Terms of Service
Welcome to Saarathi. These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and Basavaiah LLC (“Basavaiah,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), the company that operates the Saarathi mobile application and the website at saarathi.us (together, the “Service”).
By creating an account, downloading the app, or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.
1. Eligibility
You must be at least 13 years old (or 16 in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom) to use Saarathi. If you are under 18, you confirm that a parent or legal guardian has agreed to these Terms on your behalf. The Service is not directed to children under 13.
By using the Service you confirm that you have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms and that you are not barred from using the Service under any applicable law.
2. Your account
To use most parts of the Service, you create an account with an email address and password. You are responsible for:
- Giving us accurate information when you sign up.
- Keeping your password confidential.
- All activity that occurs under your account.
Tell us promptly at support@saarathi.us if you believe your account has been compromised.
One person, one account. You may not transfer your account to another person.
3. Your content
3.1 What you own
You keep ownership of the content you create or upload to Saarathi — your posts, articles, events, comments, images, and any other material (your “Content”). Owning your Content is a feature of Saarathi, not an accident.
3.2 The licence you grant us
To make the Service work — to store your Content, show it to the audience you intend, deliver it across devices, back it up, and let other users interact with it — you grant Basavaiah a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate, distribute, and display your Content. This licence:
- Is limited to operating, providing, and improving the Service.
- Does not give us the right to sell your Content.
- Does not give us the right to use your Content for advertising outside the Service without your separate, explicit permission.
- Ends when you delete your Content or your account, except for backups or copies retained to comply with law, and except for Content others have already shared or saved through the Service’s designed features.
3.3 Your responsibilities
You promise that:
- You own your Content, or you have the rights and permissions necessary to share it.
- Your Content does not infringe anyone else’s rights.
- Your Content complies with our Community Guidelines and these Terms.
4. Acceptable use
When you use Saarathi, you agree not to:
- Post or share content that violates our Community Guidelines, including harassment, hate speech, sexual content, illegal content, or content that infringes intellectual property.
- Impersonate any person or organisation, or misrepresent your affiliation with them.
- Use the Service to send spam, chain messages, or unsolicited commercial promotions.
- Interfere with the Service, attempt to gain unauthorised access to it, scrape it at unreasonable volume, or test its security without our written permission.
- Use the Service to develop a competing product, or to train machine-learning models on other users’ Content without their permission.
- Use the Service in any way that violates applicable law.
We may, at our discretion and where reasonable, remove Content that violates these Terms or our Community Guidelines, suspend accounts, or refuse service.
5. Content moderation and reporting
Saarathi is a community space and we take responsibility for keeping it usable.
- You can report content or another user from inside the app. We aim to review reports of objectionable content within 24 hours.
- You can block another user from inside the app. Blocked users cannot see or contact you through the Service.
- If your Content or account is actioned and you disagree, you can appeal in writing to appeals@saarathi.us. We will review and reply.
More detail is in our Community Guidelines.
6. Our intellectual property
The Saarathi name, logo, app, website, and software are owned by Basavaiah LLC and protected by intellectual-property laws. We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service as intended — nothing more. You may not copy, modify, distribute, reverse-engineer, or create derivative works of the Service except as expressly permitted by these Terms or applicable law.
7. Third-party stores and services
The Saarathi mobile app is distributed through the Apple App Store and Google Play. Your use of the app on those stores is also subject to their terms. If there is a conflict between these Terms and the store’s terms regarding the app, the store’s terms control to the extent of the conflict.
The Service relies on third-party providers (listed in our Privacy Policy) to function. Those providers are not under our control and we are not responsible for their availability.
8. Fees
Saarathi is free to use as of the effective date of these Terms. If we introduce paid features in the future, we will give you reasonable notice and clear terms before any charge.
9. Suspension and termination
By you. You can stop using the Service at any time. You can delete your account from inside the app or by following the steps on the Account deletion page.
By us. We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service if:
- You materially or repeatedly violate these Terms or our Community Guidelines.
- We are required to do so by law.
- Continued provision of the Service to you would create legal or security risk for Basavaiah, other users, or the public.
Where we suspend or terminate your account for a serious or repeated violation, we will, where reasonable and not prohibited by law, tell you why and give you an opportunity to appeal.
Sections of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination — including ownership, licence grants relating to Content already shared, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, and dispute resolution — will continue to apply.
10. Disclaimers
The Service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Basavaiah disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and uninterrupted or error-free operation. We do not warrant that the Service will always be available, secure, or free of errors.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law — for example, liability for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by our negligence.
11. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Basavaiah LLC, its officers, employees, and agents will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, or goodwill, arising from or related to your use of the Service. Our total aggregate liability for any claim arising out of or relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you have paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose or (b) one hundred US dollars (USD $100).
12. Indemnity
To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Basavaiah LLC and its officers, employees, and agents from any claims, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of (a) your use of the Service, (b) your Content, or (c) your breach of these Terms or applicable law.
13. Governing law and dispute resolution
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service that is not resolved informally will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Virginia, United States, and you and we consent to personal jurisdiction there.
This section does not deprive you of any mandatory rights you have under the law of your country of residence.
14. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. When we make a material change we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page and, where reasonably possible, give you notice in the app, by email, or both, at least 14 days before the change takes effect. Continued use of the Service after a change means you accept the updated Terms.
15. Miscellaneous
- Entire agreement. These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and Community Guidelines, are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service, replacing any earlier agreements.
- Severability. If a provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions stay in effect.
- No waiver. Our failure to enforce a right is not a waiver of that right.
- Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
- Notices. We may give you notices through the app, by email to the address on your account, or by posting on the website.
16. Contact
- support@saarathi.us
- Legal notices
- legal@saarathi.us
- Basavaiah LLC
8401 Mayland Dr, Ste A
Richmond, VA 23294-4648
United States