Legal Terms & Notices

This page carries the formal legal notices for MindMillers Foundation and the MindMillers platform: who operates it, the disclaimers that apply to what you read here, who owns the intellectual property, how to have unlawful or infringing content removed, how to raise a grievance, and which law governs. It sits alongside our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy, and forms part of the same agreement.

1. Entity and imprint

The MindMillers platform at portal.mindmillers.com, together with its companion mobile and desktop applications (the “Platform”), is owned and operated by MindMillers Foundation.

MindMillers Foundation is established in India. The Platform is directed at invited members and is not held out as being directed at the general public in any particular country. We make no representation that the Platform or its content is appropriate or available for use in every jurisdiction, and those who access it do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with their local law.

2. Our legal documents

Three documents govern your relationship with MindMillers. Read together, they are the whole agreement.

Where a genuine conflict arises between them, the Terms & Conditions prevail on matters of use and conduct, the Privacy Policy prevails on matters of personal data, and this page prevails on entity details, disclaimers and takedown procedure.

3. Status as an intermediary

In respect of content that members create, upload, share or exchange, MindMillers Foundation acts as an intermediary within the meaning of section 2(1)(w) of the Information Technology Act, 2000. We store and transmit that content at our members' direction; we do not initiate it, select its recipients, or select or modify the information it contains.

We observe due diligence under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021: we publish these terms and our privacy policy, inform members of the categories of content they may not host, appoint a Grievance Officer, and act on valid complaints and lawful orders within the prescribed periods. Doing so does not make us the author or publisher of member content, and we do not thereby assume any obligation to monitor content generally.

4. General disclaimer

The Platform and everything on it are provided for general information and professional-community purposes only. While we take reasonable care, we make no representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy, completeness, currency, reliability or suitability of any content, and we accept no liability for any loss arising from reliance on it. Content may become out of date, and we are under no obligation to update it.

5. No professional advice

Nothing on the Platform — including knowledge-base articles, playbooks, checklists, templates, mentor guidance, group discussion, event material, member posts and AI-generated responses — constitutes legal, financial, investment, tax, accounting, medical, employment or other professional advice, and none of it should be treated as a substitute for advice from a qualified, licensed professional who understands your particular circumstances.

No lawyer-client, adviser-client, fiduciary or other professional relationship is created between you and MindMillers Foundation, or between you and any mentor, by your use of the Platform. Templates and sample documents are illustrative starting points only; they are not drafted for your jurisdiction or your situation and must be reviewed by your own adviser before use.

6. No investment or financial advice

MindMillers Foundation is not registered with the Securities and Exchange Board of India, or with any other securities or financial regulator, in any advisory capacity. Nothing on the Platform is an offer to sell, a solicitation of an offer to buy, or a recommendation regarding any security, investment or financial instrument, and nothing is a research report or investment analysis.

Discussion of fundraising, valuation, cap tables, term sheets or investor introductions is provided for general education and community purposes. Investing in early-stage companies carries a high risk of total loss. Take independent, licensed advice before making any financial decision.

7. Mentorship disclaimer

Mentors are independent individuals. They are not employees, agents, partners or representatives of MindMillers Foundation, and we do not supervise, direct, endorse or control the guidance they give.

Beyond the checks made when a member is admitted, we do not independently verify a mentor's qualifications, licences, employment history or claimed expertise. We make no representation as to the suitability of any mentor for your needs, and we do not guarantee any outcome from a mentorship session — including funding, hiring, partnership, revenue or any other business result.

Any engagement you enter into with a mentor outside the Platform, whether paid or unpaid, is a matter between you and that mentor. MindMillers Foundation is not a party to it and has no liability arising from it.

8. User-generated and third-party content

Much of what appears on the Platform is created by members: posts, comments, ideas, group discussions, opportunities, event listings, reviews and messages. Those views are the authors' own and do not represent the views of MindMillers Foundation.

We do not pre-screen member content and we do not endorse it. Job listings aggregated from public job boards, partner offers and syndicated articles are supplied by third parties; we do not verify them and are not responsible for their accuracy, for the conduct of the organisations behind them, or for the terms of any offer. Verify anything material before acting on it, and tell us at grievance@mindmillers.com if you find content that should not be here.

