1. About These Terms
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of the website at orvenath.com and any professional services provided by Orvenath.
Orvenath is a software studio and technology group operating as a sole proprietorship registered in Gurugram, Haryana, India, owned and operated by Mridul Gaur (“Orvenath”, “we”, “us”, “our”).
By using this website or engaging our services, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the site or engage us.
For any paid engagement, a separate written agreement — a proposal, statement of work, or engagement contract — will govern that specific project. Where that agreement conflicts with these Terms, the engagement agreement takes precedence. These Terms cover everything the engagement agreement does not.
2. Use of This Website
You may browse orvenath.com, read our content, and contact us through the channels provided.
You may not:
- Attempt to gain unauthorised access to the site, its infrastructure, or any connected system
- Scrape, crawl, or harvest content or contact information for bulk or automated purposes
- Use the site to transmit malware, or to attempt to disrupt or overload it
- Reproduce our written content, design, or case study material as your own
- Misrepresent yourself as affiliated with, employed by, or authorised to act for Orvenath
The design, written content, and code of orvenath.com are our property. You may reference or quote us with attribution. You may not copy the site wholesale.
3. Nothing Here Is an Offer or a Guarantee
Information on this website — including capability descriptions, case study material, methodology, and the published pricing anchor — is provided for information only.
- The pricing anchor is a minimum, not a quote: “Projects typically start at $1,500” describes our engagement floor. Your actual price depends on scope and will be quoted in writing.
- Case study material describes past work: It does not guarantee comparable outcomes for your project.
- Nothing on this site constitutes a binding offer: A contract exists only when we have both agreed to a written proposal or statement of work.
4. How Engagements Work
Our standard process, unless otherwise agreed:
- Discovery — we assess objectives, user roles, data models, and infrastructure needs
- Scope & Milestones — we issue a written proposal with deliverables, timeline, and price
- Build & Iteration — development proceeds with regular staging deployments and review points
- Deploy & Harden — production provisioning, security review, performance work
- Handover — repository transfer, documentation, environment setup, warranty period begins
Engagements are structured either as fixed-scope milestones or dedicated weekly sprint cycles, specified in the proposal.
4.1 Changes to scope
Software projects change. If you request work outside the agreed scope, we will tell you before proceeding and issue a written change order with any additional cost and timeline impact. We will not perform out-of-scope work and invoice you for it without your prior written approval.
4.2 Your responsibilities
Timely delivery depends on you as well as us. You agree to:
- Provide required content, assets, credentials, and third-party access when needed
- Respond to review requests and approvals within a reasonable time
- Nominate a single point of contact with authority to approve decisions
- Ensure you have the legal right to any content, designs, or data you provide to us
Delays caused by outstanding items on your side extend the timeline correspondingly and do not constitute a breach by us.
5. Payment Terms
Unless the engagement agreement says otherwise:
- Deposit: A deposit is payable before work begins. The amount is specified in the proposal.
- Milestones: Remaining payments are tied to milestones or invoiced on the agreed sprint cadence.
- Due Dates: Invoices are due within 14 days of issue.
- Currency: Prices are quoted in USD for international clients and in INR for Indian clients.
- Fees & Taxes: You are responsible for transfer fees, currency conversion costs, and any taxes or withholding applicable in your jurisdiction. Amounts received by us must equal the invoiced amount.
If an invoice is more than 14 days overdue, we may pause work until it is settled. We will give you notice before doing so.
6. Intellectual Property
6.1 What transfers to you
Upon receipt of final payment for an engagement, all rights, title, and interest in the bespoke deliverables created specifically for you transfer to you. This includes the custom application code, custom designs, and project-specific documentation.
You receive full ownership. You are never locked out of your own product.
6.2 What we retain
We retain ownership of:
- Pre-existing tools, libraries, boilerplate, and internal frameworks we bring to the project
- General knowledge, techniques, and methods learned or applied during the work
- Anything developed independently of your engagement
Where our pre-existing components are embedded in your deliverable, we grant you a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use, modify, and distribute them as part of that deliverable. This licence does not permit extracting those components for unrelated use.
6.3 Before final payment
Until final payment is received, all deliverables remain our property and are licensed to you only for review and testing.
6.4 Third-party components
Projects typically include open-source libraries and third-party services governed by their own licences and terms. We will identify significant dependencies at handover. You are responsible for ongoing compliance with those licences and for any third-party service fees after handover.
6.5 Portfolio rights
We may describe the engagement in our portfolio and marketing — the nature of the work, the technologies used, and the outcome — unless you tell us in writing not to.
We will not disclose your fee, your confidential business information, or your identity without your explicit written permission. If you ask us to remove or anonymise a portfolio reference at any time, we will.
7. Confidentiality
Each party may receive non-public information from the other. Both parties agree to:
- Use confidential information only for the purpose of the engagement
- Protect it with at least the same care applied to their own confidential information
- Not disclose it to third parties without written permission
This does not apply to information that is already public, was already known without a confidentiality obligation, is independently developed, or must be disclosed by law. These obligations survive the end of the engagement for three years.
8. Warranty & Disclaimer
We warrant that:
- Work will be performed in a professional and workmanlike manner
- Deliverables will substantially conform to the agreed specification
- We have the right to grant the licences described in Section 6
8.1 Post-launch bug warranty
For 30 days after handover, we will fix defects in our code at no additional charge — meaning code that does not function as specified in the agreed scope.
This does not cover:
- New features or changes to the agreed scope
- Issues caused by changes you or a third party make to the code
- Failures of third-party services, APIs, or infrastructure outside our control
- Issues arising from your hosting environment after you take control of it
- Content or data errors originating from you
After 30 days, we are happy to provide ongoing support under a separate maintenance arrangement.
8.2 Disclaimer
Except as expressly stated above, and to the maximum extent permitted by law, the website and our services are provided “as is” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
9. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law:
- Liability Cap: Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to an engagement is limited to the total fees you have actually paid us for that engagement.
- No Consequential Damages: We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including lost profits, lost revenue, lost business opportunity, or loss of data, even if we were advised such damages were possible.
- Third-Party Services: We are not liable for failures of third-party services, hosting providers, APIs, or infrastructure we do not control.
10. Termination
- By you: You may terminate an engagement at any time with written notice. You remain liable for all work completed up to the termination date, plus any non-refundable commitments already made on your behalf. Deposits are non-refundable.
- By us: We may terminate an engagement with written notice if an invoice remains unpaid more than 30 days past due, or you materially breach these Terms and do not remedy it within 14 days of notice.
- On termination: We will hand over all completed deliverables for which payment has been received, along with reasonable documentation.
11. Governing Law & Disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of India. The courts of Haryana, India have exclusive jurisdiction.
12. General Provisions
- Independent Contractor: Nothing creates an employment, partnership, or agency relationship.
- No Exclusivity: We may work with other clients, including in your industry.
- Subcontracting: We remain responsible for all work and bound by confidentiality.
- Force Majeure: Neither party is liable for delays caused by events beyond reasonable control.
- Severability & Entire Agreement: These Terms constitute the entire master agreement together with any project SOW.