Copyright and Permitted Use

Ownership of This Website#

1. Ownership.

   This website and everything published on it are owned by Computer Solutions, trading as Business Ahead (“we”, “us”, “our”), or used by us under licence. All Intellectual Property Rights in that material are and remain vested in us or our licensors.

2. What “Material” Means.

   In this Policy, “Material” means everything published on or made available through this website, including text and copywriting, product and service descriptions, pricing pages, knowledgebase articles, guides and blog posts, photographs, illustrations, icons, diagrams, screenshots, video and audio, page layouts, visual design and look and feel, the source code of the website, data and compilations, downloadable documents, and the selection and arrangement of all of it. Even where an individual item is not itself protected, the selection, structure and arrangement of Material on this website is an original compilation in which we claim rights.

3. No Transfer of Rights.

   Nothing on this website transfers to you any ownership of, or Intellectual Property Right in, any Material. You acquire only the permissions expressly granted in Section 3. All other rights are reserved, no right is granted by implication or estoppel, and our failure to enforce this Policy on any occasion is not a waiver.

4. Relationship with Our Other Documents.

   This Policy governs the Material published on this website. Our Terms of Service governs the relationship with customers, including ownership of the Software System, Deliverables and Provider Materials, and Section 14 of that document prevails over this Policy on any question of intellectual property in the Services. This Policy is not a contract and does not vary any right or obligation under the Terms of Service.

Trade Marks#

1. Our Marks.

   “Business Ahead”, “BusinessAhead”, “Computer Solutions”, the Business Ahead logo, our product names and the distinctive elements of our visual identity are our trade marks, whether registered or unregistered.

2. Referring to Us Is Fine.

   You may refer to us and to our products by name, accurately and in plain text, for the purposes of description, comparison, review, reporting or recommendation. That does not require our permission.

3. What Needs Our Consent.

   You may not, without our prior written consent, use our marks in your own business, product, service, domain, social media handle or application name; use them so as to suggest sponsorship, endorsement or affiliation where none exists; register them or any confusingly similar mark; or alter, distort, recolour or combine our logo with other elements.

4. Third-Party Marks.

   Trade marks of others appearing on this website belong to their respective owners, and their appearance implies no endorsement in either direction. Any right of a customer to use our name, or of ours to use a customer’s, is governed by Section 20.3 and Section 14.8 of the Terms of Service.

What You May Do#

We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to do the following, provided that in every case you comply with Section 3.5.

1. Read, Print and Save.

   Browse this website, and print, save or generate a PDF of individual pages, for your own reference or for the internal business purposes of your organisation, including evaluating whether to purchase from us.

2. Circulate Internally.

   Share a reasonable number of copies of a page or article within your own organisation, for example with colleagues involved in a purchasing decision.

3. Recommend and Link.

   Tell others about this website, share links on social media, in newsletters and in forums, and link to us from your own website in accordance with Section 6. We encourage this.

4. Quote With Attribution.

   Quote short extracts from our articles and guides for criticism, review, news reporting, teaching, scholarship or research, provided the extract is no longer than that purpose reasonably requires, is accurately reproduced, is clearly attributed to Business Ahead, and carries a link to the page it came from.

5. Conditions.

   Every permission above is conditional on you not altering or misrepresenting the Material, not removing any copyright or attribution notice, not using it unlawfully or in a way likely to bring us into disrepute, not implying that we endorse you, and not charging a fee or deriving direct commercial gain from supplying the Material itself. A permission exercised otherwise than in accordance with this Section 3.5 lapses automatically.

6. Your Statutory Rights.

   Nothing in this Policy restricts any act permitted without the copyright owner’s consent under Section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957, or under the equivalent fair dealing, fair use, quotation or accessibility provisions of the law applicable to you.

What You May Not Do#

Except as permitted by Section 3 or by applicable Law, you may not, and may not permit any other person to:

1. reproduce, republish, redistribute or make available to the public any Material, in whole or in substantial part, whether or not for gain;
2. sell, rent, sub-license, syndicate or otherwise commercially exploit any Material, or include it in any product, publication, course, database or service supplied to others, whether free or paid;
3. compile our articles into a handbook, training pack or similar publication, or print or copy them onto any medium for distribution;
4. adapt, translate or create derivative works from any Material;
5. copy or closely imitate the design, layout, structure or source code of this website for your own or a client’s website or application;
6. extract or re-utilise any substantial part of the data or compilations underlying this website;
7. remove, alter or obscure any copyright, trade mark or attribution notice, or circumvent any technical measure restricting access or copying; or
8. present Material so as to misrepresent its source or currency, or to attribute to us a statement we have not made.

