Terms and Conditions

Last Updated: February 2026

PURPOSE:

Merchantnavy-jobs.com is intended only to serve as a preliminary medium of contact and exchange of information for its users / members / visitors who have a bona fide intention to contact and/or be contacted for the purposes related to genuine existing job vacancies and for other career enhancement services.

USE TO BE IN CONFORMITY WITH THE PURPOSE

Merchantnavy-jobs.com (and related products) or service or product that is subscribe to or used (whether the same is paid for by you or not) is meant for the Purpose and only the exclusive use of the subscriber/registered user. Copying or downloading or recreating or sharing passwords or sublicensing or sharing in any manner which is not in accordance with these terms, is a misuse of the platform or service or product and Pionavi reserves its rights to act in such manner as to protect its loss of revenue or reputation or claim damages including stopping your service or access and reporting to relevant authorities. In the event you are found to be copying or misusing or transmitting or crawling any data or photographs or graphics or any information available on Merchantnavy-jobs.com for any purpose other than that being a bonafide Purpose, we reserve the right to take such action that we deem fit including stopping access and claiming damages. The site is a public site with free access and Pionavi assumes no liability for the quality and genuineness of responses. Pionavi Seafarer LLP cannot monitor the responses that a person may receive in response to information he/she has displayed on the site. The individual/company would have to conduct its own background checks on the bonafide nature of all response(s). You give us permission to use the information about actions that you have taken on Merchantnavy-jobs.com in connection with ads, offers and other content (whether sponsored or not) that we display across our services, without any compensation to you. We use data and information about you to make relevant suggestions and recommendation to you and others. The platform may contain links to third party websites, these links are provided solely as convenience to You and the presence of these links should not under any circumstances be considered as an endorsement of the contents of the same, if You chose to access these websites you do so at your own risk. Whilst using this platform an obligation is cast upon you to only provide true and correct information and in the case of creating a profile you undertake to at all times keep the information up to date. Pionavi Seafarer LLP will not be liable on account of any inaccuracy of information on this web site. It is the responsibility of the visitor to further research the information on the site. Any breach of privacy or of the information provided by the consumer to Pionavi Seafarer LLP to be placed on the website by technical or any other means is not the responsibility of Pionavi Seafarer LLP. Pionavi Seafarer LLP does not guarantee confidentiality of information provided to it by any person acquiring/using all/any information displayed on the Merchantnavy-jobs.com website or any of its other websites / domains owned and operated by Pionavi Seafarer LLP. Pionavi Seafarer LLP does not share personally identifiable data of any individual with other companies / entities without obtaining permission except with those acting as our agents. Pionavi Seafarer LLP shall share all such information that it has in its possession in response to legal process, such as a court order or subpoena. The user shall not utilize the services offered by Merchantnavy-jobs.com/Pionavi in any manner so as to impair the interests and functioning of Merchantnavy-jobs.com/Pionavi. The user undertakes not to duplicate, download publish, modify and distribute material on Merchantnavy-jobs.com unless specifically authorized by Pionavi in this regard. The user undertakes to use Merchantnavy-jobs.com for his/her own purposes. Using content from Merchantnavy-jobs.com for derivative works with a commercial motive without prior written consent from Pionavi is strictly prohibited. Users undertake that the services offered by Merchantnavy-jobs.com/Pionavi shall not be utilized to upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available either directly or indirectly, any unsolicited bulk e-mail or unsolicited commercial e-mail. Pionavi reserves the right to filter and monitor and block the emails sent by you/user using the servers maintained by Pionavi to relay emails. All attempts shall be made by Pionavi and the user to abide by International Best Practices in containing and eliminating Spam. Users shall not spam the platform maintained by Merchantnavy-jobs.com/Pionavi or indiscriminately and repeatedly post jobs/forward mail indiscriminately etc. Any conduct of the user in violation of this clause shall entitle Pionavi to forthwith terminate all services to the user without notice and to forfeit any amounts paid by him. The user shall not upload, post, transmit, publish, or distribute any material or information that is unlawful, or which may potentially be perceived as being harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, vulgar, obscene, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable. The user expressly states that the resume/insertion or information/ data being fed into the network of Pionavi Seafarer LLP by the user is correct and complete in all respects and does not contain any false, distorted, manipulated, fraudulent or misleading facts or averments. Pionavi Seafarer LLP expressly disclaims any liability arising out of the said resume insertion/information/ data so fed into the network of Pionavi Seafarer LLP by the user. Further, the user agrees to indemnify Pionavi Seafarer LLP for all losses incurred by Pionavi Seafarer LLP due to any false, distorted, manipulated, defamatory, libelous, vulgar, obscene, fraudulent or misleading facts or otherwise objectionable averments made by the user on the network of Pionavi. The User is solely responsible for maintaining confidentiality of the User password and user identification and all activities and transmission performed by the User through his user identification and shall be solely responsible for carrying out any online or off-line transaction involving credit cards / debit cards or such other forms of instruments or documents for making such transactions and Pionavi Seafarer LLP assumes no responsibility or liability for their improper use of information relating to such usage of credit cards / debit cards used by the subscriber online / off-line. The User/Subscriber/Visitor to Merchantnavy-jobs.com and/or its affiliated websites does hereby specifically agree that he/she shall, at all times, comply with the requirements of the Information Technology Act, 2000 as also rules, regulations, guidelines, bye laws and notifications made thereunder, while assessing or feeding any resume/ insertion or information/data into the computers, computer systems or computer network of Pionavi. The said User/ subscriber/ visitor to Merchantnavy-jobs.com and/or its affiliated websites does further unequivocally declare that in case he violates any provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and/or rules, regulations, guidelines, byelaws and notifications made thereunder, he shall alone be responsible for all his acts, deeds and things and that he alone shall be liable for civil and criminal liability there under or under any other law for the time being in force. The User is solely responsible for obtaining, at his own cost, all licenses, permits, consents, approvals and intellectual property or other rights as may be required by the user for using the Service. THE USER REPRESENTS, WARRANTS AND COVENANTS THAT ITS USE OF MERCHANTNAVY-JOBS.COM SHALL NOT BE DONE IN A MANNER SO AS TO:

