Thank you for using lekhafoods.comThis policy helps you to understand what information we collect, how we use it, and what choices you have regarding your information. Because we're an Internet company, some of the concepts below are a little technical, but we've tried our best to explain things in a simple and clear way. We welcome your questions and comments on this policy.

What information do we collect?

We collect information in two ways:

1) When you give it to us or give us permission to obtain it.

When you sign up, you voluntarily give us certain information. This can include your name, profile photo, comments, likes, email address you used to sign up, and any other information you provide us. If you're using lekhafoods.com on your mobile device, you can also choose to provide us with location data.

You also may give us permission to access your information in other services – for example, you may link your Facebook or Twitter account to lekhafoods.com, which allows us to obtain information from those accounts (e.g., your friends or contacts). The information we obtain from those services often depends on your settings or their privacy policies, so be sure to check what those are.

We may also collect information about the pages on our site you visit/access, the links you click on the Sites and the number of times you access pages.

2) We get technical information.

These days, whenever you use a website, mobile application, or other Internet service, there's certain information that almost always gets created and recorded in an automated way. The same is true when you use our website, and here are some of the types of information we collect in this way:

Log Data. When you use lekhafoods.com, our servers automatically record information about your interaction with our website ("log data"), including information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website or your mobile app sends when you use it to access lekhafoods.com. This log data may include your Internet Protocol address, the address of the web page you were visiting before you came to lekhafoods.com, browser type and settings, the date and time of your request, and how you used lekhafoods.com.

Depending on how you're accessing our website, we may use "cookies", unique to your lekhafoods account or your browser, or similar technologies to record log data. When we use cookies, we may use "session" cookies, that last until you close your browser or "persistent" cookies that last until you or your browser delete them. For example, we may use cookies to store your language preferences or other settings so you don't have to set them up every time you visit lekhafoods.com.

Device Information: In addition to log data, we may also collect information about the device you're using lekhafoods.com on, including what type of device it is, what operating system you're using, device settings, unique device identifiers, and crash data. Whether we collect some or all of this information often depends on what type of device you're using and its settings. For example, different types of information are available depending on whether you're using a Mac or a PC, or an iPhone or an Android phone. To learn more about what information your device makes available to us, please also check the policies of your device manufacturer or software provider.

How do we use the information we collect?

We use the information we collect to provide our information to you and make them better, develop new products, and protect lekhafoods.com and our users. For example, we may log how often people use two different versions of a product, which can help us understand which version is better.

We also use the information we collect to offer you customized content.For example, if you've indicated that you're interested in cooking, we may suggest food-related articles, products information etc.,

We also use the information we collect to send you up-dates, newsletters, marketing materials and other information that may be of interest to you. For example, depending on your email notification settings, we may send you weekly updates that might include your favorite recipes. You can decide to stop getting these updates by updating your account settings.

We also use the information to respond to your questions or comments, contact you as a survey respondent, notify you if you win any contest and also send you promotional materials from our contest sponsors or advertisers.

We may use or store information wherever lekhafoods.comdoes business, including countries outside your own.

What choices do you have about your information?

Our goal is to give you simple and meaningful choices over your information. You can:

• Access and change information in your profile page at any time and may opt-in or opt – out anytime.
• You are not required to sign – in with us to explore the information on our site.
• You can also manage your account settings at any time.
• Link or unlink your lekhafoods.com account from an account on another service (e.g., Facebook or Twitter). For some services (like Facebook), you can also choose whether or not to publish your activity on lekhafoods.com to that service.
• Close your account at any time. When you close your account, we'll deactivate it and remove your content from lekhafoods.com. We may retain archived copies of your information as required by law or for legitimate business purposes (including helping address fraud and spam).
• In the event of loss of access details you can contact us

How is your information shared?

.com is a web portal consisting of world recipes. When you create your account with lekhafoods.com, anyone can view them. You may also provide us with profile page information that anyone can view. The other limited instances where we may share your personal information include:

• When we have your consent. This includes sharing information with other services (like Facebook or Twitter) when you've chosen to link to your lekhafoods.com account to those services or publish your activity on lekhafoods.comto them. For example, you can choose to publish your recipes/contents to Facebook or Twitter.
• We may employ third party companies or individuals to process personal information on our behalf based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy. For example, we may share data with a security consultant to help us get better at identifying spam or with our accountants to make sure we're keeping the books right. In addition, some of the information we request may be collected by third party providers on our behalf.
• If we believe that disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation or legal request; to protect the safety, rights, or property of the public, any person, orlekhafoods.com; or to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
• We may engage in a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, reorganization, or similar transaction or proceeding that involves the transfer of the information described in this Policy.
• We do not rent, sell or share your personal information other than as provided herein.

We may also share aggregated or non-personally identifiable information with our partners or others. For example, we may tell a business using lekhafoods.com how many people shared their recipes/articles/contents, or the percentage of people who click a recipe/article after viewing it.

