Terms and Conditions

The terms for using www.thezariya.com and the services of The Zariya Collective.

Also read our Privacy Policy.

About these terms

These Terms and Conditions govern your use of the website www.thezariya.com and related services of The Zariya Collective, a venture of The Zariya Collective, Nazirabad, Kolkata, West Bengal, India (“we”, “us”). By using the site or creating an account you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use the site. These terms are an electronic record under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and need no signature. Effective 16 October 2026.

Using the site

• You must be 18 or over, or have a parent or guardian’s permission, to use accounts or send us data.
• Use the site lawfully. Do not try to break, overload or gain unauthorised access to it, scrape it at scale, or use it to send spam or harmful content.
• Give accurate information when you contact us or sign up.

Accounts and sign-in

When accounts are available: you are responsible for your credentials and for activity under your account. Tell us promptly at [email protected] if you think it has been misused. One account per person unless we agree otherwise. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms or the law. You can close your account at any time, and we will delete your data as our Privacy Policy describes.

About this site

This site introduces the ventures of The Zariya Collective: Zariya Design Studio, The Zariya Academy and Aayaam. Each venture’s own website has its own terms for its services, and those terms apply to that venture’s services.

Reading list and third-party content

• The Read section lists our articles and links to other publishers’ material. A link is not an endorsement. Third-party content belongs to its owners and is subject to their terms.
• We try to keep information accurate but do not guarantee that it is complete or current.

Intellectual property

Unless stated otherwise, the content of this site (text, design, graphics, code, tools and logos) belongs to The Zariya Collective or its licensors and is protected by copyright and other laws. You may view and share links to the site and print pages for personal use. You may not copy, modify, distribute or commercially exploit the content without our written permission. Trade names and marks of others belong to them. Works in the public domain, such as Raphael’s The School of Athens, remain so.

What you send us

If you send us a message, file or suggestion, you confirm you have the right to do so. You allow us to use it to reply, to provide the service you asked for and, for suggestions, to improve our services without obligation to you. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal data.

Links and third-party services

The site links to and uses third-party services such as WhatsApp, Google, Cloudflare and payment apps. We do not control them and are not responsible for their content, availability or practices.

Disclaimers

The site and its content are provided “as is” and “as available”. We do not promise that it will be uninterrupted, error-free or free of harmful components. Nothing here is professional advice for your situation unless we have agreed so in writing.

Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential loss, or for loss of profit, revenue, data or opportunity arising from your use of the site. For any direct loss that cannot be excluded, our total liability for the site and free content is limited to ₹10,000. For paid services, the limit is the fees you paid for the service in question in the 12 months before the claim, unless your agreement says otherwise. Nothing excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law, including for fraud, death or personal injury caused by negligence.

Your responsibility

You agree to compensate us for loss that results from your breach of these terms or the law, or from content you send us that infringes someone’s rights.

Suspension and termination

We may restrict or end your access if you break these terms or the law, or to protect the site or others. Sections that by their nature should continue (such as intellectual property, disclaimers, liability and governing law) will continue.

Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of India. Please first write to us at [email protected] so we can try to settle a dispute by discussion. If we cannot, the courts at Kolkata, West Bengal have exclusive jurisdiction, subject to any mandatory rights you have as a consumer.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The date at the top shows the latest version. If you keep using the site after a change takes effect, you accept the updated terms. For material changes we will give notice and, where required, ask for your agreement.

Contact and grievances

Grievance Officer: The Grievance Officer, The Zariya Collective, Nazirabad, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Email [email protected]. WhatsApp +91 74396 51029. We acknowledge complaints within 3 working days and aim to resolve them within 30 days.

See also our Privacy Policy.

General

If any part of these terms is unenforceable, the rest stays in force. These terms, together with any written agreement with us and our Privacy Policy, are the whole agreement about the site. Our failure to enforce a term is not a waiver.