Terms of Use

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the website https://evsbuzz.com and any related services (collectively, the “Site”) operated by EVsBuzz.com (“we”, “us”, “our”). By accessing or using the Site, you agree to be bound by these Terms, our Privacy Policy, our Cookie Policy and our Disclaimer. If you do not agree, please do not use the Site.

1. Eligibility

You must be at least the age of digital consent in your jurisdiction to use the Site. By using the Site, you represent that you meet this requirement and that you have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms.

2. Licence to use the Site

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and view the Site for your personal, non-commercial use. No other rights are granted by implication, estoppel or otherwise.

3. Intellectual property

All editorial content, design, code, graphics, logos, photographs, videos, audio, calculators, structured data and other materials available on the Site are owned by EVsBuzz.com or our licensors and are protected by Indian and international copyright, trademark and other intellectual-property laws. You may:

• View and print individual articles for personal, non-commercial reference.
• Share short excerpts with a credit and a link back to the source article.
• Embed our official embeds (where provided).

You may not:

• Republish, syndicate or scrape our content (in whole or in part) without prior written permission.
• Use our content to train, fine-tune or evaluate machine-learning or AI systems without permission.
• Frame, mirror or otherwise reproduce the Site in a manner that obscures attribution.
• Remove copyright, attribution or watermark notices.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Site to:

• Post or transmit unlawful, defamatory, harassing, threatening, hateful, obscene or otherwise objectionable content.
• Infringe any intellectual-property, privacy or other right of any person.
• Impersonate any person or entity or misrepresent your affiliation.
• Upload viruses, malware, worms or other harmful code.
• Interfere with or disrupt the Site, its servers or any connected networks.
• Use automated scrapers, bots, crawlers or harvesting tools except for well-behaved search engine crawlers obeying our robots.txt.
• Attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the Site or related systems.
• Use the Site to send unsolicited bulk email or any other form of spam.
• Conduct any activity that violates Google AdSense or Google Ad Manager publisher policies (including click fraud, traffic generation through deceptive means, or invalid activity).

5. User-generated content

When you submit comments, forum posts, reader photos, tip-offs or other content to the Site (collectively, “User Content”):

• You retain ownership of your User Content.
• You grant EVsBuzz.com a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licensable licence to host, store, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate, distribute and display the User Content on the Site, in our newsletter, and in our official social-media presence, with attribution to your display name.
• You confirm that you have all rights necessary to grant this licence and that the User Content does not breach any third-party right.
• We may moderate, edit for length / clarity, or remove User Content at our discretion.

6. Advertising

The Site is monetised in part through advertising delivered via Google AdSense, Google Ad Manager and other programmatic networks. By using the Site you acknowledge that you will see advertisements and that those advertisements may be personalised based on your interactions with our Site and other sites, subject to your consent choices in our GDPR Consent Policy and our Cookie Policy.

7. Third-party content and links

The Site may contain links to third-party websites, plug-ins, embedded media and advertisements. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy or practices of those third parties. Your dealings with third parties are between you and them.

8. Disclaimers

The Site is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis without warranties of any kind, express or implied, except as required by applicable law. See our Disclaimer.

9. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, EVsBuzz.com and its owners, editors, writers, contributors and contractors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, business, savings, data or goodwill, arising out of or in connection with your use of, or inability to use, the Site, whether based on contract, tort, statute or otherwise, and whether or not we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Our aggregate liability for any direct loss is limited to INR 1,000 or the amount you have paid us in the past twelve months (if any), whichever is greater.

10. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless EVsBuzz.com and its owners, editors, writers, contributors and contractors from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to your breach of these Terms, your User Content, or your violation of any law or third-party right.

11. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to all or part of the Site at any time, with or without notice, for any reason, including breach of these Terms or of any applicable policy.

12. Governing law & jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of India, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Site will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts located at our principal place of business, subject to your non-waivable consumer rights in your country of residence.

13. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The current version is always available at this URL with a “Last reviewed” date at the top. Continued use of the Site after a change indicates acceptance of the revised Terms.

14. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

15. Entire agreement

These Terms, together with the policies referenced above, constitute the entire agreement between you and EVsBuzz.com concerning the Site and supersede all prior or contemporaneous communications, whether electronic, oral or written.