Terms and Conditions

INTRODUCTION

By accessing any part of this website, you agree to be bound by the latest version of the site terms and conditions of the Agreement (herein after referred to as EULA). Please check these periodically for any changes that may have been made. Goodwind Education and Career Consultancy Services may change these conditions at any time without any prior notice. The User of the site shall be deemed to have read the terms of the EULA and duly accepted them before browsing through the website.

REFERENCE OF TERMS USED IN EULA

  1. The term 'Goodwind' is used through this entire EULA to refer to the Website, its owner, directors, employees, and individuals / entities associated with the Owner.
  2. The term 'USER or YOU or YOUR' is used through this entire EULA to refer to the any person who access the website or who is/are registered at the website for various services provided by it (User would include individual/legal entity/society/group of people etc. or as the case may be).
  3. The term 'OUR WEBSITE' or 'WEBSITE' is used through this entire EULA to refer to the Website www.Goodwind.in.
  4. The term 'OUR PRODUCTS /SERVICES' is used through this entire EULA to refer to the products/ services offered at the Website or its associated entities, not including the advertisements that may be displayed on the Website.

ELIGIBILITY

  1. Use of the Website is available to all the persons/entities/companies/partnership firms etc., as the case may be. However, any registration on the website shall be by the person who is capable of entering into valid contract as per the Indian Contract Act, 1872.
  2. Persons who are “incompetent to contract” within the meaning of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 including minors, un-discharged insolvents etc. are not eligible to use the Website, except under the legal/constructive guardianship of such persons capable of entering into contract on behalf of such minor user/s.
  3. While registering with the Website, you represent that the information filled by you is correct and that you are duly authorized to accept this agreement and you have the authority to bind yourself / your business entity to this agreement. You further confirm that you shall use/browse the Website in terms of the EULA.
  4. Goodwind reserves the right to terminate your registration and refuse to provide you with access to the Website if it is brought to our notice or if it is discovered that you are using the site in violation of the EULA or at its sole discretion without any reason thereof.

REGISTRATION OBLIGATION

  1. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your User ID, Email Address and Password. You are responsible for all the activities that occur under your User ID, Email Address and Password. You agree, inter-alia, to;

    • Provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by Goodwind registration form (both personal and professional information), maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current, and complete at all times;
    • You must immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security, and;
    • ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session.
  2. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete or Goodwind has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or not in accordance with this Agreement, Goodwind has the right to indefinitely suspend or terminate or block access of your registration with the website.
  3. Goodwind shall not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this Clause.

ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION AND COMMUNICATION

When you use the Website or send emails or other data, information or communication to Goodwind, you agree and understand that you are communicating with Goodwind through electronic records. You consent to receive communications from us electronically. We will communicate with you by email or by posting notices on the Website or through any other Goodwind services.

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES

  1. Goodwind is a Overseas Education and Visa consultancy. We leverage experience, technology and research to best support the user's requirements.
  2. By entering into the present agreement, you accept that you are using the services rendered at Goodwind at your sole discretion without any undue influence of the Goodwind and at your sole responsibility (under supervision of guardian in case of minors).
  3. You further agree to ensure that you will ensure that you avail the services with due care and due diligence and as per the terms & conditions of the EULA and the respective service you are availing.

FEES

  1. Goodwind shall charge the fee for the services provided as per the structure provided on the website. By using the services which are subject to payment, as mentioned therein, you accept to pay for the same before using the services.
  2. You further undertake not to raise any dispute the fee charged for the services in any manner whatsoever as you have agreed to the same out of free will and without any undue influence.
  3. You further undertake that you have read the Terms & Conditions of the Payment that may be prompted when you move towards payment of the paid services and have accepted the same before making the payment.
  4. Goodwind uses third party payments providers to receive payments from user. Goodwind is not responsible for delays or erroneous transactions execution or cancellation of orders due to payment issues. Goodwind takes utmost care to work with 3rd party payment providers, but does not control their systems, processes, technology and work flows, hence cannot be held responsible for any fault at the end of payment providers.
  5. The fee to be charged by Goodwind from users shall be decided solely by Goodwind and the user/s shall have no right/say to interfere in the same.

TAXES

You agree to bear all applicable taxes, charges cess etc. levied on the services being rendered to you as notified by the Central/State Govt. time to time, unless already included in the price offered.

