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In short they are saying:We joined Facebook in 2014. WhatsApp is now part of the Facebook family of companies. Our Privacy Policy explains how we work together to improve our services and offerings, like fighting spam across apps, making product suggestions, and showing relevant offers and ads on Facebook. Nothing you share on WhatsApp, including your messages, photos, and account information, will be shared onto Facebook or any of our other family of apps for others to see, and nothing you post on those apps will be shared on WhatsApp for others to see.Your messages are yours, and we can’t read them. We’ve built privacy, end-to-end encryption, and other security features into WhatsApp. We don’t store your messages once they’ve been delivered. When they are end-to-end encrypted, we and third parties can’t read them.We joined the Facebook family of companies in 2014. As part of the Facebook family of companies, WhatsApp receives information from, and shares information with, this family of companies. We may use the information we receive from them, and they may use the information we share with them, to help operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services and their offerings. This includes helping improve infrastructure and delivery systems, understanding how our Services or theirs are used, securing systems, and fighting spam, abuse, or infringement activities. Facebook and the other companies in the Facebook family also may use information from us to improve your experiences within their services such as making product suggestions (for example, of friends or connections, or of interesting content) and showing relevant offers and ads. However, your WhatsApp messages will not be shared onto Facebook for others to see. In fact, Facebook will not use your WhatsApp messages for any purpose other than to assist us in operating and providing our Services.The rest of the terms and conditions is below. I just removed tick from the checkbox and pressed “Agree”. So they won’t share anything…Key UpdatesTerms of Service · Privacy PolicyRespect for your privacy is coded into our DNA. Since we started WhatsApp, we’ve built our Services with a set of strong privacy principles in mind. In our updated Terms and Privacy Policy you’ll find:Information that is easier to understand. Our updated Terms and Privacy Policy are easier to understand and reflect new features such as WhatsApp Calling and WhatsApp for web and desktop.We joined Facebook in 2014. WhatsApp is now part of the Facebook family of companies. Our Privacy Policy explains how we work together to improve our services and offerings, like fighting spam across apps, making product suggestions, and showing relevant offers and ads on Facebook. Nothing you share on WhatsApp, including your messages, photos, and account information, will be shared onto Facebook or any of our other family of apps for others to see, and nothing you post on those apps will be shared on WhatsApp for others to see.Your messages are yours, and we can’t read them. We’ve built privacy, end-to-end encryption, and other security features into WhatsApp. We don’t store your messages once they’ve been delivered. When they are end-to-end encrypted, we and third parties can’t read them.No third-party banner ads. We still do not allow third-party banner ads on WhatsApp.New ways to use WhatsApp. We will explore ways for you and businesses to communicate with each other using WhatsApp, such as through order, transaction, and appointment information, delivery and shipping notifications, product and service updates, and marketing. For example, you may receive flight status information for upcoming travel, a receipt for something you purchased, or a notification when a delivery will be made. Messages you may receive containing marketing could include an offer for something that might interest you. We do not want you to have a spammy experience; as with all of your messages, you can manage these communications, and we will honor the choices you make.The choices you have. If you are an existing user, you can choose not to have your WhatsApp account information shared with Facebook to improve your Facebook ads and products experiences. Existing users who accept our updated Terms and Privacy Policy will have an additional 30 days to make this choice by going to Settings > Account.WhatsApp Terms Of ServiceLast modified: August 25, 2016 (archived versions)WhatsApp Inc. (“WhatsApp,” “our,” “we,” or “us”) provides messaging, Internet calling, and other services to users around the world. Please read our Terms of Service so you understand what’s up with your use of WhatsApp. You agree to our Terms of Service (“Terms”) by installing, accessing, or using our apps, services, features, software, or website (together, “Services”).NO ACCESS TO EMERGENCY SERVICES: There are important differences between WhatsApp and your mobile and fixed-line telephone and SMS services. Our Services do not provide access to emergency services or emergency services providers, including the police, fire departments, or hospitals, or otherwise connect to public safety answering points. You should ensure you can contact your relevant emergency services providers through a mobile, fixed-line telephone, or other service.IF YOU ARE A WHATSAPP USER LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES OR CANADA, OUR TERMS CONTAIN A BINDING ARBITRATION PROVISION, WHICH STATES THAT, EXCEPT IF YOU OPT OUT AND EXCEPT FOR CERTAIN TYPES OF DISPUTES, WHATSAPP AND YOU AGREE TO RESOLVE ALL DISPUTES THROUGH BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION, WHICH MEANS THAT YOU WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO HAVE THOSE DISPUTES DECIDED BY A JUDGE OR JURY, AND THAT YOU WAIVE YOUR RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN CLASS ACTIONS, CLASS ARBITRATIONS, OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTIONS. PLEASE READ THE “SPECIAL ARBITRATION PROVISION FOR UNITED STATES OR CANADA USERS” SECTION BELOW TO LEARN MORE.About our servicesRegistration. You must register for our Services using accurate data, provide your current mobile phone number, and, if you change it, update this mobile phone number using our in-app change number feature. You agree to receive text messages and phone calls (from us or our third-party providers) with codes to register for our Services.Address Book. You provide us the phone numbers of WhatsApp users and your other contacts in your mobile phone address book on a regular basis. You confirm you are authorized to provide us such numbers to allow us to provide our Services.Age. You must be at least 13 years old to use our Services (or such greater age required in your country for you to be authorized to use our Services without parental approval). In addition to being of the minimum required age to use our Services under applicable law, if you are not old enough to have authority to agree to our Terms in your country, your parent or guardian must agree to our Terms on your behalf.Devices and Software. You must provide certain devices, software, and data connections to use our Services, which we otherwise do not supply. For as long as you use our Services, you consent to downloading and installing updates to our Services, including automatically.Fees and Taxes. You are responsible for all carrier data plan and other fees and taxes associated with your use of our Services. We may charge you for our Services, including applicable taxes. We may refuse or cancel orders. We do not provide refunds for our Services, except as required by law.Privacy policy and user dataWhatsApp cares about your privacy. WhatsApp’s Privacy Policy describes our information (including message) practices, including the types of information we receive and collect from you and how we use and share this information. You agree to our data practices, including the collection, use, processing, and sharing of your information as described in our Privacy Policy, as well as the transfer and processing of your information to the United States and other countries globally where we have or use facilities, service providers, or partners, regardless of where you use our Services. You acknowledge that the laws, regulations, and standards of the country in which your information is stored or processed may be different from those of your own country.Acceptable use of our servicesOur Terms and Policies. You must use our Services according to our Terms and posted policies. If we disable your account for a violation of our Terms, you will not create another account without our permission.Legal and Acceptable Use. You must access and use our Services only for legal, authorized, and acceptable purposes. You will not use (or assist others in using) our Services in ways