Terms of Use
PLEASE READ ALL OF THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR THIS WEBSITE BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE.
The Website, www.imfa.in, is owned and operated by Indian Metals & Ferro Alloys Limited, a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956 having its registered office at IMFA Building, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751 010, INDIA. Please read the following terms and conditions (“Terms”) carefully before using the Website. By accessing or using Our Website and Material (defined below), You provide Your explicit consent to be bound by the Terms, and the terms and conditions of Our Privacy Policy. If You disagree with any part of these Terms, please discontinue use immediately.
The terms “Company”, “We”, “Us”, or “Our” refers to the Company and its affiliates. The term “Website” used in these Terms or in any other policies and documents referred to in these Terms shall mean and include www.imfa.in, any mobile application of the Company and/or any interface available to a user for accessing the Material. The terms “You”, or “Your” refers to you as the user of the Website or having access to the Materials.
1. Definitions
In these Terms, the words and expressions set forth below shall have the following meanings:
- “IPR” shall refer to copyrights, trademarks, service marks, logos, trade names, database rights and all other intellectual and proprietary rights associated with the Materials and/ or with the Company.
- “Materials” shall refer to the material displayed on, or accessible via the Website, and shall include any text, graphics, audio, photo, video or other content.
- “Privacy Policy” shall refer to the privacy policy published on the Website.
- “Public Materials” shall refer to the Materials freely accessible to the public.
- “Restricted Materials” shall refer to the Materials reserved for the customers of the Company.
2. Your Compliance with the Terms
- You acknowledge that the Terms are supported by reasonable and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which is hereby acknowledged. Without limiting the foregoing, You acknowledge that such consideration includes without limitation, Your ability to visit, submit, access and use information and data in connection with the Website and the Materials.
- You represent, warrant and covenant that You have the capacity to be bound by the Terms, or if You are acting on behalf of a company or other entity, You have the authority to bind such company or entity. You also represent, warrant and covenant that you are at least 18 (eighteen) years old and capable of entering into an agreement in accordance with the applicable laws. In order to determine your compliance with the Terms, We may monitor Your access and use of Our Website at any time and from time to time in accordance with Our Privacy Policy.
3. Our Website is not Intended for Minors
The use of our Website is intended to be accessed and used only by adults who are at least 18 (eighteen) years old and capable of entering into an agreement in accordance with the applicable laws and are not directed to any other minor person. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information of anyone under the age of 13 (thirteen), and you should not provide us with any information regarding any individual under the age of 13 (thirteen).
4. Your Access to our Website and Authorised Use
- Your right to access and use Our Website and the Materials thereto is revocable, non-exclusive, personal to You and is not transferable or sub-licensable by You to any other person or entity.
- You are only entitled to access and use Our Website and any Materials therein for lawful purposes and strictly pursuant to the terms and conditions of these Terms.
- We reserve the right to terminate or suspend Your access to the Website, in Our sole discretion at any time with or without cause and without notice. We shall not be liable to You or any third party for the termination or suspension of Your use/ access to the Website and/ or the Materials, or any claims related to such termination or suspension. Upon termination or suspension of Your access to the Website, You must discontinue Your use of the Website.
- Your access and use of Our Website and Materials may be interrupted for one or more periods of time periodically or from time to time for any of several reasons, including without limitation, the malfunction of equipment, periodic updating, maintenance or repair of Our Website or any other actions that We, in Our sole discretion, may elect to take. We reserve the right to suspend or discontinue the availability of Our Website, Material and/or any portion or feature of Our Website at any time in Our sole discretion and without prior notice.
- Any action by You that, in Our sole and absolute discretion: (i) violates the Terms; (ii) restricts, inhibits or prevents any access, use or enjoyment of Our Website/ Material for any person; or (iii) through the use of Our Website/ Material, defames, abuses, harasses, offends or threatens any person, shall not be permitted, and may result in Your loss of the right to access and use of Our Website/ Material. You shall not modify, scrape, embed, or frame our Website and Material in any manner whatsoever.
