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Terms and Conditions

Terms of Use

This website/ platform is owned by Inclusive India foundation (hereafter referred to as “IIF”). IIF, founded in 2008 has been working towards inclusive development. The NGO is registered under 12AA and 80G of Income Tax Act, 1961. The Foundation is also registered under CSR Form1 under Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India.

Summary of services:

• IIF provides multiple services through this website.

• One of the key services of IIF is TheVolunteering.com platform wherein we host NGO projects that a corporate employee can volunteer to work. 

• The platform also offers an employee donation option, wherein an employee can select a cause and an NGO for donation.

  • IIF does not take any commission on any such transaction. 

  • IIF has engaged a payment platform to provide this service and they charge a nominal fee for such a transaction which is informed at the time of transaction.

  • On completion of transaction, the complete amount (except for payment gateway charges) gets directly credited to the respective NGO account. 

  • Currently, we collect only INR contributions on a campaign 

User Content Submission

• On the platform, a user might submit some content like reports, project details, project photographs, other material and information, and associated trademarks and copyrightable works (collectively, 'Content'). User will ensure that only appropriate content (content that is not harmful, offensive, obscene, abusive, invasive of privacy, defamatory, harmful, hateful, or otherwise discriminatory, false, or misleading or incites an illegal act) is submitted on the platform. IIF will not be responsible for such actions or conduct or any such Content which a user share.

Acceptance of Terms

• Users accept the Terms & conditions of the Platform and enters a binding contract with IIF by:

  • Creating an account on the site;

  • Signing up on the Site; and /or 

  • Making use of the feature of the Site or the Services available therein, you agree and acknowledge that You are eligible to contract with Us; 

  • You have read the Terms of Use; and 

  • You agree to be bound by the Terms of Use. 

• The Service is offered subject to acceptance of all the terms and conditions contained in these Terms of Use, including the Privacy Policy (that can be found on the Site) and all other operating rules, policies, and procedures that may be published on the site, which are incorporated by reference and may be updated by IIF without notice to you. In addition, some Services offered through the Site may be subject to additional terms and conditions adopted by IIF. Your use of those services is subject to those additional terms and conditions, which are incorporated into these Terms of Use by this reference.

Fund Transaction and Accountability

• The Site offers various payment gateways to facilitate transaction of funds for campaigns. However, it may be noted that the Site or IIF:

  • Are not the final recipients of any funds from the Funders directly, but a service provider, which enables receipt of funds (both domestic and foreign) by campaign owners, who are the final recipient of funds. 

  • Does not generate contributions and Funders for a campaign; 

  • Does not guarantee that the target funds of a campaign will be raised fully; 

  • Does not offer the Platform to Users for investing in a project for the purpose of equity, loans/debt, or profit sharing; 

  • IIF will facilitate generation of tax deduction certificates on completion of a transaction.

Rights of IIF/ website

• IIF shall have the right to:

  • make changes in its technology platform or services, at its sole discretion, at any time, without notice or liability;

  • decide who’s eligible to use the services offered;

  • change our eligibility criteria at any time; and

  • reject, cancel, interrupt, remove, or suspend any project at any time and for any reason.

• IIF will not have any ownership rights over your User Submissions and Content. However, IIF will get the license to perform and market the Site on your behalf and on behalf of its other Users and itself. You grant to IIF the worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable, transferable right to (and to allow others acting on its behalf to):

  • use, edit, modify, prepare derivative works of, reproduce, host, display, stream, transmit, playback, transcode, copy, feature, market, sell, distribute, and otherwise fully exploit your User Submissions and your trademarks, service marks, slogans, logos, and similar proprietary rights (collectively, the 'Trademarks') in connection with the Site, IIF (and its successors' and assigns') businesses, promoting, marketing, and redistributing part or all of the Site (and derivative works thereof) or the service in any media formats and through any media channels (including, without limitation, third-party websites); and

  • take whatever other action is required to perform and market the Service;

• The User understands that they shall not (on the Platform) host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, store, update or share any information that:

  • belongs to another person and to which the user does not have any right;

  • is defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, invasive of another’s privacy, including bodily privacy, insulting or harassing on the basis of gender, libellous, racially or ethnically objectionable, relating or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise inconsistent with or contrary to the laws in force;

  • infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights;

  • violates any law for the time being in force;

  • deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of the message or knowingly and intentionally communicates any information which is patently false or misleading in nature but may reasonably be perceived as a fact;

  • impersonates another person;

  • contains software virus or any other computer code, file or program designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource;

• In case of non-compliance with rules and regulations, privacy policy or these terms of use for access or usage of the Platform of IIF, it has the right to terminate the access or usage rights of the Users to Platform immediately or remove non-compliant information or both, as the case may be; and

• The Site or IIF is under no obligation to become involved in disputes between any Users, or between Users and any third party arising in connection with the use of the Site. This includes, but is not limited to, delivery of goods and services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties, or representations associated with campaigns on the Site. You hereby unconditionally release the Site and IIF, its officers, employees, agents, and successors in rights from claims, damages, and demands of every kind, known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, disclosed or undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related to such disputes and the service.

Refund

• Any donations made on the technology platform cannot be refunded.

• All donations and payments are final and cannot be refunded.

• In case of submission of a valid reason for refund, we would try to resolve the issue by connecting the donor with the said NGO who received funds directly.

Privacy Policy

• This Privacy Policy explains the nature of personal and non-personal information that the Site collects or receives and the manner in which it possesses, stores, deals or handles such personal and non-personal information.

• Where possible, we indicate which fields are required and which fields are optional.

• The information as collected will be retained by IIF in compliance of the applicable laws.

• Information for the purposes of this Policy shall include, but shall not be limited to the following:

  • Personal information such as your name, photograph, address, telephone number, date of birth, gender, e-mail address, financial information details, Facebook profile, contacts, etc.

  • Contact Information such as e-mail address, telephone number

  • Profile Information such as your log-in and password details in connection with the account sign-in process, messages on our message boards, chat rooms or other message areas or leave feedback

  • Financial Information If you transact with us (through making donations / contributions), we collect some additional information, such as a billing address, PAN Card number, etc.

  • Transaction Information such as Details of any requests or transactions made by you through the Site

  • Technical Information such as IP addresses, browser and operating system specifications, location, etc.

  • We might have to share this information with the NGO for issuance of Tax deduction certificate.

• We use direct method to collect your information on our platform.

Data Retention

• We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

• To determine the appropriate retention period for your personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

• In some circumstances we may anonymize or obfuscate your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes. In this case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Changes to this Policy

• The Owner may update this Policy at any time and any changes will be effective upon posting.

• The owner is not liable to keep you informed about any such changes.