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Terms & Conditions

Effective Date: 06 August 2026  ·  Version: 3.3  ·  Sections: 33

BY ACCESSING, BROWSING, OR UTILISING THE URLZY.IN PLATFORM, THE SUBSCRIBER (HEREINAFTER THE "USER", "YOU", OR "YOUR") IS DEEMED TO HAVE READ, COMPREHENDED, AND UNEQUIVOCALLY ASSENTED TO THE ENTIRE CORPUS OF TERMS, CONDITIONS, COVENANTS, REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, AND OBLIGATIONS ARTICULATED HEREIN IN THIRTY-THREE (33) SECTIONS, WHICH TERMS SHALL, TO THE EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY LAW, CONSTITUTE A BINDING, EXECUTORY, AND IRREVOCABLE CONTRACT BETWEEN YOU AND URLZY.IN ("THE SERVICE PROVIDER", "WE", "US", OR "OUR"). IF YOU DISSENT FROM ANY PROVISION HEREOF, OR ENTERTAIN ANY RESERVATION, QUALIFICATION, OR OBJECTION THERETO, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED AND OBLIGATED TO CEASE ALL FURTHER UTILISATION OF THE PLATFORM IMMEDIATELY, FAILING WHICH YOUR CONTINUED USE SHALL BE CONSTRUED AS IMPLIED, UNEQUIVOCAL, AND CONCLUSIVE ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS IN TOTO.

1. Preamble and Definitions

For the purposes of this instrument, the following locutions shall be ascribed the meanings set forth herebelow, and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly unless the context otherwise imperatively requires:

  • "Platform" shall denote the entirety of the web-based infrastructure, software, application programming interfaces, data repositories, and ancillary services hosted, administered, and operated under the domain urlzy.in, including all subdomains, directories, and progeny thereof;
  • "User Content" shall denote any and all data, media, textual matter, hyperlinks, uniform resource locators, graphic representations, and other material inputted, submitted, uploaded, or otherwise transmitted by the User in the course of utilising the Platform;
  • "Client-Side Processing" shall denote any computational, algorithmic, or transformative operation executed exclusively within the User's browser environment, wherein the relevant data is neither transmitted to, nor persisted upon, any remote server infrastructure controlled by the Service Provider;
  • "Media Asset" shall denote any digital image, photograph, document facsimile, graphic, or analogous binary payload capable of being processed by the Platform's ancillary utilities;
  • "Third-Party Service" shall denote any external application, utility, network, or entity not owned, operated, or controlled by the Service Provider, but whose functionality may be integrated, referenced, or invoked by the Platform;
  • "Subscription" shall denote any paid plan, package, or entitlement procured by the User in exchange for the provision of enhanced Platform functionality;
  • "Force Majeure Event" shall denote any occurrence beyond the reasonable contemplation or control of the affected party, including but not limited to acts of God, civil commotion, insurrection, warfare, embargo, pandemic, or failure of public telecommunications infrastructure.

2. Formation of Contract and Acceptance

These Terms constitute a juristic agreement taking effect ab initio upon the earliest of: (i) your first access to the Platform; (ii) your registration of an account; or (iii) your affirmative act of assenting through any interactive mechanism presented by the Platform. By your utilisation of the Platform, you hereby accord your unequivocal consent and accord to be bound by these Terms, in addition to the Privacy Policy, the Cookie Policy, and any ancillary policies incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof as if fully set out at length. In the event of any inconsistency, irreconcilability, or repugnancy between any such ancillary policy and these Terms, these Terms shall prevail and govern to the exclusion of the former.

3. Eligibility, Registration, and Representations

You represent and warrant that you possess the full legal capacity, authority, and competence to enter into this agreement and to be bound hereby. Registration on the Platform is available exclusively to natural persons who have attained the age of majority in their respective jurisdictions of residence, and to duly authorised juridical entities acting through their lawful representatives. You covenant that all information furnished during the registration process is accurate, complete, current, and not misleading, and you shall promptly update the same upon any material change. Any contravention of the foregoing shall render any resultant contract voidable, and the Service Provider reserves the right, exercisable at its sole and unfettered discretion, to suspend, terminate, or otherwise rescind any account so procured.

