Terms of Service
Last updated and effective: September 7, 2026
These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Telugu Americans Digital LLC ("Company," "we," "us," or "our") governing your access to and use of teluguamericans.com and its related digital services (collectively, the "Platform"). By creating an account, submitting content, making a purchase, or otherwise using the Platform, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Platform.
1. Eligibility and Accounts
You must be at least 13 to use general-audience portions of the Platform. A person below the legal age of majority may use those portions only with a parent or guardian's permission and supervision. Users must be at least 18 to use purchases, direct messaging, dating, matrimony, or another feature identified as an adult service.
You must provide accurate account information, keep it current, protect your credentials, and promptly report suspected unauthorised use. You are responsible for activity through your account to the extent permitted by law. We may reject or change a username that is deceptive, unlawful, offensive, or infringes another person's rights.
2. Company Content and Marks
The Platform contains material owned by, licensed to, or lawfully used by the Company, including qualifying software, articles, photographs, graphics, compilations, and designs ("Company Content"). Company names, logos, and other source identifiers may be trademarks or service marks ("Marks"). Applicable intellectual-property laws protect qualifying Company Content and Marks.
Facts, ideas, fair use, and public-domain material remain available as provided by law. The traditional expression "దేశ భాషలందు తెలుగు లెస్స" is not claimed as proprietary text, although an original artistic treatment, selection, arrangement, or commentary may be protected.
Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to access the Platform for lawful, personal, non-commercial use. This does not authorise commercial republication, systematic extraction, or unauthorised use of our Marks.
3. User Content
"User Content" means comments, articles, photographs, audio, video, or other material submitted for public display or publication. You retain ownership of your User Content.
By submitting User Content, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, reproduce, edit for style and format, translate, display, perform, distribute, promote, and archive it as reasonably necessary to operate and promote the Platform and the submitted work. Sublicensing is limited to hosting, operational, distribution, and authorised syndication partners for those purposes. The licence continues while content is published and afterwards for reasonable backups, compliance, existing distributed copies, and editorial archives.
This licence does not apply to a confidential pitch merely because it was sent to us. Commissioned work, professional photography, paid contributions, and syndication may be governed by separate written terms.
You represent that you possess all rights and permissions needed for the authorised use. You must not submit unlawful, defamatory, threatening, harassing, hateful, deceptive, obscene, privacy-invasive, infringing, malicious, or unauthorised promotional content.
4. Moderation and Third-Party Content
We may review, edit, label, preserve, restrict, refuse, or remove User Content. Moderation does not mean that we endorse or verify it.
To the extent applicable, 47 U.S.C. §230 may protect the Company from certain claims seeking to treat it as the publisher or speaker of information provided by another information content provider. Nothing in these Terms expands any statutory protection. Section 230 does not apply to every claim or to content created or materially developed by the Company.
For third-party content, we may qualify for intermediary protections under Section 79 of India's Information Technology Act, 2000, subject to applicable conditions and due-diligence obligations.
5. Prohibited Conduct
You may not violate law or another person's rights; impersonate another person; upload malware; interfere with Platform security or availability; circumvent access controls or rate limits; unlawfully collect personal data; scrape or systematically extract content in violation of law or an enforceable restriction; reverse engineer except where this restriction is prohibited; or use the Platform for spam, fraud, exploitation, or unauthorised solicitation.
Linking to publicly available pages is permitted unless it is deceptive, implies false endorsement, circumvents access controls, or otherwise violates law.
6. Copyright Complaints
We respond to valid notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. §512. A notice must include an authorised physical or electronic signature; identification of the copyrighted work and disputed material; the complainant's name, address, telephone number, and email; a statement of good-faith belief that the use is not authorised by the owner, its agent, or law; and a statement under penalty of perjury that the notice is accurate and the complainant is authorised to act.
A counter-notification must include a signature; identification and former location of the material; a statement under penalty of perjury that removal or disabling resulted from mistake or misidentification; contact details; and consent to the jurisdiction and service of process required by §512(g). We may restore material as the DMCA permits. Material misrepresentations may create liability under §512(f).
We maintain a policy providing for termination, in appropriate circumstances, of repeat infringers and accommodate required standard technical measures.
Designated DMCA Agent
Telugu Americans Digital LLC
Address: Dover,Delaware, United States
Email: contact@teluguamericans.com
The Company must register this agent with the US Copyright Office and keep the registration current before representing that the agent is designated.
7. India Content Grievances
To the extent applicable, complaints concerning third-party content or publication of news and current-affairs content may be submitted to:
Grievance Officer
Email: contact@teluguamericans.com
Address: Uppal, Hyderabad, India.