We share your information with advertisers on an aggregate basis only.

Our Policy on Children's Information

.com is not directed to children under 13. If you learn that your minor child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us.

How do we make changes to this policy?

We may change this policy from time to time, and if we do we'll post any changes on this page. If you continue to use lekhafoods.com after those changes are in effect, you agree to the revised policy. If the changes are significant, we may provide more prominent notice or obtain your consent as required by law.

.com provides a platform to discover and share recipes to the gourmets and cookery lovers. To keep it running smoothly for all of our Users, you agree that you will use the Service only in a manner consistent with the following Acceptable Use Policy.

You agree not to post User Content that:

• creates a risk of harm, loss, physical or mental injury, emotional distress, death, disability, disfigurement, or physical or mental illness to yourself, to any other person, or to any animal;
• may create a risk of any other loss or damage to any person or property;
• seeks to harm or exploit children by exposing them to inappropriate content, asking for personally identifiable details or otherwise;
• violates, or encourages any conduct that violates laws or regulations;
• contains any information or content we deem to be hateful, violent, harmful, abusive, racially or ethnically offensive, defamatory, infringing, invasive of personal privacy or publicity rights, harassing, humiliating to other people (publicly or otherwise), libellous, threatening, profane, or otherwise objectionable;
• contains any information or content that is illegal (including, without limitation, the disclosure of insider information under securities law or of another party's trade secrets);
• infringes any third party's Intellectual Property Rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, or other personal or proprietary rights;
• contains any information or content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships; or
• is fraudulent, false, misleading, or deceptive.

You agree not to engage in any of the following prohibited activities :

• Use, display, mirror or frame the Service, any individual element within the Service, the lekhafoods.com name, trademark, logo or other proprietary information, or the layout and design of any page, without our express written consent;
• Access, tamper with, or use non-public areas of the Service, our computer systems, or the technical delivery systems of our providers;
• Attempt to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any lekhafoods system or network or breach any security or authentication measures;
• Avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, impair, descramble or otherwise circumvent any technological measure implemented by lekhafoods.com or any of our providers or any other third party (including another user) to protect the Services or lekhafoods.com Content;
• Attempt to access or search the Services, User Content or lekhafoods.comContent or scrape or download User Content or lekhafoods.com Content from the Services, or otherwise use, upload content to, or create new links, reposts, or referrals in the Service through the use of any engine, software, tool, agent, device or mechanism (including automated scripts, spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools or the like) other than the software and/or search agents provided by lekhafoods.com or other generally available third party web browsers;
• Send any unsolicited or unauthorized spam and spam comments on posts, advertising messages, promotional materials, email, junk mail, chain letters or other form of solicitation;
• Except for use of any meta tags or other hidden text or metadata utilizing a lekhafoods.com or lekhafoods.com trademark, logo, URL, or product name without lekhafoods.com express written consent;
• Use the Service for any commercial purpose or the benefit of any third party, except as otherwise explicitly permitted for you by lekhafoods.comor in any manner not permitted by the Terms;
• Use lekhafoods.com user information to forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or newsgroup posting, or in any way use the Services to send altered, deceptive or false source-identifying information;
• Attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the software used to provide the Services;
• Interfere with, or attempt to interfere with, the access of any user, host or network, including, without limitation, sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming, or mail-bombing the Services;
• Collect or store any personally identifiable information from the Services from other users of the Services without their express permission;
• Impersonate or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity;
• Violate any applicable law or regulation; or
• Encourage or enable any other individual to do any of the activities prohibited in this Acceptable Use Policy.

Links

.com reserves the right, but is not obligated, to remove any User Content for any reason or for no reason, including User Content that lekhafoods.com believes violates this Acceptable Use Policy. Lekhafoods may also permanently or temporarily terminate or suspend a User account without notice and liability for any reason, including if, in Lekhafoods's sole determination, a User violates any provision of this Acceptable Use Policy , or for no reason.

We welcome links to these Sites. You may establish a hypertext link to the Sites, provided that the link does not state or imply any sponsorship or endorsement of your site by lekhafoods.com.

Copyright complaint

lekhafoods.com respects the intellectual property of others. In India, copyrights are dealt with by the Copyright Act 1957. This Act covers work's in which copyright subsists – e.g. original literary, musical, dramatic works and others. Recipes fall under "literary" work. It is generally understood that an idea cannot have copyright; but the way an idea is expressed has copyright. Which means if a recipe consists of a list of ingredients followed by the method of cooking, it has no copyright - as for instance in a recipe of how to boil potatoes.

However, if a particular recipe is published in a cookbook, and is a part of sequence of menus and other recipes, then copyright exists in that cookbook. In other words it is not just a set of recipes that is protected; rather the originality of style and expression contained in the recipe is also protected.

