Effective Date: 15 August 2026
Last Updated: 15 August 2026

Welcome to genZbihar.com, the digital community platform of Gen Z Bihar.

These Terms of Use (“Terms“) govern your access to and use of genZbihar.com (the “Website“), including its website, user accounts, posting features, community features and related services.

By accessing, registering on, or using genZbihar.com, you agree to be bound by these Terms, our Privacy Policy, Community Guidelines, and Content & Moderation Policy.

If you do not agree with these Terms, please do not use genZbihar.com.

1. About genZbihar.com

genZbihar.com is a digital community platform operated by Gen Z Bihar.

The purpose of genZbihar.com is to provide a space where young people connected to Bihar can:

Share their voices and experiences
Discuss issues affecting Bihar and its people
Share ideas and opinions
Highlight local stories and achievements
Share photographs and other permitted content
Discover perspectives from other members
Connect through common interests and experiences
Contribute to conversations about Bihar’s future

genZbihar.com is intended to encourage constructive, respectful and meaningful participation.

2. Acceptance of These Terms

By using genZbihar.com, you confirm that:

You have read and understood these Terms.
You agree to comply with these Terms.
You agree to comply with our Privacy Policy, Community Guidelines and Content & Moderation Policy.
You will comply with applicable laws while using the Website.
Any information you provide to us is accurate to the best of your knowledge.
You will not use the Website for unlawful, fraudulent or abusive purposes.

If you are using genZbihar.com on behalf of an organisation or other entity, you confirm that you have authority to accept these Terms on its behalf.

3. Eligibility

genZbihar.com is intended for users aged 18 years and above at launch.

By creating an account, you confirm that you are at least 18 years old.

You must not create an account using false information about your age.

If Gen Z Bihar introduces a legally compliant process allowing persons under 18 to use the Website in the future, these Terms may be updated accordingly.

We may suspend or terminate an account if we reasonably believe that the user does not meet the applicable age requirement.

4. Creating an Account

Certain features of genZbihar.com require registration.

When creating an account, you may be required to provide information such as:

Email address
Password
Date of birth or age-related information
Username or display name
Other information required by the registration form

You agree to provide accurate information and keep it reasonably up to date.

You must not:

Create an account using another person’s identity
Impersonate another person
Create an account for fraudulent purposes
Create multiple accounts to evade a suspension or moderation action
Use an account belonging to another person without permission

Gen Z Bihar reserves the right to refuse, suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms or applicable policies.

5. Your Account and Password

You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account.

You must:

Keep your password confidential
Not share your login credentials with others
Take reasonable steps to protect your account
Notify Gen Z Bihar if you suspect unauthorized access

You are responsible for activities carried out through your account unless you can establish that the activity occurred without your authorization and despite reasonable security measures.

Gen Z Bihar will not ask you to disclose your password through an unsolicited message.

6. Raising Your Voice

Registered members may use the Raise Your Voice feature to submit content to genZbihar.com.

Depending on the features available, this may include:

Written posts
Images
Captions
District-related information
Categories
Opinions
Experiences
Ideas
Questions
Stories
Other permitted contributions

By submitting content, you understand that the content may be reviewed before or after publication and may be approved, edited, restricted, unpublished or removed in accordance with our policies.

7. Your Responsibility for Your Content

You are solely responsible for the content that you submit, publish or otherwise make available through genZbihar.com.

You represent and warrant that:

You have the necessary rights to publish the content.
Your content does not knowingly infringe another person’s copyright, trademark, privacy or other rights.
Your content is not unlawfully defamatory.
Your content does not contain unlawful threats.
Your content does not unlawfully disclose another person’s private information.
You have appropriate permission to publish photographs or personal information relating to other people where such permission is required.
Your content complies with these Terms and our Community Guidelines.

You should carefully consider whether information should be made public before publishing it.

8. Content You Must Not Submit

You must not use genZbihar.com to publish, upload, transmit or promote content that:

A. Is unlawful

This includes content that violates applicable Indian law or other applicable law.

B. Infringes intellectual-property rights

You must not upload or publish material that you do not have the right to use.

This includes unauthorized:

Photographs
Videos
Articles
Music
Illustrations
Logos
Designs
Written works
Other copyrighted material

C. Invades privacy

You must not publish another person’s private or confidential information without appropriate authorization.