4. Account Security and Credential Responsibilities

You are exclusively responsible for the confidentiality, integrity, and security of your account credentials, including your password and any authentication tokens issued to you. You shall not share, transfer, assign, or otherwise make available your credentials to any third party, nor shall you permit any third party to access the Platform through your account. You shall immediately notify us at support@urlzy.in upon the discovery of any unauthorised access to, or use of, your account or credentials. You shall be liable for all activities conducted through your account, whether or not authorised by you, save where such activities result from our gross negligence or wilful misconduct. We shall not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to safeguard your credentials.

5. Grant of Licence and Scope of Utilisation

Subject to your continued compliance with these Terms, the Service Provider hereby grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable, and personal licence to access and utilise the Platform, its utilities, and its ancillary features strictly in accordance with the intended functionality thereof and within the usage quotas applicable to your Subscription tier. You shall not, whether directly or through the agency of any third party: decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, or otherwise seek to ascertain the proprietary source code, algorithms, or trade secrets underlying the Platform; reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, or exploit any portion of the Platform for commercial purposes inconsistent with these Terms; or deploy any automated querying mechanism, spider, scraper, robot, or analogous data-extraction apparatus against the Platform without prior written authorisation.

6. Free Services and Subscription Tiers

The Platform offers certain services free of charge, together with enhanced functionality available under paid Subscription tiers. The precise entitlements, usage quotas, and feature matrices applicable to each tier are displayed on the Platform's pricing pages and are incorporated herein by reference.

  • Free-tier entitlements, including guest usage quotas applicable to the Platform's ancillary utilities, may be modified, reduced, or withdrawn by the Service Provider at its sole discretion, with or without prior notice;
  • Subscription entitlements are personal to the User and may not be aggregated, pooled, transferred, or shared across accounts;
  • Usage quotas are measured at the sole discretion of the Service Provider, and the Service Provider's records shall be presumptively correct for the purpose of quota enforcement.

7. Billing, Payments, and Renewals

Subscription fees, if any, are quoted in Indian Rupees and are payable in advance for the relevant billing cycle. All payments are processed through secure Third-Party Service payment gateways, and the Service Provider does not store payment-card data upon its own servers. By subscribing, you authorise the applicable payment gateway to charge the designated payment instrument for the subscription amount and for all applicable taxes, levies, and charges. Unless otherwise indicated, Subscriptions shall renew automatically at the expiry of each billing cycle until cancelled in accordance with Section 8 hereof. The Service Provider reserves the right to revise subscription fees upon notice, provided that any such revision shall not take effect for the current prepaid billing cycle.

8. Cancellation and Refunds

You may cancel your Subscription at any time through your account settings or by contacting support@urlzy.in. Cancellation shall take effect at the conclusion of the then-current prepaid billing cycle, and no further fees shall be levied thereafter. Unless otherwise mandated by applicable law or expressly stated on the Platform's pricing pages, subscription fees are non-refundable once paid, and no pro-rata refunds shall be issued in respect of any unused portion of a billing cycle. In the event of a demonstrable service malfunction that materially and persistently prevents the utilisation of the subscribed functionality and is not attributable to your acts or omissions, the Service Provider may, at its sole discretion, issue a refund or credit, but shall have no obligation so to do.

9. Acceptable Use and Prohibited Activities

In utilising the Platform, you hereby covenant, represent, and warrant that you shall not, directly or indirectly, engage in, facilitate, solicit, or abet any of the following activities:

  • The propagation, dissemination, or distribution of any material that is unlawful, defamatory, libellous, obscene, pornographic, seditious, or otherwise inimical to public order and decency;
  • The creation, promulgation, or maintenance of hyperlinks destined to traverse, resolve to, or otherwise interrogate nested URL-shortening intermediaries, thereby circumventing the Platform's security screening apparatus;
  • The submission of any Uniform Resource Locator whose target hostname, upon interrogation against global threat-intelligence repositories (including, inter alia, the Spamhaus Domain Block List, the SURBL multi-domain blocklist, and the URIBL composite), is adjudged to be associated with malware, phishing, scam, fraudulent, or otherwise malicious activity;
  • The deployment of bot-driven, scripted, or automated traffic for the purpose of artificially inflating analytics, exhausting usage quotas, or compromising the integrity of the Platform's accounting mechanisms;
  • The perpetration, whether in furtherance or in the alternative, of any conduct that undermines the availability, security, or performance of the Platform, including but not limited to denial-of-service attacks, unauthorised access attempts, or the exploitation of any vulnerability therein;
  • The utilisation of the Platform in contravention of any applicable statute, regulation, ordinance, or judicial or administrative order.