Scraping, Data Mining and AI Training#

1. Express Reservation of Rights.

   We expressly reserve all rights in the Material in respect of text and data mining, web scraping, corpus building, and the development, pre-training, training, fine-tuning, evaluation, grounding or retrieval-augmented generation of any machine learning or artificial intelligence model or system under applicable copyright and related laws, including, where applicable, Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790. No permission granted by Section 3 extends to any of these activities.

2. Crawling and Indexing.

   We permit conventional search engine crawling and indexing that respects our robots.txt directives and any machine-readable rights declaration we publish, and that is carried out in order to direct users to this website. A crawler must identify itself accurately by user-agent string and must not impose an unreasonable load on our infrastructure. We may also publish machine-readable AI usage preferences (including llms.txt or equivalent standards as they evolve), which form part of this Policy.

3. Search Engine Indexing and Snippets.

   We acknowledge that bona fide search engines and similar indexing services may crawl, index and display limited excerpts, snippets, cached previews or other minimal portions of the Material solely for the purpose of facilitating search results and directing users to this Website, where such use is permitted by applicable law and consistent with our published technical instructions (including robots.txt, llms.txt, or any successor standard adopted by us). Such indexing shall not be construed as granting any licence to reproduce, distribute, adapt, commercially exploit, use for artificial intelligence or machine learning purposes, or otherwise use the Material beyond the limited purpose of search indexing.

4. Prohibited Automated Activity.

   You may not use any robot, spider, scraper, harvester, headless browser or extraction script to access, monitor or copy this website except as permitted by Section 5.2; bypass or misrepresent robots.txt, rate limits or any technical restriction; access this website through an anonymising service in order to evade a block; or aggregate, resell or redistribute Material obtained by automated means.

5. Enforcement and Licensing.

   We may block or rate-limit any client, network or user-agent we reasonably believe is engaged in prohibited activity, without notice and without liability. If you wish to licence Material for data mining or AI training, we are willing to discuss it: write to us under Section 8. Absence of a reply is not permission.

Linking to This Website#

1. Links Are Welcome.

   You may link to any publicly accessible page without asking us first, provided the link is presented fairly, does not damage our reputation, and does not suggest an association or endorsement that does not exist. A link should open in a full browser window and make clear that the destination is a separate website operated by us.

2. What Is Not Permitted.

   You may not frame, mirror or proxy any page of this website in a way that obscures its origin or our branding, present our Material as your own, deep-link so as to bypass a login or a page carrying our notices, or hotlink to our images, fonts or scripts so that they are served from our infrastructure for display on your website.

3. Withdrawal.

   We may withdraw linking permission by written notice, and you shall remove the link promptly. Our position on links from this website to others is set out in our Disclaimer of Liability.

Material We Do Not Own#

1. Licensed and Open-Source Content.

   Some Material, including photographs, illustrations, icons, fonts and video, is used by us under licence from its owner or a stock library. Those items remain the property of their owners, our licence does not extend to you, and the permissions in Section 3 do not apply to them. This website and our products also incorporate open-source components, each licensed under its own terms; nothing in this Policy restricts any right you have under such a licence, and to the extent of any conflict that licence prevails for that component.

2. Customer Content and Customer Work.

   We claim no ownership of our customers’ content. As between us and a customer, the customer owns its own content under Section 14.5 of the Terms of Service, and we hold only the limited hosting licence in Section 9.3 of that document. Ownership of work produced for a customer is governed by that document: subject to payment in full the customer owns the bespoke Deliverables under Section 14.2, while we retain the Software System under Section 14.1 and our reusable frameworks, libraries, templates and know-how under Section 14.3. Customer names, logos and testimonials appearing here are used with consent under Section 14.8 of that document.

