Part A — General Terms

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1. The agreement

1.1 These Terms of Use ("Terms") form a binding agreement between LexCampus (OPC) Private Limited ("LexCampus", "we", "us" or "our") and the person who accesses the Website or uses any of the Services ("you" or "your").

1.2 These Terms are an electronic record under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules made under it, and they require no physical or digital signature. You accept them by ticking the acceptance box at checkout or on an application form, by paying for a Service, or by using the Website. You must not use the Website or the Services if you do not accept them.

1.3 Our Privacy Policy, published at https://lexcampus.org/privacy, explains how we handle personal data and forms part of these Terms.

1.4 These Terms are issued in compliance with, among other laws, the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020 and the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, and they are to be read consistently with those laws.

 

2. Definitions

In these Terms, unless the context requires otherwise:

(a) "Cohort" means a live, instructor-led programme of classes offered by LexCampus to a limited group of Participants admitted by application;

(b) "Course Proposal" means the written proposal that LexCampus sends to each selected candidate for a Cohort, setting out the syllabus, schedule, number of classes, Cohort Fee, per-class rate and any conditions particular to that Cohort;

(c) "Content" means everything that LexCampus makes available through the Website or the Services, including PDF Publications, lectures, live classes, Recordings, slides, notes, problem sets, assessments, reading lists and all text, images and software;

(d) "Institution" means a company, firm, university, association or other body that engages LexCampus, under a signed contract, to train persons it nominates;

(e) "Participant" means a person admitted to a Cohort, including a person nominated by an Institution;

(f) "Participant Content" means anything a Participant posts, uploads, submits or says in a class, forum, chat, assignment or other channel provided by LexCampus;

(g) "PDF Publication" means a book or other publication sold by LexCampus in Portable Document Format;

(h) "Recording" means an audio-visual recording of a live class;

(i) "Services" means the Cohorts, the PDF Publications and every other service that LexCampus provides through the Website or otherwise; and

(j) "Website" means https://lexcampus.org and its sub-domains.

 

3. Order of precedence

3.1 Cohorts. Where the terms applicable to a Participant in a Cohort are inconsistent, they apply in the following order of precedence: first, the Course Proposal sent to that Participant; second, these Terms, including Schedule 1; and third, any agreement between LexCampus and the Institution that nominated the Participant, to the extent it applies to the Participant.

3.2 Institutional and corporate training. As between LexCampus and an Institution, the signed contract between them prevails over these Terms and over any Course Proposal. Matters that the signed contract does not address are governed by these Terms.

3.3 PDF Publications. A purchase of a PDF Publication is governed by these Terms, including Schedule 2, and by any licence statement printed in the PDF Publication itself, which is to be read consistently with Schedule 2.

 

4. Eligibility and age

4.1 You must be at least eighteen years of age and competent to contract under the Indian Contract Act, 1872 in order to purchase or use the Services.

4.2 A person under eighteen may use a Service only with the consent of a parent or lawful guardian, who must accept these Terms on that person's behalf and who is responsible for the person's use of the Service. LexCampus will obtain verifiable consent from the parent or guardian, as required by section 9 of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, before processing the personal data of that person.

4.3 Admission to a Cohort is also subject to the eligibility criteria stated in the call for applications and in the Course Proposal.

 

5. Accounts and credentials

5.1 Any account, link, meeting credential or access code issued to you is personal to you and may not be shared, sold, lent or transferred.

5.2 You are responsible for keeping your credentials confidential and for all activity that takes place under them, and you must inform us promptly at contact@lexcampus.org if you believe they have been compromised.

5.3 You must give accurate and complete information when you apply, purchase or register, and must keep it up to date.

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6. Prices, taxes, invoices and foreign currency

6.1 Prices. Prices are stated on the Website, at checkout or in the Course Proposal, together with a statement of whether they include Goods and Services Tax.

6.2 Taxes. Goods and Services Tax, and any other tax that applies to a supply, is charged at the rate in force on the date of the supply. Where a supply to a person outside India qualifies as an export of services under the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, it is treated accordingly.

6.3 Invoices. A tax invoice is issued electronically for every payment. If you want your GSTIN or an organisation's name to appear on the invoice, you must provide it before payment, as an issued invoice can be amended only as the GST law permits.

6.4 Foreign-currency payments. Where you pay in a currency other than the currency in which the price is stated, the conversion is made by your bank or by the payment gateway at its rate. Currency conversion charges, bank charges and foreign-transaction fees are borne by you. A refund is made in the amount received by LexCampus, in the currency in which it was received, and LexCampus does not compensate differences in exchange rates between the date of payment and the date of refund.

6.5 Pricing errors. If a price is displayed incorrectly because of an evident typographical or technical error, LexCampus may decline or cancel the order before the Service is supplied. In that event we will inform you, offer the Service at the correct price, and refund in full any amount already paid if you do not wish to proceed.

 

7. Payments

7.1 Payments are processed by third-party payment gateways regulated by the Reserve Bank of India or by the regulator of the country where they operate. LexCampus does not receive or store your card number, card verification value, net-banking password or UPI PIN.

7.2 A Service is confirmed only when LexCampus has received the payment in full.

 

8. Intellectual property

8.1 All rights in the Content, and in the names, logos and marks of LexCampus, belong to LexCampus or to its licensors and are protected by the Copyright Act, 1957, the Trade Marks Act, 1999 and other applicable laws.

8.2 Apart from the licence granted in Schedule 2 for PDF Publications and the limited access granted in Schedule 1 for Cohorts, nothing in these Terms grants you any right or licence in the Content. You must not copy, reproduce, record, broadcast, publish, distribute, sell, rent, sub-license, adapt, translate or create derivative works from the Content, or remove any copyright notice from it, without the prior written permission of LexCampus.

8.3 Brief quotation of the Content for purposes of criticism, review or research, with acknowledgement of the source, is permitted to the extent that section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957 allows.

 

9. Artificial intelligence

9.1 Reservation of rights. LexCampus expressly reserves all rights in the Content against use by or for artificial intelligence and machine-learning systems. Without the prior written permission of LexCampus, you must not, and must not permit any other person to:

(a) use any Content, including PDF Publications and Recordings, to train, fine-tune, test, evaluate or otherwise develop any artificial intelligence or machine-learning model;

(b) upload, paste or otherwise input any Content, in whole or in substantial part, into any generative artificial intelligence tool, chatbot, assistant or retrieval system;

(c) include any Content in a dataset, corpus, embedding store, vector database or knowledge base; or

(d) scrape, crawl, harvest, or carry out text and data mining on, the Website or the Content by automated means.

9.2 This reservation is made, among other purposes, as an express reservation of rights for the purposes of any law that permits text and data mining unless the rightsholder has reserved its rights, including Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790, and it applies whether or not a machine-readable reservation is also published.

9.3 Use of AI tools by Participants. A Participant may use artificial intelligence tools as an aid in preparing their own work only to the extent that the Course Proposal or the instructor permits, must disclose that use when submitting the work, and remains wholly responsible for the accuracy and originality of the work submitted. Undisclosed use, or use that the Course Proposal or instructor prohibits, is treated as unfair means under clause 12.

9.4 Participant Content. LexCampus does not use Participant Content to train any artificial intelligence model and does not permit any third party to do so.

 

10. Participant Content, licence and takedown

10.1 Ownership. You retain the rights you hold in your Participant Content.

10.2 Licence to LexCampus. You grant LexCampus a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce and display your Participant Content solely for the purpose of conducting the Cohort, assessing your work and keeping the records described in the Privacy Policy. LexCampus will not publish your Participant Content outside the Cohort without your consent.

10.3 Your responsibility. You are responsible for your Participant Content and warrant that you are entitled to share it. You must not post, upload or share any information that:

(a) belongs to another person and to which you have no right;

(b) is defamatory, obscene, invasive of another's privacy, including bodily privacy, insulting or harassing on the basis of gender, racially or ethnically objectionable, or otherwise inconsistent with the laws of India;

(c) is harmful to children;

(d) infringes any patent, trade mark, copyright or other proprietary right;

(e) deceives or misleads the recipient about its origin, or knowingly communicates misinformation;

(f) impersonates another person;

(g) threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign States or public order, incites the commission of any cognisable offence, or insults another nation;

(h) contains software viruses or any other code designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource;

(i) is patently false and untrue and is written or published with the intent to mislead or harass a person for financial gain or to cause injury; or

(j) discloses confidential information of a client, an employer or any other person that you are not entitled to disclose.

