Terms of Service

Please read these Terms of Service ("Terms", "Terms of Service") carefully before using the BhagavadGita.io website (the "Service") operated by Ved Vyas Foundation ("us", "we", or "our").

Your access to and use of the Service is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms. These Terms apply to all visitors, users, and others who access or use the Service.

By accessing or using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you disagree with any part of the terms, then you may not access the Service.

Account Terms

• Required Information

  You must provide a valid email address in order to complete the signup process. Any other information requested, such as your real name, is optional, unless you are accepting these terms on behalf of a legal entity.

• Account Requirements

  We have a few simple rules for accounts on BhagavadGita.io's Service.

  • You must be a human to create an account. Accounts registered by "bots" or other automated methods are not permitted.
  • One person or legal entity may maintain no more than one account.
  • Your login may only be used by one person — i.e., a single login may not be shared by multiple people.

• User Account Security

  You are responsible for keeping your account secure while you use our Service.

Copyright Statement

From this site, you may download the information and use it on your computer for personal study or other non-commercial purposes. You must include appropriate attribution/credit on the material you extract. In this case, free means free. It cannot be bundled with anything sold, nor can you charge for shipping, handling, or anything. It is provided for personal study or for use in undergraduate or seminary religion classes or other non-commercial study.

All the translations on this site have been taken with permission from their respective authors.

Acceptable Use

• Compliance with Laws and Regulations

  Your use of the Website and Service must not violate any applicable laws, including copyright or trademark laws, export control laws, or other laws in your jurisdiction. You are responsible for making sure that your use of the Service is in compliance with laws and any applicable regulations.

• Conduct Restrictions

  While using BhagavadGita.io, you agree that you will not under any circumstances:

  • use our servers for any form of excessive automated bulk activity (for example, spamming), or relay any other form of unsolicited advertising or solicitation through our servers, such as get-rich-quick schemes;
  • attempt to disrupt or tamper with BhagavadGita.io's servers in ways that could harm our Website or Service, to place undue burden on BhagavadGita.io's servers through automated means, or to access BhagavadGita.io's Service in ways that exceed your authorization.

• Scraping

  Scraping refers to extracting data from our Website via an automated process, such as a bot or webcrawler. It does not refer to the collection of information through Bhagavad Gita API. You may scrape the website for the following reasons:

  • Researchers may scrape public, non-personal information from BhagavadGita.io for research purposes, only if any publications resulting from that research are open access.
  • Archivists may scrape BhagavadGita.io for public data for archival purposes.
  • You may not scrape BhagavadGita.io for spamming purposes.

• Excessive Bandwidth Use

  If we determine your bandwidth usage to be significantly excessive in relation to other Bhagavad Gita customers, we reserve the right to suspend your account until you can reduce your bandwidth consumption.

API Terms

• No Abuse or Overuse of the API

  Abuse or excessively frequent requests to BhagavadGita.io via the API may result in the temporary or permanent suspension of your account's access to the API. BhagavadGita.io, in our sole discretion, will determine abuse or excessive usage of the API. We will make a reasonable attempt to warn you via email prior to suspension.

  You may not share API tokens to exceed BhagavadGita.io's rate limitations.

  You may not use the API to download data or Content from BhagavadGita.io for spamming purposes.

  BhagavadGita.io may offer subscription-based access to our API for those Users who require high-throughput access or access that would result in resale of BhagavadGita.io Service.

  Using the Bhagavad Gita API, you may download the information and use it in your app or website as long as you do not charge for it. You must include appropriate attribution/credit on the material you extract. In this case, free means free. It cannot be bundled with anything sold, nor can you charge for shipping, handling, or anything. It is provided for non-commercial use only.

Termination

We may terminate or suspend your account immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation if you breach the Terms.

Upon termination, your right to use the Service will immediately cease. If you wish to terminate your account, you may simply discontinue using the Service.

Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Haryana, India, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of those rights. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court, the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in effect. These Terms constitute the entire agreement between us regarding our Service and supersede and replace any prior agreements we might have had between us regarding the Service.

Changes

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is material, we will try to provide at least 30 days' notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion.

By continuing to access or use our Service after those revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised terms. If you do not agree to the new terms, please stop using the Service.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us:

• By email: [email protected]