Terms of service

UCEDEX (https://design-entrance-prep-five.vercel.app) is operated by [Your registered business name], a [Business type, e.g. sole proprietorship] with its registered address at [Registered address, City, State, PIN] (“we”, “us”). By creating an account, buying anything or using the site, you agree to these terms, our Privacy policy, Refund policy and Delivery policy.

These terms are an electronic record under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules made under it, and do not need a physical or digital signature.

UCEDEX is built for students preparing for design entrance exams, many of whom are under 18.

• If you are 18 or older, you can accept these terms yourself.
• If you are under 18, you may use UCEDEX only with the consent of a parent or legal guardian, who accepts these terms and the Privacy policy on your behalf and is responsible for your use of the service, including any purchase. Payments should be made by, or with the permission of, your parent or guardian.
• We may ask for confirmation of parental consent, and we may suspend an account if we believe consent hasn’t been given.

• You sign in with your email address. Keep access to that email secure; anyone who can read it can sign in as you.
• One account is for one person. Don’t share your account or purchases, and don’t create more than one account to gain an advantage in mocks or leaderboards.
• Give accurate details. Your display name appears on leaderboards, so it must not be offensive or impersonate someone else.
• Tell us at once if you think someone else has used your account.

UCEDEX offers free daily practice for UCEED and NID DAT and these paid products:

• Question banks (UCEED Part A Master Question Bank, NID DAT Premium Master Question Bank): one-time purchases giving access for the exam cycle described in the Delivery policy.
• UCEED Part B Daily Creative Pass: 30 days of daily drawing questions with evaluation. It does not renew automatically; buying it again extends your current expiry by 30 days.
• All-India mock entries: one attempt at a specific scheduled mock.

We may add, change or retire free features at any time. We won’t take away paid access you’ve already bought during its validity, except as these terms allow (for example, after a refund or a serious breach). Questions are written by our team to reflect the patterns of public exam papers; they are not official questions.

UCEDEX is independent. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (which conducts UCEED), the National Institute of Design (which conducts NID DAT), the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) or any other exam authority. Exam names are used only to describe what our content prepares you for, and belong to their owners. Always check official notices, syllabi, dates and eligibility on the exam body’s own website.

Predicted All-India Ranks, percentiles, selection likelihoods, leaderboards and scores on UCEDEX are estimates calculated from attempts by UCEDEX users. They are not official results, and they do not predict or guarantee your actual rank, score, shortlisting or admission.

Our user base is not the same as the real candidate pool, and real exams change from year to year. Don’t rely on our estimates alone for decisions about applications, coaching or careers.

• Prices are in Indian rupees and include applicable taxes. The price shown at checkout is the price you pay.
• Payments are processed by Razorpay Software Private Limited. We never see or store your card number, UPI PIN or bank login. Your use of a payment method is also subject to Razorpay’s and your bank’s terms.
• Access is granted when the payment is confirmed. If a payment fails or is pending, nothing is unlocked until it succeeds.
• Coupons are subject to their stated conditions, may be used once per account unless we say otherwise, have no cash value, and can be withdrawn if misused.
• We may change prices for future purchases. A price change doesn’t affect what you’ve already bought.
• Refunds and cancellations are covered by the Refund policy.

All-India mocks only mean something if everyone plays fair. When you take a mock you agree to:

• attempt it yourself, alone, without help from any person, AI tool, coaching material or the internet, unless the paper says a resource is allowed;
• not copy, photograph, record, share or discuss the questions or answers with anyone until the mock’s 24-hour window has closed;
• use only one account and attempt each mock once;
• not interfere with the timer, the exam interface, other candidates or our systems, or use bots, scripts or browser extensions to gain an advantage;
• upload only your own original work for creative questions, created during the attempt.

The timer is controlled by our server. If your connection drops, the exam pauses and the time away counts against a one-hour reconnection allowance; beyond that, your attempt is submitted automatically.

If we reasonably believe a rule has been broken, we may remove the attempt from leaderboards and predictions, cancel the result without refund, and suspend or close the account. You can ask us to review such a decision through the grievance process below.

You own the drawings, photos and notes you upload. You give us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, copy, display and process them only to provide the service to you, which means:

• showing them to you and to our evaluators;
• evaluating them, including automated, AI-assisted evaluation as described in the Privacy policy;
• keeping them as a record of mock results while your account exists.

We don’t publish your uploads, use them in marketing, or use them to train AI models without your separate, explicit permission.

Upload only your own work. Don’t upload anything that infringes someone else’s rights, shows other people’s personal information, or is obscene, hateful or unlawful. We may remove such content.

• AI-assisted feedback (free daily NID questions and NID bank uploads) is generated automatically from the question’s rubric. It is guidance for practice, can be wrong, and is not an evaluator’s judgement.
• Creative-answer evaluation (UCEED Part B pass and the creative sections of All-India mocks) gives marks against a rubric from an evaluator. For NID mocks an AI draft may be reviewed and finalised by an evaluator.
• Creative marking involves judgement. If you think a mark is wrong you can request a re-evaluation from the submission page; the outcome of that review is final for UCEDEX purposes.

Questions, solutions, rubrics, illustrations, software and the UCEDEX brand belong to us or our licensors. You may use them for your own personal, non-commercial preparation. You may not copy, resell, publish, share login access to, scrape or bulk-download our content, or use it to build a competing product.

• Don’t break the law, harass others or use offensive names in rooms or leaderboards.
• Don’t try to access accounts, data or systems that aren’t yours, probe for vulnerabilities without permission, or disrupt the service.
• Don’t reverse-engineer the service or use automated means to access it, except search engines following our robots rules.

We work to keep UCEDEX available, but it may occasionally be interrupted for maintenance or by problems outside our control. If a mock is affected by a failure on our side, the remedies in the Refund policy apply.

UCEDEX is provided “as is”. To the extent the law allows, we make no promise that it will improve your exam results or be free of errors, and we aren’t liable for indirect or consequential losses such as lost opportunities or admissions.

Our total liability for any claim relating to a paid product is limited to the amount you paid for that product. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 or other law that cannot be excluded.

• You can delete your account at any time from Settings. Deleting it ends access to anything you bought; unused purchases aren’t refunded.
• We may suspend or close an account that seriously or repeatedly breaks these terms. Where reasonable, we’ll tell you why and give you a chance to respond first.

These terms are governed by the laws of India. Please contact us first so we can try to resolve any problem. Subject to that, the courts at [City] have exclusive jurisdiction, without affecting your right to approach a consumer commission under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019.

For complaints about the service, content, payments or your data, contact our Grievance Officer. We acknowledge complaints within 48 hours and aim to resolve them within 15 days, and in any case within one month.

• Grievance Officer: [Grievance officer name]
• Email: [grievance@yourdomain.in]
• Address: [Registered address, City, State, PIN]
• Phone: [+91 00000 00000] (Monday to Saturday, 10 am to 6 pm IST)

We may update these terms. We’ll change the effective date above and, for significant changes, tell signed-in users on the site before they apply. Continuing to use UCEDEX after that means you accept the updated terms.