Terms & Conditions of Use
TATHYAGRID TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED
Effective Date: June 12, 2026
1. Definitions
In these Terms and Conditions, unless the context otherwise requires:
- Company means TathyaGrid Technologies Private Limited, incorporated under the Companies Act, 2013.
- Platform means the TathyaGrid service accessible at https://www.tathyagrid.com and any associated applications, APIs, or subdomains.
- User or You means any individual or entity accessing or using the Platform, including law firms, advocates, legal researchers, and clients of advocates.
- Content means all text, data, summaries, reports, dossiers, profiles, and information generated, displayed, or made available through the Platform.
- UPREAT Data means historical records, orders, and judgements of the Uttar Pradesh Real Estate Appellate Tribunal that are reproduced or indexed on the Platform.
- DPDPA means the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and any rules, regulations, or notifications issued thereunder.
- Sensitive Personal Data has the meaning ascribed to it under the DPDPA and applicable regulations.
- Grievance Officer means the designated officer responsible for redressal of user complaints as identified in Clause 15 of these Terms.
2. Acceptance of Terms
2.1 By registering for, accessing, or using the Platform in any manner, you confirm that:
- You have read, understood, and freely and affirmatively consented to be bound by these Terms by checking the “I Agree” box or equivalent mechanism presented at the time of registration or first access;
- You are at least 18 years of age and legally competent to enter into a binding contract under the Indian Contract Act, 1872;
- If you are accessing the Platform on behalf of a law firm, company, or other entity, you have the authority to bind that entity to these Terms.
2.2 These Terms are subject to periodic revision. The Company will notify registered Users of material changes by email or prominent Platform notice. Continued use after such notification constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.
3. Description of Services
3.1 Case Research & Dossier Generation: The Platform offers AI-assisted legal research tools, including automated generation of case dossiers, matter summaries, party histories, and citation analysis, drawing from publicly available judicial databases and indexed court records.
3.2 UPREAT Data Access: The Platform provides access to an indexed database of historical orders and decisions of the Uttar Pradesh Real Estate Appellate Tribunal (UPREAT). You acknowledge and agree that:
- All UPREAT records reproduced on the Platform are sourced from publicly available government and judicial repositories and are reproduced for informational and research purposes only.
- The Company does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, currency, or legal authenticity of any reproduced UPREAT record.
- UPREAT records may be out of date, subject to subsequent modification, appeal, review, or setting aside by a competent authority, and the Company bears no liability for reliance on such records.
- The Company is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting as an official repository for UPREAT or any government body. Users should verify all case information through official tribunal records before relying on it in any legal proceeding.
- Nothing in the Platform constitutes legal advice or a certificate of accuracy of any judicial record.
4. Licence to Use the Platform
4.1 Subject to your compliance with these Terms, the Company grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use the Platform solely for your own lawful internal legal research purposes.
4.2 This licence does not permit you to:
- Resell, sublicense, redistribute, or commercially exploit the Platform or its Content;
- Scrape, crawl, data-mine, or systematically extract Content from the Platform by automated means;
- Use the Platform to create competing products or services;
- Remove, obscure, or alter any proprietary notices, disclaimers, or attribution statements appearing on the Platform.
5. User Obligations and Prohibited Conduct
5.1 You agree to use the Platform only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms, applicable Bar Council of India Rules, professional codes of conduct, and all applicable laws of India.
5.2 You must not:
- Use Content generated by the Platform as the sole basis for any legal advice, pleading, or submission without independent verification;
- Misrepresent the source, nature, or reliability of Content generated by the Platform to any court, tribunal, client, or third party;
- Attempt to reverse-engineer, circumvent, or compromise the security or integrity of the Platform;
- Use the Platform in violation of any applicable law, including without limitation the DPDPA, the Information Technology Act, 2000, and the Indian Penal Code, 1860.
6. Intellectual Property
6.1 All technology, algorithms, AI models, pipeline architecture, software code, branding, and original Content on the Platform are the exclusive intellectual property of the Company and are protected under the Copyright Act, 1957, the Patents Act, 1970, the Trade Marks Act, 1999, and applicable international law.
6.2 Nothing in these Terms transfers any intellectual property right to you. Judicial records and orders reproduced on the Platform remain the property of the issuing authority and are used under the principle of public availability of court records.
6.3 User-generated content submitted to the Platform (including uploaded documents or instructions) remains your property. You grant the Company a limited licence to process such content solely to the extent necessary to deliver the requested service.
7. Disclaimer of Warranties and Accuracy of Content
7.1THE PLATFORM AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
7.2 Without limiting the foregoing, the Company expressly disclaims:
- Any warranty that the Platform will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free from viruses or other harmful components;
- Any warranty as to the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, currency, or reliability of any Content, including UPREAT Data, case summaries, or Lawyer Profile Data;
- Any warranty that AI-generated summaries or predictive analytics are legally accurate, admissible, or suitable for any particular purpose;
- Any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.