9. AI-generated content

Parts of the Platform use third-party artificial intelligence models — the in-Platform assistant, content summaries, and the CV-to-job match. Their output is generated statistically from patterns in training data. It can be inaccurate, incomplete, out of date, or entirely fabricated, it is not reviewed by a person before you see it, and it is not advice of any kind.

Verify anything you intend to rely on. Do not enter confidential information belonging to a third party, personal data about other people, or credentials into an AI feature. We make no representation that AI output is original, that it is free of third-party rights, or that it is protectable by copyright.

10. External links

The Platform contains links to websites and services we do not operate or control. We provide them for convenience. A link is not an endorsement, and we are not responsible for the content, availability, security, accuracy or privacy practices of any linked site. Once you leave the Platform, our terms and our privacy policy no longer apply — read the terms of the site you have arrived at.

11. Forward-looking statements

Statements on the Platform about our plans, expectations, roadmap or the future of the community are forward-looking. They reflect our view at the time they were made, involve risks and uncertainties, and are not promises. Actual outcomes may differ. We undertake no obligation to update any such statement.

12. Intellectual property and trade marks

© MindMillers Foundation. All rights reserved. The Platform — including its software, source code, database structure, design, layout, look and feel, graphics, iconography, editorial material, knowledge-base content and curated resources — is protected by copyright, database rights, trade mark law and other intellectual property rights, and is owned by MindMillers Foundation or used under licence.

“MindMillers”, “MMSpace”, the MindMillers word mark and logo, and our other names and logos are trade marks of MindMillers Foundation. You may not use them — including in a domain name, business name, product name, metadata or advertising — without our prior written consent. Trade marks belonging to other organisations that appear on the Platform remain the property of their owners, and their appearance does not imply any affiliation or endorsement.

What you may do. You may view, and print or download a single copy of, material on the Platform for your own non-commercial reference, provided you keep all copyright and proprietary notices intact.

What you may not do. Without our prior written consent you may not:

• Reproduce, republish, distribute, publicly display, sell, licence or commercially exploit any part of the Platform or its content.
• Create derivative works from it, or remove or alter any copyright, trade mark or attribution notice.
• Systematically extract, scrape or reuse content or member data, including by automated means.
• Use the Platform or its content to train, fine-tune or evaluate a machine-learning model.
• Frame or mirror any part of the Platform on another site, or deep-link in a way that misrepresents its source.

Members retain ownership of the content they post and grant us the operating licence described in section 8 of the Terms & Conditions.

To request permission to use our material or marks, write to legal@mindmillers.com.

13. Copyright and content takedown

We respect intellectual property rights and expect our members to do the same. If you believe content on the Platform infringes your copyright or other rights, or is otherwise unlawful, tell us and we will act.

13.1 How to make a complaint

Send a written notice to legal@mindmillers.com, copying grievance@mindmillers.com, containing:

1. Your name, postal address, email address and telephone number.
2. Identification of the work or right you say has been infringed, or the law you say the content breaches.
3. The exact URL or location of the content on the Platform, in enough detail for us to find it.
4. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised by the rights owner, its agent, or the law.
5. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, on penalty of perjury or its local equivalent, that you are the rights owner or authorised to act on the owner's behalf.
6. Your physical or electronic signature.

An incomplete notice may delay our response. Please do not send a notice you know to be false — you may be liable for the costs and damages that result.

13.2 What we do

• We acknowledge your notice within 24 hours.
• We review it and, where the complaint appears well founded, remove or disable access to the content, ordinarily within 36 hours of a valid complaint or lawful order, as required by the IT Rules 2021.
• We notify the member who posted it, giving them the substance of the complaint and an opportunity to respond, unless we are prohibited from doing so.
• We aim to resolve the matter fully within 15 days, and we will keep you informed.
• Repeat infringement leads to account termination.

For content depicting an individual in a sexual act, in nudity, or in an impersonated or morphed form, we act within 24 hours of a complaint from the individual or someone acting on their behalf, in accordance with Rule 3(2)(b) of the IT Rules 2021.

