Terms of Service

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your use of our website located at https://dudepro.app/ and/or the DudePro mobile application (collectively, the “Platform”) made available by (“DudePro”, “Company”, “we”, “us” and “our”), a private company established under the laws of India. The terms “you” and “your” refer to the user of the Platform.

These Terms are to be read with the DudePro Terms and conditions https://www.dudepro.app/privacy-policy/ and https://www.dudepro.app/content-community-guidelines/, If you do not agree with the terms and conditions of these Terms, please do not use this Platform.

Our Services (as we have described below in detail) and these Terms are compliant with the Indian Penal Code, 1860, and Information Technology Act, 2000, including all amendments made to it and rules framed under it. When you create an account on our Platform or use our Platform or any of our Services, you accept and agree to these Terms. However, please note that we do not represent that we are compliant with laws of any country apart from the Republic of India. If you wish to use our Services, please ensure that you are permitted to do so, in your jurisdiction.

You and we are required to follow certain rules while you use our Platform. We have listed these rules in these Terms. Please read these Terms and all other hyperlinks mentioned here carefully. Do remember that by using our Platform, you agree to these Terms. Also, if you are using these services outside India, please comply with your local laws.

CHANGES TO TERMS AND SERVICES

Our Platform is dynamic and may change rapidly. As such, we may change the services we provide at our discretion. We may temporarily, or permanently, stop providing Services or any features to you generally. We may remove or add functionalities to our Platform and Services without any notice. However, if we make a change where your consent is required, we will make sure to ask for it. Please be sure to keep visiting this page from time to time to stay updated on our latest changes and developments. Visit this page to see any changes that we may make and services that we may add or modify, from time to time.

WHO MAY USE OUR SERVICES

Our Platform helps you stay in touch with your friends and enables you to share images, videos, music, status updates, and more in your preferred regional language. We understand your preferred content and personalize your newsfeed to show you posts, pictures, videos, and suggest content available on our Platform (“Service/Services”). You may use our Services only if you are capable of forming a binding agreement with us and are legally permitted to use our Services. If you are accepting these Terms on behalf of a company or any legal persons, then you represent and warrant that you have the authority to bind such entity to these Terms and effectively “you” and “your” shall refer to the company. Please ensure that you are allowed to use our services under the law.

HOW TO USE OUR SERVICES

We have developed a unique platform. Our Services are available exclusively in regional languages. We strive to give you personalized content and show you content that you will enjoy. We also allow you to download content that is available on our Platform and share your DudePro experience across social media platforms. To use our Services, you must register on our Platform by entering your phone number and the One-Time-Password sent by us via SMS to your phone number. When you register with us using the DudePro mobile application, you also allow us to read your mobile device access your mobile gallery, mobile device storage, and mobile device camera. However, we do not read any information stored on your mobile device and computer without your permission. In order to provide Services to you, we need to access your certain features of your mobile device.

PRIVACY POLICY

To effectively provide and introduce any new Services to you, we collect certain information such as your phone number, your gender, your email, your profile pic and your name from you. We may further request and store additional information. Such information is stored securely on Linode servers or amazon web services or “AWS” cloud servers and the “Google Cloud Platform” cloud servers, thereby also subject to the terms of the Linode, AWS and Google Cloud privacy policy. The DudePro Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share and store the information collected. The DudePro Privacy Policy also details your rights under law and how you may control the data you provide us.

We collect information from third party sources such as Google and Facebook. If you log in to DudePro using Facebook we receive the following information:

  • Facebook username
  • Email Address
  • Facebook profile picture

If you log in to DudePro using Google we receive the following information:

  • Name
  • Email Address
  • Profile picture

You provide us with some information about yourself so that we can serve you better. We have described how we store and use this information in the DudePro Privacy Policy.

YOUR COMMITMENTS

Providing a safe Service for a broad community requires that we all do our part. In return for our commitment to provide our Services, we require you to make some commitments to us. Your commitments to us are:

  • No Impersonation or False Information to be Provided:

    While you do not have to use your actual name on our Platform, you are required to input your correct phone number and gender to use our Services. You will not falsely represent yourself as another person or representative of another person to use our Services. You will not lie about your details, including your age, for any reason.

  • Device Security:

    We have implemented measures to ensure that our Platform is secure. However, there is no guarantee that our Platform is immune to hacking and virus attacks. You will ensure that you have requisite anti-malware and antivirus software on your mobile device and computer to ensure its safety. You will not allow any person to use your phone number, and not allow multiple accounts to be linked to your phone number. You will be responsible for all content posted by any account linked to your phone number. While we do everything we can to secure your use of our Services, keep in mind that we cannot contemplate all forms of attack on our Platform. You should, as a matter of practice, ensure that your mobile device and computer are not used wrongly or tampered with in any way.

