Terms of Use

Our mission is to

• Leverage the knowledge and experience of the alumni of the Indian Institute of Management to provide advice to other users for helping them make informed decisions for education, career and business.
• Disseminate this content easily and effectively.
• Offer a platform and technical infrastructure to help you do this.

You are free to

• Read and Print the questions, responses and comments.
• Share and Reuse the questions, responses and comments.
• Contribute by way of questions, answers, comments or reactions.

Under the following conditions

• You will be responsible for your comments and integrity of thought in your questions, comments and answers.
• You support a civil environment and do not harass other users.
• You do not violate copyright, post illegal content, or violate other applicable laws that follow human rights principles.
• You do not harm our technology infrastructure and you follow the policies for that infrastructure.
• You adhere to the below Terms of Use and to the applicable community policies when you visit our websites or Projects or participate in our communities.

With the understanding that

• You licence Freely Your Contributions — You generally must licence your contributions; questions, answers and comments, under a free and open licence
• No Professional Advice — The content of the conversations in ASKIIMA is for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice.

You could write to care@askiima.com to report any infringement, misconduct, mis information or to seek help.

Our Terms of Use

Welcome to ASKIIMA! ASKIIMA Pvt Ltd. ("we" or "us"), is an organization, headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, India, whose mission is to democratise the wealth of knowledge that resides with the alumni of the Indian Institute of Management to enable people who ask questions to make informed decisions in matters of education, career and business.

To support our vibrant community, we provide the essential infrastructure and organizational framework for free flow of information. We strive to make and keep educational and informational content available on the internet free of charge.

We welcome you ("you" or the "user") as a reader, or contributor as an alumni or user (information seeker), and we encourage you to join the ASKIIMA community. Before you participate, however, we request that you please read and agree to the following Terms of Use ("Terms of Use").

Overview

These Terms of Use tell you about our public services at the ASKIIMA Pvt Ltd, our relationship to you as a user, and the rights and responsibilities that guide us both. We host a lot of questions on education, career and business, advice by the alumni and comments all of which are contributed and made possible by users like yourself. Generally we do not contribute, monitor, or delete content (with rare exceptions, such as under policies like these Terms of Use, for legal compliance, or when faced with urgent threats of serious harm). This means that editorial control is in the hands of you and your fellow users who create and manage the content.

The community – the network of alumni and users is the principal means through which the goals of the mission are achieved. The community contributes to and helps to build the utility of the platform.

You are welcome to join as an alumni, user or observer, but you should follow the policies that govern the ASKIIMA platform. Since we are dedicated to making content freely accessible to the public, content you contribute is made available under a free licence or released in the public domain.

Please be aware that you are legally responsible for all of your contributions, edits, and reuse of ASKIIMA content under the laws of the Republic of India and other applicable laws (which may include laws where you or the subject of your contributions are located). This means it is important that you exercise caution when posting, modifying or reusing content. In light of this responsibility, we have some rules about what you cannot do, most of which are either for your own protection or for the protection of other users like yourself. Please keep in mind that though the response to the questions come from IIM alumni, which ensures a certain level of quality, these are for general information purposes only, so if you need expert advice for a particular question, you should seek the help of an appropriate professional. We also include other important notices and disclaimers, so please read these Terms of Use in their entirety.

1. Our Services

ASKIIMA is dedicated to providing sound advice to users for making informed decisions in matters regarding education, career and business. Our role is to provide a platform for users to ask their questions and the alumni to give what they from their experience think is the best advice. As we progress we plan to introduce a mentoring service where the user could seek mentorship and an interested alumnus may provide mentorship. However, we act only as a hosting service provider, maintaining the infrastructure and organisational framework. As used throughout the rest of the Terms of Use, our services consist of: The website we host, technological infrastructure that we maintain, and any technical spaces that we host for the maintenance and improvement of our service.

Because of our unique role, there are a couple of things you should be aware of when considering our relationship to you and other users:

• a. We do not take an editorial role: Because the vast majority of the content that we host is provided by users, and we do not take an editorial role. This means that we generally do not monitor or edit the content, and we do not take any responsibility for this content. Similarly, unless we have expressly stated otherwise, we do not endorse any opinions expressed via our services, and we do not represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any submitted community content. We are depending on the integrity of the users, especially the alumni of IIM, that they are providing honest answers.
• b. You are responsible for your own actions: You are legally responsible for your contributions by means of questions, answers or comments, your reuse of content on the Projects, your use of the APIs, and your use of our services more generally. For your own protection you should exercise caution and avoid taking any actions that may result in criminal or civil liability under any applicable laws. We generally cannot offer any protection, guarantee, immunity or indemnification against the application of such laws.

2. Privacy Policy

We ask that you review the terms of our Privacy Policy, so that you are aware of how we collect and use your information.

3. Registration on the Site

Registration on the site is free and normally approved automatically. However in the case of alumni registration we may apply certain selection criteria based on their experience, programme attended at the IIM etc to approve their registration.

4. Content We Host

• a. You may find some material objectionable or erroneous: In case you encounter material that you find erroneous, misleading, mislabeled, or otherwise objectionable. We request you to point out errors through comments so that the users get a complete perspective. We therefore ask people who ask questions to use common sense and proper judgement in making their decisions.
• b. The answers provided by the alumni are for general informational purposes only: People in the forum may not be professionally qualified to give certain answers. We rely on the intellectual integrity of the IIM alumni to provide sensible answers. So please use the content presented for general informational purposes only. It should not be taken as professional advice. Please seek independent professional counselling from someone who is licensed or qualified in the applicable area in lieu of acting on any information, opinion, or answers contained in our site.