REFUND POLICY

Goodwind renders services including but not limited to university recommendations, visa consultations etc, which act as a bonafide guide to the user. There is no provision for refund of fee paid by the User/s. The user/s is therefore deemed to have understood and accepted that once the fee is paid to Goodwind for whichever service they may wish to avail, there shall be no refund of the said Fee. That said, we do want you to be satisfied by the services provided to you. Please contact us at goodwind.mgmt@gmail.com in case of any concerns.

TERM AND TERMINATION OF THE CONTRACT

  1. There shall be no Contract between Goodwind and the user/s until the services are availed by user/s against consideration. The Access to the free portion of the website is only for welfare of the user and does not give rise to any Contract between the user/s and the Goodwind in any manner.
  2. The Contract against consideration for the services shall be strictly in terms of the services availed and shall end as soon as the services are rendered.

  3. Goodwind is entitled to terminate the contract at all times and with immediate effect (by disabling your use of the Website and the Service) if you;

    • Violate or breach any term of this EULA, or
    • In the opinion of Goodwind, misuse the Website or Service, or
    • At the sole discretion of the Goodwind for which Goodwind is under no obligation to assign any reason.
  4. Goodwind is not obliged to give prior notice of the termination of contract.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OWNERSHIP

  1. Goodwind alone (and its licensors, where applicable) shall own all right, title and interest, including all intellectual all property rights, in and to the Website and Service and any suggestions, ideas, enhancement requests, feedback, recommendations or other information provided by you or any other party relating to the Website or the Service.
  2. You may not use, copy, adapt, modify, create derivative works from, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, transmit, stream, broadcast or otherwise exploit the Website, Service or Collective Content, except as expressly permitted in this Goodwind. You may not use any Collective Content without first obtaining the written consent of Goodwind.
  3. No licenses or rights are granted to you by implication or otherwise under any intellectual property rights owned or controlled by Goodwind or its licensors, accept for the licenses and rights expressly granted in this Agreement.
  4. This EULA does not constitute a sale and does not convey to you any rights of ownership in or related to the Website, or any intellectual property rights owned by Goodwind. Goodwind's name, logo, and the product names associated with the Website and the Service are trademarks of Owner, its affiliated companies or third parties, and no right or license is granted to use them.

WEBSITE LICENSE

  1. Subject to your compliance with these EULA, Goodwind grants you a limited non-exclusive, non-transferable license for the use of the Website.

  2. You shall not indulged in any of the following activities:

    • License, sub license, sell, resell, transfer , assign, distribute or otherwise commercially exploit or make available to any third party the Service or Website in any way;
    • Modify or make derivative works based upon the Service or Website;
    • Create internet “links” to the Service or “frame” or “mirror” any Website or any other server or wireless or Internet - based device;

    • Reverse engineer or access the Website in order to:

      • Design or build a competitive product or service,
      • Design or build a product using similar ideas, features, functions, or graphics of the Service or Website' or
    • Copy any ideas, features, functions or graphics of the Service or Website
    • Launch an automated program or script, including, but not limited to, web spiders, web crawlers, web robots, web ants, we indexers, bots, viruses or worms or any program which may make multiple server requests per second, or unduly burdens or hinders the operation and/ or performance of the Website.
    • Send spam or otherwise duplicative or unsolicited messages in violation of applicable laws;
    • Send or store infringing, obscene, threatening, libelous, or otherwise unlawful or tortuous material, including material harmful to children or violative of third party privacy rights;
    • Send or store material containing software viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other harmful computer code, files, scripts, agents or programs;
    • Interfere with or disrupt the integrity or the performance of the Website, the Website or Service or the data contained therein;
    • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the website.
    • will not authorize others to use your account;
    • will not assign or otherwise transfer your account to any other person or legal entity;
    • will not use an account that is subject to any rights of a person other than you without appropriate authorization;
    • will not use the Service or website for unlawful purposes, including but not limited to sending or storing any unlawful material or for fraudulent purposes;
    • will provide us with whatever proof of identity we may reasonably request;
    • will comply with all the applicable law from your home nation, the country, state and/ or city in which you are present while using the Website or the Service.
  3. Goodwind will have the right to investigate and prosecute violations of any of the above to the fullest extent of the law. Goodwind may involve and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who violate these User Terms.
  4. You acknowledge that Goodwind has no obligation to monitor your access to or use of the Website, Service or Collective Content or to review or edit any Collective Content, but has the right to do so for the purpose of operating the Website, to ensure your compliance with these User Terms or to comply with the applicable law or the order or requirement of a court, administrative agency or other governmental body.
  5. Goodwind reserves the right, at any time and without prior notice, to remove or disable access to any Collective Content that Goodwind, at its sole discretion, considers to be in violation of these User Terms or otherwise harmful to the Website, the Service or Website.

