Terms and conditions

Terms of Use

You may be accessing our (Kalpané/Company) website from a computer or mobile phone device (through an iOS or Android application, for example) (“Platform”) and these Terms of Use/Terms govern your/user’s use of our Site and your conduct, regardless of the means of access. These Terms of Use govern all the products and services offered on the Platform.

The Platform is only to be used for your personal non-commercial use and information. Your use of the services and features of the Platform shall be governed by these Terms and Conditions (hereinafter "Terms of Use") along with the Privacy Policy, Shipping and returns policy as modified and amended from time to time. By mere accessing or using the Platform, you are acknowledging, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by these Terms of Use and the Polices, whether you have read the same or not. ACCESSING, BROWSING OR OTHERWISE USING THE PLATFORM INDICATES YOUR UNCONDITIONAL AGREEMENT TO ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS IN THIS AGREEMENT, SO PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE PROCEEDING. If you do not agree to any of the terms enumerated in the Terms of Use or the Policies, please do not use the Platform. You are responsible to ensure that your access to this platform and material available on or through it are legal in each jurisdiction, in or through which you access or view the Platform or such material.

As a condition of using the site, the site requires your permission to send you administrative and promotional emails. We will send you information regarding your account activity and purchases, as well as updates about our products and promotional offers. The offers made in those promotional emails or messages shall be subject to change at the sole discretion of the Company and the Company owes no responsibility to provide you any information regarding such change. 

Privacy Practices

We understand the importance of safeguarding your personal information and we have formulated a Privacy Policy, to ensure that your personal information is sufficiently protected. Apart from these Terms of Use, the Privacy Policy shall also govern your visit and use of the Site. Your continued use of the Site implies that you have read and accepted the Privacy Policy and agree to be bound by its terms and conditions. You consent to the use of personal information by KALPANÉ in accordance with the terms of and purposes set forth in the Privacy Policy, the same may be subject to amendment from time to time at the sole discretion of KALPANÉ.

General

These Terms set forth the terms and conditions that apply to the use of this Site by the user. By using this Site, the user agrees to comply with all of the terms and conditions hereof. The right to use the Site is personal to the user and is not transferable to any other person or entity. The user shall be responsible for protecting the confidentiality of their password(s), if any. The user acknowledges that, although the internet is often a secure environment, sometimes there are interruptions in service or events that are beyond the control of the Company, and the Company shall not be responsible for any data lost while transmitting information on the internet. While it is the Company’s objective to make the Site accessible 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, the Site may be unavailable from time to time for any reason including, without limitation, routine maintenance. You understand and acknowledge that due to circumstances both within and outside of the control of the Company, access to the Site may be interrupted, suspended or terminated from time to time. KALPANÉ reserves the unilateral right to change the particulars contained in the Terms of Use or the Policies from time to time and at any time, without notice to its users and in its sole discretion. If KALPANÉ decides to change the Terms of Use or Policies, KALPANÉ will post the new version of the Terms of Use or the Policies on the Site and update the date specified above. Any change or modification to the Terms of Use and the Policies will be effective immediately from the date of such upload of the Terms of Use and Policies on the Site. Your continued use of the Platform following the modifications to the Terms of Use and Policies constitutes your acceptance of the modified Terms of Use and Policies whether or not you have read them. For this reason, you should frequently review these Terms of Use, our Guidelines and Rules and any other applicable policies, including their dates, to understand the terms and conditions that apply to your use of the Site. Further, the Company may discontinue disseminating any portion of information or category of information that may change or eliminate any transmission method or may change transmission speeds or other signal characteristics. By placing an order, you make an offer to us to purchase products, you have selected based on standard Site conditions, merchant specific conditions, and on the terms and conditions stated below. You are required to create an account or can place an order as a guest in order to purchase any product from the Site. This is required so we can provide you with easy access to print your orders and view your past purchases.

