Subscriber Terms

Terms of Use for the use of "newsadda.techotd.in" ("Website") and the other Services provided by News Adda

News Adda ("us", "we", or "News Adda") is the author and publisher of the website "newsadda.techotd.in" ("Website") and provides the services available through the Website.

These Terms of Use constitute the agreement (the "Agreement" or "Terms of Use") among News Adda and the client of News Adda's Services ("User", as defined in Section 2 of this agreement). Your utilization of News Adda's Services, which incorporate Website and different subordinate Services available on the Website and for which no sum is payable for use (hereinafter individually referred to as the "Service" and collectively referred to as the "Services") is subject to the following terms and conditions. News Adda does not currently offer any paid subscription or other paid service. If any change of policy regarding services takes place, News Adda will notify its users accordingly.

This Agreement is an electronic record as far as Information Technology Act, 2000 and generated by a computer framework and doesn't require any physical or computerized marks. This Agreement is distributed as per accordance of Rule 3 (1) of the Information Technology (Intermediaries rules) Rules, 2011 that require publishing the principles and guidelines, privacy policy and Terms of Use for access or use of the Services.

This Agreement provides the terms and conditions for the usage of services, primarily the Website. The Website is owned and operated by News Adda.

1. YOUR AGREEMENT WITH NEWS ADDA

1.1 We reserve the right to modify the Terms of Use at any time without giving you any prior notice. Your utilization of the Services following any such alteration comprises your consent to follow and be bound by the terms of use as modified. Any additional terms and conditions, disclaimers, privacy policies and other policies applicable to general and specific areas of these Services or to specific Services are also considered as Terms of Use. By agreeing to these terms, you also agree to the terms of utilization of the Service, which are accessible at the Website.

1.2 You acknowledge that you will be bound by this Agreement for availing any of the Services offered by us.

1.3 Your access to use the Services will be solely at the discretion of Website.

2. WHO IS NEWS ADDA?

News Adda is the author and publisher of the Website newsadda.techotd.in and its associated services (including all files and images contained in or generated by the Website, together the "Software"). The Services have been designed for use by the general public requiring news, updates and other information across India, International, Politics, Crime, Sports, Business, Technology, Entertainment, Health, Education, Lifestyle, Auto and Trending.

News Adda makes no express or implied representations about the services. News Adda does not authorize anyone to make a warranty on News Adda's behalf and you may not rely on any statement of warranty as a warranty by News Adda. All users of the Services are together termed as ("Users"or "you" or "your").

3. TERMS OF USE

3.1 By utilizing the Services, you agree that you have read and understood these Terms of Use and you consent to be bound by these Terms of Use and utilize these Services in consistence with these Terms of Use. PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY. IN THE EVENT THAT YOU DO NOT AGREE TO BE BOUND BY (OR CANNOT COMPLY WITH) ANY OF THE TERMS BELOW, DO NOT CLICK/SIGN THE "I AGREE" BOX, DO NOT COMPLETE THE REGISTRATION PROCESS, AND DO NOT ATTEMPT TO USE THE SERVICE. You explicitly represent and warrant that you won't utilize these Services in the event that you do not understand, consent to become a party to, and abide by all of the terms and conditions specified below. Any violation of these Terms of Use may result in legal liability upon you. Nothing in these Terms of Use should be construed to confer any rights to any third party or any other person. YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE MEANS YOU ARE CONSENTING TO THIS AGREEMENT.

3.2 The Agreement is published in compliance of, and is governed by the provisions of Indian law, including but limited to:

3.2.1 The Indian Contract Act, 1872,

3.2.2 The (Indian) Information Technology Act, 2000, and

3.2.3 The rules, regulations, guidelines and clarifications framed thereunder, including the (Indian) Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Information) Rules, 2011 (the "SPI Rules"), and the (Indian) Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011 (the "IG Rules").

3.3 News Adda provides a condition to users for the use and access to the Website that is User's acceptance of this Agreement. If a user does not agree with any provision of the same, such user is required to leave this computer resource/ the Website immediately and immediately discontinue use of all Services available at the News Adda.

3.4 News Adda authorizes the User to view and access the content available on the Website as per this Agreement. The contents of the Services, information, text, graphics, images, logos, button icons, software code, design, and the collection, arrangement and assembly of content on the Website (collectively, "News Adda Content"), are the property of News Adda and are protected under copyright, trademark and other laws. User is not permitted to modify the News Adda Content or reproduce, display, publicly perform, distribute, or otherwise use the News Adda Content in any way for any public or commercial purpose or for personal gain.