- To access the Website, you may be required to provide us with information about yourself, which may be of a confidential nature and may include personal identifying information, and/or financial information (collectively, “Your Information”). If you provide Your Information to us then you agree to provide true, current, complete and accurate information, and not to misrepresent your identity. We reserve the right to restrict access to Our Website based on Our inability to verify the authenticity of Your Information. Our collection, use and disclosure of Your Information is governed by the Privacy Policy.
- You acknowledge and agree that the access to the Website is for your personal use and You agree not to publish any information that you may have access to pursuant to access and/ or usage of the Website. You shall not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, reverse engineer, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products or services that form part of the Website.
5. Intellectual Property Rights
- The Website and the Materials thereto, including, without limitation, all text, graphics, charts, pictures, photographs, images, videos, line art, icons and renditions, are copyrighted by, or otherwise licensed to, Us or Our suppliers of such Materials. All software used on Our Website (“Software”) is Our property or the property of Our software vendors and is protected by international copyright laws.
- The trademark, trade names and logos that are used and displayed on Our Website include registered and unregistered trademarks of Us and other third parties. The display of any of Our trade names, trademarks, designs, patents within the Website and the Materials does not imply that any licence has been granted to any third party in respect of the same. All third-party product or company names, devices, logos, icons, graphics or designs referred in the Website and Materials are the trademarks of the respective owners and are exhibited only in such a manner as is intended to be for the benefit of such trademark owners. We intend no infringement of such trademarks. The appearance or absence of products, services, companies, organisations, home pages or other websites on this Website does not imply any endorsement or non-endorsement thereof by Us.
- Viewing, reading, printing, downloading or otherwise using the Website and the Materials does not entitle You to any ownership or intellectual property rights on it, or the Software.
- You may use the Website and the Materials for personal and non-commercial purposes in accordance with the principles governing intellectual property laws. Any other use or modification of the content without the Company’s prior written authorisation is prohibited.
- You agree to respect Our IPR and those of third parties. You are solely responsible for any damages resulting from Your infringement of Our IPR or any third-party’s intellectual property rights regarding the trademarks, the Website, Materials, the Software and/or any other harm incurred by Us or Our affiliates as a, direct or indirect, result of Your copying, distributing, redistributing, transmitting, publishing or using the same for purposes that are contrary to the Terms.
- Nothing contained in the Website is to be construed as a recommendation to use any product, process, equipment or formulation, in conflict with any patent, or otherwise and the Company makes no representation or warranty, express or implied that, the use thereof will not infringe any patent, or otherwise.
6. Access and Interference
- You agree that you will not use any robot, spider, scraper, deep link or other similar automated data gathering or extraction tools, program, algorithm, artificial intelligence or methodology to access, acquire, copy or monitor our Website/ Material or any portion thereof for any purpose, except as otherwise provided in these Terms, without our prior written permission.
- You agree that you will not:
- take any action that imposes, or may impose, in our sole discretion, an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
- copy, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, distribute or publicly display any content (except for your personal information) from our Website/ Material without our prior written permission and the appropriate third party, as applicable;
- interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of our Website or any activities conducted on our Website; or
- bypass any measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to our Website/ Material.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may grant the operators of public search engines permission to use spiders to copy Materials from our Website for the sole purpose and solely to the extent necessary for creating publicly available search indices of the Materials on our Website, but not caches or archives of such Materials. We reserve the right to revoke these exceptions either generally or in specific cases at any time. Except as expressly permitted in this Terms, you shall not collect or harvest any personally identifiable information, from Our Website. You shall not solicit for commercial purposes any users of our Website without our prior written permission.
7. Electronic Communications
- When You visit Our Website or send email to Us, You are communicating with Us electronically.
- You consent to receive communications from Us electronically. Although We may choose to communicate with You by regular mail, We may also choose to communicate with You by email or by posting notices on Our Website.
- You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that We provide to You electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.
8. Your Responsibility for Equipment and Related Costs
- We do not represent or warrant that the Website is or will be compatible with Your hardware, software or other equipment.
- You are responsible for obtaining and maintaining all telephone, computer hardware, internet access services and other equipment or services needed to access and use Our Website and Materials, and all costs and fees associated with internet access or long-distance charges incurred with regard to Your access and use of Our Website.
