Terms and Conditions
1. These terms
1.1 These terms govern your use of Minalav Size (the "Service"), provided by Minalav ("Minalav", "we", "us").
1.2 You are being given demonstration access so that your organisation can evaluate the Service and decide whether to license it. By creating an account you accept these terms, both personally and on behalf of the organisation you represent, and you confirm you are authorised to do so.
1.3 If Minalav and your organisation sign a separate written agreement covering the Service, that agreement prevails over these terms to the extent they conflict.
2. Your demonstration access
2.1 Access runs for 30 days from your first sign in, unless we agree a different period with you in writing. At the end of that period your access ends.
2.2 The Service is provided to you free of charge during the demonstration. Neither you nor Minalav is obliged to enter into any purchase, and nothing here commits either of us to a future agreement.
2.3 We may extend, shorten, suspend or withdraw demonstration access at any time.
2.4 Accounts are issued to named individuals and are personal. You must keep your sign in details confidential, must not share them, and are responsible for what is done using your account. Tell us promptly if you believe an account has been compromised or if someone with access leaves your organisation.
3. The demonstration is not the licensed product
3.1 The demonstration exists to show you how the Service works. It is not the same as a licensed deployment and should not be treated as a preview of precisely what you would receive.
3.2 A licensed version may differ in the features available, the regulatory schedules and assumptions included, the depth of the modelling, the export formats, capacity and usage limits, the support provided, and the results it produces. What you receive depends on the package you buy and on how the Service has developed by then.
3.3 The demonstration may contain incomplete features or errors, and may change or be interrupted without notice.
4. Results are estimates, and your decisions are your own
4.1 The Service is a modelling tool. Everything it produces, including recommended capacities, tariffs, savings, financial statements, returns and exported models and reports (together, "Results"), is an indicative estimate. Results are generated from the data you enter, from bundled generation profiles, and from regulatory schedules and commercial assumptions as they stood at the time.
4.2 Results are not a quotation, an offer, a forecast, a guarantee of energy yield, tariff, saving or financial return, a statement that a project is feasible, permitted or bankable, or financial, investment, tax or legal advice.
4.3 Actual outcomes will differ from Results, and may differ materially. Causes include changes in regulation and tariffs, grid and open access conditions, weather and resource variability, equipment performance and degradation, construction and financing terms, the behaviour of counterparties, and the accuracy of the data you supply.
4.4 Results are not guaranteed to be reproducible. The regulatory schedules and the underlying model are updated over time, so the same inputs may produce different Results on a different date.
4.5 You are responsible for your own decisions. Any decision you take in reliance on the Service or its Results, including pricing, bidding, contracting, investing, lending or advising another party, is yours alone. Minalav accepts no responsibility or liability for those decisions or for any consequence of them. You should not rely on the Service without independent technical, financial and legal verification.
5. The Results are yours. The Service is ours.
5.1 You own the Results. Everything the Service produces from your data, including recommended capacities, tariffs, savings, financial statements, returns and the models and reports you export, belongs to you.
5.2 You are free to share the Results with anyone you choose, including your own customers, advisers, lenders and investors, and to use them in your own proposals and submissions. You do not need our consent and you do not need to tell us.
5.3 When you pass a Result to someone else, please carry clause 4 with it. Results are indicative estimates rather than quotations or guarantees, and anyone relying on one should verify it independently.
5.4 The Service itself is confidential. Its methodology, its screens, its dispatch logic, its solver behaviour, its financial model and its encoded regulatory schedules are confidential information belonging to Minalav. Owning a Result does not give you any right to those, and sharing a Result is not permission to share them.
5.5 You must not attempt to reverse engineer the Service or to derive its dispatch logic, solver behaviour, financial model or encoded tariff schedules, and must not use it to build a competing product or model.
5.6 You must not access the Service by automated means, or at a volume or frequency intended to extract the underlying model rather than to evaluate genuine projects, and must not circumvent any access control, entitlement check or usage limit.
5.7 The obligations in clause 5.4 do not apply to information that is or becomes public through no fault of yours, that you already lawfully knew, or that you are required to disclose by law or by a regulator. Where you are lawfully able to do so, please tell us before making such a disclosure.
6. Your data
6.1 The Service stores the data you enter, including demand profiles, assumptions, project parameters and saved scenarios, so that your work is still there when you sign back in.