We will acknowledge and resolve complaints within the periods required by applicable law. Different procedures may apply depending on whether the Company is acting as an intermediary or publisher. Before publication, qualified India counsel should confirm the applicable procedure and appeal route.
8. Editorial and Informational Material
Signed opinions, commentary, and User Content reflect their authors' views and not necessarily those of the Company. News, cultural, legal, immigration, financial, tax, health, and other material is general information, not a substitute for advice from a qualified professional who has considered your circumstances.
Links and embeds may lead to third-party services we do not control. Their terms and privacy practices govern their services.
9. Advertising and Paid Services
Advertisements sourced directly by us may be displayed statically or contextually. We do not select advertisements using an individual user's behaviour across unrelated websites. Advertising and sponsored material will be identified where required by law or editorial policy.
Before offering a paid subscription, event, marketplace, matrimony service, product, or other paid feature, we will present applicable prices, taxes, payment terms, cancellation and refund rules, and renewal terms. Additional service-specific terms may apply and control for that service if inconsistent with these Terms. We will not automatically renew a paid service without disclosures and consent required by law.
10. Suspension and Termination
You may stop using the Platform and request account closure. We may suspend access, remove content, or terminate an account when we reasonably believe these Terms were violated or action is necessary for legal, security, safety, or operational reasons. Where appropriate, we may provide notice or an opportunity to appeal.
Provisions concerning intellectual property, surviving content licences, disclaimers, liability, indemnification, dispute resolution, and other terms that should by their nature survive remain effective after termination.
11. Disclaimer of Warranties
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." WE DISCLAIM EXPRESS, IMPLIED, AND STATUTORY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE PLATFORM WILL ALWAYS BE AVAILABLE, SECURE, ERROR-FREE, OR ACCURATE. Nothing in these Terms excludes a right or warranty that cannot lawfully be excluded.
12. Limitation of Liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATES, MEMBERS, MANAGERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR GOODWILL, ARISING FROM THE PLATFORM.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT PAID TO US FOR THE RELEVANT SERVICE DURING THE SIX MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM OR (B) US $100. These limitations do not apply to liability that cannot lawfully be limited or affect non-waivable consumer rights.
13. Indemnification
To the extent permitted by law, you will indemnify and hold harmless the Company and its affiliates, members, managers, officers, employees, and agents from third-party claims, losses, liabilities, and reasonable legal costs arising from your User Content, unlawful use, material breach of these Terms, or violation of another person's rights. This provision does not require a consumer to indemnify us for our unlawful conduct.
14. Governing Law and Informal Resolution
Delaware law governs these Terms without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Nothing in this section deprives a consumer of a non-waivable protection afforded by the law where the consumer resides.
Before commencing arbitration, a party must send written notice describing the dispute and requested relief and allow 30 days for good-faith negotiation. This does not prevent urgent temporary relief or an eligible small-claims action.
15. Individual Arbitration
Except for an eligible individual small-claims action or a request for temporary or preliminary injunctive relief, disputes arising from these Terms or the Platform will be resolved by individual binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules. A consumer may elect a hearing reasonably convenient to the consumer or a remote or documents-only process when permitted by those Rules. Fees will be allocated under applicable AAA rules and law. The arbitrator may award any individual remedy available in court.
If AAA declines to administer and the parties cannot agree on another administrator, either party may ask a court to appoint an arbitrator under applicable law. The Federal Arbitration Act governs interpretation and enforcement of this arbitration agreement.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, EACH PARTY WAIVES A JURY TRIAL AND AGREES TO BRING CLAIMS ONLY INDIVIDUALLY, NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN A CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. If the class waiver is finally held unenforceable for a claim or remedy, that matter will proceed in court after arbitrable matters unless law requires otherwise.
16. Changes
We may update these Terms prospectively. We will post revised Terms and provide reasonable advance notice of material changes where practicable or required. Changes do not apply retroactively unless expressly agreed or permitted by law. Changes to arbitration terms will be handled in accordance with applicable law and the accompanying notice.
17. General Terms
These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and applicable service-specific terms constitute the agreement concerning the Platform. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be modified only to the minimum extent necessary or severed, and the remainder will continue. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, reorganisation, asset transfer, or similar transaction. We are not responsible for delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control.
18. Contact
Telugu Americans Digital LLC
Attn: Legal
Email: legal@teluguamericans.com
Website: https://teluguamericans.com
Mailing address: Dover, Delaware, United States