Your Account

This Site is directed to be used by adults only. We assume that any minor, if at all, accessing our Site is under the supervision of their guardians. KALPANÉ or its associates do not knowingly collect information from minors. You will be responsible for maintaining confidentiality of your account, password, and restricting access to your computer, and you hereby accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account and password. You acknowledge that the information you provide, in any manner whatsoever, are not confidential or proprietary and does not infringe any rights of a third party in whatsoever nature

If you are accessing, browsing and using the Site on someone else’s behalf; you represent that you have the authority to bind that person to all the terms and conditions herein. In the event that the person refuses to be bound as the principal to the Terms of Use, you agree to accept liability for any harm caused by any wrongful use of the Site resulting from such access or use of the Site in whatsoever nature

If you know or have reasons to believe that the security of your account has been breached, you should contact us immediately. If we have found a breach or suspected breach of the security of your account, we may require you to change your password, temporarily or permanently block or suspend your account without any liability to KALPANÉ.

We reserve the right to refuse service and/or terminate accounts without prior notice if these Terms of Use are violated or if we decide, in our sole discretion, that it would be in KALPANÉ’s best interests to do so. You are solely responsible for all contents that you upload, post, email or otherwise transmit via the Site. The information provided to us shall be maintained by us in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

Product & Services Information

KALPANÉ attempts to be as accurate as possible in the description of the product on the Platform. However, KALPANÉ does not warrant that the product description, colour, information or other content of the platform is accurate, complete, reliable, current or error-free. The Site may contain typographical errors or inaccuracies and may not be complete or current. The product pictures are indicative and may not match the actual product.

KALPANÉ reserves the right to correct, change or update information, errors, inaccuracies or omissions at any time (including after an order has been submitted) without prior notice. Please note that such errors, inaccuracies or omissions may also relate to pricing and availability of the product or services.

Recommendation of the Product & Services

Any recommendation made to you in the Site during the course of your use of the Site is purely for informational purposes and for your convenience and does not amount to endorsement of the product or services by KALPANÉ or any of its associates in any manner.

Reviews, Comments and Feedback

While we may invite or allow users to provide the KALPANÉ with feedbacks, comments or even suggestions either on the Site or via emails/messages etc., these comments, feedback or suggestions should not be contradictory to these Terms or be in violation of any applicable laws.

We reserve the right to delete or block any message/email which is in violation of these Terms or applicable law. Further, KALPANÉ also reserves the right to suspend or deny your access to the Site in such a scenario. Any messages/emails with feedback, comments or suggestions become the property of the KALPANÉ and you may not claim intellectual property protection on such ideas. This implies, the Company reserves the right to exploit exclusively the views/ideas provided by you.

Pricing Information

KALPANÉ strives to provide accurate product and pricing information, however errors may occur. KALPANÉ cannot confirm the price of the product until you make the order. If a product / service is listed at an incorrect price or with incorrect information due to any technical error, KALPANÉ shall have the right, at its sole discretion, to refuse or cancel any orders placed for that product/ service, unless the product has already been delivered or the service has already been availed by you. In the event that an item is wrongly priced, KALPANÉ may, at its discretion, either contact you for instructions or cancel your order and notify you of such cancellation. Unless the product ordered by you has been delivered and the services are availed, your offer will not be deemed accepted and KALPANÉ will have the right to modify the price of the product/ service and contact you for further instructions using the e-mail address provided by you during the time of registration or placing of order, or cancel the order and notify you of such cancellation. In the event that KALPANÉ accepts your order the same shall be debited to your credit card/ debit card account and duly notified to you by email that the payment has been processed. The payment may be processed prior to KALPANÉ dispatch of the product that you have ordered. If we have to cancel the order after we have processed the payment, the said amount will be reversed to your credit / debit card account.

PRICES AND AVAILABILITY OF THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES PROVIDED OR OFFERRED ON THE SITE ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE AND AT THE SOLE DISCRETION OF KALPANÉ.

KALPANÉ may revise and cease to make available any product/ services at anytime. In the event, KALPANÉ is unable to deliver the product to you on time or at all, you will be notified by an e-mail and your order will be automatically cancelled due to unavailability of the product or at your instructions due to failure to deliver the product on the expected time of delivery by our delivery partners. KALPANÉ shall not be liable to pay for any damages in such an event owing to cancellation of the order or delay in delivery.

