Terms of Use

CONDITIONS OF USE
ISBInsight, the flagship research quarterly of the Indian School of Business (ISB), offers a unique, forward-looking perspective on current management research and thinking that you simply can’t find in the regular business media. It features research-driven insight and evidence-based opinion for practitioners, with a focus on Indian and emerging markets. It brings to readers trend-setting, contemporary business and management articles, written by the best minds in business and academia. In addition, it carries interviews with thought-leaders and decision makers from industry, academia, government and non-governmental organizations. ISB provides this service and  platform subject to the following conditions.

COPYRIGHT & COPYRIGHT COMPLAINTS
All content included in or made available through ISBInsight, such as text, graphics, logos, images, audio clips, digital downloads, and data compilations is the exclusive property of ISBInsight or the contributors or content suppliers. All content made available by ISBInsight is protected under Indian Copyright Law and other international copyright laws. ISB respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask everyone who uses our service to do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please submit your complaint at isbinsight@isb.edu.

TRADEMARKS
ISB and ISBInsight are trademarks of Indian School of Business(ISB) in India and other countries. ISB’s trademarks should not be used in connection with any product or service, in any manner that amounts to or is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits ISB. The other trademarks that may appear on this website and of which ISB is not the proprietor is the property of the respective owner.

ACCOUNT
You will be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. ISB reserves the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, in its sole discretion.

REVIEWS AND OTHER CONTENT
Readers can post reviews, comments, and other content or information, subject to the same not being illegal or comprising of any kind of content being obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights or containing software viruses, any form of spam and/or pertaining to any activity not authorized by ISB. Unless agreed otherwise all the contents posted and/or contributed, you agree to grant ISB a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sub licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you post; that the content is accurate; that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify ISB for all claims resulting from content you supply. ISB has the right but not the obligation to monitor and edit or remove any activity or content and takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content posted by you or any third party.

PRIVACY
The privacy is important to us and we promise that we will take steps to use your personal information only in ways that are compatible with this Privacy Policy. ISB does not automatically collect personally identifiable information from each visitor. It does recognize the home server of visitors, but not e-mail addresses. The Web Site does track certain information about the visits to the ISB. This information is used only for internal purposes by our technical support staff to compile statistics that show the numbers and frequency of visitors to the Web Site and its individual pages and time spent by each visitor on each page. These aggregated statistics are generally used internally to improve our service and content. Such statistics may be provided to other third parties but it does not contain the personal information and cannot be used to gather such information.

We may ask you to tender information in order to verify your entitlement to access and use certain information, materials and services available. Such information is asked to improve our services, to seek your comments with respect to content contents etc. Such information may be asked  at the time of (a) Log-in (your Log In Name and Password) to allow access (b) to register or sign-up to subscribe to a service, newsletter or  to provide feedback. Such information may comprise of your name, e-mail id, contact number, address, date of birth, area of practice or preference information etc. needed to register or subscribe. In case of any subscribed services, you will be allowed to “unsubscribe” as and when  desired by you.

This  information shall be kept confidential and will be used by ISB  and its authorized  agents  only to cater the services subscribed you.  To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. Nevertheless any information  shared by you  voluntarily through e-mail, online contests etc. may  be collected and used by others to send unsolicited messages,  chain  emails or spams etc. Please be careful whenever you share your information online.

COOKIES
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EDIT
To access or correct your information please, click on the Edit Profile option on your personalized home page to view or correct information provided.  For any further queries regarding our privacy policy, you may mail at isbinsight@isb.edu. ISB reserves the right to revise, amend or modify this policy at any time and in any manner it pleases. Revised policy shall be posted accordingly.