The Generalist Program — Unified Learner Agreement

Binding Consideration: Admission to the Program is highly restrictive and capped at thirty (30) participants per cohort. Consequently, upon issuance of an admission offer, the single all-in fee of ₹3,00,000 (inclusive of any seat-blocking deposits, upfront tuition, or installment variants, with no hidden fees) becomes an absolute commercial commitment.

Strict Zero-Refund Policy: Notwithstanding any oral communications, digital marketing collateral, or general terms published on any platform owned by the Company, all fees paid toward the Program are strictly non-refundable, non-transferable, and final under all circumstances.

Forfeiture Events: The Participant's voluntary withdrawal, failure to attend physical sessions, logistical inability to complete the Program, or compulsory expulsion arising from a breach of the Code of Conduct (Clause 7) shall result in the immediate forfeiture of all fees paid, and the Company shall not be liable to process any partial or whole refund.

General Prohibition: Deferment, postponement, or transferring enrollment to a subsequent seasonal cohort of the Program is strictly prohibited.

Exceptional Carve-Out: A request for deferment will only be entertained by the Company's executive management under extremely rare, extraordinary, and unavoidable circumstances. Such circumstances are strictly limited to:

Management Discretion: Commercial scheduling conflicts, third-party professional or employment changes, relocation, or general changes of intent do not qualify for deferment. The decision of the Company management to grant or deny a deferment request is final, binding, and absolute.

Ownership of Capstone IP: In consideration of the Participant's execution of this Agreement, the Company hereby waives any claims to, and recognizes the Participant as the sole and exclusive owner of, all intellectual property rights residing within the Capstone IP built independently by the Participant during the Program.

Protection of Company Background IP: The allocation of Capstone IP rights under Clause 4.1 does not, under any circumstances, transfer, license, or assign any right, title, or interest in Company Background IP. If the Participant's Capstone IP requires the integration or invocation of Company Background IP or internal APIs, such integration shall be strictly subject to a separate, revocable, non-commercial license granted at the sole discretion of the Company.

Media Release License: The Participant grants to the Company a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, sub-licensable license to capture, photograph, record, and utilize the Participant's name, likeness, video performance, interviews, and representations of their Capstone IP for promotional, marketing, and corporate archival purposes across all media formats.

Revocable Access License: The Participant is granted a temporary, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable license to enter designated educational and co-working areas within the Premises strictly during the operating hours specified by the Program coordinators. Access to unauthorized corporate zones, executive boardrooms, development servers, or restricted floors is strictly prohibited.

Absolute Waiver of Premises Liability: The Participant explicitly acknowledges that physical presence within a corporate headquarters involves inherent risks. The Company, its directors, officers, and employees shall not be held liable for any personal injury, illness, medical crisis, or catastrophic event sustained by the Participant while on the Premises, save and except to the extent that such injury, illness, medical crisis, or event arises directly from the gross negligence or wilful misconduct of the Company, its directors, officers, or employees.

Property Loss Disclaimer: The Participant remains solely responsible for the safety, security, and maintenance of their personal property, including laptops, mobile phones, transport vehicles, and peripheral electronic equipment. The Company disclaims all liability for any theft, physical damage, destruction, or loss of the Participant's personal assets on the Premises.

Access to Proprietary Information: The Participant acknowledges that operating within the Company's operational headquarters will expose them to sensitive, unreleased corporate information, including but not limited to business methodologies, marketing algorithms, technical whiteboards, financial models, unannounced product roadmaps, and personnel deliberations (“Confidential Information”).

Non-Disclosure Covenants: The Participant agrees to maintain the absolute confidentiality of all such information. The Participant shall not:

Equitable Relief: Any breach of this Clause 6 constitutes an irreparable breach of corporate security, entitling the Company to seek immediate injunctive relief and punitive damages in addition to any other statutory remedies available under Indian law.

Workplace Decorum: The Participant shall maintain the highest standards of professional discipline, ethical integrity, and workplace decorum. Any form of physical altercations, verbal abuse, distribution of malicious software via internal network architectures, property destruction, or insubordination toward faculty or Company representatives will result in immediate disciplinary review.

POSH Act Compliance: The Participant is strictly bound by the provisions of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (POSH Act) and the Company's internal anti-harassment frameworks. The Participant acknowledges that, as the POSH Act applies specifically to complaints raised by women, the Company additionally extends equivalent anti-harassment protections and a defined redressal channel to all Participants regardless of gender under its internal gender-neutral Code of Conduct. The Company maintains a zero-tolerance policy for any behavior constituting sexual harassment, inappropriate workplace advances, or discriminatory conduct based on gender, race, religion, caste, or disability.

Right of Summary Expulsion: Upon receiving a complaint or observing an infraction of this Clause 7, the Company reserves the absolute right to suspend physical access privileges pending investigation. If the infraction is verified, the Company may summarily expel the Participant from the Program immediately, terminate this Agreement with cause, and enforce full fee forfeiture without prejudice to legal recourse.

