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TERMS AND CONDITIONS

1. Introduction

Welcome to CAS Manager ("CAS Manager", "we", "us", "our", or "the Platform").

CAS Manager is a digital platform designed to assist scientists, academicians, researchers, faculty members and other professionals in managing their professional profiles, academic achievements, Academic Performance Indicator (API) records, supporting documents and information related to the Career Advancement Scheme (CAS).

By registering for, accessing, or using CAS Manager, you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions ("Terms"). If you do not agree with these Terms, please do not use the Platform.

2. Eligibility

CAS Manager is intended for use by scientists, academicians, researchers, faculty members, institutional staff and other authorized professionals.

By creating an account, you confirm that:

  • The information provided by you is accurate and complete
  • You are authorized to create and use the account
  • You will maintain the accuracy of your information
  • You will use the platform only for lawful purposes; and

You will comply with these terms and applicable laws.

3. Account Registration

Certain features of CAS Manager require registration.

During registration, you may be required to provide information such as:

  • Name
  • Designation
  • Institution/organization
  • Department
  • Email address
  • Mobile number
  • Username
  • Password and

Other information required for creating your professional profile.

You are responsible for ensuring that the information submitted during registration is accurate and current.

We reserve the right to suspend or deactivate accounts containing false, misleading, fraudulent or unauthorized information.

4. Account Security

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your username, password and other account credentials.

You must not:

  • Share your password with another person
  • Allow unauthorized persons to access your account
  • Use another person's account
  • Attempt to obtain another user's credentials or

Knowingly permit unauthorized access to your account.

You must immediately notify CAS Manager if you believe that your account has been compromised or accessed without authorization.

5. Professional Profile

CAS Manager allows users to create and maintain a digital professional profile.

Users are solely responsible for ensuring that information entered into their profile is:

  • Accurate
  • Complete
  • Current
  • Authentic; and

Supported by appropriate documentation where required.

CAS Manager does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of information submitted by users.

6. API and CAS Records

CAS Manager provides tools for organizing and managing information relating to the Academic Performance Indicator (API) and Career Advancement Scheme (CAS).

The Platform may assist users in:

  • Recording academic and professional activities
  • Organizing API-related information
  • Maintaining supporting documents
  • Preparing structured professional records; and

Managing information relevant to CAS documentation.

However, CAS Manager does not itself grant, approve, recommend or guarantee any promotion, career advancement, API score, eligibility or CAS benefit.

Final determination of eligibility, API assessment, promotion, career advancement or acceptance of any claim remains with the relevant institution, authority, assessment committee or competent body.

7. Accuracy of API/CAS Information

Users are responsible for entering accurate information regarding their academic and professional activities.

Users must not:

  • Fabricate academic achievements
  • Submit false claims
  • Manipulate API scores
  • Upload forged or altered certificates
  • Misrepresent publications, projects, awards or qualifications; or

Knowingly submit inaccurate information for assessment purposes.

CAS Manager may restrict, suspend or terminate accounts where fraudulent or misleading information is identified or reasonably suspected.

8. Uploading Documents

CAS Manager may allow users to upload certificates, documents and other supporting materials.

Users represent and warrant that:

  • They are authorized to upload the documents
  • The documents are relevant to their professional/API/CAS records
  • The documents do not knowingly violate any third-party rights
  • The documents do not contain unlawful content and

The documents are not uploaded for fraudulent or misleading purposes.

Users should upload only documents necessary for the intended professional or CAS-related purpose.

9. Responsibility for Uploaded Documents

The user remains responsible for all documents and information uploaded to their account.

CAS Manager does not guarantee that:

  • Uploaded documents are authentic
  • Uploaded documents will be accepted by an institution
  • A document will satisfy a particular cas requirement; or

An uploaded document will result in any particular api score or career benefit.

Users should retain original copies of important certificates and documents.

CAS Manager should not be considered the sole repository for legally or professionally critical original records.

10. Institutional Access

Where CAS Manager is deployed or authorized by an institution, authorized institutional personnel may have access to relevant user information for legitimate purposes such as:

  • Verification
  • Administrative processing
  • API/CAS assessment
  • Record management
  • Professional evaluation and

Other authorized institutional purposes.

The extent of such access may depend on the configuration and permissions established by the relevant institution.

11. Intellectual Property

All intellectual property rights in the CAS Manager platform, including but not limited to:

  • Software
  • Source code
  • User interface
  • Design
  • Graphics
  • Logos
  • Trademarks
  • Databases
  • Platform architecture
  • Documentation; and
  • Original content

are owned by or licensed to CAS Manager and are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.

Except as expressly permitted, users may not:

  • Copy
  • Reproduce
  • Modify
  • Distribute
  • Sell
  • License
  • Reverse engineer
  • Decompile
  • Scrape
  • Commercially exploit; or
  • Create derivative works from

any part of CAS Manager without prior written authorization.

12. Ownership of User Content

Users retain ownership of the professional information, documents and other content that they lawfully upload to CAS Manager.

By uploading content, you grant CAS Manager the limited rights necessary to:

  • Store
  • Process
  • Display
  • Transmit
  • Back up and
  • Otherwise handle

that content for providing and operating CAS Manager services.

This permission does not transfer ownership of your documents or professional records to CAS Manager.

13. Prohibited Activities

Users must not use CAS Manager to:

  • Violate any applicable law
  • Impersonate another person
  • Create fraudulent accounts
  • Upload forged or fraudulent documents
  • Submit false academic achievements
  • Manipulate API/CAS records dishonestly
  • Gain unauthorized access to another user's account
  • Attempt to bypass security controls
  • Introduce viruses, malware or harmful code
  • Interfere with the operation of the platform
  • Conduct unauthorized security testing
  • Scrape or systematically extract platform data
  • Reverse engineer the software
  • Use automated systems to abuse the platform or

Engage in any activity that may damage CAS manager, its users or its infrastructure.

