TERMS OF USE

Last Updated On: 28-Jul-22

Welcome to www.stringbio.com (the “Website”). This Website belongs to String Bio Private Limited, a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956, having its registered office at No. 456 G, 1st Main Road, Vinayaka Nagar, 9th Mile, Tumkur Road, Nagasandra, Bengaluru – 560073, India (“we” / “us” / “String Bio”). By using our website, all visitors (“you” / “Visitor”) confirm, and agree to be bound by and comply with the terms and conditions prescribed by these terms of use along with the documents referred to in it (collectively, the “Terms”). Your continued use of the Website will constitute acceptance of these Terms, as revised from time to time. If you do not agree with these Terms, you must not access or use the Website.

Terms are Subject to Change

We reserve the right to update or modify these Terms and all disclaimers set out herein, at any time, without prior notice. Your access to, and use of the Website following any such change constitutes your agreement to follow and be bound by these Terms as updated or modified. For this reason, we encourage you to review these Terms each time you access or use the Website. These Terms govern all updates to the Website that replace and / or supplement the original version of the Website.

Operation of the Website

  • String Bio may change the format and content of the Website at any time.
  • String Bio may suspend the operation of the Website for support or maintenance work, in order to update its content, or for any other reason.
  • String Bio reserves the right to terminate your access to the Website at any time and without notice.

    • Competency to Contract

    You represent and warrant that you are at least of the age of 18 (eighteen), and eligible to enter into a legally binding agreement and to be bound by these Terms. You will not access or use the Website if you are not competent to contract under the laws of India.

    Representations, Warranties and Covenants

  • You are aware of, and in compliance with all applicable domestic and international laws, and will continue to be compliant as long as you are accessing and / or using the Website. This includes the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules made thereunder.
  • You are under no contractual or other restrictions or obligations that are inconsistent with these Terms or that will interfere with the performance of your obligations under these Terms.
  • All information uploaded on or conveyed by the Visitor through the Website must be accurate, true and not misleading. All such information and material shall be shared at the sole risk of the Visitor.
  • The Visitor will not host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit or share any information through the Website that: (a) is unlawful, harassing, threatening, invasive, libellous, defamatory, or that would otherwise violate applicable law; (b) contains nudity, obscenity or sexually explicit content; (c) may disparage any ethnic, racial, sexual or religious group or is otherwise abusive or inflammatory; (d) depicts or promulgates the use of drugs; (e) contains offensive language or images; (f) incites violence or characterises violence as acceptable; (g) contains unsolicited promotions, political campaigning, advertising or solicitations; (h) contains private or personal information about another person; (i) contains corrupted data or other harmful, disruptive or destructive viruses, trojan horses, harmful code, denial-of-service attacks, packet or IP spoofing or other similar technology; (j) is in infringement of a third party’s intellectual property rights; or (k) belongs to another person that you have no right to.
  • You will ensure that you comply with all prevailing and applicable laws, rules and regulations, and these Terms and our Privacy Policy while using the Website and String Bio will not be liable in any manner whatsoever for any default on your part in doing so.
  • You will not use the Website in a manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair our server or any network connected thereto, or interfere with any other person’s use and enjoyment of the Website. You will not attempt to gain unauthorised access to any functions or features of the Website, computing systems or networks connected to any String Bio server in any manner including through hacking, password mining or any other means. You will not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means which is intentionally not made available through the Website.
  • The Website is made available to you for your own use, and you will not attempt to copy, reproduce, alter, modify, reverse engineer or create derivates of the Website or information or materials contained therein, or allow third parties to do so.
  • String Bio will make all reasonable effort to ensure that information submitted by you through the Website is kept confidential. However, you are submitting such information voluntarily, and String Bio will not be responsible for any unintentional disclosure or leakage of such information or loss or damage arising from it.

    • LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

    Our Website may contain links to third party sites that are not owned, controlled or operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you may be redirected to such third-party’s site. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policy, terms of use or practices of a third-party site. You further acknowledge and agree that String Bio shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such websites or services. We strongly advise you to read the terms and conditions and privacy policies of any third-party web sites or services that you visit.

    Intellectual Property

  • All content on the Website, including, among other things, page headers, images, illustrations, graphics, audio clips, video clips, text and trade names (“Our Content”) constitute our and our licensors’ intellectual property. Intellectual property rights laws including copyright laws in all applicable jurisdictions protect the Website and Our Content.
  • This Website also contains trademarks, including the String Bio logo. All trademarks included on this Website belong to String Bio or have been licensed to it by the owner(s) of those trademarks for use on this Website.
  • You may access the Website, avail its features and facilities, and utilise Our Content for your personal or internal requirements only. You are not entitled to duplicate, distribute, create derivative works of, display or commercially exploit Our Content, features or facilities, directly or indirectly, without our prior written permission.
  • For further clarity, you may: (a) access any part of the Website; and (b) print one copy of any or all the pages of the Website for your own personal reference. You may not: (a) copy (whether by printing onto paper, storing on disk, downloading or in any other way), distribute (including distributing copies), broadcast, alter or tamper with in any way or otherwise use Our Content or any material on the Website. These restrictions apply in relation to all Our Content and the material on the Website; (b) remove any copyright, trademark or other intellectual property notices contained in the original material from any material copied or printed from the Website; or (c) link to this Website without our express written consent.
  • If you wish to provide a hypertext or other link to this Website, please contact the Website administrator with details of (a) the URL(s) of the web page(s) from which you are proposing to link to this Website; and (b) the URL(s) of the web page(s) on this Website which you are proposing to link, and we will consider your request. We have the sole discretion to accept or reject such requests.

