NearBin

1. Agreement to Terms

These Terms & Conditions constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity ("User" or "you"), and Earth Relief India ("we", "us", or "our"), founded and managed by Keshav Singh, concerning your access to and use of the NearBin application, web portal, Progressive Web App (PWA), and associated services.

By creating an account, accessing, or using NearBin, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by all of these Terms & Conditions. If you do not agree with all of these terms, you are expressly prohibited from using NearBin and must discontinue use immediately.

2. Purpose & Civic Mission of NearBin

NearBin is an open civic technology and environmental intelligence tool developed to support clean neighborhood initiatives, the Swachh Bharat mission, and circular zero-waste economies.

NearBin enables citizens to:

• Photograph and geo-tag public garbage dumps, overflow bins, and litter hotspots in real time.
• View live community heatmaps of public sanitation conditions.
• Coordinate with municipal sanitation workers (Safai Mitras) and scrap recyclers (Kabadiwalas) to facilitate rapid cleanup and recycling of paper, plastic, and metal waste.
• Earn citizen Swachhata Karma points, civic leaderboard recognition, and community badges.

3. User Accounts & Google Authentication

To submit waste hotspot reports, track cleanups, and accumulate Swachhata Karma points, you must sign in via your Google Account or verified phone credentials.

• You agree to provide true, accurate, and current information when registering or modifying your civic profile.
• You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials and for all activities that occur under your account.
• NearBin uses Google OAuth for secure, passwordless authentication. We never ask for or store your Google password.
• You agree to notify us immediately at eco@earthrelief.in if you suspect any unauthorized access to your account.

4. Civic Reporting Standards & Prohibited Conduct

The integrity of NearBin relies upon honest community participation. As a condition of your use of NearBin, you warrant and agree that you will NOT:

• Submit false, staged, fabricated, or duplicate reports of garbage or litter.
• Upload images that depict private individuals without their consent, lewd or obscene material, harassment, hate speech, or content unrelated to civic waste.
• Mark clean sites as contaminated, or falsely certify contaminated sites as cleaned.
• Trespass onto private property, restricted government compounds, or hazardous zones to photograph garbage.
• Engage in automated scraping, reverse engineering, rate-limit bypassing, or denial-of-service attacks against NearBin APIs or database servers.
• Impersonate any government municipal officer, sanitation supervisor, Safai Mitra, or another citizen.

5. User-Generated Civic Content License

When you submit photos, geographic coordinates, notes, or cleanup proof to NearBin, you retain copyright in your photographs. However, by uploading content to NearBin, you grant Earth Relief India a perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to:

• Display, host, and render your waste report and images publicly on the NearBin community heatmap and civic feeds.
• Transmit coordinates, photos, and timestamps to municipal sanitation departments, urban local bodies (ULBs), and verified recyclers for cleanup execution.
• Aggregate environmental reporting data for public civic research, pollution heatmaps, and open-source civic technology reporting.

6. Swachhata Karma & Civic Gamification

Swachhata Karma points, achievement tiers, and referral bonuses are virtual civic engagement tokens designed solely to encourage community cleanup participation and recognize active citizens.

• Karma points hold no monetary or cash surrender value.
• Points cannot be transferred between accounts, sold, or redeemed for cash unless expressly provided under an official, announced Earth Relief India sponsorship program.
• Earth Relief India reserves the right to audit, adjust, or revoke Karma points resulting from erroneous, duplicate, or fraudulent report verifications.

7. Personal Safety & Hazardous Waste Notice

8. Disclaimers & Municipal Action

NearBin is provided on an "AS-IS" and "AS-AVAILABLE" basis. Earth Relief India is an independent civic innovation initiative and is not the municipal government or local municipal corporation.

• While NearBin routes verified hotspot reports to municipal sanitation departments and local squads, we do not guarantee the specific timeline or execution of trash clearance by municipal agencies.
• Earth Relief India shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages resulting from your use of the platform, community map inaccuracies, or temporary service interruptions.

9. Intellectual Property

The NearBin brand, software, logos, visual design, custom icons, algorithms, and documentation are the proprietary intellectual property of Earth Relief India and its founder, Keshav Singh, protected by applicable copyright, trademark, and intellectual property laws.

10. Governing Law & Dispute Resolution

These Terms & Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of India. Any legal disputes arising out of or related to NearBin shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts located in Gautam Buddha Nagar (Greater Noida / Noida), Uttar Pradesh, India.

11. Contact & Inquiries

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