14. Platform Availability

We aim to keep CAS Manager available and reliable; however, uninterrupted availability cannot be guaranteed.

The Platform may occasionally be unavailable because of:

  • Scheduled maintenance
  • Software updates
  • Server or network failures
  • Cyber security incidents
  • Technical problems
  • Third-party service interruptions
  • Force majeure events; or

Circumstances beyond our reasonable control.

We may modify, suspend or temporarily discontinue any feature of CAS Manager where reasonably necessary.

15. Data Backup

We may maintain backups of information stored on CAS Manager as part of our operational and security practices.

However, users should maintain their own copies of important professional records and original certificates.

CAS Manager shall not be responsible for loss of information arising from circumstances beyond our reasonable control, subject to applicable law.

16. Privacy

Your use of CAS Manager is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which explains how personal information is collected, used, stored, protected and processed.

By using CAS Manager, you acknowledge that you have reviewed the Privacy Policy.

17. Third-Party Services

CAS Manager may depend upon or integrate with third-party services such as:

  • Cloud hosting
  • Email services
  • Database services
  • Authentication services
  • Document storage
  • Analytics
  • Security services and

Other technical infrastructure.

Third-party services may have their own terms and privacy policies.

CAS Manager is not responsible for the independent operation, availability or policies of third-party services, except to the extent required by applicable law.

18. Fees and Subscription

If CAS Manager introduces paid plans, subscriptions or other chargeable services, applicable fees and payment terms will be communicated separately.

Unless otherwise stated:

  • Applicable fees must be paid according to the selected plan
  • Taxes may apply as required by law
  • Subscription terms may vary by user or institution and

Fees already paid may not be refundable except where required by law or expressly stated in the applicable plan.

If CAS Manager is provided free of charge to a user or institution, no fee is payable for that access unless separately notified.

19. Account Suspension or Termination

We may suspend, restrict or terminate an account where we reasonably believe that:

  • These Terms have been violated
  • Fraudulent or misleading information has been submitted
  • Unauthorized access has occurred
  • The Platform is being misused
  • The account creates a security risk
  • The account is being used unlawfully or

Suspension is necessary to protect the Platform or its users.

Where reasonably practicable, we may provide notice before suspension or termination, except where immediate action is necessary for security, legal or operational reasons.

20. User-Initiated Account Closure

A user may request closure of their CAS Manager account by contacting the Platform administrator or using an account-deletion mechanism where provided.

Account closure may be subject to:

  • Verification of the request
  • Applicable institutional requirements
  • Legal obligations
  • Record-retention requirements; and

Legitimate security or audit requirements.

Deletion of an account does not necessarily mean that every record must immediately be deleted where retention is legally required or otherwise permitted under applicable law.

21. No Guarantee of CAS Outcome

CAS Manager is a record-management and professional documentation platform.

Use of CAS Manager does not guarantee:

  • Promotion
  • Career advancement
  • Eligibility for CAS
  • A particular API score
  • Acceptance of documents
  • Acceptance of publications or achievements
  • Approval by an assessment committee or

Any financial, professional or academic benefit.

All final decisions remain with the competent institution, authority or assessment body.

22. Disclaimer

CAS Manager is provided on an "AS AVAILABLE" basis.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, CAS Manager does not warrant that:

  • The Platform will always be error-free
  • The Platform will always be available
  • Information entered by users will be accurate
  • Documents uploaded by users will be accepted by any authority
  • API calculations or records will always correspond to the latest institutional rules or

The Platform will satisfy every requirement of every institution.

Users are responsible for verifying applicable institutional rules, regulations, API requirements and CAS guidelines.

23. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, CAS Manager and its owners, employees, service providers and representatives shall not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special or punitive losses arising from the use of the Platform.

This may include, where legally permissible:

  • Loss of opportunity
  • Loss of professional benefit
  • Loss of promotion
  • Loss arising from missed deadlines
  • Loss resulting from inaccurate user-submitted information; or

Loss resulting from unauthorized actions of the user.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited under applicable law.

24. Changes to the Platform

CAS Manager may periodically modify or improve the Platform, including:

  • Adding new features
  • Removing features
  • Changing user interfaces
  • Modifying workflows
  • Improving security
  • Updating API/CAS-related functionality or

Changing technical infrastructure.

We may make such changes without prior notice where reasonably necessary.

25. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time.

The updated Terms will be published on the Platform with a revised "Last Updated" on [date].

Continued use of CAS Manager after the effective date of revised Terms may constitute acceptance of the updated Terms, subject to applicable law and any consent requirements.

26. Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of India.

Any dispute arising from or relating to CAS Manager shall be subject to the applicable jurisdiction of the courts of Surat, Gujarat, India, unless otherwise required by applicable law.

27. Contact Information

For questions, technical issues, complaints or concerns regarding these Terms, please contact:

  • CAS Manager
  • Organization/Company: [Company Name]
  • Email: [Official Email Address]
  • Phone: [Contact Number]
  • Address:[Full Registered/Office Address]
  • Grievance Officer: [Name / Designation]
  • Grievance Email: [Email Address]

28. Acceptance of Terms

By clicking "Register", "Sign Up", "Login", or otherwise accessing or using CAS Manager, you acknowledge that:

  • You have read and understood these Terms and Conditions
  • You agree to comply with these Terms
  • The information submitted by you is accurate to the best of your knowledge
  • You are responsible for the documents and records uploaded by you; and

You understand that CAS Manager is a professional record-management platform and does not itself determine CAS eligibility, promotion or career advancement.

If you do not agree to these Terms, you should not register for or use CAS Manager.

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