13.3 Counter-notice

If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake or that you hold the necessary rights, write to legal@mindmillers.com within 30 days, identifying the content, explaining the basis of your position, and confirming that the statements you make are accurate. We will review the matter and, where appropriate, restore the content.

14. Grievance redressal

In accordance with the Information Technology Act, 2000 and Rule 3(2) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, we have appointed a Grievance Officer to receive and resolve complaints about the Platform and its content. The same officer handles grievances about personal data under section 13 of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

Your complaint should include your name and contact details, a clear description of the issue, the location of any content concerned, and what outcome you are seeking.

• Acknowledgement: within 24 hours of receipt.
• Resolution: within 15 days of receipt.
• Urgent categories (content of the kind described in section 13.2 above): acted on within 24 hours.

If you are not satisfied with the outcome, you may escalate to the Data Protection Board of India for matters concerning personal data, to a Grievance Appellate Committee constituted under the IT Rules 2021 for content matters, or — if you are in the EEA or the UK — to your national supervisory authority or the Information Commissioner's Office. Raising a complaint with us does not affect your right to go to a regulator or to a court.

15. Law enforcement requests

We disclose member information to law enforcement or a government authority only where we are legally required to. Requests should be sent to legal@mindmillers.com on official letterhead, citing the legal authority relied on and identifying the account and the specific records sought.

We review every request for validity and scope, we decline or narrow requests that are overbroad or defective, and we disclose no more than is legally required. Unless we are prohibited by law or a court order, or unless there is an emergency involving a risk of death or serious physical harm, we will make reasonable efforts to notify the affected member before disclosing their information.

16. Reporting a security vulnerability

If you believe you have found a security vulnerability in the Platform, please report it privately to legal@mindmillers.com with enough detail for us to reproduce it. We will acknowledge within 3 working days and keep you updated on the fix.

We ask that you:

• Give us a reasonable period to remediate before disclosing publicly.
• Do not access, modify or delete data belonging to anyone else, and stop as soon as you have confirmed the issue.
• Do not degrade the service — no denial-of-service testing, no spam, no social engineering of our members or staff.

We will not pursue legal action against a researcher who follows these principles in good faith. We do not currently operate a paid bug-bounty programme.

17. Communications and anti-spam

We send transactional and service messages relating to your account, and optional newsletters and digests that you can turn off at any time in your notification settings or by using the unsubscribe link in any such email. We do not send unsolicited commercial email, we do not sell or rent our member list, and we do not permit third parties to market to our members through us.

Members must not use the Platform to send spam, chain messages or unsolicited bulk communications. Doing so breaches our Terms & Conditions and may lead to termination.

Email purporting to come from MindMillers will always come from an @mindmillers.com address. We will never ask you for your password by email. Forward anything suspicious to hello@mindmillers.com.

18. Accessibility

We aim to make the Platform usable by everyone, and we work towards conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA. We have not yet completed a formal third-party audit, and some areas of the Platform will fall short of that standard.

If you encounter a barrier, tell us at hello@mindmillers.com, describing the page and the difficulty. We will respond within 10 working days and, where we cannot fix the issue quickly, offer an alternative way to get what you need.

19. Governing law and jurisdiction

These notices, and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them or with your use of the Platform, including non-contractual disputes, are governed by the laws of India, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles.

Disputes are resolved through the process set out in section 21 of our Terms & Conditions — good-faith discussion with our Grievance Officer, then arbitration under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, with the courts at [city], India having exclusive jurisdiction subject to that process.

If you are a consumer resident in the EEA or the UK, nothing here deprives you of the protection of the mandatory consumer-protection laws of your country of residence, or of your right to bring proceedings in the courts of that country.

20. Changes to these notices

We may update this page as our operations or the law change. The “last updated” date at the top always reflects the current version, and we keep the previous version available on request. Material changes are notified by email or a prominent notice on the Platform before they take effect.

21. Contact

• Legal notices, IP permissions, takedown requests and law enforcement: legal@mindmillers.com
• Grievances and complaints: grievance@mindmillers.com
• Privacy and data protection: privacy@mindmillers.com
• Everything else: hello@mindmillers.com or our contact page