{"id":617,"date":"2026-08-29T09:37:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartcinemas.in\/blog\/?page_id=617"},"modified":"2026-08-29T09:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:37:23","slug":"terms-of-service","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/smartcinemas.in\/blog\/terms-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Terms of Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\n     TERMS OF SERVICE \u2014 SMART Home Cinema\n     Paste into a new WordPress page.\n     Page Title : Terms of Service\n     Slug       : terms-of-service\n     Final URL  : https:\/\/smartcinemas.in\/blog\/terms-of-service\/\n     RankMath   : set to noindex, follow\n\n     \u26a0\ufe0f BEFORE PUBLISHING:\n     1. If WooCommerce is deleted, remove Section 9 (Products sold on this site).\n     2. Section 5 is the clause that matters most to you. It is what stops a\n        reader building a room from a blog article and treating your published\n        arithmetic as a design specification. Do not cut it.\n     3. The effective date is a deliberate exception to the no-visible-dates\n        rule. Legal pages must carry one.\n     4. Working draft, not legal advice. Have a lawyer review before relying\n        on the limitation of liability and governing law clauses.\n     \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 -->\n\n<p><strong>Effective date: 29 August 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<h2>1. Agreement to these terms<\/h2>\n\n<p>These terms govern your use of <strong>smartcinemas.in<\/strong> and its blog at <strong>smartcinemas.in\/blog<\/strong> (together, &#8220;the site&#8221;), operated by SMART Home Cinema, 39, 1st East Main Road, Anna Nagar, Madurai 625020, Tamil Nadu, India.<\/p>\n\n<p>By using the site you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.<\/p>\n\n<h2>2. What the site is<\/h2>\n\n<p>The site publishes educational and technical writing about home cinema design, room acoustics, calibration and related subjects, alongside information about the services we offer. It is a publication and a shop window. It is not a design tool and it is not a substitute for a professional engagement.<\/p>\n\n<h2>3. Permitted use<\/h2>\n\n<p>You may read, print and share our articles for your own non-commercial use, and quote short extracts with clear attribution and a link back to the original page.<\/p>\n\n<p>You may not:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n  <li>Republish our articles in full, on any platform, without written permission.<\/li>\n  <li>Use our content, measurements, charts or images to train, fine-tune or benchmark a machine learning model without written permission.<\/li>\n  <li>Scrape, crawl or harvest the site by automated means beyond ordinary search engine indexing.<\/li>\n  <li>Use the site to transmit anything unlawful, defamatory, misleading or harmful, or to interfere with its operation or security.<\/li>\n  <li>Present our work as your own, or use it in commercial proposals to your own clients without permission.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2>4. Intellectual property<\/h2>\n\n<p>All text, photographs, diagrams, charts, measurement data, page layouts and code on the site are owned by SMART Home Cinema or used under licence, and are protected by copyright. Product names and logos belonging to manufacturers are the property of those manufacturers and appear here for identification only.<\/p>\n\n<h2>5. Technical content is educational, not a design specification<\/h2>\n\n<p>This is the most important clause on this page. Please read it.<\/p>\n\n<p>Our articles publish real arithmetic, real measurements and real design reasoning. Every figure we publish is traceable to a stated method. But an article is written for a general reader, not for your room.<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n  <li>Worked examples use stated assumptions. Your room has different dimensions, different construction, different equipment and different constraints.<\/li>\n  <li>Figures such as frequencies, separation percentages, sound pressure levels, reverberation times, screen sizes and luminance targets are illustrations of a method, not recommendations for any specific project.<\/li>\n  <li>Nothing on this site should be treated as a construction drawing, a specification, a certification, or approval of any design.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Reading an article does not create a professional relationship between you and SMART Home Cinema.