10.4 Third-party material

Some material is published under licence from third parties and may carry its own restrictions, which are noted where they apply.

11. No Professional Advice

If you are not a professional, you should take advice from one before acting on anything you read here.

12. Accuracy of Legal Material

We take real care over accuracy and currency, but the law changes constantly and no legal database is perfect. In particular:

• a judgment may have been appealed, stayed, distinguished or overruled since it was reported;
• a provision may have been amended, substituted or notified into force on a date different from the one shown;
• text is transcribed from official and reported sources and may contain errors; and
• editorial summaries are a guide to a document, never a substitute for reading it.

Always check the current position against the official text before relying on it. Tell us if you find an error and we will correct it.

13. Availability & Changes

We aim to keep the Site available at all times, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted access. It may be unavailable for maintenance, upgrades, or reasons outside our control.

We may add, change or withdraw features and material. Where a change would substantially reduce what you have paid for during a term you have already bought, we will tell you and discuss it with you.

14. Suspension & Termination

We may suspend or end your access if you breach these Terms — in particular by sharing an account, scraping, or redistributing our material — or if payment is not made.

Where a breach is serious or deliberate, suspension may be immediate and without refund. Otherwise we will normally contact you first and give you a chance to put it right.

You may stop using the Site at any time. Because nothing auto-renews, you do not need to cancel anything. Sections 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17 and 20 survive termination.

15. Warranties & Disclaimers

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Site and its material are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including as to accuracy, completeness, currency, fitness for a particular purpose, or uninterrupted availability.

Nothing in these Terms excludes any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

16. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law:

• we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss of profit, revenue, business, goodwill, opportunity or anticipated savings;
• we are not liable for any decision you take, advice you give, position you adopt or document you file in reliance on the material; and
• our total liability arising out of or in connection with these Terms is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose.

You accept that this allocation of risk is reasonable given what the Site costs and what it is — a reference tool used by professionals who exercise their own judgment.

17. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us against claims, losses and reasonable costs arising from your breach of these Terms, your misuse of the Site, or your redistribution of our material.

18. Privacy

How we handle your personal information is set out in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms. We log activity such as sign-ins, searches and documents viewed, in order to run the Site, apply the limits in section 8 and detect account sharing.

19. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms. The version in force is the one published here, with its date at the top. Where a change materially affects your rights, we will bring it to your attention. Continuing to use the Site after a change means you accept it.

20. Governing Law & Jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of India. The courts at Vadodara, Gujarat have exclusive jurisdiction. Before starting proceedings, please raise the matter with us — most things are settled by a phone call.

21. General

• Entire agreement. These Terms, with the Refund, Delivery and Privacy policies, are the whole agreement between us about the Site.
• Severability. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest continues in force.
• No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision, we do not give up the right to do so later.
• Assignment. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms. We may assign ours to a successor of our business.
• Force majeure. Neither party is liable for failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control.

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