Access Restrictions

  1. You will not, either on your own behalf or through any agent or third party, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, or otherwise attempt to derive or extract the source code or any portion thereof, from any API or any related software on the System, or modify or create derivative works based on any component of the System or any Documentation

  2. For example, but without limitation, you shall not yourself or through any agent or third party:

    a). Translate any code provided by API Setu or User in connection with these Terms, including without limitation for the purpose of reverse engineering or to discover the structure sequence or organization of the APIs or any portion thereof,

    b). Monitor, interfere with, or reverse engineer the technical aspects of the System

    c). Intentionally compromise the security of the System or take any action intentionally, or neglect or omit to take, any action that compromises the security of the System,

    d). Sell, lease, assign, license or sublicense or otherwise transfer the System or Documentation except as expressly authorized under these Terms, provided that you are licensed/ permitted to use the APIs made available through the System for independently developing code, software, system, portal or platform and such independently developed code, system, software, portal or platformmay be sold, leased or sublicensed by You.

    e). Collect, use, store, access or process any data, including but not limited to sensitive personal information of any User or any person using the API made available on the System without express and informed consent of the person.

  3. You shall not use the System for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms. You will comply with all Central and State laws, rules and regulations, applicable to You and your use of the System, and third party rights (including without limitation laws regarding the import or export of data or software, privacy, and local laws). You agree and undertake not to circumvent any restrictions placed by API Setu on access to the Services. You permit API Setu to monitor Your use of the APIs to ensure compliance with the terms.

  4. You will not use the APIs to encourage or promote illegal activity or violation of third party rights.

  5. Any person or entity who uses/ consumes the API provided by another User on the System shall be solely responsible to collect the consent from individuals whose data is collected, stored or processed using the API. Such person or entity shall provide the details to API Setu platform as prescribed while using APIs that provide an individual’s details. Such person or entity shall be solely liable for any consequences arising due to lack of consent, misrepresentation of consent or privacy violations and shall indemnify API Setu and the API provider from any such liability which may include but shall not be limited to damages, claims or costs.

  6. You are solely responsible for obtaining all equipment and developing or obtaining APIs required, for ensuring the compatibility thereof with the System in accordance with the documentation, for determining the suitability of said equipment and software for the purpose of using the System.

  7. You shall not host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any API, data, code or information which:

    a). Belongs to another person and to which User does not have any right to;

    b). Infringes upon or violates any third party’s rights [including, but not limited to, intellectual property rights, rights of privacy (including without limitation unauthorized disclosure of a person’s name, email address, physical, or phone number or any other personal information and sensitive personal information) or rights of publicity;

    c). Infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights or third party’s trade secrets or rights of publicity or privacy;

    d). Is misleading in any way;

    e). Is patently offensive to the online community, such as sexually explicit content, or content that promotes obscenity, paedophilia, racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;

    f). Harasses or advocates harassment of another person;

    g). Promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libellous;

    h). Promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person’s copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;

    i). Provides material that exploits people in a sexual, violent or otherwise inappropriate manner or solicits personal information from anyone;

    j). Provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone’s privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;

    k). Contains videos, photographs, or images of another person (with a minor or an adult).

    l). Tries to gain unauthorized access or exceeds the scope of authorized access to the System, or other areas of the System or solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other Users;

    m). Solicits gambling or engages in any gambling activity which, in sole discretion, believes is or could be construed as being illegal; interferes with another User’s use and enjoyment of the System or any other individual’s User and enjoyment of similar services;

    n). Refers to any website or URL that, in sole discretion, contains material that is inappropriate for the System or any other website, contains content that would be prohibited or violates the letter or spirit of these Terms of Use.

    o). Harm minors in any way;

    p). Violates any law for the time being in force;

    q). Deceives or misleads the addressee/ users about the origin of such messages or communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in nature;impersonate another person;

    r). Contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource; or contains any trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancel-bots, easter eggs or other computer programming routines that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, diminish value of, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information;

    s). 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.

    t). Is false, inaccurate or misleading;

  1. User shall not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion or feature of the System, or any other systems or networks connected to the System or to any server, computer, network, or to any of the services offered on or through the System, by hacking, password “mining” or any other illegitimate means.

  2. Unless expressly permitted, User shall not probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the System or any network connected to the System nor breach the security or authentication measures on the System or any network connected to the System. User may not reverse look-up, trace or seek to trace any information on any other User of or visitor to the System, or any other user, including any account on the System not owned by User, to its source, or exploit the System or any service or information made available or offered by or through the Platform, in any way where the purpose is to reveal any information, including but not limited to personal identification or information, other than User’s own information, as provided for by the System.

  3. User shall protect information collected, processed or stored by the Userthrough an API made available on the System and report any unauthorised access to the user.