About Us
DevCom Bharat is a registered enterprise in Delhi. The organisation is working towards advancing sustainable development, including climate action, through creation, management and dissemination of information and knowledge using online media, books and reports, audio and video programmes and face-to-face meetings.
In its first initiative, DevCom Bharat has set up Sustainability Karma, which is an online web portal on sustainable development. Sustainability Karma also hosts a podcast, which broadcasts on All India Radio, featuring CEOs, celebrities, influencers, academics and civil society leaders.
The enterprise is owned and managed by Rajiv Tikoo, who has pioneered writing on sustainable development in the Indian media and has experience of working with media houses, UN agencies, governments, corporates and the development sector. A recipient of fellowships from the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, Radio Nederlands, IFRC, and Panos, he is a Former Consulting Editor (Sustainability) of the Outlook Group, Deputy Editor of The Financial Express, Asia Editor of United Nations Millennium Campaign, Editor-in-Chief of OneWorld South Asia. He has edited 10 books and compendiums, including Forest Lanterns published by Penguin Random House.
Welcome to Sustainability Karma!
These terms and conditions outline the rules and regulations for the use of Sustainability Karma
Website, located at http://sustainabilitykarma.org. By accessing this website we assume you accept these terms and conditions. Do not continue to use Sustainability Karma if you do not agree to all the terms and conditions stated on this page.
The following terminology applies to these Terms and Conditions, Privacy Statement and Disclaimer Notice and all Agreements: “Client”, “You” and “Your” refers to you, the person logging on this website and compliant to the Company’s terms and conditions. “The Company”, “Ourselves”, “We”, “Our” and “Us”, refers to our Company. “Party”, “Parties”, or “Us” refers to both the Client and ourselves. All terms refer to the offer, acceptance and consideration of payment necessary to undertake the process of our assistance to the Client in the most appropriate manner for the express purpose of meeting the Client’s needs in respect of provision of the Company’s stated services, in accordance with and subject to, prevailing law of India. Any use of the above terminology or other words in the singular, plural, capitalization and/or he/she or they, are taken as interchangeable and therefore as referring to the same.
Cookies
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agreement with the Sustainability Karma Privacy Policy.
Most interactive websites use cookies to let us retrieve the user’s details for each visit. Cookies are used by our website to enable the functionality of certain areas to make it easier for people visiting our website. Some of our affiliate/advertising partners may also use cookies.
Licence
Unless otherwise stated, Sustainability Karma and/or its licensors own the intellectual property
rights for all material on Sustainability Karma. All intellectual property rights are reserved. You may access this from Sustainability Karma for your own personal use subjected to restrictions set in these terms and conditions.
You must not:
Republish material from Sustainability Karma
Sell, rent or sub-license material from Sustainability Karma
Reproduce, duplicate or copy material from Sustainability Karma
Redistribute content from Sustainability Karma
Parts of this website offer an opportunity for users to post and exchange opinions and information in certain areas of the website. Sustainability Karma does not filter, edit, publish or review Comments prior to their presence on the website. Comments do not reflect the views and opinions of Sustainability Karma, its agents and/or affiliates. Comments reflect the views and opinions of the persons who post their views and opinions. To the extent permitted by applicable laws,
Sustainability Karma shall not be liable for the Comments or for any liability, damages or expenses caused and/or suffered as a result of any use of and/or posting of and/or appearance of the Comments on this website.
Sustainability Karma reserves the right to monitor all Comments and to remove any Comments
which can be considered inappropriate, offensive or causes breach of these Terms and Conditions.
You warrant and represent that:
You are entitled to post the Comments on our website and have all necessary licences and
consents to do so;
The Comments do not invade any intellectual property right, including without limitation
copyright, patent or trademark of any third party;
The Comments do not contain any defamatory, libellous, offensive, indecent or otherwise
unlawful material which is an invasion of privacy
The Comments will not be used to solicit or promote business or custom or present
commercial activities or unlawful activity.
You hereby grant Sustainability Karma a non-exclusive licence to use, reproduce, edit and authorise others to use, reproduce and edit any of your Comments in any and all forms, formats or media.
Hyperlinking to our Content
The following organisations may link to our website without prior written approval:
Government agencies
Search engines
News organisations
Online directory distributors may link to our website in the same manner as they hyperlink
to the websites of other listed businesses; and
System wide Accredited Businesses except soliciting non-profit organizations, charity
shopping malls, and charity fundraising groups which may not hyperlink to our web site.
These organisations may link to our home page, to publications or to other website information so long as the link:
(a) is not in any way deceptive; (b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement
or approval of the linking party and its products and/or services; and (c) fits within the context of the linking party’s site.
We may consider and approve other link requests from the following types of organisations:
Commonly-known consumer and/or business information sources;
Dot.com community sites;
Associations or other groups representing charities;
Online directory distributors;
Internet portals;
Accounting, law and consulting firms; and
Educational institutions and trade associations.
We will approve link requests from these organisations if we decide that: (a) the link would not
make us look unfavourably to ourselves or to our accredited businesses; (b) the organisation does not have any negative records with us; (c) the benefit to us from the visibility of the hyperlink compensates the absence of Sustainability Karma; and (d) the link is in the context of general resource information.
These organisations may link to our home page so long as the link:
(a) is not in any way deceptive;
(b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement or approval of the linking party and its products
or services; and (c) fits within the context of the linking party’s site.
If you are one of the organisations listed in paragraph 2 above and are interested in linking to our website, you must inform us by sending an e-mail to Sustainability Karma. Please include your name, your organisation name, contact information as well as the URL of your site, a list of any URLs from which you intend to link to our website, and a list of the URLs on our site to which you would like to link. Wait 2-3 weeks for a response.
Approved organisations may hyperlink to our Website as follows:
By use of our corporate name; or
By use of the uniform resource locator being linked to; or
By use of any other description of our Website being linked to that makes sense within the
context and format of content on the linking party’s site.
No use of Sustainability Karma logo or other artwork will be allowed for linking absent a trademark, licence agreement.
Frames
Without prior approval and written permission, you may not create frames around our webpages
that alter in any way the visual presentation or appearance of our Website.
Content Liability
We shall not be held responsible for any content that appears on your website. You agree to protect and defend us against all claims that arise on your website. No link(s) should appear on any website that may be interpreted as libellous, obscene or criminal, or which infringes, otherwise violates, or advocates the infringement or other violation of, any third-party rights.
Your Privacy
Please read Privacy Policy
Reservation of Rights
We reserve the right to request that you remove all links or any particular link to our website. You approve to immediately remove all links to our website upon request. We also reserve the right to amend these terms and conditions and it’s linking policy at any time. By continuously linking to our website, you agree to be bound to and follow these linking terms and conditions.
Removal of links from our website
If you find any link on our website that is offensive for any reason, you are free to contact and
inform us any moment. We will consider requests to remove links but we are not obligated to or so or to respond to you directly. We do not ensure that the information on this website is correct, we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy; nor do we promise to ensure that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up to date.
Disclaimer
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to our website and the use of this website.
Nothing in this disclaimer will:
Limit or exclude our or your liability for death or personal injury;
Limit or exclude our or your liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
Limit any of our or your liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
Exclude any of our or your liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.
The limitations and prohibitions of liability set in this Section and elsewhere in this disclaimer: (a) are subject to the preceding paragraph; and (b) govern all liabilities arising under the disclaimer, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort and for breach of statutory duty.
As long as the website and the information and services on the website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.
Children’s Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage
parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
Sustainability Karma does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children
under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we
strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly
remove such information from our records.