3.5 Multiple Users are not permitted to share the same/single login.

3.6 The Services are made available to individual Users. News Adda does not currently offer paid subscriptions or organisation/company accounts.

3.7 Users may not transfer (including by way of sublicense, lease, assignment or other transfer, including by operation of law) their login or right to utilize the Services of the Website to any third party. You, the User, are exclusively responsible for the manner in which anyone you have authorized to utilize the Services and for ensuring that all of such Users comply with all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Any violation of the terms and/or conditions of this Agreement by any such User shall be deemed to be a violation thereof by you.

3.8 These Terms of Use will also be applicable to Users who access Website features.

3.9 You agree that any registration information you give to News Adda will always be true, accurate, correct, complete and up to date, to our knowledge.

3.10 You agree that you will not use the Services provided by News Adda for any unauthorized and unlawful purpose.

3.11 You agree to use the Services only for purposes that are permitted by (a) the Terms of Use and (b) any applicable law, regulation and generally accepted practices or guidelines in the relevant jurisdictions (including any laws regarding the export of data or software to and from India or other relevant countries).

3.12 You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the services of the Website by any means other than through the interface that is provided by News Adda, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with News Adda.

3.13 You agree that you will not engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the Website (or the servers and networks which are connected to the Services).

3.14 You agree that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, transfer, license, rent, sell, trade or resell the contents or any other Services available on the Website for any purpose whatsoever.

3.15 You agree that you are solely responsible for (and that News Adda has no responsibility to you or to any third party for) any breach of your obligations under the Terms of Use and for the consequences (including any loss or damage which News Adda may suffer) of any such breach.

3.16 You shall indemnify News Adda for any claims, losses or damages, or for the costs of any regulatory or court proceedings suffered by News Adda as a result of your breach under any applicable law.

3.17 You expressly acknowledge and agree that your use of the Website is at your sole risk and that the services on Website are provided "as is" and "as available".

3.18 You agree that you will not make any unsolicited calls or use any information displayed on the News Adda Website to breach any applicable rules and guidelines related to unsolicited commercial communications, including but not limited to regulations & guidelines such as TRAI guidelines for telemarketers, or otherwise violate applicable law while using the Services.

3.19 You agree that this Agreement and the Services of News Adda are subject to any modification, or may be removed by News Adda, as a result of change in government regulations, policies and local laws as applicable.

3.20 You agree and understand that you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of passwords associated with any login you use to access the Website.

3.21 Your use of Website confers upon you only the rights and obligations relating to Website, and not to any other Service or service that may be provided by News Adda.

4. Use of Services

4.1 News Adda does not transfer either the title or the intellectual property rights, and News Adda (or its licensors) retain full and complete title to the Website as well as all intellectual property rights therein. User agrees to use the Services and the materials provided therein only for purposes that are permitted by: (a) this Agreement; and (b) any applicable law, regulation or generally accepted practices or guidelines in the relevant jurisdictions. Information provided by a User to News Adda may be used, stored or republished by News Adda even after the termination of these Terms of Service.

4.2 News Adda offers its Services on as is basis and has the sole right to modify any content or customize them at its discretion and there shall be no obligation to honour customisation requests of any User.

4.3 User shall not access the Services of News Adda if the User or the organization that he/she/it represents is News Adda's direct competitor, except with News Adda's prior written consent. In addition, the User shall not access the Website for purposes of monitoring performance or functionality, or for any other benchmarking or competitive purposes.

4.4 News Adda provides, at its discretion basic support for the services at no charge and will make reasonable efforts to keep the Website available, except for (i) planned downtime (of which News Adda if thinks fit can notify in advance notice to Users, or (ii) any unavailability caused by circumstances beyond News Adda's reasonable control, including without limitation, acts of God, acts of government, flood, fire, earthquakes, civil unrest, acts of terror, strikes or other labour problems, or internet service provider failures or delays. News Adda will provide the Services only in accordance with applicable laws and government regulations.

4.5 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, News Adda does not warrant that its Services will always function without disruptions, delay or errors. A number of factors may impact the use of the Services (depending on the Services used) and may result in the failure of your communications including but not limited to: your local network, firewall, your internet service provider, the public internet, your power supply and telephony services. News Adda takes no responsibility for any disruption, interruption or delay caused by any failure or inadequacy in any of these items or any other items over which we have no control.

4.6 In the event the Website is not available due to apparent default at News Adda's end or are rendered unusable, News Adda may notify the user with respect to the period of non-availability of the Website. However, you shall agree that News Adda is not responsible and will not be held liable for any failure of intermediary services such as internet connectivity failure or telephonic disconnections.

