TERMS OF SERVICE

01 Acceptance of Terms

By accessing or using the Devengers website, APIs, tools, coding challenges, campus repositories, or participating in our hackathons and community events, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service ("Terms") and our Privacy Policy.

If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions outlined in this agreement, you must discontinue your use of our platform immediately.

02 Community Code of Conduct & Acceptable Use

Devengers is an inclusive, supportive learning environment for student engineers and developers. When using our platform, you agree NOT to:

• Engage in harassment, hate speech, bullying, defamation, or discrimination against any member.
• Attempt to disrupt, exploit, reverse engineer, or launch denial-of-service attacks against our platform, backend APIs, or community services.
• Submit automated spam, bot submissions, fraudulent streak claims, or falsified event attendance records.
• Upload or distribute malicious code, viruses, trojans, or unauthorized scripts.
• Violate the intellectual property, copyright, or privacy rights of any third party.

Violations of our code of conduct may result in immediate suspension or permanent banning of your account and revocation of any issued credentials.

03 User Accounts & Security

When creating an account on Devengers, you must provide accurate, current, and complete information. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials, passwords, and one-time password (OTP) verification emails.

You agree to notify Devengers immediately at support@devengers.org if you detect any unauthorized access to or compromise of your account. Devengers is not liable for any losses caused by unauthorized use of your credentials.

04 Educational Content & Campus Resources Disclaimer

Devengers provides university syllabus notes, previous year exam papers (PYQs), coding roadmap materials, and interactive tutorials for strictly educational, fair-use, and non-commercial learning purposes.

While our student mentors strive to maintain the highest quality and accuracy, Devengers makes no warranties regarding syllabus completeness or official university endorsement. All third-party university names, acronyms (such as AKTU, MMMUT, GGSIPU, RGPV, MAKAUT, VTU), and trademarks belong to their respective institutions.

05 Digital Certificates & Credentials

Certificates issued by Devengers for hackathons, workshops, and mastery milestones are digital recognition of community participation and achievement. Certificates are cryptographically or uniquely verifiable through our public verification registry (certificates.html).

Any attempt to forge, modify, duplicate, or falsely claim a certificate ID will result in permanent invalidation of the credential and permanent expulsion from the community.

06 Limitation of Liability & "As-Is" Disclaimer

The Devengers platform, software tools, coding challenges, and services are provided on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Devengers, its founders, mentors, and contributors disclaim all liability for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages resulting from your access to or inability to use the platform.

07 Termination

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account or access to the platform at our sole discretion, without prior notice or liability, for conduct that violates these Terms or harms other users, us, or third parties.