Effective Date: 30 July 2025
Last Updated: 30 July 2025
These Terms & Conditions, also referred to as our Terms of Service, govern your access to and use of The Minds Journal and related services operated by Minds Journal Private Limited.
The official website of The Minds Journal is themindsjournal.com.
For more about our platform, mission, editorial approach, and publishing ecosystem, please visit About The Minds Journal.
By accessing, browsing, creating an account, submitting content, or otherwise using any part of our services, you agree to be bound by these Terms & Conditions, along with our Privacy Policy, Community Guidelines, and any other policies incorporated by reference. If you do not agree, please do not use our services.
Terms at a Glance
- You must meet the minimum age and legal eligibility requirements to use our services.
- You are responsible for your account, login credentials, and activity under your account.
- You may not misuse the platform, violate laws, harass others, infringe rights, or interfere with platform operations.
- You retain rights in most user-submitted content, but by submitting content you grant us certain usage rights as described below.
- Some featured or published content may be subject to broader rights, editorial use, or platform monetization.
- Paid products, subscriptions, or digital services may be governed by additional payment and refund terms.
- We may suspend accounts, remove content, or restrict access for violations of these Terms or applicable law.
- Our services are provided for general information and community use, not as medical, legal, financial, or professional advice.
1. Who We Are
The Minds Journal is a global digital publishing platform focused on mental health, psychology, relationships, emotional wellness, and personal growth. It is operated by Minds Journal Private Limited, a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 2013, with its registered office at:
Module 18, Floor 14, Bengal Eco Intelligent Park, EM 3, Sector 5, Salt Lake City, Kolkata 700091, India
These Terms apply to our websites, subdomains, community platforms, newsletters, mobile applications, push notifications, rewards systems, and other digital services we operate. Your current policy text already defines the Services broadly to include public websites, sub-domains, community forums, groups, apps, newsletters, push notifications, leaderboards, and points.
2. Eligibility and Account Registration
To use our services, you must:
- be at least 13 years old, or older where required by local law
- have legal capacity to enter into binding agreements in your jurisdiction
- provide accurate, current, and complete account information
- maintain the security of your login credentials
You are responsible for all activity that occurs under your account. If you suspect unauthorized access or misuse, contact us immediately at [email protected].
We reserve the right to refuse registration, suspend access, or terminate accounts in accordance with these Terms.
Your existing terms already require a minimum age of 13, account accuracy, credential security, and allow refusal or termination of registration.
3. Acceptable Use
You may use our services only for lawful, personal, and non-commercial purposes unless we expressly authorize otherwise.
You agree not to:
- violate any law, regulation, or court order
- upload, publish, or transmit unlawful, abusive, hateful, exploitative, harassing, defamatory, or infringing content
- impersonate another person or misrepresent your affiliation
- upload malware, harmful code, or material intended to disrupt systems or users
- send spam, phishing messages, or unauthorized promotions
- scrape, harvest, or extract data without written permission
- bypass access controls, rate limits, or platform restrictions
- encourage or assist others in prohibited conduct
Your existing policy already contains a detailed prohibited-conduct section covering unlawful content, malware, spam, scraping, impersonation, and circumvention.
4. User-Generated Content
Our services may allow you to post or submit articles, comments, quotes, captions, stories, profile content, messages, media, or other materials.
Ownership
You retain your original rights in content you create and submit, except where a separate written agreement or specific platform rule states otherwise.
License to Us
By submitting non-featured content to our services, you grant Minds Journal Private Limited a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, display, reproduce, distribute, adapt, promote, and use that content in connection with operating, improving, and promoting the services.
Featured or Published Content
If your submission is selected for publication, editorial featuring, promotion, newsletter distribution, social-media use, branded anthology inclusion, or other featured treatment by the platform, broader rights may apply as described in the applicable submission flow, platform rules, or separate policies. Your current master terms specifically state that featured content may be subject to broader assignment and monetization rights.
Attribution and Monetization
Where practicable, we may credit the original contributor, but attribution may not appear in every use. We may monetize platform content, including featured content, through advertising, sponsorships, distribution, licensing, or other lawful commercial means, unless a separate written agreement states otherwise.
Your Warranties
You represent and warrant that:
- you own the content or have all rights necessary to submit it
- your content does not infringe any copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other third-party right
- your content complies with these Terms, our Community Guidelines, and applicable law
You agree to indemnify us against claims arising from breach of these warranties. Your current terms already include ownership, license, featured-content rights, attribution waiver, warranties, and indemnity language.
