R.1 Short title and commencement.--

       (1) These rules may be called the Information Technology (Intermediaries guidelines) Rules, 2011.
       (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

R.2 Definitions.--

       (1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,--
       (a) "Act" means the Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000);
       (b) "Communication link" means a connection between a hypertext or graphical element (button, drawing, image) and one or more such items in the same or different electronic document wherein upon clicking on a hyperlinked item, the user is automatically transferred to the other end of the hyperlink which could be another document or another website or graphical element.
       (c) "Computer resource" means computer resource as defined in clause (k) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Act;
       (d) "Cyber security incident" means any real or suspected adverse event in relation to cyber security that violates an explicitly or implicitl

R.3 Due diligence to be observed by intermediary.--

       The intermediary shall observe following due diligence while discharging his duties, namely : --
       (1) The intermediary shall publish the rules and regulations, privacy policy and user agreement for access or usage of the intermediary's computer resource by any person.
       (2) Such rules and regulations, terms and conditions or user agreement shall inform the users of computer resource not to host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any information that --
       (a) belongs to another person and to which the user does not have any right to;
       (b) is grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous; defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, libellous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging,