Terms of Service

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Last updated: 5 October 2026

1. About these terms

These terms are an agreement between you and the RachnaKosh team (“we”, “us”). They apply to the RachnaKosh website and everything on it. If you do not agree, please do not use the site. Our Privacy Policy and Content & Copyright Policy are part of these terms.

2. Who can use RachnaKosh

• You must be at least 18 years old to create an account.
• You can read public posts without an account.
• Give us accurate information, keep your password private, and tell us if you think someone else is using your account.
• One person, one account. You are responsible for what happens under your account.

3. Your writing and who owns it

• You keep ownership of what you write. We do not claim your copyright.
• By publishing on RachnaKosh you give us a free, non-exclusive, worldwide licence to store, show and share your writing on the site and to promote it, for example in a featured post or a short video, always with your name credited. We use this licence only to run and promote RachnaKosh.
• This licence ends when you delete the writing, except for copies already shared with others, and for short-lived backups.
• You promise that you wrote it, or that you have the right to publish it, and that it does not break anyone’s rights or the law.

4. What you can post

RachnaKosh is for original writing, public-domain works and short, clearly credited quotations. Please read the Content & Copyright Policy before posting anything that is not entirely your own.

5. Review before publishing

• Writing submitted for publication is reviewed by our team. We may approve it, send it back with feedback, or decline it.
• Editing a live post may send it for review again, and it can be hidden until it is approved.
• Approval is not an endorsement. Views in a post are the writer’s own, not ours.

6. What is not allowed

• Content that is unlawful, hateful, threatening, harassing, or that targets a person or group because of who they are.
• Sexually explicit content, content that exploits or endangers children, and content that promotes violence or self-harm.
• Copying other people’s work without permission, and presenting someone else’s work as your own.
• Spam, scams, misleading impersonation, and attempts to collect other users’ personal data.
• Attacking, probing or overloading the site, or using automated tools to copy its content.

7. Reports, moderation and takedowns

• Anyone can report a post or account with the Report button.
• Rights holders can use the copyright takedown form.
• We may hide or remove content, and warn, suspend or close accounts, when these terms are broken. Where we can, we tell you why.
• If you think we made a mistake, write to us and we will look again.

8. Ending your account

You can stop using RachnaKosh at any time. To close your account and remove your data, email team.rachnakosh@gmail.com from the address you registered with. We will confirm and complete this within 15 days. We may suspend or close accounts that break these terms.

9. Links to other websites

Posts and profiles may link to other websites. We do not control them and are not responsible for them.

10. No guarantees

RachnaKosh is provided “as is”. We work to keep it running and safe, but we cannot promise it will always be available or free of errors. Content is written by our users, and we do not guarantee that it is accurate.

11. Limits on our responsibility

To the extent the law allows, we are not responsible for indirect or consequential losses arising from your use of RachnaKosh, or for content posted by users. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under law that cannot be excluded.

12. Law that applies

These terms are governed by the laws of India. Courts in India with jurisdiction will decide any dispute.

13. Changes

We may update these terms. We will change the date at the top, and for important changes we will tell users by email or on the site. Using RachnaKosh after a change means you accept it.

14. Contact and grievances

Questions about these terms, or a complaint? Contact our grievance officer: