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1. Acceptance and eligibility
By accessing sanjaysokal.com you confirm that you are at least 18 years old, or that you have the consent of a parent or legal guardian, and that you have the legal capacity to enter into this agreement. These terms apply to every visitor, whether or not you interact with the site.
2. What this site is
sanjaysokal.com is a personal portfolio and technical blog. It is provided free of charge, as-is, for information and general interest. It is not a product, a service contract, or a professional engagement, and no fee is charged to read it.
There is no guarantee that the site will be available without interruption, that content will remain online indefinitely, or that any particular feature will continue to exist. Content may be added, edited, moved or deleted at any time without notice.
3. Permitted use
You may:
- Read, print and store pages for your own personal, non-commercial reference.
- Link to any page on this site, provided the link does not imply endorsement, sponsorship or affiliation that does not exist.
- Quote short excerpts for review, commentary, teaching or news reporting, with clear attribution and a link back to the original page.
4. Prohibited use
You agree not to:
- Republish, syndicate, mirror or sell substantial portions of the site's content without written permission.
- Scrape, crawl or harvest content at a rate that degrades the site, or bypass any technical restriction.
- Use the site for anything unlawful, fraudulent or harmful.
- Attempt to gain unauthorised access to the site, the admin area, the server or any connected system.
- Introduce malware, or interfere with the site's normal operation.
- Use automated systems to submit comments, or post content that is spam, advertising or link-building.
- Misrepresent your identity or your affiliation with any person or organisation.
5. Intellectual property
Unless stated otherwise, all original content on this site — article text, the site's design, layout, graphics and source code — is the property of Sanjay Sokal and is protected by copyright law, including the Indian Copyright Act, 1957 and applicable international treaties.
Some articles contain images, diagrams and excerpts sourced from third parties, used for illustrative and educational purposes. Ownership of those materials remains with their respective rights holders. If you hold rights in any material published here and object to its use, see the DMCA & Copyright Policy — it will be reviewed and removed promptly where appropriate.
Trademarks, logos and brand names appearing on this site belong to their respective owners and are used for identification only. Their use does not imply any endorsement or affiliation.
6. Code samples
Code published in articles is offered as illustration. Unless a snippet states a different licence, you may use it in your own projects without attribution and at your own risk. It is provided without warranty of any kind — see the Disclaimer. Always review, test and adapt code before running it in a production environment.
7. Comments and user-submitted content
When you submit a comment, you agree that:
- The content is yours to post and does not infringe anyone else's rights.
- It is not unlawful, defamatory, obscene, hateful, threatening, harassing, misleading or invasive of anyone's privacy.
- It is not commercial solicitation, spam, or posted primarily to obtain a backlink.
- It contains no personal data about other people, and no malicious code or links.
You keep ownership of what you write, but by submitting a comment you grant Sanjay Sokal a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual licence to publish, display, store, reproduce and — where necessary for moderation — edit or excerpt it in connection with this site.
All comments are moderated. There is no obligation to publish any comment, and any comment may be edited, unpublished, marked as spam or deleted at any time, for any reason or none. Comments express the views of the person who wrote them, not of Sanjay Sokal.
8. Third-party links and advertising
This site links to external websites and may display advertisements supplied by third parties. Those destinations are not controlled by Sanjay Sokal, who accepts no responsibility for their content, accuracy, availability, products, services or privacy practices. A link or an advertisement is not an endorsement. Any dealings you have with a third party are solely between you and that third party.
9. No warranty
The site and everything on it are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy or uninterrupted availability. You use this site entirely at your own risk.
10. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Sanjay Sokal shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, nor for any loss of profit, revenue, data, goodwill or business opportunity, arising out of or connected with your use of — or inability to use — this site or anything published on it, whether based in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability or otherwise, and even if advised of the possibility of such loss.
Where liability cannot lawfully be excluded, it is limited to the greater of the amount you actually paid to access this site (which is normally zero) or INR 1,000.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.
11. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Sanjay Sokal against any claim, demand, loss, liability or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your breach of these terms, your misuse of the site, or any content you submit to it.
12. Privacy and cookies
Your use of the site is also governed by the Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy, which are incorporated into these terms by reference.
13. Suspension of access
Access to the site, or the ability to comment, may be restricted or blocked at any time and without notice, where there is reason to believe these terms have been breached. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability and indemnity — continue to apply.
14. Changes to these terms
These terms may be revised at any time. The current version always appears on this page, with the revision date at the top. Continuing to use sanjaysokal.com after a change constitutes acceptance of the revised terms, so please check back periodically.
15. Governing law and jurisdiction
These terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute arising out of or in connection with these terms or your use of the site shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts located in the State of Haryana, India.
16. General
- Severability — if any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in full force.
- No waiver — failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of the right to enforce it later.
- Entire agreement — these terms, together with the Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Disclaimer and DMCA Policy, form the whole agreement between you and Sanjay Sokal regarding this site.
- Assignment — you may not assign your rights under these terms; Sanjay Sokal may do so in connection with a transfer of the site.
17. Contact
Questions about these terms:
Sanjay Sokal
Khairoli, Mahendergarh, Haryana, 123028
Email: sokalsanjay@gmail.com