Terms and Conditions

Services

This website is owned and operated by or on behalf of IIMPACT  (‘IIMPACT’) under the domain name www.iimpact.org (the IIMPACT Website).

IIMPACT’s Registered Office:
4 Jeevanrang Apts,
61A / 12, 14th Lane,
Prabhat Road,
Pune 411 004

Correspondence and services are delivered from offices at :
M2/3, Ground Floor,
DLF Phase 2,
Gurgaon – 122002

Your use of the Service (provided by IIMPACT), the IIMPACT Website, and the information, graphics, materials and any products or services offered on the IIMPACT Website (‘Material on this Website’) is governed by these Terms and Conditions and the associated Security & Privacy Policy.

By using the IIMPACT Website you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions and the Security & Privacy Policy.

Definitions

  • Bank Account means a valid deposit, checking or savings account with a financial or deposit-taking institution. Electronic Instruction means any electronic instruction, information, message, request or communication issued or transmitted to IIMPACT through the IIMPACT Website.
  • Material on the IIMPACT Website means any tools, calculation devices, software programs, games or other features which may assist You in conducting Payment transactions, or helpful hints or other information, which may be available on the IIMPACT Website.
  • Nominated Card means a valid credit or charge card which You may use to transfer funds from as a Sender.
  • Nominated Debit Account means a Bank Account which You may use to transfer funds from as a Sender.
  • Payment means a transfer of funds from You to IIMPACT via the IIMPACT Website towards a charitable donation or for the purchase of products and services offered by IIMPACT.
  • Service means the use of the IIMPACT Website to access information relating to IIMPACT’s activities, communicating with IIMPACT staff or other registered users on community forums or posting your comments on the IIMPACT blog or other online forums.
  • You means the person who accepts and agrees to be bound by these Terms and Conditions, and in the case of a business, are binding the legal entity which operates that business, (whether that be a sole trader, partnership or incorporated body) and represent that you have authority to bind that business in this fashion.

Receipt of Payments

The legal entity accepting payments on this Website is referred to as ‘IIMPACT’ and registered as follows:

  • The 80G registration : Pn/CIT-I/12A(a)/ 80 G /58/2008-09/990 was renewed on 30.05.2008 and is valid till 31.03.2011.
  • Registration # under Bombay Public Trust Act (1950) is F19139 Pune dated 01/10/2003
  • Certificate # under Society Act (1860) is MAH / 863 / 2003 / Pune dated 15/07/2003

IIMPACT
N-14/31, Ground Floor
DLF City Phase II
Gurgaon, Haryana – 12202
India
Ph +91 124 4276865 – 67

Donors in India

Donors in India can either donate through the website or send a cheque directly to the honorary treasurer Amal Jajodia at the following address:

A-302, Rushi Tower
Lokhandwala Complex
Andheri West
Mumbai – 400053
e-mail: [email protected]

Donors domiciled in India may be entitled to a 50% rebate under 80G of the Income Tax. Act 1961 on their donation to IIMPACT. IIMPACT will provide a receipt for each donation if you have provided your full postal address to the treasurer by e-mail.

Donors in U.S.A.

Donors domiciled in the USA may make a contribution to IIMPACT through The American India Foundation (‘AIF’). Donors will get a tax receipt from AIF directly, which is a US registered charity:

The American India Foundation,
216 East, 45th Street, 7th Floor,
New York, NY 10017,
Ph: 646-530-8965, Fax 212-661-9350.
Web: http://www.aifoundation.org/

The American India Foundation is recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization (Federal Tax ID: 13-415-9765).

Other Donors

Other donors domiciled outside India will need to ascertain their tax obligations or benefits based on the laws applicable to their jurisdiction.

Registering to use the Service

You must register with IIMPACT in order to use the Services. You do NOT need to register to make a payment as donation to IIMPACT. If you do not register with IIMPACT, you may be able to authorize Payments, but not all of the features of the Service or the IIMPACT Website will be available to you. When registering with IIMPACT, You must provide us with certain details, including, but not limited to, your:

  1. Your Name
  2. Valid and active email address
  3. If You wish to make Payments:
    • By credit card, a credit card number (and expiry date and card type), which will be your Nominated Card, and a signed authorisation form to charge amounts to your Nominated Card in accordance with your instructions when you use the Service
    • By direct debit, a Bank Account number, which will be your Nominated Debit Account, and a signed authorisation form to withdraw funds from your Nominated Debit Account.