7.3AI systems, including those powering this Platform, may produce outputs that are factually incorrect, incomplete, or misleading despite best-effort design. Users are solely responsible for independently verifying all Content before acting upon it. The Company's commitment to minimising hallucinations through its deterministic pipeline architecture does not constitute a warranty of accuracy.
8. Limitation of Liability
8.1 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Company, its directors, officers, employees, agents, and licensors shall not be liable for:
- Any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages, including loss of profit, loss of data, loss of goodwill, or reputational harm;
- Any reliance placed by a User on Content that is subsequently found to be inaccurate, outdated, or incomplete;
- Any professional disciplinary consequence arising from a User's misuse of the Platform in contravention of Bar Council of India Rules or applicable professional norms;
- Any claim by a third party (including an advocate) arising from information displayed on the Platform that is derived from publicly available sources;
- Any loss arising from system downtime, data loss, or technical failure of the Platform.
8.2The Company's aggregate liability to any User for any claim arising under or in connection with these Terms shall not exceed the subscription fees paid by that User in the three (3) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.
9. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Company and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from any claims, losses, costs, or damages (including reasonable legal fees) arising from:
- Your breach of these Terms or any applicable law;
- Your misuse of Lawyer Profile Data, UPREAT Data, or any other Content;
- Any third-party claim resulting from your use of the Platform in a manner not authorised by these Terms.
10. Data Protection and Privacy
10.1 Personal Data of Users: The Company collects and processes personal data of registered Users (including name, email, law firm details, and usage logs) to provide, maintain, and improve the Platform. Such processing is carried out in accordance with the Company's Privacy Policy and the DPDPA. Users have the following rights under the DPDPA:
- Right to access personal data held about them (Section 11, DPDPA);
- Right to correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data (Section 13, DPDPA);
- Right to erasure of personal data where no legitimate purpose persists (Section 12, DPDPA);
- Right to nominate a nominee for data rights (Section 14, DPDPA);
- Right to grievance redressal through the Grievance Officer designated in Clause 15.
10.2 Personal Data of Third Parties (Including Lawyers): Where the Platform processes personal data of third parties (including advocates) that has been sourced from publicly available platforms or judicial repositories, such processing is conducted on the legal basis of legitimate interest and lawful public availability of judicial records. The Company does not collect, aggregate, or process:
- Sensitive personal data of advocates (including financial, medical, or biometric data) from any source;
- Any information that is not publicly available from official or publicly accessible professional channels.
Advocates whose information appears on the Platform may exercise their data principal rights by contacting the Grievance Officer as set out in Clause 15.
10.3 Data Security: The Company implements reasonable technical and organisational security measures to protect data held on the Platform. However, no system is completely secure, and the Company does not warrant that the Platform is impenetrable to unauthorised access.
10.4 Data Retention: User account data is retained for the duration of the subscription and for such period thereafter as may be required by applicable law. Anonymised analytical data may be retained indefinitely for product improvement purposes.
11. Third-Party Data Sources
11.1 The Platform relies on data sourced from:
- Publicly available orders and records of UPREAT and other judicial/quasi-judicial bodies;
- Publicly visible professional profiles on LinkedIn and equivalent platforms;
- Publicly accessible cause lists, judgement databases, and court records.
11.2 The Company does not guarantee that third-party data sources remain continuously accurate, accessible, or current. The Company is not responsible for any change, modification, removal, or unavailability of information on any third-party source after it was indexed by the Platform.
11.3 The reproduction of publicly available court records on this Platform is undertaken for legitimate informational, research, and legal practice purposes consistent with the principle that judicial proceedings and orders in courts of record are in the public domain. The Company does not claim any proprietary right over such records.
12. Data Accuracy and Correction Mechanism
12.1 While the Company employs significant technical measures to ensure the accuracy of Content, it acknowledges that information displayed on the Platform, including UPREAT records, may be:
- Out of date relative to subsequent developments in a matter;
- Incorrectly parsed, attributed, or indexed due to limitations of automated processing;
- Incomplete due to gaps in the underlying public data sources.
12.2 CORRECTION REQUEST PROCEDURE: Any User or affected third party (including an advocate whose profile appears on the Platform) who believes that information displayed is factually inaccurate, materially misleading, or incorrectly attributed may submit a formal Correction Request to the Grievance Officer as provided in Clause 15.
12.3 Upon receipt of a valid Correction Request, the Company shall:
- Acknowledge receipt within twenty-four (24) hours;
- Conduct an internal review of the disputed information against the original source data within seventy-two (72) hours of acknowledgment;
- Either correct the information, add a prominent accuracy caveat pending verification, or communicate a reasoned decision for non-correction, within the said period;
- Where technically feasible, flag disputed information with a visible marker during the review period.
12.4 Correction of data is undertaken on a best-effort basis where the inaccuracy can be verified against primary source documentation. The Company is not obligated to remove accurate information that a party finds unflattering, inconvenient, or prejudicial.
12.5 This procedure constitutes the formal Data Correction Mechanism required under Section 13 of the DPDPA and Principle 3 of data accuracy under the Act. The exercise of this right by a data principal does not attract any charge.
13. Subscription, Payment, and Cancellation
13.1 Access to premium features of the Platform is subject to a subscription fee as displayed on the Platform at the time of registration. Fees are subject to revision with thirty (30) days' prior notice to existing subscribers.
13.2 All fees are exclusive of applicable taxes, including Goods and Services Tax (GST) under the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, which shall be charged additionally at prevailing rates.
13.3 Subscriptions are prepaid and non-refundable except where required by law or expressly stated in a separate refund policy published by the Company.
13.4 The Company reserves the right to suspend or terminate access for non-payment, misuse, or breach of these Terms.
14. Termination
14.1 The Company may terminate or suspend your access to the Platform immediately, without prior notice, if you breach these Terms, engage in conduct that is unlawful or harmful, or if continued access creates legal, regulatory, or reputational risk for the Company.
14.2 Upon termination, all licences granted to you immediately cease. Clauses 6 (Intellectual Property), 7 (Disclaimer), 8 (Limitation of Liability), 9 (Indemnification), 10 (Data Protection), and 16 (Governing Law) shall survive termination.
15. Grievance Officer and Redressal Mechanism
In accordance with Rule 3A of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, and the grievance redressal obligations under the DPDPA, the Company has designated a Grievance Officer with the following details:
Name: Saurabh Jain
Designation: Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer, TathyaGrid Technologies Private Limited
Email: [email protected]
Response Commitment: All grievances acknowledged and resolved or escalated within seventy-two (72) hours of receipt.
15.1 The Grievance Officer shall receive and address:
- Complaints regarding inaccuracy of Content, including Lawyer Profile Data and UPREAT records;
- Requests for correction, deletion, or updating of personal data under the DPDPA;
- Complaints regarding privacy violations, unlawful processing of personal data, or misuse of information;
- Any other grievance relating to the use or operation of the Platform.
15.2 Complaints may be submitted by email or through the dedicated grievance submission form on the Platform. Complaints must include: (i) the complainant's name and contact details, (ii) the specific information in dispute, (iii) the URL or reference to the relevant Content, and (iv) supporting documentation where available.
15.3 The Company aims to resolve grievances within seventy-two (72) hours. Where a complaint requires extended investigation, the Grievance Officer shall notify the complainant of the estimated resolution timeline.
15.4If you are not satisfied with the Company's response, you may escalate to the Data Protection Board of India once constituted under the DPDPA, or seek redressal before the appropriate forum as per applicable law.
16. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution
16.1 These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India. The parties expressly exclude the application of any foreign law.
16.2 Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Platform shall first be subject to good-faith negotiation between the parties for a period of thirty (30) days from the date of written notice of the dispute.
16.3 If the dispute is not resolved through negotiation, it shall be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration in accordance with the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, as amended. The seat and venue of arbitration shall be Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. The language of arbitration shall be English. The arbitral tribunal shall consist of a sole arbitrator mutually appointed by the parties.
16.4 Subject to the arbitration clause above, the courts of competent jurisdiction at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any matters not referred to arbitration and over enforcement of arbitral awards.
17. Special Notice for Legal Professionals
17.1 This Platform is a research and information tool. It does not constitute legal advice, legal opinion, or a substitute for professional legal judgment.
17.2 Advocates and law firms using the Platform remain bound by all applicable Bar Council of India Rules and professional conduct norms. The Company accepts no responsibility for disciplinary consequences arising from a User's failure to independently verify information or from any other misuse of Platform Content in professional practice.
17.3 AI-generated content on this Platform should be treated as a starting point for research, not as a primary authority. It is the professional obligation of every advocate to verify citations, case law, and factual assertions through official sources before relying upon them in any court, tribunal, or advisory context.
18. Force Majeure
The Company shall not be liable for any delay or failure in performance resulting from causes beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disasters, governmental actions, cyber-attacks, pandemics, disruption to internet infrastructure, or actions of third-party service providers.
19. Severability
If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, such provision shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or severed if modification is not possible, without affecting the validity of the remaining provisions.
20. Entire Agreement
These Terms, together with the Company's Privacy Policy and any specific service agreements executed between the parties, constitute the entire agreement between you and the Company with respect to the Platform and supersede all prior or contemporaneous communications or proposals, whether oral or written.
21. Amendments
The Company reserves the right to amend these Terms at any time. Material amendments shall be communicated to registered Users at least fifteen (15) days before taking effect. Non-material updates (including typographical corrections and clarifications) may take effect immediately upon publication on the Platform.