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Welcome to [Bazaar KARAT by Mr Ariff Kamal (Founder)] (BazaarKARAT.com). This Website is owned and operated by [Author] (“Author,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).
Please read these Terms of Use carefully. By accessing the public sections of this Website or by subscribing to our premium areas, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, you must cease using the Website immediately.
1. Scope of Access: Public vs. Subscriber
We offer two tiers of access to our content:
A. Open Public Access
- The Experience: Public visitors are welcome to browse the open blog, book landing pages, public FAQs, and freely available promotional content.
- The Rule: Public access is granted for personal, non-commercial entertainment and information only. You may read, share links to our public pages, and enjoy the content, but you may not scrape, copy, or redistribute it.
B. Subscriber & Member Access
- The Experience: Subscribers gain access to restricted content, which may include exclusive short stories, early-release chapters, community forums, downloadable resources, or behind-the-scenes updates.
- Account Security: If you create a subscriber account, you are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account details.
- No Account Sharing: Your subscription is strictly for your personal use. Sharing account credentials, subscriber-only links, or downloading premium files to distribute them to non-subscribers is a direct violation of these Terms and will result in immediate termination of your account without a refund.
2. Intellectual Property, Copyright & AI Restrictions
All creative work published here—including but not limited to complete novels, book excerpts, short stories, world-building lore, artwork, audio clips, and blog posts—is the exclusive copyrighted property of [Mr Ariff Kamal].
- Copyright Protection: Subscription access does not transfer ownership of any intellectual property to you. You are buying or receiving a license to view the content, not own it.
- Strict Anti-AI Scraping Clause: Whether you are an open public visitor or a paid subscriber, you are strictly prohibited from using any text, data, characters, concepts, or images from this Website to train, fine-tune, or test artificial intelligence (AI) models, machine learning algorithms, or large language models (LLMs). Automated extraction or web scraping is completely forbidden.
3. Subscriber Billing, Cancellations & Refunds
(Keep this section if your subscription involves payment; delete it if it is a free email signup.)
- Billing: By signing up for a paid subscription tier, you agree to the recurring fees disclosed at the time of purchase.
- Cancellation: You can cancel your subscription at any time through your account dashboard. Your access to premium content will continue until the end of your current billing cycle.
- Refund Policy: Due to the digital nature of immediate access to creative works, all subscription payments are non-refundable unless required by local consumer protection laws.
4. User Conduct & Public Forums
If you interact with public comment sections or subscriber-only community boards, you agree to look out for the community by following these rules:
- Keep it Respectful: Do not post anything defamatory, abusive, harassing, obscene, hateful, or invasive of another person’s privacy.
- No Spoilers/Trolling: Please mark plot spoilers clearly out of respect for other readers. Intentionally disruptive behavior (trolling) will result in a ban.
- Our Right to Moderate: We reserve the right to monitor, edit, hide, or completely delete any user-generated comments or posts that violate these rules, and to terminate public or subscriber access for repeat offenders.
5. Disclaimers & Limits of Liability
- As-Is Basis: This Website and its creative works are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis for entertainment purposes.
- Fiction Disclaimer: Characters, places, and incidents in the fiction portions of this Website are products of the Author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
- Limitation of Liability: To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Author shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from your use of the site or your inability to access subscriber perks due to technical downtime.
6. Governing Law & Updates
- Changes to Terms: We may modify these terms as our community grows. If we make major changes impacting subscribers, we will notify you via the email associated with your subscription.
- Governing Law: These Terms are governed by the laws of [Insert Your State/Country], without regard to conflict of law principles.
7. Contact Us
For support with your subscription, billing issues, or to request permission to share an excerpt, please reach out:
- Email: [info@bazaarkarat.com]