5. Content Removal and Platform Moderation
We may review, remove, restrict, demonetize, de-index, or disable access to content or accounts if we believe there has been:
- a violation of these Terms
- a breach of our Community Guidelines or other platform policies
- copyright infringement or legal risk
- abuse, harassment, fraud, spam, or security concerns
- a lawful request from a government, regulator, court, or rights-holder
We are not obligated to host, preserve, or publish any submission and may moderate platform participation at our discretion, subject to applicable law.
6. Feedback
If you send us ideas, suggestions, improvements, or feedback, you grant us a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free right to use, adapt, and implement that feedback without restriction or compensation.
Your current terms already contain a broad feedback license.
Need Accessibility Support?
If you encounter an accessibility barrier while using The Minds Journal or related services, please let us know.
7. Service Availability and Changes
We may add, update, modify, suspend, or discontinue features, content types, tools, programs, or services at any time.
We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability. Planned maintenance, updates, technical issues, partner outages, or security events may affect access to some or all services.
Your current policy already states that features may be added, modified, or discontinued and that downtime may occur.
8. Rewards, Points, Badges, and Leaderboards
Where offered, rewards such as points, badges, streaks, rankings, or leaderboard positions are virtual features only.
They:
- have no cash value
- are not transferable
- are not redeemable unless expressly stated otherwise
- may be modified, reset, withdrawn, or discontinued at any time
Usernames, rankings, or scores may be displayed publicly where these features are active, subject to applicable privacy settings.
Your current terms already define rewards as non-monetary virtual recognitions.
9. Third-Party Services, Links, and Advertising
Our services may integrate or interact with third-party providers, including:
- analytics providers
- advertising and monetization platforms
- payment processors
- app stores
- authentication providers
- external websites or embedded tools
Your use of third-party services may also be governed by their own terms and privacy practices.
We are not responsible for the content, accuracy, availability, or policies of third-party sites or services. Sponsored or affiliate content, where applicable, may be identified in accordance with law.
Your current terms already cover third-party platforms, advertising, and external links.
10. Paid Services, Purchases, and Subscriptions
Some services, reports, memberships, digital products, or app features may require payment.
Where applicable:
- pricing will be shown before purchase
- taxes may be included where required by law
- app-store purchases are governed by the relevant store’s billing rules
- subscriptions may auto-renew unless canceled before renewal
- refunds, cancellations, and cooling-off rights may depend on local consumer law and the nature of the digital service purchased
For more details, please see our Payment Policy where applicable.
Your current terms already address pricing, taxes, app-store terms, subscriptions, and cooling-off rights.
11. Intellectual Property
Except for content you validly submit, all materials forming part of our services, including but not limited to:
- platform branding
- logos
- editorial designs
- interfaces
- text and graphics created by us
- software
- trademarks
- proprietary compilations and site structure
are owned by or licensed to Minds Journal Private Limited and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other applicable laws.
You are granted only a limited, revocable, non-exclusive license to access and use the services for personal, lawful, non-commercial purposes unless otherwise authorized in writing.
Your current terms already contain this IP ownership and limited-license language.
12. Suspension and Termination
By You
You may stop using our services at any time and may terminate your account where account deletion tools are available.
By Us
We may suspend, restrict, or terminate access to any account or service, with or without notice where permitted by law, if:
- you breach these Terms
- you violate our Community Guidelines or other policies
- your conduct creates legal, safety, platform, or reputational risk
- we are required to do so by law, court order, or regulatory demand
Certain provisions of these Terms survive termination, including those related to content rights, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, intellectual property, dispute resolution, and other provisions that by nature are intended to survive.
Your current terms already cover user termination, platform termination, and survival clauses.
13. Disclaimers
No Professional Advice
Content on The Minds Journal is provided for general information, reflection, education, and community engagement only. It does not constitute medical, psychiatric, psychological, legal, financial, or other professional advice.
Always seek advice from appropriately qualified professionals for decisions affecting your health, safety, legal rights, finances, or well-being.
User-Generated Content
Opinions expressed by contributors, commenters, readers, and community participants are their own and do not necessarily reflect our views. We do not routinely verify every factual claim made in user-generated content.
Service Provided “As Is”
The services are provided on an as is and as available basis, without warranties of any kind to the extent permitted by law.
Your current terms and disclaimer text already contain no-professional-advice language, as-is service language, and user-generated-content limitations.
14. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Minds Journal Private Limited, its affiliates, officers, employees, contractors, and agents shall not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, goodwill, data, or business opportunity.