The Service Provider retains the exclusive, unfettered, and discretionary prerogative to screen, review, quarantine, reject, or disable any User Content that it, in its sole judgment, deems to contravene the foregoing, and to initiate remedial measures including, but not limited to, the persisting blacklisting of offending Internet Protocol addresses and the referral of exigent matters to competent authorities.

10. Link Screening and Threat-Intelligence Interrogation

Prior to the creation of any shortened link, the target hostname is interrogated against global threat-intelligence repositories to ascertain whether it is associated with malware, phishing, fraud, or cognate malicious activity. Such interrogation transmits the target hostname and its operational metadata to the relevant repositories, but does not disclose any personal identifier of the User. Where a target hostname is adjudged to be malicious, the Service Provider shall decline to create the link and may record the offending Internet Protocol address upon a persistent blacklist. The Service Provider shall bear no liability for the refusal of any link, nor for the substance, availability, or lawfulness of any destination to which a created link resolves.

11. Client-Side Processing and Media Assets

Certain ancillary utilities of the Platform, including but not limited to the SquareUp perspective-correction instrument and cognate image-processing instruments, are architected to perform all substantive computational and transformative operations through Client-Side Processing. Accordingly:

  • Media Assets uploaded, selected, or otherwise ingested by the User into such utilities are read exclusively into the User's local memory via the browser's file-reading application programming interface and are rendered, manipulated, and transformed wholly within the User's terminal device;
  • No Media Asset shall be transmitted, uploaded, transferred, or otherwise communicated to any server, data centre, cloud repository, or storage infrastructure owned, leased, or operated by or on behalf of the Service Provider;
  • Accordingly, the Service Provider neither receives, processes, stores, duplicates, nor retains any Media Asset, and disclaims all responsibility and liability howsoever arising in respect of the confidentiality, integrity, or security of Media Assets, which remain at all material times within the exclusive custody and control of the User;
  • The User acknowledges that the output of any such Client-Side Processing operation, including any resultant file, constitutes User Content generated locally on the User's device, and that no server-side copy, derivative, or artefact thereof shall subsist by reason of the Service Provider's acts or omissions.

12. User Content and Grant of Licence Thereto

As between you and the Service Provider, you retain all right, title, and interest in and to your User Content. By submitting, uploading, or otherwise transmitting User Content to the Platform, you hereby grant the Service Provider a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sub-licensable, and revocable licence to host, store, reproduce, adapt, publicly display, and process such User Content solely to the extent necessary for the provision, operation, and improvement of the Platform and its services, in accordance with the Privacy Policy.

  • You represent and warrant that you own, or hold all necessary rights, licences, and permissions in respect of, any User Content that you submit, and that such User Content does not infringe the intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other proprietary rights of any third party;
  • For the avoidance of doubt, Media Assets processed through Client-Side Processing utilities are not transmitted to the Service Provider and are therefore not subject to the licence granted under this Section, which extends solely to User Content actually received by the Platform.

13. Intellectual Property

As between you and the Service Provider, the Service Provider retains all right, title, and interest, including all intellectual property rights, in and to the Platform, its constituent software, proprietary algorithms, graphic designs, textual matter, and all derivative works thereof, whether existing or hereafter developed. Nothing herein shall be construed as a conveyance, assignment, or transfer of any such intellectual property to the User, and you hereby acknowledge that the Platform and its progeny are protected by applicable copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, and sui generis database rights. Any suggestions, ideas, or feedback that you communicate to the Service Provider in respect of the Platform may be adopted by the Service Provider without any obligation of compensation or acknowledgement.

14. Third-Party Services and External Links

The Platform may integrate, invoke, or reference Third-Party Services, including but not limited to bot-detection apparatus, payment gateways, advertising networks, data-interrogation utilities, and external social and video platforms. You acknowledge that such Third-Party Services are subject to their own terms of service and privacy policies, over which the Service Provider exercises no supervisory or dispositive authority. The Service Provider shall bear no liability, whether contractual, tortious, statutory, or otherwise, for any loss or damage arising from your utilisation of any Third-Party Service, and any recourse thereagainst lies solely against the applicable third party.

15. Public Pages and ChallengeMe Profiles

The Platform permits Users to create and publish public pages, including chess-landing pages under the ChallengeMe utility, which may be indexed by search engines and accessible to the general public. By publishing any such page, you acknowledge and agree that:

  • the substantive content of such pages is User Content for which you bear full responsibility;
  • the Service Provider shall have no obligation to monitor, vet, or curate the content of such pages, but reserves the right to remove or disable any page that contravenes these Terms or applicable law;
  • you shall not publish, through any such page, any false, misleading, defamatory, or unlawful material, nor impersonate any other person or entity;
  • any statistics, ratings, or achievements displayed upon such pages are derived from Third-Party Services and are provided on an "as available" basis without any warranty of accuracy or currency.

