This document is an electronic record in terms of Information Technology Act, 2000 and rules there under as applicable and the amended provisions pertaining to electronic records in various statutes as amended by the Information Technology Act, 2000. The domain name www.flanknot.com (hereinafter referred to as "Website") is owned by Flankknot (hereinafter referred to as "The Company") a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956. Your use of the Website and services and tools are governed by the following terms and conditions ("Terms of Use") as applicable to the Website including the applicable policies which are incorporated herein by way of reference. If You transact on the Website, you shall be subject to the policies that are applicable to the Website for such transaction. By mere use of the Website, you shall be contracting with Flankknot the company and these terms and conditions including the policies constitute Your binding obligations, with Flankknot the company. For the purpose of these Terms of Use, wherever the context so requires "You" or "User" shall mean any natural or legal person who has agreed to transact on the Website by providing Registration Data while registering on the Website as Registered User using the computer systems. The website flanknot.com on registration allows the user to create his/her professional seafaring profile along with dynamic resumes and also upload the his/her professional documents. When You use any of the services provided by Us through the Website, including but not limited to, (getting best course rates and job openings) You will be subject to the rules, guidelines, policies, terms, and conditions applicable to such service, and they shall be deemed to be incorporated into this Terms of Use and shall be considered as part and parcel of this Terms of Use. We reserve the right, at Our sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of these Terms of Use, at any time without any prior written notice to You. It is Your responsibility to review these Terms of Use periodically for updates / changes. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of changes will mean that You accept and agree to the revisions. As long as You comply with these Terms of Use, we grant You a personal, non-exclusive,non-transferable, limited privilege to enter and use the Website. Membership Eligibility Members that are minors, un-discharged insolvents etc. are not eligible to use the Website. If you are a minor i.e. under the age of 18 years, you shall not register as a User of the website and shall not transact on or use the website. As a minor if you wish to use or transact on website, such use or transaction may be made by your legal guardian or parents on the Website. The Company reserves the right to terminate your membership and / or refuse to provide you with access to the Website if it is brought to the Company’s notice. Your Account and Registration Obligations If You use the Website, you shall be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Username and Password and You shall be responsible for all activities that occur under your Username. You agree that if You provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete. And/or we have reasonable grounds to suspect that your provided information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or not in accordance with Terms of Use, we shall have the right to indefinitely suspend or terminate or block access of your membership on the Website and refuse to provide You with access to the Website. Your mobile phone number and/or e-mail address is treated as Your primary identifier on the Website. It is your responsibility to ensure that Your mobile phone number and your email address is up to date on the Website at all times. You agree to notify Us promptly if your mobile phone number or e-mail address changes by updating the same on the Website through a onetime password verification. Your Passport number / Indos number (for Indian seafarers) along with your Date of Birth are unique data connected to your primary identifier. You agree that flanknot.com shall not be liable or responsible for the activities or consequences of use or misuse of any information that occurs under your display name in cases where You have failed to update Your revised mobile phone number and/or e-mail address on the Website or shared your login details with someone. Communications When You use the Website to share your professional data with a company or friends, you agree and understand that you are communicating with us through electronic records and You consent to receive communications like quick responses via electronic records from companies and friends via Flanknot. We also present your information’s to institutes / companies or advertisers aligned with us, periodically and as and when required. You can apply for job openings through this website or take our assist in booking a course. We may communicate with you by email or by such other mode of communication, electronic or otherwise. Contents Posted on Site For Shipping Companies, all data including and not limited to details about the companies, licence, vessel details, job requirement, contact information, hiring procedure mentioned are sole responsibility of the company. The job openings are posted by Shipping Companies registered with us on the website. The website also displays jobs and openings that are circulating on various electronic and print formats. However, the authenticity of such requirements cannot be confirmed and it is the sole responsibility of the user to check genuineness of such job requirements. The website will present the user with options for course and best price possible. To avail the best price, the user will however have to book the course through the website. The Company does not make any representation or Warranty as to specifics (such as quality of course, premise accuracy,etc) offered by the institute. The Company is not responsible for any non-performance or breach of any contract entered into between User and Institute. The Company cannot and does not guarantee that the Institute will perform the course on the given date. The Company shall not and is not required to mediate or resolve any dispute or disagreement between the user and Institute. The Company is not responsible for unsatisfactory or delayed performance of courses. The website is only a platform that can be utilized by Users to reach a larger base to find the course required. The