Terms & Conditions
Last Updated: September 5, 2026
Welcome to Operation Shuddhi.
These Terms & Conditions (“Terms”, “Terms and Conditions”) govern your access to and use of the website https://opshuddhi.org/ (“Website”) and the services, information, tools, forms, features, and resources made available through it.
The Website is operated by Operation Shuddhi (“Operation Shuddhi”, “we”, “us”, or “our”).
By accessing, browsing, or using this Website, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree with any part of these Terms, please discontinue use of the Website.
1. About Operation Shuddhi
Operation Shuddhi is a plastic waste recovery and circular economy mission focused on building a structured, technology-enabled and traceable plastic recovery ecosystem.
Our activities may include, among other things:
- Plastic waste collection and recovery
- Collection-centre development and network management
- Waste segregation and aggregation
- Recycling and circular-economy initiatives
- Community and citizen participation
- Environmental awareness and education
- Partnerships with organisations, institutions, businesses, collection centres and other stakeholders
- Digital traceability and technology-enabled waste management
- Support for EPR-related ecosystem activities
- Promotion of responsible plastic consumption and recovery
The Website provides information about these initiatives and may facilitate communication and participation by individuals and organisations.
2. Acceptance of These Terms
By accessing or using the Website, you confirm that:
- You have read and understood these Terms.
- You agree to comply with these Terms.
- You will use the Website only for lawful purposes.
- The information you provide to us is accurate and not misleading.
- You will not use the Website in a manner that may harm Operation Shuddhi, its partners, users, systems, or other stakeholders.
If you are using the Website on behalf of an organisation, company, institution, or other entity, you represent that you have the authority to accept these Terms on its behalf.
3. Website Use
You may use the Website for legitimate purposes, including to:
- Learn about Operation Shuddhi
- Learn about plastic waste recovery and recycling
- Find or enquire about collection centres
- Submit enquiries
- Explore partnership opportunities
- Volunteer or participate in Operation Shuddhi
- Request information about collection or recovery activities
- Access educational and informational content
- Contact Operation Shuddhi
- Access other features made available through the Website
You must not use the Website for any unlawful, fraudulent, abusive, deceptive, or unauthorised purpose.
4. Prohibited Activities
You agree not to:
- Use the Website for any illegal purpose.
- Submit false, misleading, fraudulent, or impersonated information.
- Attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Website or its systems.
- Interfere with the operation or security of the Website.
- Introduce viruses, malware, malicious code, or harmful software.
- Attempt to access another person’s account or information without authorisation.
- Scrape, copy, harvest, or systematically extract Website data without our written permission.
- Use automated systems, bots, crawlers, or scripts in a manner that places an unreasonable burden on our infrastructure.
- Reproduce or commercially exploit Website content without permission.
- Misrepresent your relationship with Operation Shuddhi.
- Use Operation Shuddhi’s name, branding, logos, or intellectual property without appropriate authorisation.
- Use the Website to distribute spam, unsolicited advertising, or malicious communications.
- Interfere with collection-centre information, listings, maps, forms, or other Website functionality.
- Attempt to circumvent security, authentication, access controls, or other technical restrictions.
We reserve the right to restrict or terminate access where we reasonably believe these Terms have been violated.
5. Website Information and Content
The information available on the Website is provided primarily for general informational, educational, awareness, and operational purposes.
While we make reasonable efforts to keep information accurate and current, we do not guarantee that all content will always be:
- Complete
- Accurate
- Current
- Error-free
- Available
- Suitable for a particular purpose
Information may change without notice.
This includes information relating to:
- Collection centres
- Collection availability
- Recycling activities
- Environmental impact
- EPR
- Regulatory developments
- Plastic recovery
- Recycling technologies
- Market information
- Statistics
- Environmental claims
- Partnerships
- Programmes and initiatives
You should independently verify important information before relying on it for commercial, regulatory, legal, financial, or operational decisions.
6. Collection Centre Locator
The Website may provide a locator or map showing collection centres or other relevant locations.
The information displayed through the locator may include location, address, operating details, contact information, services, or other relevant information.
Collection-centre information may change from time to time.
Operation Shuddhi does not guarantee that:
- Every listed centre will always be operational.
- A centre will accept every type of plastic or material.
- A centre will be open at the time of your visit.
- Collection services will always be available.
- Information displayed on the locator will always be completely accurate or current.
Users are encouraged to verify availability and operating details before travelling to a collection centre.
7. Collection and Waste Recovery Services
Where Operation Shuddhi or its authorised partners facilitate collection or recovery activities, the availability, scope, timing, location, material acceptance criteria, and other conditions may vary depending on the specific programme, location, partner, and operational capacity.
Submission of a collection request or enquiry does not automatically guarantee:
- Collection
- Acceptance of material
- A specific collection date or time
- A specific collection quantity
- A particular recovery or recycling outcome
Operation Shuddhi or the relevant collection partner may refuse, reschedule, modify, or cancel a collection request where operational, safety, material-quality, regulatory, logistical, or other legitimate reasons apply.
8. Material Acceptance
Not all materials are necessarily suitable for collection, recovery, aggregation, or recycling through Operation Shuddhi.
Acceptance may depend on factors including:
- Material type
- Material condition
- Contamination
- Quantity
- Location
- Safety considerations
- Applicable laws and regulations
- Available processing or recycling infrastructure
- Requirements of relevant recycling partners
Users should not assume that submission of a material automatically means that the material will be accepted or recycled.
9. Partnerships and Participation
Operation Shuddhi may allow individuals, businesses, institutions, RWAs, collection centres, recyclers, organisations, volunteers, and other stakeholders to express interest in participating in its initiatives.
Submitting a partnership, volunteer, collection-centre, or participation form does not automatically create a partnership, agency, employment relationship, franchise, joint venture, or other contractual relationship.
Any formal relationship will be subject to separate written agreements where required.
Operation Shuddhi reserves the right to evaluate, accept, reject, suspend, or terminate participation or partnership requests at its discretion, subject to applicable law and any applicable contractual obligations.
10. EPR and Regulatory Information
The Website may contain information relating to Extended Producer Responsibility (“EPR”), plastic waste management, recycling, compliance, environmental regulations, certificates, credits, traceability, and related matters.
Such information is provided for general informational purposes and should not be treated as legal, regulatory, tax, financial, or compliance advice.
Laws, regulations, rules, government notifications, standards, and regulatory requirements may change.
Businesses and other stakeholders remain responsible for independently determining their own legal and regulatory obligations and obtaining professional advice where appropriate.
Operation Shuddhi does not guarantee that participation in any particular programme, recovery activity, or service will by itself satisfy every legal, regulatory, EPR, reporting, or compliance requirement applicable to a user.
11. Environmental and Impact Claims
Operation Shuddhi may publish information regarding:
- Plastic recovered
- Recycling
- Environmental impact
- Economic value
- Employment and livelihoods
- Carbon or climate impact
- Circular economy outcomes
- EPR-related activities
- Collection network growth
- Social or community impact
Such figures and claims may be based on available records, estimates, third-party information, methodologies, projections, or other sources.
Unless expressly stated otherwise, projected, estimated, or future figures are not guarantees of future results.
Actual environmental, economic, social, recycling, or recovery outcomes may vary.
12. Third-Party Websites and Services
The Website may contain links, integrations, maps, communication tools, social-media links, or other features provided by third parties.
These may include services used for:
- Maps and location services
- Messaging
- Social media
- Analytics
- Hosting
- Forms
- Payment processing, where applicable
- Other third-party functionality
Third-party services are governed by their respective terms and privacy policies.
Operation Shuddhi does not control and is not responsible for:
- Availability of third-party services
- Third-party content
- Third-party privacy practices
- Third-party security
- Third-party terms
- Actions or omissions of third-party service providers
Your use of third-party services is at your own discretion and risk.
13. Intellectual Property
Unless otherwise stated, all content available on the Website, including:
- Operation Shuddhi name and branding
- Logos
- Text
- Graphics
- Photographs
- Videos
- Illustrations
- Icons
- Website design
- Layout
- Original articles
- Reports
- Infographics
- Digital materials
- Software and Website functionality
is owned by, licensed to, or used with permission by Operation Shuddhi and may be protected by applicable intellectual property laws.
You may access and view Website content for personal, informational, and non-commercial purposes.
You must not reproduce, modify, distribute, publish, sell, license, commercially exploit, or create derivative works from Website content without prior written permission, except where permitted by applicable law.
14. User-Submitted Information and Content
If you submit information, photographs, documents, testimonials, feedback, suggestions, or other material through the Website, you represent that:
- You have the right to provide such material.
