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. In the event you are operating a parody account for satirical or comedic purposes, you must state the same in your Rooter bio.

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 anti-virus 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.

Your usage of our Platform is governed by the Rooter Content and Community Guidelines. If any of our users report your content to be against the Rooter Content Community Guidelines, we may remove such content from our Platform. In the event that multiple reports are made regarding violation of the Rooter 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 support@rooter.io.

Our Platform is designed to accommodate a multiplicity of languages and cultures, as well as a diverse range of sports content. To this effect, we have developed various tags to classify the nature of the content. You must therefore, correctly identify the nature of the content shared by you and tag it appropriately. All mature content, including any violent content, is prohibited on `Rooter.

You shall not, however, use our Platform to share any content which is obscene, pornographic, harmful to minors, discriminatory, spreading hate speech, inciting any form of violence or hatred against any persons, or of seditious in nature, or violates any laws of the Republic of India, or is barred from being shared by any laws of the Republic of India. We reserve the right to remove such content. Please read the Rooter Content and Community Guidelines for further details.

In addition to the above, please note that we may share your information with appropriate law enforcement authorities if we have good-faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to share your personal data or information in order to comply with any legal obligation or any government request; or to protect the rights or prevent any harm to our property or safety, our customers, or the public; or to detect, prevent or otherwise address public safety, fraud, security or technical issues.You understand however, that we cannot be held responsible for any actions done by or to you by a third party or user by way of using our Platform.

We strongly believe in the freedom of expression and allow you to share photographs, images, videos, music, status updates, and other content on our Platform. We do not have any ownership over any of the content shared by you and the rights in the content remain only with you. You will not use our Platform to violate or infringe upon our or any third-party’s intellectual property rights. Such content is against Rooter Content and Community Guidelines and may be removed from the Platform. Further, if you use any content developed by us, then we shall continue to own the intellectual property rights in such content.

By sharing/posting/uploading content using our Services, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to host, use, combine, edit, distribute, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content (consistent with your privacy and application settings). You may delete your content and/or account at any point. However, your content may continue to appear on the Platform if it has been shared with others. To learn more about how we use information, and how to control or delete your content, please read the Rooter Privacy Policy.

You remain solely responsible for the content you post on our Platform. We do not endorse and are not responsible for any content shared or posted on or through our Platform, and for the consequence of such sharing or posting. The presence of our logo or any trademark on any content shared by you does not mean that we have endorsed or sponsored your content. Further, we will not be liable for or responsible for the consequences of any transactions made or entered into by you with other users of the Platform.

We are an intermediary under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the Information Technology Act (Intermediary Guidelines) Rules, 2011. These Terms are published in accordance with the provisions of Rule 3(1) of the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011 that require publishing of the rules and regulations, Rooter Privacy Policy, and Rooter Terms of Use for accessing and using our Platform. Our role is limited to providing a platform to display the content shared by you and our other users.

We do not control what people do or say and are not responsible for their (or your) actions (whether online or offline). We are not responsible for services and features offered by others, even if you access them through our Services. Our responsibility for anything that happens on our Platform is strictly governed by the laws of the Republic of India and is limited to that extent. You agree that we will not be responsible for any loss of profits, revenues, information, or data, or consequential, special, indirect, exemplary, punitive, or incidental damages arising out of or related to these Terms, even if we know they are possible. This includes when we delete your content, information, or account.

We have developed a community-driven platform. Therefore, you agree to not interfere with, or use non-public areas of our Platform, Services, and our technical delivery system. You will not introduce any trojans, viruses, any other malicious software, any bots or scrape our Platform for any user information. Additionally, you will not probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any system, security or authentication measures implemented by us. If you tamper or attempt to tamper with our technological design and architecture, we may terminate your user profile. We may further report such actions to the appropriate law enforcement authorities and proceed against you with legal actions.

While our Platform is a freely accessible and usable platform, we need to generate revenue so that we can keep offering you our Services for free. Pursuant to this, we may share your user name and gender, and any data that we may collect relating to your usage habits and patterns on our Platform to show you any sponsored content or advertisements. We will not, however, be liable to pay you any revenue share if you purchase any products advertised to you. We do not endorse any products or vouch for the authenticity of the products. Merely advertising of products by the users on our Platform does not amount to an endorsement by us.

