Terms of Use

These Terms of Use govern your use of the websites, content and community services offered through https://www.healthandme.com/ ("Website / Site"). You (the user) agree to access the Site, subject to the terms and conditions of use as set out here.

These terms of use (Terms) constitute a legally binding agreement between you and Bennett, Coleman & Company Limited (through its Television Division) (hereinafter referred to as “BCCL” or “the Company”) regarding your use of the website i.e https://www.healthandme.com/ (“the Website/Site”) and any services offered by the company including but not limited to delivery of content via the Site, any mobile or internet connected device or otherwise (“the Service”).

“User” or “You” means any person who access or avail this Site/Service of the Company for the purpose of hosting, publishing, sharing, transacting, displaying or uploading information or views and includes other persons jointly participating in using the Site/Service of the Company. By accessing the Site or Service, you agree to be legally bound by these Terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of the Site/Service. If you do not agree to be legally bound by all the following terms please do not access and/or use.

You hereby represent and warrant to the Company that you are at least eighteen (18) years of age or above and are capable of entering, performing and adhering to these Terms and that you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions. If required by the Company, you agree to register prior to uploading any content and / or comment and any other use of this Site/Service and provide your details including but not limited to complete name, age, email address, residential address, contact number.

You should be aware that this Site is not intended or designed to attract children under the age of 18. We do not collect personally identifiable information from any person we actually know is a child under the age of 18.

BCCL may revise and update these Terms and Conditions at any time. Your continued usage of the Website will mean you accept those changes. BCCL reserves the right to suspend / cancel, or discontinue any or all channels, products or service at any time without notice, make modifications and alterations in any or all of the content, products and services contained on the site without prior notice. BCCL reserves the right to charge subscription and / or membership fees from a user, by giving reasonable prior notice, in respect of any product, service or any other aspect of this Site.

The Site Does Not Provide Medical Advice:

The contents of the Site, such as text, graphics, images, and other materials created by BCCL or sourced from BCCL's licensors (the “Licensor”), and other materials contained on the BCCL Site (collectively, "Content") are for informational purposes only. The Content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider / registered medical practitioner with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on the BCCL Site!

It is recommended that any action to be taken by you on the basis of the information provided on the Site, shall always be only after the consultation with your family physician / doctor / registered medical practitioner who knows your physical strength and weakness, illness, defects, deformities etc. Subscribers / Viewers / Readers discretion advised.

Additionally, if you think, you may have a medical emergency, call your doctor or dedicate medical emergency contact number, if any of your respective country. BCCL does not recommend or endorse any specific tests, physicians, products, procedures, opinions, or other information that may be mentioned on the Site. Reliance on any information provided by BCCL, BCCL employees, others appearing on the Site at the invitation of BCCL, or other visitors to the Site is solely at your own risk.

Copyright and Trademarks

Unless otherwise stated, copyright and all intellectual property rights in all material presented on the Site (including but not limited to text, audio, video or graphical images), trademarks and logos appearing on this Site are the property of BENNETT COLEMAN & COMPANY LIMITED (Television Division), its parent, affiliates and associates and are protected under applicable Indian laws. You agree not to use any framing techniques to enclose any trademark or logo or other proprietary information of BCCL; or remove, conceal or obliterate any copyright or other proprietary notice or any credit-line or date-line on other mark or source identifier included on the Site / Service, including without limitation, the size, color, location or style of all proprietary marks. Any infringement shall be vigorously defended and pursued to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Limited Permission to Copy

BCCL grants you permission to only access and make personal use of the Site and You agree not to, directly or indirectly download or modify / alter / change / amend / vary / transform / revise / translate / copy / publish / distribute or otherwise disseminate any content on BCCL's Site / Service, or any portion of it; or delete or fail to display any promotional taglines included in the Site / Service either directly or indirectly, except with the express consent of BCCL. However, you may print or download extracts from these pages for your personal / individual, non-commercial use only. You must not retain any copies of these pages saved to disk or to any other storage medium except for the purposes of using the same for subsequent viewing purposes or to print extracts for personal / individual use.