3. Unsolicited Submissions.

   Please do not send us unsolicited ideas, proposals, designs or draft materials; we cannot guarantee that our own independently developed work will not resemble them. If you send them anyway, they are received on a non-confidential basis and without obligation on our part, and you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and sublicensable licence to use them for any purpose without attribution or compensation. Feedback from customers is governed by Section 14.6 of the Terms of Service.

Permission Requests and Infringement Notices#

1. Asking for Permission.

   If you want to use Material in a way Section 3 does not permit, write to rkumar@businessahead.net marked “Copyright permission request”, telling us who you are, identifying the Material by page URL, describing exactly how and for how long you wish to use it, stating whether the use is commercial, and confirming how you will attribute us. We aim to reply within ten (10) Business Days. Permission, if granted, will be in writing and limited to the use described. If we do not reply, permission has not been granted. Genuine educational requests are usually granted free of charge.

2. Where to Send an Infringement Notice.

   We respect the intellectual property of others and expect our customers and users to do the same. If you believe material on this website, or on a website or system we host, infringes your copyright, write to:
   • Name: Rajeev Kumar, Copyright Contact, Computer Solutions
   • Address: M-7, Adityapur, Jamshedpur 831013, Jharkhand, India
   • Email: rkumar@businessahead.net (subject: “Copyright infringement notice”)

3. What Your Notice Must Contain.

   To enable us to act, and to satisfy Rule 75 of the Copyright Rules, 2013, your notice must be in writing and must state:
   1. a description of the work in which you claim copyright, sufficient to identify it;
   2. details of your ownership or exclusive licence, or of your authority to act for the owner;
   3. the exact URL or location of the material complained of;
   4. a statement that the material is an infringing copy and that you are not aware of any licence or defence making its use lawful;
   5. an undertaking that you will file an infringement suit and produce the court’s order within twenty-one (21) days; and
   6. your name, postal address, email address, telephone number and signature.

   Some of our infrastructure is located in the United States, and we will also act on a notice that substantially complies with 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3).

4. What We Will Do.

   On receipt of a notice that appears valid we will acknowledge it and remove or disable access to the material. Where the material sits on a system we host for a customer, we will notify that customer and pass on your notice; the customer is responsible for its own content under Section 9.2 of the Terms of Service, and we may act under Section 9.5 and Section 11 of that document even though the content is not ours. If no court order restraining the material is produced to us within twenty-one (21) days of our receipt of the notice, we may restore it.

5. Counter-Notice.

   If material of yours was removed and you believe the removal was mistaken or the use lawful, write to the same address identifying the material, explaining the basis on which you say it is lawful, and giving your contact details and signature. We will forward your counter-notice to the complainant and may restore the material. We are not a court and do not decide the merits of a dispute; we act reasonably on the notices we receive and comply with our legal obligations. A notice that is knowingly false or made in bad faith may expose you to liability, and we may decline to act on notices from a person who has previously abused this process.

6. Repeat Infringers.

   We will suspend or terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the Account and Services of any customer or user who repeatedly infringes the rights of others, under Section 11 and Section 18.4 of the Terms of Service. Complaints about trade mark infringement, defamation or other unlawful content may be sent to the same address; privacy grievances should instead follow the procedure in our Privacy Policy.

Breach, Changes and Governing Law#

1. Consequences of Breach.

   Any permission granted under Section 3 terminates automatically on breach of this Policy, and you must then cease all use of the Material and delete every copy in your control. Unauthorised use may infringe copyright, trade mark and database rights and may constitute passing off. We reserve the right to pursue all available remedies, including injunctive relief, damages or an account of profits and the costs of enforcement, to issue takedown notices to your host, registrar or platform, and to report criminal infringement to the authorities.

2. Changes to This Policy.

   We may update this Policy from time to time. The current version is the one published on this page, identified by the “Version” and “Last Updated” fields above, and changes take effect on publication.

3. Governing Law.

   This Policy is governed by the Laws of the Republic of India, and the courts at Jamshedpur, in the State of Jharkhand, India, have jurisdiction, consistent with Section 20.14 of the Terms of Service. Where a dispute arises with a customer under that document, Section 20.15 of it applies. Nothing here prevents us from seeking urgent relief in any jurisdiction in which infringement occurs. If any part of this Policy is held invalid, the remainder continues in effect.

4. Contact.

   Computer Solutions, M-7, Adityapur, Jamshedpur, India, or .