Last Updated: June 1, 2025
Welcome to BasKaro.app! These Terms & Conditions ("Terms") outline the rules and guidelines for using our website and services. By accessing or using BasKaro.app, you agree to comply with and be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree with any part of these Terms, please do not use our services.
BasKaro is dedicated to documenting, understanding, and combating the normalized dehumanization and racism faced by Indians worldwide. Your engagement helps us build a collective memory, advocate for change, and develop future defenses.
1. Acceptance of Terms
By accessing and using BasKaro.app, you confirm that you are at least 16 years old (or the legal age of majority in your jurisdiction) and that you understand and agree to these Terms.
2. Reporting Incidents & Content Submission
- Your Responsibility: You are solely responsible for the content of your reports. You affirm that all information and evidence (images, videos, text) submitted by you is truthful, accurate, and lawfully obtained.
- Grant of License: By submitting a report, you grant BasKaro a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display your submitted content. This license is crucial for our mission, allowing us to:
- Build our database of racist incidents.
- Train our AI models (e.g., LLM) for data analysis and counter-narrative development.
- Generate anonymized statistics and reports for public awareness and advocacy.
- Display anonymized incidents on our website.
- Anonymization: You understand and agree that while your original submission may contain sensitive details, BasKaro is committed to anonymizing all publicly displayed reports to protect your identity. We do not collect or store Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from anonymous reporters.
- No False Reports: Submitting deliberately false, misleading, or malicious reports is strictly prohibited and may result in the termination of your access to our services.
- No Illegal/Harmful Content: You must not submit any content that is illegal, defamatory, obscene, harassing, or that promotes violence or discrimination. Reports should focus solely on the racist incident.
3. Content Moderation & Display
- BasKaro's Rights: BasKaro reserves the right, but is not obligated, to review, verify, edit, categorize, or remove any content submitted by users at our sole discretion.
- Verification Process: Reports are subject to review and verification by our human moderators before they appear on the main feed to ensure accuracy and compliance with our guidelines.
- Public Display: You understand that anonymized summaries and evidence from your reports may be publicly displayed on BasKaro.app and used in aggregated reports for advocacy.
- Objection to Public Post Inclusion: If a public post (e.g., from a social media platform) that you originated is featured on BasKaro.app as evidence in a report, and you object to its inclusion, please contact us. We are willing to cooperate in reviewing and potentially removing such content upon your request, provided sufficient verification.
4. Prohibited Conduct
When using BasKaro.app, you agree not to:
- Engage in any form of hate speech, discrimination, harassment, or doxxing towards others on the platform itself.
- Submit content that is illegal, infringes on intellectual property rights, or violates any third-party rights.
- Attempt to bypass our security measures or gain unauthorized access to any part of the website or its data.
- Use the site for any commercial purposes without our express written consent.
- Submit intentionally false, misleading, or fraudulent information.
5. Intellectual Property
- Our Content: All content on BasKaro.app (excluding user-submitted reports, but including the website design, text, graphics, logos, and software) is the property of BasKaro or its licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws.
- Your Reports: You retain ownership of the original content you submit, but you grant BasKaro the broad license described in Section 2.
6. Disclaimers
- No Legal or Professional Advice: BasKaro.app provides a platform for reporting and data collection, and offers information and resources. We do not provide legal, medical, psychological, or any other professional advice. You should consult appropriate professionals for such advice.
- "As Is" Basis: BasKaro.app is provided "as is" and "as available" without any warranties, express or implied. We do not guarantee that the site will be error-free, uninterrupted, secure, or that all defects will be corrected.
- Accuracy of Reports: While we strive for accuracy through moderation, BasKaro is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of user-submitted reports before or after their verification and display.
- Third-Party Links: Our site may contain links to third-party websites or resources. BasKaro is not responsible for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites.
7. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, BasKaro shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits or revenues, whether incurred directly or indirectly, or any loss of data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, resulting from (a) your access to or use of or inability to access or use the services; (b) any conduct or content of any third party on the services; or (c) unauthorized access, use, or alteration of your transmissions or content.
8. Termination
BasKaro reserves the right to suspend or terminate your access to the services at any time, without prior notice or liability, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation if you breach these Terms.
9. Governing Law & Jurisdiction
These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Netherlands, without regard to its conflict of law principles. Any disputes arising under or in connection with these Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
10. Changes to These Terms
We may revise these Terms from time to time. The most current version will always be available on this page. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting the updated Terms on our website. Your continued use of BasKaro.app after any changes become effective constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions about these Terms & Conditions, please contact us:
- General Inquiries: info@baskaro.org
- For Abuse-Related Issues on the Site: abuse@baskaro.app