Intellectual Property Rights Policy

Sharadha Terry Products Private Limited, a company incorporated under Companies Act, 1956 and having its corporate office at KG House, 126 Arts College Road, Coimbatore 641018, India owns and operates the brand Micro Cotton® and www.microcotton.com (“Website”). Sharadha Terry Products Private Limited is conscious of and is committed to helping people and organizations protect their Intellectual Property.

Intellectual Property includes the following:

• “Trade Marks” i.e. a mark capable of being represented graphically and which is capable of distinguishing the goods or services of one person from the others and may include service marks, logos, designs, trade dress, shape of goods, their packaging or combination of colours, as are duly registered and/or pending registration under the Trade Marks Act, 1999.

• “Copyrights” in, copyrighted works and copyrighted materials i.e. literary, dramatic or musical work or artistic work, owned, acquired or validly licensed to any person in terms of the Copyright Act, 1957.

• Other intellectual property rights legally valid and recognized in India such as trade secrets, proprietary know-how, any patentable or non-patentable inventions, discoveries or any modifications, adaptations, derivatives or improvements of each of the above.

1. Protection Of Intellectual Property

i. The Copyright of all contents in the Website, www.microcotton.com belongs to Sharadha Terry Products Private Limited. The Website contains the registered trademark “Micro Cotton®”, other trademarks, logos, trade name, service marks and other marks (collectively “Marks”) which are the Intellectual Property of Sharadha Terry Products Private Limited or its vendors or respective third parties. All items and photographs advertised / listed and the contents therein are received by Sharadha Terry Products Private Limited from vendors and are third party user generated contents. In this regard, Sharadha Terry Products Private Limited shall not be liable and responsible for any actions or inactions of the vendors nor any breach of any third party intellectual property rights of the sellers or manufacturers or owners of the products and hereby expressly disclaim any and all responsibility and liability in this regard.

ii. The users of the Website should assume that standard Intellectual Property rights protection applies to all materials and contents displayed on the Website. Any redistribution, modification or reproduction of part or all of the contents featured on the Website in any form is prohibited.

iii. You are not permitted, except with the express written consent of Sharadha Terry Products Private Limited, to distribute or commercially exploit the contents or use the Marks displayed on this Website. You are also prohibited from transmitting the contents or storing it in any other website or in other form of electronic retrieval system.

iv. All copyright, Marks, domain name, trade dress including the “look and feel” of the Website, its text, graphics, button icons, interfaces, etc., and the arrangements thereof, is the property of Sharadha Terry Products Private Limited or its vendors or the third party, as the case may be, unless otherwise indicated. All the contents are protected under copyright, trademark and other applicable Intellectual Property laws and may not be used by you, except as permitted by Sharadha Terry Products Private Limited, its vendors or the concerned third party.

2. Sharadha Terry Products Private Limited’s Limitation of Liability

In case you are the owner/valid licensee of an Intellectual Property in any content available/uploaded on the Website without your consent, or you believe that your content has been copied/misused in any way that constitutes infringement of your Intellectual Property rights kindly get in touch with us at info@microcotton.com and we could attempt to forward your claims/objections regarding the use of your Intellectual Property with the appropriate Vendor/Service provider of the said infringement.