These website terms govern access to and use of IndiaJusticeFoundation.org, including its legal education material, case summaries, policy resources, enquiry channels, and links. By using the site, a visitor agrees to use the material lawfully, respect its limits, and verify legal information before relying on it for a personal matter.
Scope of These Website Terms and Conditions
The site provides public-interest information about law, justice, rights, legal awareness, and the work of the India Justice Foundation. These website terms and conditions apply to browsing pages, reading or downloading material, following links, submitting an enquiry, and communicating through an address or channel displayed on the site.
If a separate form, event, programme, donation, volunteer activity, or service carries additional conditions, those specific conditions apply to that activity together with these terms. A conflict should be resolved in favour of the specific conditions for that activity, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
Legal Information Is Not Individual Legal Advice
Articles, summaries, notes, and policy explanations are provided for general education. They cannot account for every fact, document, deadline, amendment, local procedure, or later judgment. Reading a page does not create a lawyer-client relationship, an engagement, a duty to represent, or a promise that the Foundation will accept a request.
Do not delay a filing, hearing, appeal, complaint, police response, medical response, or other urgent step because of information on this site. A person seeking free legal services can consult the National Legal Services Authority's official description of legal services and approach the appropriate legal services institution or a qualified lawyer.
The Foundation may correct, expand, remove, or update material without notice. Publication dates and case dates should be checked, and cited statutes or decisions should be read in their official form before being used.
Acceptable Use of IndiaJusticeFoundation.org
Visitors may use the site for lawful personal research, education, citation, and public-interest discussion. Use must not interfere with the site's security, availability, content integrity, or the rights of another person.
- No unlawful activity: do not use the site to threaten, harass, defraud, impersonate, or facilitate conduct prohibited by law.
- No technical interference: do not attempt unauthorized access, introduce malicious code, bypass access controls, overload services, or probe systems without written permission.
- No misleading reuse: do not present edited excerpts as the Foundation's complete statement or imply endorsement, representation, partnership, or approval that has not been given.
- No abusive collection: do not harvest personal details, contact information, or site content through automated means in a way that violates law or these terms.
- No rights infringement: do not upload or transmit material that unlawfully infringes copyright, privacy, confidentiality, or another protected interest.
The Foundation may restrict access, preserve relevant records, or report conduct when reasonably necessary to protect the site, users, or legal rights. A restriction does not prevent the Foundation from using another lawful remedy.
Copyright, Attribution, and Permitted Reference
Unless a page states otherwise, the site's original selection, arrangement, explanations, graphics, and branding remain protected by applicable intellectual-property law. A visitor may quote a limited passage with accurate attribution and a link to the source page for criticism, education, or discussion where the law permits. Republishing a full article, removing attribution, selling copies, or using the Foundation's marks as if they were one's own requires permission.
Court judgments, statutes, and other public documents may carry their own legal status, but the Foundation's summary, annotation, formatting, and editorial work are separate. Always identify the official source when legal precision matters. The same rules apply when referring to subject pages such as the Foundation's minority rights resources.
Enquiries, Legal Help Requests, and Communications
An enquiry should contain only information needed to understand the request. Sending a message does not guarantee a response, establish confidentiality equivalent to a retained advocate, or confirm that assistance will be provided. Do not send original documents, passwords, banking credentials, or highly sensitive records unless the Foundation specifically requests them through an appropriate channel.
Requests may be screened for subject, location, urgency, capacity, conflict, and fit with the Foundation's work. Where a request is outside scope, the sender may need to approach another organization, an advocate, a court registry, the police, or a statutory legal services authority.
For an overview of public legal assistance and pathways that may be relevant, see the Foundation's access to justice information. The linked page is educational and does not itself confirm eligibility for any programme.
External Links and Third-Party Services
Links to courts, government bodies, institutions, cases, or other websites are provided for reference. The Foundation does not control an external site's availability, security, accuracy, accessibility, or privacy practice. A link does not amount to endorsement. Visitors should review the destination's current terms and privacy notice before submitting information or completing a transaction.
Privacy and Submitted Information
Information submitted through the site is handled according to the site's privacy notice and applicable law. Visitors are responsible for providing accurate information that they are authorized to share. Details about another person should not be submitted without a lawful reason and appropriate authority.
These terms do not replace the privacy notice. The terms explain permitted site use, while the privacy notice explains the collection, use, retention, sharing, and protection of personal information.
Availability, Accuracy, and Liability Limits
The Foundation works to keep material useful and the site available, but it cannot promise uninterrupted access, error-free content, or suitability for every purpose. To the extent permitted by law, use of general information is at the visitor's own judgment and risk. Nothing in these terms excludes a responsibility that cannot lawfully be excluded.
If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue to apply. A failure to enforce a provision once is not a permanent waiver. These terms should be read under applicable Indian law, subject to any mandatory forum or remedy available by law.
Questions About Site Use
Before raising a terms question, identify the page, action, date, and concern involved. Use the site's published communication channel for a focused enquiry. For a personal legal dispute, obtain advice from a qualified professional rather than treating these website terms as guidance on the merits of a case.