The ground rules for using Startup Grants India.

Agreement To These Terms

These Terms of Service govern your use of Startup Grants India, including the website, grant directory, learning content, contact forms, email signup, AI chat, and voice features.

By using the website, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the website.

Informational Use Only

Startup Grants India is a founder education and discovery resource. The content is provided for general information and does not constitute legal, financial, tax, accounting, investment, grant-writing, or professional advice.

Grant details can change without notice. You are responsible for verifying eligibility, deadlines, documents, scheme terms, application requirements, and funding conditions on official government, incubator, or program websites before acting.

We do not guarantee that any grant is available, suitable for you, accurate at the time you read it, or that you will be shortlisted, approved, funded, or supported by any program.

Accounts And Sign-In

Some features, including the AI grant assistant and saved chat history, may require you to sign in with Google.

You are responsible for maintaining access to your account and for activity that happens through your signed-in session.

We may restrict, suspend, or remove access if we believe an account is being used to abuse the service, bypass limits, interfere with security, or violate these terms.

AI And Voice Features

The AI assistant and voice features are experimental support tools. They may produce incomplete, outdated, or incorrect answers.

AI responses are not a substitute for official scheme documents, professional advice, or your own review of requirements.

Do not submit highly sensitive personal, financial, health, identity-document, confidential, or third-party data unless it is necessary and you have the right to share it.

Voice input may be transcribed by third-party speech-to-text services, and live voice sessions may use LiveKit. Saved transcripts may appear in your chat history.

Your Content

You may submit messages, contact form entries, chat prompts, voice transcripts, feedback, links, and other content to the website.

You are responsible for the content you submit and must have the rights and permissions needed to share it.

You grant us permission to process, store, display, and transmit your submitted content as needed to operate the website, respond to you, provide chat and voice features, protect the service, and improve reliability.

Acceptable Use

You agree not to misuse the website, attack or probe its systems, bypass authentication or rate limits, scrape or copy the service at scale, submit spam, upload harmful content, impersonate others, or use the service for unlawful activity.

You also agree not to use the AI or voice features to generate harmful, deceptive, infringing, or unlawful content.

Third-Party Services And Links

The website may link to government portals, incubator pages, grant documents, YouTube videos, WhatsApp, Google sign-in, AI providers, LiveKit, and other third-party services.

We do not control third-party websites or services and are not responsible for their content, availability, security, privacy practices, fees, decisions, or grant outcomes.

Your use of third-party services may be governed by their own terms and privacy policies.

Intellectual Property

The Startup Grants India name, branding, page design, original explanations, course structure, and other original website materials belong to Startup Grants India or its contributors, unless stated otherwise.

Government scheme names, documents, official links, and third-party materials belong to their respective owners.

You may use the website for personal or internal founder research. You may not copy, resell, repackage, or commercially exploit substantial parts of the website without permission.

Email Updates And Contact

If you sign up for email updates, we may send you practical updates about grants, lessons, community notes, or related resources.

If you contact us, we may use your message and contact details to respond, triage feedback, improve the website, or follow up on the topic you selected.

Changes, Availability, And Errors

We may change, pause, remove, or discontinue any part of the website at any time.

We try to keep the service useful and accurate, but it may contain errors, broken links, unavailable pages, outdated grant information, downtime, or interrupted third-party integrations.

Disclaimers

The website is provided on an as-is and as-available basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim warranties of accuracy, availability, reliability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

You use the website and any information from it at your own discretion and risk.

Limitation Of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Startup Grants India and its contributors will not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost opportunities, lost data, grant rejection, business interruption, or reliance on inaccurate information.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot legally be limited.

Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, share, and delete personal data. Please read it together with these terms.

Governing Law

These terms are intended to be governed by the laws of India, unless mandatory consumer or data protection laws in your location require otherwise.

Changes To These Terms

We may update these terms as the website changes. The updated date at the top of the page shows when these terms were last revised.

Continuing to use the website after changes are posted means you accept the updated terms.