Terms of Service

01Who we are

Forgeon Technologies is a governance, risk and compliance consultancy operating as a trade name of MiraiNext. This website, forgeontech.com, is published by us.

02Accepting these terms

These terms govern your use of this website. By accessing or using it, you agree to them. If you do not agree, please stop using the site.

We may update these terms from time to time. The version published here is the one that applies, and the date at the top tells you when it last changed. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the updated terms.

03What this website is — and what it is not

This website exists to describe who we are and what we do, and to let you get in touch. That is the whole of its purpose.

Nothing on this site is an offer capable of acceptance, and nothing on it forms a contract. Descriptions of our services are indicative: what we would actually do for you, on what timeline and at what price, is settled in a written agreement, not here.

Sending us an enquiry, and our replying to it, does not create a consultant–client relationship. That relationship begins only when both of us have signed an engagement agreement.

04This site is not professional advice

Governance, risk and compliance obligations turn on the specifics: your jurisdiction, your sector, your regulators, your contracts, your data and the facts of your situation. Two organisations reading the same page here may owe entirely different duties.

Do not act, or decide not to act, on the basis of anything on this website alone. Take advice on your own facts — from us under a signed engagement, or from another suitably qualified adviser.

We are consultants. We are not your lawyers, and nothing here is legal advice or creates legal professional privilege. Where a matter requires legal advice, you should instruct a qualified legal practitioner.

05Engaging us for services

Where you engage us, the work is governed by a separate written agreement — a master services agreement, statement of work, engagement letter or similar — setting out scope, deliverables, timelines, fees, confidentiality, data protection and liability.

These website terms do not govern that work. If anything in these terms conflicts with a signed engagement agreement, the engagement agreement prevails for everything within its scope.

Fees quoted in any proposal are exclusive of GST and other applicable taxes unless we state otherwise in writing.

06Enquiries you send us

When you use the enquiry form or email us, you agree that the information you send is accurate, that you are entitled to send it, and that in sending it you are not breaching any confidentiality obligation you owe to anyone else.

Please do not send confidential or sensitive material in a first enquiry. An unsolicited enquiry is not covered by a confidentiality agreement and reaches us as ordinary email. If a discussion needs to cover confidential ground, tell us and we will put an NDA in place first.

We will not treat unsolicited material as confidential simply because it is marked confidential. We handle personal data in enquiries as set out in our Privacy Policy.

07Intellectual property

The content of this website — text, layout, graphics, the Forgeon name and logo, and the underlying design and code — belongs to us or is used by us under licence, and is protected by Indian and international intellectual property law.

You may read the site, and print or download extracts for your own internal, non-commercial reference. You may not otherwise copy, republish, adapt, frame, scrape or exploit any part of it commercially without our prior written permission, and you may not remove any copyright or ownership notice from material you take.

Nothing on this site transfers any intellectual property right to you.

08Third-party names and trademarks

We reference third-party products and platforms, including Archer and Archer IRM, to describe our expertise and the tools we work with.

All such names, logos and trademarks remain the property of their respective owners. Their use here is nominative — that is, to identify the product accurately — and does not imply that we are endorsed by, affiliated with, partnered with or acting as an authorised reseller of any of those owners, unless we say so expressly and in terms.

09Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the site for any unlawful or fraudulent purpose, or in breach of the Information Technology Act, 2000 or any other applicable law;
• attempt to gain unauthorised access to the site, its server, or any connected system or network;
• probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the site, or breach or circumvent its security measures, without our prior written authorisation;
• introduce any virus, worm, trojan or other malicious code;
• use automated means to scrape or harvest content or contact details, or to submit the enquiry form;
• use the enquiry form to send spam, chain messages or unsolicited marketing;
• impersonate any person, or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or organisation;
• interfere with the site's proper working, or place unreasonable load on our infrastructure.

We may restrict or block access where we reasonably believe these rules have been broken, and may report unlawful activity to the appropriate authorities.

Security researchers acting in good faith: we would rather hear from you than not. Write to [email protected] before testing anything.

10Links to other sites

Where this site links to a third-party website, the link is provided for convenience. We do not control those sites, we do not endorse them, and we are not responsible for their content, their accuracy or their handling of your data. Visit them at your own risk and on their terms.

11Availability of the site

We aim to keep the site available, but we do not guarantee that it will be uninterrupted, timely, error-free or free of harmful components. We may suspend, withdraw or change all or part of it without notice, and we will not be liable to you if the site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

You are responsible for the arrangements needed to access the site, including your own device, connection and security software.

12Disclaimers

The site and its content are provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude all warranties, conditions and representations, express or implied, relating to the site and its content, including any implied warranty of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy or non-infringement.

We take care over what we publish, but we do not warrant that the content is complete, current or free from error. Regulatory and standards landscapes change, sometimes quickly, and material here may not reflect the latest position.

13Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable to you for:

• any indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss;
• any loss of profit, revenue, business, contracts, anticipated savings, goodwill or reputation;
• any loss or corruption of data;
• any loss arising from your reliance on content published on this website;

however arising, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise, and whether or not the loss was foreseeable.

Our total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with your use of this website is limited to INR 10,000 (ten thousand Indian Rupees). This website is provided free of charge, and that cap reflects it.

This section governs your use of the website only. Our liability for consulting services is dealt with in the engagement agreement for that work, and nothing here caps, reduces or displaces it.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited — including liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that applicable Indian law does not permit us to exclude.

14Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us against any loss, damage, cost or expense (including reasonable legal fees) we reasonably incur arising from your breach of these terms, your misuse of the site, or your violation of any law or third-party right through your use of it.

15Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains what personal data we collect through this site, why, and what rights you have over it under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. It forms part of these terms.

This website sets no cookies. See the cookies section of the Privacy Policy.

Data protection questions, and requests to exercise your rights under the DPDP Act, go to [email protected].

16Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter, are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India.

The courts at Bengaluru, Karnataka have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any such dispute or claim. We carry on business from Bengaluru, and that is where the services described on this site are provided from.

Before commencing proceedings, we ask that you raise the matter with us at [email protected] so that we have a chance to resolve it directly. Most things can be.

17General

• Severability — if any provision is found unenforceable, it is severed and the remainder continues in full force.
• No waiver — if we do not enforce a right, that is not a waiver of it, and we may enforce it later.
• Entire agreement — these terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about your use of this website, subject always to any signed engagement agreement, which prevails within its scope.
• Assignment — you may not assign your rights under these terms. We may assign ours to a successor of our business.
• Force majeure — we are not liable for failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control.

18Contact us

Questions about these terms:

• Email — [email protected]
• Entity — MiraiNext, trading as Forgeon Technologies

See also our Privacy Policy.