9. Third Party Links or Access
There may be provided on our Website links or access to other websites or mediums belonging to Our advertisers, business partners, affiliates, financial institutions, investment advisors and other third parties. Such links and access do not constitute our endorsement of those third parties, nor the products or services of those third parties. We are not responsible for the activities or policies of those third parties.
10. Fraudulent Transactions
- You should ensure not to share your mobile wallet details, personal UPI pin, one-time password (OTP) or other payment information with any third party intentionally or unintentionally. We never solicit such payment information over a call or otherwise. We shall not be liable for any fraud due to the sharing of such details.
- We expressly disclaim any liabilities, losses, risks, damages, that may be incurred by You as a result of using or making any purchases from any unauthorized websites/ platforms. Please note that We are not liable for any financial loss, fraudulent transactions, or product issues resulting from purchases made through any unauthorized websites/platforms.
11. Mobile Devices
If we provide aspects of Our Website via an application for Your mobile or other device, please be aware that your carrier’s normal rates and fees may apply and that the terms of the agreement within the application apply to your use of such application.
12. Representations and Warranties
- The Website and Material are provided to You on an “as-is” and “as available” basis. We make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the operation of Our Website, Material included on or associated with Our Website. You expressly agree that Your use of Our Website and Material included on or associated with Our Website is at Your sole risk.
- We do not make, and hereby expressly disclaim, any representations, warranties or guarantees, express or implied, regarding the accuracy, correctness, or completeness of the Material, or the safety, reliability, title, timeliness, completeness, noninfringement, title, merchantability, conformity or fitness for a particular purpose of the Material. It is Your sole responsibility to independently evaluate the accuracy, correctness or completeness of the Material available on Our Website.
- We make no commitment to update or correct any Material that appears on the Website.
- Material is supplied upon the condition that the persons receiving the same will make their own determination as to its suitability for their purposes prior to use or in connection with the making of any decision. No Material on the Website shall constitute an invitation to invest in the Company or any affiliates. Any use of this Website or the information is at your own risk. Neither the Company and its affiliates, nor their officers, employees or agents shall be liable for any loss, damage or expense arising out of any access to, use of, or reliance upon, this Website or the Material, or any website linked to this Website.
- We make no representation, warranty or guarantee that the services or content that may be available for use from Our Website is free of infection from any viruses, worms, trojan horses, trap doors, back doors, time bombs, cancelbots or other code or computer programming routines that contain contaminating or destructive properties or that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information including, without limitation, Your financial information and data.
- We make no representations that Our Website and Material are appropriate or available for use in one or more jurisdictions. If You access or use Website, then You do so by Your own volition and are solely responsible for compliance with local laws. We reserve the right at any time and without notice in Our sole and absolute discretion to have the Website hosted by or through one or more other entities and/or in one or more other jurisdictions.
- The terms and conditions upon which we may offer Website shall be in Our sole and absolute discretion. All of the disclaimers and the exclusions and limitations of liability under the Terms shall apply to such Website.
13. Limitations on Our Liability
- We shall in no event be responsible or be liable to You or any third party, whether in contract, warranty, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, for any damages, including, but not limited to, special, incidental, punitive, exemplary, indirect or consequential damages that include, but are not limited to, damages for any loss, including, without limitation, profit, revenue or business, in any way involving Our Website, obtained through the Materials including Restricted Material and Public Material, or otherwise due to or arising out of the use of Our Website, or the inability to use Our Website, or any links or items on the Website or any provision of these Terms, whether resulting in whole or in part, from breach of contract, tortious behaviour, negligence, strict liability or otherwise, even if We and/or Our agents had been advised of the possibility of damages.
- We cannot vet, modify and We hereby exclude all liability for the contents of other websites or home pages that are linked to Our Website. We shall have no liability in respect of material hyper-linked to Our Website which may be misleading, inaccurate, defamatory, threatening or obscene or otherwise not in accordance with applicable regulations.
- The provision by Us of a link to another website does not constitute any authorisation to access materials held at that location, nor is it evidence of any endorsement by Us of the material held there.
- We strongly advise You to read the terms and conditions and privacy policies of any third-party websites or services that You visit.