10.4 Takedown. LexCampus may remove or disable access to any Participant Content that it considers to breach clause 10.3, and will do so when required by a court order or by a lawful direction of the appropriate Government or its agency.

10.5 Complaints. Any person may complain about Participant Content to the Grievance Officer named at the head of these Terms. The Grievance Officer will acknowledge the complaint within twenty-four hours and resolve it within fifteen days of receipt, or within any shorter period the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 prescribe for the kind of complaint made. A complaint about content that exposes the private area of any person, shows a person in full or partial nudity or in a sexual act, or is in the nature of impersonation in an electronic form, including artificially morphed images, will be acted upon within twenty-four hours.

10.6 Appeal. A person dissatisfied with the Grievance Officer's decision may appeal to the Grievance Appellate Committee constituted under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, within thirty days of receiving that decision.

 

11. Conduct

11.1 You must conduct yourself courteously and professionally towards instructors, staff, guest speakers and other Participants in every class and channel provided by LexCampus.

11.2 Harassment, intimidation, discrimination, abusive language, disruption of classes, spamming and the recording of classes without permission are prohibited. LexCampus may remove from a class, suspend or expel any person who engages in them, in accordance with clause 16.

 

12. Academic integrity

12.1 Work submitted for assessment must be your own. Plagiarism, collusion, submission of work prepared by another person, and any use of artificial intelligence tools contrary to clause 9.3, constitute unfair means.

12.2 Where unfair means are suspected, LexCampus will inform you of the allegation and give you an opportunity to respond before deciding. LexCampus may then cancel the assessment, withhold or withdraw a certificate, or expel you from the Cohort.

 

13. Third-party platforms

13.1 The Services are delivered through platforms operated by third parties, including Wix, Zoom/Google Meet, Razorpay payment gateway, Zoho Mail email provider. Your use of each such platform is subject to that platform's own terms and privacy policy.

13.2 LexCampus does not control those platforms and is not responsible for their availability, security or performance, or for any loss arising from their failure, except to the extent that the loss is caused by the negligence of LexCampus.

13.3 LexCampus will use reasonable efforts to reschedule any class lost to a failure of a third-party platform, and a class so rescheduled is not a material rescheduling for the purposes of Schedule 1.

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14. Disclaimers

14.1 Not an accredited institution. LexCampus is a private professional education and publishing company. It is not a university, is not accredited by any statutory regulator of education, and does not confer degrees, diplomas or qualifications recognised by law. A certificate issued by LexCampus records participation in or completion of a LexCampus programme and nothing more.

14.2 No affiliation. LexCampus is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, the Indian Patent Office or any examining body. LexCampus does not guarantee that any Participant or reader will pass the Patent Agent Examination or any other examination, or obtain any employment or engagement.

14.3 Not legal advice. The Content is published for education and information. It is not legal advice, and neither the Content nor any communication in a class creates an advocate–client or other professional relationship between you and LexCampus or any instructor.

14.4 Currency of the law. The law changes. Each PDF Publication and each class states the law as at the date it bears. LexCampus does not warrant that the Content reflects any change in the law, or any judgment, made after that date.

14.5 Availability. LexCampus will use reasonable efforts to keep the Website available but does not guarantee that it will be uninterrupted or free of errors.

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15. Limitation of liability and indemnity

15.1 To the extent permitted by law, LexCampus is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, including loss of profit, opportunity, reputation or data, arising from the use of or inability to use the Website or the Services.

15.2 To the extent permitted by law, the total liability of LexCampus for all claims arising from a Service is limited to the amount you paid for that Service.

15.3 Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under the law of India, including liability under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 for deficiency in service or unfair trade practice.

15.4 You agree to indemnify LexCampus against any claim by a third party, and any resulting loss, damage and reasonable legal cost, arising from your breach of these Terms, your Participant Content, or your infringement of the rights of any person.

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16. Suspension and termination

16.1 LexCampus may suspend or terminate your access to any Service, with notice to you, if you materially breach these Terms, including clauses 5, 9, 10, 11 or 12, or if it is required to do so by law.

16.2 Except where there is a serious breach, or where immediate action is necessary to protect other Participants, the Content or the Website, LexCampus will first give you notice of the breach and a reasonable opportunity to remedy it or to respond.

16.3 Where access to a Cohort is terminated for breach, any refund is calculated under paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 as if you had withdrawn on the date of termination. No refund is due for a PDF Publication whose licence is terminated for breach.

