Eastern Book Company Pvt Ltd. operates the website http://www.scconline.com and the corresponding mobile application “SCC Online^® for Mobile”

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of our SCC Online^® products.

Information Collection And Use

While using our website, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may be included, but is not limited to your Name, Email Address, Phone Numbers & Address.

Log Data

Like most website operators, SCC Online^® collects information that your browser sends whenever you visit our website.

This Log Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyze this information.

Communications

We may use your Personal Information to contact you through emails, newsletters and telephonic support. This may be used to share marketing or promotional materials and other product related information such as new feature announcement etc.

Cookies

Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer's hard drive.

Like many other websites, we use "cookies" to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website to their full potential.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of (01/06/2010) and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.

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1. EBC Publishing Pvt. Ltd., Lucknow is the Publisher of legal information made accessible through a Website (“the Service”) available on the URL https://www.scconline.com or on any other such URL as may be determined later (“Publisher”). “SCC Online^®”, “SCC OnLine - Direct Tax”, “SCC OnLine - Indirect Tax”, “SCC OnLine - Tax”, “Case Finder^®” and “High Court Cases (HCC)” are the trademarks / trade names owned by the said Publisher. “Supreme Court Cases”, “Supreme Court Cases (Cri)”, “Supreme Court Cases (L&S)”, “Supreme Court Cases (Tax)”, “Administrative Tribunal Cases”, “The Law Reports”, “The Weekly Law Reports”, “The Business Law Reports”, “Maharashtra Law Journal”, “Madhya Pradesh Law Journal”, “Andhra Pradesh Law Journal” are trademarks / trade names of various publishers (“Licensor(s)”) who publish these journals / periodicals and have licensed their content to the Publisher.

2. Payment of the full licence fee will entitle the party subscribing to the Service (the “Licensee”) to a non-transferable, non-exclusive licence (the “Licence”) to use the information database comprising data and wherever applicable the facsimile of the pages as published (“TruePrints”) in

1. “Supreme Court Cases” for the period 1969 - till date
2. “High Court Cases (HCC)” for the period 2011 - till date
3. “Income Tax Reports (ITR)” for the period 1933 - till date & “Income Tax Reports (OL) - (ITR-OL)” for the period 2013-2023
4. “ITR's Tribunal Tax Reports - (ITR (Trib))” for the period 2010 - till date & “ITR's Tribunal Tax Reports (OL) - (ITR (Trib)-OL)” for the period 2013-2023
5. “Company Cases (CC)” for the period 1931 - till date & “Company Cases (OL) - (CC-OL)” for the period 2018-2023
6. “Goods and Service Tax Reports (GSTR)” for the period 2010 - till date & “Goods and Service Tax Reports (OL) - (GSTR-OL)” for the period 2017-2023
7. “VAT and Service Tax Cases (VST)” for the period 2005-2017 & “VAT and Service Tax Cases (OL) - (VST-OL)” for the period 2013-2017
8. “Sales Tax Cases (STC)” for the period 1950-2010
9. “The Indian Appeals” for the period 1872-1949
10. “The Law Reports” for the period 1865 - till date
11. “The Weekly Law Reports” for the period 1953 - till date
12. “The Business Law Reports” for the period January, 2007 - till date
13. “Maharashtra Law Journal” for the period 1960 - till date
14. “Madhya Pradesh Law Journal” for the period 1956 - till date
15. “Gauhati Law Reports” for the period 1983 - till date
16. Judgments and digest notes of the Supreme Court not published in the Supreme Court Cases^™
17. Judgments and digest notes of High Courts, Tribunals and Commissions not published in the above mentioned law reports
18. Other Law Reports included in the database and information and content and material of
    1. Central Acts and Rules
    2. Central Rules, Regulations, Circulars and Notifications
    3. State Acts, Rules, Regulations, Circulars and Notifications
    4. Constituent Assembly Debates
    5. Reports of the Law Commission of India and other such bodies / organisations
    6. Bilateral / Multilateral / International Treaties and Conventions And any such data or material added in a future date
    7. Any additional content added (collectively “the Database”)

3. The licence fee paid is non-refundable. All taxes, fees and duties existing and / or subsequently imposed are to be borne and paid by the Licensee.

4. The Licence is for the limited purposes of carrying out: (a) academic or educational research or study; (b) providing academic or educational instructions to students; or (c) carrying out legal research and study in connection with a lawful profession or vocation only (“Permitted Purposes”), and the Licensee shall not commercially exploit the Database in any way. A separate licence agreement is required to commercially use or exploit the Database.

5. The Database may only be accessed and used by the Licensee and by persons permitted to do so by the Licensee in accordance with these Terms and Conditions (the “Authorised Users”) and such access and use by the Licensee or the persons so authorised by him shall constitute an acceptance of these Terms and Conditions (the “End User Licence Agreement”).

6. The Licensee acknowledges and agrees that the copyright in the Database vests solely in the Publisher / Licensor(s), and the Publisher / Licensor(s) retains title to and ownership of the original and all copies of its journals / periodicals / books, regardless of the form or media in or on which the original or other copies may exist, and the Publisher / Licensor(s) have the sole and exclusive rights to grant this Licence. The Publisher also holds ownership and copyright in the software used to run the Service and any other software created by it for this purpose.

