Welcome to Vishwamohini at www.vishwamohini.com (“Vishwamohini”, “we”, “our”, “us”, or the “Website”).
Vishwamohini is a platform for Indian classical music learners, teachers, performers, composers, researchers, and music lovers. The Website may allow users to create, write, play, store, publish, share, embed, and access Indian music notation, tabla compositions, melodies, educational content, audio playback tools, and related materials.
By accessing or using the Website, creating an account, uploading content, publishing a composition, using the notation editor/player, or using any Vishwamohini service, you agree to these Terms and Conditions (“Terms”). If you do not agree, please do not use the Website.
These Terms should be read together with our Privacy Policy, Copyright Policy, and any other rules or guidelines published on the Website.
1. Eligibility
You must be at least 18 years old to create an account or submit content on Vishwamohini.
If you are under 18, you may use the Website only with the consent and supervision of a parent or legal guardian. The parent or guardian is responsible for the minor’s use of the Website.
By using the Website, you confirm that you are legally capable of entering into a binding agreement under applicable law.
2. User Accounts
You may need to create an account to use certain features, including saving, publishing, editing, or managing compositions.
You agree to:
- Provide accurate and complete account information.
- Keep your login credentials secure.
- Not share your account with others.
- Immediately inform us if you suspect unauthorized access to your account.
- Be responsible for all activity that occurs under your account.
We may suspend or terminate your account if we believe that you have violated these Terms, misused the Website, infringed rights of others, or created legal, security, or operational risk.
3. Nature of the Service
Vishwamohini provides tools and services for Indian music notation, playback, learning, sharing, publishing, and discovery.
We may add, modify, suspend, restrict, or discontinue any feature of the Website at any time. We do not guarantee that any particular feature, composition, content, audio sample, notation format, embedding feature, playback engine, or library item will always remain available.
The Website may include user-generated content. Vishwamohini does not guarantee the accuracy, originality, legality, quality, completeness, musical correctness, educational value, or usefulness of any user-submitted content.
4. User Content
“User Content” means any content submitted, uploaded, published, stored, embedded, shared, or otherwise made available by users on the Website, including compositions, notations, lyrics, tabla bols, audio, video links, text, images, descriptions, comments, metadata, tags, profile information, or other materials.
You retain ownership of your original User Content. Vishwamohini does not claim ownership of your original compositions or materials merely because you upload or publish them on the Website.
However, by submitting, uploading, saving, publishing, or sharing User Content on Vishwamohini, you grant Vishwamohini a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable licence to host, store, reproduce, display, publish, distribute, modify for technical formatting, translate display formats, make backups, create previews, embed, transmit, perform, and otherwise use your User Content only for operating, improving, promoting, and providing the Website and related services.
This licence continues for as long as your User Content is available on the Website. If you delete your User Content, we will make reasonable efforts to remove it from active public display, but copies may remain in backups, logs, caches, embeds, archives, or where other users have already accessed, copied, shared, or embedded it.
5. Your Responsibility for User Content
You are solely responsible for the User Content you submit.
By submitting User Content, you represent and warrant that:
- You own the content, or you have all permissions, licences, consents, and rights required to submit and publish it.
- Your content does not infringe copyright, performer rights, moral rights, trademark rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, contractual rights, or any other rights of any person.
- If the content includes work created or performed by others, you have obtained appropriate permission from all relevant contributors.
- If the content includes lyrics, notations, recordings, videos, images, or compositions owned by another person, publisher, artist, teacher, institution, platform, or record label, you have permission to use it.
- Your content complies with applicable law and these Terms.
- Your content is not misleading, harmful, defamatory, obscene, abusive, hateful, threatening, fraudulent, or unlawful.
You agree to indemnify Vishwamohini against claims arising from User Content submitted by you.
6. Prohibited Content and Conduct
You must not use Vishwamohini to upload, publish, share, distribute, or promote content that:
- Is unlawful, defamatory, abusive, obscene, pornographic, hateful, threatening, harassing, or discriminatory.
- Encourages violence, self-harm, criminal activity, fraud, exploitation, or illegal conduct.
- Infringes copyright, trademark, performer rights, privacy rights, or other rights.
- Misrepresents authorship, ownership, source, permission, or performance credits.
- Contains malware, harmful code, phishing links, spam, or deceptive links.
- Impersonates another person, artist, teacher, institution, or organization.
- Violates the privacy of another person.
- Misleads users about musical authorship, qualifications, certifications, teaching credentials, or commercial services.
- Is unrelated to the purpose of Vishwamohini, where we reasonably consider it spam or misuse.
- Attempts to manipulate ratings, views, comments, feedback, search results, or platform ranking.
- Interferes with the Website’s security, performance, availability, or integrity.
- Scrapes, copies, indexes, extracts, or bulk-downloads Website content without permission, except as allowed by law or by our published APIs/tools.
- Uses bots, automated scripts, or unauthorized access methods to misuse the Website.
- Attempts to reverse engineer, bypass limitations, or misuse software, audio samples, notation tools, or platform infrastructure.
