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Terms & Conditions

Please read these terms carefully before accessing or utilizing our historical newspaper proxy archive service.

Last Updated: April 16, 2026

Welcome to TempRef. By accessing, browsing, or utilizing our proxy archive service, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and explicitly agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree with any provision outlined here, you must immediately cease utilizing our platform.

1. Service Mandate

Our architecture provides proxy access to historical and daily newspapers solely for educational and academic research purposes. The curated archives are tailored exclusively for students, researchers, and civil service (UPSC/PCS) aspirants.

2. User Eligibility

By utilizing TempRef, you warrant that you are at least 13 years of age. Accessing the platform under the age of 13 requires explicit consent and active supervision from a legal parent or guardian.

3. Usage Guidelines & Restrictions

Acceptable Utilization

  • Personal consumption for competitive exam preparation.
  • Academic citation and historical research referencing.
  • Offline reading strictly for individual educational enrichment.

Strictly Prohibited

  • Commercial redistribution or reselling of archival PDFs.
  • Deploying automated bots/scrapers to mass-download the database.
  • Bypassing system security or manipulating proxy URL structures.
  • Removing original watermarks or publisher attribution.

4. Intellectual Property Rights

TempRef functions strictly as an aggregator and proxy archive under Fair Use guidelines. All newspaper contents, brand names, and intellectual properties remain the exclusive property of their respective publishers. We claim zero ownership over the syndicated files distributed through our reference links.

5. Account & Access Termination

We reserve the absolute right to terminate, throttle, or permanently suspend your access (via IP blocking) to the TempRef network immediately, without prior notice, if we detect abusive traffic, commercial exploitation, or any violation of these terms.

6. Governing Law

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India. Any legal discrepancies or platform-related disputes shall fall exclusively under Indian judicial jurisdiction, disregarding conflict of law provisions.

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Important Publisher Notice

We highly encourage our users to champion ethical journalism by subscribing to official newspaper services for breaking news and daily content. Our archive is maintained strictly for retroactive educational analysis.