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THIS CONTAINS VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND TERMS GOVERNING YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE

Welcome to the The Secret Garden Site (this "Site"). This Site is owned by Avinash V. Ganatra ("Site Owner"). Please read these Terms of Use carefully before using this Site. By using this Site, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use and they constitute a binding contract between you on the one hand and Site and Site Owner on the other hand. Site Owner reserves the right to modify these Terms of Use at any time by posting modified Terms of Use without any notice to your. Your continued use of this Site thereafter will constitute agreement with such modifications.

General Purpose of this Site

This Site is an informal “blog” site to provide Site Owner and other amateur writers an online platform to post and distribute their writings, whether in the form of poetry, fiction, essays, etc. This Site is intended solely as a platform for the pursuit of amateur and extracurricular interest in all forms of writing and to build a sense of community among its users and members. This Site is not intended and does not purport to be a source of any information or “intelligence” on any topic whatsoever and should not be used or relied upon for any such purpose. In other words, this Site is for FUN only! Please don’t make it out to be any more than that.

Warranty Disclaimer

Any information provided on this Site is provided "as is," without warranty of any kind. No express warranty of any kind. No implied warranty of any kind. Your use of this Site is at your own risk, and Site Owner assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in its content (including, without limitation, with regard to the accuracy or timeliness of any information contained on this Site).

Under no circumstances will Site Owner be liable to you or any other person or entity for any loss or damages of any amount or of any kind or character whatsoever arising from your or any other person’s access to or use of this Site.

Site Owner is not responsible for any action, or failure to act, in reliance upon information on this Site or on any third-party Site that may be accessed by a link from this Site.

Site Owner expressly disclaims any liability for any action, or failure to take action, in reliance on any of the contents of this Site. Your sole remedy for any dissatisfaction with any of the Contents is to refrain from using this Site. That means if you don’t like or disagree with anything on this Site, then please do not use it or visit. You are under no compulsion whatsoever to do so!

Links to Other Sites – Use/Click on Outside Links at Your Own Risk!

Some of the pages on this Site may contain links to websites not maintained by Site Owner. These links are provided as a convenience to you only or may be posted by you or other users of this Site, and the inclusion of any link does not imply any association, relationship, endorsement, approval or sponsorship between Site Owner and the linked site, or vice versa.

If you use any of these links, you will leave our Site. Site Owner is not responsible for the content of any such sites, makes no representations regarding any such sites, cannot guarantee their practices regarding data privacy, and does not necessarily endorse or approve of the information, material, products or services contained on or accessible through any such sites.

You acknowledge and agree that your linking to other sites, your use of such sites, and your use of any information, material, products, and services offered by such sites, is solely at your own risk.

Content rights & responsibilities

You own all the rights to the content, including, without limitation, any writing in any form, posts, blogs and/or comments (“Content”) you create and post on this Site.

By posting any Content to this Site, you give this Site and Site Owner a non-exclusive and irrevocable license in perpetuity to publish it on this Site, including, without limitation, anything reasonably related to publishing it (like storing, displaying, reformatting, and distributing it).

You can delete any of your Content, or your account, anytime.

Any and all views and opinions expressed in any Content that you post on this Site are yours (in case of Content created by you) or the applicable author/creator (in case of “third-party” Content) alone and do not in any manner whatsoever reflect the views or opinions of this Site and/or the Site Owner.

The posting of your Content on this Site does not constitute and should not be construed as this Site and/or Site Owner in any in any manner endorsing, agreeing, supporting, sponsoring, etc. such Content and/or any views or opinions expressed in such Content.

You are solely and fully responsible for the Content you post. This means you assume all risks related to it, including someone else’s reliance on its accuracy, or claims relating to intellectual property or other legal rights.

DO NOT POST ANY CONTENT ON THIS SITE IF YOU HAVE REASON TO BELIEVE THAT DOING SO WILL VIOLATE OR INFRINGE UPON THE RIGHTS, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OF ANY PERSON OR ENTITY.

You’re welcome to post Content on this Site that you’ve published elsewhere, as long as you have the rights you need to do so. By posting Content to this Site, you represent and warrant that doing so doesn’t conflict with or violate any other agreement you’ve made and/or any rights, including, without limitation, any intellectual rights of any other person or entity.

By posting Content you did not create to this Site, you are representing that you have the right to do so. For example, you are posting a work that’s in the public domain, used under license (including a free license, such as Creative Commons), or a fair use.

We can remove any Content you post for any reason without informing you or any other person. However, we do NOT undertake any responsibility to monitor or “police” any Content on our website for any purpose whatsoever.

Our failure to delete any Content posted by you on this Site does NOT mean that we:

agree with or accept your rights to post such Content;
endorse, agree with, or support any views or opinions expressed in such content; or
make any judgment or reach any conclusion as to whether your posting such Content does or does not conflict with, infringe or violate in any manner any rights, including, without limitation, any intellectual rights of any person or entity.

Other Important Items!

Limitation of Liability. The Site and/or Site Owner are not and will never be liable to you for any damages that arise from your using this Site or posting any Content on this Site or any other activities conducted by you or any other person, including, without limitation, any member of this Site. This includes if this Site is hacked or unavailable. This includes all types of damages (indirect, incidental, consequential, special or exemplary). And it includes all kinds of legal claims, such as breach of contract, breach of warranty, tort, or any other loss.

Disclaimer of warranty. This Site is made available to you AS IS. You use this Site at your own risk and discretion. That means this Site does not come with any warranty. None express, none implied. No implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, availability, security, title or non-infringement.

No waiver. If this Site doesn’t exercise a particular right under these Terms, that doesn’t waive it.

Severability. If any provision of these terms is found invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, you agree that the court should try to give effect to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision and that other provisions of the Terms will remain in full effect.

Choice of law and jurisdiction. These Terms are governed by New York law, without reference to its conflict of laws provisions.

Entire agreement. These Terms (including any document incorporated by reference into them) are the whole agreement between you on the one hand and this Site and this Site Owner on the other hand.