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Privacy - Please review our Privacy Notice, which also governs your visit to our Web site, to understand our practices.

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License and Site Access - AmericanSanskrit.com grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of this site and not to download (other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with express written consent of AmericanSanskrit.com. This license does not include any resale or commercial use of this site or its contents; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of this site or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another merchant; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. This site or any portion of this site may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express written consent of AmericanSanskrit.com. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of AmericanSanskrit.com and our associates without express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilizing AmericanSanskrit.com's name or trademarks without the express written consent of AmericanSanskrit.com. Any unauthorized use terminates the permission or license granted by AmericanSanskrit.com. You are granted a limited, revocable, and nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to the home page of AmericanSanskrit.com so long as the link does not portray AmericanSanskrit.com, its associates, or their products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter. You may not use any AmericanSanskrit.com logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the link without express written permission.

Your Membership Account - If you use this site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. If you are under 18, you may use our Web site only with involvement of a parent or guardian. AmericanSanskrit.com reserves the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders in their sole discretion.

Reviews, Comments, Emails, and other Content - Visitors may post reviews, comments and other content, and submit suggestions, ideas, comments, questions, or other information, so long as the content is not illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of "spam". You may not use a false e-mail address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of any content you provide. AmericanSanskrit.com reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit such content, but does not regularly review posted content.

If you do post content or submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant AmericanSanskrit.com and its associates a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media. You grant AmericanSanskrit.com and its sublicensees the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, if they choose. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you post, that the content is accurate, that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity, and that you will indemnify AmericanSanskrit.com for all claims resulting from content you supply. AmericanSanskrit.com has the right but not the obligation to monitor and edit or remove any activity or content. AmericanSanskrit.com takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content posted by you or any third party.

Risk of Loss - All items purchased from AmericanSanskrit.com are made pursuant to a shipment contract. This basically means that the risk of loss and title for such items pass to you upon our delivery to the carrier.

Product Descriptions - AmericanSanskrit.com attempts to be as accurate as possible. However, AmericanSanskrit.com does not warrant that product descriptions or other content of this site are error-free. If a product offered by AmericanSanskrit.com itself is not as described, your sole remedy is to return it in unused condition. We reserve the right to substitute materials at our discretion.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY - THIS SITE AND THE PRODUCTS INCLUDED ON THIS SITE IS PROVIDED BY AmericanSanskrit.com ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. AmericanSanskrit.com MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THIS SITE OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, OR PRODUCTS INCLUDED ON THIS SITE. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THIS SITE AND THE PRODUCTS INCLUDED IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.

TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, AmericanSanskrit.com DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. AmericanSanskrit.com DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THIS SITE, ITS SERVERS, OR E-MAIL SENT FROM AmericanSanskrit.com ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. AmericanSanskrit.com WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.

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Applicable Law - By visiting AmericanSanskrit.com, you agree that the laws of the state of New Jersey, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern these Conditions of Use and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and AmericanSanskrit.com.

Disputes - Any dispute relating in any way to your visit to AmericanSanskrit.com or to products you purchase through AmericanSanskrit.com shall be submitted to confidential arbitration in New Jersey, except that, to the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate AmericanSanskrit.com's intellectual property rights, AmericanSanskrit.com may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any state or federal court in the state of New Jersey, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts. Arbitration under this agreement shall be conducted under the rules then prevailing of the American Arbitration Association. The arbitrator's award shall be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no arbitration under this Agreement shall be joined to an arbitration involving any other party subject to this Agreement, whether through class arbitration proceedings or otherwise.

Site Policies, Modification, and Severability - Please review our other policies, such as our Shipping & Returns policy, posted on this site. These policies also govern your visit to AmericanSanskrit.com. We reserve the right to make changes to our site, policies, and these Conditions of Use at any time. If any of these conditions shall be deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining condition.

Questions
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