If You successfully register with Payment, You will be provided with a unique username and password. You will be required to enter this username and password each time you use the Service or certain sections of the IIMPACT Website.

Updating your profile

If you are a registered user of the Service, You may update your profile at any time via the Change Profile section of the IIMPACT Website. IIMPACT may take steps to verify any changes to the information we hold about You before processing or relying on that information.

Making Payments

You may initiate an online Payment to IIMPACT by providing the required information at the IIMPACT Website. This required information includes, but is not limited to:

  1. Your name, address and email address
  2. The amount of the Payment
  3. The credit card or bank account details to be debited.

IIMPACT will only process a Payment transaction when it has received an authorisation by Electronic Instruction from You directing IIMPACT to transfer funds. You must have adequate funds available in your Nominated Debit Account or on your Nominated Card in order for the transaction to be processed. If You do not, then IIMPACT may recover from You any exception processing fees it incurs from any Bank or other financial institution. IIMPACT may deduct these amounts from any of your accounts, the details of which You have provided to IIMPACT, without any notice to You.

Your financial institution may charge you a fee for the Payment processed by IIMPACT to your nominated Card or Nominated Debit Account. IIMPACT will not be liable for such fees and charges.

If You are a registered user of the Service, IIMPACT will keep a record of the Payment transaction associated with your username for the period specified. However You are responsible for your own record keeping for financial planning, taxation or other purposes. To request a receipt for a payment to be sent to you, please provide a mailing address when making a donation and request a receipt by emailing IIMPACT’s Honorary Treasurer at [email protected].

Cancelling Payment

You may cancel certain Payments that have not yet been processed by IIMPACT by contacting us within 3 days of authorizing the Payment. IIMPACT may charge you a fee for cancelling the Payment. If the Payment cannot be cancelled as set out above, You cannot reclaim the Payment by initiating a chargeback via your financial institution.

Your other obligations

You represent and warrant that all information You provide to IIMPACT will be complete, correct and accurate in every particular. If you provide incorrect or inaccurate information, your ability to use the Service and the IIMPACT Website may be suspended.

You agree and warrant that You will only use the Service and the IIMPACT Website for bona fide and lawful purposes. You must not seek to access or alter any information on this site to which you do not have authorization. In addition, you must not seek to use any software or electronic device to overload, crash or interfere with our system.

You agree and warrant that You will not use the Service or the IIMPACT Website in connection with any products or services that IIMPACT reasonably consider are illegal or brand damaging.

You may not distribute, modify, transmit, repost for commercial purposes, Materials on this Website without written permission of IIMPACT.

If you are a registered user of the Service, IIMPACT identifies You via your username and password. You agree to not disclose your username and password to any other person, and You also agree not to use any other person’s username and password. You must take all reasonable steps to keep your username and password confidential and secure. If, in breach of this clause, You do provide another person with your username and password, or do not take reasonable steps to keep your username and password confidential and secure, then You will be taken to have authorized any use of your account by that person.

If your username and/or password is lost, stolen or security is compromised in any way, or You suspect this to be the case, then You must notify IIMPACT immediately.

Links to other websites

The IIMPACT Website may contain links to websites which are owned or operated by third parties independent of IIMPACT (Linked Websites). IIMPACT does not sponsor, endorse, or approve of the operators of Linked Websites, or material which is located on Linked Websites, including special offers, deals or promotions, or information, graphics and other material (Third Party Material).

Subject to any applicable law which cannot be excluded, IIMPACT makes no warranties or representations:

  1. regarding the quality, accuracy, merchantibility or fitness for purpose of Third Party Material, or products or services available through Linked Websites
  2. that Third Party Material does not infringe the intellectual property rights of any person. IIMPACT is not authorising the reproduction of Third Party Material by linking Material on this Website to Third Party Material.

When following a link on the IIMPACT Website, material at a Linked Website may be displayed in your browser framed by Material on this Website. This material is also Third Party Material for the purpose of these Terms of Use.