Company is not responsible to the outcome of job application. A positive QR does not guarantee a confirmed job. The QR feature is presented so that the user can know the status for his job application or sharing of resume to companies. The user has an option of blocking the resume viewer of giving a quick response QR. The content posted by user are details used in preparation of the user resume. The user can also upload documents related only to his profession. The user content will be open for viewing by companies, Institutes & Promoters. The data posted by the user will be monitored and if found inappropriate, will be taken off immediately without any prior notice. Promotions on your website There will be promotion content on the website. Registration Charges Registration on the Website is free for users. The Company does not charge any fee for browsing the Website. The Company reserves the right to change its Fee Policy from time to time. In particular, The Company may at its sole discretion introduce new services and modify some or all of the existing services offered on the Website.In such an event The Company reserves the right to introduce fees for the new services offered or amend/introduce fees for existing services, as the case may be. Changes to the Fee Policy shall be posted on the Website and such changes shall automatically become effective immediately after they are posted on the Website. Unless otherwise stated, all fees shall be quoted in Indian Rupees or US dollars. Use of the Website You agree, undertake and confirm that Your use of Website shall be strictly governed by the following binding principles. You shall not host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any information which belongs to another person and to which You does not have any right to. Harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, libellous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatever; or unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing including but not limited to "indecent representation of women" is prohibited. No data offensive to the online community, such as sexually explicit content, or content that promotes obscenity, paedophilia, racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual. No entries that Harasses or advocates harassment of another person. No involvement in the transmission of "junk mail", "chain letters", or unsolicited mass mailing or "spamming". No Promotions of illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libellous. Or Infringes upon or violates any third party's rights [including, but not limited to, intellectual property rights, rights of privacy (including without limitation unauthorized disclosure of a person's name, email address, physical address or phone number) or rights of publicity. Does not promotes illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music, videos, images or links to pirated files. No entries Containing restricted or password-only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page). No material that exploits people in a sexual, violent or otherwise inappropriate manner or solicits personal information from anyone. No information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses. No video, photographs, or images of another person (with a minor or an adult). No effort in trying to gain unauthorized access or exceeds the scope of authorized access to the Website or other areas of the Website or solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users Infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights or third party's trade secrets or rights of publicity or privacy or shall not be fraudulent or involve the sale of counterfeit or stolen products. No Impersonation of another person. Refrain from using data that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource; or contains any trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, easter eggs or other computer programming routines that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, diminish value of, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information. No Data that 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 cognizable offence or prevents investigation of any offence or is insulting any other nation. You shall not use any "deep-link", "page-scrape", "robot", "spider" or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Website or any Content. You shall not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion or feature of the Website, or any other systems or networks connected to the Website or to any server, computer, network, or to any of the services offered on or through the Website, by hacking, password "mining" or any other illegitimate means. You shall not make any negative, denigrating or defamatory statement(s) or comment(s) about us or the brand name or domain name used by us. You may not use the Website or any content for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use, or to solicit the performance of any illegal activity or other activity. The Company shall have all the rights to take necessary action and claim damages that may occur due to involvement/participation in wrong doings and unlawful activities. Indemnity You shall indemnify and hold harmless flanknot.com the website and Flankknot the company, its owner, licensee, affiliates, subsidiaries, group companies (as applicable) and their respective officers, directors, agents, and employees, from any claim or demand, or actions including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party or penalty imposed due to or arising out of Your breach of this Terms of Use, privacy Policy and other Policies, or Your violation of any law, rules or regulations or the rights (including infringement of intellectual property rights) of a third party. Applicable Law Terms of Use shall be governed by and interpreted and construed in accordance with the laws of India. The place of jurisdiction shall be exclusively in Mumbai. Trademark, Copyright and Restriction TThis Flanknot.com website is controlled and operated by Flankknot the company and courses are sold by respective Institutes. All shipping Companies & Maritime Institutes on this site, including images, illustrations, and video clips, are protected by copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights. Material on Website is solely for Your personal,non-commercial use. Grievance officer For any grievance contact our grievance officer at Email grievance@flanknot.com