This includes:

Phone numbers
Private addresses
Passwords
Financial information
Government identification information
Private conversations
Private photographs
Confidential documents

D. Impersonates others

You must not pretend to be:

Another individual
A public figure
Another user
An organisation
Government authorities
Gen Z Bihar
Any other person or entity

E. Contains harassment or targeted abuse

Content intended to threaten, intimidate, stalk, harass or repeatedly target another person is prohibited.

F. Promotes hatred or discrimination

Content attacking individuals or groups on protected or other sensitive grounds may be removed.

G. Contains sexual exploitation or abuse

Content involving sexual exploitation, sexual abuse or exploitation of minors is strictly prohibited.

H. Promotes dangerous or illegal activities

Content that facilitates serious unlawful activity or encourages users to engage in dangerous conduct may be removed.

I. Contains malicious material

You must not upload:

Malware
Viruses
Malicious code
Files designed to compromise another person’s device
Phishing links
Credential-stealing mechanisms

J. Is deceptive or fraudulent

You must not use genZbihar.com for:

Scams
Fraud
Fake investment schemes
Phishing
Deceptive commercial activity
Fake identities
Misleading representations intended to cause harm

K. Is spam

You must not use the Website for:

Bulk unsolicited messages
Repetitive promotional posts
Automated spam
Manipulative engagement
Unauthorised advertising
SEO spam
Link farming

L. Deliberately spreads harmful misinformation

You should not knowingly present fabricated information as fact, particularly where doing so could reasonably cause significant harm.

Where relevant, Gen Z Bihar may label, limit or remove misleading content.

9. Political and Social Content

genZbihar.com is intended to provide a space for young people to discuss issues affecting Bihar and India.

Users may express political, social and civic opinions provided that such content complies with applicable law and these Terms.

Gen Z Bihar does not necessarily endorse the political, social or ideological views expressed by individual users.

You must not use political discussion as a means to:

Harass individuals
Threaten people
Spread unlawful hate
Impersonate public authorities
Publish private information
Coordinate unlawful activity
Manipulate the platform through spam or fake accounts

10. Opinions Are Not the Views of Gen Z Bihar

genZbihar.com contains user-generated content.

Opinions expressed by users belong to the respective users and do not necessarily represent the views of:

Gen Z Bihar, its founders, administrators, moderators, employees, volunteers, partners or representatives.

The presence of a post on genZbihar.com does not necessarily mean that Gen Z Bihar has independently verified or endorsed every statement contained in that post.

11. Accuracy of User Content

Users are responsible for the accuracy of claims they make.

genZbihar.com is a community platform and is not intended to function as an authoritative news, legal, medical, financial or governmental information service.

You should independently verify important information before relying on it.

Gen Z Bihar may, where appropriate, remove, restrict or label content that appears to be false, misleading, manipulated or otherwise harmful.

12. Images and Photographs

If you upload an image to genZbihar.com, you confirm that you have the right to upload and share that image.

You should not upload:

Private photographs without permission
Images containing sensitive personal information
Government identification documents
Private documents
Images intended to harass or expose another person
Copyrighted images that you do not have permission to use

Where another person is identifiable in a photograph, you should consider whether you have the appropriate permission to publish the photograph.

13. Ownership of Your Content

You retain ownership of the original content that you create and submit to genZbihar.com, subject to the rights granted to Gen Z Bihar under these Terms.

Gen Z Bihar does not claim ownership of your original writings, photographs or other original material merely because you upload them to the Website.

However, by submitting content, you grant Gen Z Bihar the licence described in the next section.

14. Licence You Grant to Gen Z Bihar

When you submit content to genZbihar.com, you grant Gen Z Bihar a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, display, publish, format, adapt and distribute that content as reasonably necessary to:

Operate genZbihar.com
Display your post to Website visitors
Display your profile or content within the Website
Create previews or thumbnails
Promote genZbihar.com
Share or highlight community content through Gen Z Bihar’s official communication channels
Improve and maintain the Website
Protect and administer the community

This licence continues for as long as reasonably necessary to perform these purposes, subject to your rights under applicable law and our Privacy Policy.

You retain ownership of your original content.

Gen Z Bihar will not acquire ownership of your original work merely because you publish it on genZbihar.com.

15. Sharing Your Content on Social Media

genZbihar.com may allow users to share links to publicly available posts on third-party social-media platforms.

When you or another person shares a link to your post:

The post may become accessible outside genZbihar.com.
Third parties may copy or redistribute the content.
Social-media platforms may process the shared information under their own terms and privacy policies.

Gen Z Bihar cannot control what third parties do with publicly available content after it has been shared outside the Website.