that: (a) violate, misappropriate, or infringe the rights of WhatsApp, our users, or others, including privacy, publicity, intellectual property, or other proprietary rights; (b) are illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, intimidating, harassing, hateful, racially, or ethnically offensive, or instigate or encourage conduct that would be illegal, or otherwise inappropriate, including promoting violent crimes; (c) involve publishing falsehoods, misrepresentations, or misleading statements; (d) impersonate someone; (e) involve sending illegal or impermissible communications such as bulk messaging, auto-messaging, auto-dialing, and the like; or (f) involve any non-personal use of our Services unless otherwise authorized by us.Harm to WhatsApp or Our Users. You must not (or assist others to) access, use, copy, adapt, modify, prepare derivative works based upon, distribute, license, sublicense, transfer, display, perform, or otherwise exploit our Services in impermissible or unauthorized manners, or in ways that burden, impair, or harm us, our Services, systems, our users, or others, including that you must not directly or through automated means: (a) reverse engineer, alter, modify, create derivative works from, decompile, or extract code from our Services; (b) send, store, or transmit viruses or other harmful computer code through or onto our Services; (c) gain or attempt to gain unauthorized access to our Services or systems; (d) interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of our Services; (e) create accounts for our Services through unauthorized or automated means; (f) collect the information of or about our users in any impermissible or unauthorized manner; (g) sell, resell, rent, or charge for our Services; or (h) distribute or make our Services available over a network where they could be used by multiple devices at the same time.Keeping Your Account Secure. You are responsible for keeping your device and your WhatsApp account safe and secure, and you must notify us promptly of any unauthorized use or security breach of your account or our Services.Third-party servicesOur Services may allow you to access, use, or interact with third-party websites, apps, content, and other products and services. For example, you may choose to use third-party data backup services (such as iCloud or Google Drive) that are integrated with our Services or interact with a share button on a third party’s website that enables you to send information to your WhatsApp contacts. Please note that when you use third-party services, their own terms and privacy policies will govern your use of those services.LicensesYour Rights. WhatsApp does not claim ownership of the information that you submit for your WhatsApp account or through our Services. You must have the necessary rights to such information that you submit for your WhatsApp account or through our Services and the right to grant the rights and licenses in our Terms.WhatsApp’s Rights. We own all copyrights, trademarks, domains, logos, trade dress, trade secrets, patents, and other intellectual property rights associated with our Services. You may not use our copyrights, trademarks, domains, logos, trade dress, patents, and other intellectual property rights unless you have our express permission and except in accordance with our Brand Guidelines. You may use the trademarks Facebook 商標清單 - Facebook 品牌資源 of our affiliated companies only with their permission, including as authorized in any published brand guidelines.Your License to WhatsApp. In order to operate and provide our Services, you grant WhatsApp a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works of, display, and perform the information (including the content) that you upload, submit, store, send, or receive on or through our Services. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating and providing our Services (such as to allow us to display your profile picture and status message, transmit your messages, store your undelivered messages on our servers for up to 30 days as we try to deliver them, and otherwise as described in our Privacy Policy).WhatsApp’s License to You. We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, and non-transferable license to use our Services, subject to and in accordance with our Terms. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling you to use our Services, in the manner permitted by our Terms. No licenses or rights are granted to you by implication or otherwise, except for the licenses and rights expressly granted to you.Reporting third-party copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property infringementTo report claims of third-party copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property infringement, please visit our Intellectual Property Policy. We may terminate your WhatsApp account if you repeatedly infringe the intellectual property rights of others.DisclaimersYOU USE OUR SERVICES AT YOUR OWN RISK AND SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING DISCLAIMERS. WE ARE PROVIDING OUR SERVICES ON AN “AS IS” BASIS WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND FREEDOM FROM COMPUTER VIRUS OR OTHER HARMFUL CODE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED BY US IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, OR USEFUL, THAT OUR SERVICES WILL BE OPERATIONAL, ERROR FREE, SECURE, OR SAFE, OR THAT OUR SERVICES WILL FUNCTION WITHOUT DISRUPTIONS, DELAYS, OR IMPERFECTIONS. WE DO NOT CONTROL, AND ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR, CONTROLLING HOW OR WHEN OUR USERS USE OUR SERVICES OR THE FEATURES, SERVICES, AND INTERFACES OUR SERVICES PROVIDE. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR AND ARE NOT OBLIGATED TO CONTROL THE ACTIONS OR INFORMATION (INCLUDING CONTENT) OF OUR USERS OR OTHER THIRD PARTIES. YOU RELEASE US, OUR SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, AND OUR AND THEIR DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, PARTNERS, AND AGENTS (TOGETHER, THE “WHATSAPP PARTIES”) FROM ANY CLAIM, COMPLAINT, CAUSE OF ACTION, CONTROVERSY, OR DISPUTE (TOGETHER, “CLAIM”) AND DAMAGES, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, RELATING TO, ARISING OUT OF, OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH ANY SUCH CLAIM YOU HAVE AGAINST ANY THIRD PARTIES. YOU WAIVE ANY RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE UNDER CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE §1542, OR ANY OTHER SIMILAR APPLICABLE STATUTE OR LAW OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION, WHICH SAYS THAT: A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR.Limitation of liabilityTHE WHATSAPP PARTIES WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY LOST PROFITS OR CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, INDIRECT, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES RELATING TO, ARISING OUT OF, OR IN ANY WAY IN CONNECTION WITH OUR TERMS, US, OR OUR SERVICES, EVEN IF THE WHATSAPP PARTIES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY RELATING TO, ARISING OUT OF, OR IN ANY WAY IN CONNECTION WITH OUR TERMS, US, OR OUR SERVICES WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100) OR THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID US IN THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS. THE FOREGOING DISCLAIMER OF CERTAIN DAMAGES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY WILL APPLY TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. THE LAWS OF SOME STATES OR JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES, SO SOME OR ALL OF THE EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS SET FORTH ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY IN OUR TERMS, IN SUCH CASES, THE LIABILITY OF THE WHATSAPP PARTIES WILL BE LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.IndemnificationYou agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the WhatsApp Parties from and against all liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses of any kind (including reasonable legal fees and costs) relating to, arising out of, or in any way in connection with any of the following: (a) your access to or use of our Services, including information provided in connection therewith; (b) your breach or alleged breach of our Terms; or (c) any misrepresentation made by you. You will cooperate as fully as required by us in the defense or settlement of any Claim.Dispute resolutionForum and Venue. If you are a WhatsApp user located in the United States or Canada, the “Special Arbitration Provision for United States or Canada Users” section below applies to you. Please also read that section carefully and completely. If you are not subject to the “Special Arbitration Provision for United States or Canada Users” section below, you agree that you