End User Licence Agreement
Read this part even if you read nothing else. Ojastha teaches. It does not diagnose, treat, prescribe or replace a qualified practitioner. Nothing here is medical advice. If something is wrong with you, see a doctor. If it is urgent, call emergency services — do not open an app.
This agreement is between you and the operator of Ojastha (“we”). It covers ojastha.com and the Ojastha applications for Android and iOS. By creating an account or using the platform you accept it. If you do not accept it, do not use the platform.
1. What you may do
We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use Ojastha for your own wellness education. You may read, practise along with, and take notes from anything here.
2. What you may not do
- Scrape, bulk-download or systematically copy the encyclopedia or any other content, or use it to train a machine learning model.
- Republish or resell the content, in whole or in substantial part.
- Present anything from Ojastha as a diagnosis, a prescription, or professional advice — yours or ours.
- Reverse-engineer, decompile or tamper with the apps, the API or the device firmware, except where the law expressly permits it.
- Attempt to access another person’s account or data, probe our security, or disrupt the service.
- Upload someone else’s medical records, or anything you do not have the right to share.
- Use the platform if you are under 13.
3. What Ojastha is, and is not
Ojastha presents the classical literature of Ayurveda, Siddha, Kalari Marma and Yoga, alongside assessments and practices derived from it. Our content is reviewed by qualified practitioners before publication and every entry cites its classical source.
It is education, not medicine. Traditional systems describe the body differently from modern medicine, and a reading of your constitution is not a clinical finding. The platform does not diagnose conditions, does not prescribe treatment, and is not a medical device. Nothing on it is a substitute for examination by a qualified practitioner.
Some of what you see is generated with AI assistance. Where it is, it is reviewed by a qualified practitioner before it is published to you — but AI-assisted material can still be wrong, and so can anything else here.
4. Practising safely
Some practices carry real risk for some people. Breath retention, vigorous pranayama, fasting and internal preparations are the obvious ones, and they are labelled where they appear.
- Read the cautions. Every practice with meaningful retention lists who should not do it. Those lists are not decoration.
- Stop when it stops being comfortable. Come out of any retention at once if you feel lightheaded, and do not practise breathing exercises while driving, in water, or anywhere a faint would be dangerous.
- Talk to a professional first if you are pregnant, have a cardiovascular condition, uncontrolled hypertension, glaucoma, epilepsy, a respiratory condition, an eating disorder history, or take prescription medication.
- Herbs interact with drugs. Do not start, stop or change a medication because of anything you read here.
You are responsible for deciding whether a practice is appropriate for you, and for stopping if it is not.
5. Your account
Keep your password to yourself and tell us promptly if you think somebody else has it. You are responsible for what happens under your account. We may suspend or close an account that breaches this agreement, and we will tell you why where we can.
You may close your account at any time. See the Privacy Policy for what happens to your data.
6. What you write
Anything you enter — assessment answers, questions, notes, uploads — stays yours. You grant us only the licence needed to operate the platform: to store it, process it, and send the relevant parts to the service providers named in the Privacy Policy so that a reply can be produced. We do not use it to train AI models and we do not publish it.
7. Our content
The classical texts are in the public domain; our commentary, translations, structure, assessments, practice designs, software and brand are not. They remain ours and are protected by copyright and trademark.
8. Practitioners and experts
Reviewing practitioners contribute their professional judgement to the content, not clinical care to you. A review means an entry has been checked for accuracy against the tradition. It does not create a practitioner-patient relationship between you and the reviewer, and no reviewer is treating you.
9. Breath belts and other hardware
If you use an Ojastha breath belt, it is a wellness accessory and not a medical device. It measures how your chest moves; it does not measure oxygen, diagnose a respiratory condition, or detect an emergency. Do not rely on it for anything clinical.
The device installs software updates automatically. Those updates are cryptographically signed and the device refuses anything that does not verify, but by using the device you agree to receive them — a belt that cannot be updated is a belt whose bugs are permanent.
10. Availability
We aim to keep the platform running and do not promise that it always will be. Features may change or be withdrawn. Where a change removes something you rely on, we will give notice if we reasonably can.
11. Disclaimer
To the fullest extent the law allows, Ojastha is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the content is complete, current or error-free, or that the platform will be uninterrupted.
12. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits or data, arising from your use of the platform. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or fifty US dollars.
Some jurisdictions do not allow these exclusions, and where that is so they do not apply to you. Nothing here limits liability for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence, where the law forbids such a limit.
13. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify us against claims arising from your breach of this agreement or your misuse of the platform.
14. Changes to these terms
We may update this agreement. Material changes will be posted here and, where they affect you meaningfully, notified by email. Continuing to use the platform after a change means you accept it.
15. Governing law
This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of [YOUR STATE], United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located there.
16. App store terms
If you obtained an Ojastha app from Google Play or the Apple App Store, that store’s own terms also apply. Apple and Google are not parties to this agreement, are not responsible for the app, and have no obligation to provide support for it. Apple’s licensed application end user licence agreement applies to the iOS app to the extent it conflicts with this one, and Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this agreement with the right to enforce it against you.