Terms of Service

You (the user) can access Taxsmile.com ("the site"), subject to the terms and conditions of use, as changed / updated from time to time entirely at the discretion of Taxsmile.com India Private Limited, ) as set out below. The term of this Agreement shall continue and would be in force till the time you access this site & its services and you agree that you are bound by the terms as mentioned herein. . Nothing in these Terms of Service should be construed to confer any rights to third party beneficiaries.

You must be 18 years or older to use the Taxsmile.com service. By registering for the Taxsmile.com service, you represent and warrant that you are 18 or older and that you have the capacity to understand, agree to and comply with these Terms of Service.

Since Indian laws do not permit to us to contract with a minor person (minor is a person who has not completed 18 years of age), we do not market our Web site to minor person under the age of 18. However, since the Income Tax provides a minor to file income tax return in certain circumstances, in such instance we presume that the parent/guardian has registered himself to enroll the minor only as a tax payer on our web site & all the inputs, information provided our under guidance & assistance of at least one of his parent/guardian.

We reserve the right to add to or change/modify the terms of this Agreement including but not limited to suspend / cancel, or discontinue any or all service at any time without notice, make modifications and alterations in any or all of the content, products and services contained on the site without prior notice. Such changes will be posted to http://www.taxsmile.com/ taxsmile-online-tax-filing-service.html for your convenience to understand your responsibility as a user. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these Terms of Service so that you will be apprised of any changes. You will be deemed to have accepted such change/s if you continue to access the Site subsequent to such changes.

Taxsmile.com will only collect, store, use, and share your personal information (including email address) as it is defined by our privacy statement and as regulated by Indian laws. When filing a tax return online, in addition to entering your own personal information, you may be asked to enter personal information of those who are either dependants or person’s for whose income your are liable. Information collected on the Taxsmile.com website is stored & used to prepare and electronically file users tax returns, as well as notify you when new/enhanced products and services become available. We do not disclose user's information (including email address) to third parties except when the user requests to e-file their return. In just case, we will disclose information to the appropriate government officials if the law so compels us. We only communicate with users when necessary, such as issues with the user's tax return or to provide requested services.

Only information you have given us (including email address) is stored by us. We do not supplement your information with information from other companies. The exception to this would be when your employer has bought the services/products for bulk use for its employees and to facilitate that we may upload information provided by your employer.

When you use calculators and other tools on our Web sites that may or may not require registration, Taxsmile.com may collect non-identifiable data from such tools, to help us customize offers and tools to your particular interests. Taxsmile.com will not record or track any data you enter into standalone tools and calculators in any way that identifies you personally, unless we specifically inform you that we are doing so at the time you provide such data.

In case of change in tax laws & procedures we would try our best to incorporate the same on the site at the earliest however we do not take responsibility to always update are web site or the service/s offered instantly, at times it may take time or we may not consider to update the same for a reason, the decision of our team would be final. While offering the service/s and or product our team of tax experts have to interpret the vast number of tax law provisions & while doing so there could be more than one view possible about the same tax provision, our experts always would be interpreting the law in the most reasonable & law abiding view. Therefore the income & tax calculations may be different from another tax professional’s point of view, in such an event or any other such possibilities we will not be responsible for such or other errors, misrepresentation or miscalculations in case of income or tax areas reported or displayed or printed in any form through the service/s or products. In the event of leakage of any information from the site for any reason beyond our control & for whatsoever reason taxsmile.com shall not be responsible under any circumstances and no action shall lie against taxsmile.com. A maximum relief granted in such an event would be subject to the payment you have made for that service or product, which we may refund to you & that Taxsmile.com India Private Limited would be deemed to have discharged its limited liability towards you.

If you do not want to receive promotional e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by sending an email to us at the above address or calling us at the above telephone number or writing to us at the above address and telling us that you do not want to receive e-mail from our company.

