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Manipal Media Network Ltd. (MMNL), an integrated media company reaching out to a wide cross-section of

the Kannada audience through its presence in print, television and digital sphere. From its humble beginnings in Manipal in 1948 as a small printer and publisher, MMNL has been the definitive agent of change, for the region of Coastal Karnataka and beyond. Today, after six decades of existence, with its footprints extending to every corner of Karnataka, MMNL is a unique voice of this state and the people who make up its diverse geography and enjoys strong brand recognition among both readers and advertisers.

Manipal Media Network Ltd. (MMNL), an integrated media company reaching out to a wide cross-section of the

Kannada audience through its presence in print, television and digital sphere. From its humble beginnings in Manipal in 1948 as a small printer and publisher, MMNL has been the definitive agent of change, for the region of Coastal Karnataka and beyond. Today, after six decades of existence, with its footprints extending to every corner of Karnataka, MMNL is a unique voice of this state and the people who make up its diverse geography and enjoys strong brand recognition among both readers and advertisers.

We collect personal information that you choose to provide voluntarily when using MMNL Websites.

This information name, address, occupation, date of birth, educational qualification details, email address and a password when you create your MMNL account. You may change your password anytime. Simply Login using your current password, then click "Change Password' and enter the new password. MMNL does not intentionally collect personal information about children under the age of 13. If you are under 13 and would like to use any or all of MMNL Websites, please ask a parent or guardian for assistance. Information we collect on MMNL Websites may be used to in the following ways:

Register you as a member of MMNL Websites
Communicate confirmation of Registration
Communicate confirmation of Subscriptions
Communicate new features to you via Newsletters (if opted for by you)
Respond to your customer-service inquiries or requests
Contact you for administrative/official purposes that enhance your use of the Website/s.

The security of your personal information is very important to us. In our efforts to protect your online transactions, your credit card details are accepted by a Secure Server running SSL (Secure Socket Layer) link, through a special arrangement with India's leading e-bank ICICI and conforming to the highest security standards. We never sell or rent your personal information to any third parties under any circumstances. We will share personal customer information only within our organisation for administrative and official purposes. Aside from the purposes described above, we will never share your personal information with any other third parties unless we have your express permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the disclosure is required by law. We may share aggregated demographic and statistical information with our partners. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person. Ultimately, your personal information is protected by the User Name/Login and Password you created when you created an account (or another password you chose after changing a previous password). You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of both. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. You also agree to notify MMNL immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. SITE SECURITYUsers are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the Site, including, without limitation, (a) accessing data not intended for such user or logging onto a server or an account which the user is not authorized to access; (b) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization; (c) attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to the Site, overloading, "flooding," "spamming," "mailbombing" or "crashing;" (d) sending unsolicited email, including promotions and/or advertising of products or services; or (e) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or newsgroup posting. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. You agree not to use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of this Site or any activity being conducted on this site. SUBSCRIBER/USER COMMENTS, FEEDBACK AND OTHER SUBMISSIONS All comments, feedback, messages, suggestions, ideas, and other submissions disclosed, submitted or offered to MMNL on or by its Websites or otherwise disclosed, submitted or offered in connection with your use of its Websites (collectively, the "Comments") shall be and remain MMNL property. Such disclosure, submission or offer of any Comments shall constitute an assignment to MMNL of all worldwide rights, titles and interests in all copyrights. Thus, MMNL will own exclusively all such rights, titles and interests and shall not be limited in any way in its use, commercial or otherwise, of any Comments. MMNL is and shall be under no obligation (1) to maintain any Comments in confidence; (2) to pay to user any compensation for any Comments; or (3) to respond to any user Comments. For this reason, we ask that you not send us any comments that you do not wish to assign to us, including any confidential information or any original creative materials such as stories, product ideas, computer code or original artwork. SUBSCRIBER/USER CONDUCT (for MMNL Message boards, Guest books) You shall use MMNL Website's interactive sections--the Message Board and Guest Book--for lawful purposes only. You shall not post or transmit through such sections any material which violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others, which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, vulgar, obscene, profane or otherwise objectionable, which encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any law, or which, without MMNL's express prior approval, contains advertising or any solicitation with respect to products or services. Any conduct by you that in MMNL's discretion restricts or inhibits any other Subscriber from using or enjoying MMNL Websites will not be permitted. You shall not use MMNL Websites to advertise or perform any commercial solicitation, including, but not limited to, the solicitation of users to become subscribers of other on-line information services competitive with MMNL Websites. MONITORING RIGHTS OF MMNL (for MMNL World Wide Web pages and for Message boards, Guest books in particular) MMNL shall have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the content of MMNL Website's interactive forums --the Message Board and Guest Book-- to determine compliance with this Agreement and any operating rules established by MMNL and to satisfy any law, regulation or authorized government request. MMNL shall have the right in its sole discretion to edit, refuse to post or remove any material submitted to or posted on these forums. TERMINATION These terms are effective unless and until terminated by either you or MMNL. You may terminate this Agreement at any time, provided that you discontinue any further use of this Site. MMNL also may terminate this Agreement at any time and may do so immediately without notice, and accordingly deny you access to its Websites, if in MMNL sole discretion you fail to comply with any term or provision of this Agreement. DISCLAIMER AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY You agree that you use and rely on material contained in the MMNL Websites at your own risk. All materials in MMNL Websites are provided "as is" and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, are provided without warranties of any kind either express or implied. This means, without limitation, that MMNL does not warrant that the Websites are fit for any particular purpose and in no event shall MMNL or any of its employees be liable for any special, indirect or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of this information. You acknowledge that MMNL or any of its employees are not liable for any defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct or material found in connection with the Websites, including such conduct or material transmitted by any means by any other person. You also acknowledge that MMNL or any of its employees are not liable for any damages, including, without limitation, direct, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, in connection with or arising from your use or from your inability to use the Websites. The information contained in MMNL World Wide Web pages could contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. MMNL reserve the right to make changes to any information contained within its World Wide Web pages and to make improvements and or changes in the products and programs described in its World Wide Web pages at any time and without notice.

