Terms & Conditions

Dhandha Guru · HouseofTech Innovation Pvt Ltd

Last updated: 17 August 2026

These Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the Dhandha Guru mobile application, website, software, and related services (collectively, the “Platform”), operated by HouseofTech Innovation Pvt Ltd (“we”, “us”, “our”, or the “Company”).

By accessing, downloading, registering, or using the Platform, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Platform.

1. About the Platform

Dhandha Guru is a business-growth app for Indian shopkeepers (“dukaandaars”). It tracks your shop’s local rank on Google Maps and Google Search for keywords you choose, generates AI studio product photos and short reels from your own phone photos, provides ready-made festival and offer poster templates, and gives you a brand-asset library and a business profile (business name, city, category, top products, growth goal). Some features are free; premium features require a paid subscription.

2. Nature of the Service — Business Guidance, Not a Guarantee

• Rank positions, growth estimates, and suggestions are generated by automated systems and AI models. They are not the opinion of a licensed professional and carry no assurance of any business outcome.
• Never rely on Dhandha Guru alone to make a significant financial, legal, or business decision. Always consult a qualified professional — an accountant, lawyer, or financial adviser — for advice on such matters.
• Search results vary by location, device, time, and personalisation; the rank Dhandha Guru reports may differ from what a specific customer sees.
• Growth suggestions and daily tasks are general guidance for a typical shop; their effect on your business depends on many factors outside our control.
• You use the rank data, estimates, and suggestions entirely at your own discretion and risk, and you are solely responsible for any action you take based on them.

3. Eligibility

• You must be at least 18 years old (or the age of majority where you live) to use the Platform and to purchase a subscription.
• By using the Platform, you confirm that you have the legal capacity to accept these Terms.

4. Account Registration

• You sign up using your mobile phone number, verified by a one-time password (OTP) sent via SMS.
• You are responsible for the security of your account and phone number and for all activity under your account.
• You agree to provide accurate and complete information, including in your business profile.
• We may suspend or terminate accounts with false, misleading, or shared credentials.

5. Device Permissions

• To create and save creatives, the App may request permissions such as the camera (to take product photos), photos/media access (optional, only if you pick existing images), storage (to save the creatives you download), and notifications (optional, for daily tasks and rank alerts).
• These permissions are used only to deliver the features you request. You may revoke them from your device settings, though some features (such as creating studio photos from new pictures) will then be unavailable.

6. Your Photos & Your Content

• You retain ownership of the product photographs, brand assets, and business details you submit (“Your Content”). You grant us a limited licence to process Your Content only to generate, store, and deliver the creatives and services you requested.
• Submit only photos and assets you have the right to use — your own products, your own shop, your own logo and branding. You confirm that you have the right to upload every image and asset you submit.
• Your photos are used only to generate the creatives you requested and are stored in your asset library until you delete them or your account. They are not used to train third-party AI models and are never sold. See our Privacy Policy for full details on how your photos are handled, retained, and deleted.
• You must not upload images or assets that are unlawful, obscene, infringing, or that depict another person without their consent, and you must not use the App to create misleading or deceptive material about another business or person.

7. Content Ownership & Your Use

• All software, poster and reel templates, design libraries, artwork, text, graphics, branding, and other materials made available in the App (the “Content”) are owned by or licensed to HouseofTech Innovation Pvt Ltd or their respective rights holders, and are protected by intellectual-property laws.
• We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Content, and to use the creatives generated for your business, for promoting your own business, while your account and (where applicable) subscription are active.
• You may publish and share the creatives generated for your own business, but you may not resell, redistribute, sublicense, or create derivative works from the templates or Content itself, or offer creative or rank-tracking services commercially to others using the App, without our written permission.

8. Acceptable Use & Restrictions

You agree not to:

• Resell, sublicense, or commercially redistribute the App, the Content, or your subscription, or provide access to third parties via automation/scraping.
• Use the App to offer paid design, marketing, or rank-tracking services to third parties.
• Reverse engineer or attempt to extract source code, models, prompts, or proprietary ranking or generation systems.
• Circumvent usage limits, paywalls, generation quotas, watermarks, geo-restrictions, or content protections.
• Use the Platform for any unlawful, fraudulent, abusive, or harmful purpose, including publishing creatives with false prices, fake offers, or misleading claims, or misrepresenting another business.
• Share your account or active subscription with others.