Warranties

Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that information is free from error, IIMPACT does not warrant the accuracy, adequacy or completeness of Material on this Website, the Service or any other products or services offered on the IIMPACT Website. All information is subject to change without notice. IIMPACT does not guarantee that the IIMPACT Website or Linked Websites will be free from viruses, or that access to the IIMPACT Website, Linked Websites or the Service will be uninterrupted. All terms implied by law, except those which can not be lawfully excluded, are excluded.

Limitation of Liability

Subject to any responsibilities implied by law and which cannot be excluded, IIMPACT, and its directors, employees, agents and contractors, are not liable to You for any losses, damages, liabilities, claims and expenses (including but not limited to legal costs and defence or settlement costs) whatsoever, whether direct, indirect or consequential, arising out of or referable to Material on this Website, to Third Party Material, to any products or services offered on the IIMPACT Website , or to access of the IIMPACT Website by You, howsoever caused, whether in contract, tort including negligence, statute or otherwise. Where the law incorporates obligations into this agreement which cannot be legally excluded, IIMPACT’s liability for a breach of those obligations is limited, at IIMPACT’s option, to the refund of any Payment made to IIMPACT by You for a specific Service that is in dispute.

Indemnity

You indemnify IIMPACT in respect of any liability incurred by IIMPACT for any loss or damage, howsoever caused, suffered by IIMPACT as a result of your breach of these IIMPACT Website Terms and Condition, or your use of the IIMPACT Website or any products or services offered on the IIMPACT Website.

Availability of the IIMPACT Website

As electronic services are subject to interruption or breakdown, access to the IIMPACT Website is offered on an ‘as is’ and ‘as available’ basis only. You are responsible for ensuring that You have alternate contingency plans in place to enable You to make transactions by other means should the IIMPACT Website be unavailable. IIMPACT may impose limits or restrictions on the use You may make of the IIMPACT Website. IIMPACT may withdraw the IIMPACT Website without providing You prior written notice of its decision to do so.

Copyright and Trademarks

Copyright in the Material on this Website is owned or licensed by IIMPACT. Except where necessary for and incidental to viewing the Material on this Website via your web browser, or as permitted under the Indian or other applicable laws, no Material on the IIMPACT Website may be reproduced, stored in an electronic or other retrieval system, adapted, uploaded to a third party location, framed, performed in public or transmitted in any form by any process whatsoever without the specific written consent of IIMPACT. ‘IIMPACT’ is a trade mark of IIMPACT. Third party trade marks are trade marks of the respective third parties.

Termination

These Terms and Conditions and your access to the IIMPACT Website may be terminated at any time by IIMPACT without notice to You. All restrictions, licences granted by you and all disclaimers and limitations of liability by IIMPACT will survive termination. Upon termination, you will no longer be authorized to access or use the IIMPACT Website.

Linking to IIMPACT

You may not frame any part of the IIMPACT Website without IIMPACT’s express written consent.

Acceptance and changes to Terms of Use

You acknowledge and accept that your use of the IIMPACT Website indicates your acceptance of these Terms and Conditiona and the Privacy Policy.

These are the current Terms and Conditions. They replace any other terms and conditions for the IIMPACT Website published on the IIMPACT Website to date. IIMPACT may at any time vary the Terms and Conditiona without your consent. If IIMPACT varies the Terms and Conditiona, IIMPACT will notify you by publishing the date and topic changed at the top of this page on the IIMPACT Website. You accept that by doing this, IIMPACT has provided You with sufficient notice of the variation. IIMPACT is under no obligation to specifically notify You of any variation to these Terms and Conditiona other than as set out in this clause. By your use of the IIMPACT Website after any variation has taken effect, You are taken to have accepted the new Terms and Conditions.

General

The laws applicable to the IIMPACT Terms and Conditions, IIMPACT Website or Services and to disputes arising out of the IIMPACT Terms and Conditions or IIMPACT Website or Services are the laws of India.

You agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of India as applicable above.

Should any clause or part thereof of these Terms and Conditiona be found to be void, unenforceable or invalid, then it is severed from this agreement, leaving the remainder in full force and effect, provided that the severance has not altered the basic nature of this agreement.