16. Analytics and Usage Data

The Platform generates analytical reports, click statistics, and usage metrics in respect of links, pages, and tools utilised by account holders. Such analytics are provided for informational purposes only, are compiled from data collected in accordance with the Privacy Policy, and may be subject to delay, approximation, or error. The Service Provider does not warrant the completeness, accuracy, or timeliness of any analytical report, and shall bear no liability for any decision taken in reliance upon such data. De-identified and aggregated analytics may be used by the Service Provider for the improvement of the Platform.

17. Disclaimer of Warranties

EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED HEREIN, THE PLATFORM, ALL CONSTITUENT SERVICES, AND ALL MATTERS OF WHATEVER NATURE ASSOCIATED THEREWITH ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, INTER ALIA, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR NON-INTERRUPTION OF SERVICE. THE SERVICE PROVIDER MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT THE PLATFORM WILL OPERATE WITHOUT ERROR, DEFECT, OMISSION, OR INTERRUPTION, OR THAT ANY DEFECT THEREIN SHALL BE CURED, OR THAT THE PLATFORM WILL BE COMPATIBLE WITH ANY PARTICULAR HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION.

18. Limitation of Liability

Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, the aggregate, cumulative, and in toto liability of the Service Provider to the User, whether sounding in contract, tort, statute, equity, or otherwise, shall in no event exceed the sum actually paid by the User to the Service Provider in the twelve (12) calendar months immediately preceding the accrual of the relevant cause of action, or One Hundred Indian Rupees (INR 100), whichever is the lesser. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SERVICE PROVIDER SHALL IN NO EVENT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, REVENUE, DATA, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, WHETHER PREDICATED UPON BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORTIOUS CONDUCT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE.

19. Indemnification

To the fullest extent permissible by law, you hereby agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Service Provider, its directors, officers, employees, agents, licensors, and successors in interest from and against any and all claims, demands, liabilities, losses, damages, judgments, settlements, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or in any way connected with: (i) your utilisation of the Platform; (ii) your violation of these Terms; (iii) your User Content, including any public page or ChallengeMe profile published by you; (iv) your infringement of any intellectual property or other proprietary right of any third party; or (v) any negligent or wilful misconduct on your part. The Service Provider reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you shall cooperate fully with the Service Provider in asserting any available defences.

20. Suspension and Termination

The Service Provider reserves the right, exercisable at its sole and absolute discretion and without prior notice or liability, to suspend, restrict, deactivate, or permanently terminate your access to the Platform, whether in whole or in part, upon any breach of these Terms, upon the reasonable suspicion of fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful activity, or for any other reason whatsoever. Upon any such termination, the licences granted hereunder shall ipso facto and immediately lapse and determine, and you shall forthwith cease all further utilisation of the Platform. You may also terminate your account at any time by contacting support@urlzy.in, in which case the provisions of these Terms that survive termination shall continue in force in accordance with Section 32 hereof.

21. Force Majeure

Neither party shall be liable to the other for any failure, delay, or default in the performance of any obligation under these Terms to the extent that such failure, delay, or default is occasioned by, or attributable to, any Force Majeure Event beyond the reasonable control of the affected party, and the time for performance of such obligation shall be deemed extended pari passu with the duration of the causative event.

22. Confidentiality

Each party shall hold in strict confidence, and shall not disclose to any third party, any confidential information of the other party obtained in connection with these Terms or the utilisation of the Platform, including, without limitation, proprietary software details, trade secrets, unpublished pricing, and account credentials, except where such disclosure is: (i) required by law or court order; (ii) necessary for the performance of these Terms; or (iii) made with the prior written consent of the disclosing party. Confidential information shall not include information that is or becomes generally available to the public other than through a breach of this Section, or information independently developed or obtained without recourse to the disclosing party's confidential information.

23. Privacy and Data Protection

Your utilisation of the Platform is subject to the Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy, both of which are incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof as if fully set out at length. In the event of any conflict between these Terms and the Privacy Policy, these Terms shall prevail to the extent of the conflict, save where the Privacy Policy confers a more protective right upon you in respect of your Personal Data, in which case such more protective provision shall apply. For the avoidance of doubt, the Privacy Policy governs the collection and Processing of Personal Data in accordance with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (India) and any other applicable data-protection enactments.