If we share any sensitive personal information such as your race, caste, or health information, biometrics etc., we will ask you for your consent prior to sharing the same. Ad revenue helps us keep improving and providing our Platform and Services for free. To generate such revenue, we need to share certain information about the demographics and usage pattern of the users on Platform with third parties.

We are constantly updating our Platform and Services offered. To use our Platform, you may need to download the Rooter mobile application to your mobile device and update it from time to time.

We may use cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, mobile device IDs, flash cookies and similar files or technologies to collect and store information with respect to your use of the Services and third-party websites. Please see the Rooter Cookie Policy for more information regarding the use of cookies and other technologies described in this section, including regarding your choices relating to such technologies.

We shall have the right to retain certain information regarding your usage of the Platform. Please view the Rooter Privacy Policy for further information relating to the collection, storage and use of your information by us.

The rights and obligations under these terms are granted only to you and shall not be assigned to any third party without our consent. However, we are permitted to assign our rights and obligations under these Terms to others. This can happen when, for example, we enter into a merger with another company and create a new company.

In all cases, you agree that disputes will be subject to the laws of the Republic of India and the courts of Bangalore shall have exclusive jurisdiction over all such disputes.

We have a Grievance Officer to address your concerns regarding data safety, privacy, and Platform usage concerns. We will resolve the issues raised by you within 30 (thirty) days from receiving them. You may contact the Grievance Officer at any of the following:

Address: Rooter Sports, 55 Community Center, East Of Kailash, New Delhi - 10065

Office Hours: 10:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M.

Email: support@rooter.io

Phone No: 011-41000922

A.If any aspect of these Terms is unenforceable, the rest will remain in effect.

B.Any amendment or waiver to our Terms must be in writing and signed by us.

C.If we fail to enforce any aspect of these Terms, including reporting any illegal or impermissible actions to appropriate law enforcement authorities or blocking or suspending your profile, such failure to enforce our rights will not be a waiver by us.

D.We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.

All the content, including without limitation, content that is uploaded, posted, commented on, or shared by you on our Platform, must adhere to the laws of the Republic of India, including without limitation, the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and, the Information Technology Act, 2000 along with all rules and amendments made under such laws. We cooperate with legal authorities in cases of breach of applicable laws.

We do not allow content that has any kind of sexual imagery, even if it is posted for artistic value, educational purposes, awareness, protest, humour or satirical purposes. Content which contains the following is against these Guidelines:

1. sexually explicit, pornographic or nude material or images/videos that expose private parts (sexual organs)
2. videos or images of people in compromising positions or those with sexual or fetish or erotic intent
3. sextortion or revenge pornography
4. Bestiality or zoophilia
5. content that exploits or endangers any person (for example, listing of phone numbers, or posting of pictures encouraging or soliciting prostitution or escort services)
6. child pornography (including without limitation, creation, transmission or browsing of child pornography) or
7. content on rape, gangrape and molestation.

Try to ignore any content that you may find petty and annoying. But do report any content that harasses another person or degrades or shames anyone.

Posting abuses or curse words, morphed images, malicious recordings, objectifying someone, making sexual advances or otherwise engaging in sexual misconduct will not be tolerated. Similarly, extorting or blackmailing any person is prohibited. If someone blocks you from their account, do not try to contact them from another account.

If, however, a matter involves a critical discussion of people featured in the news or who have a large public audience, we may allow it.

Paintings, posters, photographs, advertisements, poems, limericks, sound recordings, musical compositions, lectures, articles, tele-series, movies, online videos, video games, computer software, plays, musicals, brands, affiliations, and other similar content, all are subject to intellectual property protection.

Copying content whose intellectual property rights are held by another person or organisation, and posting it as your own, is not allowed. If you want to reshare some content from within the Platform, do not remove attributions, watermarks and original captions. Also, please take permission and give due credits to your fellow user who creates such content by mentioning their name.

This includes all content that causes discomfort to our users due to the goriness in the content, such as graphical images or videos that glorify violence, or intends to incite violence, or encourages dangerous and illegal activities, or praises groups or leaders involved in terrorism, organized violence or criminal activities.

Content that intimidates any person or promotes violent behaviour, targets or demeans any particular religion, caste, ethnicity, community, disability (physical or mental), age or gender, is prohibited. Any kind of content which produces hatred or has the intention of creating or spreading hatred or hate propaganda along the lines of religion, caste, ethnicity, community, age or gender is also not allowed.

Refrain from incendiary commentary and publishing theories that may appall our users and influence them negatively.

Posting any content that relates to physical, sexual, or psychological maltreatment, neglect or abuse of a person, be it that of a child or an adult, is prohibited. Posts showcasing self-harm, injury or suicide or provoking anyone to commit self-harm are also not allowed. Further, posts that identify, tag and negatively target victims or survivors of abuse, self-injury or domestic or similar violence are also prohibited.

We have zero-tolerance for content or activities that advocate or promote illegal activities. Content related to organized crime, violence or terrorist activities is not allowed. Sale of illegal goods or services, regulated goods, drugs, and soliciting or selling of sexual services is strictly forbidden.

Do not post tutorials or instructions on content that educates the users on illegal activities (such as making bombs or doing drugs). Do not use our Platform to solicit or facilitate any transaction or gift involving goods and services which are declared illegal by the Government of India

Impersonating another person (such as your friends, celebrities or brands) and distributing false or misleading information on our Platform to make personal or financial gains is fraud.

Any kind of personal content of another person, including pictures or videos of people who will not appreciate such material being posted, is not allowed. Basically, do not post anyone’s personal or intimate photos or videos without their permission or consent. We will remove such content without question.

Revealing someone’s personal data or sensitive personal data, including without limitation, phone number, address, financial information, Aadhar Number, and Passport information, or threatening someone using this information, will be considered as harassing them, and such activities are unacceptable.

False advertisements, fraudulent or misleading representations and security breaches, all fall under the ambit of commercial spam. They deter other users from sharing and connecting. It is important that the content you share be authentic and help create a safe environment for people to post on the Platform. Do not post the same content multiple times if it intends to annoy viewers or sell goods/services or gain followers.

If you want to promote your goods or services, do so in a civilized manner adhering to our Content Marketing Policies.

Any kind of content which spreads deliberate misinformation, hoaxes or fake propaganda, with the intent to mislead, is not permitted. We prohibit the posting of content that exaggerates an existing piece of news by introducing non-factual elements into it.

If you intend to mislead our users or attempt to create a sensation by straight-up fabricating content, or attempt to damage someone’s reputation, or hurt their financial or political standing on the basis of false information, we will not let it spread on our Platform.

Don’t worry though. We don’t confuse fake news with any satire or parodies. We know they are to amuse, and not to mislead.

All posts should be tagged with the most appropriate tag. If such a tag doesn’t exist, then please reach out to the team and we will create one. Any content posted with an irrelevant or inapplicable tag, if reported, will be removed from the feed.

Rooter is a very active platform. Many posts go up, many discussions take place. Make sure that any content that you post, and any discussion you participate in, relates to the caption and tags of the post. Content that does not relate to the captions or tags, or is unreasonable for a particular post, will be removed. Don’t go off-track.

We expect you to conduct yourself with integrity and harmoniously on our Platform. Show courtesy and respect to fellow users. Don’t be rude. We advise you to not initiate or participate in any activity which is not in good faith for the community at large.

Creating a fake profile of someone or impersonating someone in a misleading or deceiving manner, with or without the intention of harassing or bullying them, is not allowed. Community profiles, informative profiles and fan profiles of public figures may be allowed. Satire or parody accounts of public figures are acceptable if it has been clearly mentioned in the profile description or profile status.

Rooter is a multilingual platform. Certain words that may seem acceptable to you, when translated to another tongue, may become offensive. We do not ask that you translate and test every post into all the different languages. All we ask is that you weigh your words carefully. Content that contains profanity that is used to insult, antagonize or inflame other users will be held for review. Depending on the context of the post, it may be removed.

Harassing someone or using abuses in the posts or comments while addressing a user is not allowed. Do not do anything which can make any other users feel that Rooter is not a safe platform to use. Action will be taken against you if you try to create hostile situations for any other user.

Unawareness of law is not an excuse. Note that for using our Platform, you will need to comply with laws that govern online conduct. Respect all applicable laws while using our Platform. Any activity featuring, encouraging, offering or soliciting illegal activities will not be tolerated.

Our decision to suspend any account is binding. Any attempt to circumvent the suspension by using other accounts, identities, personalities or presence on another user's account will also result in suspension. If you try to evade suspension, we may be compelled to terminate your account with us and block you from registering with us.