<\/strong> We accept no responsibility for decisions made, money spent, or work carried out on the basis of published content alone. If you intend to build, alter or specify a room, engage a qualified professional to assess your actual conditions.<\/p>\n\n<h2>6. Enquiries and informal opinions<\/h2>\n\n<p>We sometimes give an informal opinion on a floor plan or a question sent to us, without charge and without a contract. Such an opinion is given in good faith on the limited information supplied. It is not a design, a survey or a warranty of any outcome, and no liability attaches to it. A binding scope, price and performance expectation exists only in a signed project agreement.<\/p>\n\n<h2>7. Links to other sites<\/h2>\n\n<p>We link to manufacturers, standards bodies and other external sources where they support what we have written. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for their content, accuracy or availability. A link is not an endorsement.<\/p>\n\n<h2>8. Newsletters, contributions and subscriptions<\/h2>\n\n<p>Where the site offers newsletter sign-up, reader contributions or subscriptions through Google Reader Revenue Manager:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n  <li>Signing up or contributing is voluntary. Access to published articles is not conditional on it.<\/li>\n  <li>Payments are collected and processed by Google and its payment partners under their own terms. We do not handle or store your card details.<\/li>\n  <li>Contributions support the cost of producing the content and are not a purchase of goods, services, advice or consulting time.<\/li>\n  <li>You may unsubscribe or cancel at any time through the account you used to sign up, or by writing to us.<\/li>\n  <li>Refunds for contributions or subscriptions are handled under Google&#8217;s applicable policies. Where a refund is within our control, write to us and we will deal with it reasonably.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2>9. Products sold on this site<\/h2>\n\n<p>Where products are offered for sale directly on the site, the price, availability, delivery terms and return terms shown at the point of purchase apply to that order and form part of these terms.<\/p>\n\n<h2>10. Comments and submissions<\/h2>\n\n<p>If you post a comment or send us material, you confirm it is yours to share and you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to display it on the site. We may edit or remove anything at our discretion, without notice and without giving a reason.<\/p>\n\n<h2>11. No warranty<\/h2>\n\n<p>The site is provided on an &#8220;as is&#8221; and &#8220;as available&#8221; basis. We take care to be accurate, and we correct errors when we find them, but we do not warrant that the content is complete, current or error-free, or that the site will be uninterrupted or free of harmful components.<\/p>\n\n<h2>12. Limitation of liability<\/h2>\n\n<p>To the fullest extent permitted by law, SMART Home Cinema, its founder and its team will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, or for loss of profit, revenue, data, or anticipated savings, arising from your use of the site or reliance on its content.<\/p>\n\n<p>Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.<\/p>\n\n<h2>13. Indemnity<\/h2>\n\n<p>You agree to indemnify SMART Home Cinema against claims, losses and reasonable costs arising from your breach of these terms or your misuse of the site.<\/p>\n\n<h2>14. Privacy<\/h2>\n\n<p>Our handling of personal information is set out in our <a href=\"https:\/\/smartcinemas.in\/blog\/privacy-policy\/\">Privacy Policy<\/a>, which forms part of these terms.<\/p>\n\n<h2>15. Changes<\/h2>\n\n<p>We may amend these terms as the site changes. The effective date at the top reflects the current version. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the amended terms.<\/p>\n\n<h2>16. Governing law and jurisdiction<\/h2>\n\n<p>These terms are governed by the laws of India. The courts at Madurai, Tamil Nadu shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them.<\/p>\n\n<h2>17. Contact<\/h2>\n\n<ul>\n  <li><strong>SMART Home Cinema<\/strong><\/li>\n  <li>39, 1st East Main Road, Near Cine Priya Theater, Anna Nagar, Madurai 625020, Tamil Nadu, India<\/li>\n  <li>Email: sales.smartcinemas@gmail.com<\/li>\n  <li>Phone and WhatsApp: +91 63847 54949<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective date: 29 August 2026 1. Agreement to these terms These terms govern your use of smartcinemas.in and its blog at smartcinemas.in\/blog (together, &#8220;the site&#8221;), operated by SMART Home Cinema, 39, 1st East Main Road, Anna Nagar, Madurai 625020, Tamil Nadu, India. 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