This document is an electronic record in terms of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and rules there under pertaining to electronic records as applicable and amended. This electronic record is generated by a computer system and does not require any physical or digital signatures.
This document is published in accordance with the provisions of Rule 3 (1) of the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011 that require publishing the rules and regulations, privacy policy and the terms and conditions for access or usage of www.bharatmatrimony.com (the "Website").
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS VERY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE WEBSITE. ACCESSING, BROWSING OR OTHERWISE USING THE WEBSITE IMPLIES YOUR AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY ALL THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS ("Agreement"). If you do not want to be bound by the Terms and Conditions, you must not use the Website or the BM(Bharat MatrimonyBM) Services. The Terms and Conditions also includes the applicable policies which are incorporated herein by way of reference and as amended from time to time (the "Terms and conditions").
In these Terms, references to "BM member" shall mean the end user accessing the Website/BM services, its contents or using the BM Services offered. BM member also includes persons such as father, mother, brother, sister, relative or a friend ("Registrant") of the prospective bride/ bridegroom. The terms "You" and "User" shall be interchangeably used for "BM member". "BM Services" means a collective reference to the Bharat Matrimony service provided by Matrimony.com Limited ,CIN : L63090TN2001PLC047432,a company under the provisions of companies act, 2013 and having its registered office at No.94, TVH Beliciaa Towers, Tower - 2, 10th Floor, MRC Nagar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu – 600 028('MCL/Company').
You understand and acknowledge that Bharat Matrimony (BM) acts as an "Intermediary" as defined under clause (1) sub-clause (w) of Section 2 of the Information Technology Act, 2000. BM is a brand owned by Matrimony.Com Limited (MCL) which owns, retains and has complete rights in BM and the BM Website /App/ BM Service.
BM acts as a platform to enable any user to themselves register on it (by filling the mandatory fields and optional fields, if any) to voluntarily search for profile(s) from the database of BM’s already registered users, for seeking prospective lawful matrimonial alliances for themselves. BM retail store may also be able to assist you to create your profile, however, you must have a valid/operational mobile phone number and an email id. The profiles in the database of BM are classified broadly on the basis of language and region for the ease and convenience of its member / customer. BM Members are provided with free/paid access for searching profiles from the database of BM, as per the partner preference set by you (on the Website/Applications -(App) and you can shortlist the profiles in which you are interested .
A) BMMembership and rights of admission is reserved solely for :
I. Indian Nationals & Citizens.
II. Persons of Indian Origin (PIO).
III. Non Resident Indians (NRI).
IV. Persons of Indian Descent or Indian Heritage
V. Persons who intend to marry persons of Indian Origin.
B) Further in capacity as BM member you confirm that you are :
I. 18 years or above (if you are a woman) or 21 years or above (if you are a man);
II. If you have applied for Divorce, you may register on our website/App by stating "Awaiting Divorce".
III. If you are a resident of any other Country, you are legally competent to marry as per the local rules applicable to your country and you shall comply with the Indian laws for marrying a person of Indian Origin
C) In case you are a Registrant of the prospective bride/ bridegroom and has created profile in BM Website/App on behalf of them or is accessing the BM Website/App on behalf of them implies that you have taken their consent for their profile creation in BM and for accessing the BM Website/App.
2. Registration
A. We expect that you would complete the online registration process with fairness and honesty in furnishing true, accurate, current, complete information and with providing recent photos of you which will help you to meet your parameters .We expect you to read the relevant column before keying in the details or selecting the option available or uploading the photo. You are requested not to key in details of the profile in field other than the applicable field (including mentioning id's of other platforms/websites/App or repeating your details in another fields, after filling them once in the relevant fields or others photographs. In order to serve you better if BM requires additional details you agree to provide it. You may also give a missed call to any of our retail outlets phone number for us to call you back and assist you in getting your profile registered on our website/App. Further you may fill in your email id and phone number in any of our registration campaigns appearing in various websites as part of our advertisements, basis which you may receive call from our Customer Service Center and assist you in getting your profile registered on our website/App. BM may also reproduce your profile information in other matrimonial websites owned by MCL including community based websites to provide better matching Profiles to you.
B. If at any point of time BM comes to know or is so informed by third party or has reasons to believe that any information provided by you for registration (including photos) or otherwise is found to be untrue, inaccurate, or incomplete,BM shall have full right to suspend or terminate (without any notice) your BM membership and forfeit any amount paid by you towards BM membership fee and refuse to provide BM service to you thereafter.
C. BM also reserves the right to block the registration of your profile on Website/App, if any, in the case of your contact details/links being entered in irrelevant fields or if there are errors in any data entered by the BM members in their profile.
D. Registration of duplicate profiles of the same person is not allowed in BM Website/App. BM shall have full right to suspend or terminate (without any notice) such duplicate profile.
E. You acknowledge and confirm that your registration with BM and the usage of BM services is with the bonafide intention of marriage and not otherwise. BM Membership is restricted strictly to the registered BM individual member only. Organizations, companies, businesses and/or individuals carrying on similar or competitive business cannot become Members of BM and nor use the BM Service or BM members data for any commercial purpose, and BM reserves its right to initiate appropriate legal action for breach of these obligation.
3. Account Security
You are responsible for safeguarding the confidentiality of your BM login credentials such as your user id, password, OTP, etc., and for restricting access to your computer/mobile to prevent unauthorized access to your account. We, as a Company do not ask for Password and you are cautioned not to share your password to any persons.. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account.
4. Role and Responsibility of BM
A. BM reproduces your details once you register on our website /App on "as is as available" basis and also share your profile with other registered BM members within website(s) of MCL..
B. BM's obligation is only to provide an interface to its registered members to search their prospect themselves without any assistance.
C. The profile search conducted by any BM member and the matches shown thereof are automatically generated by BM, and based on the partner preference set by you. In the event of BM member changing their partner preference on the Website/App, then the automated system generated prospect results of the Website/App may also undergo corresponding change.
D. BM does not prohibit any BM member from sending interest to your profile or communicating to you based on their partner preference. But you are at the liberty to deny their interest or proceed further if you are interested.
E. BM cannot guarantee or assume responsibility for any specific results from the use of the data available from the BM service or from other matrimonial websites owned by MCL including community based websites..
F. BM shall safeguard sensitive user information using security standards,authentication mechanisms, access controls and encryption techniques.
G. BM cannot guarantee the complete protection of user data while it is in transit, or prevent any tampering of the data by a third party with malicious intent before the data reaches the BM servers.
H. BM do not authenticate/endorse any information of any profile and hence you as a user need to verify the credentials and information provided by other users.