These terms are the rules for using Kattutharai: the mobile app (the “App”) and the website kattutharai.com. Kattutharai is run by Suryaprakash, trading as KATTUTHARAI, in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India (“we”, “us”, “our”). By creating an account or posting an ad, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use Kattutharai.

1. What Kattutharai is

Kattutharai is a place to list and find livestock, farm machines and fodder across India. Sellers post ads. Buyers find them, nearest first, and contact sellers directly. Buyers can also tell sellers near them which animal they want, and sellers reply with their ads. We are not a party to any sale between a buyer and a seller. We do not inspect animals or goods, check what an ad says, take or pass on money for the sale, or promise any result.

Boost is a separate, optional service that you pay us for (see §5).

1.1 Farm pages

We invite some farms to make a farm page that shows the farm and its ads. Farm pages are free for now. If we start charging for them, we will tell the farm the price at least 30 days before, and the farm can choose to stop.

1.2 Business cards and shop pages

Businesses can pay us to show cards in the App, marked Sponsored, and shop pages that show their products and dealers. They do this under a separate written agreement with us. A business card is an advertisement, not a farmer’s ad, and each business is responsible for what it says about its products.

2. Your account

You must be 18 or older to use Kattutharai.
You sign in with Google or, on iPhone, with Apple. Accounts made with the phone-number sign-in of older versions of the App can still sign in that way.
Give a contact number that is yours and that you use. Buyers use it to call or WhatsApp you.
You are responsible for what happens under your account. Keep your Google or Apple account safe.
One account per person. We may remove extra accounts.
We may suspend or close your account if you break these terms, if we find fraud, or if the law requires it.

3. Ads — what you may post

You may post livestock, farm machines, or fodder and farm inputs (such as hay, feed, manure and dung cakes) that you own or have the right to sell, in the categories the App offers. Your ad must:

Be true about what you are selling — for livestock, the animal’s age, breed, weight and condition; for machines, the make, model, age and working condition; for fodder, the quantity, variety and how long it keeps.
Use your own photos and video of the actual animal or item. Stock or copied photos are not allowed. A voice note must be in your own voice and about what you are selling.
Have a clear, final price in Indian Rupees.
Be in the right category — for example cow, bull or goat under livestock; tractor or water pump under machines; paddy straw or napier grass under fodder.
Show the right place. The App takes the ad’s place from your phone’s location and names the nearest village, so post the ad where the animal or item is.

How long an ad stays up

An ad stays up for 30 days. A few days before the end, we ask whether it is still for sale. Tap Yes and it stays up for 30 more days, free. If you do not answer, the ad is hidden, not deleted, and you can put it back from My Ads.

What you may not post

Stolen animals or goods, or animals without clear ownership.
Animals protected under the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 or any other state or central law.
Products made from protected species (ivory, pangolin scales and the like).
Animals being sold for ritual slaughter in violation of local law.
Drugs, performance enhancers, or veterinary products that need a prescription.
Things that are not for farming — Kattutharai is for livestock, farm machines and fodder only.
Content that harasses, defames or discriminates against any person or community.
Content that uses someone else’s copyright, trade mark or private information without permission.

We remove ads that break these rules, at our discretion. Anyone who breaks them again loses their account.

4. Your conduct

When you use Kattutharai, you must not:

Scrape, crawl or automate access to ads or to people’s information.
Try to get around our security, our database rules or our payment checks.
Pretend to be someone else, or misrepresent who you work for.
Use chats or orders to spam, cheat, or ask for money for anything other than an ad.
Arrange anything illegal, including moving animals across state borders without the permits the law requires.

If you do, we may remove your content, suspend or ban your account, and report you to the police where appropriate.

5. Paid services

Posting ads is free. Some optional services cost money:

Boost — ₹49 for 7 days. Your ad is marked Promoted and shown higher to buyers within 100 km. Buying Boost again for the same ad adds 7 more days. If you delete a Boosted ad, its Boost ends and the payment is not refunded.
How you pay — on iPhone, through Apple; on Android, through Google Play. Apple’s or Google’s terms also apply to the payment. Older versions of the App took Android payments through Cashfree.
Prices are shown in Indian Rupees in the App before you pay, and include any taxes that apply.
Price changes — we will tell you in the App at least 30 days before we change a price. What you have already bought keeps its price.
Refunds follow our Refund Policy.

6. Deals between buyers and sellers

An order in the App is only a request from a buyer to a seller. It is not a payment, and not a promise to sell or to buy. The same is true of a request sent with Tell sellers, and of a seller’s reply to it.
Any payment, delivery, inspection or transfer of ownership happens between you and the other person, outside the App.
Meet in person, check the animal or item, and check who owns it before you pay. Never pay in advance to someone you have not met.
We are not responsible for losses from a deal that fails, from what the other person tells you, or from disputes about an animal’s or item’s condition after the sale.
Use Report to tell us about a suspicious ad or person, and Block to stop someone contacting you. A person reads every report.

7. Our content and your ads

The App, the website, our name, logo, design and code belong to us. You may not copy, reverse-engineer or redistribute them.
Your ads and your farm page stay yours. By posting them, you give us a worldwide, royalty-free licence to host and show them in the App, on kattutharai.com, in links people share, and in our own promotion of Kattutharai, for as long as they are live.

8. Disclaimers

Kattutharai is provided “as is” and “as available”, without any warranty. We do not promise:

that it will always work, without errors, or be secure;
that ads, business cards or farm pages are accurate, lawful or honest;
that a deal between you and another person will succeed.

As far as Indian law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential loss, lost profit, lost goodwill, or the cost of replacement services.

9. Ending your account

You can delete your account at any time from Profile → Delete account.
When you do, your profile, ads, favourites, chats and photos are removed from the App straight away, and nobody can see them again. Copies in our backups are deleted within 90 days.
A few things are kept for a limited time afterwards: the registration details Indian law requires us to keep for 180 days; a copy of your ads and their photos for 180 days, so that a complaint or a lawful request that arrives later can still be looked into; any report of abuse made against you; and payment records, with the link to your account removed. Your chats are not kept. Section 4 of our Privacy Policy sets this out in full.
We may close your account straight away if you break these terms, commit fraud or act illegally.

10. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of India. Disputes will be settled by the courts of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, unless consumer-protection law gives you the right to go to another court.

Before starting a formal dispute, please contact us (see §12). Most problems can be solved informally within 30 days.

11. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms. We will tell you about important changes in the App, and change the “Last updated” date above. If you keep using Kattutharai after a change, the new terms apply to you.

12. Contact and complaints

Email: support@kattutharai.com
Phone and WhatsApp: +91 90037 33880
Address: Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Grievance Officer: Suryaprakash, Founder — support@kattutharai.com, +91 90037 33880. We acknowledge every complaint within 24 hours and resolve it within 7 days. The details are in §9 of our Privacy Policy.

13. Language

These terms are written in English. We also publish them in Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi. If a translation differs from the English, the English version applies.

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