Cancellations, Refunds and Returns

Please refer to our Shipping and returns Policy provided on our Site.

Mode of Payment

Payments for the products available on the Site may be made in the following ways:

  • Payments can be made by Credit Cards, Debit Cards, Net Banking, Wallets.
  • Credit card, Debit Card and Net Banking payment options are instant payment options and recommended to ensure faster processing of your order.
  • Cash On Delivery option is not available for orders outside India.

Chat Functionality

The chat functionality has been provided to help you with any and all Site related queries. Any use of this service shall be subject to the following conditions:

  • KALPANÉ may suspend the chat service at any time without notice.
  • KALPANÉ or its executives are not responsible for any delay caused in attending to or replying to the queries via chat.
  • Communication through chat may be stored by KALPANÉ for future reference, and the user of such service will not have the right to access such information at any future date.
  • While 'chatting' you may not communicate any objectionable information i.e. unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene information.
  • The chat room shall not be used to sell any products, to give suggestion on business opportunity or any other form of solicitation.
  • You may proceed further and chat with our online customer care executive only if you agree to the above terms and conditions.
Electronic Communications

When you use the Site or send emails or other data, information or communication to us, you agree and understand that you are communicating with us through electronic records and you consent to receive communications via electronic records from us periodically and as and when required. We will communicate with you by Email/SMS/Call/WhatsApp or by an electronic record on our Site which will be deemed adequate service of notice / electronic record.

User Content

The information, photo, image, chat communication, text, software, data, music, sound, graphics, messages, videos or other materials transmitted, uploaded, posted, emailed or otherwise made available to us ("User Content"), are entirely your responsibility and we will not be held responsible, in any manner whatsoever, in connection to the User Content. You agree to not encourage or assist or engage others as well as yourself in transmitting, hosting, displaying, uploading, modifying, publishing transmitting, updating or sharing any information that

  1. belongs to another person and to which the user does not have any right to;
  2. is grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous defamatory, obscene, pornographic, pedophilic, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating or encouraging money laundering or gambling, trolling, propaganda or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatever;
  3. harm minors in any way;
  4. infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights;
  5. violates any law for the time being in force;
  6. deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of such messages or communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in nature;
  7. impersonate another person;
  8. contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource;
  9. threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign states, or public order or causes incitement to the commission of any cognizable offence or prevents investigation of any offence or is insulting any other nation.

KALPANÉ shall in no way be held responsible for examining or evaluating User Content, nor does it assume any responsibility or liability for the User Content. KALPANÉ does not endorse or control the User Content transmitted or posted on the Site by you and therefore, accuracy, integrity or quality of User Content is not guaranteed by KALPANÉ. You understand that by using the Site, you may be exposed to User Content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable to you. Under no circumstances will KALPANÉ be liable in any way for any User Content, including without limitation, for any errors or omissions in any User Content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred by you as a result of the use of any User Content transmitted, uploaded, posted, e-mailed or otherwise made available via the Site. You hereby waive all rights to any claims against KALPANÉ for any alleged or actual infringements of any proprietary rights, rights of privacy and publicity, moral rights, and rights of attribution in connection with User Content.

You hereby acknowledge that KALPANÉ has the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion to refuse to post or remove any User Content and further reserves the right to change, condense, or delete any User Content. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing or any other provision of these Terms and Conditions, KALPANÉ has the right to remove any User Content that violates these Terms and Conditions or is otherwise objectionable and further reserves the right to refuse service and/or terminate accounts without prior notice for any users who violate these Terms and Conditions or infringe the rights of others.

If you wish to delete your User Content on our Site or in connection with our mobile applications, please contact us by e-mail and request you to include the following personal information in your deletion request: first name, last name, user name/screen name (if applicable), email address associated with our Site and/or mobile applications, your reason for deleting the posting, and date(s) of posting(s) you wish to delete (if you have it). We may not be able to process your deletion request if you are unable to provide such information to us. Please allow up to 30 business days to process your deletion request.

