Terms of use

These terms cover IndianCulture.com. Sangh and Sākṣī are separate services with their own terms, which apply when you use them.

By reading this site you accept what follows. If you do not, the remedy is not to use it.

Who runs this

IndianCulture.com is published by Vialynx Inc, a company registered in New Jersey, United States, at [TKTK]. Contact: hello@indianculture.com.

What you may do with the writing

Read it, quote it, print it, and send it to your family — the last one is more or less the point.

Yes: quote a paragraph or two with a link back. Use a page in a class or a temple newsletter. Translate a passage for someone who would rather read it in their own language.

No: republishing whole articles, whether or not you credit us. Reselling it. Passing it off as your own. Scraping the site wholesale, or using it to train a machine-learning model. That restriction is a term of the licence on which this writing is made available, and it applies whether or not a crawler is configured to notice it.

Everything here is © Vialynx Inc unless a page says otherwise. Where we quote someone else — a translator, a scholar, a scripture — the quotation is theirs and is marked as such, and our permission does not extend to it.

What this site is not

Nothing here is professional advice. This matters most in the NRI section. Those pages explain how a rule works in general. They cannot know your circumstances, your residency status, your state, or the year you are reading them in. Before you act on anything touching money, property, tax or immigration, speak to a professional who can look at your actual situation.

Religious material is described, not prescribed. Where traditions differ we set out the difference and stop. We do not tell you which reading is correct, and nothing on this site should be taken as a ruling on practice.

Health and wellness pages are not medical advice. Ayurveda, yoga and pranayama pages describe traditions and, where we can, what research has found. They are not a diagnosis and not a treatment plan. Do not stop a prescribed medicine on the strength of a web page.

Accuracy, and getting it wrong

We check what we publish, we name on each page who checked it and when, and we correct errors in the open with a date rather than editing them away quietly.

We cannot promise a page is free of error. Living practice changes without telling us: a temple's timings, a festival's local date, a rule about who may enter where. Where a page tells you to confirm something locally, please confirm it locally. Sunrise-dependent festival dates in particular vary by city and by the almanac a family follows, and we say so on those pages.

If something here is wrong, tell us at hello@indianculture.com. Corrections are the messages we most want.

The forms

The two forms send what you type to us and nothing more. What happens to it is in the privacy policy.

Do not send anything confidential, and do not send anything you would mind an ordinary employee reading. An enquiry is not a professional engagement, no relationship of lawyer, accountant or adviser is created by sending one, and nothing you write is privileged.

We may decline to answer, and not answering is not advice either.

Where we send you

Some pages point at a category of professional, or at the Sangh directory. We do not take payment for editorial placement, and no article recommends a named practitioner in exchange for anything. Astrology routes to a directory category and never to a chosen astrologer.

Where a page links out, we do not control what is on the other end and are not responsible for it.

What we can and cannot promise

The site is provided as it is. We do not warrant that it will be available without interruption, that every page is current, or that it fits any particular purpose you have in mind.

To the fullest extent the law allows, Vialynx Inc is not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of this site, and our total liability for any claim connected with it is limited to one hundred United States dollars.

Nothing here excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights are unaffected — some countries do not allow the exclusions above, and where that is so they do not apply to you.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New Jersey, United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, and the state and federal courts sitting in New Jersey have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere, you keep the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in, and you may bring proceedings there.

Changes

The date at the top is the last change. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept it. Material changes will be flagged here rather than slipped in.

Questions: hello@indianculture.com.