KANGAROO MINDS

Terms of Use:

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These Terms of Use (“Terms of Use”) govern the use of the site of Kangaroo Minds (www.kangaroominds.com) (“Site”) and the content appearing on the site (“Content”). By using the Site including but not limited to, accessing or visiting or browsing the Site, you (the user) indicate your acceptance to these Terms of Use and that you agree to abide by them.

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The Terms of Use constitute a legal agreement between you, as the user of the Site and us, the owner of the Site.  If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, please refrain from using this Site.

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For purposes of this, the term “Content” includes, without limitation, any information, data, text, logos, photographs, video, audio, animations, written posts, text, articles, comments, software, scripts, graphics, themes and interactive features generated, underlying source code, provided or otherwise made accessible on or through the Site, including the User Generated Content.

 

Nature of the Site and Content

The contents of this site are for informational and educational purposes only. Nothing found on our site is intended to be a substitute for professional psychological, psychiatric or medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified mental health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or mental disorder. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on our site.

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If you think you may have a medical emergency, call your doctor immediately. Kangaroo Minds does not recommend or endorse any specific tests, physicians, products, procedures, opinions, or other information that may be mentioned on our site.

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Reliance on any information provided by Kangaroo Minds or by any person or professional appearing on our site is solely at your own risk. Kangaroo Minds is not liable for any advice or information provided on the site, all of which is provided on an “as-is” basis. No warranties, either express or implied, are made on the information we provide.

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The site contains mental health, health and medical related materials that may be considered explicit. If you find these materials offensive, you may not want to use our site.

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Under no circumstances will we be liable for any loss or damage caused by your reliance on information obtained through the site. It is your responsibility to evaluate the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, opinion, advice or other content available through the Site.

 

Responsibility for Content

The site does not provide medical advice. The site is for information purposes only. Viewing the site, receipt of information contained on the site, or the transmission of information from or to the site does not constitute a physician-patient relationship.

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The information on the site is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay seeking it because of something you have read on the site.

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Kangaroo Minds takes no liability for the content or accuracy of the content contained in the blogs. Our bloggers who post articles to our site are not employed by us. Each blogger is solely responsible for the content of his or her articles. Each blogger owns the copyright to the articles they upload. We do not undertake responsibility for screening or monitoring our bloggers’ materials. The opinions expressed by the bloggers are their own and are not our opinions or endorsed by us.

 

Third-Party Materials

As a part of site, you may have access to materials that are hosted by another party.  You agree that it is impossible for Kangaroo Minds to monitor such materials and that you access these materials at your own risk.

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Opinions and other statements expressed by authors and third parties (including our bloggers) are theirs alone, not opinions of Kangaroo Minds. While Kangaroo Minds makes an effort to review certain content (e.g. content that appears on the kangaroominds.com domain barring any subdomains or blogs), content created by third parties is the sole responsibility of the third parties; its accuracy and completeness are not endorsed or guaranteed.

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Further, we explicitly disclaim any responsibility for the accuracy, content or availability of information found on a site that links to or from the site (a "third-party site(s)"). All content, information displayed on third-party sites is not the responsibility or liability of Kangaroo Minds. While we have tried to keep the information as relevant and updated as we can, please use your discretion while using these services. All the information has been sources from the internet and is for information purposes only. Kangaroo Minds is neither liable for their content, conduct or terms of use. We do not endorse any products or services, nor have we taken any steps to confirm the accuracy or reliability of any of the information contained in any third-party sites. We do not make any representations or warranties as to the security of any information (including credit card and other personal information) users might be requested to give a third-party site. We strongly encourage users to make their own investigation of third-party sites before proceeding with any transaction with such third parties.

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We do not endorse, and nothing on the site shall be deemed to be an endorsement, representation or warranty of, any third party.

 

Monitoring

Kangaroo Minds shall have the right, but not the obligation, and at its sole discretion, to edit, refuse to post or remove any material submitted to or posted on Kangaroo Minds including blog submissions and comments. Without limiting the foregoing, Kangaroo Minds shall have the right, but not the obligation, to remove any material that Kangaroo Minds, in its sole discretion, finds to be in violation of the provisions hereof or otherwise objectionable.

 

Ownership & Intellectual Property Rights

Kangaroo Minds and other related graphics, logos, service marks and trade names used on or in connection with the site or in connection with the initiatives are the trademarks of Kangaroo Minds and may not be used without permission in connection with any third-party products or services. No content from this site can be reproduced in any form without the prior written permission from Kangaroo Minds.