will resolve any Claim you have with us relating to, arising out of, or in any way in connection with our Terms, us, or our Services (each, a “Dispute,” and together, “Disputes”) exclusively in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California or a state court located in San Mateo County in California, and you agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purpose of litigating all such Disputes.Governing Law. The laws of the State of California govern our Terms, as well as any Disputes, whether in court or arbitration, which might arise between WhatsApp and you, without regard to conflict of law provisions.Availability and termination of our servicesAvailability of Our Services. Our Services may be interrupted, including for maintenance, repairs, upgrades, or network or equipment failures. We may discontinue some or all of our Services, including certain features and the support for certain devices and platforms, at any time. Events beyond our control may affect our Services, such as events in nature and other force majeure events.Termination. We may modify, suspend, or terminate your access to or use of our Services anytime for any reason, such as if you violate the letter or spirit of our Terms or create harm, risk, or possible legal exposure for us, our users, or others. The following provisions will survive any termination of your relationship with WhatsApp: “Licenses,” “Disclaimers,” “Limitation of Liability,” “Indemnification,” “Dispute Resolution,” “Availability and Termination of our Services,” “Other,” and “Special Arbitration Provision for United States or Canada Users.”OtherUnless a mutually executed agreement between you and us states otherwise, our Terms make up the entire agreement between you and us regarding WhatsApp and our Services, and supersede any prior agreements.We may ask you to agree to additional terms for certain of our Services in the future, which will govern to the extent there is a conflict between our Terms and such additional terms.Our Services are not intended for distribution to or use in any country where such distribution or use would violate local law or would subject us to any regulations in another country. We reserve the right to limit our Services in any country.You will comply with all applicable U.S. and non-U.S. export control and trade sanctions laws (“Export Laws”). You will not, directly or indirectly, export, re-export, provide, or otherwise transfer our Services: (a) to any individual, entity, or country prohibited by Export Laws; (b) to anyone on U.S. or non-U.S. government restricted parties lists; or (c) for any purpose prohibited by Export Laws, including nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons, or missile technology applications without the required government authorizations. You will not use or download our Services if you are located in a restricted country, if you are currently listed on any U.S. or non-U.S. restricted parties list, or for any purpose prohibited by Export Laws, and you will not disguise your location through IP proxying or other methods.Our Terms are written in English (U.S.). Any translated version is provided solely for your convenience. To the extent any translated version of our Terms conflicts with the English version, the English version controls.Any amendment to or waiver of our Terms requires our express consent.We may amend or update these Terms. We will provide you notice of amendments to our Terms, as appropriate, and update the “Last Modified” date at the top of our Terms. Your continued use of our Services confirms your acceptance of our Terms, as amended. If you do not agree to our Terms, as amended, you must stop using our Services. Please review our Terms from time to time.All of our rights and obligations under our Terms are freely assignable by us to any of our affiliates or in connection with a merger, acquisition, restructuring, or sale of assets, or by operation of law or otherwise, and we may transfer your information to any of our affiliates, successor entities, or new owner.You will not transfer any of your rights or obligations under our Terms to anyone else without our prior written consent.Nothing in our Terms will prevent us from complying with the law.Except as contemplated herein, our Terms do not give any third-party beneficiary rights.If we fail to enforce any of our Terms, it will not be considered a waiver.If any provision of these Terms is deemed unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from our Terms and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions, except as set forth in the “Special Arbitration Provision for United States or Canada Users” — “Severability” section below.We reserve all rights not expressly granted by us to you. In certain jurisdictions, you may have legal rights as a consumer, and our Terms are not intended to limit such consumer legal rights that may not be waived by contract.We always appreciate your feedback or other suggestions about WhatsApp and our Services, but you understand that we may use your feedback or suggestions without any obligation to compensate you for them (just as you have no obligation to offer them).Special arbitration provision for United States or Canada usersPLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY BECAUSE IT CONTAINS ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE ONLY TO OUR UNITED STATES AND CANADA USERS. IF YOU ARE A WHATSAPP USER LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES OR CANADA, IT REQUIRES YOU TO SUBMIT TO BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION OF ALL DISPUTES, EXCEPT FOR THOSE THAT INVOLVE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DISPUTES AND EXCEPT THOSE THAT CAN BE BROUGHT IN SMALL CLAIMS COURT. THIS MEANS YOU ARE WAIVING YOUR RIGHT TO HAVE SUCH DISPUTES RESOLVED IN COURT BY A JUDGE OR JURY. THIS SECTION ALSO LIMITS THE TIME YOU HAVE TO START AN ARBITRATION OR, IF PERMISSIBLE, A COURT ACTION. FINALLY, THIS SECTION WAIVES YOUR RIGHT TO HAVE YOUR DISPUTE HEARD AND RESOLVED AS A CLASS ACTION, CLASS ARBITRATION, OR A REPRESENTATIVE ACTION.“Excluded Dispute” means any Dispute relating to the enforcement or infringement of your or our intellectual property rights (such as copyrights, trademarks, domains, logos, trade dress, trade secrets, and patents). For clarity and notwithstanding the foregoing, those Disputes relating to, arising out of, or in any way in connection with your rights of privacy and publicity are not Excluded Disputes.Federal Arbitration Act. The United States Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this “Special Arbitration Provision for United States or Canada Users” section, including any question whether a Dispute between WhatsApp and you is subject to arbitration.Agreement to Arbitrate for WhatsApp Users Located in the United States or Canada. For WhatsApp users located in the United States or Canada, WhatsApp and you each agree to waive the right to a trial by judge or jury for all Disputes, except for the Excluded Disputes. WhatsApp and you agree that all Disputes (except for the Excluded Disputes), including those relating to, arising out of, or in any way in connection with your rights of privacy and publicity, will be resolved through final and binding arbitration. WhatsApp and you agree not to combine a Dispute that is subject to arbitration under our Terms with a Dispute that is not eligible for arbitration under our Terms.The arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Commercial Arbitration Rules in effect at the time the arbitration is started, including the Optional Rules for Emergency Measures of Protection and the Supplementary Procedures for Consumer-Related Disputes (together, the “AAA Rules”). The arbitration will be presided over by a single arbitrator selected in accordance with the AAA Rules. The AAA Rules, information regarding initiating a Dispute, and a description of the arbitration process are available at http://www.adr.org. The arbitrator will decide whether a Dispute can be arbitrated. The location of the arbitration and the allocation of fees and costs for such arbitration shall be determined in accordance with the AAA Rules. Notwithstanding the AAA Rules, we will reimburse you for all the AAA administrative fees in Disputes that are subject to the Supplementary Procedures for Consumer-Related Disputes, unless the arbitrator determines that a Dispute was filed for purposes of harassment or is patently frivolous.Opt-Out Procedure. You may opt out of this agreement to arbitrate. If you do so, neither we nor you can require the other to participate in an arbitration proceeding. To opt out, you must notify us in writing postmarked within 30 days of the later of: (i) the date that you first accepted our Terms; and (ii) the date you became subject to this