Terms &
conditions.

This site is operated by BE YOUR OWN (“we”, “us”, “our”). Throughout this document, you means whoever is reading the site, sending us an enquiry, or engaging us for work — and, where you are doing any of that on behalf of a company, that company as well as you.

You can reach us at support@beyourown.in. That is the address on record for every notice this document mentions.

These terms cover two different things, and it is worth separating them:

• The site. Everything at www.beyourown.in — reading it, browsing the work, sending an enquiry. Using the site at all means accepting the clauses below that apply to it.
• Engagements. Paid work we do for a client. These terms are our standing position on that work, but they are not the agreement itself — the proposal, quote or statement of work you accept is.

Where a signed scope says something different from this page, the signed scope wins. This page fills the gaps it leaves; it does not override it.

Read it, share it, quote it, send it to a colleague. What we ask you not to do is the short list any site would ask:

• Don’t scrape, mirror or republish the site, or substantial parts of it, as your own.
• Don’t attempt to reach the admin, CMS or client-document areas, or any account that isn’t yours.
• Don’t probe, load-test or interfere with how the site runs, or use it to distribute anything malicious.
• Don’t use our name, marks or case-study material to imply a relationship or an endorsement that doesn’t exist.

We may change, move or take down any part of the site at any time, and we don’t promise it will be available uninterrupted.

When you use the contact form or email us, you are asking us to reply — nothing more. An enquiry is not an offer on our side and not a booking on yours, and no engagement exists until there is a scope both sides have agreed in writing.

We aim to reply within 24 hours with next steps. That is a working commitment rather than a contractual one, and it covers a first reply, not a full proposal.

Please don’t send confidential material with a first enquiry. Tell us the shape of the problem; we will tell you what we need next, and put confidentiality in place before you send anything sensitive.

Every engagement is defined in a document — a proposal, a quote, or a statement of work — naming the deliverables, the stages, the timeline and the fee. Work begins when that document is accepted, and not before.

Anything outside it is out of scope. That is not a way of saying no: it means new requests get priced and scheduled rather than absorbed quietly, so what you agreed to stays what you agreed to. Changes are handled the way the original scope was — in writing, with the cost and the effect on the timeline stated before they start.

Dates in a scope assume you meet the input dates in it. Where feedback, approvals, content or access arrive late, the timeline moves by at least the delay.

There is no rate card, because there are no packages. Fees, milestones, currency, payment schedule and any expenses are set in the scope for your engagement, and that document is the authority on all of them.

Unless the scope says otherwise: fees are exclusive of applicable taxes; invoices are payable by the date on the invoice; and we may pause work on materially overdue invoices, having told you first.

Fees pay for the work, not for a result. Where a scope names a target, that is what we are aiming at and reporting against — it is not a guaranteed outcome, and no fee is contingent on one unless the scope explicitly makes it so.

Most of what slows an engagement down sits on the input side, so the scope names what we need and when. In general terms, you agree to give us:

• A named decision-maker who can approve work at each stage.
• Feedback and approvals within the windows the scope sets — consolidated into one response per round rather than arriving in pieces.
• The content, brand assets, data and system access the work depends on, in usable form.

You confirm that anything you give us — copy, images, logos, fonts, data, code — is yours to give, or properly licensed for the use we are putting it to, and doesn’t infringe anyone else’s rights. We rely on that, and we do not independently verify it.

Delivered work is yours. On full payment of the fees for an engagement, the final deliverables produced for you under it — the identity, the copy, the designs, the application code written specifically for you — transfer to you.

What we keep is the toolkit. Methods, frameworks, internal libraries, components, templates and know-how that existed before your engagement, or that we develop generally across engagements, stay ours. Where any of it is embedded in what we deliver, you get a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use it as part of that deliverable — you simply don’t own the underlying tool.

Routes not selected stay with us. Concepts explored and set aside during an engagement are not transferred, and may be developed further — never in a way that reproduces your final identity or discloses your confidential information.

Third-party components — fonts, stock imagery, libraries, hosted services — come with their own licences, held in your name where the scope says so. Those licences govern that material, not this page.

Unless the scope says otherwise, we may show completed work in our portfolio, case studies, credentials decks and social channels, and name you as a client — using the work itself and your marks for that purpose only.

Nothing confidential goes in without your written approval, and nothing appears before the work is publicly launched. If you would rather an engagement stayed unpublished, say so and we will record it in the scope. Where something is already published and you later want it taken down, write to us and we will.

Each side will keep the other’s confidential information confidential, use it only for the engagement, and share it only with people who need it for that purpose and are held to the same standard.

This does not apply to information that is already public through no fault of the receiving side, was already known to them, is independently developed without using the other’s information, or has to be disclosed by law — in which case we will tell you first where we are allowed to.

Where you and we have signed a separate non-disclosure agreement, that agreement governs instead of this clause.

Delivered work often runs on services neither of us controls — hosting, analytics, payment providers, email, model APIs. Those are supplied by their providers under their own terms, and their availability, pricing and behaviour are theirs to change. We select them carefully and we do not warrant them.

Links from this site to other sites are for reference. We don’t control what is at the other end and we aren’t responsible for it.

The site is provided as it is. Case studies, figures, process descriptions and commentary are published in good faith and describe particular engagements — they are not advice, and they are not a prediction of what the same approach would do for you.

Nothing on this site is legal, financial, tax or professional advice, and nothing on it forms a contract on its own. To the extent the law allows, we exclude implied warranties in relation to the site, including any implied promise that it is accurate, uninterrupted, or fit for a particular purpose.

Neither side is liable to the other for indirect or consequential loss, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data or loss of anticipated savings, however it arises.

Our total liability arising out of or in connection with an engagement is limited to the fees you have paid us under that engagement. For use of this site where there is no engagement, our liability is limited to the maximum extent the law allows.

Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited — including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

Either side may end an engagement on written notice; the notice period is in the scope. Either side may end it immediately if the other commits a material breach and hasn’t fixed it within 14 days of being told about it in writing.

On termination you pay for work done and costs committed up to that point, and the transfer of ownership described in Who owns the work above applies only to deliverables that have been paid for in full.

The clauses meant to outlast the engagement — ownership, confidentiality, liability, governing law — carry on after it ends.

We may update this page. The version and effective date at the foot of the document say which version is current, and the version in force when your scope was accepted is the one that applies to that engagement — a later edit here does not reach back and change an agreement already in place.

Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the updated terms as they apply to the site.

These terms, and anything arising out of them, are governed by the laws of India.

If something goes wrong, tell us first. Both sides agree to raise a dispute in writing and to try in good faith to resolve it directly before taking it further — most of what reaches that point is a scope disagreement that a conversation settles.

Questions about these terms, notices under them, or a request to take work down: email support@beyourown.in.

If it is about starting a project rather than about this page, the contact page is the faster route.