Terms & Conditions

Eligibility And Account Responsibility

Participation in the Services is available only to applicants aged 18 or older who can validly enter into a binding agreement. The Company may require age, identity, student status, and other information reasonably necessary for account verification, access control, payment administration, security, and compliance.

You must provide accurate, current, and complete information. You are responsible for activity through your account, credentials, team access, dashboards, devices, and connected communication channels. Password sharing, impersonation, proxy participation, and unauthorized access are prohibited.

Nature Of Services

STARTIONS provides an educational EdTech and SaaS-based startup learning and execution environment. The Services are intended for training, guided project execution, startup exposure, collaboration, and workflow management. The Company is not a partner, employer, franchise provider, broker, investment adviser, fiduciary, guarantor of business success, or co-promoter of any student venture.

Participation in the Platform does not guarantee admission to investors, revenue generation, profit, market traction, employment, incubation, certification, funding, business continuity, or commercial success. Any templates, workflows, mentor interactions, dashboards, CRM tools, review comments, or operational support are educational and administrative in nature only.

Founder And Co-Founder Roles

Participants may join in a Founder or Co-Founder role. Role assignment may affect access, permissions, visibility, operational authority, communication rights, and project responsibilities.

The Company may modify role definitions, permissions, project mapping, team structures, and digital access rights for operational, disciplinary, technical, commercial, or safety reasons. Access is a limited, revocable permission.

Age Eligibility And Verification

Applicants must be at least 18 years old at the time of application and participation. The Company may ask for reasonable proof of age and identity and may refuse or terminate access if eligibility cannot be verified or if information is inaccurate.

Applications and program access are intended for adults. A third party’s consent does not make an applicant under 18 eligible for a Founder or Co-Founder role.

Data, Records, And Platform Transparency

The Company may collect and manage account data, usage data, project data, communications data, payment data, transaction records, operational logs, and dashboard information as necessary to run the Services and maintain accountability. The Company may show relevant revenue, sales, payment, expense, commission, payout, adjustment, and project performance information through the CRM, participant dashboard, admin systems, or startup website dashboard for transparency and control.

You acknowledge that the Company controls the structure, format, classification, and presentation of such records. Dashboard visibility is for transparency and internal accountability, but the Company’s books, reconciliations, classifications, fraud reviews, reserve decisions, hold decisions, and final internal determinations shall prevail in case of discrepancy, suspected abuse, pending verification, chargeback risk, client complaint, legal request, or system error.

Subscription Fees And Payment Terms

Subscription fees shall be payable in the manner stated on the website, checkout page, invoice, proposal, or payment link issued by the Company. Fees may be one-time, recurring, milestone-based, or otherwise structured by the Company. Refund requests are governed by the Refund Policy, including its 30-calendar-day window measured from the Tax Invoice Date and the stated exclusions. Fees outside that policy are non-refundable except where required by law or expressly agreed in writing.

The Company may suspend or deny access for failed payments, reversals, chargebacks, disputed transactions, unauthorized payment instruments, suspected fraud, policy violations, or incomplete onboarding. The Company may revise pricing, plans, features, billing cycles, and bundled access prospectively. Continued use after such revision constitutes acceptance.

Revenue Collection And Financial Control

All revenue, collections, customer payments, retainers, advances, milestone fees, consulting fees, service charges, or any money connected with any startup, student project, client engagement, sale, or commercial activity operated through or associated with the Platform shall be received only in the bank account, payment gateway, UPI handle, merchant account, invoicing channel, or collection system authorized by STARTIONS. No student may collect, redirect, receive, hold, request, route, or settle any client money in a personal bank account, wallet, UPI ID, payment link, QR code, or third-party account.

Any money received by a student, team member, relative, associate, nominee, or third party in violation of this clause shall be deemed an unauthorized receipt held in trust for immediate transfer to the Company, without prejudice to suspension, expulsion, recovery proceedings, forfeiture, reporting, set-off, or any other action available to the Company. The Company may investigate pricing, discounts, invoices, side arrangements, kickbacks, commissions, cash handling, reimbursement claims, and any suspected siphoning, diversion, concealment, or overcharging behavior.

Revenue Allocation, Expenses, And Payouts

The Company may record, classify, allocate, reserve, defer, adjust, offset, or withhold project revenue and expenses for operational accuracy, client protection, refund risk, tax handling, dispute management, fraud review, policy enforcement, and platform administration. Any student-facing dashboard, startup dashboard, or CRM entry showing revenue, profit, expense, payout, incentive, or balance is informational until finally verified by the Company.

No amount shall become payable to any student unless the Company expressly approves such payout under its internal rules, after deduction of refunds, reversals, client compensation, taxes, gateway charges, software charges, operating costs, misconduct losses, penalties, and any other applicable adjustments. The Company may maintain reserves, temporarily hold disbursements, or cancel projected payouts where there is suspected misconduct, revenue manipulation, incomplete service delivery, non-compliance, or legal risk.

Pricing And Client Commitments

Students shall not quote, negotiate, promise, guarantee, discount, bundle, scope, revise, or finalize any price, deliverable, refund, timeline, or business commitment to any client unless expressly authorized by the Company in writing or through designated approval workflows. Any unauthorized promise, commitment, proposal, offer, discount, representation, or pricing communicated by a student shall be invalid unless ratified by the Company.

The Company may cancel or override unauthorized quotations and may recover from the responsible student any resulting loss, refund, reputational harm, complaint cost, legal expense, or operational burden. Students are prohibited from misrepresenting approval, authority, expected returns, partnership status, or Company backing in any external communication.

Code Of Conduct

All users must maintain discipline, professionalism, respect, and lawful behavior during all Platform use, team interactions, client interactions, mentor communications, events, calls, chats, emails, shared workspaces, and off-platform conduct connected to the Services. The following are strictly prohibited:

• harassment, bullying, intimidation, threats, stalking, humiliation, abusive language, hate speech, obscenity, or targeted hostility;
• sexual misconduct, sexually inappropriate communication, exploitation, coercion, unwanted advances, or unsafe interaction with other people;
• fraud, cheating, forgery, impersonation, plagiarism, false claims, fake billing, hidden commissions, kickbacks, siphoning of revenue, or personal benefit from project opportunities;
• accepting money privately, using undisclosed accounts, concealing client collections, or diverting leads, contracts, or opportunities;
• circulating confidential information, client data, login credentials, recordings, screenshots, internal documents, or financial data without authorization;
• defamation, retaliation, rumor-spreading, team sabotage, exclusionary conduct, or attempts to disrupt decorum and morale;
• illegal acts, unethical conduct, or any behavior that may expose the Company, mentors, clients, participants to risk, complaint, investigation, or reputational harm.

Supervision, Monitoring, And Reporting

The Company may monitor, log, review, preserve, and audit platform activity, communications, payment trails, workflow history, dashboards, and relevant records to enforce these Terms, investigate complaints, detect misuse, and maintain platform safety. The Company may implement reporting channels for misconduct, unauthorized billing, payment diversion, harassment, impersonation, suspicious client handling, or any violation of these Terms.

Users must promptly cooperate with any inquiry, furnish requested information, preserve relevant evidence, and avoid interfering with any review. Failure to cooperate may itself constitute a breach.

Suspension, Restrictions, And Termination

The Company may, at its sole discretion, without prior notice where necessary, suspend, restrict, freeze, downgrade, remove, or permanently terminate any account, team access, project role, payment visibility, payout eligibility, communication rights, or Platform privileges for breach of these Terms, suspected misconduct, payment default, participant safety concerns, client complaints, fraud concerns, legal requests, technical or security reasons, or any safety concern requiring immediate action.

Where reasonably practicable, the Company may provide a notice of concern, request clarification, or permit corrective action. However, the Company is not obliged to continue access where it believes continued participation creates risk to the Platform, other participants, clients, mentors, or the Company itself. Termination or suspension shall not waive any accrued rights, payment obligations, indemnities, recovery rights, or investigative powers of the Company.

Transfers And Project Mobility

Subscriptions are personal and non-transferable. A subscription cannot be sold, assigned, transferred, shared, or migrated to another person, startup, batch, or project, except where the Company expressly permits otherwise in writing.

A student may not unilaterally shift from one startup project to another. The Company may consider written requests only in exceptional cases such as verified medical hardship or verified academic conflict. Any decision shall remain entirely discretionary, case-specific, and non-precedential.

Intellectual Property And Work Product

The Platform, software, CRM structures, dashboards, workflows, templates, educational kits, content, branding, databases, and administrative systems remain the exclusive property of the Company or its licensors. Users receive only a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to access the Services during an active subscription.

Any project material, proposal, deck, content, code, data entry, communication template, lead list, design, record, client-facing asset, or operational material created, uploaded, or used through the Platform may be stored, reviewed, displayed internally, and used for administration, training, quality control, dispute handling, transparency, and platform operations. Users shall not copy, sell, reverse engineer, scrape, or commercially exploit the Platform or its systems without written permission.

Third-Party Tools And External Parties

The Services may integrate with or rely upon third-party tools, software, hosting providers, payment processors, CRM systems, communication tools, or external websites. The Company may also facilitate interactions with mentors, experts, vendors, clients, or investors. Such third parties remain independent parties and are not controlled in all respects by the Company.

The Company does not guarantee the conduct, solvency, quality, performance, legality, security, or outcomes of any third party. Any direct or indirect engagement with external parties shall be at the user’s own risk, and the user remains responsible for decisions, statements, offers, money flows, documents, and commitments made by or on behalf of the student outside expressly approved Company channels.

No Employment, Partnership, Or Agency

Nothing in these Terms creates any employment, apprenticeship, partnership, joint venture, agency, fiduciary, franchise, or representative relationship between the Company and any participant, team, or client. Students shall not present themselves as employees, directors, partners, agents, authorized signatories, or legal representatives of the Company unless expressly authorized in writing.

Students have no authority to bind the Company, enter contracts on its behalf, open accounts for it, collect money for personal retention, accept liability in its name, admit fault for it, or issue guarantees, warranties, or assurances on its behalf.

User Representations And Warranties

The user represents and warrants that:

• all registration and payment information provided is true and complete;
• the student shall comply with all instructions, policies, pricing controls, payment rules, and conduct obligations;
• the user shall not use the Platform for unlawful, abusive, deceptive, exploitative, or harmful purposes;
• all client interactions and commercial activities shall be routed only through authorized Company systems where required by the Company;
• any breach, complaint, external threat, police matter, legal notice, client dispute, or misconduct allegation involving the student that may affect the Platform or Company shall be disclosed immediately.

Misconduct Outside The Platform

Where any act, omission, statement, threat, harassment, crime, reputational attack, extortion attempt, off-platform coordination, client poaching, payment diversion, stalking, blackmail, defamation, or any other misconduct by a participant, associate, or representative has a nexus with the Services, the Platform, another participant, a mentor, a client, or the Company, the Company may take action under these Terms irrespective of whether the conduct occurred on or off the Platform.

The Company shall not be responsible for independent criminal, civil, personal, family, social, academic, or commercial acts of any participant or third party unless directly and expressly undertaken by the Company itself. The Company may cooperate with lawful requests, internal reviews, and safety actions without assuming liability for such underlying conduct.

Indemnity

The user shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Company, its partners, designated partners, directors, employees, contractors, mentors, affiliates, service providers, and representatives from and against any and all losses, claims, complaints, demands, actions, proceedings, damages, penalties, liabilities, investigations, costs, and expenses, including legal fees, arising out of or related to:

• breach of these Terms;
• acts or omissions of the user, their associates, nominees, or client-side collaborators;
• misuse of money, private collections, unauthorized pricing, side deals, overcharging, misrepresentation, or fraud;
• misconduct, harassment, illegal acts, threats, or reputational harm;
• disputes with clients, investors, vendors, mentors, other participants, or third parties;
• use of third-party software, tools, or integrations;
• any allegation that the Company is responsible for acts in which it had no direct involvement.

Limitation Of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted, the Company shall not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, punitive, exemplary, or consequential loss; loss of profits, revenue, opportunity, goodwill, data, business, or reputation; failed business outcomes; student disputes; client non-payment; investor refusal; third-party misconduct; unauthorized access; service interruption; data loss; suspension; or decisions taken for safety, compliance, moderation, or risk control. Access to the Platform is provided on an as-available basis, and use is at the user’s own risk.

If any liability is nevertheless imposed on the Company, its aggregate liability shall not exceed the total subscription fee actually received by the Company from the concerned user for the then-current subscription period, or such lower amount as may be specified in the applicable plan terms.

Refunds, Set-Off, And Recovery

The Company may apply set-off, withholding, recovery, clawback, forfeiture, or deduction against a payout, credit, balance, incentive, or amount shown in favor of a participant where there is misconduct, private collection, refund liability, chargeback, client complaint, fraud review, overpayment, pricing abuse, or a loss caused to the Company.

Suspension or termination does not itself create a refund right. Requests for subscription refunds remain subject to the Refund Policy and applicable law. The Company may pursue recovery through internal adjustment or formal proceedings where necessary.

Privacy And Policy Documents

Use of the Services is also subject to the Company’s Privacy Policy, Refund Policy, payment rules, conduct policy, and any operational guidelines published or communicated by the Company. Please read the applicable documents before registering or paying.

Changes To Terms And Services

The Company may modify these Terms, features, workflows, access conditions, dashboards, controls, billing logic, pricing structure, payment routing rules, reporting systems, or compliance requirements from time to time. Revised Terms shall become effective as stated on the website or upon communication by the Company. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

If a user does not agree to a revised term, the sole remedy is to stop using the Services and request account closure, subject to outstanding obligations and any rights under the Refund Policy.

Governing Law And Jurisdiction

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India. Subject to any dispute process separately notified by the Company, the courts at Mumbai, Maharashtra shall have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Services, or the relationship between the parties.

Contact And Notices

All notices, complaints, conduct reports, legal communications, refund requests, and transfer requests must be submitted only through the contact details or channels designated by the Company on the website. The Company may rely on electronic records, CRM logs, dashboard history, emails, platform messages, payment records, and internal system logs as evidence of communications, instructions, approvals, and user activity.

Acceptance

By clicking “I Agree,” making payment, registering an account, accessing any part of the Platform, or continuing to use the Services, the user confirms that they have read, understood, and accepted these Terms in full.