arbitration provision. You must use this address to opt-out:WhatsApp Inc.Arbitration Opt-Out1601 Willow RoadMenlo Park, California 94025United States of AmericaYou must include: (1) your name and residence address; (2) the mobile phone number associated with your account; and (3) a clear statement that you want to opt out of our Terms’ agreement to arbitrate.Small Claims Court. As an alternative to arbitration, if permitted by your local “small claims” court’s rules, you may bring your Dispute in your local “small claims” court, as long as the matter advances on an individual (non-class) basis.Time Limit to Start Arbitration. We and you agree that for any Dispute (except for the Excluded Disputes) we and you must commence an arbitration proceeding within one year after the Dispute first arose; otherwise, such Dispute is permanently barred. This means that if we or you do not commence an arbitration within one year after the Dispute first arose, then the arbitration will be dismissed because it was started too late.No Class Actions, Class Arbitrations, or Representative Actions for Users Located in the United States or Canada. We and you each agree that if you are a WhatsApp user located in the United States or Canada, each of we and you may bring Disputes against the other only on its or your own behalf, and not on behalf of any other person or entity, or any class of people. We and you each agree not to participate in a class action, a class-wide arbitration, Disputes brought in a private attorney general or representative capacity, or consolidated Disputes involving any other person or entity in connection with any Dispute.Severability. If the prohibition against class actions and other Disputes brought on behalf of third parties is found to be unenforceable for a Dispute, then all of the provisions above under the caption “Special Arbitration Provision for United States or Canada Users” will be null and void as to that Dispute.Place to File Permitted Court Actions. If you opt out of the agreement to arbitrate, if your Dispute is an Excluded Dispute, or if the arbitration agreement is found to be unenforceable, you agree to be subject to the “Forum and Venue” provisions in the “Dispute Resolution” section set forth above.Accessing WhatsApp's terms in different languagesTo access our Terms in certain other languages, change the language setting for your WhatsApp session. If our Terms are not available in the language you select, we will default to the English version.Please review the following documents, which provide additional information about your use of our Services:WhatsApp Privacy PolicyWhatsApp Intellectual Property PolicyWhatsApp Brand GuidelinesWhatsApp Privacy PolicyLast modified: August 25, 2016 (archived versions)Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA. Since we started WhatsApp, we’ve aspired to build our Services with a set of strong privacy principles in mind.WhatsApp provides messaging, Internet calling, and other services to users around the world. Our Privacy Policy helps explain our information (including message) practices. For example, we talk about what information we collect and how this affects you. We also explain the steps we take to protect your privacy – like building WhatsApp so delivered messages aren’t stored and giving you control over who you communicate with on our Services.When we say “WhatsApp,” “our,” “we,” or “us,” we’re talking about WhatsApp Inc. This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) applies to all of our apps, services, features, software, and website (together, “Services”) unless specified otherwise.Please also read WhatsApp’s Terms of Service (“Terms”), which describes the terms under which you use our Services.Information We CollectWhatsApp receives or collects information when we operate and provide our Services, including when you install, access, or use our Services.Information You ProvideYour Account Information. You provide your mobile phone number to create a WhatsApp account. You provide us the phone numbers in your mobile address book on a regular basis, including those of both the users of our Services and your other contacts. You confirm you are authorized to provide us such numbers. You may also add other information to your account, such as a profile name, profile picture, and status message.Your Messages. We do not retain your messages in the ordinary course of providing our Services to you. Once your messages (including your chats, photos, videos, voice messages, files, and share location information) are delivered, they are deleted from our servers. Your messages are stored on your own device. If a message cannot be delivered immediately (for example, if you are offline), we may keep it on our servers for up to 30 days as we try to deliver it. If a message is still undelivered after 30 days, we delete it. To improve performance and deliver media messages more efficiently, such as when many people are sharing a popular photo or video, we may retain that content on our servers for a longer period of time. We also offer end-to-end encryption for our Services, which is on by default, when you and the people with whom you message use a version of our app released after April 2, 2016. End-to-end encryption means that your messages are encrypted to protect against us and third parties from reading them.Your Connections. To help you organize how you communicate with others, we may create a favorites list of your contacts for you, and you can create, join, or get added to groups and broadcast lists, and such groups and lists get associated with your account information.Customer Support. You may provide us with information related to your use of our Services, including copies of your messages, and how to contact you so we can provide you customer support. For example, you may send us an email with information relating to our app performance or other issues.Automatically Collected InformationUsage and Log Information. We collect service-related, diagnostic, and performance information. This includes information about your activity (such as how you use our Services, how you interact with others using our Services, and the like), log files, and diagnostic, crash, website, and performance logs and reports.Transactional Information. If you pay for our Services, we may receive information and confirmations, such as payment receipts, including from app stores or other third parties processing your payment.Device and Connection Information. We collect device-specific information when you install, access, or use our Services. This includes information such as hardware model, operating system information, browser information, IP address, mobile network information including phone number, and device identifiers. We collect device location information if you use our location features, such as when you choose to share your location with your contacts, view locations nearby or those others have shared with you, and the like, and for diagnostics and troubleshooting purposes such as if you are having trouble with our app’s location features.Cookies. We use cookies to operate and provide our Services, including to provide our Services that are web-based, improve your experiences, understand how our Services are being used, and customize our Services. For example, we use cookies to provide WhatsApp for web and desktop and other web-based services. We may also use cookies to understand which of our FAQs are most popular and to show you relevant content related to our Services. Additionally, we may use cookies to remember your choices, such as your language preferences, and otherwise to customize our Services for you. Learn more about how we use cookies to provide you our Services.Status Information. We collect information about your online and status message changes on our Services, such as whether you are online (your “online status”), when you last used our Services (your “last seen status”), and when you last updated your status message.Third-Party InformationInformation Others Provide About You. We receive information other people provide us, which may include information about you. For example, when other users you know use our Services, they may provide your phone number from their mobile address book (just as you may provide theirs), or they may send you a message, send messages to groups to which you belong, or call you.Third-Party Providers. We work with third-party providers to help us operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services. For example, we work with companies to distribute our apps, provide our infrastructure, delivery, and other systems, supply map and places information, process payments, help us understand how people use our Services, and market our Services. These providers may provide us information about