If you prefer not to be notified of next year's release or to receive any product information from Taxsmile.com, please contact us via email, phone, or mail to make your request to be removed from our email list. Please refer to our privacy policy.

This Site reserves the right to charge subscription and / or membership fees in respect of any part, aspect of this Site & Service/s and/or product/s upon reasonable prior notice. Such notice will be appearing on the site by displaying the new / revised charges for the service/s and/or product/s as offered time to time with or without modifications & on such display it will be presumed to be read by all users whether registered or not & no further notice would be required. The same will apply for any service/s or products being offered without any charges whenever made chargeable.

Taxsmile.com India Pvt Ltd will refund payments to you in the following circumstances:

• If there has been a duplicate payment in error.
• If the income tax computed on Taxsmile.com is inaccurate. You must send complete documentation of the data provided in connection with the other tax preparation method which shows the inaccuracy of tax computation.

Request for refund of payment made to Taxsmile.com must be made within 5 business days of date of payment. Your request for a refund terminates your rights to use the Taxmsile.com services and any related warranties or guarantees.

Refund of the fees you paid to Taxsmile.com is the maximum relief granted in any event, including but not limited to computation error, printing error, filing error, filing delay, data leakage, security breach, data loss, or non availability of service.

The Taxsmile.com service is made available for your personal, non-commercial use only.

You may not use the Taxsmile.com service for any illegal or unauthorized purpose, including misusing permanent account number (PAN) of another person. International users agree to comply with all Indian laws & regulations, including laws regulating the export of data from the United States or your country of residence. You are solely responsible for your conduct and any data, text, information, graphics, that you submit, & post on to Taxsmile.com service.

Other examples of illegal or unauthorized uses include, but are not limited to:

• modifying, adapting, translating, or reverse engineering any portion of the Taxsmile.com service.
• removing any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on the Taxsmile.com service.
• using any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other device to retrieve or index any portion or the taxsmile.com service.
• creating user accounts by automated means or under false or fraudulent pretenses.
• creating or transmitting unwanted electronic communications such as "spam," or chain letters to or otherwise interfering with other user's enjoyment of the service by blocking.
• submitting data of any third party without such third party's prior written consent.
• submitting Materials that falsely express or imply that such Materials are sponsored or endorsed by Taxsmile.com.
• submitting Materials that infringe, misappropriate or violate the intellectual property, publicity, privacy or other proprietary rights of any party.
• transmitting any viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses or other items of a destructive nature.
• submitting false or misleading information.
  

While Taxsmile.com prohibits such conduct on its site, you understand and agree that you nonetheless may be exposed to such misuse or blocking by other users and that you use the taxsmile.com service at your own risk.

For certain services such as Email, contents and calculators, registration by the visitor is required. By registering, you agree to the following terms in addition to any other specific terms, which shall be posted at an appropriate location of the Site. Each registration is for a single individual user with creation of multiple taxpayers known to the registering user only. To access these services, you will be asked to enter your individual User Name, Password, Date of Birth, Secret Question, Email Address & Mobile Contact. Therefore, we do not permit any of the following:-

• Any other person sharing your User Name and Password unless your express permission is granted.
• Any part of the Site being cached in proxy servers and accessed by person/s who have not registered with taxsmile.com as users of the Site & Service/s
  
  

If we reasonably believe that a User Name and Password are being used / misused in any manner as clarified above we reserve the right to cancel access rights immediately without notice, and block access to all users from that IP address.

Unless otherwise stated, copyright and all intellectual property rights in all material presented on the site (including but not limited to text, audio, video or graphical images), trademarks and logos appearing on this site are the property of Taxsmile.com India Private Limited, its parent, affiliates and associates and are protected under applicable Indian laws. Any infringement shall be vigorously defended and pursued to the fullest extent permitted by law.

You are permitted to print or download extracts from these pages for your personal non-commercial use only. Any copies of these pages saved to disk or to any other storage medium may only be used for subsequent viewing purposes or to print extracts for personal use. You may not (whether directly or through the use of any software program) create a database in electronic or structured manual form by regularly or systematically downloading and storing all or any part of the pages from this site. No part of the Site 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.

