Terms and Conditions for Use of www.funkhel.com

1. Trademarks

The trademarks, logos, and service marks (collectively the “Trademarks”) displayed on www.funkhel.com and shabdkoshish.net (Web Site) are registered and unregistered trademarks of shabd koshish pvt. ltd., its affiliates, and others. Nothing contained on this Web Site should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppels, or otherwise, any license or right to use any Trademark displayed on this Web Site without the written permission of or such third party that may own the trademark displayed on this Web Site. Shabdkoshish® - an array of proprietary playway language learning & gaming systems, applications and resources for many global languages, are the sole intellectual properties of shabd koshish private limited, New Delhi. ALL GLOBAL RIGHTS REGISTERED AND RESERVED

Your misuse of the Trademarks displayed on this Web Site, or any other content on this Web Site, except as provided herein, is strictly prohibited.

2. Links to Third Party Sites

This Web site may contain links to other Web sites which are not under the control of and are not maintained by the owners of the Web site. No responsibility or liability is accepted for the content of those sites. These links are provided for your convenience only, and the material on these sites is not necessarily endorsed or validated.

3. Disclaimer of Liability

The information, software, products, and services included in or available through the shabdkoshish sites/services may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically made to the shabdkoshish sites/services and to the information therein. Shabdkoshish and/or its respective suppliers may make improvements and/or changes in the shabdkoshish sites/services at any time. Advice received via the shabdkoshish sites/services should not be relied upon for personal, medical, legal or financial decisions and you should consult an appropriate professional for specific advice tailored to your situation.

Shabdkoshish .com and/or its respective suppliers make no representations about the suitability, reliability, availability, timeliness, lack of viruses or other harmful components and accuracy of the information, software, products, services and related graphics contained within the shabdkoshish sites/services for any purpose. All such information, software, products, services and related graphics are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. Shabdkoshish and/or its respective suppliers hereby disclaim all warranties and conditions with regard to this information, software, products, services and related graphics, including all implied warranties and conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, workmanlike effort, title and non-infringement.

This site may contain links to other web sites operated by third parties ("linked sites"). You acknowledge that, when you click on a link to visit a linked site, a frame may appear that contains the shabdkoshish logo, advertisements and/or other content selected by shabdkoshish. You acknowledge that shabdkoshish and its sponsors neither endorse nor are affiliated with the linked site and are not responsible for any content of any linked site or any link contained in a link site, or any changes or updates to such sites. You also acknowledge that shabdkoshish is providing these links to you only as a convenience.

You specifically agree that shabdkoshish shall not be responsible for unauthorized access to or alteration of your transmissions or data, any material or data sent or received or not sent or received, or any transactions entered into through an shabdkoshish site/service. You specifically agree that shabdkoshish is not responsible or liable for any threatening, defamatory, obscene, offensive or illegal content or conduct of any other party or any infringement of another's rights, including intellectual property rights. You specifically agree that shabdkoshish is not responsible for any content sent using and/or included in an shabdkoshish site/service by any third party.

In no event shall shabdkoshish and/or its suppliers be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential damages or any damages whatsoever including, without limitation, damages for loss of use, data or profits, arising out of or in any way connected with the use or performance of the shabdkoshish sites/services, with the delay or inability to use the shabdkoshish sites/services or related services, the provision of or failure to provide services, or for any information, software, products, services and related graphics obtained through the shabdkoshish sites/services, or otherwise arising out of the use of the shabdkoshish sites/services, whether based on contract, tort, negligence, strict liability or otherwise, even if shabdkoshish or any of its suppliers has been advised of the possibility of damages. Shabdkoshish does not endorse in anyway any advertisers/ contents of advertisers on its webpages. Please therefore verify the veracity of all information on your own before undertaking reliance and actioning thereupon. Shabdkoshish shall not be responsible nor liable for any consequential damages arising on account of your relying on the contents of the advertisement.

This agreement is governed by the laws of republic of India. You hereby irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in New Delhi, India in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of the shabdkoshish sites/services. Use of the shabdkoshish sites/services is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these terms and conditions, including without limitation this paragraph. You agree to indemnify and hold shabdkoshish, its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers and employees, harmless from any claim, demand, or damage, including reasonable attorneys' fees, asserted by any third party due to or arising out of your use of or conduct on the shabdkoshish sites/services. Shabdkoshish reserves the right to disclose any personal information about you or your use of the shabdkoshish sites/services, including its contents, without your prior permission if shabdkoshish has a good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (1) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process; (2) protect and defend the rights or property of shabdkoshish or its affiliated companies; (3) enforce the terms or use; or (4) act to protect the interests of its members or others. Shabdkoshish performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of shabdkoshish's right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of the shabdkoshish sites/services or information provided to or gathered by shabdkoshish with respect to such use. If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect. Unless otherwise specified herein, this agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the user and shabdkoshish with respect to the shabdkoshish sites/services and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and shabdkoshish with respect to the shabdkoshish sites/services.