CONDITIONS FOR USE OF WEBSITE

  1. Please note that in accordance with the Information Technology (Intermediaries guidelines) Rules 2011 and further guidelines as may be issued by the appropriate government time to time, in case of non compliance with rules and regulations, user agreement and privacy policy, for access or usage of intermediaries computer resources, the Intermediary has the right to immediately terminate the access or usage rights of the users to the computer resources of Intermediaries and remove non- complaint information.
  2. You warrant that the information you provide to Goodwind is accurate and complete. Goodwind is entitled at all times to verify the information that you have provided and to refuse the Service or use of the website without providing reasons.

  3. In term of Information Technology ( Intermediaries guidelines ) Rules 2011, you agree and undertake that you shall not host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any information or share /list (s) any information or item that :

    • Belongs to the another person and to which You do not have any right ;
    • Is grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, libelous, invasive of anothers privacy, hateful or racially, ethically, 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” within the meaning of the Indecent Representation of Women ( Prohibition) Act,1986;
    • Harm minors in any way;
    • Infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights or third patry's trade secrets or right of publicity or privacy or shall not be fraudulent or involved the sale of counterfeit or stolen items;
    • Involves the transmissions of “junk mails”, “chain letters”, or unsolicited mask mailing or “spamming”;
    • Violates any law for the time being in force;
    • Deceives or misleads addressee/ users about the origin of such messages or communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in nature;
    • Impersonate another person;
    • Contains software viruses or any other computer code, file or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resources;
    • Threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign states, or public order or causes incitement to the communication of any cognizable offence or prevents investigation of any offence or is insulting any other nation.
    • Shall not be false, inaccurate or misleading;
  4. Goodwind further reserves the right at its sole discretion to block or remove (in whole or in part) any content posted or transmitted by you and which Goodwind believes is not in accordance with this EULA (including materials which infringe or may infringe third party intellectual property rights, rights of privacy or personality rights), or is otherwise unacceptable to Goodwind. You agree to promptly notify Goodwind in writing of any user content which breaches these User Terms. You agree to provide to Goodwind sufficient information to enable Goodwind to investigate whether such User Content breaches the terms of EULA. Goodwind agrees to make good faith efforts to investigate such complaint and shall take such notice as Goodwind in its sole discretion decides. However, Goodwind does not warrant or represent that it will block or remove (in whole or in part) such user Content.

CONSEQUENCES OF BREACH OF TERMS

  1. Without limiting other remedies, Goodwind may limit your activity, immediately remove your information or end your registration, warn other Users of your actions, temporarily/ indefinitely suspend or terminate or block your membership, and/ or refuse to provide you with access to the Website in the event, but not limited to following activities:

    • If you breach the EULA or Privacy Policy or the documents, agreements rules, policies, terms and conditions as incorporated herein by reference;
    • If Goodwind is unable to verify or authenticate any information provided by you; or
    • If it is believed that your actions may cause legal liability for other Users or Goodwind.
  2. User/s who has been suspended or blocked may not register or attempt to register with Goodwind or use the Website in any manner whatsoever until such time that such user/s is permitted to do so by Goodwind.
  3. Notwithstanding the forgoing, if you breach the EULA or any other documents it incorporates by reference, Goodwind reserves the right to forfeit the money paid by you to Goodwind and to take strict legal action including but not limited to a referral to the appropriate police or the other authorities for initiating criminal or other proceedings against you.
  4. Goodwind reserves its right to initiate civil and/ or criminal proceedings against a user/s who, furnishes invalid/false claim or misleading information to Goodwind. Any person who, knowingly and with an intent to injure, defraud or deceive Goodwind, files Fraudulent information containing false, incomplete, or misleading information shall be guilty of a criminal offence and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent to the law.

DEFICIENCY IN SERVICE

  • Goodwind reserves the right to temporarily/ indefinitely suspend or terminate your registration and refuse to provide you with access to all current and future use of the Website at its sole discretion which shall not be termed as deficiency in service in any manner as per law and the user/s hereby expressly waives its right to call in question in any manner, any such suspension/termination of services by the Goodwind.
  • Further, Goodwind reserves its right to suspend the operation of the website for updation/repair/technical fault or any other reason as the case may be for which it shall not be liable in any manner including for deficiency of service under the applicable laws.

INDEMNITY

  • You confirm that you shall be responsible for any damage that may be caused to Goodwind for wrongful use of the website or its content by you including but not limited to Intellectual property Violations/Breach of terms & Conditions of EULA or in any manner as the case may be.

  • By accepting User Terms and using the Website or Service, you agree that you shall defend, indemnify and hold Goodwind, its affiliates, third- parties and their respective shareholders, officers, directors, agents, and employees, form any losses, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses, claim or demand, or actions including reasonable attorneys' fees asserted against or incurred by Goodwind, made by any third party arising out of or in connection with:

    • Your violation or breach of any term of these User Terms or any applicable law or regulation, whether or not referred herein;
    • Your violation of any rights of any third party, including experts arranged via the Website, or
    • Your use or misuse of the Website or Services.

LIABILITY

  1. The information, recommendations and/ or services provided to you on or through the Website, the Service and the Website is for general information purposes only as bonafide guidance and does not constitute any commitment of performance of user in any manner.
  2. Goodwind will reasonably keep the site and its contents correct and up to date but does not guarantee that (the contents of) the Website are free of errors, defects, malware and the viruses of that the Website are correct, up to date and accurate.
  3. Goodwind endeavors to render the utmost quality of the services rendered, however shall not be liable in any manner for any interruption in service for any reasons whatsoever.
  4. Goodwind may permit advertisements of third parties on the website and shall not be responsible for the contents/assurances/services or anything relating to such third party advertisement in any manner whatsoever.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

  1. In no event shall Goodwind be liable for the amount more than that Rs. 5000 or amount received by the Goodwind from complainant user/s, whichever is lower, for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, incidental, consequential or exemplary damages including but not limited to damages for non admission/performance/loss of goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses arising out of or in connection with the website, its services or this agreement (however arising, including negligence).

  2. Goodwind assumes no liability whatsoever for any monetary or other damage suffered by you on account of:

  3. The delay, failure, interruption, or corruption of any data or other information transmitted in connection with use of the Website;
  4. Any interruption or errors in the operation of the Website.

NOTICE

  1. Goodwind may give notice by means of a general notice on the Website, or by electronic mail to your e-mail address on record in Goodwind's account information, or by written communication sent by regular mail to your address on record in Goodwind's account information.
  2. You agree that all the agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically shall be deemed adequate service of notice/ electronic record and satisfy any legal requirement that such communication be in writing in terms of the present EULA.

DISPUTE RESOLUTION

The parties shall attempt that in the event of their being any dispute between them during your use of the Website or thereafter, in connection with the validity, interpretation, implementation or alleged breach of any provision of the User Agreement, or the documents they incorporate by reference or anything relating to the present EULA, the dispute is settled by mutual discussion. In the event of failure of discussion the dispute shall be referred to a sole Arbitrator, who shall be an independent and neutral third party appointed by Goodwind. The place of arbitration shall be Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The Arbitration proceedings shall be in the Gujarati or English Language (as preferred by Goodwind) and shall be governed by Arbitration & Conciliation Act, 1996.

JURISDICTION

For any dispute arising out of the present agreement only the Courts at Gujarat would fall under Jurisdiction and you undertake not to raise challenge to the jurisdiction clause in any manner and accept the jurisdiction of the Court at Gujarat.

SEVERABILITY

If any clause of this Agreement shall be deemed invalid, void or for any reason unenforceable, such clause shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining clauses of the Agreement.

GENERAL

  1. Assignment: You cannot assign or otherwise transfer this agreement or any rights granted here under to any third party. Goodwind may transfer its rights and obligations(also known as “assign”) under this Agreement without your prior express consent, provided that Goodwind assigns the Agreement on the same terms or terms that are no less advantageous to you.
  2. Legal Advice: You undertake that you had every opportunity to take legal opinion on the present agreement and have understood the legal implications of every clause before agreeing to the same in totality and using the Website.