6.2 You own the data you enter, and it remains yours throughout. You grant us permission to host and process it only so far as we need to in order to operate the Service, support you and investigate faults. We claim no other right over it.
6.3 Your data is encrypted and stored securely. It is encrypted in transit between your browser and the Service, and encrypted at rest where it is stored. Each customer's saved work is isolated at the database level, so one customer's account cannot read another's.
6.4 Deletion is immediate. When you delete a project in the Service, we delete it from our systems at that moment, together with the inputs and results saved against it. It is not archived, queued for later removal or retained in a hidden state. You may also ask us in writing to delete everything held for your account, and we will do so promptly. Ordinary infrastructure backups are overwritten on their normal cycle.
6.5 We will not sell your data, and we will not use it to train third party artificial intelligence models.
6.6 Because this is an evaluation environment, please do not upload anything you could not tolerate being stored outside your own systems, and in particular third party confidential data you are not permitted to share. Anonymised or representative demand profiles are usually enough to evaluate the Service.
6.7 You confirm you have the right to provide the data you enter, and that doing so breaches no confidentiality obligation.
6.8 Anything you have not already deleted yourself is kept for 30 days after your demonstration access ends, after which we delete it. If your organisation takes a licence within that period, your data can be carried across. Personal data is handled as described in our Privacy Policy.
7. Ownership of the Service
7.1 Minalav owns the Service and everything in it, including the dispatch engine, the sizing solver, the financial model, the encoded regulatory schedules and the report and model templates. Nothing in these terms transfers any of those rights to you. This clause is about the tool, not about what it produces for you: the Results are yours under clause 5.1 and the data you enter is yours under clause 6.2.
7.2 If you send us feedback or suggestions, we may use them without restriction and without any obligation to you.
8. No warranties
8.1 The Service is provided as is and as available. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we give no warranties, conditions or representations of any kind, whether express or implied, including as to accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose or non infringement.
8.2 We do not warrant that the Service will be available, uninterrupted or free of error, and no service level, uptime commitment or support obligation applies to demonstration access.
9. Liability
9.1 Nothing in these terms limits or excludes liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
9.2 Subject to clause 9.1, and because the Service is supplied free of charge for evaluation, we are not liable for any loss arising from your use of the Service or its Results. This includes loss of profit, revenue, anticipated savings, business, opportunity, goodwill or reputation, wasted expenditure, loss or corruption of data, and any loss arising from a decision of the kind described in clause 4.5, whether that loss is direct, indirect or consequential.
9.3 Subject to clause 9.1, our total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with these terms and the Service, whether in contract, tort including negligence, breach of statutory duty or otherwise, is limited to INR 10,000.
9.4 You accept that the allocation of risk in clauses 4, 8 and 9 is reasonable, given that the Service is a modelling tool and is supplied to you without charge.
10. Your indemnity
10.1 You will indemnify us against claims, losses and reasonable costs arising from your breach of clause 5.4, 5.5 or 5.6, or from your breach of clause 6.7.
11. Ending access
11.1 Either of us may end the demonstration at any time, without giving a reason.
11.2 We may suspend or withdraw access immediately if these terms are breached, if sign in details are shared, or if your use threatens the security or availability of the Service.
11.3 Clauses 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12 continue to apply after access ends.
12. Governing law
12.1 These terms and any dispute arising out of them, including any non contractual dispute, are governed by the laws of India.
12.2 The courts at Chennai have exclusive jurisdiction, except that either of us may seek urgent injunctive relief from any court of competent jurisdiction.
13. General
13.1 We may change the Service, including adding, altering or withdrawing features and updating the encoded regulatory schedules and model methodology.
13.2 These terms are versioned. Where we make a material change, we will publish a new version and ask you to accept it before you continue to use the Service.
13.3 Neither of us is liable for a failure to perform caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including failures of power, telecommunications, hosting providers or the internet.
13.4 You may not transfer your rights under these terms to anyone else. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. If any provision is held invalid, the rest continues in force.
13.5 Nothing in these terms creates a partnership, joint venture, agency or employment relationship, and no one other than you and Minalav has any right to enforce them.
14. Contact
For any question about these terms, or to ask us to delete everything held for your account, please contact the person at Minalav who arranged your access. You do not need to contact us to share a Result or to delete a project: clause 5.2 already permits the first and the Service does the second immediately.