    • Data Protection

    Personal details provided to String Bio through this Website will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy, which shall form an integral part of these Terms. Please read the policy carefully before using our Website. By providing your personal details to us, you are consenting to its use in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

    Communications

  • By accepting these Terms, and providing us your contact details through the Website, you consent to be contacted by us, our agents, representatives, affiliates or anyone contacting you on our behalf, in any manner including SMS, calls, emails, etc.
  • You certify that the contact details and any other information you have provided to us are your own and not someone else’s, and that they are true, accurate, current and complete. You agree to notify us when you stop using a particular contact number or address.

    • Indemnification

    You agree to protect, defend and indemnify us and hold us and our officers, directors, employees, shareholders, agents, representatives and affiliates harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, costs and expenses, including attorney’s fees, arising from or related to your access and / or use of the Website in violation of these Terms. This provision survives the termination of these Terms.

    Disclaimers

  • The Website and its features are provided on an “as is” basis. We expressly disclaim all warranties, whether express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
  • We will make reasonable efforts to make available the Website at all times. However, we make no warranty that they will meet your requirements, be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error free.
  • You must, at all times, use reasonable precaution while using the Website. We do not sell goods or provide services through our Website, and we will not be liable for any engagements you enter into with third parties claiming to provide such goods or services on our behalf.
  • String Bio will not be liable for the loss or damage to confidential information or data of the Visitor arising as a result of an event or a series of related events that is beyond the control of String Bio including waivers or problems with the internet, attempted hacker attacks, hacker attacks, denial or service attacks, virus or malicious software attacks or infections and other events of like nature.
  • All use of the Website is done at your own discretion and risk, and you are solely responsible for any damage that results therefrom. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from us, creates any representation or warranty not expressly stated in these Terms.

    • Limitation of Liability

  • To the maximum extent allowed by law, you acknowledge and agree that the entire risk arising out of your access to and use of the Website remains with you.
  • In no event will String Bio or its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, investors, employees, partners, agents or licensors be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special or consequential damages or for any loss or damages whatsoever based on contract, tort, negligence, strict liability or otherwise including damages for loss of use, data or profits, unauthorised access to, or alteration of your data or your inability to use the Website, or any other loss arising out of or in any way connected with the access, use or performance of the Website or its features including interruptions, delays, etc. even if String Bio was advised of the possibility of damages. This clause will survive the termination of these Terms.

    • Termination

    String Bio may suspend or terminate your use of the Website for any reason whatsoever and at any time, with or without giving notice of the suspension or termination to you. Upon such suspension or termination, any rights granted to you with regard to the Website will stand terminated, and you must cease using it.

    Remedies

    The rights, powers, privileges and remedies provided under these Terms are cumulative and not exclusive of rights, powers, privileges or remedies provided by applicable law. These Terms do not prevent String Bio from enforcing its rights under applicable law. String Bio, in addition to other remedies available to it, is entitled to seek (i) a decree or order of specific performance to enforce the observance of the Terms and / or (ii) an injunction restraining a breach or threatened breach of the Terms.

    Severability

    If any provision of these Terms is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable under any present or future laws such provision will be replaced with another which is not unenforceable or prohibited and which as far as possible has the same legal and commercial effect as that which it replaces. Further, the remaining provisions of the Terms will remain in full force and effect and will not be affected by the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provision or by its severance from these Terms.

    Waiver

    Any failure on part of String Bio to require performance of any provision of these Terms will not affect its right to full performance of such provision at any time thereafter, and any waiver by String Bio of a breach of any provision of these Terms will not constitute a waiver of a similar breach in the future or any other breach.

    Entire Agreement

    These Terms contain the entire agreement, and supersede all prior and contemporaneous understandings between the parties regarding its subject matter.

    Assignment

    You will not assign or transfer any rights, obligations or privileges you have under these Terms without the prior written consent of String Bio. These Terms are binding on the successors and permitted assigns of both parties. Any assignment or transfer in violation of this clause will be deemed void.

    Headings

    All headings used in these Terms are for convenience only and shall not be used to limit or interpret the Terms.

    Validity of Terms

    These Terms apply when you access or use our Website and will remain valid for as long as you continue to do so. Obligations that expressly are intended, or by their nature would be reasonably understood to survive the termination of your access / usage of the Website, shall survive for such period as is customary or reasonable.

    Arbitration, Governing Law and Jurisdiction

    These Terms and the Privacy Policy will be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of India. By using our Website, you irrevocably consent to the reference of all disputes that arise out of or in relation to your access to and / or use of the Website to an arbitral tribunal comprising of a sole arbitrator appointed by String Bio. The arbitration proceedings will be governed by the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 and the rules framed under it. The venue, place and seat of the arbitration will be Bengaluru, India and the language of the arbitration proceedings will be English. The award rendered will be in writing, with the reasons for the decision. The award will allocate or apportion the costs of the arbitration as the arbitral tribunal considers fair. The award made will be final and binding on the parties thereto. Subject to arbitration as described above, you irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in Bengaluru, India, in the event of such a dispute.

    Contacting Us

    If you have a question or complaint about the Website, please contact the www.stringbio.com administrator at admin@stringbio.com.