you in certain circumstances; for example, app stores may provide us reports to help us diagnose and fix service issues.Third-Party Services. We allow you to use our Services in connection with third-party services. If you use our Services with such third-party services, we may receive information about you from them; for example, if you use the WhatsApp share button on a news service to share a news article with your WhatsApp contacts, groups, or broadcast lists on our Services, or if you choose to access our Services through a mobile carrier’s or device provider’s promotion of our Services. Please note that when you use third-party services, their own terms and privacy policies will govern your use of those services.How We Use InformationWe use all the information we have to help us operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services.Our Services. We operate and provide our Services, including providing customer support, and improving, fixing, and customizing our Services. We understand how people use our Services, and analyze and use the information we have to evaluate and improve our Services, research, develop, and test new services and features, and conduct troubleshooting activities. We also use your information to respond to you when you contact us. We use cookies to operate, provide, improve, understand, and customize our Services.Safety and Security. We verify accounts and activity, and promote safety and security on and off our Services, such as by investigating suspicious activity or violations of our Terms, and to ensure our Services are being used legally.Communications About Our Services and the Facebook Family of Companies. We communicate with you about our Services and features and let you know about our terms and policies and other important updates. We may provide you marketing for our Services and those of the Facebook family of companies, of which we are now a part.No Third-Party Banner Ads. We do not allow third-party banner ads on WhatsApp. We have no intention to introduce them, but if we ever do, we will update this policy.Commercial Messaging. We will allow you and third parties, like businesses, to communicate with each other using WhatsApp, such as through order, transaction, and appointment information, delivery and shipping notifications, product and service updates, and marketing. 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8 Must Do’s To Keep You and Your Parents HappyAny good baseball player knows you have to keep your eye on the ball. It is not easy to separate the chaff from the wheat especially when there are so many distractions like Mike Flynn’s Russia connections, Sean Spicer’s allegations of wiretapping, passengers being pulled off United Airlines, government transparency, AI taking over all our jobs, and the Tar Heels winning the Final Four. This article isn’t about the distractions of the present or the distractions of some far flung future like a Global Disaster created by global warming. Today we are discussing you, your parents, your collective health, the death spiral, and what we can do to avoid grandfather dumping here in the United States like what is happening in Japan.Let’s make sure we are discussing the right topic when it comes to health and clear up a common misconception here in America:Neither Obamacare nor Trumpcare have anything to do with healthcare. They are both guaranteed payment systems to health professionals based on distributed liability. This does not guarantee quality or expedient healthcare.In order to adequately numerate 10 things we must do to ensure a happy and healthy future for you and your parents we discuss demographics, economics, and preventative health.Our economists and politicians are notorious for calculating future expenses based on straight line, linear, representations of demographics, costs, revenue, and labor supply. Unfortunately we live in a chaotic world with exponential growth and decay functions vastly outnumbering linear growth and decay models. The following intractable statistics will drive our economic future regardless of foreign policy, democratization of the world, Russia’s rigging of our elections, or the outcome of the Final Four this year. In fact, global warming and AI are far distant seconds in terms of global impact on productivity than the effect of the demographic shift towards a global population of 1st world countries dominated by seniors.Japan’s current problem, a population with 26% of their population being over 65 years of age is representative of a problem facing all first world countries. There is a hidden problem in the demographic shift towards an aging population. You can see it in the Reuters chart, while the population of seniors is getting larger, the population of the employable is shrinking. In fact, if you add the under 14 to the over 65 you will find that the numbers are very close to 1 person employed taking care of 1 person not working. It should be obvious to all of us that from an availability of labor standpoint, this is not a sustainable model, and yet, it is the model we are stuck with. The current outcry that AI will eliminate jobs is probably the brightest light we have shining on the future of our labor force and our potential to deal with the rising tide of seniors. AI will free up labor to do those things absolutely required to manage a society of the young and the old.We all know that one thing leads to another and an aging population is no exception. 75% of all emergency services in the United States serve the current 12% of our senior population. Emergency services picks them up when they have fallen, shows up when they call 1000 times in a single year, and whisk them off to the hospital in emergencies. It is easy to calculate the additional burden on our emergency services if they remain unchanged. The population of seniors will double by 2030 in the United States. Since 75% of all emergency service costs are absorbed by seniors today it means that the budget to service seniors at today’s abysmal standard of an average of 30 minutes to intervention will double the budgetary requirements for emergency care as a portion of city and county governments. More importantly the labor requirement for these positions will more than double with fewer adults in the labor pool.The perception that everyone reading this article should be getting by now is that every single facet of society will be affected by the coming change in population distribution. The chart above should scare the hell out of you. Our medical costs are determined by a limited entry profession, healthcare, and a government dancing like a marionette to the fears projected by banks and insurance companies. The demand for medical services in the next ten years will more than double. But what about supply. Are there plans to triple graduates from medical institutions? Are the costs of medicine and tests decreasing? On the contrary, the number of medical colleges and medical graduates is increasing linearly while the population of seniors is experiencing exponential growth. We are not even considering that science is making incredible advances and seniors will live longer than current projections.It is easily recognizable with the current linear increase in the supply of doctors and the exponential increase in the demand of seniors that prices will escalate beyond our wildest dreams based on standard models of supply and demand.8 Must Do’s To Keep You and Your Parents HappyUp until now we have painted a pretty dismal picture of the future based on a massive demographic shift towards a senior population. Let’s face it, what we do best is adapt, and adapt we will. The cost of aging is dominantly in the spiral of death. The following chart shows the extraordinary expenses associated to the last years of life in the United States. In the United States we spend 33% of the all expenditures over our lifetime in the last 2 years of existence. Clearly, if we create the cliff of death, a rapid decline from health to death, we live better lives, save our families extraordinary expenses, and decrease the demand on a system whose capacity has been stretched beyond its ability to supply adequate services.1 Stay healthySurprise! Staying incredibly healthy creates the cliff of death so that all those expenses you see from 60 to 90 are mostly avoided except for genetic diseases and the hip and knee replacements. For those wondering, “What is the cliff of death?” It is a sudden and precipitous fall from health to death, something we all hope for. The rest of the must do’s are about how to accomplish this seemingly trivial objective.2 Eat WellSince the 1950’s America has been under attack by big business. C&H Sugar, Monsanto and any number of chemical companies have been stocking our shelves with products that have little