Thekkepuram.org or Thekkepuram is an online community that connects its members through a host of services it provides to its members. This document covers the terms and conditions under which these services are provided . Using or accessing this website indicates your continuing acceptance of these terms and conditions. We may change these terms and conditions at any time by updating this page. You should check from time to time to review these terms and conditions to ensure that you are happy to continue using the website under the changed terms and conditions. If you do not accept the following terms and conditions, please do not continue to use the website. All the content available for public access on Thekkepuram is protected by copyright. Your use of this material must adhere to the following terms, unless you are the original contributor of the content to the community, in which case your use is governed by the terms governing relationship with its contributors as covered below.

• You may download and print a single copy of any content item for your personal, non-commercial use. Content items include, but are not restricted to, articles, columns, photographs and reader comments on articles.
• You may not modify any content you download or print from the site. You must retain all copyright notices and logos on any content item you download or print.
• You may not make any content item originating from Thekkepuram available for public access by any means whatsoever without obtaining prior written permission from us.
• You may forward Internet URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) to third parties for private, non-commercial use, along with brief extracts that do not violate Fair Use guidelines.
• You may post, or otherwise make publicly available, excerpts from the content items, in any publicly accessible forum, so long as they follow standard Fair Use guidelines and Thekkepuram is cited alongside the excerpt as the original source with a link back to our site.

Thekkepuram provides a variety of platforms for its members to express themselves in the form of articles, columns, opinions, comments, reviews and photographs. The terms in this section apply to all the content contributed to Thekkepuram in any of its various services .

• You truthfully assert that the content being contributed is your creation and that you own the copyright to the content. Unless you have deliberately assigned the copyright to someone else, you automatically own the copyright to all of your original creations.
• You truthfully assert you have not infringed on anybody else's copyright in the creation of this article.
• We are not responsible or liable for loss if visitors to the site violate your copyright and distribute your copyrighted content without your permission.
• You grant us exclusive unlimited Internet distribution rights and electronic distribution rights, and non-exclusive, unlimited print publication and distribution rights either through the community's own or through other media. This includes Web publishing, syndication on other web sites, syndication with print publishers, publishing as part of a collection of articles, publishing as a book, email, ftp, telnet and other Internet-based information transfer protocols.
• You may, however, publish the content you contribute to the site, on your personal, non-commercial Web site if you possess one.
• Once your contribution is published on the site, it automatically becomes a permanent part of the publicly-accessible archives. You may, however, subject to our approval, update or revise your contributions on Thekkepuram.
• You will not receive any monetary compensation for your submissions. The only in-kind compensation we promise is exposure on the World Wide Web and a home for your expression on the web.
• You grant us the right to organize, categorize, collate your contributed content and present it on the website in any manner we see fit. We may remove or edit your contribution at our discretion without having to secure your permission.
• We generally do not object to our contributors posting their contributions on other, freely accessible non-commercial Internet locations, so long as Thekkepuram is clearly cited as the original publisher, and a link to www.thekkepuram.org is provided. You, however, agree to secure our permission first before such re-publication on other Internet sites happens.


• While you are on the site engaged in using any of our communication platforms, you agree NOT to:
  
  
  • Upload or post or otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, promotes violence, is invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a Thekkepuram commmunity's official, forum leader, guide or host, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.
  • Upload or post or otherwise make available any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party.
  • Upload or post or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of business solicitation.
  • Post classifieds advertisements that contain untruthful representations, deceptive practices, inducements to commit any illegal activity.

Thekkepuram is not obliged to ensure that the Web site is available to all users at all times. While we make all attempts to deny access only to those individuals who violate our regulations, we are occasionally forced to use access denial methods that cause a disruption in access for other users. Thekkepuram reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice.