Master Terms of Service & Enterprise Governance Protocols

These Master Terms of Service, Enterprise Governance Covenants, and Acceptable Use Protocols (the "Terms") constitute an electronic record within the contemplation of Section 2(t) of the Information Technology Act, 2000, and the statutory rules framed thereunder, being generated by a computer system and requiring neither physical nor digital cryptographic signatures to establish binding, enforceable legal efficacy under Section 10A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, and Section 10 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872.

By entering, scanning, viewing, browsing, consuming, or accessing any digital surface, sub-domain, booklet asset, or software code hosted at urdhvascens.pages.dev, urdhv-viewer.pages.dev, gold-cat-133405.hostingersite.com, or urdhvascens.online, you represent, warrant, and covenant that you possess full legal capacity to enter into this contract under the laws of the Republic of India. If you are accessing this Platform on behalf of an institution, educational body, or corporate entity, you represent that you possess express authority to bind said entity perpetually to these Terms.

Ūrdhv Ascens reserves the exclusive, unchallengeable, and unilateral prerogative to alter, amend, revise, augment, redact, or replace any portion of these Terms, the Privacy Policy, or access parameters at any instant, in its sole and unbridled discretion, without transmitting individualized notifications, emails, or communications to you.

The revised Terms become operative, binding, and immediately enforceable upon the exact moment of publication on the Platform. Your continuous, subsequent, or repetitive access to the Platform following such modifications constitutes your conclusive, constructive, and irrevocable acceptance of the modified Terms. It remains your sole, non-delegable burden and obligation to inspect these Terms prior to initiating each browsing session.

All curriculum booklets, visual slide canvases, typographic compositions, vector emblems, brand iconography, and software code available through the Ūrdhv Ascens Viewer are strictly protected by active Digital Rights Management (DRM), cryptographic canvas watermarking, canvas rasterization obfuscation, and Technical Protection Measures (TPM) recognized under Section 65A and Section 65B of the Copyright Act, 1957 (as amended).

YOU EXPRESSLY COVENANT AND AGREE THAT YOU SHALL NOT:
(a) Open browser Developer Tools, inspect elements, capture DOM trees, record canvas buffers, or execute console scripts designed to scrape or reconstruct booklet folios;
(b) Execute automated screenshot captures, screen-recording software, optical character recognition (OCR) engines, or headless browser automation (Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium, cURL);
(c) Bypass, disassemble, decrypt, reverse engineer, or circumvent our edge authentication gates or canvas DRM protections.

ANY BREACH OF THIS SECTION CONSTITUTES WILLFUL COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT UNDER SECTION 51 OF THE COPYRIGHT ACT, 1957, AS WELL AS A COGNIZABLE CRIMINAL OFFENSE UNDER SECTION 43, SECTION 66, AND SECTION 66B OF THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT, 2000, PUNISHABLE BY IMPRISONMENT OF UP TO THREE (3) YEARS AND SEVERE MONETARY PENALTIES. ŪRDHV ASCENS SHALL VIGOROUSLY PURSUE CRIMINAL PROSECUTION AND LIQUIDATED CIVIL DAMAGES AGAINST ALL INFRACTORS.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE INDIAN LAWS, ALL SERVICES, PLATFORMS, BOOKLETS, LEARNING MODULES, GRAPHICAL INTERFACES, CODE BASES, AND ADVISORY COMMUNICATIONS ARE DELIVERED STRICTLY ON AN "AS-IS", "AS-AVAILABLE", AND "WITH ALL FAULTS" BASIS.

ŪRDHV ASCENS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, CONDITIONS, AND COVENANTS OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR COLLATERAL, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO:
(I) ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR VOCATIONAL OR ACADEMIC OBJECTIVE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT;
(II) ANY GUARANTEE THAT THE PLATFORM WILL REMAIN CONTINUOUS, ERROR-FREE, UNINTERRUPTED, IMMUNE TO LATENCY SPILLS, VIRUSES, OR NETWORK OUTAGES;
(III) ANY WARRANTY AS TO THE ACCURACY, PEDAGOGICAL VALIDITY, PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION WORTH, OR COMMERCIAL UTILITY OF THE EDUCATIONAL BOOKLETS.

YOU ASSUME TOTAL AND SOLE RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK FOR YOUR CONSUMPTION OF THE CONTENT, AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT NO VERBAL OR WRITTEN STATEMENT ISSUED BY ŪRDHV ASCENS OR ITS PERSONNEL CREATES ANY WARRANTY WHATSOEVER.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, AND UNDER NO LEGAL THEORY—WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING GROSS NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, STATUTORY RESTITUTION, OR OTHERWISE—SHALL ŪRDHV ASCENS, ITS FOUNDERS, DIRECTORS, INVESTORS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, EDGE CDN PROVIDERS, OR RESELLERS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE, RETRIBUTIVE, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER.

THIS EXCLUSION EXTENDS TO, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF REVENUE, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF REPUTATION, LOSS OF ACADEMIC ADMISSION OPPORTUNITY, LOSS OF EMPLOYMENT, DATA CORRUPTION, OR SYSTEM COLLAPSE, EVEN IF ADVISED IN ADVANCE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH INJURIES.

NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED IN THESE TERMS OR ANY APPLICABLE STATUTE, THE TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF ŪRDHV ASCENS FOR ANY AND ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO YOUR USE OF THE PLATFORM OR BOOKLETS SHALL BE STRICTLY LIMITED TO AND SHALL NOT EXCEED THE TOTAL SUM OF INR 100/- (INDIAN RUPEES ONE HUNDRED ONLY) OR THE ACTUAL MONETARY AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO ŪRDHV ASCENS IN THE THREE (3) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE OCCURRENCE GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY, WHICHEVER IS LESSER.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold completely harmless Ūrdhv Ascens, its founders, executive officers, corporate partners, cloud infrastructure providers, and legal counsel from and against any and all claims, demands, liabilities, damages, awards, settlements, judgments, losses, expenses, and reasonable attorneys' fees arising out of, resulting from, or in connection with:
(a) Your use, misuse, or inability to access the Platform or educational viewer;
(b) Your breach or alleged violation of any covenant, representation, or obligation set forth in these Terms or the Privacy Policy;
(c) Your violation of any third-party right, including without limitation any copyright, trademark, trade secret, or privacy right;
(d) Any falsified, fraudulent, or inaccurate information submitted through our reader registration portal.

Ūrdhv Ascens reserves the exclusive right, at its option, to assume the sole and exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, and in such case, you agree to fully cooperate and reimburse all legal retainers and defense disbursements incurred by the Company on a monthly advance basis.

PLEASE READ THIS CLAUSE WITH UTMOST CARE AS IT ELIMINATES YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL PRIVILEGE TO PURSUE CLAIMS IN CIVIL COURTS, OBTAIN A JURY OR BENCH TRIAL, OR PARTICIPATE IN CLASS-ACTION LITIGATION.

(a) Mandatory Sole Arbitration: Any dispute, controversy, claim, or divergence of interpretation arising out of, relating to, or concerning these Terms, the Privacy Policy, or your access to the Platform shall be finally, exclusively, and definitively resolved through binding individual arbitration conducted under the provisions of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (Republic of India), as amended.
(b) Unilateral Arbitrator Appointment: The arbitral tribunal shall consist of a sole arbitrator appointed exclusively and unilaterally by Ūrdhv Ascens. You waive any objection to the appointment of said arbitrator.
(c) Seat and Venue: The legal seat, place, and venue of arbitration shall be exclusively Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. The arbitral proceedings shall be conducted strictly in the English language.
(d) Cost Allocation: The arbitrator's fees and administrative expenses shall be paid upfront by the claimant initiating the dispute. The prevailing party shall be entitled to recover full actual legal costs, attorneys' fees, and forensic expenses.
(e) Total Class Action and Collective Suit Waiver: YOU UNEQUIVOCALLY WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO COMMENCE, JOIN, OR PARTICIPATE IN ANY CLASS ACTION, REPRESENTATIVE SUIT, PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL), OR CONSOLIDATED ARBITRATION AGAINST ŪRDHV ASCENS. ALL CLAIMS MUST BE BROUGHT STRICTLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS.

Ūrdhv Ascens retains the unrestricted, absolute power to block, terminate, suspend, ban, or black-list your IP address, browser fingerprint, or reader account immediately, at any moment, for any reason or no reason whatsoever, without prior notification, cause, or financial recompense.

Upon termination, all conditional licenses granted to you shall instantly vanish. However, all provisions of these Terms which by their nature ought to survive termination—including Section 3 (DRM & Criminal Liability), Section 4 (Disclaimers), Section 5 (Limitation of Liability), Section 6 (Indemnification), Section 7 (Arbitration & Class Action Waiver), and all intellectual property ownership covenants—shall survive indefinitely and remain perpetually enforceable against you.