Indemnity: The Participant agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Company, its directors, officers, employees, and affiliates against any and all direct losses, liabilities, damages, statutory penalties, and legal expenses arising from:

Absolute Cap on Liability: To the maximum extent permitted under applicable law, the cumulative, aggregate liability of the Company under contract, tort, or statute for any claims or losses arising out of or connecting to this Agreement or the Program shall be strictly limited to the total fees actually paid by the Participant to the Company for this specific Program module.

Exclusion of Indirect and Consequential Damages: In no event shall the Company, its directors, officers, employees, or affiliates be liable to the Participant for any indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, punitive, or consequential damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, business, opportunity, goodwill, or data, whether arising in contract, tort, statute, or otherwise, even if the Company has been advised of the possibility of such damages. This exclusion applies in addition to, and without limiting, the aggregate liability cap set out in Clause 8.2.

Disclaimer of Warranties: The Program is an educational and professional-training service provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the maximum extent permitted under applicable law, the Company expressly disclaims all warranties, representations, and conditions of any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement, and any warranty that the Program, its curriculum, faculty, mentors, or outcomes will meet the Participant's expectations or achieve any particular educational, commercial, financial, or professional result.

Independent Travel Risk: The Program includes an off-site travel segment to Bangalore, Karnataka. While the Company coordinates the scheduling of corporate visits and investor panels during this sprint, the Participant acknowledges that all transit, interstate travel, external lodging, and off-site personal safety are undertaken entirely at their own discretion and risk.

Travel Liability Waiver: The Company is entirely exempt from liability for any flight/train delays, luggage losses, personal accidents, medical emergencies, or off-site injuries that may occur during the execution of the Bangalore travel sprint.

Severability: If any provision of this Agreement is declared invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity shall not affect the remaining structural provisions, which shall remain in full force and effect.

Entire Agreement: This document represents the entire consensus between the parties concerning The Generalist Program and overrides any prior emails, marketing claims, verbal assurances, or digital brochures.

Survival: Clauses 2 (Fees), 4 (IP), 6 (NDA), 8 (Indemnity), and 10 (Jurisdiction) together with Clauses 11.5 (Non-Reliance), 11.6 (Limitation Period), 11.7 (Non-Solicitation), 11.8 (Non-Disparagement), and 11.10 (Program Materials), shall survive the formal termination or natural expiration of this Agreement.

Data Protection and Privacy (DPDP Act 2023): The Participant acknowledges and agrees that the collection, storage, processing, and erasure of their personal, biometric, and physical telemetry data during the Program shall be strictly governed by the Privacy Policy – The Generalist Program. Said Privacy Policy is formulated in adherence to the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, and is hereby incorporated by reference as an integral, binding component of this Agreement.

Non-Reliance: The Participant acknowledges and agrees that, in entering into this Agreement, they have not relied upon any statement, representation, warranty, projection, brochure, advertisement, social-media content, website claim, or oral assurance made by or on behalf of the Company that is not expressly set out in this Agreement. Any such extrinsic statement is hereby excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law, save that nothing in this clause shall exclude or limit liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

Limitation Period for Claims: To the maximum extent permitted under applicable law, the Participant agrees that any claim or cause of action arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the Program must be commenced within six (6) months after the date on which the event giving rise to such claim first occurred, failing which such claim shall be permanently barred and waived.

Non-Solicitation: During the term of the Program and for a period of twelve (12) months following its conclusion or the Participant's exit, the Participant shall not, directly or indirectly, solicit, induce, or attempt to recruit any employee, faculty member, mentor, or contractor of the Company, nor solicit for the Participant's own commercial benefit any client, investor, or business partner first introduced to the Participant through the Program (including through Industry Connects or Demo Day), without the prior written consent of the Company.

Non-Disparagement: The Participant shall not knowingly make or publish any false, misleading, or maliciously disparaging statement concerning the Company, its faculty, mentors, staff, or fellow participants. Nothing in this clause restricts the Participant from making truthful statements, providing genuine feedback or reviews, reporting unlawful conduct, or communicating with any regulatory, statutory, or judicial authority as permitted by law.

Incorporation of Company Policies; Monitoring: The Participant agrees to comply at all times with the Company's premises rules, information-technology and acceptable-use policy, information-security protocols, and visitor and safety guidelines, as notified and amended from time to time, each of which is incorporated into this Agreement by reference. The Participant acknowledges and consents that their use of the Company's corporate network, devices, and systems may be logged and monitored for security, compliance, and operational purposes.

Program Materials and Limited License: All curriculum, recorded sessions, presentations, frameworks, templates, and other training materials made available during the Program constitute Company Background IP and remain the sole property of the Company. The Participant is granted only a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable license to use such materials for their own learning during the Program, and shall not copy, record, redistribute, resell, publish, or commercially exploit such materials without the Company's prior written consent.

Cumulative Remedies and No Waiver: All rights and remedies of the Company under this Agreement are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies available at law or in equity. No failure or delay by the Company in exercising any right or remedy shall operate as a waiver of that or any other right or remedy, and no single or partial exercise shall preclude any further exercise thereof.