Intellectual Property Rights

The "KALPANÉ" name and logo and all related product and service names, design marks and slogans are the trademarks. All other Marks provided on the Site are the property of their respective owners. No trademark or service mark license is granted in connection with the materials contained on this Site. Access to this Site does not authorize anyone to use any Marks in any manner. Marks displayed on this Site, whether registered or unregistered, of KALPANÉ or others, are the intellectual property of their respective owners, and KALPANÉ shall not be held liable in any manner whatsoever for any unlawful, unauthorized use of the Marks.

KALPANÉ expressly and exclusively reserve all the intellectual property rights in all text, programs, products, processes, technology, content, software and other materials, which appear on this Site, including its looks and feel. The compilation (meaning the collection, arrangement and assembly) of the content on the Site is the exclusive property of KALPANÉ and is protected by the Indian copyright laws and international treaties. Consequently, the materials on this Site shall not be copied, reproduced, duplicated, republished, downloaded, posted, transmitted, distributed or modified in whole or in part or in any other form whatsoever, except for your personal, non-commercial use only. No right, title or interest in any downloaded materials or software is transferred to you as a result of any such downloading or copying, reproducing, duplicating, republishing, posting, transmitting, distributing or modifying.

All materials, including images, text, illustrations, designs, icons, photographs, programs, downloads, and written and other materials that are part of this Site (collectively, the "Contents") are intended solely for personal, non-commercial use. You may download or copy the Contents and other downloadable materials displayed on the Site for your personal use only. We also grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable, and non-exclusive license to create a hyperlink to the home page of the Site for personal, non-commercial use only. The Contents and software on this Site are to be used only as a shopping resource. Any other use, including the reproduction, modification, distribution, transmission, re-publication, display, or performance, of the Contents on this Site is strictly prohibited. Unless KALPANÉ explicitly provides to the contrary, all Contents are copyrighted, trademarked, trade dressed and/or other intellectual property owned, controlled or licensed by KALPANÉ, any of its affiliates or by third parties who have licensed their materials to KALPANÉ and are protected by Indian copyright laws and international treaties.

Limited License

KALPANÉ grants you limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access, and make personal and non-commercial use of the Site. All rights not expressly granted to you in these Terms of Use, are reserved and retained by the Site and its affiliates. KALPANÉ reserves the right, at any time, without notice, and at its sole discretion, to terminate your license to use the Site and to block and prevent your future access the Site.

Disclaimer of Warranty and Limitations of Liability

The site is presented "as is." neither we nor our affiliates, partners, or anyone else makes any representations or warranties of any kind whatsoever, express or implied, in connection with these terms and conditions or the site or any of the content, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, non-infringement or fitness for a particular purpose, except to the extent such representations and warranties are not legally excludable.

You agree that, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, neither we nor our directors, shareholders, partners, agents, affiliates, etc. will be responsible or liable (whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise) under any circumstances for any (a) interruption of business; (b) access delays or access interruptions to the site; (c) data non-delivery, loss, theft, mis delivery, corruption, destruction or other modification; (d) loss or damages of any sort incurred as a result of dealings with or the presence of off-website links on the site; (e) viruses, system failures or malfunctions which may occur in connection with your use of the site, including during hyperlink to or from third party websites; (f) any inaccuracies or omissions in content; or (g) events beyond the reasonable control of Kalpané. We make no representations or warranties that defects or errors will be corrected.

Further, to the fullest extent permitted by law, neither we nor our directors, shareholders, partners, agents, affiliates, etc.  will be liable for any indirect, special, punitive, incidental, or consequential damages of any kind (including lost profits) related to the site or your use thereof regardless of the form of action whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages and in no event shall our maximum aggregate liability exceed.