16.4 You may stop using the Services at any time. Withdrawal from a Cohort is governed by Schedule 1.

 

17. Force majeure

17.1 LexCampus is not liable for any failure or delay in performing its obligations to the extent it is caused by an event beyond its reasonable control, including natural disaster, epidemic, war, civil disturbance, act of government, failure of power or telecommunications networks, failure of a third-party platform, or the serious illness or death of an instructor.

17.2 LexCampus will inform affected Participants promptly and will reschedule the affected classes where it reasonably can. If the event prevents a Cohort from being delivered, or delayed beyond the limits in paragraph 8 of Schedule 1, the Cohort is treated as cancelled and refunded under that paragraph.

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18. Communications

18.1 You agree to receive communications from LexCampus electronically, by email and, where you have provided your number for that purpose, by telephone, SMS or WhatsApp. Electronic communications satisfy any legal requirement that a communication be in writing.

18.2 LexCampus sends service and transactional communications relating to Services you have purchased or applied for. Promotional communications are sent only with your consent, may be withdrawn at any time, and comply with the Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations, 2018. LexCampus does not send promotional calls or SMS to a number registered on the National Customer Preference Register.

 

19. Dispute resolution

19.1 Written notice. A party wishing to raise a dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the Services must give written notice to the other party, setting out the dispute and the remedy sought. Notice to LexCampus is given at contact@lexcampus.org.

19.2 Negotiation. The parties will attempt in good faith to resolve the dispute by negotiation within thirty days of the notice.

19.3 Mediation. If the dispute is not resolved within that period, either party may refer it to mediation under the Mediation Act, 2023, before a mediator agreed between the parties or, failing agreement, appointed by a mediation service provider recognised under that Act. The mediation may be conducted online. The parties will participate in good faith for at least sixty days from the appointment of the mediator, unless the mediation ends earlier.

19.4 Arbitration. A dispute not resolved by mediation shall be finally resolved by arbitration under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, by a sole arbitrator appointed by agreement of the parties or, failing agreement, in accordance with that Act. The seat of arbitration is Malappuram, Kerala. The language of the arbitration is English. The hearings may be conducted by video conference, and the parties may agree to the fast-track procedure under section 29B of that Act.

19.5 Interim relief. Nothing in this clause prevents a party from seeking urgent interim relief from a court of competent jurisdiction, including relief to protect intellectual property.

19.6 Consumer rights. Nothing in this clause limits any right that you have as a consumer to approach a Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019.

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20. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of India. Subject to clause 19, the courts at Malappuram District, Kerala have exclusive jurisdiction over all matters arising out of or in connection with these Terms, including applications under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996.

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21. Grievance redressal

21.1 Complaints about the Services may be made to the Grievance Officer named at the head of these Terms.

21.2 In accordance with the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020, the Grievance Officer will acknowledge a complaint within forty-eight hours of receipt and redress it within one month of receipt. Complaints about Participant Content follow the timelines in clause 10.5.

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22. Notices

Notices to LexCampus must be sent to contact@lexcampus.org, and are effective on receipt. Notices to you are sent to the email address you gave us, and are effective when sent, unless we receive a delivery-failure message.

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23. General

23.1 Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, any Course Proposal sent to you and any signed contract referred to in clause 3.2, constitute the entire agreement between you and LexCampus about their subject matter and supersede all earlier representations and understandings about it.

23.2 Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, it is to be enforced to the maximum extent permissible, and the remaining provisions continue in full force.

23.3 Waiver. A failure or delay by LexCampus in enforcing any provision is not a waiver of it. A waiver is effective only if it is in writing and signed or sent by email by LexCampus.

23.4 Assignment. You may not assign or transfer any of your rights or obligations under these Terms. LexCampus may assign them to a successor in its business, with notice to you, provided that your rights are not diminished.

23.5 Survival. Clauses 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 19, 20 and 23, paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 and paragraph 3 of Schedule 2, and every other provision that by its nature is intended to survive, survive the termination or expiry of these Terms.

23.6 Amendments. LexCampus may amend these Terms by publishing a revised version on the Website with a new effective date. An amendment does not apply to a Cohort for which you have already paid, or to a PDF Publication you have already purchased, unless you agree to it or the amendment is required by law.

23.7 Language. These Terms are written in English. A translation, if provided, is for convenience, and the English text prevails.