Important Legal Notice: Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully before accessing, browsing, or utilizing the interactive tools and live chat facilities on Haronabad.com. By visiting or continuing to use this portal, you signify your full, unconditional agreement to be bound by these statutory terms.
1. Binding Acceptance of Agreement
These Terms and Conditions constitute a legally binding agreement between you (whether personally or on behalf of an entity) and Haronabad.com (“we”, “us”, or “our”), concerning your access to and use of the website located at https://haronabad.com/, including any associated sub-pages, mobile viewports, RSS feeds, calculators, and live community communications. If you do not agree with all of these terms, you are expressly prohibited from using the site and must discontinue use immediately.
2. Intellectual Property Rights & Limited License
Unless otherwise indicated, Haronabad.com is our proprietary property. All source code, database architectures, software algorithms, web designs, audio, video, text, photographs, proprietary mandi rate tabulations, and graphics on the site (collectively, the “Content”) and the trademarks, service marks, and logos contained therein (the “Marks”) are owned or controlled by us, and are protected by copyright, trademark, and unfair competition laws under the statutory framework of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and international treaties.
- Permitted Fair Use: You are granted a limited license to access and use the Content for personal, non-commercial, informational, or educational purposes. You may cite short excerpts from our market reports provided that explicit, clickable attribution and hyperlink credit to
https://haronabad.com/is conspicuously displayed. - Prohibited Scraping & Syndication: Systematic retrieval of data, automated web scraping, wholesale database harvesting, or algorithmic syndication of our daily commodity rates without prior written authorization from Haronabad.com is strictly prohibited and constitutes actionable intellectual property infringement.
3. Interactive Live Chat Suite & Citizen Code of Conduct
The Haroonabad Community Live Chat is designed to facilitate constructive local discourse regarding agricultural commodity arrivals, market sentiments, and municipal public affairs. By posting messages to the chat suite, you agree to adhere strictly to the following Acceptable Use Standards:
- Prohibition of Unlawful Conduct: You shall not transmit, post, or distribute any material that is unlawful, defamatory, libellous, threatening, harassing, vulgar, obscene, or racially, ethnically, or religiously offensive under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA 2016).
- Market Manipulation & Fraudulent Rates: Deliberately disseminating fabricated mandi prices, fictitious gold rates, or false procurement announcements intended to manipulate market bidding or defraud local farmers is strictly prohibited.
- Commercial Spam & Unauthorized Links: You may not post unsolicited advertising, promotional spam, affiliate referral schemes, or deceptive hyperlinks within the live chat window.
- Moderation & Law Enforcement Cooperation: Our editorial moderators reserve the absolute statutory right to review, edit, or delete any message, and to terminate or ban IP addresses that violate these guidelines without prior warning. In cases of severe cyber threats or illegal incitement, Haronabad.com cooperates fully with law enforcement agencies and telecommunications authorities.
4. Informational Nature of Agricultural & Economic Benchmarks
All agricultural commodity prices, bullion rates, property estimates, and financial guidelines published on Haronabad.com are provided strictly for educational and informational purposes:
- Spot mandi prices reflect weighted transaction averages recorded during physical auction hours at the Haroonabad Grain Market. Final settlement figures may vary based on moisture testing, cleaning tare deductions, and individual seller-commission agent agreements.
- Haronabad.com does not act as a licensed financial broker, commodity trading advisor, real estate agency, or legal counsel. No formal fiduciary relationship is created by accessing our content.
5. Limitation of Liability
In no event shall Haronabad.com, its directors, editors, correspondents, or technical infrastructure partners be liable to you or any third party for any direct, indirect, exemplary, incidental, special, or punitive damages — including lost profits, lost revenue, crop loss, missed trading opportunities, or damages resulting from reliance on market estimates — arising from your use of the site or inability to access the site.
6. External Regulatory Hyperlinks & Citations
Haronabad.com contains hyperlinks to authoritative third-party platforms, including the Government of the Punjab (punjab.gov.pk), State Bank of Pakistan (sbp.org.pk), Federal Board of Revenue (fbr.gov.pk), and Punjab Land Records Authority (punjab-zameen.gov.pk). These links are provided solely as convenience citations for regulatory research. We exercise no editorial control over the operational uptime or privacy practices of external web domains.
7. Governing Law & Legal Jurisdiction
These Terms and Conditions and your use of Haronabad.com are governed by and construed in accordance with the substantive laws of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the Province of Punjab. Any legal action, dispute, or claim arising out of or related to these terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent Civil and District Courts situated at Tehsil Haroonabad and District Bahawalnagar, Punjab.
8. Modifications to Terms of Service
We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to modify or update these Terms and Conditions at any time. When revisions occur, the updated “Effective Date” will be displayed at the top of this document. Your continued use of the website following the posting of revised terms constitutes your binding acceptance of such changes.