There is no entry fee to participate in the Voice of Enterprising India Contest.

A ‘voice' is defined as any text, video, audio whose web-url is submitted in the ‘My Voice’ box in the registration form. Multiple ‘voices' are permitted. However, making multiple submissions of what is essentially the same entry will be treated as spamming, and our moderators may delete all entries. An audio/video ‘voice’ must be in English or Hindi languages only.

A ‘vote’ is defined as a ‘Like’ by other users on the posted and or shared content on the Enterprising India Fan Page.
Popularity of a ‘voice’ will be judged on the basis of ‘Likes’ and ‘positive comments’ that it receives on the Fan Page of Enterprising India.

Verify the content of your ‘voice’ and it’s web-url before you submit it to us. If you discover an error after you get your acknowledgement email and resubmit the corrected ‘voice', it is liable to be treated as spam. We shall not entertain communication asking us to edit your ‘voice' in the database.

Your ‘voice‘ in text must be restricted to 1500 characters (which might fit in some 150 words); in audio and video formats it must be restricted to 90 sec. So please articulate to the point. All communication to the site administrators asking for an increase in above limit will be ignored. If persistent calls are made, then the ‘voice' and its companion information may be deleted and, you may be barred from posting any further.

Anyone, anywhere, can post a ‘voice’, or vote for a ‘voice'. Note, however, that you must be present in India if you win the contest and are invited to the TiE Entrepreneurial Summit ‘09- else, the delegate pass will be awarded to the next eligible entry.

You take the responsibility that your ‘voice' is your own original work, and is previously unpublished anywhere, in print or online. If we receive legitimate complaints that your ‘voice' has been copied or plagiarized from someone else's ‘voice', posted earlier on Voice of Enterprising India Contest or elsewhere, we shall summarily remove it, without having to inform you.

Publication implies that there was some form of editorial or jury selection and/or payment involved. A ‘voice' that you have posted earlier on your personal blog or an unmoderated forum is permissible, but something that won you a prize somewhere is not. Something that may have been selected to be printed in a book, newspaper, magazine or website will be considered as published, whether you got paid for it or not.

Prepare your ‘voice' carefully. Hundreds or thousands or even more people will see your ‘voice' and vote/comment for or against it, so before you submit, please do take the time to get it right. Spell-checking or voice clarity is a bare minimum! Poorly articulated 'voices' with bad spelling and grammatical errors will be an embarrassment to you, the author, and might result in more negative comments votes than positive comments!

Once your ‘voice' has been posted, it cannot be edited. This is in the interest of the voters: consider for a moment how would you feel if someone could change the ‘voice' after you had voted on it!

When submit your ‘voice’ on the form, our staff will automatically be notified of your submission and will act to review it soon. In most cases your ‘voice' should pass the review, but it does help to keep the following in mind:-

1. Your ‘voice' cannot contain offensive or inappropriate language. This also applies to misspellings or other variations of inappropriate language.
2. Your ‘voice' cannot be an advertisement for a product/service masquerading as a ‘voice'.
3. Your ‘voice' may not imply an affiliation, partnership, or any special relationship with any sponsors/partners of TiE Entrepreneurial Summit ‘09.
4. Your ‘voice' should not contain trademarked words or phrases, unless they are commonly used as generic words (such as Xerox), or you have explicit permission to use them. Your ‘voice’ cannot infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights ("Rights") of any party.
5. Your ‘voice' should not contain any content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements).

6. This is not the place for launching personal attacks on anyone. Don't promote violence or advocacy against any person or group of persons. ‘Voices' advocating violence, discrimination, social boycott or persecution against any organization, person, or group of people are not permitted. A group of people may be distinguished by their race, ethnic origin, color, sex, age, nation of origin, religion, sect, language, disability, caste, sexual orientation, gender identity, political affiliation, the organization they work in, or state of origin.

7. Be considerate to minors. Any ‘voice' deemed by our moderators to hurt or harm minors in any way will be removed.

8. Be decent. Any content that is deemed harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable or contrary to public interest, public order or national harmony in all relevant jurisdictions will be summarily removed without any prior notice to you.

9. ‘Voices' promoting violation of the Constitution of India or the State and/or Union laws of India or of any other country are not permitted.

10. Do not submit ‘voices' promoting violation of the Declaration of Human Rights or any international treaties, pacts or agreements.
11. Do not submit ‘voices' promoting your own, or any other person's candidacy to any government or private office. You may not use this forum to promote the interests of any contestant on a reality show or any other contest.

12. ‘Voices' promoting prostitution, pornography, drug abuse, crime or pedophilia will be removed.
13. Do not post any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.

Any ‘voice' that violates one or more of these guidelines will be summarily removed, without informing the author. Apart from that, The Indus Entrepreneurs-Mumbai, hereinafter referred to as ‘TiE Mumbai’, retains the full and unfettered right to remove any post we deem fit for removal, even if it does comply with our editorial policy. Reasons for doing so may or may not be disclosed by us. No emails, letters, faxes or phone calls will be entertained in this regard.

Violations of editorial policy may be further prosecuted by barring the offender from any use of the site, and/or appropriate legal action if necessary.