Our aggregate liability for claims arising out of or relating to the services shall not exceed the greater of:
- INR 10,000, or
- the amount you paid to us for paid services during the preceding 12 months
where such limitation is permitted by applicable law.
Your current terms and disclaimer both already contain this liability cap language.
15. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Minds Journal Private Limited, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, and agents from claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and reasonable legal expenses arising out of:
- your content
- your use of the services
- your violation of these Terms
- your violation of law
- your infringement of any third-party rights
Your current terms already contain an indemnification clause.
16. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution
These Terms are governed by the laws of India, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.
Before filing a formal claim, you agree to first attempt informal resolution by contacting us at [email protected].
Where enforceable, disputes shall be resolved by binding arbitration under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, with:
- a sole arbitrator appointed by mutual agreement
- Kolkata, India as the seat of arbitration
- English as the language of proceedings
Where arbitration is not enforceable in your jurisdiction, disputes shall be submitted to the courts of competent jurisdiction in Kolkata, India.
Your current terms already provide governing law, informal resolution, arbitration, class-action waiver, and non-arbitrable fallback language.
17. Sanctions and Export Compliance
You may not use the services if doing so would violate applicable export-control, sanctions, or trade compliance laws.
Your current terms already include sanctions and export-control restrictions.
18. App Store and Platform Terms
If you access our services through third-party distribution channels such as Apple App Store or Google Play, your use may also be subject to their applicable store terms, device rules, and billing conditions.
Your current terms already contain app-store-specific provisions.
19. Copyright Complaints
If you believe content on our services infringes your copyright, you may submit a valid copyright or DMCA notice in accordance with applicable law.
Please see our Copyright or DMCA process page, or contact the appropriate rights-handling address listed on our legal contact page.
Your current terms already include DMCA notice-and-takedown language.
20. Force Majeure
We are not liable for delay or failure to perform obligations where caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including natural disasters, war, strikes, government actions, infrastructure failures, cyber incidents, or internet disruptions.
Your current terms already contain a force majeure clause.
21. Assignment, Severability, and Waiver
We may assign or transfer these Terms in connection with a merger, restructuring, acquisition, asset transfer, or legal reorganization.
If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in full force.
Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of future enforcement.
Your current terms already contain assignment, severability, and waiver clauses.
22. Entire Agreement
These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, Community Guidelines, Payment Policy, and any supplemental terms incorporated by reference, form the entire agreement between you and Minds Journal Private Limited regarding use of the services.
Your current terms already state that these documents form the entire agreement.
23. EU Digital Services Act Contact Point
For users or authorities in the European Union, our current policy identifies a single point of contact under the EU Digital Services Act at:
[email protected]
Language: English
Your current terms already include this DSA contact point.
24. Contact Information
Minds Journal Private Limited
Module 18, Floor 14, Bengal Eco Intelligent Park, EM 3, Sector 5, Salt Lake City, Kolkata 700091, India
Legal: [email protected]
Privacy / Data Protection: [email protected]
Support: [email protected]
For rights-related, legal, or policy notices, please use the most appropriate official contact channel listed on our Contact Us page.
Your current terms already list the legal email, address, and related contact details.
About The Minds Journal
The Minds Journal is the flagship digital publishing platform of Minds Journal Private Limited, focused on mental health, psychology, relationships, emotional wellness, and personal growth.
Our broader ecosystem also includes Mind Help, Mind Family, CosmicCalling.com, and MindTalk Hub at community.themindsjournal.com.
Learn more on our About The Minds Journal page.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are The Minds Journal Terms & Conditions?
These Terms & Conditions explain the rules, rights, responsibilities, and limitations that apply when you access or use The Minds Journal and related services operated by Minds Journal Private Limited.
Who operates The Minds Journal?
The Minds Journal is operated by Minds Journal Private Limited.
What do these Terms apply to?
These Terms apply to The Minds Journal websites, subdomains, newsletters, community platforms, applications, rewards features, and related services operated by Minds Journal Private Limited.
Does The Minds Journal provide medical or mental health advice?
No. Content on The Minds Journal is for general information, reflection, education, and community engagement only and does not replace professional advice.
Can The Minds Journal remove content or suspend accounts?
Yes. We may remove content, restrict participation, or suspend accounts where required by platform rules, legal obligations, safety concerns, or violations of these Terms.
How do I contact The Minds Journal about legal or policy issues?
You can contact the appropriate team through the official contact information published on themindsjournal.com, including [email protected] for legal matters.