1. Access the Platform for purposes of extracting content to be used for training a machine learning or AI model, without the express prior written permission.
2. Violate any applicable local, provincial, state, national or international law, statute, ordinance, rule or regulation;
3. Interfere with or disrupt computer networks connected to Merchantnavy-jobs.com;
4. Impersonate any other person or entity, or make any misrepresentation as to your employment by or affiliation with any other person or entity;
5. Forge headers or in any manner manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any user information;
6. Interfere with or disrupt the use of Merchantnavy-jobs.com by any other user, nor "stalk", threaten, or in any manner harass another user;
7. Use Merchantnavy-jobs.com in such a manner as to gain unauthorized entry or access to the computer systems of others;
8. Reproduce, copy, modify, sell, store, distribute or otherwise exploit for any commercial purposes Merchantnavy-jobs.com, or any component thereof;
9. Use content from the Site for derivative works with a commercial motive without prior written consent of Pionavi;
10. Use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of Merchantnavy-jobs.com;
11. Impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on Merchantnavy-jobs.com infrastructure;
12. Spam Merchantnavy-jobs.com/Pionavi by indiscriminately and repeatedly posting content or forwarding mail that may be considered spam;
13. Access data not intended for you or log into server or account that you are not authorized to access;
14. Constitute an act of reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembling, deciphering or otherwise attempting to derive the source code for the Site or any related technology;
15. Engage in "framing," "mirroring," or otherwise simulating the appearance or function of the Site;
16. Attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network;
17. Use automated means to crawl and/or scrape content from Merchantnavy-jobs.com and to manually scrape content;
18. The Site uses technological means to exclude Robots etc. from crawling it and scraping content. You undertake not to circumvent these methods;
19. Access the Site except through the interfaces expressly provided by Pionavi;
20. Attempt or breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization;
21. Providing deeplinks into Merchantnavy-jobs.com without prior permission of Pionavi is prohibited. Extracting data from Merchantnavy-jobs.com using any automated process such as spiders, crawlers etc. or through any manual process for a purpose which has not been authorised in writing.
22. Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited bulk e-mail or unsolicited commercial e-mail;
23. Subscribers shall under no circumstance sublicense, assign, or transfer the License, and any attempt at such sublicense, assignment or transfer is void.
24. Constitute hosting, modifying, uploading, posting, transmitting, publishing, or distributing any material or information:
    1. For which you do not have all necessary rights and licenses;
    2. Which infringes, violates, breaches or otherwise contravenes the rights of any third party, including any copyright, trademark, patent, rights of privacy or publicity or any other proprietary right;
    3. Which contains a computer virus, or other code, files or programs intending in any manner to disrupt or interfere with the functioning of Merchantnavy-jobs.com, or that of other computer systems;
    4. That is grossly harmful, harassing, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, disparaging, relating to money laundering or unlawful, or which may potentially be perceived as being harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous/blasphemous, vulgar, obscene, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatsoever;
    5. Which constitutes or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to other liability, or otherwise violate applicable law;
    6. That deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of such messages or communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in nature;
    7. That belongs to another person and to which the user does not have any right;
    8. That harms minors in any way;
    9. That threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign states, or public order or causes incitement to the commission of any cognisable offence or prevents investigation of any offence or is insulting any other nation.

The user shall not infringe on any intellectual property rights of any person / entity or retain information / download any information from any computer system or otherwise with an intention to do so.

Pionavi Seafarer LLP will make best efforts but does not warrant that the website or any affiliated site(s) is free of operational errors or harmful components including viruses, worms, or contaminants.

User subscriptions shall be subject to applicable quotas. Email addresses provided must be genuine and accessible only to authorized personnel.

The CLIENT agrees to use only official domain-based email addresses owned by the CLIENT or BENEFICIARY EMPLOYER when registering sub-users or conducting activities on their Merchantnavy-jobs account. Use of non-official domains is strictly prohibited. Pionavi reserves the right to suspend or terminate services if this condition is violated.

Step-up security application

To protect your account and our services, we use automated systems and manual checks to detect unusual activity or outlier behavior. If we identify elevated risk, we may require additional verification. In some cases, you will be asked to install our application on your device to complete verification and regain access. We will inform you in-app or by email/SMS when installation of the application is required, and request your consent to install and grant permissions. If you decline, your access to some or all features may be limited until an alternative verification is completed. The application might require additional authentication may include biometric, photo verification, SMS authentication, and others. We may share limited data with service providers that help deliver the fraud prevention and security checks. If you feel access to your account is limited or denied based on automated processing, you may request human review and contest the decision by contacting our support team, the decision of Pionavi post a human review will be final and binding. You agree to install updates to the application when prompted, keep your device OS up to date, and not interfere with the Platforms security features. SMS authentication: By registering or logging in, you authorize Merchantnavy-jobs.com to send you one-time verification codes and other security-related transactional messages by SMS to the mobile number linked to your log in/account. Message and data rates may apply. Message frequency varies by your use. Delivery is not guaranteed and may be delayed or prevented by your carrier or network conditions. To streamline login, the Merchantnavy-jobs.com application may request permission on your device to read the verification codes we send to you. We process your phone number, OTP verification data, and related technical logs to authenticate you, prevent fraud, and secure your account. You represent that you are the current owner and authorized user of the mobile number provided and will promptly update it if it changes. You are responsible for securing your device and SIM. Do not share verification codes with anyone. SMS delivery may be delayed or fail due to factors outside our control. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. We may suspend or restrict access, or require additional verification, if we detect or suspect fraud, SIM swap, or unauthorized use.

Pionavi Seafarers LLP shall not be liable for any loss or damage sustained by reason of any disclosure (inadvertent or otherwise) of any information concerning the user's account and / or information relating to or regarding online transactions using credit cards / debit cards and / or their verification process and particulars nor for any error, omission or inaccuracy with respect to any information so disclosed and used whether or not in pursuance of a legal process or otherwise.

Payments for the services offered by Merchantnavy-jobs.com shall be on a 100% advance basis. Refund if any will be at the sole discretion of Pionavi. Pionavi offers no guarantees whatsoever for the accuracy or timeliness of the refunds reaching the Customers card/bank accounts. Pionavi gives no guarantees of server uptime or applications working properly. All is on a best effort basis and liability is limited to refund of amount only. Pionavi undertakes no liability for free services. Pionavi reserves its right to amend / alter or change all or any disclaimers or terms of agreements at any time without any prior notice. All terms / disclaimers whether specifically mentioned or not shall be deemed to be included if any reference is made to them.

Unless otherwise specified and notwithstanding anything contained in any other agreement or arrangement, by whatever name called, the performance obligation of Pionavi(service provider) is to provide access of its on-line portal to the customer for the duration of the subscription period & reference to any usage, by whatever name called or any other performance obligation, if any, is to provide the upper limit for consumption, which by itself, does not create any additional performance obligation upon Pionavi.

Pionavi Seafarers LLP further reserves its right to post the data on the website Merchantnavy-jobs.com or on such other affiliated sites and publications as Pionavi Seafarers LLP may deem fit and proper at no extra cost to the subscriber / user.

The subscription / agreement between Pionavi and the subscriber / user is not a "non-poach agreement" nor can the same be termed or used as an alternative to "non-poach agreement" in as much as Pionavi/ Merchantnavy-jobs.com is a public site and all information posted by Pionavi goes to the public domain except information / data which is specifically assigned a non-public / private character

Any agreement for a subscription / usage entered into by Pionavi does not confer exclusivity of service on any subscriber / user.

Pionavi Seafarers LLP will not be party to any legal proceedings between a user (e.g. a subscriber) and a party contracted through the site. In case Pionavi Seafarers LLP is implicated in any legal proceedings, costs will be recovered from the party that names Pionavi Seafarers LLP. Pionavi however will abide with any court order served on it through due process. Pionavi controls and operates this Platform from its headquarters in Kalyan and makes no representation that the materials on Merchantnavy-jobs.com are appropriate or available for use in other locations. If you use this Website from other locations, you are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws including but not limited to the export and import regulations of other countries.

In case a person using the world wide web/internet receives a spam or virus which includes a link to Merchantnavy-jobs.com or to any other site maintained, operated or owned by Pionavi, it should not be held responsible for the same. IEIL assumes no responsibility for such mails.

The services provided by the websites maintained, operated or owned by Pionavi do not extend to acting as an agent (express or implied) on behalf of any subscriber or user.

Pionavi has no agents and does not operate through any agents save for those specifically mentioned on the home page of the website.

The Terms and conditions mentioned above regulate the usage of Merchantnavy-jobs.com. Any person using Merchantnavy-jobs.com in violation of the stipulations contained in the Terms and Conditions of Merchantnavy-jobs.com shall render himself/herself liable to appropriate action in a court of law both civil and criminal.

BY ACCEPTING THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY AND OTHERWISE HOLD HARMLESS PIONAVI, ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYERS, AGENTS, SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES AND OTHER PARTNERS FROM ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF, RELATING TO, OR RESULTING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES OBTAINED THROUGH MERCHANTNAVY-JOBS.COM INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO INFORMATION PROVIDED BY YOU OR ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO MERCHANTNAVY-JOBS.COM. ANY REFERENCE TO DUTIES AND TAXES ETC IN THESE TERMS OF USE SHALL INCLUDE GOODS AND SERVICES TAX (HEREIN REFERRED AS GST) FROM THE DATE GST LAW IS IMPLEMENTED IN INDIA. ANY ADDITIONAL TAX LIABILITY ARISING ON ACCOUNT OF INTRODUCTION OF GST (WHETHER ON ACCOUNT OF INCREASE IN RATE OR ANY CHANGE BROUGHT IN BY THE NEW TAX REGIME) WOULD BE RECOVERED OVER AND ABOVE THE AGREED CONTRACT PRICE / SERVICE FEE.

If any dispute arises between a user/users and Pionavi arising out of use of Merchantnavy-jobs.com or thereafter, in connection with the validity, interpretation, implementation or alleged breach of any provision of these Terms and Conditions, the dispute shall be referred to a sole arbitrator who shall be an independent and neutral third party identified by the Company. Decision of the arbitrator shall be final and binding on both the parties to the dispute. The place of arbitration shall be Kalyan, India. The Arbitration & Conciliation Act, 1996 as amended, shall govern the arbitration proceedings.

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by the laws of Republic of India. The exclusive forum for any disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms of Use shall be a court of law located in Kalyan, India.

Pionavi and Pionavi Seafarers LLP are used interchangeably and are synonymous. The user of Merchantnavy-jobs.com is subject to the Privacy Policy available through this link.

In case of non compliance of these Terms and Conditions or Privacy Policy Pionavi may terminate usage rights and take down any offending information that might have been upoloaded by such subscriber/user

ADDITIONALLY, BASIS SERVICES CHOSEN, CERTAIN PRODUCT/SERVICE SPECIFIC CONDITIONS MAY APPLY.

Job Seekers & Recruiters

Applications by Non Registered Users

• The user undertakes that the data/information being provided by him/her in the resume is true and correct in all respects.
• Pionavi Seafarers LLP does not share personally identifiable data of any individual with other companies/entities without obtaining permission. Pionavi Seafarers LLP may share all such information that it has in its possession for its own purposes including sending promotional mailers etc and in response to legal process, such as a court order or subpoena.
• The user undertakes that he/she will not disseminate false/objectionable/offensive material using these services.
• This interface shall be exclusively for the purposes of bona fide job applications; usage of the interface in any other fashion is strictly prohibited.
• Pionavi neither guarantees nor offers any warranty about the credentials bonafides, status or otherwise of the prospective employer/organization which downloads the resume/ insertion or information/data and uses it to contact the user.
• The user shall not infringe on any intellectual property rights of any person/entity or retain information/download any information from any computer system or otherwise with an intention to do so.
• The User/subscriber/visitor to Merchantnavy-jobs.com or affiliated site(s) is prohibited from introducing/posting or transmitting information or software, which contains a computer virus, or a contaminant, worm or other harmful components on the internet or on Merchantnavy-jobs.com site or sub-domains or on any affiliate sites or any other network system
• Pionavi Seafarers LLP will not be party to any legal proceedings between a user (e.g. a subscriber) and a party contracted through the site. In case Pionavi Seafarers LLP is implicated in any legal proceedings, costs will be recovered from the party that names Pionavi Seafarers LLP. Pionavi however will abide with any court order served on it through due process.
• When you indicate your interest in a Job Listing on Merchantnavy-jobs.com, you are sending your CV and application information including relevant documents to Merchantnavy-jobs.com, and you are requesting and authorizing Merchantnavy-jobs.com to make available such application information to the applicable Employer(s) for such Job Listing(s).
• In addition, by using Merchantnavy-jobs.com, you agree that Merchantnavy-jobs.com is not responsible for the content of the Employer's application form, messages, screener questions, testing assessments; required documents, or their format or method of delivery.
• You consent to your application, documents and any responses sent to you by the Employer or vice versa through Merchantnavy-jobs.com being processed and analysed by Merchantnavy-jobs.com according to these terms of use and Merchantnavy-jobs.com 's Privacy Policy. Merchantnavy-jobs.com shall store and process such information regardless of whether a job vacancy has been filled. Merchantnavy-jobs.com may use your application materials (including public CVs and responses to employer's questions) to determine whether you may be interested in a Job Listing, and Merchantnavy-jobs.com may reach out to you about such Job Listing.
• Information you post in public areas of Merchantnavy-jobs.com sites or applications or make visible in the resume and profile database may be accessed, used, and stored by others around the world, including those in countries that might not have legislation that guarantees adequate protection of personal information as defined by your country of residence. While Merchantnavy-jobs.com takes measures to safeguard your information from unauthorized access or inappropriate use, Merchantnavy-jobs.com does not control these third parties and we are not responsible for their use of information you give to us. Accordingly, you should not post sensitive information or any other information you would not want made public, to any portion of Merchantnavy-jobs.com or application or to a public website.

As a jobseeker, you expressly acknowledge that communications sent to or received from employers via the Platform may be reviewed or routed through Merchantnavy-jobs.com-controlled systems for the limited purposes stated above. In some instances, your contact information (such as phone number or email address) may be masked or anonymized to protect you from misuse or unauthorized access. You may receive calls or messages from employers through masked identifiers, and you may not be able to respond directly unless the employer chooses to disclose their actual contact details.

You understand and agree that such mechanisms are intended to safeguard your interests, prevent exploitation or fraud, and maintain the integrity of the recruitment process facilitated through the Platform. However, this does not imply that Merchantnavy-jobs.com undertakes to actively monitor or take action against every instance of potential misuse. Jobseekers are encouraged to proactively report any concerns or violations by using the "Support" feature available on the Platform or by raising a formal grievance through the designated grievance redressal mechanism provided on the website.

Recruiter

Additional Terms applicable to Recruiters "You" accessing any portion of the website Merchantnavy-jobs.com:

ANTI SPAM POLICY

The use and access to Merchantnavy-jobs.com database is subject to this policy. The services provided to you are aimed at providing recruitment solutions and should be restricted to contacting suitable candidates for genuine jobs in existence.

Mailing practices such as transmitting marketing and promotional mailers/ Offensive messages/ messages with misleading subject lines in order to intentionally obfuscate the original message, are strictly prohibited.

We reserve the right to terminate services, without prior notice, to the originator of Spam. No refund shall be admissible under such circumstances.

Following is an illustrative (not exhaustive) list of the kinds of messages which can be classified as spam:

You acknowledge and agree that certain communications transmitted, exchanged, or facilitated through systems controlled or operated by Pionavi, including, without limitation, messages, emails, chats, and telephonic interactions may be subject to limited review, routing, or filtering by Pionavi solely for the purpose of identifying, investigating, and acting upon any actual or suspected misuse of the Platform, including misuse of jobseeker data, and for detecting and preventing fraudulent, unlawful, or abusive conduct.

Such activities are undertaken by Pionavi in its capacity as an intermediary under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules framed thereunder, particularly the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, for the purpose of exercising due diligence and discharging its obligations thereunder.

Accordingly, Pionavi may, without prior notice:

Note: The terms in this agreement may be changed by Pionavi at any time. Pionavi is free to offer its services to any client/prospective client without restriction.