Suppose you try out a certain recipe from a particular cookbook and you liked the way it turned out yet you want to adapt it to suit the needs and tastes of your individualistic family – like if you feel the need to reduce the amount of oil or chilli powder then such adaptations are your own and you are not violating copyright of the original book even when you share it on www.lekhafoods.com

Then again if you tried out a recipe from a particular cookbook and relished it exactly the way it is given in it, you can still share it with others if you express the method of preparation in your own words and you would not be violating the copyright. You can also state which book inspired your – the author is sure to appreciate the credit given and also feedback that may follow.

Cookery is an art and a skill that can be inherited or learnt and which is constantly evolving and adapting to the various needs. And sharing it with others can be rejoicing. We invite you to shareyour art of cooking with www.lekhafoods.com

In case you feel that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement you can contact us

lekhafoods.com reserves the right to terminate the access of users and account holders who infringe the copyrights of others.

If anyone copies the literary work of someone else and posts it on www.lekhafoods.com and the copyright holder notifies us with proof of the violation, we will immediately remove the same and the user could be liable for damages.

If you believe that your work has been posted on lekhafoods.com in infringement of your copyright, you may notify us accordingly with full details.

Terms of Service

Welcome to explore the world of cooking with lekhafoods.com

lekhafoods.com,awebportal owned by Lekha Productions Pvt. Ltd.,

The Terms of Service govern your access to and use of lekhafoods website, products, and services. Please read the terms carefully, and contact us if you have any questions. By accessing or using our Products, you agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policylekhafoods.com reserve the right to change the contents of the site at any time. lekhafoods.com retains the right to deny access to anyone for reasons that such person has violated the terms mentioned below.

All the materials,content,recipes on this site, including images, illustrations, audio clips, and video clips, are protected by copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights that are owned and controlled by us or by other parties that have licensed their material to us.

User is prohibited from publishing, copying, or in any way exploiting, any of the content of the service, in whole or in part. Except as otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law, no copying, publication, or commercial exploitation of material accessed or downloaded from lekhafoods.comwill be permitted without the express written consent of the Service Provider. In the event of authorized copying, redistribution or publication of copyrighted material, no changes in or deletions of author, trademark, or copyright notice shall be made. User agrees that he/she does not acquire any ownership rights by copying or downloading copyrighted material.

1. Using lekhafoods.com

a. Who can use lekhafoods?

You may use explore our portal only if you can form a binding contract with lekhafoods, and only in compliance with these Terms and all applicable laws. When you create your account with lekhafoods.com, you must provide us with accurate and complete information. Any use or access by anyone under the age of 18 is prohibited.

2. Your Content

a. Posting content.

lekhafoods.com allows you to post your own content, including photos, comments, and other materials. Anything that you post or otherwise make available on our portal is referred to as "User Content." This includes your contributions by way of recipes or any other information and also your involvement in the interaction with other users.

You may not post,distribute or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material,trademarks or other proprietary information without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights.

You retain all rights in, and are solely responsible for any notes, messages, e-mails, billboard postings, photos, drawings, profiles, opinions, ideas, images, videos, audio files or other materials or information posted or transmitted, you post to lekhafoods.com You agree and acknowledge that you are solely liable for any action or damages resulting from any infringement of copyrights, trademarks, or proprietary rights, or any other harm resulting from any posting made by him/her.

lekhafoods.com may also review, edit, reject, refuse to post and/or delete Content that violates the Terms or which might be offensive, illegal or that might violate the rights,harm or threaten the safety of another person.

lekhafoods.com reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor the materials posted in the public areas of the site.

lekhafoods.com has no responsibility or liability for any Content posted or for any claims, damages or losses resulting from use of Content and/or appearance of Content on the Sites. You hereby represent and warrant that you have all necessary rights in and to all Content you provide and all information it contains and that such Content shall not infringe any proprietary or other rights of third parties or contain any libelous, tortuous, or otherwise unlawful information.

b. How lekhafoods and other users can use your content.

You grant lekhafoods.com and its users a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub licensable, worldwide license to use, store, display, reproduce, modify, create derivative works, perform, including recipes, your name, city and country, posted on lekhafoods.com in whole or in part and distribute your User Content solely for the purposes of operating, developing, providing, and promoting lekhafoods.com, its associates and sponsors.

Nothing in these Terms shall restrict other legal rights lekhafoods may have to User Content, for example under other licenses. We reserve the right to remove or modify User Content for any reason; including User Content that we believe violates these Terms or our policies.

Some details about yourself that you share with us such as your preferred cuisine, interest in cooking or eating habits, favorite places, favorite restaurants etc. can be viewed by all those who visit our site.