Manipal Media Network Ltd.'s (MMNL) Websites include www.manipalmedia.com, www.udayavani.com,

www.tarangaonline.com and www.roopatara.com and your use of MMNL Websites constitutes your unconditional agreement to follow and be bound by these Terms of Use.Although you may directly access a particular portion of MMNL Websites and thereby bypass this Agreement, your use of MMNL Websites still binds you to the Terms of Use. MMNL reserves the right to update or modify these Terms of Use at any time without prior notice. Your use of MMNL Websites following any such change constitutes your unconditional agreement to follow and be bound by the Terms of Use as changed. For this reason, we encourage you to review these Terms of Use whenever you use MMNL Websites. COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARKS MMNL (India) is the copyright owner of all information contained within www.roopatara.com, www.tarangaonline.com and www.udayavani.com. All Rights Reserved. All Trademarks mentioned herein belong to MMNL, which expressly reserves all intellectual property rights in all text, programs, products, processes, technology, content and other materials which appear on these Web sites. Access to these Websites does not confer and shall not be considered as conferring upon anyone any license under any of MMNL's intellectual property rights. MMNL, Udayavani, Roopatara, Taranga names and logos and all related service names, design marks and slogans are the trademarks of MMNL. All software used on MMNL Websites is the property of MMNL and protected international copyright laws. Any use other than permitted by MMNL, including the reproduction, modification, distribution, transmission, republication, display, or performance, of the software is strictly prohibited. In accessing the MMNL's webpages, you agree that you will access the contents solely for your own private use but not for any commercial or public use. This means that you may only view or download material from MMNL Websites for your own use and you must keep all copyright and other proprietary notices attached to the downloaded material. All materials contained in this Site are protected by international trademark and copyright laws and must be used only for personal non-commercial purposes. The reproduction, duplication, distribution (including by way of email, facsimile or other electronic means), publication, modification, copying or transmission of material from MMNL Websites is strictly prohibited unless you have obtained the prior written consent from MMNL or unless it is expressly permitted by the Websites. The material covered by this prohibition includes, without limitation, any text, graphics, logos, photographs, audio or video material or stills from audiovisual material available on MMNL Websites. The use of materials from this Site on any other web site or networked computer environment is also prohibited. You shall also not upload, post or otherwise make available on MMNL Websites any material protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right without the express permission of the owner of the copyright, trademark or other proprietary right and the burden of determining that any material is not protected by copyright rests with you. You shall be solely liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights, proprietary rights, or any other harm resulting from such a submission. You may send requests, in writing, for permission to reproduce or distribute materials from MMNL Websites to:
Legal Department
Manipal Media Network Ltd
Udayavani Building
Udayavani Road,
Manipal 576104
Karnataka, India.