Terms of Use

The Terms of Use (hereinafter TOU) documented on this page along with the Privacy Policy, and Comment Policy of this site shall govern the end-users (hereinafter referred to as You/Your/User) terms and conditions (T&C) to access and navigate through this website – The Justice Mirror.

These terms constitute a legally binding agreement between you and the Justice Mirror portal regarding your access to and use of the services offered by the site.

By accessing the Justice Mirror web portal, you agree to be bound by our terms as mentioned in the TOU. By visiting this site, you hereby represent and warrant that you are a major and are capable of entering, performing, and adhering to these TOUs and that you agree to be bound by them. 

If you are a minor, you may access this site subject to receipt of consent and guidance from your parents and legal guardians.

End-User Definition

End-User for the purpose of this site means anyone who on his own or through any technological medium accesses and uses this site including any of its technological variants accessible through a computer, tablet, mobile, or any other internet-connected devices or any other means to access the same and the services offered therein.

About Justice Mirror

The Justice Mirror is a news and current affairs portal focussed on law, justice, and governance matters. It is a privately-owned entity and does not have any connection or affiliation with any political, social, or religious organization.

Unless otherwise stated, all Intellectual Property Rights of the contents, materials, and resources on this site rest with its author or authors as the case may be. All contents, posts, ideas, comments, and other materials available and propagated on this site are for General Informational purposes only.

All materials, data and information available on the site have been usually referenced and cited from sources already in public domain online or offline.

No unlawful use

This site adheres to the due diligence obligations under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.

In this regard you are required not to submit, upload, publish, transmit, store, update or share any information on this platform that,-

  • belongs to another person and to which the user does not have any right;
  • is defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, invasive of other’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;
  • is harmful to a child;
  • 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;
  • threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign States, or public order, or causes incitement to the commission of any cognisable offence or prevents investigation of any offence or is insulting other nation;
  • contains software virus or any other computer code, file or program designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource;
  • is patently false and untrue, and is written or published in any form, with the intent to mislead or harass a person, entity or agency for financial gain or to cause any injury to any person;

Further,

  • You agree not to use the Justice Mirror portal in a manner that is unlawful or prohibited by these TOU or the laws of the land.
  • You shall not use the services in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Justice Mirror portal servers, or the networks connected to this site, or interfere in any manner with any other party’s use and enjoyment of any services.
  • You agree not to attempt to gain unauthorized access to any services, accounts, computer systems, through hacking, password mining, or any other means prohibited by law. You agree not to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any illegal means.
  • The Justice Mirror portal forbids you from making any attempt to resell or put to commercial use any part of the Justice Mirror portal or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of any other merchant; any renting, leasing, or otherwise transferring rights to the Justice Mirror portal and/ or the Content; displaying the name, logo, trademark or another identifier of another person (except for the Justice Mirror portal or You) in such a manner as to give the viewer the impression that such other person is a publisher or distributor of the Services offered through the Justice Mirror portal or is in any manner associated with the Justice Mirror portal and/ or the Content (or any part thereof), or any data gathering or extraction tools; or any use of meta tags. You may not (whether directly or through the use of any software program) create a database in electronic or structured manual form by downloading and/ or storing all or any part of the pages from the Justice Mirror portal.
  • Except as specifically provided under these TOU, no part of the Justice Mirror portal and/ or the Content may be reproduced or transmitted to or stored in any other web site, nor may any of its pages or part thereof be disseminated in any electronic or non-electronic form, nor included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without prior written permission from the Justice Mirror portal.
  • Requests to republish any material or the Content made available on the Justice Mirror portal for any use other than for non-commercial personal purposes should be addressed (prior to such republication) to justicemirror.in.@gmail.com
  • Under no circumstances shall the Justice Mirror portal be held responsible or liable, in any way, for any claims, losses, damages, liabilities in relation to any Content which is uploaded to the Justice Mirror portal, for any reason whatsoever, including but not limited to the accuracy of the Content and/or the nature of such Content being derogatory, threatening, defamatory, obscene, offensive to public sensibilities or morals, or by reason of such Content being infringing of any other individual/entity’s rights.
  • You specifically agree that the Justice Mirror portal is not responsible for any Content transmitted through, published, or uploaded on the Justice Mirror portal by any third party, in any manner whatsoever.