16. Content Removal and Moderation

Gen Z Bihar reserves the right, but does not assume an obligation in every case, to:

Review submitted content
Approve or reject submissions
Edit formatting
Restrict visibility
Remove content
Disable comments or interactions
Suspend accounts
Terminate accounts
Restrict access to certain Website features

These actions may be taken where Gen Z Bihar reasonably believes that content or behaviour:

Violates these Terms
Violates the Community Guidelines
Violates the Content & Moderation Policy
Violates applicable law
Creates a safety or security risk
Harms the community
Is spam or abusive
Infringes another person’s rights

Our detailed moderation process will be described in the Content & Moderation Policy.

17. Reporting Content

If you believe that a post, image, profile or other material violates these Terms or our policies, you may report it to Gen Z Bihar.

Reports may concern:

Harassment
Hate or discrimination
Privacy violations
Copyright infringement
Impersonation
Fraud
Spam
Illegal content
Threats
Other policy violations

We may request additional information when investigating a report.

Submitting a report does not guarantee that content will be removed. Gen Z Bihar will assess reports according to the applicable policies and circumstances.

18. Copyright Complaints

If you believe that content published on genZbihar.com infringes your copyright, please contact us with sufficient information to identify:

The copyrighted work
The allegedly infringing material
Where the material appears on genZbihar.com
Your contact details
Information reasonably establishing your rights in the work
Any other information necessary for us to investigate the complaint

Gen Z Bihar may remove or restrict allegedly infringing content while investigating a legitimate complaint.

Knowingly submitting false or misleading copyright complaints may have legal consequences.

19. Intellectual Property of Gen Z Bihar

The Website and its original materials, including where applicable:

Gen Z Bihar branding
The genZbihar.com name
Logos
Graphics
Website design
Original written material
Original illustrations
Software
Website structure
Features

are owned by or licensed to Gen Z Bihar unless otherwise stated.

You may not reproduce, modify, distribute, sell or commercially exploit Gen Z Bihar’s proprietary materials without prior written permission.

Nothing in these Terms grants you ownership of Gen Z Bihar’s trademarks, branding or other intellectual property.

20. Acceptable Use of the Website

You agree not to:

Attempt to gain unauthorized access to another account.
Circumvent security measures.
Interfere with Website operations.
Introduce malware or malicious code.
Scrape or systematically collect information in a manner that harms the Website or violates applicable law.
Use automated systems to manipulate engagement.
Attempt to overload or disrupt the Website.
Reverse engineer the Website except where expressly permitted by applicable law.
Use the Website to conduct fraudulent activity.
Use another user’s account without permission.
Circumvent a suspension or ban.
Abuse reporting or moderation systems.
Use genZbihar.com to facilitate unlawful activity.

21. Commercial Activity and Advertising

genZbihar.com is primarily a community platform.

Users must not use the Website for unsolicited commercial promotion, advertising, affiliate spam or solicitation without appropriate authorization from Gen Z Bihar.

Gen Z Bihar may introduce advertising, sponsorships, partnerships, promotional campaigns or other commercial features in the future.

Any such activities may be governed by additional terms.

22. Third-Party Services and Links

genZbihar.com may contain links to third-party websites, applications, social-media platforms or other services.

These third parties operate independently from Gen Z Bihar.

We are not responsible for:

Their content
Their availability
Their privacy practices
Their security
Their terms
Their actions

Your use of third-party services is governed by the terms and policies of those services.

23. Website Availability

We aim to keep genZbihar.com available and functional, but we do not guarantee that the Website will:

Always be available
Operate without interruption
Be completely error-free
Be free of security vulnerabilities
Always retain every piece of content
Always operate at a particular speed

The Website may occasionally be unavailable because of:

Maintenance
Updates
Technical failures
Hosting problems
Security incidents
Internet or network problems
Circumstances outside our reasonable control

24. Changes to the Website

Gen Z Bihar may modify, suspend, add or remove features of genZbihar.com at any time.

This may include changes to:

Registration
User profiles
Posting functionality
Community features
Search
Sharing features
Moderation tools
Account functionality

We may also discontinue certain features if necessary.

25. Account Suspension or Termination

Gen Z Bihar may suspend or terminate your account if we reasonably believe that you:

Violated these Terms
Violated our Community Guidelines
Violated our Content & Moderation Policy
Engaged in unlawful conduct
Abused another user
Attempted to compromise Website security
Used the Website for fraud or spam
Repeatedly violated community rules
Created a significant risk to the community or Website

Depending on the circumstances, we may provide a warning before taking action, but we may act immediately where necessary to protect users, the Website or comply with legal requirements.