7. This Licence is not a sale of the original or of any copy of the contents of the Database and nothing in the Licence is to be construed as granting or otherwise transferring to the Licensee any copyrights or ownership interest whatsoever in the Database. Except for personal use and in accordance with the Permitted Purposes, taking out extracts from the Database or making copies thereof, their sale or republication in any manner whatsoever is prohibited. The storage of the extracts in any other retrieval system or transmission in any form by any means is also prohibited.

8. The Licensee shall not (and shall not permit any third party to): (a) remove, obliterate, conceal or obscure any copyright notice or other proprietary notices contained in the Database or use the Database in any way that infringes the copyrights or other proprietary interests in the same; (b) modify, adapt, or make any alterations, additions or amendments, translate, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Database or the software used to run it or create derivative works based on them, other than to the extent permitted by applicable laws; (c) combine the whole or any part of the Database with any other software, data or material.

9. The Publisher may, in their sole discretion, in the following cases cancel the Licence: (a) violation of the terms of the Licence, or (b) any misuse or overuse of the Database by the Licensee, his / its employees, partners, associates, servants and agents, and no part of the Licence fee would be refundable.

10. On termination of the Licence, the Licensee shall immediately cease to have any rights or licence in respect of the Database or any part of it.

11. While all reasonable care has been taken to ensure accuracy and completeness of the Database, the Publisher / Licensor(s) or its / their agents shall not be liable in any manner for any mistake or omission in the Database or for any action taken or omitted to be taken or advice rendered or accepted on the basis of the Database or for any consequential loss or inconvenience arising therefrom. The Licensee acknowledges and agrees that the Database is to be used only as a reference aid and is not intended to be a substitute for the exercise of professional judgment by the Authorised User(s). The Licensee further agrees that it shall not base any commercial decisions on the contents of the database without independent verification of the same.

12. Neither the Publisher / Licensor nor its / their agents shall be liable for failure to perform its / their obligations if the failures result from an act of God, an act of Government, other authorities or statutory undertakings, fire, explosion, accident, power failure, equipment or systems failure, industrial dispute, epidemic or pandemic or anything beyond the Publisher / Licensor's control.

13. The Publisher / Licensor(s) shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental or consequential loss, loss of profit, revenue, data or goodwill howsoever arising suffered by the Licensee arising under or in connection with these terms or conditions (including without limitation in respect of the Licensee's use or misuse of, or inability to use the Database or any part of it) or for any wasted management time, costs or expenses arising from such damage or loss.

14. All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.

15. The Licensee shall fully indemnify and hold the Publisher / Licensor(s) and its / their affiliates harmless for all costs, damages, losses and expenses (including all reasonably incurred legal expenses) whether arising in contract, tort, under statute (including in each case negligence) or otherwise incurred by the Publisher / Licensor(s) and its / their affiliates which arise in connection with any misuse or overuse by the Licensee, any Authorised User or any other third party of the Database or any part of the database, or otherwise in connection with any breach by the Licensee of these terms and conditions.

16. Except as may be expressly permitted under these terms and conditions, the Licensee shall not assign, transfer, charge, sub-license, delegate, sell or dispose of in whole or in part the Licence and the rights and obligations of the Licensee thereunder on a temporary or permanent basis without the prior written consent of the Publisher, or otherwise do anything which goes beyond the scope of the rights granted to the Licensee under these terms and conditions.

17. The Licensee agrees to promotional, transactional and commercial communications being sent to them from the Publisher or its agents through email or SMS.

18. This End User Agreement and its Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Indian law.

19. All disputes relating to this End User Licence Agreement and its Terms and Conditions or claims arising therefrom will be subject exclusively to the jurisdiction of courts / forums / tribunals at Lucknow, India only.

20. Any forbearance or delay by the Publisher / Licensor(s) in enforcing any provisions of these terms and conditions or any of its rights under them shall not be construed as a waiver of such provisions or its rights thereafter to enforce the same.

21. These Terms and Conditions are subject to change without notice. Please check for the latest End User Licence Agreement Terms & Conditions at: https://www.scconline.com/legal-policies#terms

Thank you for your purchase of SCC Online^®

If you are not entirely satisfied with your purchase, we're here to help. Our products can be returned within 30 days of the original purchase of the product.

CD/DVD ROM Based Product – Case Finder ^™

A new product may be exchanged for another product or returned for a refund. Before you return a product, please make sure that:

• The product was purchased in the last 30 days
• The product is in its original packaging

Please contact us to first register your refund request:

The product must be returned with its original packing to:

Shipping Charges

Shipping charges incurred in connection with the return of a product are non-refundable. You are responsible for paying the costs of shipping and for the risk of loss of or damage to the product during shipping, both to and from SCC Online^® .

Damaged Items

If you received a damaged product, please notify us immediately for assistance.

Digital Product – Web Edition

We issue refunds for digital products within 30 days of the original purchase of the product.

We issue refunds for digital products only under the following conditions:

• Product not delivered (if you haven't received the delivery email from us)
• Download issues (if you experience problems while downloading the product)
• Major defects - All our products are tested properly, but unexpected errors may occur.

We recommend contacting us for assistance if you experience any issues receiving or downloading our products.

We do not guarantee that our products are fully compatible with any third-party software.

We do not issue refunds if our products are incompatible with any third-party software, except for those that are specified on the page of each product.

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If you have any questions about our Returns and Refunds Policy, please contact us: