Terms and Conditions

1. Who these terms are between

These terms are between Vasuttam Ventures Private Limited, which trades as Vasuttam Labs ("we", "us"), and you, whether you browse this site or engage us for work ("you", "the client"). Questions: admin@vasuttam.com.

Every engagement is defined by a written proposal or statement of work (SOW) and a services agreement. If they conflict with these terms, the signed documents win.

2. Using this website

The content of this site is for information. Prices, case study figures and timelines describe past or typical work; the price and timeline for your project are the ones in your written proposal. Do not misuse the site, its forms or its booking tools, or try to access what is not meant to be public.

3. Scope and changes

• Work is broken into milestones, each with deliverables written in the SOW.
• The 10-day codebase audit is priced from $2,500 by codebase size, and the price is agreed in writing before we start. If you go ahead with follow-on work, 100% of the audit fee is credited to it.
• Any change to scope is written up as a change order and signed by both sides before work on it starts.

4. Payment

• Prices are in USD unless your proposal says otherwise. GST is added where it applies.
• Invoices are payable within 15 days of the invoice date, unless agreed otherwise in writing.
• Retainers can be cancelled or scaled with 30 days' written notice.
• Registered non-profits receive a 50% discount, confirmed against their registration certificate.

5. Intellectual property and access

You own the repository and cloud accounts from commit one: code is written in your repository and infrastructure stays in your accounts. Intellectual property in each milestone is assigned to you as its invoice is paid, under the services agreement. Access we receive is granted by you and can be revoked by you at any time. Open-source components keep their own licences, and we tell you which ones we add.

6. Confidentiality

We sign your NDA, or provide ours, before we see any code. Both sides keep the other's confidential information private during the engagement and after it ends. We name a client or publish a quote only with that client's written permission.

7. Warranty

For 60 days after a milestone is deployed, we fix, at no extra cost, defects where the delivered code does not do what the SOW specifies. The warranty does not cover changes made by others, new requirements, problems caused by third-party services, or retainer work, which is billed separately.

8. Liability

To the extent the law allows, neither side is liable for indirect or consequential losses, such as lost profit or lost data. Our total liability under an SOW is limited to the fees you have paid under that SOW.

9. Ending an engagement

Either side may end an engagement as set out in the services agreement. You pay for work done up to the end date. Once the final invoice is settled, we hand over all code, documentation and access we hold. Notice periods, refunds and pausing are set out in our Cancellation Policy.

10. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of India. Disputes go first to a good-faith discussion between the founders; if that fails, to the courts of Kolkata, West Bengal.