Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the website, applications, APIs, and study services provided by Etudey ("we", "us", or "our"). By registering an account, accessing educational archives, or uploading academic materials, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be legally bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy.

If you do not agree to all terms outlined herein, you must refrain from using the platform.

2. Eligibility and Account Security

To use Etudey, you must:

• Be at least 16 years of age or possess authorized parental/guardian consent if required by your jurisdiction.
• Provide accurate and complete information during registration (such as verified Google Sign-In or phone number verification) and keep your profile details updated.
• Maintain the security and confidentiality of your authentication credentials and notify us immediately of any unauthorized access to your account.
• Assume full legal responsibility for all actions that occur under your user profile.

3. Academic Integrity and Acceptable Use

Etudey is dedicated to fostering genuine learning, peer collaboration, and conceptual mastery. The platform must never be used to undermine academic evaluations or institutional honor codes.

3.1 Permitted Activities

• Uploading original handwritten or typed lecture summaries, revision sheets, and formula cheat sheets created by you.
• Browsing community study materials for exam revision, research, and conceptual clarification.
• Using our study workspace to organize personal notes, generate practice quizzes, and extract document summaries.
• Participating constructively in peer discussion forums.

3.2 Prohibited Activities

You strictly agree not to:

• Upload, share, or request live exam solutions, unreleased test questions, or confidential institutional assessments.
• Submit another student's work as your own in any academic evaluation (plagiarism).
• Upload copyrighted commercial textbooks, proprietary paywalled courseware, or unauthorized faculty slides without legal permission.
• Scrape, crawl, harvest, or systematically download platform content via automated bots or scripts without explicit written consent.
• Distribute harmful code, malware, spam, phishing links, or defamatory content.
• Attempt to reverse-engineer, bypass access controls, or disrupt the reliability of platform infrastructure.

4. User Content and Intellectual Property Rights

We respect the intellectual property rights of content creators and expect our community to do the same.

4.1 Your Ownership

You retain full copyright and ownership of any original study materials, notes, diagrams, and forum contributions you create and upload to Etudey.

4.2 License Granted to Etudey

By uploading or publishing content marked as public on Etudey, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, display, index, format, and distribute that content to fellow students solely for the operation and promotion of the academic platform.

4.3 Representations and Warranties

You represent and warrant that you own or possess the necessary rights and permissions to submit all content you upload, and that such content does not infringe the intellectual property or privacy rights of any third party.

5. Copyright Infringement & DMCA Takedown Policy

Etudey complies with the Indian Copyright Act, 1957 and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512). If you believe in good faith that any material hosted on our platform infringes your copyright, you may submit a formal takedown request.

To submit a valid notice, please provide our Copyright Agent with:

• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed.
• The specific URL or location of the infringing material on Etudey.
• Your contact details, including full legal name, physical address, telephone number, and email.
• A statement affirming your good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement made under penalty of perjury that the information provided is accurate and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.
• Your electronic or physical signature.

Send all copyright notices to: legal@etudey.app with the subject line "Copyright Notice - Infringement Claim". We review and act on verified notices within 24 to 48 business hours.

6. Subscriptions, Payments, and Cancellations

Certain advanced study utilities may be offered through optional premium membership plans:

• Billing: Membership fees are billed upfront on a recurring monthly or annual basis as selected during checkout. Payments are processed securely via PCI-DSS compliant payment gateways.
• Automatic Renewal: Recurring plans will renew automatically unless cancelled prior to the end of the current billing cycle.
• Cancellation: You may cancel your subscription renewal at any time via your account settings or by contacting support@etudey.app. Upon cancellation, you will retain access until the end of your prepaid period.
• Refunds: Because digital study benefits and processing allocations are provisioned immediately upon upgrade, membership fees are generally non-refundable except where required by law or in cases of verified platform billing errors reported within 7 days.

7. Disclaimer of Warranties

Etudey is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. While we employ rigorous quality screening and peer-review systems, we do not guarantee the completeness, accuracy, or syllabus coverage of community-submitted study materials. We are not an accredited degree-granting institution, and our materials are intended solely as supplementary study aids.

8. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Etudey, its founders, directors, employees, and affiliates shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including loss of data, loss of academic standing, or service interruptions arising out of your access to or inability to use the platform.

9. Account Suspension and Termination

We reserve the right to suspend or permanently terminate your account without prior notice if we determine that you have violated these Terms, engaged in academic misconduct, uploaded infringing material, or engaged in abusive behavior toward other community members.

10. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of India, including the Information Technology Act, 2000 (Indian IT Act 2000) and the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules. Any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts located in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

11. Modifications to Terms

We may revise these Terms periodically. We will notify you of material changes through an announcement on the site or via registered email. Continued use of the platform following any amendments signifies your acceptance of the revised Terms.

12. Contact and Inquiries

For questions or clarifications regarding these Terms of Service, please reach out to:

• Legal & Compliance: legal@etudey.app
• General Support: support@etudey.app
• Help Desk: etudey.app/contact