  • Content Removal and Termination:

    Your usage of our Platform is governed by the DudePro Content and Community Guidelines. If any of our users report your content to be against the DudePro Content Community Guidelines, we may remove such content from our Platform. In the event that multiple reports are made regarding violation of the DudePro Content and Community Guidelines, we may be compelled to terminate your account with us and block you from registering with us. If you wish to appeal any such removal, you may write to us at [email protected]. We may remove any content that is shared on our Platform if such content is prohibited under the DudePro Content and Community Guidelines.

  • Platform Not to be Used For Anything Unlawful or Illegal:

    Our Platform is designed to accommodate a multiplicity of languages and cultures, as well as a diverse range of contents. To this effect, we have rules for what content can and cannot be shared on our Platform. Any posting of content that is defamatory, pornographic, abusive, libelous, threatening, obscene, encouraging money laundering or gambling, or violates any law is not allowed. While the content you upload is yours, you must ensure that it abides by the DudePro Content and Community Guidelines and does not constitute any of the prohibited content described above. You cannot use our Platform to host any content that may be construed as being unlawful. If we find you doing that, we may terminate your account immediately. You shall not host, display, upload, download, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any information which:

    • belongs to another person and to which you do not have any right;
    • is grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatever;
    • harm minors in any way;
    • infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights;
    • violates any law for the time being in force;
    • deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of such messages or communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in nature;
    • impersonates another person;
    • contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource;
    • threatens the unity, integrity, defense, 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;
    • is misleading or known to be false in any way.
  • License:

    We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable license to use our Services subject to these Terms and our policies.

  • Intellectual Property:

    Other than the content you own, DudePro and/or its licensors own all the intellectual property rights and materials contained in this Platform. You are granted a limited license only for the purposes of viewing the material contained on this Platform.

  • Restrictions:

    You are specifically restricted from all of the following:

    • Publishing any Platform material in any other media without our prior consent;
    • Selling, sublicensing and/or otherwise commercializing any Platform material;
    • Publicly performing and/or showing any Platform material without our prior consent;
    • Using this Platform in any way that is or may be damaging to this Platform;
    • Using this Platform in any way that impacts user access to this Platform;
    • Using this Platform contrary to applicable laws and regulations, or in any way may cause harm to the Platform, or to any person or business entity;
    • Engaging in any data mining, data harvesting, data extracting or any other similar activity in relation to this Platform;
    • Using this Platform to engage in any advertising or marketing without our prior consent.

CONTENT REMOVAL AND TERMINATION

If any of our users report your content to be against the DudePro Content Community Guidelines, we may remove such content from our Platform. In the event that multiple reports are made regarding the violation of the DudePro Content and Community Guidelines, we may be compelled to terminate your account with us and block you from registering with us. If you wish to appeal any such removal, you may write to us at [email protected]. We may remove any content that is shared on our Platform if such content is prohibited under the DudePro Content and Community Guidelines.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

In no event shall DudePro, nor any of its officers, directors and employees, shall be held liable for anything arising out of or in any way connected with your use of this Platform whether such liability is under contract. DudePro, including its officers, directors and employees shall not be held liable for any indirect, consequential or special liability arising out of or in any way related to your use of this Platform.

INDEMNIFICATION

You hereby indemnify to the fullest extent DudePro from and against any and all liabilities, costs, demands, causes of action, damages and expenses (including reasonable attorney’s fees) arising out of or in any way related to your breach of any of the provisions of these Terms.

SEVERABILITY

If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid under any applicable law, such provisions shall be deleted without affecting the remaining provisions herein.

VARIATION OF TERMS

DudePro is permitted to revise these Terms at any time as it sees fit, and by using this Platform you are expected to review these Terms on a regular basis.

ASSIGNMENT

The DudePro is allowed to assign, transfer, and subcontract its rights and/or obligations under these Terms without any notification. However, you are not allowed to assign, transfer, or subcontract any of your rights and/or obligations under these Terms.

ENTIRE AGREEMENT

These Terms constitute the entire agreement between DudePro and you in relation to your use of this Platform, and supersede all prior agreements and understandings.

GOVERNING LAW & JURISDICTION

These Terms will be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Karnataka, and you submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Karnataka for the resolution of any disputes.