4. Licence Fee and No-Refund Policy

This website may charge a Licence fee to access all or part of its proprietary products, systems, competitions and resources for a specific duration. The Licence fee allows only bonafide Registered Users to access and use proprietary products, system, competitions and resources ONLY for their individual use. Once paid, we follow a "No-Refund" Policy. Unless otherwise specified, the copyright in the contents of all of the documents on this Web site is owned by the owner(s) of the domains of the Web site and all global rights are reserved. Title to copyright in the contents of all of the documents on this Web site will at all times remain with the copyright owner. No part of the data is to be misused - ie. republished either on another Web site or in/via any other medium, print, electronic video conferencing or otherwise, or as part of any commercial service, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner, unless shared with another shabdkoshish Registered User. For example, Teachers may share the content accissible to them on this website, only with the students registered on this website. Your misuse of any of the content available on this Web Site, is strictly prohibited. If you require any further information on permitted use, then please use this Contact Form.

Shabdkoshish® - an array of proprietary playway language learning & gaming systems, applications and resources for many global languages, are the sole intellectual properties of shabd koshish private limited, New Delhi. ALL GLOBAL RIGHTS REGISTERED AND RESERVED

5. Privacy & Data Protection Policy

This web site records information about registered users such as their username, password, email addresses, their activities on the user applications and forums and messages sent to owners of the website and to other users. This web site also records the IP address and/or username of users that contribute/vote or use the contribute system in the collaborative dictionary. The server(s) on which this web site is hosted also records the IP address and surfing activity (including but not limited to the queries searches in the dictionary). The search queries, frequency of searches and the user agent (browser, automated browsing software, spiders) activity is monitored to detect systematic copying of content (which is considered violation of copyright). At no time and under no circumstance is any available personally identifiable information of the users (registered or otherwise) is shared with 3rd parties for commercial gain, other than the information available publicly on the website.

No one can Register on our website, without a valid Invitation Code. Unregistered/Un-Logged-in Users cannot access any of our Applications or Resources. No Personal data, other than an email of the Registered User, is ever stored on our website. This information is kept strictly confident, and used only for Registration Validation, Logging in, Resetting Passwords, or the occasional system generated email, sent to Users.

Registered and Logged-in Students have access only to their individual data, score histories, analyses, etc. other than information published in competition/Class Leader Boards. Teachers have access to the individual data of only those students and classes in the School they teach. School Coordinators can access information of Teachers and Students and Teachers of their entire School.

6. Cancel your Account
Users  can Cancel their Account on this site, whenever they want. Users need to go to "मेरा खाता/My Account" and click on "संपादित करें/Edit". Now click on "खाता रद्द करें/Cancel Account", and confirm Closure. Once closed, this action cannot be undone, all information regarding the account will be permanently deleted from our records. Thereafter if the User wants to log-in again, they will need to create a new account or log-in vide the Facebook Log-in Link.

7. Copyright

Unless otherwise specified, the copyright in the contents of all of the documents on this Web site is wholly owned by the owner(s) of the domains of the Web site and all global rights are reserved. Title to copyright in the contents of all of the documents on this Web site will at all times remain with the copyright owner. Users are permitted to copy some material for their personal use as private individuals only. No part of the data is to be republished either on another Web site or in any other medium, print, electronic or otherwise, or as part of any commercial service, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. If you require any further information on permitted use, then please use the Contact Form.

Shabdkoshish® - an array of proprietary playway language learning & gaming systems, applications and resources for many global languages, are the sole intellectual properties of shabd koshish private limited, New Delhi. ALL GLOBAL RIGHTS REGISTERED AND RESERVED

8. Terms of Use 

These terms and conditions (the “Terms”) govern your use of any or all of the documents that comprise the Web sites known as shabdkosh.com and/or shabdkosh.net (the “Web site”) and all its sub-URLs and content thereof.. We seek to promote democratic, open and lively discussion and debate. We believe that our users have the right to express themselves freely in a manner that is courteous and respectful of others' points of view and sensibility, and within the ambit of legal restriction and policy…

However, registered members must take full responsibility for the content (words, phrases, media, viewpoints, etc.) they might upload and share on our site if and when so allowed, and ensure it is not illegal or objectionable in any way, by being

• Irrelevant, off-topic or of nuisance value,
• Pornographic or containing links to objectionable material,
• Spam, promoting commercial products/activities or soliciting business inquiries,
• Abusive or offensive, including sexist, communal or racist comments,
• Infringing on copyright or intellectual property rights,
• Libelous, in contempt, or a violation of privacy.

Such activity must be reported to the shabdkoshish team immediately at by using the Contact Form 

Members, and Administrators of Groups must ensure that the emails they might send from within the Group, are of persons known to them. Anti-Spamming regulations bars us from sending unsolicited emails. We have a strict policy regarding this.

Violations of any of the above may lead to immediate suspension and/or termination of membership privileges. SHABDKOSHISH takes cognizance of abuse very seriously: and regarding such matters, we will co-operate fully with law enforcement, including disclosure of your user ID, IP address and messaging history, if the need so arises.

Please review your invitee email IDs, messages and content; you cannot delete/edit once it has been posted.

Please read through the Terms above. If you do not agree with the Terms, then do not use the Web site. If you do use the Web site, then your use indicates that you agree to be bound by the Terms.

Changes may be made in these terms and conditions at any time and without notice;
users are bound by such revisions and should therefore visit this page periodically
to review the current Terms and Conditions.

(Updated Jan 2023)