Terms and Conditions

These Terms and Conditions (the "Terms") form a legally binding contract between Sigmoid Vedanta Technologies (the "Company", "we", "our" or "us") and you, the user (the "User" or "you") of the Rig Veda – Sacred Knowledge Portal (the "Service"). By accessing or using the Service in any manner, you confirm that you have read, understood and agreed to be bound by these Terms, our Privacy Policy and the description of the Service set out at Services.

1. Acceptance & eligibility

These Terms take effect when you first access the Service, register an account, make a payment, or accept them by ticking a check-box or signing up. You must be at least 18 years of age and competent to enter into a binding contract under the Indian Contract Act, 1872. If you use the Service on behalf of an organisation, you represent that you are duly authorised to bind that organisation, and "you" refers to that organisation as well.

2. Accounts & access

1. You agree to provide accurate, current and complete information when creating an account and to keep it updated.
2. You are responsible for safeguarding your credentials. We will treat any action taken through your account as taken by you.
3. We may suspend or terminate accounts that breach these Terms, that appear to engage in fraudulent or abusive conduct, or that are inactive for a prolonged period, without prior notice.

3. Licence & permitted use

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable licence to access and use the Service for personal, non-commercial study, research and devotional purposes. You shall not, and shall not permit any third party to:

• reverse-engineer, decompile or disassemble any part of the Service;
• scrape, harvest, mirror, frame or systematically copy the Service or its outputs other than by means we expressly authorise;
• resell, sublicense, lease or otherwise commercially exploit the Service or its outputs without our prior written consent;
• circumvent any tier-based access control or rate limit;
• use the Service to develop, train or evaluate competing models or products without our prior written consent;
• use the Service in violation of any applicable law or regulation, including the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

4. Subscriptions, payments & refunds

1. Paid tiers (currently Pro and Pro Max) unlock additional features as described at /pricing. Pricing, taxes and entitlements may change from time to time; the version in force at the time of your renewal applies.
2. Payments are processed by Razorpay Software Private Limited and other third-party processors. You authorise us and our processors to charge the payment method you provide.
3. Except where required by law, fees are non-refundable once a billing cycle has begun. Cancellation prevents the next renewal but does not refund the current cycle.
4. Free-tier limits, including allowed mandalas and daily chat quotas, are subject to change at our sole discretion.

5. User content & conduct

The Service allows you to submit chat messages, queries, contact-form enquiries and other content ("User Content"). You retain ownership of your User Content but grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable licence to host, store, process, transmit and use it to operate, secure, improve and provide the Service, and to enforce these Terms. You represent that your User Content does not infringe third-party rights and is not unlawful, defamatory, obscene or otherwise objectionable.

6. Intellectual property

All software, models, embeddings, knowledge-graph structures, visualisations, designs, trade marks, the name "Sigmoid Vedanta", and all other proprietary material on the Service are owned by, or licensed to, the Company. The Rig Veda hymns themselves are in the public domain; our curated translations, commentary, indexes, embeddings, knowledge graph and software are not.

7. AI-generated content

Parts of the Service rely on large language models and retrieval-augmented generation. AI outputs may be inaccurate, incomplete or out of date and must not be relied upon as religious instruction, scholarly authority, legal advice, medical advice or any other form of professional advice. You are solely responsible for any decisions you make on the basis of AI-generated content.

8. Warranties & disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, reliability or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure or free of harmful components.

9. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company, its directors, employees, contractors, partners and affiliates shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive or exemplary damages (including loss of profits, data, goodwill or anticipated savings) arising out of or in connection with your use of, or inability to use, the Service. The Company's aggregate liability for all claims arising in any twelve-month period shall not exceed the amounts you have actually paid to the Company for the Service in that period, or INR 5,000, whichever is greater.

10. Indemnity

You shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Company and its officers, employees, contractors and affiliates from and against any and all claims, demands, losses, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of (i) your use of the Service, (ii) your breach of these Terms, (iii) your User Content, or (iv) your violation of any law or third-party right.

11. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service immediately and without notice for any breach of these Terms. Upon termination, the licences granted to you in clause 3 cease, but clauses 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 and 14 survive.

12. Governing law & jurisdiction

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of India, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Subject to clause 13 below, you and the Company irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India for the resolution of any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the Service.

12.1 Arbitration

Notwithstanding clause 12, either party may, at its discretion, refer any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or in connection with these Terms to final and binding arbitration under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, by a sole arbitrator appointed by the Company. The seat and venue of arbitration shall be Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India; the language of arbitration shall be English. The arbitral award shall be final and binding on both parties.

13. Changes to these Terms

We may revise these Terms from time to time. The revised version takes effect when published at this URL. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms. Material changes will be flagged at least seven (7) days in advance, where reasonably practicable.

14. Contact & grievance officer