Legal Statement

Terms of Service

Effective Date: August 8, 2026 · View change history

Please Read Carefully: These Terms of Service ("Terms") constitute a legally binding agreement between you and CAX. By creating an account, accessing the Campus Feed, participating in events, or using any CAX services, you agree to comply with these terms, including our strict Code of Conduct and Limitation of Liability.

1. Acceptance of Terms

By downloading, installing, registering, or using CAX (referred to as "CAX", "the Platform", "we", "us", or "our"), operated by CaxOne and developed by Rahul Thatipamula, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to all of these Terms, you are not authorized to use the platform.

2. Eligibility and Student Verification Audit

CAX is a private, verified digital platform intended exclusively for active students.

  • Enrollment: You must be currently enrolled as a student at a supported higher education institution to access the platform.
  • Automatic Verification via Institutional Email: If you register using the email address assigned to you by a university we support (e.g., a `.edu` or university domain address), your enrollment is verified automatically and no further documentation is required.
  • Manual Verification via Personal Email: If you register with a personal email address, you must submit a photo of your current student ID card and select your college. An administrator manually reviews the submission and approves or rejects it. You warrant that any ID card or document you submit is authentic, unaltered, and represents your true identity.
  • Annual Renewal: Manual (personal-email) verifications are valid until the next common renewal date of July 19 (Asia/Kolkata) each year, followed by a 30-day grace period of uninterrupted access during which you should resubmit current documentation. If you do not re-verify before the grace period ends, your account loses access to the campus feed, events, and platform notifications until you resubmit.
  • Rejected Submissions: If a verification submission is rejected, you may resubmit corrected documentation; a rejection does not automatically restrict your ability to submit again.
  • Duplicate Detection: We use cryptographic hashes of submitted ID card images and student ID numbers to detect the same document being used to create multiple accounts. Submissions flagged as duplicates may be rejected and are subject to further review.
  • Administrative Re-verification Requests: System administrators may request a user to re-verify their student ID document at any time if discrepancies or audit issues arise. Student access will remain active during pending re-verification requests unless the verification term has expired.
  • Forgery & Fraud: Submitting fake, altered, or stolen student credentials is a serious breach of these Terms. If a user is found using false credentials, we will immediately terminate their account and, where appropriate, report the incident to university disciplinary administrators or law enforcement authorities.

3. User Account Security

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and password. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized access to your account. CAX/CaxOne will not be held liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to protect your login information. We offer optional two-factor authentication (TOTP-based) which you may enable in account settings for additional protection.

Paid Events: Where an event requires payment, we process it through the Razorpay payment gateway or via a manually submitted UPI payment screenshot. We do not store your card, UPI PIN, or bank credentials. Refunds, if any, are governed by the individual event organizer's stated policy; CAX/CaxOne is not responsible for event cancellations, refund disputes, or payment gateway downtime.

4. Code of Conduct & Acceptable Use

To ensure a safe environment for all students, you agree NOT to use the platform to:

  • Harass, stalk, abuse, bully, defame, threaten, or discriminate against other students, student groups, or university faculty.
  • Publish or distribute any content that is obscene, sexually explicit, hateful, or promotes violence or illegal acts.
  • Scraping & Mining: Use automated bots, spiders, crawlers, or scrapers to extract student directories, profiles, feed posts, or other platform data without our express written permission.
  • Coordinate or promote unauthorized commercial advertisements, spam, multi-level marketing, or phishing schemes on the feed.
  • Impersonate any other student, faculty member, club representative, or CAX administrator.

Voice and In-Game Chat. Every rule above applies in full to the voice channel and the text chat inside Arcade game rooms, including the Business Game. Two things are worth stating plainly, because game rooms work differently from the rest of the platform:

  • Game rooms are shared with players using the standalone Business Game app, who are not verified CAX students and are not bound by these Terms. Treat a game room as a space where you do not know who is listening, and share nothing there you would not share publicly.
  • Voice and text chat are available only in private rooms. Rooms you enter through quick match have both switched off, so nobody can talk to you in a game unless you shared a room code with them.
  • Text chat is screened automatically. Messages are checked against a list of prohibited terms before they are delivered, and a message that matches is refused and never reaches the room. The check is automatic and applies to players from both apps. Deliberately working around it is itself a breach of these Terms.
  • Voice is live and is not recorded, by us or on your behalf, which means we cannot review what was said after the fact. If someone behaves abusively in voice, mute them, leave the room, and — if you are the host — remove them. Because there is no recording to review, a voice complaint needs to reach us directly: email rahulthatipamula97@gmail.com with the room code and roughly when it happened. Text messages, by contrast, can be reported in the app.

5. Safety Tools and Enforcement

You are not expected to simply put up with someone. These tools are available inside the app, and you never need our permission or involvement to use the first three.

  • Blocking hides you and another person from each other across the platform — their posts, comments, and profile disappear for you, and yours for them. They are not told. You can undo it at any time from Settings → Blocked accounts.
  • Muting a player in a game room silences their voice and hides their messages for you alone. It affects nobody else in the room, is not announced, and lasts for that session.
  • Reporting is available on posts, comments, accounts, organization posts, and chat messages. Reports are anonymous to the person reported. Reporting something in bad faith — to harass someone, or in volume to force a removal — is itself a breach of these Terms.
  • Room hosts can additionally mute a player for everyone in the room, remove them from voice, or remove them from the room before the match starts. Hosts cannot remove anyone once play has begun.