9. Subscription, Pricing & Payments

• Premium features are available through a paid subscription, which begins with a 7-day introductory trial for ₹99 (charged upfront) and continues at ₹999/month, auto-renewing until cancelled.
• Current pricing is displayed inside the App at the time of purchase, in your local currency where supported. Prices may vary by region and may change at any time; existing active subscriptions remain at the agreed price until renewal.
• Payments are processed by RBI-licensed payment gateway partners (such as Razorpay, PhonePe, or similar providers), supporting UPI & UPI Autopay, credit/debit cards, and netbanking. The active payment gateway may change from time to time without prior notice.
• We do not store your full card or banking details on our servers.
• Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled. See our Payment & Cancellation Policy for full details.
• Prices may be exclusive of taxes (VAT, GST, sales tax) depending on your region; any applicable taxes are shown at checkout.

10. Refund & Cancellation

• You may cancel auto-renewal at any time before the next billing cycle — from within the App (Profile → Settings) or by emailing support. Cancellation prevents future charges; current period access continues until expiry.
• Completed payments are non-refundable except as described in our policy or where required by applicable consumer law (including any statutory withdrawal/cooling-off rights in your country).
• Because features and creatives are delivered instantly, dissatisfaction with the substance of a creative, suggestion, or rank result is not by itself a ground for refund.
• For details, see the Payment & Cancellation Policy.

11. Disclaimer

• Dhandha Guru provides automated business-guidance tools and generated creatives on an “as is” basis. They are not guaranteed to be accurate, complete, consistent between checks, or suitable for any particular purpose.
• Photo quality, lighting, and device camera all affect generated creatives; the same product may produce different results on different runs. Rank results may vary between checks as search data changes.
• We make no representation of any kind that using Dhandha Guru will improve your rank, visibility, footfall, or sales.
• You are solely responsible for reviewing every creative before you publish it — including the accuracy of prices, offers, and claims in posters and reels — and for how you interpret and act on rank data and suggestions.

12. Intellectual Property & Third-Party Rights

• All software, design, branding, and Content on the Platform are owned by or licensed to HouseofTech Innovation Pvt Ltd or their respective rights holders.
• You receive a personal, business-use license only; no ownership of the Platform or Content transfers to you.
• If you are a rights holder and believe content infringes your rights, contact us at the email below and we will review and, where appropriate, remove it.

13. Third-Party Services

• The Platform integrates third-party services such as payment gateways (Razorpay, PhonePe), SMS/OTP providers, cloud storage, AI image and video generation infrastructure, search-data providers, content-delivery networks, and analytics tools.
• These services operate under their own terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for their independent functionality or policies. Google Maps and Google Search are trademarks of Google LLC; Dhandha Guru is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google.

14. Suspension & Termination

We may suspend or terminate your account if:

• You violate these Terms, our usage rules, or applicable law.
• Payments fail, are disputed, or charged back.
• You misuse the App in ways that harm other users, third parties, or the Platform — including submitting content you have no right to use or creating misleading material.
• Required by court order or government authority.

15. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law:

• The Platform is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.
• We do not guarantee uninterrupted, error-free, or always-accurate service, rank data, or creatives.
• We are not liable for any indirect, consequential, or incidental damages, or for any loss of business, revenue, or profit, or any decision or outcome arising from your reliance on rank data, estimates, suggestions, or creatives.
• Our total aggregate liability for any claim shall not exceed the amount you paid us in the 12 months preceding the claim.
• Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law, or limits any non-waivable statutory consumer rights in your country of residence.

16. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless HouseofTech Innovation Pvt Ltd, its officers, employees, and partners from any claims arising from:

• Your use or misuse of the Platform, its Content, or your creatives
• Content you submit or publish, including photos, prices, offers, and claims in creatives you share
• Your violation of these Terms
• Your infringement of any third-party right

17. Privacy Policy

Your use of Dhandha Guru is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which explains how your personal data, business details, product photos, and device permissions are handled.

18. Modifications to Terms

• We may update these Terms at any time. Material changes will be communicated through the App.
• Continued use of the Platform after updates means you accept the revised Terms.

19. Governing Law & Jurisdiction

• These Terms are governed by the laws of India, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer-protection rules of the country where you habitually reside.
• Subject to such mandatory rules, disputes shall fall under the exclusive jurisdiction of courts in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.

20. Contact Information

• Company Name: HouseofTech Innovation Pvt Ltd
• Email: support@houseoftech.ai
• Address: F-118, Adani Galeria, Sector 89A, Gurgaon, Haryana, India