When you register your personal details, TiE Mumbai assumes that you are providing true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself. If TiE Mumbai suspects (on reasonable grounds) or finds out that any information provided by you is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, TiE Mumbai reserves the right to refuse any and all current or future use of the website without any liability to you.

Your participation in this website is assumed to be with good faith and intentions, as a responsible citizen of India. We expect you to not:

1. interfere with or disrupt the service or servers or networks connected to the website, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the service.
2. intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law including, but not limited to, regulations having the force of law, as well as rulings of all courts and tribunals of India.
3. "stalk" or otherwise harass another user.
4. collect or store personal data about any other users. Disclosure of information of any organization or person (other than yourself), which may in any way compromise their privacy, or be tantamount to defamation or libel, will comprise a violation of our terms of service.

The internet is global in nature, and hence you must agree to comply with all applicable laws statutes, regulations, rules and codes regarding online conduct and acceptable content.

You must agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of the website, use of the website, or access to the website.

We may bar you from posting ‘voices' and voting, and may even initiate legal action in case you are found to be in violation of our terms of service.

You agree to indemnify and hold TiE Mumbai and their employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable legal fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of the ‘voice'/vote you submit, your use of the website, your connection to the website, your violation of the TOS, or your violation of any rights of any other person, or your breach of any applicable law.

The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this contest on the website: www.TiESummit.org..
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Information Collection and Use.

When you vote for a 'voice' we ask for information such as your name and email id. When you post a 'voice' we ask for information such as your 'voice', its description, category, your name your email id, your mobile number, and address. The information you provide will be used by TiE Mumbai to contact you if your 'voice' garners maximum votes/comments and is stands a chance to win, and for no other reason unless deemed fit by TiE Mumbai, and TiE Mumbai. will never share your personal information with a third party, unless required by law (see below).

Log Files
As is true of virtually all websites in the world, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses and the date/time stamp of visits to this website. We use this information, which does not identify you or any other individual users, to help diagnose problems with our server, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site to make it a better experience.

"Cookies" are small pieces of information that a web site sends to your computer’s hard drive while you are viewing a web site. We may use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them). TiESummit.org may use cookies only to maintain your preferences settings, so when you revisit the site you will not have to reset certain options. The preferences are stored in the cookie on your computer, and no individual identifying or demographic information is stored in these cookies. We do not have access to any information about you from cookies you might receive while visiting our site.

Cookies, by themselves, cannot be used to find out the identity of any user. We will only store information provided voluntarily, but this information is not personally identifiable. If for some reason you would rather not take advantage of the benefits made possible with cookies, most browsers allow you to reject cookies or to choose which cookies to accept.

Information Sharing

When you post a 'voice', we ask for and store personal information. We will display the name you provided along with your 'voice' in most instances where your 'voice' may be displayed. You may not post any 'voice' anonymously.

We may use the email address(es) provided by you to keep you updated about the progress of your 'voice' every week, and also to inform you of any developments on the site TiESummit.org. We reiterate that we will never sell your personal information. We may however, release it to a third-party under subpoena or other legal order. Specific email addresses may be communicated to outside parties as we deem fit, in actions aiming to stop abuse of this forum.

Public Forums
This site makes online 'voices' available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in the name, category, description and my 'voice' fields becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. TiE Mumbai will not undertake any responsibility for private information disclosed in the above-mentioned fields. Your contact details (email addresses and telephone numbers) collected in the email and telephone number fields will not be disclosed, except under subpoena or other legal order.

Internet connection information about specific visitors, including IP numbers, may be communicated to outside parties as we deem necessary in actions to stop abuse of this forum.

Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Site logs are maintained in secure server areas accessible only to specially qualified technical staff.

Warranties

When you access and use TiESummit.org, you must understand and agree that:

1. You access or use this website at your sole risk. The service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. TiE Mumbai. and their employees expressly disclaim all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

2. TiE Mumbai and its employees make no warranty that
    (a) The service will meet your requirements,
    (b) The service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free,
    (c) The service will be accessible at any time or at all times via the channel selected or used by you,
    (d) The 'voices' contained on the service, or the results that may be obtained from the use of the service, will be accurate or reliable,
    (e) The quality of any 'voices'/votes will meet your expectations
    (vi) Any errors in the software will be corrected.

3. You will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system, mobile telephone or other access device or loss of data that may result from the use of this service.

4. Any reliance upon or use of any 'voices'/votes shall be at your own discretion and risk. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion and without any obligation, to make any improvements to or correct any error or omissions in any part of the service.

5.No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from TiE Mumbai and it’s employees, or through or from the service shall create any warranty not expressly stated in the TOS.

6. TiE Mumbai, it’s employees shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses (even if TiE Mumbai or its employees, as the case may be, have been advised of the possibility of such damages), resulting from:
    (a) The service and the 'voices'/votes contained within;
    (b) The use or the inability to use the service;
    (c) Unauthorized access to or alteration of your 'voices'/votes or data;
    (d) Statements or conduct of any third party on the service;
    (e) Any messages sent or received using the service; or
    (f) Any other matter relating to the service.