if not negative nutritional value. Poor science, inacurate analysis, and market driven fear campaigns have further blurred the lines of nutrition. Our food supply, our birthing habits, our nurturing habits, and our infestation habits have all tainted our health over the long term. The biggest impact on our future in terms of health is obesity, largely a result of the efforts of big business to create an enticing and addictive food supply with the use of sugar, salt, and corn syrup. With aging the effects of these additives is exacerbated due to the decrease in production of key proteins responsible for metabolic balance. Key proteins turn out to be the on/off switches for health and our modern lives have destroyed biomes inside and outside of our body. Biomes are ecosystems of organisms living in symbiosis with us. They live in our armpits, our belly buttons, our eyebrows, and our guts. In fact, they cover every square inch of our body. From an evolutionary perspective, they and we have adapted together over millions of years. Destroying necessary organisms by showering to often, taking ibuprofen in excess, or eating substances that destroy those organisms shuts down necessary feedback loops for a healthy existence. Eat organic, eat less, eat often, shower less, get dirty occasionally.3 Sleep WellIt should come as no surprise that sleep is a key component of a healthy existence. Intuitively we know machines need rest cycles or they overheat and break. All our athletes are told to get a good night sleep before big events. Just how important sleep is, that is new science.The study, published in Nature Neuroscience, found that beta-amyloid — a protein that has long been suspected of being a catalyst in Alzheimer’s — aggregates in higher concentrations in the brains of people who suffer from consistently poor sleep. As deposits of beta-amyloid grow, the protein further hampers one’s ability to sleep, which feeds into a miserable cycle that may lead to dementia. Lack of Sleep May Lead to Dementia: New Research Finds It Makes Brain Vulnerable. Cal Alumni Association. Retrieved 1 April 2017As we age there are many forces that can affect our sleep like melatonin production, pain, restless leg syndrome, and many other factors. Because sleep is a critical factor in our health as we age there are 7 easy steps suggested by the Mayo Clinic to ensuring a good night’s sleep.Stick to a sleep schedule — Don’t take naps. Make sure you get a full night of continuous sleep not two 4 hour sleep periods. Go to bed and get up at the same time every day, even on weekends, holidays and days off. Being consistent reinforces your body’s sleep-wake cycle and helps promote better sleep at night. There’s a caveat, though. If you don’t fall asleep within about 15 minutes, get up and do something relaxing. Go back to bed when you’re tired. If you agonize over falling asleep, you might find it even tougher to nod off.Pay attention to what you eat and drink — Don’t go to bed either hungry or stuffed. Your discomfort might keep you up. Also limit how much you drink before bed, to prevent disruptive middle-of-the-night trips to the toilet.Nicotine, caffeine and alcohol deserve caution, too. The stimulating effects of nicotine and caffeine take hours to wear off and can wreak havoc on quality sleep. And even though alcohol might make you feel sleepy at first, it can disrupt sleep later in the night.Create a bedtime ritual — Do the same things each night to tell your body it’s time to wind down. This might include taking a warm bath or shower, reading a book, or listening to soothing music — preferably with the lights dimmed. Relaxing activities can promote better sleep by easing the transition between wakefulness and drowsiness. Be wary of using the TV or other electronic devices as part of your bedtime ritual. Some research suggests that screen time or other media use before bedtime interferes with sleep.Get comfortable — Create a room that’s ideal for sleeping. Often, this means cool, dark and quiet. Consider using room-darkening shades, earplugs, a fan or other devices to create an environment that suits your needs. Your mattress and pillow can contribute to better sleep, too. Since the features of good bedding are subjective, choose what feels most comfortable to you. If you share your bed, make sure there’s enough room for two. If you have children or pets, try to set limits on how often they sleep with you — or insist on separate sleeping quarters.Limit daytime naps — Long daytime naps can interfere with nighttime sleep — especially if you’re struggling with insomnia or poor sleep quality at night. If you choose to nap during the day, limit yourself to about 10 to 30 minutes and make it during the midafternoon. If you work nights, you’ll need to make an exception to the rules about daytime sleeping. In this case, keep your window coverings closed so that sunlight — which adjusts your internal clock — doesn’t interrupt your daytime sleep.Include physical activity in your daily routine — Regular physical activity can promote better sleep, helping you to fall asleep faster and to enjoy deeper sleep. Timing is important. If you exercise too close to bedtime, you might be too energized to fall asleep. If this seems to be an issue for you, exercise earlier in the day.Manage stress — When you have too much to do — and too much to think about — your sleep is likely to suffer. To help restore peace, consider healthy ways to manage stress. Start with the basics, such as getting organized, setting priorities and delegating tasks. Give yourself permission to take a break when you need one. Share a good laugh with an old friend. Before bed, jot down what’s on your mind and then set it aside for tomorrow.Sleeping too much — Surprisingly, one of the most interesting outcomes of recent research is that too much sleep can have very negative effects on our health. Some of the health risks associated to too much sleep are:Cognitive impairment, Depression, Increased inflammation, Increased pain, Impaired fertility, Higher risk of obesity, Higher risk of diabetes, Higher risk of heart disease, Higher risk of stroke, Higher all-cause mortalityOf course, we may not know that our parents are not sleeping well, and they may not either. Knowing that sleeping habits are broken goes a long way towards resolving a potential future of dementia, obesity, pain, and anxiety. With systems like the Zanthion Senior Care Platform it is easy to unobtrusively monitor the sleep habits of yourself or your parents and passively introduce the better habits and conditions.4 Exercise Often and Manage InjurySimilar to what and how often you eat, exercise is part of the biological mandates for good health. Some of the effects of a regular controlled exercise program that includes rest cycles, endurance cycles and power cycles are:The release of endorphins which reduce painA reduction in pain sensitivityA boost in the immune systemReleases toxins from the systemStrengthens the bones and increases densityMost Importantly, an overall feeling of wellbeingI have exercised nearly everyday for over 40 years and want to state upfront the single most important criteria for an exercise program:Avoid Injury At All CostsA suboptimal workout where you cannot possibly get injured is better than an optimal workout where you get injured every once in awhile. Why? Because down time changes behavior and behavior is the key to good health. Never, ever, push yourself beyond the comfort level that indicates a potential injury. Stretch as much as you exercise. Be consistent. Enjoy your workouts. Use a designed training program if you can.Warm Up and Light StrengthGood Cycle but Change Up DistancesClearly, something is better than nothing. Knowing that your parents are slowing down and a little more fearful about leaving the home is a great help. Having neighbors who need a partner to walk with is even more helpful. Applications like Zanthion Aging In Place notify children if their parent’s activity behavior has changed and notifies neighbors that might want to enjoy a walk with them.5 Meditate and Exercise the MindExercising goes a long way towards keeping a sharp mind and mental health, but it is not enough. Science has painted a much more holistic image of mental health over the last couple of years. It has become increasingly obvious that what we eat, what lives on our skin, how much blood we feed our brain, how much rest we get, and how much we exercise our brain with muscle confusion helps determine our mental health into old age. The first step to mental health is meditation. It takes very little time and has tremendous benefits. Some of those benefits are:Meditation reduces stress.It improves concentration.It encourages a healthy lifestyle.The practice increases self-awareness.It increases happiness.Meditation