BCCL forbids you from any attempts to resell or put to commercial use any part of the Site; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of the Site or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of any other merchant; any renting, leasing, or otherwise transferring rights to the Site / Service; displaying the name, logo, trademark or other identifier of another person (except for https://www.healthandme.com or you) in such a manner as to give the viewer the impression that such other person is a publisher or distributor of the Service on the Site, or any data gathering or extraction tools; or any use of meta tags. You may not (whether directly or through the use of any software program) create a database in electronic or structured manual form by regularly or systematically downloading and storing all or any part of the pages from this site. No part of the Site may be reproduced or transmitted to or stored in any other web site, nor may any of its pages or part thereof be disseminated in any electronic or non-electronic form, nor included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without prior written permission.

Liability of BCCL and Its Licensors

The use of the BCCL Site and the Content is at your own risk.

When using the BCCL Site, information will be transmitted over a medium that may be beyond the control and jurisdiction of BCCL and its suppliers. Accordingly, BCCL assumes no liability for or relating to the delay, failure, interruption, or corruption of any data or other information transmitted in connection with use of the BCCL Site.

The BCCL Site and the Content are provided on an "as is" basis. BCCL, ITS LICENSORS, AND ITS SUPPLIERS, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTIES' RIGHTS, AND FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Without limiting the foregoing, BCCL, its licensors, and its suppliers make no representations or warranties about the following:

The accuracy, reliability, completeness, currentness, or timeliness of the Content, software, links, or communications provided on or through the use of the BCCL Site or BCCL.

The satisfaction of any government regulations requiring disclosure of information on prescription drug products or the approval or compliance of any software tools with regard to the Content contained on the BCCL Site.

In no event shall BCCL, its licensors, its suppliers, or any third parties mentioned on the BCCL Site be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, incidental and consequential damages, personal injury/wrongful death, lost profits, or damages resulting from lost data or business interruption) resulting from the use of or inability to use the BCCL Site or the Content, whether based on warranty, contract, tort, or any other legal theory, and whether or not BCCL, its licensors, its suppliers, or any third parties mentioned on the BCCL Site are advised of the possibility of such damages. BCCL, its licensors, its suppliers, or any third parties mentioned on the BCCL Site shall be liable only to the extent of actual damages incurred by you, not to exceed INR 10,000/-. BCCL, its licensors, its suppliers, or any third parties mentioned on the BCCL Site are not liable for any personal injury, including death, caused by your use or misuse of the Site, Content. Any claims arising in connection with your use of the Site, any Content, or the Public Areas must be brought within six (6) months of the date of the event giving rise to such action occurred. Remedies under these Terms and Conditions are exclusive and are limited to those expressly provided for in these Terms and Conditions.

Individual Registration, Access and Exchange of Information

For certain services, registration by the visitor may be required. To register for these services you have to open an account by completing the registration process (i.e. by providing us with current, complete and accurate information as prompted by the applicable registration form). You also will choose a password and a username. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account. By registering, you agree to the following terms in addition to any other specific terms which shall be posted at an appropriate location of the Site. Each registration is for a single individual user only.

To access these services, you will be asked to enter your individual User Name and Password, as chosen by you during your registration. Therefore, we do not permit any of the following: - Any other person sharing your account and Password; Any part of the Site being cached in proxy servers and accessed by individuals who have not registered with BCCL as users of the Site; or Access through a single account and Password being made available to multiple users on a network. If BCCL reasonably believe that an account and Password is being used / misused in any manner, BCCL shall reserve the right to cancel access rights immediately without notice, and block access to all users from that IP address.

Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify BCCL immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. BCCL will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or account. However, you could be held liable for losses incurred by BCCL or another party due to someone else using your account or password.

No unlawful or prohibited use

As a condition of your use of the Services, you will not use the Services for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use the Services in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair any BCCL's server, or the network(s) connected to any BCCL server, or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of any Services. You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any Services, other accounts, computer systems or to any of the Services, through hacking, password mining or any other means. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available through the Services.

