Welcome to ACK Comics App, brought to you by Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd., which does business as Amar Chitra Katha, and which will be referred to here as “ACK Comics App,” the “Company,” or by words such as “us,” “we,” or “our.” As used here, the term “Website” means https://digital.amarchitrakatha.com/, and the term “App” means, collectively, applications provided by the Company for mobile, tablet, laptop, desktop, or other devices. The Website and the App will enable you to browse, purchase licenses to, and read, in digital form, the comic books and any related content available through the Website or the App (“Digital Content”). The term “Service” refers to each of, and any combination of, the Website, the App, the Digital Content, and related services. These Terms of Use (this “Agreement”) govern your use of the Service and is a legally binding agreement between you and the Company. By using the Service, you agree that you have read and understood, and agree to be bound by, this Agreement. If you do not agree, you may not use the Service.

 

1. Other Applicable Terms of Use

 

This Agreement is in addition to End User License Agreements (each, a “EULA,” and collectively, the “EULAs”) or other terms (collectively with the EULAs, “Supplemental Terms”) provided in connection with the App, other components of our Service, or in connection with any of the products or features available through the Service. Such Supplemental Terms are incorporated herein and by agreeing to this Agreement you are agreeing to be bound by such Supplemental Terms, as they may be in effect from time to time, to the extent that you use the App, other components of our Service, or such products or features. For some components of our Service, we provide Supplemental Terms, localized for specified foreign countries or regions, that apply to such components or to customers in specified countries or regions. Those localized Supplemental Terms govern the services and the end users specified therein.

 

Lifetime Subscription Terms:

Our lifetime subscription offers users an extensive period of access, spanning 30 years from the date of activation or until the app is Active —whichever comes First. This extended duration ensures a consistent and fulfilling user experience throughout the subscription period. It's important to note that, following the initial 30-year term, users will have the option to renew their subscription at the prevailing rates, allowing them to seamlessly continue enjoying the app's features and benefits. We value your commitment and aim to provide a transparent and user-friendly experience. For more detailed information, please refer to our comprehensive terms and conditions.

 

1. Limited License to Digital Content

 

1. Subject to your complete and ongoing compliance with all the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and any applicable Supplemental Terms (including, without limitation, payment of any applicable fees, including fees for Digital Content you license), the Company grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access the Digital Content for your personal, non-commercial use. Such license does not confer on you any ownership interest in such Digital Content. Words such as “purchase” or “sale” (and similar terms, including all tenses), as applied to Digital Content (including any Digital Content the Company makes available for free), refer to the grant to you of a limited license as described herein.

 

1. We may, in our sole discretion, make available to you a DRM-Free Backup (“Backup”) of certain Digital Content. Backups are digital files without access control features designed to prevent you from copying the files to your computer or other compatible device. They are provided in addition to and not instead of the primary versions of the Digital Content to which they relate and will not have all of the features and functions (such as our proprietary Guided View reading mode) of the primary versions of the Digital Content. Backups are Digital Content for purposes of this Agreement, are provided solely for your personal, non-commercial use, may not be transferred to others, and are subject to all of the terms of this Agreement, except that you may copy Backups solely for your personal, non-commercial use. Backups may contain unique identifiers associating each Backup with your account and your download of the file from our Service. Those identifiers will not contain your personally identifiable information and will not be visible to you. In our sole discretion, we may limit the number of Backups that you download from our Service for each primary version of Digital Content.

 

1. Limitations on Use

 