You agree that no claims or action arising out of, or related to, the use of the site or these terms and conditions may be brought by you more than one (1) year after the cause of action relating to such claim or action arose. If you have a dispute with us or are dissatisfied with the site, termination of your use of the site is your sole remedy. We have no other obligation, liability, or responsibility to you.

This disclaimer constitutes an essential part of this Terms of Use.

Termination

These Terms of Use are effective unless and until terminated by either you or KALPANÉ.

You may terminate the Terms of Use at any time, provided that you discontinue any further use of this Site. KALPANÉ may terminate the Terms of Use at any time and may do so without notice, and accordingly deny you access to the Site, such termination will be without any liability to the Site.

Upon any termination of the Terms of Use by either you or KALPANÉ, you must promptly destroy all materials downloaded or otherwise obtained from this Site, as well as all copies of such materials, whether made under the Terms of Use or otherwise. Any such termination of the Terms of Use shall not cancel your obligation to pay for the product already ordered from the Site or affect any liability that may have arisen under the Terms of Use.

Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless KALPANÉ, its employees, directors, officers, agents and their successors and assigns, its holding, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, or licensors from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs and expenses, including attorney's fees, caused by or arising out of claims based upon your actions or inactions, which may result in any loss or liability to KALPANÉ or any third party including but not limited to breach of any warranties, representations or undertakings or in relation to the non-fulfillment of any of your obligations under the Terms of Use, or arising out of the your violation of any applicable laws, regulations including but not limited to Intellectual Property Rights, payment of statutory dues and taxes, claim of libel, defamation, violation of rights of privacy or publicity, loss of service by other subscribers and infringement of intellectual property or other rights. This clause shall survive the expiry or termination of the Terms of Use.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

The Terms of Use and the Policies shall be construed in accordance with the applicable laws of India. For proceedings arising therein, the courts at New Delhi shall have exclusive jurisdiction.

Any dispute or difference either in interpretation or otherwise, of the Terms of Use and other Policies on the Site, between the parties hereto, shall be referred to an independent arbitrator who will be appointed by mutually and his decision shall be final and binding on the parties hereto. The above arbitration shall be in accordance with the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 as amended from time to time. The seat and venue of arbitration shall be held in New Delhi.

For disputes relating to orders outside India, the Indian Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 shall continue to apply. The seat and venue of international arbitration shall be in New Delhi.

Site Security

You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the Site, including, without limitation,

  1. accessing data not intended for you or logging onto a server or an account which you are not authorized to access;
  2. attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization;
  3. attempting to interfere with service to any other user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to the Site, overloading, "flooding," "spamming," "mail bombing" or "crashing;"
  4. sending unsolicited email, including promotions and/or advertising of products or services; or
  5. forging any header or any part of the header information in any email or newsgroup posting. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability

KALPANÉ is entitled to investigate occurrences that may involve such violations and may involve, and co-operate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who are involved in such violations. You agree not to use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of this Site or any activity being conducted on this Site. You agree, further, not to use or attempt to use any engine, software, tool, agent or other device or mechanism (including without limitation browsers, spiders, robots, avatars or intelligent agents) to navigate or search this Site other than the search engine and search agents available from KALPANÉ on this Site and other than generally available third-party web browsers (e.g., Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Explorer).

Force Majeure

In case of the emergence of an event, which is beyond our reasonable control or which could not have been foreseen under any circumstances, such as storms, tsunami, fire, floods, earthquake, outbreak of any contagious diseases, pandemic, or any other acts of God or any governmental body act or industrial dispute(s), strikes, labour unrest, civil commotion, riots, terrorist attack, war, poor environment/weather conditions, mechanical break-down, obstruction of any public or private road/highway, etc., We will not be held liable for any loss or failure to perform any obligation under these Terms.

Entire Agreement

If any part of these Terms of Use is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed to be superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the Terms of Use shall continue to be in effect. Unless otherwise specified herein, these Terms of Use constitutes the entire agreement between you and KALPANÉ with respect to the Site/services and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written. KALPANÉ 's failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive its right to act with respect to the breach or subsequent and similar breaches.