- The material does not violate applicable law.
- The material does not infringe the rights of another person.
- The material is not fraudulent, defamatory, malicious, or misleading.
- The material does not contain unauthorised confidential information.
You grant Operation Shuddhi permission to use submitted information to the extent reasonably necessary to process your request, provide relevant services, communicate with you, operate our initiatives, and improve our programmes, subject to our Privacy Policy and applicable law.
Where separate consent is required for public use of photographs, testimonials, or other content, we will seek such consent where appropriate.
15. Privacy
Your use of the Website may involve the collection and processing of personal information.
Our handling of personal information is governed by our Privacy Policy, which forms an important part of these Terms.
By using the Website, you acknowledge that you have reviewed our Privacy Policy.
16. Website Availability
We aim to keep the Website available and functional, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free access.
The Website may occasionally be unavailable due to:
- Maintenance
- Updates
- Technical failures
- Hosting issues
- Cybersecurity incidents
- Internet or network failures
- Third-party service interruptions
- Force majeure events
- Other circumstances beyond our reasonable control
We reserve the right to modify, suspend, discontinue, or restrict any part of the Website without prior notice where reasonably necessary.
17. Disclaimer of Warranties
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Website and its content are provided on an “as available” and “as is” basis.
Operation Shuddhi does not make warranties that:
- The Website will always be available.
- The Website will be completely secure.
- Website content will always be accurate or current.
- The Website will be free from errors or interruptions.
- A particular service or feature will always be available.
- Information obtained through the Website will meet your specific requirements.
- Any particular environmental, financial, commercial, regulatory, or operational outcome will be achieved.
You use the Website at your own discretion and risk.
18. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Operation Shuddhi and its officers, employees, representatives, partners, service providers, affiliates, and associated personnel shall not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from or related to:
- Your use or inability to use the Website
- Reliance on Website information
- Errors or omissions in Website content
- Unavailability of the Website
- Third-party websites or services
- Collection-centre information
- Changes to programmes or services
- Loss of data
- Unauthorised access beyond our reasonable control
- Any other matter arising from your use of the Website
Nothing in these Terms is intended to exclude or limit liability that cannot legally be excluded or limited under applicable law.
19. Indemnification
To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Operation Shuddhi, its officers, employees, representatives, partners, and service providers from claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, and expenses arising from:
- Your violation of these Terms
- Your unlawful use of the Website
- Your misuse of Website content
- Your violation of another person’s rights
- Information or content submitted by you
- Fraudulent or misleading information provided by you
- Your violation of applicable laws or regulations
20. Suspension and Termination
We may suspend or terminate your access to the Website or specific features if:
- You violate these Terms.
- Your activity creates a security or operational risk.
- Your activity is unlawful or fraudulent.
- Your activity harms Operation Shuddhi or another person.
- Required by law or a competent authority.
- We discontinue the relevant Website feature or service.
Termination of access does not affect rights or obligations that accrued before termination.
21. Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time.
Changes may be made to reflect:
- New services or Website features
- Changes in our operations
- Changes in applicable law
- Changes in technology
- Changes in our programmes or partnerships
- Security or operational requirements
The updated version will be published on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date.
Your continued use of the Website after changes are published constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
22. Governing Law
These Terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of India.
Any dispute arising from or relating to these Terms or your use of the Website shall be subject to the applicable jurisdiction of the courts and authorities in India, subject to applicable law.
23. Severability
If any provision of these Terms is determined to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, that provision shall be interpreted or modified to the extent necessary to make it enforceable where legally possible.
The remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect.
24. Entire Agreement
These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any other policies or terms expressly incorporated by reference, constitute the understanding between you and Operation Shuddhi regarding your use of the Website.
Additional terms may apply to specific services, programmes, partnerships, transactions, or activities and may be provided separately.
25. Contact Us
If you have questions regarding these Terms & Conditions, you may contact us at:
Operation Shuddhi
Email: team@opshuddhi.org
Phone: +91 98990 86555
Address:
A-7/36-39, South of G.T. Road Industrial Areas,
Opp. Rathi Udyog Limited, Vijay Nagar,
Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh – 201009, India.
For legal or Terms-related enquiries, please mention “Terms & Conditions” in the subject line of your email.
26. Acknowledgement
By accessing or using https://opshuddhi.org/, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to these Terms & Conditions.
Operation Shuddhi
From Waste to Wealth