All information, data, text, software, graphics, video, messages or other materials, whether publicly or privately transmitted / posted, is the sole responsibility of the person from where such content originated (the Originator).

Forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any content transmitted through the service.

You as a   responsible adult (above 18 years or above) shall be solely responsible for all content that you upload post or otherwise transmit. Taxsmile.com endeavours to provide a web platform for various community interactions for persons to interact and exchange views with each other. The content posted on such services is by general public therefore the accuracy, integrity or quality of such content cannot be guaranteed. You understand that by using such services, you may be exposed to objectionable matter. Under no circumstances will taxsmile.com be liable in any way for any content, including, but not limited to, for any errors or omissions in any content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any content posted or uploaded. By using the facility of chat and other community services you agree not to upload, post, or otherwise transmit any matter or views, which are, defamatory, abusive, obscene, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable. You may also not indulge in cyber stalking, become or create a nuisance for any person / user.

You may not send, submit, post, or otherwise transmit, material or messages that contain software virus, or any other files that are designed to interrupt, destroy, and negatively affect in any manner whatsoever, any electronic equipment in connection with the use of this site, or other user's ability to engage in real time exchanges.

Any transactions relating to sale/purchase of goods or services not directly offered by taxsmile.com are to be settled inter-se between the parties and all warranties express or implied of any kind, regarding any matter pertaining thereto, including without limitation the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement are disclaimed by this site. This site does not have any involvement in the actual transactions between the buyers and sellers in any way.

Taxsmile.com reserves its right to terminate your account without any prior notice for any violation of the Terms of Use.

By submitting or furnishing any personal information, data or details on or through the Taxsmile.com service/s, you automatically grant to us non-exclusive, permission & irrevocable right to hold & store your, such personal information, data or details and or your tax related information submitted or generated on calculation. Our use of your personal information is governed by our Privacy Policy and we will never rent, sell or share your personal information with any third party for marketing purposes without your express permission.

It is our policy to respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the Copyright Act.

By submitting or furnishing any content and or suggestions other than your personal information on or through the Taxsmile.com service/s, you automatically grant to us a worldwide, non-exclusive, permission & irrevocable right & such content & suggestions becomes the property of taxsmile.com and you agree to grant/assign the royalty free, perpetual 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.

On selection of email Alert service you agree & grant non-exclusive, permission & irrevocable right to send emails & alerts by way of messages or other formats as time to time decided by us on commercial expediency prudence and that your prior permission to continue or change such method is deemed to have been agreed & granted by the user.

All the contents of this Site are only for general information or use. They do not constitute advice and should not be relied upon in making (or refraining from making) any decision. Any specific advice or replies to queries in any part of the Site is/are the personal opinion of such experts/consultants/persons and are not subscribed to by this Site. The information from or through this site is provided on "AS IS" basis, and all warranties, expressed or implied of any kind, regarding any matter pertaining to any goods, service or channel, including without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement are disclaimed and excluded.

Taxsmile.com India Private Limited, its directors, employees, agents, representatives and the authors and its parent, affiliates and associates shall not be liable, at any time for damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of business projects, or loss of profits) arising in contract, tort or otherwise from the use of or inability to use the Site, or any of its contents, or from any act or omissions a result of using the Site or any such contents or for any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorised access to, alteration of, or use of information contained on the site. No representations, warranties or guarantees whatsoever are made as to the accuracy, adequacy, reliability, completeness, suitability or applicability of the information to a particular situation.

Certain links on the Site lead to resources located on servers maintained by third parties over whom Taxsmile.com has no control or connection, business or otherwise as these sites are external to Taxsmile.com you agree and understand that by visiting such sites you are beyond the Taxsmile.com website. Taxsmile.com therefore neither endorses nor offers any judgement or warranty and accepts no responsibility or liability for the authenticity/availability of any of the goods/services/or for any damage, loss or harm, direct or consequential or any violation of local or international laws that may be incurred by your visit and/or transaction/s on these sites. Please refer to our Legal Disclaimer.