This portal reserves the right to question dominant narratives and value systems, exercising freedoms of expression in good faith, including the use of strong language as permitted under the law.

While we strive to support our claims with facts and evidence, human errors may occasionally occur. By accessing this site, you do so at your own discretion and responsibility, and we are not liable for any psychological or emotional distress arising from your use or endorsement of the content.

You agree to take full responsibility for your actions after engaging with the site’s content and not to hold us accountable for any damages. Furthermore, you acknowledge and respect our moral, legal, and constitutional right to freedom of expression.

Intellectual Property Rights

  • Unless otherwise stated or specifically agreed between the site and end-users, all intellectual property rights (IPR), title, and interest in the material and content presented on the Justice Mirror web portal are and shall remain the sole and exclusive property of the site in perpetuity and are protected under all applicable laws of all jurisdictions to the fullest extent possible.
  • Notwithstanding the above clause, the authors on the Justice Mirror shall continue to have moral rights over their posts and contents.
  • You agree not to use any techniques to enclose any trademark or logo or other proprietary information of the Justice Mirror portal; or remove, conceal or obliterate any copyright or other proprietary notice or any credit-line or date-line on other mark or source identifier included on the Justice Mirror Platform, including without limitation, the size, color, location or style of all proprietary marks.
  • The portal owners may choose to vigorously defend any infringement of IPR and pursue such cases to the fullest extent permitted by law.
  • You agree that all contents submitted by you for publication on this portal after such publication become the property of this site and you agree to grant/assign to this site a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed throughout the world.
  • Notwithstanding the above-mentioned IPR clauses, the portal owners may at their discretion waive their rights on a case by case basis.

Permission to Copy Contents

  • The Justice Mirror portal grants you permission to access and make use of the contents on this site for non-commercial, academic, and personal purposes.
  • You agree not to, directly or indirectly download or modify, alter, change, amend, vary, transform, revise, translate, copy, publish, distribute or otherwise disseminate any content available on the Justice Mirror portal except with the express prior written consent of the Justice Mirror portal.
  • You shall not retain any copies of these pages saved to disk or to any other storage medium except for the purposes of using the same for subsequent viewing purposes or to print extracts for personal/individual non-commercial use only.
  • The Justice Mirror portal may contain links to other websites and applications (“Linked Platforms“). The Linked Platforms are not under the control of the Justice Mirror portal, and the User agrees and acknowledges that the Justice Mirror portal shall not be held responsible for the content of any Linked Platforms, in any manner whatsoever.
  • You agree and understand that such Linked Platforms are not associated with the Justice Mirror portal, and therefore, the inclusion of any link in relation to such Linked Platforms cannot be construed to imply any endorsement or warranty by the Justice Mirror portal in relation to the authenticity, suitability, reliability or accuracy of the Linked Platforms and/or the services and/or information provided therein.
  • You are requested to verify the accuracy of all information on your own before relying on any such information.

Publications

  • With respect to the posts, articles, or any other content supplied by you for publication on the Justice Mirror portal, you represent that you have all valid rights and titles on all such content.
  • You also represent not to have infringed the intellectual property rights belonging to any 3rd party. Otherwise, you agree to indemnify anyone for any and all claims, losses, or damages arising out of, or in connection with, your unauthorized use of any such Content posted or submitted for publication to this site by you.
  • You agree and understand that posting or uploading of any information or material, which is harmful, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, profane, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging, or otherwise unlawful in any manner is prohibited and any person found to be involved in such activity on the Justice Mirror portal will solely be liable for actions under the applicable laws. We accept no responsibility for any such Content.