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You are not permitted to delete or change any copyright symbol, trademark or other proprietary details contained on the site. You shall not use our information for any other purpose other than for the aforesaid. You agree that any use of the proprietary information displayed on the site shall infringe our intellectual property rights for which you shall indemnify us.

We have intellectual property rights in all Content displayed on the Site including graphics, logo, and software that is either owned or licensed to us other than any third party contents which are specifically identified as such. Any infringement of our intellectual property rights shall be governed by the applicable laws.

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The license to access and use the site does not include the right to copy or reproduce the information of our Site on any other platform or medium, without our prior written permission.

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You agree to use the Content only for lawful purposes and only for your own personal, non-commercial use. You may not use the content or the site to transmit, post, download, distribute, copy, display publicly, store or destroy material (a) in violation of any applicable law or regulation, (b) in a manner that will infringe the copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property rights of others, or violate the privacy or publicity or other personal rights of others, or (c) that is libelous, obscene, offensive, threatening, defamatory, abusive, or hateful.

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We have absolute discretion to determine if any use violates these rules, and to act as we deem appropriate in the event of any violation. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. We will investigate occurrences which may involve such violations and may involve, cooperate with, and make disclosures to law enforcement authorities in identifying and prosecuting users who are involved in such violations.

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Except with respect to Your Content provided on the blogs, you agree that you have no right or title in or to any Content that appears on or in the site. You will not use any Content that is not Your Content for benchmarking or other research purposes.

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Kangaroo Minds does not claim ownership of content in the blogs.  However, when you as a User post or publish content on or in our blogs, you represent that you own and/or have a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive right (including any moral rights) and license to use, license, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, and communicate to the public, perform and display Your Content (in whole or in part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or later developed, for the full term of any worldwide intellectual property right that may exist in Your Content. You grant Kangaroo Minds a fully paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right (including any moral rights) and license to use, license, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform, and publicly display, Your Content (in whole or in part) for the purposes of operating and providing Kangaroo Minds and for our business purposes.  Please remember that other Users may search for, see, use, modify and reproduce any of Your Content that you submit to any “public” area of Kangaroo Minds. You warrant that the holder of any worldwide intellectual property right, including moral rights, in Your Content, has completely and effectively waived all such rights and validly and irrevocably granted to you the right to grant the license stated above.  You agree that you, not Kangaroo Minds, are responsible for all of Your Content that you make available on or in Kangaroo Minds.

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Reproduction of content on other sites

Any Content placed on your site must be accredited to the applicable site, with links placed to the original article on the applicable site. You are permitted to display an active, follow link to the original full article on your site, provided you do so in a way that gives full credit to us as the original publisher and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

 

However:

• You may not place, or use any software to place, any complete articles from the Kangaroo Minds site on your site, unless you have contacted us first and have received written permission from us to place the entire article online - these full terms of use will apply.

• You must not establish a link from any site that is not owned by you.

• Use of any and all Kangaroo Minds logos are not permitted.

• You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval, or endorsement on our part where none exists.

• You may not directly or indirectly suggest any endorsement or approval by the applicable sites of your site, products, content, or any views expressed within your site.

 

Our Content may only be placed on sites that:

• Do not promote, facilitate, or encourage Illegal activities and do not display actionable content.

• Do not promote, facilitate, or encourage hatred of any form (including, but not limited to, racism, terrorism, violence, and discrimination of any kind).

• Do not have misleading, pornographic, or defamatory content.

• Do not display any material that is in breach of any third-party intellectual property rights.

 

Kangaroo Minds provides the Content at no charge on its site and you may not charge users specifically for accessing Kangaroo Minds Content, nor attempt to sell our Content in any way.

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Kangaroo Minds reserves the right to restrict, suspend, or terminate any Content, your access to Content, the availability of Content or these Terms of Use at any time, without liability. You agree to remove all of the Content from your site upon receiving notice of termination from Kangaroo Minds. You may terminate these Terms of Use at any time by removing all Content from your site and destroying all copies of our Content in your possession and confirm the same in writing within 14 days of receiving the said notice.

 

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold Kangaroo Minds and its Licensors, subsidiaries, affiliates, owners, officers, directors, agents, co-branders or other partners, employees, contractors, staff, community moderators, community administrators and representatives harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, costs or expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements) which arise directly or indirectly out of or from (i) your breach of this Agreement; (ii) any allegation that any blogs or content infringes or otherwise violates the copyright, trade secret, trademark or other intellectual property rights of a third party; and (iii) your access or use of the sites or the Services.

 

No Partnership or Agency

The Terms of Use shall not be construed so as to create a partnership or joint venture between you and us. Nothing in the Terms of Use shall be construed so as to constitute you and us as agents of one another.