Certain elements of The Site will contain material submitted by users (community center). Taxsmile.com accepts no responsibility for the content, accuracy, and conformity to applicable laws of such material.

Part of the Site contains advertising/other material submitted to Taxsmile.com by third parties. Responsibility for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on the Site complies with applicable International and National law is exclusively on the advertisers and Taxsmile.com will not be responsible for any claim, error, omission or inaccuracy in advertising material. Taxsmile.com reserves the right to omit, suspend or change the position of any advertising material submitted for insertion. Acceptance of advertisements on the Site will be subject to Taxsmile.com India Private Limited’s terms and conditions, which are available on request.

Taxsmile.com may send information and offers of products and services to you from time to time & store the information provided by the user. For further details relating to our policy relating to such offer & storage of data please refer to our privacy policy.

Taxsmile.com shall have no liability to you for any interruption or delay in access to the Site irrespective of the cause.

Force Majeure event shall be one when there is any cessation, interruption or delay in the performance of Taxsmile.com’s obligations due to causes beyond its reasonable control, including but not limited to: technical, earthquake, flood, or other natural disaster, act of God, labor controversy, civil disturbance, war (whether or not officially declared) or the inability to obtain sufficient supply of service, transportation, or other essential commodity or service required in the conduct of its business, or any change in or the adoption of any law, regulation, judgment or decree. Without limiting the foregoing, under no circumstances shall Taxsmile.com be held liable for any delay or failure in performance resulting directly or indirectly from acts of nature, forces, or causes beyond its reasonable control, including, without limitation, Internet failures, computer equipment failures, telecommunication equipment failures, other equipment failures, electrical power failures, strikes, labor disputes, riots, insurrections, civil disturbances, shortages of labor or materials, fires, floods, storms, explosions, acts of God, war, governmental actions, orders of domestic or foreign courts or tribunals, non-performance of third parties, or loss of or fluctuations in heat, light, or air conditioning of your information & or data received and or stored or any of our service/s.

The Agreement shall be governed by the Laws of India. The Courts of law at Mumbai shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes arising under this agreement.

These Terms of Service constitute the entire agreement between the parties 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.

There are risks associated with utilizing internet and short messaging system (chat) based information and research dissemination services. Users/subscribers are advised to understand that the services can fail due to failure of hardware, software, and Internet connection. While we ensure that the email/messages are delivered in time to the user/subscribers, the delivery of these email/messages to the customer's email inbox or message center is the responsibility of the email/messenger’s service provider Network. Email/messages may be delayed and/or not delivered to the user/subscriber's inbox or chat box on certain days, owing to technical reasons that can only be addressed by the service provider, and Taxsmile.com India Private Limited who owns taxsmile.com and group companies associated with it and/or its employees cannot be held responsible for the same.

Taxsmile.com hereby expressly disclaims any implied warranties imputed by the laws of any jurisdiction. We consider ourselves and intend to be subject to the jurisdiction only of the courts of the Mumbai in India. If you don't agree with any of our disclaimers above please do not read the material on any of our pages. This site is specifically for users in the territory of India. Although the access to users outside India is not denied, taxsmile.com shall have no legal liabilities whatsoever in any laws of any jurisdiction other than India. We reserve the right to make changes to our site and these disclaimers, terms, and conditions at any time.

Taxsmile.com operates a real time interactive chat room intended to provide a private forum for users to get information regarding operating & using the web enabled service/s provided. You agree, by accessing this or any associated site, that taxsmile.com bears no liability for any postings on the website or actions of associate site. We reserve the right to deny service to anyone. You, and not taxsmile.com, assume the entire cost and risk of any trading you choose to undertake. You are solely responsible for making your own decisions to act on such advice or guidance.