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Copyright & Content Takedown Policy

Last updated: September 2026

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In brief

  • We respect the copyright of the artists, photographers, and puja committees whose work makes the festival. Original artwork and text on DharmKriya are ours or used with permission.
  • Pandal facts, names, locations, and timings, are factual information gathered from public and community sources, and no one owns a fact. We do not copy other sites' written descriptions or photographs.
  • If a song, image, artwork, or photograph that belongs to you appears here and you want it removed, corrected, or credited, tell us and we act within 48 hours.
  • Photos and listings you submit stay yours. By posting them you grant us a licence to display them and confirm you have the right to share them.
  • Content and copyright complaints reach our Grievance Officer at namaste@dharmkriya.com; we follow India's Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules made under it.
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What is ours, what is factual, and what is yours

The original artwork, illustrations, written guides, and design on DharmKriya are created by us or used with permission, and may not be reproduced without consent. Pandal names, locations, timings, and similar details are factual information aggregated from public listings and from what the community shares; facts are not owned by anyone. Where we draw on community maps or directories we take only such facts, never another site's written descriptions or photographs. Content you submit, such as your own pandal photos, remains yours.

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Your submissions, and the licence you grant

When you submit a photo, sighting, message, or listing, you confirm that you own it or have the right to share it, and you grant DharmKriya a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, display, and moderate it on the platform for as long as it is shown. You must not upload anything that infringes another person's copyright, or photographs that clearly identify individuals without their consent. We moderate submissions and may edit, hide, or remove any of them.

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Report content or file a takedown notice

If any song, musical composition, audio, artwork, photograph, video, or written text on DharmKriya belongs to you, or infringes your rights, and you want it removed, corrected, or given proper credit, write to namaste@dharmkriya.com with: (1) a description of the work, (2) exactly where it appears on the platform (the page link), (3) confirmation that you are the owner or authorised to act for them, and (4) your contact details. We treat these as a priority and act within 48 hours of a valid notice, usually sooner, at no charge and without conditions.

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Attribution, correction, and restoration

Where we can identify the committee, artist, or photographer behind a work, we credit them; if a credit is missing or wrong, tell us and we will fix it. If content you submitted was removed and you believe that was a mistake, or that you held the rights all along, write to namaste@dharmkriya.com and we will review and, where appropriate, restore it. We may remove content and, for repeated infringement, bar the account responsible.

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Grievance Officer

In line with the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, complaints about content or copyright on DharmKriya may be sent to our Grievance Officer at namaste@dharmkriya.com, marking the message for their attention. We acknowledge a complaint within 24 hours and resolve it within the timelines the applicable law requires. DharmKriya is operated by Shubhkritya Technologies Private Limited (CIN U62099UP2026PTC252432).

To send a takedown notice or a copyright query, write to namaste@dharmkriya.com.

Shubham Astu

May all be auspicious