Material Posted/transmitted on BCCL's Site

All information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages or any other material ("Content"), whether publicly or privately transmitted / posted, is the sole responsibility of the person from where such content is originated (the Originator). By Posting any material which contain images, photographs, pictures or that are otherwise graphical in whole or in part ("Images"), you warrant and represent that (a) you are the copyright owner of such Images, or that the copyright owner of such Images has granted you permission to use such Images or any content and/or images contained in such Images consistent with the manner and purpose of your use and as otherwise permitted by these Terms of Use and the Services, (b) you have the rights necessary to grant the licenses and sublicenses described in these Terms of Use, and (c) that each person depicted in such Images, if any, has provided consent to the use of the Images as set forth in these Terms of Use, including, by way of limitation, the distribution, public display and reproduction of such Images. You represent that you have valid rights and title in any and all Content/Images that you submit on the Site, that you have not infringed on any IPR belonging to any party and further that you will indemnify BCCL or its affiliates for all claims arising out of any content that you post on the Site. BCCL accepts no responsibility for the said Content / Images. However, you understand that all Content / Images posted by you becomes the property of BCCL and you agree to grant/assign to BCCL and its affiliates, a non-exclusive, royalty free, perpetual, irrevocable and sub-licenseable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Content / Images (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed throughout the world. BCCL endeavours to provide a web platform for various community interactions for persons to interact and exchange views with each other. The content posted on such services is by general public therefore the accuracy, integrity or quality of such content cannot be guaranteed. You understand that by using such services, you may be exposed to objectionable matter. By using the facility of chat and other community services you agree not to upload, post, or otherwise transmit any matter or views, which are, defamatory, abusive, pervasive, obscene, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable. You may also not indulge in cyber stalking, become or create a nuisance for any visitor / user of the Site. You may not send, submit, post, or otherwise transmit, material or messages that contain software virus, or any other files that are designed to interrupt, destroy, and negatively affect in any manner whatsoever, any electronic equipment in connection with the use of this Site, or other user's ability to engage in real time exchanges.

Prohibited Activities

You agree that while using this website and any services made available through the website you shall not host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, store, update or share any information or content on or through this Site that:

i) belongs to another person and to which you do not have any right;

ii) is defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, invasive of another's privacy, including bodily privacy, insulting or harassing on the basis of gender, libellous, hateful, racially or ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating to or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise unlawful or inconsistent with or contrary to the laws in force;

iii) in any manner is harmful to child;

iv) infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights;

v) violates any law for the time being in force;

vi) deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of the message or knowingly and intentionally communicates any information which is patently false or misleading in nature but may reasonably be perceived as a fact;

vii) impersonate another person;

viii) contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource;

ix) 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 cognisable offence or prevents investigation of any offence or is insulting any other nation.

x) is patently false and untrue, and is written or published in any form, with the intent to mislead or harass a person, entity or agency for financial gain or to cause any injury to any person;

Any content and or comment uploaded by you, shall be subject to relevant Indian laws and may be disabled, or and may be subject to investigation under appropriate laws. Furthermore, if you are found to be in non-compliance with the laws and regulations, these terms, or the privacy policy of the Site, the Company shall have the right to immediately terminate/block your access and usage of the Site and the Company shall have the right to immediately remove any non-compliant Content and or comment, uploaded by you and shall further have the right to take recourse to such remedies as would be available to the Company under the applicable laws.

This website is intended for human users only. Automated data collection, web scraping, AI Bot crawling, any form of AI tool usage or any other automated activity is strictly prohibited.

By accessing or using this website, you agree to abide by this policy. Unauthorized automated access may result in legal action.

If you have a legitimate need to access the content of this website programmatically, please contact us at mayank.aggarwal@timesgroup.com (Mayank Agarwal) for proper authorization.

Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold BCCL, its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, and suppliers, harmless from and against any claims, actions or demands, liabilities and settlements including without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, resulting from, or alleged to result from: (a) your use of the Site, (b) any User Content you post or upload, (c) your use of or reliance on any User Content, or (d) your violation of these Terms and Conditions.

Termination of Account

BCCL reserves its right to refuse service, restrict, suspend, terminate your account; (Terminate this Agreement; Terminate or suspend your access to the BCCL's Websites; Refuse, move or remove for any reason any Content / Image that you submit on or through the Services; Refuse, move, or remove any Content / Image that is available on or through the Services; Deactivate or delete your accounts and all related information and files in your account; Establish general practices and limits concerning use of the Services) at any time and, remove or edit contents or cancel orders (entered by you) in its sole discretion with or without cause, and with or without any prior notice for any violation of the Terms of Use. Upon such termination or suspension, your right to use the BCCL's Websites will immediately cease.

You can also terminate your account at any time but your information may remain stored in archive on our servers even after the deletion or the termination of your account.

User Conduct and Obligations

By using BCCL’s website and services, you agree to follow the law and not to misuse the website or services in any way. Specifically, you agree not to:

Use the website for anything illegal or to spread harmful software like viruses or trojans.

