Ethical Founder Privacy Policy: At Ethical Founder Digital Solutions we are not a faceless agency chasing clicks and quick gains; we are a values-first team that builds, protects, and scales honest businesses. We work with founders, MSMEs, and bootstrapped entrepreneurs who need clear, affordable, and legally aware digital help. Our work sits at the intersection of creative design, automation, and risk-aware growth: we design websites, build AI automations, run rapid visibility campaigns, and advise on digital identity issues. Everything we do is guided by a simple principle — dharma first, profit second — and these Terms set the expectations, responsibilities, and protections that let that principle be practical and enforceable.

Our website packages are deliberately simple and tiered so founders can choose the scale that fits their budget and ambition. The Silver package provides a neat, responsive site with essential pages, hosting basics, and business email—built for clarity and speed. The Gold package adds dynamic pages, improved SEO foundations, SSL, and integrations to help you begin converting visitors into leads. The Diamond option is a premium, bespoke build combining advanced integrations, prioritized support, and performance optimization for businesses ready to scale. Deliverables are defined project by project, and once a site is delivered and accepted by the client, our work is considered complete; changes after go-live are treated as new requests and billed separately so we can keep support fair and sustainable for small teams.

ASTA DIGBHANDHANA is our rapid-impact suite for organizations that want immediate visibility without skipping ethical and legal checks. Each campaign—whether a high-velocity search push, retargeting presence, influencer-backed credibility lift, targeted social expansion, local search conquest, content amplification, or video pre-rolls—executes with technical precision and an ethical safety check. We never switch on paid momentum unless basic ownership and IP signals are reviewed, because speed without scrutiny causes harm. When you engage an ASTA DIGBHANDHANA™ package, you accept that our initial validation is part of the service and that any escalation we perform is designed to protect your investment, not delay it.

If we identify a credible ownership or IP signal that could affect outcomes, we open a protective conversation that is factual, neutral, and professional. We offer holders of registered rights a clear option to collaborate with us to secure or clarify their position; when such stakeholders want our assistance to protect their asset or evidence their claim, we apply a professional coordination fee of ₹5,999 plus any legal costs that may be required. That fee covers formal communications, evidence collection, legal coordination, and advisory steps we undertake on their behalf. If those stakeholders decline engagement or do not respond within a reasonable window, we document our outreach and proceed with the client’s requested work, because our role is ultimately to deliver for the party that has retained us.

Our role is advisory, protective, and operational. Where clients bring pre-existing online assets to our engagement/Services, we perform the appropriate technical and legal checks as part of due diligence (Especially for FREE SERVICES). If a potential conflict appears, we present options and document steps taken; only after our validated outreach window and the requisite evidence gathering do we proceed. That approach lets us act with both conscience and consistency—protecting the community while serving paying clients who rely on us.

Some of our AI products and automations are a strategic asset and are treated as such. All templated AI agents, workflow packages, and user guides created by Ethical Founder are intellectual property (User guides, Some of our Workflows) of Ethical Founder and are licensed to buyers for internal use only. This applies whether templates are sold, licensed, or granted under our support programs for low-budget founders. Redistribution, resale, white-labeling, or public reposting of our templates or packaged automations is prohibited and will be met with enforcement actions. When a client commissions a custom agent, we negotiate usage rights and licensing transparently; the client will receive the specific licensed rights agreed in writing, while Ethical Founder retains its core methodologies and code libraries unless otherwise assigned under a separate, explicit agreement.

We understand the pressures founders face and often offer free or subsidized help to eligible bootstrapped teams. Even where templates or services are provided at no cost, the license granted is limited, non-transferable, and intended only for the recipient’s use in their business. Free access is not a waiver of IP protection: misuse of free assets—reselling, republishing, or claiming authorship—breaches the trust of the programme and will lead to immediate revocation of access and potential legal action. Our support programs are built on goodwill, and that goodwill is conditional on respectful and lawful use.

Our refund and cancellation rules are firm to protect creators and small operations. Deposits secure scheduling, design resources, and technical provisioning and are therefore non-refundable. Once a deliverable—whether a website, automation, or campaign—is handed over and accepted, we do not issue refunds. If the engagement is paused or cancelled for ethical reasons by Ethical Founder, we will document the cause and, where appropriate, offer remedial options or partial credits at our discretion. Clients must read proposals carefully and clarify scope up front; this clarity allows us to offer low, sustainable pricing and dependable timelines.