increases acceptance.It slows aging.The practice benefits cardiovascular and immune health.So here is a meditation practice anyone can do by themselves or with their neighbors in the morning and evening for 5 to 10 minutes.Sit or lie comfortably. You may even want to invest in a meditation chair.Close your eyes.Make no effort to control the breath; simply breathe naturally.Focus your attention on the breath and on how the body moves with each inhalation and exhalation.Seniors have some unique challenges in order to stay mentally alert. Seniors are often isolated from society by physical problems that limit their mobility and their ability to read and hear. The loss of mobility, sight, and hearing eliminate reading, socializing, and watching shows. Current technology for cornea implants, stem cell replacement of the cornea, new earbuds designed to limit external sounds and focus communication, are incredible helpful. The most important action we can take to help our parents stay younger is to protect their assets through constant research and effective mental stimulation.Mental health is ensured through continued participation in society as a valuable asset. This, is in fact, what Zanthion considers to be the most important asset, the ability to bring the seniors to services and services to seniors. Here are 10 easy ways to keep your parents involved in life.6 Measure & Notify & PredictContinuous measurement and a constructive feedback loop are at the heart of any effective process. Our health is no different. We all find it difficult not to gain those 2 pounds during the holidays. Measurement, allows us to observe that weight gain and do something about it. Continuous measurement makes it possible to adjust critical defects in a system immediately. Something as simple as a window left open during the winter in Chicago might lead to ta severe cold. A refrigerator door left open might lead to sepsis. Rolling out of bed at night might lead to fearing sleeping causing anxiety and eventually dementia. Falling, just once, might lead to less mobility, a loss of confidence, and eventually heart disease. Life is in a precarious balance.It used to be that manufacturing floor managers walked the floor listening to machines for possible problems in the line. Today, manufacturing floor manager’s cell phones beep when the RPM of a cycle machine goes below a certain threshold or a piece of metal is out of alignment. This same technology now exists for our seniors in companies like Zanthion. We place sensors throughout the environment and monitor changes in behavior such as gait, distance, temperature, heart rate, oxygen levels, and in and out of bed. We monitor passively only sending notifications when there might be a need for intervention.If you do not have a system like this there are some easy steps you can take:Check the refrigerator and it’s contents regularlyPut an air quality sensor in senior homesMonitor the temperature of rooms at nightMonitor sleep habits using fitbits and take appropriate actionsMonitor walking activity and exerciseNotify people that can make a difference like the senior themselves, neighbors, family, and friends when there is a significant change in activity. If you see a combination of signals such as enduring wounds, loss of appetite, and loss of breath engage the senior in more activity, see a medical professional, and encourage community participation.7 Work in Teams & Be a Part of Something BiggerIt should come as no surprise to any of us that feeling valued is a major contributor to health and sadly the largest missing healthy component of seniors in America. Seniors are vast stores of knowledge and wisdom relegated to bingo games and history museums. The absolute best way to make a senior, and for that matter anyone, feel like they are part of something bigger is to involve them in decision making about real life important matters like your business, your children, or your understanding of how life works. Equally as important as asking questions is listening attentively to the answers and either implementing them, help them implement them, or bring the seniors into the implementation of an alternative answer. Ask, Listen, Value, and Act.Seniors are isolated by many factors and neighborhood teams of seniors being active goes a long way towards involving them in something bigger. Neighborhood walks, movie night, bridge, and even 3D computer games. There is a rich world of activities available to our seniors given a little training and incentive to be involved.8 Live without anxiety and be happyRecent studies, 2011 Do Stress Trajectories Predict Mortality in Older Men? Longitudinal Findings from the VA Normative Aging Study , of the effects of stress on duration of life and health are surprisingly inconclusive. Studies concerning memory retention, happiness, and quality of life related to anxiety are clear cut, chronic stress and anxiety can affect areas of the brain that influence long-term memory, short-term memory and chemical production.Here is a great article from project happiness on how to improve your overall health, lower anxiety, and be happy.We at Zanthion want to remind you not to sweat the small or big stuff, and wish you all happy, healthy lives.

General instructions for grant of commission in TA for Non Departmental Units are forward herewith for the assimilation of concerned candidates.General1. The Territorial Army is designed to give our citizens an opportunity for receiving military training in their spare time, so that in the event of a grave national emergency they may be called upon to bear arms for the country’s defence.Since service in the Territorial Army does not provide a regular career, candidates who have commensurate livelihood in their civil life should apply for commission in the Territorial Army.Conditions of Eligibility2. A candidate for commission in the Territorial Army must fulfill the conditions mentioned in paragraphs given below.Nationality3. Candidate must either be:-(a) A citizen of India, or(b) A subject of Nepal or(c) A person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and East Africa(d) Gorkha subjects of Nepal.Age Limits6. Applicants should have attained the age 18 years and not have attained the age of 42 years on the date of application, but the upper age limit may be relaxed at the discretion of the Chief of the Army Staff, in the case of (a) ex officers, ex-VCOs/JCOs and WOs (or their equivalent) of the three Services, the Indian Territorial Forces, State Forces, Auxiliary Forces and the Reserve, (b) ex-serving JCOs of the Territorial Army (c) Government officials and persons possessing technical and medical qualifications.Educational Qualifications7. A candidate for commission of a Non Technical Arm i.e infantry must hold a degree from a recognized university.8. A candidate for commission in the Departmental Units must possess the following qualifications.(a) For Railway Engineers (TA) – Must be a serving Gazetted Officer of the Indian Railways possessing appropriate qualifications required for differenttypes of appointments.(b) For IOC and ONGC (TA) – Must be serving Gazetted Officer in the concerned department possessing appropriate qualification required for different types of appointments.NOTES : (a) For ex-officers of the three services and ex-serving JCOs of the territorial Army, the minimum prescribed qualifications may be relaxed provided they have a creditable record of service is considered adequate by the Selection Board.(b) The decision of Army Headquarters as to the eligibility or otherwise of candidate shall be final. Physical Fitness. A candidate must be physically fit in all respects and be in medical category S1H1A1P1E1.Submission of Application10. Candidates applying for Territorial Army commission will download Application Form (Part-1) from www.indianarmy.nic.in & Join Indian Army. and will submit filled-in application in their own handwriting to the following:- (a) Infantry (Territorial Army). (i) For civilian candidates - To the concerned Territorial Army Group Headquarters (as per choice of written examination centre). (ii) For Ex-Armed Forces Officers - To the Territorial Army Directorate, New Delhi. (b) Railway Engineers (TA). - To the concerned Railway Engineers Regimental Territorial Army Units. (c) IOC and ONGC (TA). - To the concerned Oil Sector Territorial Army Units. Documents to be Produced at the Time of Interview 11. Candidate who qualify in written test of Preliminary Interview Board are required to bring the following Original alongwith self attested copies at the time of Interview at respective Territorial Army Group (a) Application Form (Part – 2) downloaded from www.indianarmy.nic.in & Join Indian Army.. (b) All educational qualification certificates (Matric onwards).