1. You may not sell, rent, lease, lend, transfer, assign, sublicense, share any rights to, reproduce, distribute, publicly display or perform, modify, or prepare any derivative work based on the Service, or publish or otherwise make the Service available to others. You may not, and may not encourage, authorize, or assist others to, (a) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or in any way access or attempt to access the source code for the Service, or make or attempt to make any modification to the Service, (b) modify, defeat, interfere with, or circumvent any feature of the Service, including any security or access control mechanism, including features requiring payment of the applicable purchase price for any Digital Content, (c) attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Service or to breach any security or authentication measures, regardless of your motives or intent, (d) attempt to damage, interfere with, or disrupt the Service to any user, processor, host or network, including by submitting a virus, worm, or Trojan horse, (e) attempt to disguise the origin of any message or transmittal that you send to or through the Service, including by forging headers or otherwise manipulating identifiers, (f) pretend that you are, or that you represent, someone else or impersonate any other individual or entity, (g) intercept any system data, personal information, or other data relating to the Service, (h) remove any proprietary notices or labels on the Digital Content or other components of the Service, (i) access or use the Service for any unlawful purpose, (j) take any action that would impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our network or other infrastructure, or (k) use or launch any automated system, including any "deeplink", "page-scrape", "robot," "spider," "offline readers," or other method or system that accesses, acquires, copies, or monitors any part of the Service in a manner that sends more requests to the Company’s servers or other infrastructure in any period of time than a human being could reasonably produce in the same period of time by conventional manual means (provided that the Company grants the operators of public search engines permission to use spiders to copy materials from the Website for the sole purpose of creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials, and the Company reserves the right in its sole discretion and at any time to revoke such permission either generally or in specific cases).

 

1. The Company reserves the right to revoke your license to the Digital Content if you violate the terms of this Agreement, any applicable Supplemental Terms, or the Company cannot lawfully continue to permit such license. You acknowledge and agree that Digital Content may not be available to view, use or display under certain conditions, such as due to restrictions imposed by owners or licensors of Digital Content or if the Company or the owner or licensor of the Digital Content no longer has the legal rights necessary to authorize distribution of that Digital Content. The Company may modify or discontinue the offering of any Digital Content at any time. If a unit of Digital Content becomes unavailable before you access it but after you purchase it, your sole and exclusive remedy, and the Company’s sole and exclusive obligation, is a refund of the purchase price paid for such Digital Content. Any unauthorized use by you of the Digital Content automatically terminates the license set forth in this Agreement, without prejudice to any other remedies provided by applicable law or this Agreement.

 

1. If you are prohibited under applicable law from using the Service you may not use it.

 

1. You must be at least thirteen (13) years old to use the Service. Use of the Service by anyone under the age of thirteen (13) years old, you may only use the Service with the approval of your parents or guardian.

 

1. Use of the Service for a commercial purpose is unauthorized and unlicensed.

 

1. Intellectual Property and Other Rights

 

The Service is owned and operated by the Company. The Digital Content, software, visual interfaces, interactive elements, features, information, graphics, design, compilation, computer code, products, look and feel, and all other elements of the Service, are protected by the laws of India and other jurisdictions relating to the protection of intellectual property and proprietary rights, including copyright, patent, trade dress, and trademark laws, as well as laws relating to data protection and security. All Amar Chitra Katha Materials, including intellectual property rights therein and thereto, are the property of the Company or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies and/or third-party licensors. You may not reproduce, distribute, rent, lease, sell, license, copy, modify, publicly perform or display, transfer, transmit, publish, edit, adapt, prepare derivative works based on, or otherwise use the comiXology Materials except as expressly authorized by this Agreement. The Company reserves all rights not expressly granted in this Agreement. You shall not acquire any right, title or interest in or to the Amar Chitrakatha Materials, whether by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, except for the limited rights set forth in this Agreement.

 

1. Reporting Infringement

 

We respect the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that any content on the Service infringes your intellectual property rights, you should contact us using the information in section 25 and provide sufficient information for us to investigate the claim further.

 

If you wish to submit a notification of copyright infringement under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, please submit a written notice that includes (a) a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed, (b) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site, (c) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material, (d) information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which you may be contacted, (e) a statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law, and (f) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

 

Our agent to receive notices of claimed copyright infringement is:

 

Legal Department

 

Amar Chitra Katha Private Limited
Office no. 5017/18/19/20
1AEROCITY NIBR Corporate Park
Andheri-Kurla Road, Safed Pool Shivaji Nagar
Jaimari Sakinaka, Mumbai 400072

contact-digital@ack-media.com (subject: DMCA Notice)

 

1. Personalization

We personalize content and features as part of the Service provided in this Agreement, including by showing you recommendations on features, content and services which might be of interest to you.