Terms of service.

1. Who you are agreeing with

When these terms say "we", "us", or "NOW Media", they mean Bleep Design Private Limited, a private limited company incorporated under the Companies Act, 2013 in India, with its registered office in Bangalore, Karnataka. NOW Media is a brand under which Bleep Design Private Limited operates.

By using our website, the client portal, or any related service, you confirm that you are at least 18 years old and that you have the authority to accept these terms, for yourself, and for any business you act on behalf of.

2. What this site offers

The NOW Media website is an information and inbound tool. It lets you read about our work and methodology, submit a project scope, start the Discovery Blueprint, book a call, subscribe to editorial content, and apply for roles. The client portal at app.nowmedia.in is where active clients access projects, files, invoices, and approvals.

Nothing on this website is a binding offer to engage with you on a specific project. Engagement only begins when a separate scope of work, proposal, or master services agreement is signed in writing.

3. Accounts and the client portal

To use the client portal you may need to create an account or sign in via a magic link or Google sign-in. You are responsible for:

• The accuracy of the information you provide.
• Keeping your sign-in credentials confidential.
• All activity that occurs under your account.
• Telling us promptly if you suspect unauthorised access.

We may suspend or close an account if it is used in breach of these terms, if it has been inactive for an extended period, or if we are required to do so by law. We will give reasonable notice except where immediate action is necessary to protect other users or the service.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Use the site or portal for any unlawful purpose.
• Submit anyone else's personal data without their permission.
• Attempt to break, probe, or reverse-engineer our systems.
• Scrape, copy, or republish content without our consent.
• Upload viruses, malware, or anything intended to disrupt the service.
• Impersonate any person or business, or misrepresent your affiliation with one.
• Use the service to harass, defame, or harm anyone.

We may remove content or restrict access if we reasonably believe these rules have been broken.

5. Intellectual property

The website, the client portal, our brand, the Discovery Blueprint methodology, our internal frameworks, the editorial content, the source code, the design system, and the underlying software are owned by Bleep Design Private Limited or our licensors. Nothing in these terms transfers any of those rights to you.

You retain ownership of everything you upload to the portal, your brief content, brand assets, files, and approvals. You grant us a worldwide, royalty-free licence to use that content only as needed to deliver the engagement and operate the service. Once an engagement ends, the licence ends with it, except for what we are required to retain by law or for legitimate record-keeping.

Ownership of the final deliverables we produce for you (logos, identity systems, websites, content, automation tools, etc.) is governed by the signed scope of work or master services agreement, not by these terms.

6. Service engagements

The commercial terms of any actual project, scope, deliverables, timeline, payment, ownership, warranties, indemnities, are governed by the proposal, scope of work, and master services agreement signed for that engagement. If anything in those documents conflicts with these terms, those documents control for the engagement covered by them.

7. Quotes, estimates, and payment

Any cost shown by the scope builder, calculator, or other self-service tool on this website is an indicative estimate. The final price is set out in the proposal or scope of work we send you and only becomes binding when both sides sign. Estimates are quoted exclusive of GST and any other applicable taxes unless explicitly stated otherwise.

8. Third-party services and links

Our site links to third-party tools and platforms, for example, Brandauditor.ai, our calendar booking system, our payment gateway, our authentication providers, and the analytics services listed in our Privacy Policy. We do not control those services and are not responsible for their content, availability, terms, or privacy practices. Your use of them is governed by their own terms.

9. Availability and changes

We aim for the website and portal to be available continuously, but we do not promise uninterrupted access. We may release updates, change features, deprecate tools, or take parts of the service offline for maintenance. For changes that materially affect active clients, we will give reasonable advance notice through the portal or by email.

10. No implied warranties

The website and portal are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement, for use of the public website. Warranties for paid engagements are set out separately in the relevant scope of work or master services agreement.

11. No liability for use of the public website

The public website at nowmedia.in is provided to you free of charge for informational purposes. You agree that you use it at your own risk and that we accept no liability for any loss or damage of any kind arising out of or in connection with your use of it. This includes, but is not limited to, direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, lost opportunities, and business interruption, even if we were advised of the possibility of those damages.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability for any claim arising out of or relating to your use of the public website is limited to INR 100 (one hundred rupees). By using the website you acknowledge and accept this allocation of risk as a reasonable reflection of the fact that the website is provided to you without charge.

Liability for a paid engagement is governed separately by the scope of work or master services agreement signed for that engagement, not by this clause.

Nothing in these terms purports to limit liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including liability for fraud, gross negligence, wilful misconduct, or liability under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 or other mandatory statutory provisions.

12. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Bleep Design Private Limited, its directors, employees, and contractors from any third- party claim arising out of (a) your breach of these terms, (b) your misuse of the website or portal, or (c) content you submit that violates someone else's rights.

13. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the service at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access to the website or portal if you breach these terms or if we are required to by law. Termination of website access does not, on its own, terminate a signed engagement, those relationships are governed by their own contracts.

14. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India. The courts at Bangalore, Karnataka shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute that arises out of or relates to these terms or your use of the website or portal, and you irrevocably submit to the jurisdiction of those courts.

15. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. When we do, we will change the "Last updated" date at the top of this page and, for material changes, notify you via the portal or by email. Continuing to use the service after a change means you accept the updated terms.

16. Miscellaneous

• Severability. If any provision of these terms is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions stay in effect.
• No waiver. Our failure to enforce a right is not a waiver of that right.
• Assignment. You may not assign these terms without our written consent. We may assign these terms in connection with a corporate transaction.
• Entire agreement. These terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any signed engagement documents, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the website and portal.
• Force majeure. Neither party is liable for failure to perform caused by events outside reasonable control.

17. Contact

For anything about these terms:

• Email: hello@nowmedia.in
• Legal & privacy: privacy@nowmedia.in
• Postal: Bleep Design Private Limited, Bangalore, Karnataka, India