We may remove, restrict, demonetize, unpublish, edit formatting, disable access to, or refuse to publish any content that we believe violates these Terms, applicable law, third-party rights, platform guidelines, or quality requirements.
7. Review and Moderation
Vishwamohini may review, moderate, approve, reject, edit formatting, categorize, tag, feature, unpublish, or remove User Content at our discretion.
We are not required to pre-screen all content. However, we may review content manually or through automated tools for quality, relevance, copyright risk, safety, legal compliance, technical compatibility, or platform integrity.
Publication of content on Vishwamohini does not mean that Vishwamohini endorses, verifies, certifies, or accepts legal responsibility for that content.
8. Copyright and Intellectual Property Complaints
We respect intellectual property rights.
If you believe that any content on Vishwamohini infringes your copyright or other rights, please send a complaint to:
Copyright / Legal Contact: dhatitdha@gmail.com
Website: www.vishwamohini.com
Your complaint should include:
- Your name and contact details.
- Identification of the copyrighted work or protected material.
- The URL or clear location of the allegedly infringing content.
- A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is unauthorized.
- A statement that the information in your complaint is accurate.
- Your physical or electronic signature.
We may remove or disable access to the content while reviewing the complaint. We may also contact the user who uploaded the content and may allow them to respond.
Repeated infringement may result in account suspension or termination.
If you believe your content was removed by mistake, you may contact us with relevant proof of ownership, permission, or lawful use.
9. Vishwamohini Content and Platform Rights
Except for User Content, all Website materials, including the Vishwamohini name, logo, design, interface, software, source code, notation editor, playback tools, audio engine, databases, text, graphics, icons, layouts, documentation, and platform features are owned by or licensed to Vishwamohini.
You may use the Website only as permitted by these Terms.
Unless expressly allowed by Vishwamohini in writing, you must not:
- Copy, reproduce, sell, license, redistribute, or commercially exploit Vishwamohini platform materials.
- Remove copyright, trademark, or proprietary notices.
- Clone or reproduce substantial parts of the Website.
- Use Vishwamohini branding in a misleading way.
- Claim association, partnership, endorsement, or certification by Vishwamohini without permission.
10. Personal and Educational Use
Vishwamohini is currently intended primarily for learning, practice, reference, composition, teaching, sharing, and community use related to Indian music.
You may use publicly available compositions and materials for personal learning and non-commercial educational purposes, subject to copyright ownership and any specific licence attached to the content.
Commercial use, republication, printing in books, inclusion in paid courses, redistribution, app integration, dataset creation, AI training, or use in another product may require permission from Vishwamohini and/or the relevant content owner.
11. Embeds, Sharing, and External Use
Vishwamohini may provide embed codes, share links, or public display options.
You may use official embed tools only in the manner provided by Vishwamohini. You must not alter embed code to hide attribution, bypass restrictions, misrepresent ownership, or extract content outside the intended functionality.
We may disable, modify, restrict, or revoke embed functionality at any time.
Embedding or linking to Vishwamohini content does not transfer ownership or grant additional rights beyond these Terms.
12. Software, Player, APIs, and Tools
Some Vishwamohini features may include software, notation players, audio playback tools, APIs, scripts, or downloadable components.
Unless a separate open-source licence is expressly provided, all such software and tools are provided only for use with Vishwamohini services and are not sold to you.
You must not:
- Copy, redistribute, sell, sublicense, or commercially exploit Vishwamohini software.
- Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code, except where permitted by law.
- Use the software to build a competing service.
- Remove attribution or copyright notices.
- Integrate Vishwamohini software into another commercial product without written permission.
- Use the software in a way that overloads, disrupts, or damages the Website.
If Vishwamohini releases any code under an open-source licence, that specific code will be governed by the applicable open-source licence.
13. AI Features and Generated Content
Vishwamohini may provide AI-assisted features in the future, including notation assistance, taan generation, raga-based suggestions, composition assistance, search, explanation, or educational tools.
AI-generated or AI-assisted output may be inaccurate, incomplete, musically inappropriate, or similar to existing material. You are responsible for reviewing, editing, verifying, and ensuring that your use of such output is lawful and appropriate.
Unless otherwise stated, AI-assisted output does not guarantee originality, copyright clearance, raga correctness, educational correctness, or performance suitability.
You must not use AI features to generate unlawful, infringing, misleading, harmful, impersonating, or deceptive content.
14. Third-Party Content and Links
The Website may contain links, embeds, references, or integrations from third-party websites or services, including video platforms, audio platforms, payment services, analytics tools, educational resources, or external artist/institution pages.
Vishwamohini does not control third-party websites or services and is not responsible for their content, policies, accuracy, security, availability, or practices.
Your use of third-party services is governed by their own terms and privacy policies.
15. No Professional Advice
Content on Vishwamohini is provided for general learning, cultural, educational, and informational purposes.
We do not guarantee that any notation, raga explanation, taal explanation, tabla composition, lesson, audio playback, fingering, practice method, or music theory explanation is complete, correct, authentic, suitable for examination, suitable for performance, or accepted by any gharana, teacher, institution, board, or tradition.