5. Refraining from Certain Activities

The value of ASKIIMA is in the vibrant community of its users like you who collaborate to ask questions, respond and comment. We happily welcome your participation in this community. We encourage you to be civil and polite in your interactions with others in the community, to act in good faith, and to make contributions aimed at furthering the mission of ASKIIMA.

Certain activities, whether legal or illegal under the applicable law, may be harmful to other users and violate our rules, and some activities may also subject you to liability. Therefore, for your own protection and for that of other users, you may not engage in such activities on, or otherwise using, our platform including harassment or abuse, violation of privacy, attempts in misleading users, infringement of intellectual property rights, attempt to disrupt our services, posting paid content without disclosure etc.

6. Password Security

You are responsible for safeguarding your own password and other security credentials, and should never disclose them to any third party.

7. Trademarks

Although you have considerable freedom for reuse of the content on the Websites, it is important that any use of our trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, or domain names must be acknowledged.

8. Licensing of Content

To grow the commons of free knowledge and free culture, all users contributing to the ASKIIMA website are required to grant broad permissions to the general public to redistribute and reuse their contributions freely, so long as that use is properly attributed and the same freedom to reuse and redistribute is granted to any derivative works. In keeping with our goal of providing free information to the widest possible audience, we require that when necessary all submitted content be licensed so that it is freely reusable by anyone who may access it.

9. Third-party Websites and Resources

You are solely responsible for your use of any third-party websites or resources. Although the Website may contain links to third-party websites and resources, we do not endorse and are not responsible or liable for their availability, accuracy, or the related content, products, or services (including, without limitation, any viruses or other disabling features), nor do we have any obligation to monitor such third-party content.

10. Management of Websites

The community has the primary role in creating and enforcing policies applying to the website. At ASKIIMA, we rarely intervene in community decisions about policy and its enforcement.

It is possible to notify us of illegal content, or content that violates our Terms of Use (including all policies and other documents incorporated by reference) for other reasons by contacting us directly. However, you can typically make a request directly to the ASKIIMA community: this may be more efficient, and is more consistent with ASKIIMA’s aim to empower the user community.

If you contact ASKIIMA with a problem, we will typically explore whether and how existing community-led mechanisms can investigate and, where appropriate, resolve it.

In an unusual case, the need may arise, or the community may ask us to address an especially problematic user or especially problematic content because of significant disturbance or dangerous behaviour. In such cases, we reserve the right, at our sole discretion (or where legally compelled), to take appropriate action to resolve the problem. In case moderation activities are performed by software human review is normally available, upon request.

In the interests of our community, in the extreme circumstance that any individual has had their account or access blocked under this section, they are prohibited from creating or using another account on or seeking access to the community, unless we provide explicit permission.

11. Termination

Though we hope you will stay and continue to contribute to the community, you can stop using our services any time. In certain (hopefully unlikely) circumstances it may be necessary for either ourselves or the ASKIIMA community or its members to terminate part or all of our services, terminate these Terms of Use, block your account or access, or ban you as a user. If your account or access is blocked or otherwise terminated for any reason, your public contributions and a record of your activities on the site will be unaffected (subject to applicable policies), and you may still access our public pages for the sole purpose of reading publicly available content on the Projects.

12. Disputes and Jurisdiction

We hope there are no serious disagreements that arise involving you, but, in the event there is a dispute we hope we can resolve them through dialogue and dispute resolution procedures provided by ASKIIMA. In the unfortunate event of us taking legal recourse, you agree to resolve it exclusively in the courts of Gurugram, Haryana. To ensure that disputes are dealt with soon after they arise, you agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of our services or these terms must be filed within a year after the pertinent facts underlying such claim or cause of action could have been discovered with reasonable diligence (or be forever barred)

13. Disclaimers

At ASKIIMA our effort is to provide you a platform where you can get reasonably good answers to your questions. But since we are catering to a wide variety of audience some answers might not be suitable to you. We don't provide any guarantee on the accuracy of the content or timeliness of response or that your information will be secure. We are also not responsible for the content or data or actions of third parties provided by the members. Any material downloaded from out site is at your own risk and you will be solely responsible for any damage or loss of data in your computer as a result.

14. Limitation on Liability

ASKIIMA will not be liable to you or any other party for any direct or indirect damages regardless of whether we were advised of the possibility of such a damage. In no event shall our liability exceed one thousand Indian Rupees (INR 1000/-)

For the protection of ASKIIMA and other users like yourself, if you do not agree with our Terms of Use, you may not use our services.

15. Other Terms

These Terms of Use do not create an employment, agency, partnership, joint control or joint venture relationship between you and ASKIIMA. If you have not signed a separate agreement with us, these Terms of Use are the entire agreement between you and us. If there is any conflict between these Terms of Use and a signed written agreement between you and us, the signed agreement will control.

You agree that we may provide you with notices, including those regarding changes to the Terms of Use, by email, regular mail, or postings on the Website.

If in any circumstance, we do not apply or enforce any provision of these Terms of Use, it is not a waiver of that provision.

You understand that, unless otherwise agreed to in writing by us, you have no expectation of compensation for any activity, contribution, or idea that you provide to us or the community.

Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in these Terms of Use, we (ASKIIMA) and you agree not to modify the applicable terms and requirements of any free license that is employed on the Website such free licence is authorised by these Terms of Use.

If any provision or part of a provision of these Terms of Use is found unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision or part of the provision is deemed severable from these Terms of Use and will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible, and all other provisions of these Terms of Use will remain in full force and effect.

Thank You!

We appreciate your taking the time to read these Terms of Use, and we are very happy to have you contributing to ASKIIMA and using our services. Through your contributions, you are helping to build something really big and providing information to millions who might otherwise lack access to quality advice. You are also building a vibrant community of like-minded and engaged peers, focused on a very noble goal.