4.7 The Services may be subject to certain limitations, such as technical limitations and other factors.

4.8 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, News Adda does not guarantee or make any representation with respect to the correctness, completeness or accuracy of the information or detail provided by End-Users or any third party through the Website.

4.9 News Adda may, at its sole discretion, suspend User's ability to use or access the Website at any time while News Adda investigates complaints or alleged violations of this Agreement, or for any other reason.

4.10 News Adda reserves the right to use all information captured from the user while user visits the Website.

4.11 News Adda reserves the right to use the following types of information stored in our Website:

• Account information provided by Users at registration;
• Information provided by Users through the contact form, newsletter subscription or comments (where enabled).

4.12 News Adda will not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension, or discontinuance of the Services, or parts thereof.

5. Collection, Use, Storage and Transfer of Personal Information

5.1 The terms "personal information" and "sensitive personal data or information" are defined under the SPI Rules, and are reproduced in the privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") available in the Website.

6. Covenants

6.1 As mandated by Regulation 3(2) of the IG Rules, News Adda hereby informs the User that the User is not permitted to host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any information on the Website that:

• Belongs to another person and to which the User does not have any right to;
• Is grossly 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;
• Harm minors in any way;
• Infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights;
• Violates any law for the time being in force;
• Deceives or misleads the addressee (or EndUser or User) 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, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource;
• 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.

6.2 The User is also prohibited from:

• Violating or attempting to violate the integrity or security of the Website Services or any News Adda software;
• Transmitting any information (including messages and hyperlinks) on or through the Services that is disruptive or competitive to the provision of Services by News Adda;
• Intentionally submitting on the Services any incomplete, false or inaccurate information;
• Making any unsolicited communications to other Users;
• Using any engine, software, tools, agent or other device or mechanism (such as spiders, robots, avatars or intelligent agents) to navigate or search the Service;
• Attempting to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any part of the Services unless explicitly permitted by News Adda;
• Copying or duplicating in any manner any of the News Adda content or other information available from the Service;
• Framing or hotlinking or deep linking any News Adda content.
• Circumventing or disabling any digital rights management, usage rules, or other security features of the Website.

6.3 News Adda, upon obtaining knowledge by itself or being brought to actual knowledge by an affected person in writing or through email signed with electronic signature about any such information as mentioned in Section 6.2 above, shall be entitled to disable such information that is in contravention of Section 6.2. News Adda shall be entitled to preserve such information and associated records for at least 90 (ninety) days for service on to governmental or investigative authorities for investigation purposes.

6.4 In case of noncompliance with any applicable laws, rules or regulations, or the Agreement (including the privacy policy) by a User, News Adda has the right to immediately terminate the access or usage rights of the User to the Services and to remove non-compliant information.

6.5 News Adda may disclose or transfer User Information (as defined in the privacy policy) as described in the privacy policy. The SPI Rules only permit News Adda to transfer sensitive personal data or information including any information, to any other body corporate or a person in India, or located in any other country, that ensures the same level of data protection that is adhered to by News Adda as provided for under the SPI Rules, only if such transfer is necessary for the performance of the lawful contract between News Adda or any person on its behalf and the user or where the User has consented to data transfer.

6.6 News Adda respects the intellectual property rights of others and we do not hold any responsibility for any violations of any intellectual property rights.

7. Liability

7.1 News Adda shall not be responsible or liable in any manner to the Users for any losses, damages, injuries or costs incurred by the Users as a result of any disclosures made by News Adda, where the User has consented to the making of disclosures by News Adda. If the User had denied such consent under the terms of the privacy policy, then News Adda shall not be responsible or liable in any manner to the User for any losses, damages, injuries or expenses incurred by the User as a result of any disclosures made by News Adda prior to its actual receipt of such revocation.

7.2 The User shall not hold News Adda responsible or liable in any way for any disclosures by News Adda under Regulation 6 of the SPI Rules.

7.3 News Adda shall not be liable for ways in which data shared by Users on the Website is used by other Users or third parties.

7.4 The Website services of News Adda may be linked to the services of third parties. News Adda has no control over, and not liable or responsible for content, accuracy, validity, reliability, quality of such Services or made available by/through our Services. Inclusion of any link on the Website does not imply that News Adda endorses the linked site. User may use the links and these services at User's own risk.

7.5 News Adda shall not be liable for any damages to, or viruses that may infect User's equipment on account of User's access to, use of, or browsing the Services or the downloading of any material, data, text, images, from the Website. If a User is dissatisfied with the Service, User's sole remedy is to discontinue using the News Adda's Website.