24. Notices and Communications

All communications, notices, and enquiries concerning these Terms shall be directed, in writing, to the Service Provider at support@urlzy.in. Communications sent by email shall be deemed delivered upon transmission, provided that no error, bounce, or delivery-failure notification is received by the sender. The Service Provider may communicate with you by electronic mail, by in-platform notifications, or by posting notices upon the Platform, each of which shall be deemed sufficient notice for all purposes. You acknowledge that electronic communications shall satisfy any applicable legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

25. Amendments and Modification

The Service Provider reserves the unilateral and unconditional right to amend, modify, supplement, suspend, or replace these Terms, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, with or without prior notice. Any such amendment shall become effective upon its publication on the Platform, and your continued utilisation of the Platform following such publication shall constitute your conclusive and irrevocable acceptance of the amended Terms. It is your responsibility to periodically review these Terms for any changes.

26. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid, illegal, void, or unenforceable for any reason, whether in whole or in part, by a court or tribunal of competent jurisdiction, such provision shall be severed herefrom to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect as if the severed provision had never been incorporated. The parties shall, where feasible, negotiate in good faith to substitute for any invalid or unenforceable provision a valid and enforceable provision that most closely approximates the economic and legal intent of the severed provision.

27. Waiver

No failure, delay, or omission on the part of either party in exercising any right, power, or remedy accruing to it under these Terms shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise thereof preclude any further or other exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power, or remedy. A waiver of any provision of these Terms shall be effective only if expressed in a written instrument signed by the waiving party, and shall not constitute a waiver of any other provision or of the same provision upon any future occasion.

28. Assignment and Transfer

You shall not assign, transfer, sublicence, or otherwise delegate any of your rights, duties, or obligations under these Terms, whether in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of the Service Provider. Any purported assignment in contravention hereof shall be null and void ab initio. The Service Provider may freely assign, transfer, or delegate these Terms, in whole or in part, to any successor in interest, including in connection with any merger, acquisition, reorganisation, or sale of all or substantially all of its business or assets, without prior notice to or consent from you.

29. Entire Agreement

This instrument, together with the Privacy Policy, the Cookie Policy, and any ancillary policies incorporated by reference, constitutes the entire agreement between you and the Service Provider with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous agreements, understandings, negotiations, and communications, whether written or oral, relating thereto. No representation, inducement, promise, or condition not expressly set forth herein shall be binding upon either party, and neither party has relied upon any representation, inducement, promise, or condition not expressly set forth herein.

30. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms shall be governed by, construed in accordance with, and enforced under the laws of the Republic of India, without regard to any conflict-of-laws or choice-of-law principles that would mandate the application of the substantive law of any other jurisdiction. Subject to the arbitration provision in Section 31 hereof, the courts of competent jurisdiction at Mumbai, Maharashtra, India shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Platform, and you hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submit to the jurisdiction of such courts and waive any objection to venue or forum non conveniens.

31. Dispute Resolution and Arbitration

Any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Platform, including any question regarding its existence, validity, or termination, shall first be referred to a process of amicable negotiation, to be conducted in good faith for a period not exceeding thirty (30) days from the date of written notice. Failing resolution through negotiation, such dispute shall be referred to and finally resolved by binding arbitration in accordance with the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, as amended, conducted by a sole arbitrator appointed by the Service Provider, sitting in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, and the award rendered therein shall be final, conclusive, and binding upon the parties, with recourse to the courts of competent jurisdiction in Mumbai solely for the enforcement of any such award. The language of the arbitration shall be English, and the costs of arbitration shall be borne by the parties in such proportions as the arbitrator may determine.

32. Survival

All provisions of these Terms which by their nature are intended to survive termination or expiration, whether by reason of your termination of your account, the Service Provider's suspension or termination of your access, or otherwise, shall survive any such termination or expiration in perpetuity. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the following provisions shall expressly survive: Sections 1, 4, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 26, 27, 30, 31, and 33.

33. Contact Information

All enquiries, notices, and communications concerning these Terms shall be directed to the Service Provider at support@urlzy.in. The Service Provider shall use commercially reasonable efforts to respond to all bona fide communications within a reasonable period. Nothing in these Terms shall create any third-party beneficiary rights in favour of any person or entity not a party hereto.