User Obligations

You hereby agree and assure us that you shall use the Justice Mirror portal and the services provided therein only for ethical and lawful purposes that you will not violate any laws, regulations, ordinances, or other such requirements of any applicable Central, State, or local government or any other international laws. You further concur that you will not, through the Justice Mirror portal:

  • post, distribute, or otherwise make available or transmit any software or other computer files that contain a virus, trojan horses, time bombs, bots, botnets, malicious content, content theft, data manipulation, threats, or any other harmful programs or elements or component.
  • erase or delete from the Justice Mirror portal any legal notices, disclaimers, or proprietary notices such as copyright or trademark symbols, or modify any logos that you do not own or have express permission to modify.
  • use the Justice Mirror portal and/or the Services provided therein in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair and not undertake any action which is harmful or potentially harmful to any the Justice Mirror portal server, or the network(s), computer systems/ resource connected to any the Justice Mirror portal server, or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Justice Mirror portal and/or the Services provided therein.
  • obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available through the Justice Mirror portal and/or the Services.
  • engage in any activity that causes/is likely to cause harm to minors.
  • impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, the Justice Mirror portal official, forum leader, guide or host, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.
  • take any action which encourages or consists of any threat of harm of any kind to any person or property.
  • carry out any “denial of service or distributed denial of service” (DoS, DDoS) or any other harmful attacks on application or internet service.
  • make any inappropriate, illegal, or otherwise, communication prohibited under applicable laws in relation to the Justice Mirror portal or the Services provided by the Justice Mirror portal to any newsgroup, mailing list, chat facility, or other internet forums.
  • use the Justice Mirror portal for any illegal purposes.
  • disrupt, place unreasonable burdens or excessive loads on, interfere with or attempt to make or attempt any unauthorized access to any the Justice Mirror portal website or the website of any other User.
  • subject to freedom of speech and expression, transmit through the Justice Mirror portal, any unlawful, harassing, libelous, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, hateful, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable material of any kind or nature. This includes text, graphics, video, programs or audio, etc.
  • collect or attempt to collect personally identifiable information of any person or entity without their express written consent and you shall maintain records of any such written consent throughout the validity of these TOU and for a period of 2 years thereafter.
  • engage in antisocial, disruptive, or destructive acts, including “flaming,” “spamming,” “flooding,” “trolling,” and “griefing” as those terms are commonly understood and used on the internet.
  • forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Justice Mirror portal.
  • upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” duplicative messages, or any other form of solicitation.
  • encumber or suffer to exist any lien or security interest on the subject matter of these TOU; or
  • make any representation or warranty on behalf of the Justice Mirror portal. You agree not to post, distribute, transmit or otherwise make available any data, text, message, computer file, or other material that infringes and/or violates any right of a third party or any domestic or international law, rule, or regulation, including but not limited to: infringement of any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary rights of any third party, including, but not limited to, the unauthorized copying of copyrighted material, the digitization, and distribution of photographs from magazines, books, or other copyrighted sources, and the unauthorized transmittal of copyrighted software; right of privacy (specifically, you must not distribute another person’s personal information of any kind without their express permission) or publicity.
  • any other confidentiality obligation.

Spam Policy and Unsolicited E-Mails

  • You will not use any communication tool or other means available on the Justice Mirror portal to transmit, directly or indirectly, any unsolicited bulk communications (including emails and instant messages).
  • You may not harvest information about other Users for the purpose of sending or to facilitate the sending of unsolicited bulk communications.
  • We may terminate your access or use of the Justice Mirror portal immediately, with or without any notice, and take any other legal action if you, or anyone using your access details to the Justice Mirror portal, violates these terms.
  • We may adopt any technical remedy (including any filtering technology or other measures) to prevent unsolicited bulk communications from entering, utilizing, or remaining within our computer or communication networks.
  • Such filtering technology or other measures may block, either temporarily or permanently, some e-mail sent to you through the Justice Mirror portal.