(c) Latest physical fitness certificate from a registered MBBS Doctor.(d) Copy of Identity proof with photographs (Voter ID/PAN Card/Passport/Driving license etc).(e) Domicile/ Residential Address Proof.(f) Certificate for proof of age (Matric/ Senior Secondary mark sheet & certificate for verification of date of birth). (g) Service certificate by candidates employed in Central Govt/ Union Territory/ State/Semi Govt/ Private Sector authenticated by Head of Office alongwith No Objection Certificate by the department as per format given at Appendix. (h) Self employed candidates are required to submit an Affidavit on Non-Judicial stamp paper of minimum tenure of employment and annual income along with photocopy of PAN card and self (j) Photocopy of PAN Card.(k) Photocopy of Aadhar Card. In addition to above, ex-service officers are required to submit the following additional documents:- (a) Release Medical Board (b) Release Order/ Certificate. 13. Candidates whose names vary in documents should submit copy of Gazette Notification of India/ State showing the correct name or an affidavit duly supported by newspaper cuttings.14. Candidates will be required to produce all certificates, in original, at the time of interview by Service Selection Board/ Army Headquarters Selection Board or to Army Headquarters (Territorial Army Directorate) later on. Procedure for Selection . For Civilian Candidates (Non-Departmental). (a) Candidates whose application forms are found correct will be called for screening (written exam followed by interview only if passed in written exam) by a Preliminary Interview Board (PIB) by the respective Territorial Army Group Headquarters. (b) Successful candidates will further undergo tests at a Service Selection Board (SSB) and Medical Board and Police Verification for final selection. 16. For Ex-Armed Forces Officers (Non-Departmental). (a) The candidates will be screened by the Army Headquarters Selection Board (ASB) held at Additional Directorate General Territorial Army, New Delhi. (b) Recommended candidates will undergo Medical Examination at Armed Forces Clinic, New Delhi and Police Verification for final selection.17. For Non-Departmental Candidates (Railway and Oil Sector Territorial Army Units). (a) Candidates desirous of seeking commission in Departmental Territorial Army units should submit application form alongwith recommendation of their parent department to concerned unit. (b) Candidates whose application forms are found correct will be called for interview by the respective Territorial Army Group Headquarters followed by medical examination for final selection. 18. Traveling Concessions. Candidate when called up for final interview before a Service Selection Board or Army Headquarters Selection Board will be entitled for TA/ DA admissible as per rules. Note : Any attempt on the part of the candidate , directly or indirectly, to enlist support for their selection or to suppress material information while filling the application form or otherwise, will disqualify them for the grant of commission.SALIENT TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE - Period of Probation . Officers are commissioned in the Territorial Army, as Lt and remain on probation for 3 years or till such time as they pass the Retention Examination, whichever is later. Ex-service officers with more than three years service will be exempted from probation. If an officer is found unsatisfactory during the probationary period, the officer may be called upon to resign their commission and in case they declines to do so, they will be liable to be removed from the Territorial Army.Retention Examination20. All officers except those belonging to Departmental TA officers are required to pass the Retention within 4 years from the date of commissioning, otherwise their commissions are liable to be terminated Ex Service officers with more than three years service will be exempted from the requirement.Promotion Examination21. All officer of Non Departmental Territorial Army Officers are required to pass Part A, B, C & D Promotion Examination within the time limit as laid down for promotion examination, failing which their commissions are liable to be terminated and for late passing of promotion examination, penalty of loss of seniority will be imposed. Promotion Exam Part ‘A’ and Part ‘B’ are required to be passed for promotion to rank of Major and Promotion Exam ‘C’ and ‘D’ are required to be passed for promotion to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel).22. Departmental Territorial Army are required to pass Departmental Promotion Examination for promotion from Captain to Major within 08 years of commissioned service. Liabilities for late passing/ failing to pass promotion examination are same as in case of Non Departmental Territorial Army Officers.Pay and Allowances23. Officers of the Territorial Army will receive Pay and Allowance on embodiment for training / military service at rates similar to those admissible to Regular Army Officers.Leave24. Officers of the Territorial Army will be entitled leave on embodiment for training/ military service vide existing rules as applicableDiscipline25. Officers of the Territorial Army when embodied for any purpose, are subject to the Army Act and to the Rules and Regulations of the Regular Army read in conjunction with the Territorial Army Regulations. They are also expected to conform to the customs and traditions of the service.Medical TreatmentCandidates whilst on training / military service will be entitled to free medical treatment.Substantive Promotion27. Promotions upto rank of Lieutenant Colonel will be by time scale subject to fulfilling laid down criteria. Promotion to Col and Brig will be by selection grade. The following service limits have been laid down for promotion.(a) Lieutenant : Commission is granted in the rank of Lieutenant.(b) Captain : 04 years of Commissioned Service.(c) Major : 08 years of Commissioned Service.(d) Lieutenant Colonel : 15 years of Commissioned Service.(e) (i) Colonel : By Selection Grade.(ii) Colonel (Time Scale) : 28 years of Commissioned Service.(f) Brigadier : By Selection Grade.Note : (a) Previous full pay commissioned service in the Regular Army, Navy and Air Force counts towards the above periods.(b) Territorial Army officer are eligible for acting promotion to higher ranks subject to fulfillment of minimum service limits in Railway, IOC and ONGC units may be granted acting ranks in keeping with their civil status within the authorized establishment of their respective units.Permanent Staff Appointments28. A limited number of permanent staff appointments in Territorial Army units with a tenure which may be extended to a maximum period of five years may be offered to Territorial Army Officers who possess the necessary experience and qualifications.Pensionary Benefits29. Territorial Army Officers are eligible to terminal gratuity on retirement provided they have completed minimum of 4 years of aggregate embodied service. Disability family pensions are also admissible to them under certain conditions.Retirement . Territorial Army Officers are compulsorily retired as follows:- (a) Major and below : 54 years of age. (b) Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel : 56 years or 04 years tenure in present rank whichever is earlier but not before 54 years of age. (c) Brigadier : 58 years or 04 years tenure in present rank whichever is earlier but not before 56 years of age.Discharge . A Territorial Army Officer is liable to be discharged dismissed or removed from service in the same manner as Regular Army Officer and/or in accordance with the Territorial Army rules/ orders in force.Liability for Service . Officers of the Territorial Army are, under the Territorial Army Act liable to embodiment for military service with their units or with the Regular Army in accordance with Rules and Regulations as prescribed from time to time. However, they will not be required to serve beyond the limits of India, save under a general or special order of the Government of India. . All terms and conditions of service will be applicable in accordance with the Territorial Army Regulations and /or rules/ orders in force from time to time.IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS FOR FILLING THE APPLICATION FORM Candidate must read instructions carefully and fill in the application form only if they are eligible in all respects. The application form must be completed in the candidate’s own handwriting and all answers should be given fully in words and not by dashes or dots. . Candidates are warned that they should not furnish any false particulars nor suppress any material while filling the application form. If they do so, their application will be rejected summarily or if is found out liable to be removed/discharged from the Territorial Army.