Clients bear important responsibilities in every engagement. You must provide accurate information, disclose known intellectual property or contractual encumbrances, and confirm you have legal authority to use any content, marks, assets, or data you supply. You must not instruct us to perform actions that violate laws, platform terms, or third-party rights. If you knowingly submit content that infringes another party’s rights or seek to exploit our services for harmful competitive sabotage, we will halt work and may withdraw entirely; any costs incurred up to that point remain payable.

Risk mitigation is built into our delivery model. Before executing major visibility or automation work we run checks for prior misuse, historical flags, technical vulnerabilities, and ownership signals. If we classify a situation as low risk, we proceed; if medium risk, we ask for enhanced warranties and may offer targeted protective options; if high risk, we pause and escalate to legal review. This RAG-style approach protects clients, protects us, and preserves the online ecosystem from tactics that cause reputational or consumer harm. Where outreach to a third party is required, our communications are evidence-based, non-confrontational, and recorded.

We maintain a trusted legal advisory channel for IP, publishing, and digital compliance matters. Our first objective in any dispute is mediation and preservation of business continuity. We prefer to facilitate dialogue, correct misunderstandings, and reach amicable resolutions. If resolution cannot be achieved through negotiation, we will advise escalation to formal dispute processes and will disengage from direct involvement while preserving documentation and evidence. All engagements are subject to Indian law and you agree to the jurisdiction of Indian courts for litigation, while also engaging with mediation in good faith where feasible.

Transparency is not optional for us; it is the brand promise. Every substantive interaction—technical investigations, outreach attempts, legal consultations, campaign actions, and handovers—is logged and retained for our records. These records protect our clients and our people, and they are maintained according to our data retention schedule and privacy commitments. Where clients request support after handover, we provide evidence packages and advisory services on a fee basis, because maintaining readiness to defend or respond to later claims requires resources.

We are purposefully non-adversarial. Ethical Founder will not be used as a weapon to destroy competitors through illegitimate means. We will, however, execute aggressive, compliant marketing and technical strategies designed to help our clients win fairly. If a client’s objective is to intentionally harass or sabotage a competitor, we will decline the engagement. When clients request legitimate competitive positioning, we advise and act to improve visibility, messaging, and conversion while adhering to law and platform policies.

Our position as a protector of small enterprises is not empty marketing; it guides pricing, access, and our public stance. We support low-budget founders with toolkits, guidance, and selective free work because we believe access to safety and decent technical foundations should not be limited to deep pockets. At the same time, we protect our intellectual property (User guides, Some of our Workflows) and operational viability so that we can continue to offer these programs. This balance—affordable service plus protected IP—lets us scale compassionately and responsibly.

When you engage Ethical Founder you confirm that you understand the practical consequences of our model: there are no refunds post-delivery, IP for our products remains with Ethical Founder unless explicitly transferred, and escalations will be handled by experts with an emphasis on mediation. You acknowledge that our pre-execution validations and outreach processes are essential parts of the service and that they may temporarily pause project timelines for the sake of long-term safety. You accept that where third-party ownership or rights are implicated, outcomes depend on multiple actors and that Ethical Founder role is to advise, document, and act as counsel and operator within the agreed engagement.

We acknowledge that this approach may sometimes create friction: it slows quick wins, it asks stakeholders to do the right thing, and it asks clients to be honest. That friction is intentional. It prevents future legal exposure, protects reputations, and ensures that growth built with us is durable. If you value speed without scrutiny there are other vendors for that trade; if you value principled growth, documentation, and protection, then you are in the right place.

Finally, EthicalFounder is more than a supplier; we are a community of founders, coders, designers, and legal advisors bound by a shared ethic. We commit to doing our work honestly, protecting our clients’ legitimate interests, and refusing to be a vehicle for harm. By engaging with us you join that community and accept these Terms as a framework that keeps our work useful, fair, and defensible. We stand firm, we move forward with conviction, and we never shrink from doing what is right for the long term.