Warranties and Liabilities

  • The Services are provided on an “as-is” and “with all faults and risks” basis, without warranties of any kind. The Justice Mirror portal does not warrant, expressly or by implication, the accuracy or reliability of the Services or its sustainability for a particular purpose or the security of the data stored by you.
  • The Justice Mirror portal disclaims all warranties whether express or implied, including those of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or that use of the Services and/or the Justice Mirror portal or any Content made available thereof will be uninterrupted or error-free.
  • Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Justice Mirror portal does not represent or warrant that the Services and/or the Justice Mirror portal will result in compliance, fulfillment, or conformity with the laws, regulations, requirements, or guidelines of any government or governmental agency.
  • To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Justice Mirror portal provides no warranty on the use of the services on the Justice Mirror portal. The Justice Mirror portal also disclaims all liability with respect to the misuse, loss, modification, or unavailability of the Services.

Data Protection

  • The Justice Mirror portal may send information and offer products and other services to you from time to time. For further details relating to our data protection policy relating to such offers please refer to our Privacy Policy.
  • Further, the Justice Mirror portal can disclose some of your personal details like name, street address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number, email, and the Justice Mirror portal name to intellectual property rights owners, as we in our sole discretion believe necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy, or other unlawful activity.

Governing Laws

These terms of use shall be governed by the Laws of India. The Courts of law at New Delhi shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes arising in relation to these TOUs.

International Users

  • You agree that the laws of India, excluding India’s choice of law rules, will apply to this TOU and Privacy Policy and all other policies and guidelines provided by the Justice Mirror portal and to the provision of Services by the Justice Mirror portal.
  • Access to the Justice Mirror portal and/ or the Services from jurisdictions other than India where the same are illegal is prohibited. The Justice Mirror portal reserves the right to block access to the Justice Mirror portal and/ or the Services by such prohibited access by international users.
  • If you access the Justice Mirror portal and/ or the Services from a location outside India, you waive any right available under the laws of jurisdictions outside of India.

User Information Collection

  • We may collect both “Non-Personal Information” and “Personal Information” about you. “Non-Personal Information” includes information that cannot be used to personally identify you, such as anonymous usage data, general demographic information we may collect, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform types, preferences you submit, and preferences that are generated based on the data you submit and the number of clicks. “Personal Information” includes information that can be used to personally identify you, such as your name, address, and email address.
  • In addition, we may also track information provided to us by your browser or by our mobile application when you view or use the Service, such as the website you came from (known as the “referring URL”), the type of browser you use, the device from which you connected to the Service, the time and date of access, and other information that does not personally identify you.  We use this information for, among other things, the operation of the Service, to maintain the quality of the Service, to provide general statistics regarding the use of the Service, and for other business purposes.
  • We track this information using cookies, or small text files which include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to a user’s browser from our servers and are stored on the user’s computer hard drive.
  • Sending a cookie to a user’s browser enables us to collect Non-Personal Information about that user and keep a record of the user’s preferences when utilizing our services, both on an individual and aggregate basis.  The Justice Mirror portal may use both persistent and session cookies; persistent cookies remain on your computer after you close your session and until you delete them, while session cookies expire when you close your browser.
  • Persistent cookies can be removed by following your Internet browser help file directions. If you choose to disable cookies, some areas of the Service may not work properly

Acceptance of Privacy Policy

By using the Justice Mirror portal and Services provided therein, you signify your acceptance of the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree or are not comfortable with any policy described in the TOU, your only remedy is to discontinue the use of the Justice Mirror portal.

