These Terms and Conditions govern use of the website at https://irodesignacademy.com and any related application, payment, or learner portal operated by IRO Design Academy Private Limited (the “Website”).

Please read this page carefully. If you do not accept these Terms, leave the Website and do not register, apply, or pay. IRO may revise these Terms by posting an updated version. Continued use after a change is acceptance of that change. Check this page from time to time.

1. About us

IRO Design Academy is a career-focused design academy. We offer live, instructor-led programmes in disciplines such as graphic design, UI/UX design, motion design, and related creative practice, including short workshops and longer certificate, diploma, and postgraduate programmes. Learning is cohort-based, with industry tools, portfolio work, and career support where a programme includes it.

The legal entity contracting with you is IRO Design Academy Private Limited, a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 2013, with its registered office at 400-A, 4th Floor, 12 Ajit Singh House, Yusuf Sarai Commercial Complex, New Delhi 110016.

2. Definitions

2.1 “Visitor” or “User” means any person who browses the Website.
2.2 “Applicant” means a person who submits an application or enquiry, or pays an application or registration fee.
2.3 “Student” or “Participant” means a person whose admission or workshop registration has been confirmed.
2.4 “Programme” means any course, diploma, certificate, postgraduate programme, workshop, masterclass, or cohort offered by IRO, whether online, hybrid, or on campus.
2.5 “Digital Products” means recordings, templates, playbooks, slides, worksheets, prompts, and other materials supplied with a Programme.

3. Use of the Website

3.1 You may use the Website to browse content, enquire, apply, and make a genuine payment. You must not use it for speculative, false, or fraudulent purchases, or for any purpose other than a lawful enquiry or enrolment.
3.2 Content on the Website may not be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed, except for a temporary copy made by your browser in the ordinary course of viewing. Deep-linking, framing, or embedding the Website or its materials without written permission is not allowed.
3.3 Unauthorised use may infringe copyright, trade mark, or other laws. IRO may suspend access and pursue available remedies.

4. Acceptable use and security

4.1 You must not attempt to access data, accounts, or servers you are not authorised to use; probe or test the security of the Website; interfere with any user, host, or network, including by virus, overload, flood, or crash; or send unsolicited promotions through the Website.
4.2 You must not use the Website to transmit or store material that is unlawful, that infringes intellectual property or privacy rights, or that is defamatory, obscene, threatening, abusive, or hateful.
4.3 IRO may investigate suspected breaches and cooperate with law-enforcement authorities.

5. Intellectual property

5.1 Logos, word marks, headings, layout, text, images, curricula, and other materials on the Website are owned by IRO or used under licence. “IRO” and “IRO Design Academy” are brands of IRO Design Academy Private Limited.
5.2 You may not sell, modify, publicly perform, or commercially exploit Website materials without prior written permission.
5.3 Programme materials and recordings remain IRO’s intellectual property. A Student receives a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to use them for their own learning for the access period stated for that Programme. Sharing, resale, download for redistribution, or screen-recording is prohibited.

6. Disclaimer

6.1 Website content is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement, to the extent permitted by law.
6.2 IRO does not warrant that the Website will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components, or that content is complete or current. Course descriptions, faculty, batch dates, and outcomes on the Website are indicative and may change.
6.3 Nothing on the Website is a guarantee of admission, a job, a salary, or a particular career result, except where a written offer for a named Programme expressly says otherwise and the Student meets the conditions of that offer.

7. Limitation of liability

7.1 To the extent permitted by the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 and other applicable law, IRO and its directors, officers, employees, and agents are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary loss, including lost profit, lost data, or business interruption, arising from use of or inability to use the Website or a Programme.
7.2 IRO is not responsible for statements or conduct of third parties, including employers, payment partners, and linked websites.
7.3 Where liability cannot be excluded, IRO’s total liability arising out of a Programme is limited to the fees actually received by IRO from you for that Programme in the three months before the claim.

8. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless IRO, its directors, officers, employees, and agents against claims, losses, and reasonable costs arising from your use of the Website, your breach of these Terms, or your infringement of a third party’s rights.

9. Our rights

9.1 IRO may modify or withdraw the Website, or any part of it, temporarily or permanently, with or without notice, and is not liable for that modification or withdrawal.
9.2 IRO may change these Terms. If you do not agree to a change, stop using the Website. Enrolled Students remain bound by the Terms accepted at payment, except where a change is required by law or is more favourable to the Student.
9.3 IRO will use reasonable efforts to keep the Website available. You are not entitled to compensation because a part of the Website is unavailable for reasons beyond IRO’s reasonable control.

10. Privacy, communications, and cookies

10.1 Information collected through forms is used to identify Applicants and Students, process admission and payment, deliver the Programme, and respond to you. It is not sold. The full Privacy Policy prevails if this summary differs from it.
10.2 Forms may ask for name, email, phone number, education, and similar details. The Website may also log technical data such as IP address, browser, date and time, pages viewed, and referring address, to operate and improve the site.
10.3 If you submit contact details, IRO may email, call, SMS, or WhatsApp you about your application or enrolment. Promotional messages are sent only where you have consented, or as otherwise permitted by TRAI rules and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. You may opt out of marketing without affecting service messages about a Programme you have paid for.
10.4 The Website may use cookies and similar tools to remember preferences, understand traffic, and improve the site. Cookies do not by themselves collect your name. Aggregate analytics may be shared with service providers. You can control cookies in your browser; some features may then not work.
10.5 Questions about personal data may be sent to the Accounts Department at privacy@irodesignacademy.com.

11. Third-party links

The Website may link to external sites, tools, or payment pages. IRO does not control and is not responsible for their content, privacy practices, or availability, and does not endorse them. Use of those sites is at your own risk.

12. Application fee and transactions

12.1 Where an application or registration fee is shown on the form, that fee is as stated at the time of payment. IRO may change the fee for future applications without notice. An application fee, once paid, is not refundable, because it covers processing of the application.
12.2 By clicking to pay, you create a legal obligation. Do not pay unless you have read these Terms, the Admission and Academic Policy, the Refund and Cancellation Policy, and the Privacy Policy. Payment is treated as acceptance of those policies for that purchase.
12.3 Payments are processed by an authorised payment gateway (currently Razorpay, or a replacement named at checkout). IRO does not store card numbers, CVV, or banking passwords. A tax invoice, where applicable, is sent to the registered email.
12.4 If a technical error takes money without confirming registration, IRO will either complete the registration or refund the sum to the original payment source within 12 to 15 business days.

13. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of India. Courts at New Delhi have exclusive jurisdiction, subject to any non-excludable right you have as a consumer to approach a forum where you reside.

14. Contact

IRO Design Academy Private Limited, 400-A, 4th Floor, 12 Ajit Singh House, Yusuf Sarai Commercial Complex, New Delhi 110016. Email: hello@irodesignacademy.com. Phone: +91 7982367687.