Remove or change any legal notices, copyrights, trademarks, or logos unless you own them or have permission.

Damage, overload, or harm BCCL’s servers, networks, or anyone else’s use of the website.

Try to get materials or information that isn’t meant to be publicly available.

Do anything that could hurt minors or pretend to be someone you’re not.

Threaten harm to people or property or launch attacks on internet services.

Send illegal, harmful, or offensive messages or materials.

Collect personal information without consent and keep records of consent for 1 year minimum.

Cause trouble online, like spamming or trolling.

Send unsolicited ads or messages, or make false claims on behalf of BCCL.

Remember, you must respect these rules to use the website and services.

You agree not to post, distribute, transmit or otherwise make available any data, text, message, computer file, or other material that infringes and/or violates any right of a third party or any domestic or international law, rule, or regulation, including but not limited to: infringement of any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary rights of any third party, including, but not limited to, the unauthorized copying of copyrighted material, the digitization and distribution of photographs from magazines, books, or other copyrighted sources, and the unauthorized transmittal of copyrighted software; right of privacy (specifically, you must not distribute another person's personal information of any kind without their express permission) or publicity; any confidentiality obligation. Unless otherwise permitted, you will: (i) display the Service on the Site in the exact form received by you, and not modify or edit any of the foregoing without BCCL's prior written consent; (ii) ensure that the fundamental meaning of the Service is not changed or distorted; (iii) comply with all applicable laws and all limitations and restrictions (if any) placed by BCCL on the use, display or distribution of any Service and (iv) not archive any of the Service for access by users at any future date after the Service has been removed from your Web site. You acknowledge that the service must link and redirect to the appropriate BCCL's Web page when a user clicks on the Service (e.g. a headline). You shall not display the Service in such a manner that does not allow for successful linking and redirection to, and delivery of, BCCL's Web page, nor may you frame any BCCL's Web page.

Advertising Material

Part of the Site contains advertising information or promotion material or other material submitted to BCCL by third parties. Responsibility for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on Site complies with applicable International and National law is exclusively on the party providing the information/material. Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers other than BCCL found on or through the Website, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertiser. BCCL will not be responsible or liable for any claim, error, omission, inaccuracy in advertising material or any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such non- BCCL advertisers on the Website. BCCL reserves the right to omit, suspend or change the position of any advertising material submitted for insertion. Acceptance of advertisements on the Site will be subject to these terms and conditions.

Data Protection

Notwithstanding the foregoing, BCCL reserves the right to disclose any information including personal details or information in response to / that it is required to be shared, disclosed or make made available to any governmental, administrative, regulatory or judicial authority under any law or regulation applicable to BCCL.

Further, BCCL can (and you authorize BCCL to) disclose your name, street address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number, email, and company name to Intellectual Property right's owners, as we in our sole discretion believe necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy, or other unlawful activity.

You may withdraw your consent for the collection, use and/or disclosure of your personal information in our possession or control by submitting a request on our support e-mail or using the chat functionality or by directly contacting our support team (see contact us section). We will process your request within a reasonable time from when the request was made, and thereafter not process your personal information as per your request.

The personal information you submit to BCCL is governed by the BCCL Privacy Policy. To the extent there is an inconsistency between this Agreement and the BCCL Privacy Policy, this Agreement shall govern.

YouTube Integration Statement

We employ YouTube API services and the unbranded version of the YouTube embedded player, collectively referred to as "YouTube Components," to enhance your experience. Your use of https://www.healthandme.com services, specifically when interacting with YouTube Components, is governed by the YouTube Terms of Service and Google Privacy Policy, to which you must adhere.

Please take a moment to review and familiarize yourself with the following documents:

YouTube Terms of Service: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms

Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy


By accessing, using, or continuing to use in conjunction with YouTube Components, you agree to be bound by the terms and policies of the respective third party platform. Your privacy and data security are important to us, and we are committed to providing a seamless and secure experience. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this integration, please contact us at gdpr.grievance@timesgroup.com.

For any legal notice/summons/compliant, please write to us on an email ID grievanceofficer@timesgroup.com ; BCCL shall not be obligated / liable for any communication / notice sent to any other contact information and/or any employee of BCCL;

General

BCCL has its principal offices in Delhi and Mumbai, in India. BCCL makes no claims that BCCL, BCCL employee, or any Site within the BCCL Network and the Content are appropriate or may be downloaded outside of the India. Access to the Content may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If you access the BCCL Network from outside India, you do so at your own risk and are responsible for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction.

