Terms & Conditions
These terms explain the rules for using our website, our free tools, our content, our consulting services, and any products we may offer now or in the future. Please read them before you use any of it.
1. What these terms cover
These Terms & Conditions (the “Terms”) apply to everything the Company offers. That includes this website and any of our other websites, our free online tools and calculators, our articles and other content, our consulting and advisory services, and any product, application, or service we may launch in the future (together, the “Services”).
By using any part of the Services, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Services.
2. Our products and separate agreements (umbrella clause)
We may launch products, applications, or paid services that carry their own additional terms, product terms, licence agreements, or order forms (“Product Terms”). Those Product Terms add to these Terms, they do not replace them.
These Terms are the parent agreement for everything we do. Unless a specific Product Term says otherwise in clear words, the protections and rules in these Terms continue to apply to every product and service, including our rights in intellectual property, our disclaimers, the limitation of our liability, your indemnity to us, confidentiality, and the governing law and jurisdiction. If there is a direct conflict between a Product Term and these Terms on a point the Product Term expressly deals with, the Product Term controls for that product only. For every point a Product Term does not expressly cover, these Terms continue to apply.
For consulting and advisory work, we usually sign a separate engagement letter, proposal, or statement of work (“Engagement Agreement”). That Engagement Agreement is a Product Term for the purpose of this clause: it sets the scope, fees, and deliverables, and these Terms fill in everything it does not cover.
3. The website, tools, and content are information, not advice
Our free tools, calculators, checklists, frameworks, and articles are provided for general information only. They are a starting point to help you think and ask better questions. They are not professional, legal, financial, tax, security, or investment advice, and they are not a substitute for advice from a qualified professional who knows your specific situation.
Using a tool, reading an article, sending us a message, or booking an introductory call does not create a consulting, advisory, professional, or fiduciary relationship between you and the Company. A working relationship begins only when we both sign an Engagement Agreement.
Our tools that run in your browser process the information you type on your own device. We do not collect the content you enter into those tools. You are responsible for the accuracy of anything you rely on and for the decisions you make.
4. Consulting and advisory services
When we work together under an Engagement Agreement, we provide recommendations, analysis, and guidance based on our experience and the information you give us. The decisions, and the results of those decisions, remain yours. We do not guarantee any particular business, financial, technical, or commercial outcome, because outcomes depend on many things outside our control, including how our recommendations are carried out.
You agree to give us accurate and complete information and reasonable access to the people and materials we need. The quality of our work depends on it.
5. Fees, invoices, and taxes
Fees for paid Services are set out in the relevant Engagement Agreement, order form, or invoice. Unless stated otherwise, fees are exclusive of applicable taxes, including Goods and Services Tax (GST), which you will pay in addition. Invoices are payable within the period stated on them. We may pause or stop work on overdue accounts after giving you notice.
6. Intellectual property
The Company owns, or is licensed to use, everything that makes up the Services. That includes the website design and code, our tools and their outputs, our articles, our frameworks and methodologies, and the “D-Sign” name, logo, and branding. These are protected by intellectual property laws.
We give you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to view and use the website and free tools for your own lawful purposes. You may share links to our content and you may share our tool outputs for your own internal use. You may not copy, republish, resell, scrape, data-mine, reverse engineer, or build a competing product from the Services, and you may not use our name or branding without our written permission.
If you send us ideas, suggestions, or feedback, you allow us to use them freely to improve the Services, without any obligation to you.
7. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- use the Services for anything unlawful, harmful, fraudulent, or misleading;
- try to break, overload, or gain unauthorised access to the Services or their systems;
- interfere with security features, or attempt to test them without our written permission;
- upload anything that contains malware or that infringes someone else’s rights; or
- use automated tools to harvest content or data from the Services.
8. Third-party services and links
The Services rely on and link to third parties, for example our scheduling provider, our email delivery provider, and our hosting and analytics providers. We also link to external websites. We do not control these third parties, and we are not responsible for their content, their availability, or their own terms and privacy practices. Your use of a third-party service is governed by that party’s terms.
9. Disclaimers
The Services are provided “as is” and “as available”, to the fullest extent permitted by law. We do not promise that the Services will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or fit for a particular purpose, and we make no warranties, express or implied, except those that cannot be excluded under applicable law. In particular, we make no promises about the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of our free tools and content for your specific situation.
10. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Company is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive loss, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business, arising out of or connected with your use of the Services, even if we were told such loss was possible.
For the free website, tools, and content, our total liability to you is limited to five thousand Indian Rupees (INR 5,000). Where you have paid us for a Service, our total liability arising out of that Service is limited to the total fees you actually paid us for that Service in the three months before the event that gave rise to the claim, unless a signed Engagement Agreement or Product Term states a different cap for that Service.
Nothing in these Terms limits any liability that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable Indian law, including liability for fraud.
11. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold the Company, its directors, employees, and contractors harmless from any claims, losses, liabilities, and reasonable costs (including legal fees) arising from your misuse of the Services, your breach of these Terms, or your breach of any law or third-party right.
12. Confidentiality
If we share information that is marked or clearly meant to be confidential, each of us agrees to keep it confidential and to use it only for the purpose it was shared. Specific engagements may include more detailed confidentiality terms, which apply in addition to this clause.
13. Suspension and termination
We may suspend or stop providing all or part of the free Services at any time. We may also end your access if you breach these Terms. Paid Services end in line with the relevant Engagement Agreement or Product Term. The clauses that by their nature should survive termination, including intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, confidentiality, and governing law, will continue to apply.
14. Force majeure
We are not responsible for any delay or failure caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including outages of the internet or third-party providers, acts of government, natural events, or other events of force majeure.
15. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will change the effective date at the top. If a change is significant, we will make reasonable efforts to highlight it. Continuing to use the Services after a change means you accept the updated Terms.
16. Governing law and jurisdiction
These Terms are governed by the laws of India. The courts at Mumbai, Maharashtra, India will have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or connected with these Terms or the Services, subject to any different dispute-resolution process agreed in a signed Engagement Agreement.
17. General
If any part of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest stays in force. Our not enforcing a right is not a waiver of it. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms without our consent; we may transfer ours as part of a reorganisation, merger, or sale of the business. Together with any applicable Product Term or Engagement Agreement, these Terms are the entire agreement between us on their subject.
18. Contact
Questions about these Terms can be sent to dsign@d-sign.in, addressed to DSIGN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED. See also our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle personal data.