7.6 The Website services may enable User to communicate with other Users or to post information to be accessed by others, whereupon other Users may collect such data. Such Users, including any moderators or administrators, are not authorized News Adda representatives or agents, and their opinions or statements do not necessarily reflect those of News Adda, and they are not authorized to bind News Adda to any contract. News Adda hereby expressly disclaims any liability for any reliance or misuse of such information that is made available by Users or visitors in such a manner.

7.7 News Adda or any of its directors, officers, employees, agents or content or service providers (collectively, the "protected entities") shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages arising from, or directly or indirectly related to the use of services or the content, materials and functions related thereto, User's provision of information via the Services of the News Adda, lost business or lost sales, even if such protected entity has been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event shall the protected entities be liable to the user for damages or losses or cause of action beyond the extent permitted under applicable law.

7.8 In no event shall the protected entities be liable for failure on the part of the Users to provide agreed Services. In no event shall the protected entities be liable for any comments or feedback given by any of the Users in relation to the Services provided by a User.

8. Indemnity

User consent to indemnify and hold innocuous, without opposition, News Adda, its officials, executives, workers and operators from and against any claims, activities as well as requests as well as liabilities or potentially misfortunes or potentially harms emerging from or resulting from their utilization of and use of the Website or their breach of the terms.

9. Spamming

News Adda has a zero tolerance spam policy. News Adda employs controls on user permission to receive Content from News Adda's Services and has easily accessible ways for users to block or not receive content if they chose to. However, News Adda's policy on spam is clearly stated below:

Spamming is defined as the practice of (i) sending unsolicited messages, likely with commercial content, (ii) in large quantities (iii) to an indiscriminate set of recipients. The result of this practice is termed "Spam".

10. Term, Termination and Disputes

10.1 News Adda reserves the right to suspend or terminate a User's access to the Website and the Services with or without notice and to exercise any other remedy available under law, in cases where such user breaches any terms and conditions of the agreement; an outsider reports infringement of any of its privilege because of your utilization of the Administrations; News Adda is unable to verify or authenticate any information provided to News Adda by a user; News Adda has reasonable grounds for suspecting any illicit, false or abusive activity on the part of such user; or News Adda believes in its sole prudence that user's activity may cause lawful obligation for such user, other users or for News Adda or are contrary to the interest of the site.

10.2 Once temporarily suspended, indefinitely suspended or terminated, the User may not continue to use the Website under the same account, a different account or re-register under a new account. On termination of an account due to the reasons mentioned herein, such User shall no longer have access to data, messages, files and other material kept on the Website by such User. The User shall ensure that he/she/it has continuous backup of his/her data the User has rendered in order to comply with the User's record keeping process and practices.

10.3 User's Data: A User may request access to, correction of, or deletion of their personal data as described in the Privacy Policy. After termination of a User's account, News Adda will retain or delete the User's data in accordance with the Privacy Policy and applicable law.

10.4 This Agreement and any contractual obligation between News Adda and User will be governed by the laws of India.

10.5 Even after termination, certain obligations mentioned under Covenants, Liability, Indemnity, Intellectual Property, Dispute Resolution will continue and survive termination.

10.6 Any amendment in these Terms shall replace all previous versions of the same.

11. Theft of Services

If the content of the user is stolen or it came to the knowledge of the user that his/her account with the service is being misused or being used fraudulently, then the user agrees to notify News Adda immediately in writing or by mail to contactus@newsadda.techotd.in. User must provide the account details and detailed description of the circumstances of the theft or fraudulent use of the services while mailing News Adda. User will be liable for all use of the Services if his/her account is misused and also for any and all stolen services or fraudulent use of the service. This includes, but is not limited to, modem hijacking, wireless hijacking, or other fraud arising out of a failure of your internal or corporate security procedures.

12. Misuse of Services

News Adda may restrict, suspend or terminate the account of any User who abuses or misuses the Services. Misuse includes creating multiple or false profiles, infringing any intellectual property rights, violating any of the terms and conditions of these Terms of Use, or any other behavior that News Adda, in its sole discretion, deems contrary to its purpose. In addition, and without limiting the foregoing, News Adda has adopted a policy of terminating accounts of users who, in News Adda's sole discretion, are deemed to be repeat infringers of any Terms of Use even after being warned by News Adda.

13. Severability and Waiver

If any provision of this Terms of Use is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be struck and the remaining provisions shall be enforced.

14. Contact Information

If a User has any question concerning News Adda, Services, the Service, this Agreement, please contact our customer support at the following email address: contactus@newsadda.techotd.in or via the contact information available from the Contact us.

Last Updated: October 8, 2026