Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms and Conditions of Use

By accessing, browsing, querying, or otherwise interacting with any portion of the Boardster platform, including but not limited to its notes browsers, student portals, tutor dashboards, API endpoints, countdown distribution channels, and any affiliated subdomains or white-labeled derivative deployments (collectively, the "Platform"), you, as the accessing party ("User," "Subscriber," "Institution," or "Authorised Representative"), hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agree to be bound by these Terms of Service ("Agreement"), as may be amended from time to time at the sole discretion of Boardster ("Company," "We," "Us," or "Our"). This Agreement constitutes a legally binding contract between You and the Company. If You do not agree with any part, clause, sub-clause, or interpretive implication of these Terms, You are hereby legally restricted from accessing, reviewing, downloading, printing, transmitting, or otherwise utilising any content, material, or service offered by the Platform in any capacity whatsoever.

Your continued use of the Platform following any modification to these Terms shall constitute Your conclusive acceptance of such modifications, whether or not You have been individually notified. The Company shall bear no obligation to provide personalised notice of amendments. It is Your sole responsibility to review this Agreement periodically.

2. Intellectual Property Rights, Proprietary Content, and Secure Preview Technology

All academic content, textbook solutions, formula sheets, revision cards, syllabus summaries, AI-generated structured study materials, layout rendering codes, cohort assignment configurations, grading rubrics, parent progress reports, and any other materials published, generated, stored, cached, or transmitted on or through this Platform ("Content") are the exclusive, sole, and inalienable copyrighted intellectual property of Boardster and/or its licensors, as applicable.

To protect these proprietary assets, all inline document previews are rendered strictly as secure, non-interactive, server-side image modules employing obfuscated canvas rendering and dynamic watermarking techniques. Any effort to copy text, screen-capture rendered pages, print previews to PDF, invoke browser developer tools to extract image data URLs, intercept API responses, reverse-engineer rendering pipelines, or otherwise circumvent our content protection mechanisms constitutes a direct, wilful breach of applicable copyright law, including but not limited to the Information Technology Act, 2000 (India), and shall result in immediate and permanent account termination, IP-level blacklisting, and potential civil and criminal prosecution.

The Company reserves the right to embed invisible, user-specific steganographic identifiers within all served content for the purpose of forensic tracking of unauthorised distribution. Any Content found to be distributed without authorisation shall be traceable to its originating Subscriber account, which shall be held fully liable.

3. Acceptable Use License and Prohibited Conduct

Subject to full and ongoing compliance with these Terms, the Company grants You a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to access the Platform solely for Your internal educational or institutional management purposes. This licence explicitly excludes any right to:

• Reproduce, redistribute, republish, resell, relicense, or make available to any third party any portion of the Content, whether in original or modified form, without the express prior written consent of the Company.
• Employ automated scripts, bots, crawlers, scrapers, headless browsers, or any programmatic tooling to access, index, extract, or mirror any Content or Platform functionality.
• Attempt to decompile, disassemble, reverse-engineer, or otherwise derive the source code of any Platform component, including but not limited to front-end rendering logic, API schemas, and AI generation pipelines.
• Use the Platform in any manner that violates applicable local, national, or international law or regulation.
• Distributing downloaded guides on independent file-sharing platforms, hotlinking PDF streams, hosting Platform files on external servers, or circumventing any access-gating mechanism.

The Company reserves the right to monitor all usage activity for the purpose of enforcing these restrictions and to report suspected violations to appropriate law enforcement authorities without prior notice to the User.

4. Paid Subscription Plans, Billing, and Automatic Renewal

Access to premium features of the Platform, including but not limited to AI-generated curriculum materials, tutor CRM dashboards, cohort assignment management, automated grading pipelines, and parent progress reporting modules, is contingent upon the maintenance of a valid, active paid subscription tier ("Subscription").

• All Subscription fees are stated exclusive of applicable taxes, levies, and surcharges, which shall be added at checkout and borne solely by the Subscriber.
• Subscriptions shall automatically renew at the end of each billing cycle unless cancelled in writing by the Subscriber no fewer than seven (7) calendar days prior to the renewal date. The Company shall not be responsible for charges incurred due to failure to cancel within this window.
• The Company reserves the right to modify Subscription pricing with thirty (30) days' advance notice. Continued use of the Platform following a price change constitutes acceptance of the revised pricing.
• Refund Policy: A limited fourteen (14) day refund window applies solely to first-time Subscription purchases. Renewals, add-on purchases, custom content generation requests, and Subscriptions where the Subscriber has accessed or downloaded Content are non-refundable under any circumstances.
• Chargebacks initiated with payment processors without prior written dispute submission to the Company shall be treated as a material breach of this Agreement and shall result in immediate account termination and recovery of outstanding amounts through all available legal means.

5. Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability

THE PLATFORM AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR UNINTERRUPTED AVAILABILITY. THE COMPANY MAKES NO REPRESENTATION THAT THE PLATFORM WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR THAT ITS OPERATION WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE.

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COMPANY, ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE PLATFORM, EVEN IF THE COMPANY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THE COMPANY'S TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER SHALL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO THE COMPANY IN THE THREE (3) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.

6. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Company and its respective officers, directors, employees, agents, successors, and assigns from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or in any way connected with: (a) your access to or use of the Platform; (b) your violation of any provision of this Agreement; (c) your violation of any third-party right, including any intellectual property right, privacy right, or contractual right; (d) any dispute between you and a third party, including any student, parent, or institution using a Platform deployment administered by you; or (e) any content you submit, generate, or distribute through the Platform.

7. Termination of Access and Survival of Obligations

The Company reserves the absolute and unconditional right to suspend, restrict, or permanently terminate your access to the Platform, with or without prior notice, for any reason deemed sufficient by the Company in its sole discretion, including but not limited to suspected violation of this Agreement, fraudulent activity, chargebacks, reputational risk to the Company, or operational necessity. Upon termination, all rights and licences granted herein shall immediately cease. Sections 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 of this Agreement shall survive any termination or expiration.

8. Data Egress, Portability, and Proprietary Data Lock

All student performance data, grading histories, fee tracking records, cohort assignment configurations, parent communication logs, and any other operational data generated, inputted, or accumulated through your use of the Platform ("Institutional Data") is stored exclusively in the Company's proprietary database schema and internal data formats. The Company hereby explicitly and irrevocably prohibits any form of bulk, automated, or programmatic data export, including but not limited to exports in CSV, JSON, XML, XLSX, PDF compilation, or any other structured or semi-structured machine-readable format.

Upon voluntary cancellation, non-renewal, or Company-initiated termination of your Subscription for any reason, all bulk access permissions to Institutional Data shall be immediately and permanently revoked without right of appeal. The Company shall not be obligated to provide a data export or migration service of any kind. Retrieval of individual data records post-termination is restricted exclusively to manual, human-operated, one-record-at-a-time copy-paste extraction performed through the standard user interface, subject to a maximum retrieval window of forty-eight (48) hours following the effective date of termination, after which all Institutional Data shall be subject to scheduled deletion in accordance with the Company's internal data retention policies.

9. Binding Arbitration and Dispute Resolution

ANY DISPUTE, CONTROVERSY, OR CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, OR THE BREACH, TERMINATION, OR INVALIDITY THEREOF, SHALL BE FINALLY SETTLED BY BINDING ARBITRATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ARBITRATION AND CONCILIATION ACT, 1996 (INDIA), AS AMENDED. THE SEAT OF ARBITRATION SHALL BE MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA. THE LANGUAGE OF ARBITRATION SHALL BE ENGLISH. THE ARBITRAL TRIBUNAL SHALL CONSIST OF A SOLE ARBITRATOR APPOINTED BY THE COMPANY. THE AWARD RENDERED SHALL BE FINAL AND BINDING UPON BOTH PARTIES. YOU HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVE YOUR RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL OR TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT IN CONNECTION WITH ANY DISPUTE ARISING FROM THIS AGREEMENT.

10. Force Majeure

The Company shall not be liable for any delay or failure to perform its obligations under this Agreement where such delay or failure arises from circumstances beyond the Company's reasonable control, including but not limited to acts of God, natural disasters, epidemic or pandemic events, governmental actions or restrictions, power failures, internet service provider failures, cyberattacks, distributed denial-of-service attacks, cloud infrastructure outages, third-party API deprecations, or any other event of force majeure ("Force Majeure Event").

11. Governing Law, Jurisdiction, and Severability

This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of India, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Subject to Section 9 above, You irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts located in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India for the resolution of any dispute not subject to arbitration.

12. Platform Modification and Service Discontinuation Rights

The Company reserves the absolute right, at its sole discretion and without notice or liability, to modify, suspend, discontinue, or permanently shut down any feature, module, or the entirety of the Platform at any time.