When you use the option - 'Email a Recipe to a Friend', your e-mail address will not be disclosed to the advertisers,but lekhafoods.com might send promotional offers/newsletters/current information to those e-mail addresses.

lekhafoods.com shall be entitled to, consistent with our Privacy Policy, use the Content or any of its elements for any type of use forever, including promotional and advertising purposes and in any media whether now known or existing or hereafter devised, including the creation of derivative works that may include Content you provide.

c. How long we keep your content:

Following termination or deactivation of your account, or if you remove any User Content from lekhafoods.com, we may retain your User Content for a commercially reasonable period of time for backup, archival, or audit purposes. Furthermore, lekhafoods and its users may retain and continue to use, store, display, reproduce, modify, create derivative works, perform, and distribute any of your User Content that other users have stored or shared through lekhafoods.com

d. Your responsibility for your content:

lekhafoods.com provides a creative and positive place for you and other users to discover and share recipes/articles/contents you love. lekhafoods.com respects the rights of third party creators and content owners, and expects you to do the same. You therefore agree not to post any User Content that violates any law or infringes the rights of any third party.

e. Feedback you provide:

We value hearing from our users, and are always interested in learning about ways we can make lekhafoods.coma more informative and interesting website. If you choose to submit comments, ideas or feedback, you agree that we are free to use them without any restriction or compensation to you. By accepting your submission, lekhafoods does not waive any rights to use similar or related Feedback previously known to lekhafoods, or developed by its employees, or obtained from sources other than you.

3. Security

We care about the security of our users. While we work to protect the security of your content and account, lekhafoods cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security measures. Please notify us immediately of any compromise or unauthorized use of your account.

4. Third-party Links, Sites and Services

Our Products may contain links to third-party websites, advertisers, services, special offers, or other events or activities that are not owned or controlled by lekhafoods. We do not endorse or assume any responsibility for any such third-party sites, information, materials, products, or services. If you access any third party website, service, or content with the link from lekhafoods.com, you do so at your own risk and you agree that lekhafoods will have no liability arising from your use of or access to any third-party website, service, or content.

5. Termination.

lekhafoods.com may terminate or suspend this license at any time, with our without cause or notice to you.

6. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LEKHAFOODS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS OR REVENUES, WHETHER INCURRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, OR ANY LOSS OF DATA, USE, GOOD-WILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, RESULTING FROM (A) YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF OR INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE THE PRODUCTS; (B) ANY CONDUCT OR CONTENT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE PRODUCTS, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF OTHER USERS OR THIRD PARTIES; OR (D) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, USE OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR CONTENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL LEKHAFOODS'S AGGREGATE LIABILITY EXCEED INR 5000.00

7. Arbitration

For any dispute you have with lekhafoods, you agree to contact usand attempt to resolve the dispute with us informally. If lekhafoods has not been able to resolve the dispute with you informally, we each agree to resolve any claim, dispute, or controversy except as provided here in. The arbitration will be provided in Chennai,India.

YOU AGREE THAT, BY ENTERING INTO THESE TERMS, YOU AND LEKHAFOODS ARE EACH WAIVING THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY.

8. General Terms

Notification Procedures and changes to these Terms:lekhafoods reserves the right to determine the form and means of providing notifications to you, and you agree to receive legal notices electronically if we so choose. We may revise these Terms from time to time and the most current version will always be posted on our website. If a revision, in our sole discretion, is material we will notify you. By continuing to access even after revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Terms. If you do not agree to the new terms, please stop using our website.

Assignment : These Terms, and any rights and licenses granted hereunder, may not be transferred or assigned by you, but may be assigned by lekhafoods.com without restriction. Any attempted transfer or assignment in violation hereof shall be null and void.

Entire Agreement/Severability: These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any amendments and any additional agreements you may enter into with lekhafoods shall constitute the entire agreement between you and lekhafoods concerning the contents. If any provision of these Terms is deemed invalid, then that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in full force and effect.

No Waive : No waiver of any term of these Terms shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term, and lekhafoods's failure to assert any right or provision under these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

Disclaimer : Copyright and all other intellectual property rights in the text and graphics and other material appearing on this website are solely with Lekha Productions Pvt. Ltd., India.

Recipes, comments and suggestions about this website are invited. However, all such viewer contributed recipes, comments, suggestions, ideas, notes, drawings, concepts or other information disclosed or offered to lekhafoods.com shall be deemed to be the property of lekhafoods.com.

lekhafoods.com has the right to develop ideas either identical or similar to the viewer-contributed recipes, suggestions or comments offered.

lekhafoods.com has the right on the comments and suggestions throughout the world and shall be entitled to unrestricted use thereof for any purpose whatsoever, commercial and otherwise, without payment of compensation.

Jurisdiction :You agree that this Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India and jurisdiction for any legal action or proceeding shall be in Chennai only.

POLICY UPDATES

We reserve the right to change or update this policy at any time. Such changes shall be effective immediately upon posting to this site.