Users should verify important learning or performance material with a qualified teacher, artist, or expert.
16. Transactions Between Users
Vishwamohini may allow users, teachers, artists, institutions, or service providers to display profiles, links, classes, events, products, or services.
Unless expressly stated, Vishwamohini is not a party to transactions between users. We do not guarantee any teacher, artist, institution, product, event, class, payment, delivery, refund, quality, qualification, background, or service.
Users are responsible for verifying credentials, terms, pricing, safety, and suitability before entering into any transaction or engagement with another user or third party.
17. Privacy and Personal Data
Your use of the Website may involve collection and processing of personal data such as account details, email address, profile information, uploaded content, usage data, device data, cookies, and communication records.
Our collection and use of personal data is described in our Privacy Policy.
By using Vishwamohini, you agree to our Privacy Policy.
If you submit personal data of another person, you confirm that you have lawful authority or consent to do so.
18. Security
You must not attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Website, accounts, servers, databases, source code, APIs, or systems.
You must not test, scan, attack, overload, disrupt, bypass, or interfere with Website security or performance.
If you discover a security issue, please report it responsibly to: dhatitdha@gmail.com.
19. Availability and Changes
We try to keep Vishwamohini useful and available, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or permanent access.
The Website may be unavailable due to maintenance, upgrades, bugs, hosting issues, cyberattacks, service provider failures, data loss, legal reasons, or other causes.
We may change, suspend, discontinue, or limit any feature at any time.
20. Disclaimer of Warranties
The Website and all content, tools, software, services, and features are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Vishwamohini disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, reliability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, availability, security, and error-free operation.
We do not warrant that:
- The Website will always be available.
- Content will be accurate or complete.
- User Content will be lawful or non-infringing.
- Playback will be musically accurate on all devices.
- Data will never be lost.
- Bugs or errors will always be corrected.
- The Website will meet your expectations or requirements.
21. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Vishwamohini, its owner, team members, contributors, officers, employees, contractors, partners, licensors, and service providers shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, or exemplary damages, including loss of data, loss of profit, loss of goodwill, loss of opportunity, business interruption, reputational harm, or claims arising from use of the Website.
We are not liable for:
- User Content.
- Copyright infringement by users.
- Conduct of users or third parties.
- Third-party links or services.
- Errors in notation, playback, educational content, or music theory.
- Loss of saved compositions or account data.
- Unauthorized access caused by user negligence.
- Decisions made based on content available on the Website.
If Vishwamohini is found liable despite these Terms, our total liability shall not exceed the amount paid by you to Vishwamohini for the relevant service in the three months before the claim arose, or INR 1,000, whichever is lower.
Some limitations may not apply where prohibited by law.
22. Indemnity
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Vishwamohini, its owner, team members, contributors, officers, employees, contractors, partners, licensors, and service providers from any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising from:
- Your use or misuse of the Website.
- Your User Content.
- Your violation of these Terms.
- Your violation of law.
- Your infringement of third-party rights.
- Your transactions or disputes with other users or third parties.
23. Suspension and Termination
We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to the Website at any time if:
- You violate these Terms.
- You infringe intellectual property rights.
- You misuse the Website.
- You create legal, security, reputational, or operational risk.
- We are required to do so by law or authority.
- Your account remains inactive for a long period.
- We discontinue the Website or relevant feature.
You may stop using the Website at any time.
Termination does not affect rights and obligations that should reasonably survive, including intellectual property rights, content licences, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, and dispute resolution.
24. Reporting Abuse or Violations
To report unlawful content, copyright infringement, privacy violation, impersonation, abuse, or violation of these Terms, contact:
Grievance / Support Contact: dhatitdha@gmail.com
Please include relevant URLs, screenshots, explanation, and your contact details.
We may request additional information before taking action.
25. Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time.
The updated Terms will be posted on the Website with the “Last updated” date. Your continued use of the Website after changes are posted means you accept the updated Terms.
If you do not agree with the updated Terms, you should stop using the Website.
26. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms shall be governed by the laws of India.
Subject to applicable law, the courts located in Pune, Maharashtra, India shall have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes arising from or relating to these Terms or your use of Vishwamohini.
27. Severability
If any provision of these Terms is found invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.
The invalid provision will be replaced or interpreted in a way that most closely reflects the original intent, to the extent permitted by law.
28. No Waiver
Failure by Vishwamohini to enforce any provision of these Terms shall not be considered a waiver of that provision or any right.
29. Assignment
You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without our prior written consent.
Vishwamohini may assign or transfer its rights and obligations in connection with a merger, restructuring, transfer of ownership, business transfer, or legal requirement.
30. Entire Agreement
These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, Copyright Policy, community guidelines, and any feature-specific terms, form the entire agreement between you and Vishwamohini regarding use of the Website.
31. Contact
For questions about these Terms, please contact:
Vishwamohini
Website: www.vishwamohini.com
Email: dhatitdha@gmail.com