26. Your Right to Stop Using genZbihar.com

You may stop using genZbihar.com at any time.

You may also request deletion of your account in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

Some provisions of these Terms may continue to apply after account termination, including provisions concerning:

Intellectual property
User-generated content
Liability
Disputes
Legal compliance
Content already made publicly available

27. Disclaimer

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, genZbihar.com is provided on an “as available” and “as is” basis.

Gen Z Bihar does not guarantee that:

All user-generated content is accurate.
All posts are independently verified.
All information on the Website is current.
The Website will be uninterrupted.
The Website will always be free of errors.
User-generated content will always remain available.

Gen Z Bihar does not endorse every opinion, claim or statement made by individual users.

28. No Professional Advice

Content published on genZbihar.com may discuss topics including:

Education
Employment
Careers
Politics
Government
Health
Finance
Law
Business
Social issues

Such content is generally provided for community discussion and informational purposes.

It should not automatically be treated as professional legal, medical, financial, educational or other professional advice.

You should consult an appropriately qualified professional where necessary.

29. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Gen Z Bihar and its operators, administrators, employees, volunteers and representatives will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages arising from your use of, or inability to use, genZbihar.com.

This includes, where legally permitted, losses arising from:

User-generated content
Reliance on information published by users
Third-party websites
Unauthorized access
Technical interruptions
Loss of data
Account suspension
Content removal
Actions of other users

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

30. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Gen Z Bihar and its operators, administrators, employees and representatives from claims, losses, liabilities, damages and reasonable expenses arising from:

Your violation of these Terms
Your violation of applicable law
Your content
Your infringement of another person’s rights
Your misuse of genZbihar.com
Your fraudulent or unlawful activities

This provision applies to the extent permitted by applicable law.

31. Privacy

Your use of genZbihar.com is also governed by our Privacy Policy.

The Privacy Policy explains:

What personal information we collect
How we use it
How we protect it
How we share it
Your privacy rights
How you can contact us regarding personal data

Please read the Privacy Policy before using the Website.

32. Community Guidelines

Our Community Guidelines are an important part of these Terms.

They explain the standards we expect from members of the Gen Z Bihar community, including expectations concerning:

Respectful participation
Harassment
Hate and discrimination
Privacy
Misinformation
Spam
Impersonation
Illegal content
User safety
Responsible posting

By using genZbihar.com, you agree to follow the Community Guidelines.

33. Content & Moderation Policy

Our Content & Moderation Policy explains how Gen Z Bihar handles content and reports, including:

Content review
User reports
Content removal
Account restrictions
Appeals or review requests
Serious violations
Repeat violations
Urgent safety concerns

The Content & Moderation Policy forms part of these Terms.

34. Changes to These Terms

Gen Z Bihar may update these Terms from time to time.

Changes may be necessary because of:

New Website features
Changes in our community
Changes in technology
Changes in applicable law
Changes to our moderation practices
Changes to our services

When we make material changes, we may provide reasonable notice through genZbihar.com or other appropriate means.

The Last Updated date at the beginning of these Terms will indicate when they were most recently revised.

Your continued use of genZbihar.com after the updated Terms become effective constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

35. Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of India, subject to applicable law.

Any disputes arising from these Terms or your use of genZbihar.com shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts having appropriate jurisdiction over the matter.

[INSERT CITY/DISTRICT, BIHAR] may be specified as the jurisdiction after obtaining appropriate legal advice.

36. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is determined to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable, that provision shall be interpreted or modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, where permitted by law.

The remaining provisions will continue to apply.

37. No Waiver

If Gen Z Bihar does not immediately enforce a provision of these Terms, that does not mean that Gen Z Bihar has permanently waived its right to enforce that provision later.

38. Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with the:

Privacy Policy
Community Guidelines
Content & Moderation Policy
Any additional terms expressly applicable to specific features

constitute the principal terms governing your use of genZbihar.com, unless otherwise stated.

39. Contact Us

If you have questions regarding these Terms, please contact:

Gen Z Bihar
Website: https://genzbihar.com/

Email: admin@genzbihar.com

Please use the subject line:

“Terms of Use — genZbihar.com”

40. Acceptance

By registering for an account, submitting a post, uploading content, or otherwise using genZbihar.com, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agreed to these Terms of Use.

If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not use genZbihar.com.