The following provisions survive the expiration or termination of this Agreement for any reason whatsoever: Liability, User Submissions, User Submissions – image, video, audio files, Indemnity, Jurisdiction, and Agreement.

You expressly agree that exclusive jurisdiction for any dispute with BCCL, or in any way relating to your use of the BCCL Site, resides in the courts of Delhi, India and you further agree and expressly consent to the exercise of personal jurisdiction in the courts of Delhi, India in connection with any such dispute including any claim involving BCCL or its affiliates, subsidiaries, employees, contractors, officers, directors, telecommunication providers, and content providers.

These Terms and Conditions are governed by the internal substantive laws of India, without respect to its conflict of laws principles. If any provision of these Terms and Conditions is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms and Conditions, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any of these Terms and Conditions shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or any other term or condition.

Notice and Takedown Procedures;

If you believe any materials accessible on or from the Site infringe your copyright / data / inaccurate information, you may request removal / modification of those materials (or access thereto) from this web site by contacting BCCL's on the following information:

grievanceofficer@timesgroup.com

Times Health Now Awards

The following terms & conditions shall govern the nominations for “Times Health Now Awards” organized by Bennett Coleman & Company Limited Television Division (“BCCL“)

Hospital	Any healthcare unit/ hospital which has in-patient facility.
Clinic Chain	Clinic is defined as a primary healthcare unit which is only for outpatients and give medical treatment/ advice with no In-patient facility. Clinic Chain – Any clinic which is present in at-least in 3 states & has 6 units in India.
Multi-Specialty Hospital	Should have more than 3 critical care departments. (Critical care departments: Oncologist, Nephrologist, Urologist, Cardiologist, Pediatric, Gynaecologist/obstetrician, Neurologist, Emergency & Trauma and Gastroenterologist or Hepatologist)
Multi-Specialty Hospital (less than 4 critical care departments)	Eligible for specific departments which are present with the hospital.
Hospital Chain	Any Hospital which is present in at-least in 3 states.
Single Specialty	Any hospital which operates with 1 specialty (Mother & Child is considered 1 specialty)
Qualification for Participant	All medical practitioners who have 5 plus years of post-qualification practice are eligible to participate in their respective category.

Terms-Conditions & Basic Instructions:

1. All Hospitals are eligible to participate in the Hospital awards in any of the categories they have expertise in.
2. A hospital which is part of a hospital chain is eligible to participate in any category in which they have expertise in their individual capacity.
3. One hospital can participate in a maximum of 5 categories.
4. A practitioner can participate in only one category.
5. A nomination will be eligible for consideration only after making the payment of the nomination fee.
6. Once the nomination is submitted and the nomination fee is paid, there will be no refund, unless in the case of technical errors resulting in levies of multiple charges, to the extent multiple payment of nomination fees.
7. In the event participants are charged multiple times for a nomination due to technical errors, you may contact the supporting team at 0120 6637050.
8. We reserve the right to modify this policy, and changes will be effective immediately upon posting on our website.
9. You acknowledge and agree to the terms outlined in this policy by completing the transaction.

Disclaimer:

BCCL health portal / platform does not advertise, market or promote products or services to end users, except for our products and services which are paid for by plan sponsors and provided to end users without charge. BCCL health portal / platform has no financial arrangements with other organizations to advertise or market products, goods and services to end users.


WHISTLE BLOWER POLICY

Introduction In terms of the applicable provisions of The Companies Act, 2013 read with relevant Rules made thereunder, including amendments or modifications thereof from time to time, the following category of companies are required to establish a vigil mechanism/whistleblower policy to address complaints and grievances of employees, Directors & other stakeholders about unethical behaviour/ malpractices/ mismanagement/ fraud etc:

• Every listed company – Material events disclosure under Regulation 30 of the SEBI LODR Regulations, 2015.
• Every company accepts deposits from the public.
• Every company which has borrowed money from banks and public financial institutions in excess of Rs. 50.00 (Fifty) Crores.

While the requirement to implement a Whistle Blower/Vigil mechanism is mandatory for the aforesaid category of companies, it is encouraged that all other companies voluntarily adopt a robust vigil mechanism as part of good corporate governance.

This Whistle Blower Policy is therefore being rolled out for implementation across entities covered hereunder. ...READ MORE