General Terms and Conditions

  • All rights and obligations under this TOU which by their nature should survive will remain in full effect after termination or expiration of this TOU.
  • No failure or delay on the part of the Justice Mirror portal to exercise any right therein will operate as a waiver of that right. No waiver by the Justice Mirror portal of any breach by you of any provision of this TOU and Privacy Policy shall operate as a waiver of any subsequent breach of any provision of this TOU and/ or Privacy Policy.
  • If any provision of this TOU and Privacy Policy is held invalid by any law or regulation of any government, or by any court or arbitrator, the User agrees that such provision of the TOU and Privacy Policy will be deemed severable, and will not affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions of this TOU and Privacy Policy.
  • This TOU and the Privacy Policy constitute the entire agreement between you and the Justice Mirror portal with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes and replaces all prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, written or oral, regarding such subject matter.
  • None of the provisions of this TOU shall be deemed to constitute a partnership or agency between you and the Justice Mirror portal and you shall have no authority to bind the Justice Mirror portal in any manner, whatsoever.
  • The Justice Mirror portal shall have no liability to you for any interruption or delay, to access the Justice Mirror portal irrespective of the cause.
  • To the widest extent permissible under applicable laws, you and the Justice Mirror portal agree that any cause of action arising out of or related to the Justice Mirror portal, only, must commence within one (1) year after the cause of action accrues otherwise, such cause of action will be permanently barred.

Liability Clauses 

All Information for General Information Purposes only

The information and content on this portal, particularly in the “Law School” and “Notes” sections, are provided for general informational purposes only and are not intended as legal advice. While efforts are made to ensure accuracy and currency, the content may not always reflect the most up-to-date information.

The portal and its authors are not liable for any direct, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from the use of the information provided. We do not guarantee the completeness, accuracy, or availability of the website or its content at any given time.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all representations, warranties, guarantees, and conditions related to the use or endorsement of the content on this site.

No Attorney-Client Relationship

The use of any of the links, contents, materials & resources contained within the site does not create an attorney-client relationship between the reader/user and the author.

Right of Content Alteration

The Justice Mirror reserves all rights to modify these TOU with or without notice. Hence, you are advised to keep visiting this page periodically to stay abreast of the new changes in the TOU.

You are, therefore, responsible for regularly checking the TOU to remain in compliance with these terms at all times. Your access to and use of the Justice Mirror platform after any such amendment to the TOU shall constitute your deemed acceptance of such modified terms.

Further, the Justice Mirror portal reserves the right to modify, alter, suspend, cancel, or discontinue all or any part of its services at any time without any notice. Further, it may modify and alter any or all of the content, products, and services contained on the Justice Mirror Platform, without any prior notice.

Grievance Redressal

The Justice Mirror portal is not liable for any copyright infringement or violation of any other intellectual property rights (IPR) arising out of contents posted on this site by you or any third party.

If you are the owner of the copyright or any other intellectual property right (IPR) in any of the content published or shared on this portal without your permission, then you should send a written notice to us by navigating through the contact us section of this site and provide the following information:

  • A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the IPR/Copyright owner for the purposes of the complaint.
  • Description of the material that is claimed to be infringing the copyright of the complainant along with the URL which is alleged to be infringing the copyright/IPR of the complainant.
  • The address and contact information of the complainant.
  • An affidavit or a statement signifying that all the information in the Copyright/IPR infringement notice sent to this portal is correct and that the complainant is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the concerned IPR that is alleged to have been infringed on this portal.

Summary

This web portal upholds principles of equality and non-discrimination, opposing all forms of prejudice, hatred, and violence based on arbitrary distinctions such as race, religion, sex, or region. The content is intended solely for informational purposes to foster healthy, principled debates and discussions from diverse perspectives for the benefit of humankind.

We do not endorse extremism, sectarianism, hate speech, or any incitement to violence. Any interpretation of the content as contrary to the law likely results from taking figurative expressions literally; such interpretations should be reconsidered in the context of the portal’s overarching principles.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim liability for any harm or damage arising from the use or interpretation of the site’s content. The terms of use are subject to change without notice