 

Representations and Warranties

You're entering into these Terms of Use on your own behalf to abide by the Terms of Use or such other agreements that you may enter into while browsing through the site. You agree to stop using the site and inform us of any violation of law that may stop you from using our site.

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You represent that all the information provided by you is and shall be true, correct and accurate and you shall inform us of any change/ amendment in such information from time to time.

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Notwithstanding the Company’s right to review any User Generated Content submitted or posted by you from time to time, you shall not seek to host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any User Generated Content that: (i) belongs to another person and to which you do not have any right to; (ii) is grossly harmful, harassing, libellous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating or encouraging money laundering or gambling, otherwise unlawful in any manner whatsoever; (iii) harms minors in any way; (iv) infringes any patent trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights; (v) violates any law for the time being in force; (vi) deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of such messages or communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in nature; (vii) impersonates another person; (viii) threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of a country, friendly relations with friendly states, or public order or causes incitement to the commission of any cognisable offence or prevents investigation of any offence or is insulting any other nation. This is illustrative and does not include a violation of our community standards. Even otherwise we retain the right to remove information as per discretion and without assigning any reasons.

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You will not misuse your right to the site by introducing viruses, trojans, worms or other material likely to cause harm to the site and shall indemnify and keep us indemnified in case any action is initiated against us due to any loss, injury, expenses or liability caused to any other user of the site or any third party. You shall further not gain any unauthorised access to the site or on any other source to our site beyond the present terms of access.

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You shall not: (i) take any action that imposes or may impose (as determined by us at our sole discretion) an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our (or our third party providers’) infrastructure; (ii) interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or any activities conducted on the site; (iii) bypass, circumvent or attempt to bypass or circumvent any measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the site (or other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to the site); (iv) run any form of auto-responder or “spam” on the Site; (v) use manual or automated software, devices, or other processes to “crawl” or “spider” any part of the site; (vi) harvest or scrape any Content from the site; or (vi) otherwise take any action in violation of our guidelines and policies and shall keep us indemnified in case any loss, injury, expenses or liability caused to us.

 

Liability

You agree and understand that the use of the site is at your own risk. The site is being made available to you on an “as is” and “as available” basis without providing any warranties, guaranties or conditions as to the usage being free from any faults, defects, interruptions, errors, viruses or to the accuracy, reliability, availability of any Content. You agree and understand that we shall not be responsible for any interference or damage that may be caused to your electronic device or computer resource which arises in connection with your access to our site.

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You also agree and understand that the information displayed on the site is for information purposes only and does not to amount to any advice or serve as a substitute to professional medical help.

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To the extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim our liability against any loss, damage, expenses, liabilities, claim, injury caused due to the failure of performance, omission, defect, deletion, interruption, error, delay, virus, communication, unauthorised access, theft, destruction, alteration or use of records, whether due to breach of contract, negligence, tort or due to other cause of actions.

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Further, in no circumstances shall we be responsible for any loss of profits, goodwill, revenue, consequential, exemplary, punitive damages or any financial or indirect loss arising out of the use of the site.

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We do not endorse any views expressed on the blogs and it is merely a platform for users to generate and display relevant Content. As such, we are not responsible for any User Content posted on the site and do not endorse or subscribe to the views contained in any User Content.

 

Our rights in relation to the Site

We have the right to discontinue or change our site at any time and shall not be liable for the same.

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We may cancel access to the site for any reason whatsoever, at any time at our discretion. We may also suspend or limit your access to the site as and when may be considered necessary. For the aforesaid, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you and inform you of such an action and the reasons thereof, in any.

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We may disclose such confidential information as may be provided by you or such other details about yourself as may be necessary to satisfy any governmental department or authority under applicable law or to any third party in accordance with the terms of the Privacy Policy.

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You agree and understand that we shall not be liable for any claim based on any termination, suspension or any of the aforesaid actions taken by us in relation to your access to the site.

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We reserve the right to, but do not have any obligation to, (i) remove, refuse to distribute, edit, modify or otherwise manipulate any Content at our sole discretion, at any time, without notice to you or for no reason at all, and (ii) to remove or block any Content from the site.

 

Amendments to the Terms of Use

We reserve the right to amend the Terms of Use from time to time. Any amendment that is made will come into effect from the moment it is displayed on the site. The updated version of the Terms of Use shall supersede any of the previous versions of the Terms of Use.

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We shall make reasonable efforts to notify users of such changes, however, it shall be your responsibility to be updated with the Terms of Use at all times.

 

The continued use of the site shall amount to your acceptance to the Terms of Use of the site.