14. Indemnity
- You shall defend, indemnify and hold Us and Our affiliates, respective officers, directors, shareholders, employees, independent contractors, agents, representatives and affiliates from and against all losses, including, but not limited to, attorneys’ fees and expenses, arising out of, or relating or in any way attributable to: (i) any breach or violation of the Terms by You or someone using Your computer; (ii) Your failure to provide accurate, complete and current personally identifiable information requested or required by Us; (iii) Your access or use of Website and Materials; (iv) access or use of Website and Materials; (v) any claims, charges, demands, damages, liabilities, losses and expenses of whatever nature and howsoever arising (including but not limited to any legal or other professional fees and the cost of defending or prosecuting any claim and any loss of profit, goodwill and any other direct or consequential loss) incurred or suffered by Us directly or indirectly by reason of any act or omission which You commit in breach of the Terms and the obligations and warranties contained in them.
- We reserve the right, at Our own expense, to assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter, otherwise subject to indemnification by You, in which event You will fully cooperate with Us in asserting any available defence.
- You acknowledge and agree to pay Our attorneys’ fees incurred in connection with any and all lawsuits brought against You by Us under these Terms, including without limitation, lawsuits arising from Your failure to indemnify Us pursuant to these Terms.
15. Force Majeure
- We shall not be liable to you for any delay or failure in the performance of our obligations hereunder if and to the extent such delay or failure is caused, directly or indirectly, by fire, flood, explosion, war, terrorism, earthquake, elements of nature or acts of God or of the public enemy, riots, civil disorder, rebellions or revolutions in any country, embargoes, strikes, lockouts or labour difficulties, pandemics, any failure in electrical or other mechanical equipment, unavailability of parts, civil or military authority, inability to secure materials or transportation facilities, acts or omissions of carriers or suppliers, inability to obtain any relevant data, access links or other communications facilities, any government requirements, or any acts or failures to act of any governmental authority, or any other cause, whether or not similar to the foregoing, beyond our reasonable control.
16. Amendments of the Terms
- We reserve the right to update, amend and/or change the Terms at any time and from time to time in Our sole discretion and without notice.
- Updates to the Terms will be posted here. Amendments will take effect immediately when such amendment will be available on the Website. You are encouraged to revisit these Terms from time to time in order to review any changes that have been made. The date on which the Terms was last updated will be noted immediately above the Terms.
- Your continued access and use of Website following the posting of any such changes shall be deemed to be Your acceptance of all changes.
17. Governing Law and Disputes
- You irrevocably agree that the courts of [state jurisdiction to be inserted here] shall have exclusive jurisdiction to resolve any dispute or claim of whatever nature arising out of or relating to the Terms, and that the laws of India shall govern such dispute or claim.
- You irrevocably agree to the subject matter and personal jurisdiction of such courts and waive all defences to such jurisdiction including, without limitation, on the grounds of inconvenient forum.
- Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in these Terms, We retain the right to bring legal proceedings in any jurisdiction where We believe that infringement of Our IPR or breach of the Terms is taking place or originating.
- We operate this Website from India and make no representation that the information contained herein is appropriate or available for use in other locations outside India. You are responsible for compliance with any applicable laws of the country from which You are accessing this Website.
18. Miscellaneous
- If any portion of these Terms is deemed unlawful, void or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, these Terms as a whole shall not be deemed unlawful, void or unenforceable, but only that portion of the Terms that is unlawful, void or unenforceable shall be stricken from these Terms.
- The headings contained in these Terms are for convenience of reference only, and are not to be considered a part of these Terms, have no legal or contractual significance, and shall not limit or otherwise affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of these Terms.
- All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made by You in the Terms, as the Terms may be amended by Us, from time to time, shall survive Your acceptance of the Terms and the termination of the Terms.
- These Terms represent the entire understanding and the terms governing Your use of the Website, and shall supersede all other previous agreements, understandings and/or representations regarding the same.
19. Grievance Redressal
- If You have questions, comments, concerns or feedback regarding the Terms or Website and Materials, please contact Our Grievance Officer at: \n Mr. Shibanarayan Rath \n sysadm@imfa.in \n IMFA Building, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751 010, INDIA
- Our Grievance Officer is accessible between 10AM to 5PM on weekdays (except public holidays) and will address Your queries or grievances within 1 (one) month from the date of receipt of such queries or grievances.