We review reports and may remove content, restrict features, suspend, or terminate an account, as set out in Section 12. Content that draws repeated reports may be hidden automatically pending review. Blocking and muting are your tools and carry no penalty for the other person; only a report leads to us taking action.

6. User-Generated Content & Licensing

You retain ownership of the text, photos, events, and other content you post on CAX ("User Content"). However:

  • License: By posting User Content on the platform, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable license to store, host, distribute, copy, modify, and display your content to other verified members of your university community.
  • Moderation Rights: We have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor, review, edit, or permanently remove any User Content that, in our sole discretion, violates these Terms or harms the community.
  • Voice Chat Is Not Licensed Content: Live voice in a game room is not User Content and this licence does not extend to it. We do not record, store, transcribe, or process your speech, and we claim no rights over it. In-game text chat exists only for the life of the match and is deleted when the room closes.

7. Intellectual Property Rights

All platform designs, codebases, features, graphics, user interfaces, and the CAX logo are the sole property of CaxOne and Rahul Thatipamula. You may not copy, modify, distribute, reverse engineer, or create derivative works of any part of our platform without explicit written authorization.

8. Independent Platform Status (No University Affiliation)

CAX is an independent student networking platform. Unless explicitly stated and documented under a direct school contract, CAX is not officially endorsed, sponsored, authorized, or affiliated with any university administration, college board, or registrar's office. The platform is operated as a peer-to-peer social tool for student life.

9. Disclaimers of Warranties

THE CAX PLATFORM AND ALL SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, CAXONE AND RAHUL THATIPAMULA DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, ACCURATE, OR FREE FROM ERRORS, BOTS, OR VIRUSES.

Competitive Play. Arcade games, including the Business Game, are played in real time against other people over a network, and outcomes depend on that network. In particular, and by design: leaving a match forfeits it — your holdings return to the Bank and the remaining players continue without you — and a match ends automatically after two minutes of lost connection. We do not warrant that a match will be free of disconnects, lag, or lost turns, we do not restore forfeited or interrupted matches, and match results, rankings, and in-game currency have no monetary value and are not redeemable for anything outside the game.

10. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL CAXONE, THE DEVELOPER RAHUL THATIPAMULA, OR ANY SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, GOODWILL, OR USE, RESULTING FROM:

  1. YOUR ACCESS TO, USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE THE PLATFORM.
  2. ANY ACTIONS, CONTENT, OR BEHAVIOR OF OTHER USERS OR THIRD PARTIES ON THE PLATFORM (INCLUDING OFF-LINE OR ON-LINE HARASSMENT OR DISAGREEMENTS).
  3. THE MANAGEMENT, ORGANIZATION, TICKETING, SAFETY, OR CONDUCT OF ANY CAMPUS EVENTS REGISTERED ON THE APP.
  4. UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, USE, OR ALTERATION OF YOUR CONTENT OR TRANSMISSIONS.
  5. THE CONDUCT OF OTHER PLAYERS IN ARCADE GAME ROOMS, INCLUDING IN LIVE VOICE CHAT, OR ANY INTERRUPTED, FORFEITED, OR LOST MATCH, MATCH RESULT, OR IN-GAME CURRENCY.

11. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Rahul Thatipamula, CaxOne, and any system moderators from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, or expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or in any way connected with your violation of these Terms, your misuse of the platform, or your User Content.

12. Termination

We reserve the right, without notice and in our sole discretion, to suspend or terminate your account and block your access to CAX if we determine that you have violated these Terms, compromised student safety, or presented fraudulent enrollment details.

13. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

These Terms of Service and any dispute arising out of or related to your use of CAX shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India, without regard to its conflict of law principles. You agree to submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction of the courts located in Hyderabad, India (or the developer's place of residence) for the resolution of any legal dispute.

14. Referral Program & Rewards Policy

CAX offers an optional Referral Program allowing verified student users to earn promotional rewards and perks by inviting eligible university peers. By participating, you agree to the following legally binding terms:

  • Non-Monetary Loyalty Perks: Referral rewards, gift vouchers, merchandise, or promotional perks carry zero cash value, cannot be redeemed for bank cash, cannot be transferred to another user, and cannot be sold.
  • Dynamic Admin Flexibility: The Platform/Admin reserves the full legal right to update, modify, or change the available gift card brands, reward types, reward titles, gift values, required referral counts per milestone, or campaign dates at any time without prior individual notice.
  • Explicit Consent & Leaderboard Inclusion: By accepting the Referral Terms in the app, your consent is recorded in our database (`referralTermsAcceptances`). Upon acceptance, your public Display Name, Profile Avatar, and referral count will be featured on your university's In-College Referral Leaderboard.
  • Direct Referral Counts (No Expiry During Season): Successful referrals credit directly to your available referral count. Referral counts do not expire during an active campaign season.
  • Redemption Approval Lifecycle (`ON_HOLD`): Reward claims are submitted to an administrative queue in `ON_HOLD` status. Upon administrative verification, approved claims deduct the required referral count and issue the reward. Rejected claims due to fraudulent referrals release the held count back.
  • Anti-Fraud & Account Blocking: Self-referrals, fake student ID submissions, emulator automation, or spamming referral codes on non-permitted platforms will lead to immediate administrative blocking (`referralBlocked = true`) and forfeiture of all pending claims without compensation.

15. Contact Us

For questions or support regarding these Terms, please contact the developer:

Rahul Thatipamula
Email: rahulthatipamula97@gmail.com
Website: github.com/rahul-thatipamula