Terms of Service

1. About these terms

This website (chaitanyalakamsani.com) is the personal website of Chaitanya Lakamsani, an individual residing in the State of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is a personal project: it publishes technology notes, a résumé, and information about personal software projects. There is no company or organisation behind it.

By accessing or using this website, you agree to these Terms of Service. If you do not agree with them, please do not use the website.

In these terms, "the Owner", "I", and "me" refer to Chaitanya Lakamsani, and "you" refers to any visitor to the website.

2. Who the website is for

This website is intended for a general audience. It publishes ordinary informational content and does not require an account, a subscription, or the submission of any personal information.

3. Acceptable use

You are welcome to read, reference, and share links to this website. You agree not to:

use the website for any unlawful purpose, or in a way that breaches any applicable law or regulation;
attempt to gain unauthorised access to the website, its hosting infrastructure, or any connected system;
interfere with or disrupt the website, including by introducing malware, or by placing an unreasonable or disproportionate load on it;
use automated systems — scrapers, crawlers, or bots — in a manner that degrades the service for others, or in violation of the instructions published in the site's robots.txt;
copy, republish, or redistribute the content of this website except as permitted in section 4;
misrepresent your identity or your affiliation with me, or use the website in any way that suggests an endorsement, partnership, or association that does not exist;
remove, obscure, or alter any copyright or attribution notice.

4. Intellectual property

All content on this website — including the written articles, résumé, page text, design, layout, visual identity, logos, and source code — is owned by me or used with permission, and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws.

You may not copy, reproduce, republish, distribute, publicly display, translate, adapt, or create derivative works from any part of this website, in whole or in part, or use it to train machine learning or artificial intelligence models, without my prior written permission, except that:

you may link to any page on this website;
you may quote short excerpts for the purposes of commentary, criticism, review, news reporting, teaching, or research, provided the quotation is clearly attributed to me and includes a link to the original page, and provided such use is fair dealing under applicable law;
you may make a temporary personal copy — such as a browser cache, a bookmark, or a printed page — for your own private, non-commercial reference.

Where a specific page, file, code sample, or repository explicitly states different or more permissive terms, those stated terms apply to that material and prevail over this section.

Requests for permission are genuinely welcome: write to contact@chaitanyalakamsani.com.

Any third-party names, trademarks, or logos that appear on this website remain the property of their respective owners and are used for identification purposes only.

5. Content is informational only

5.1 What this content is

The articles and notes on this website are a record of my own personal learning, research, experience, and opinions. They are published for general information and to document my understanding as it develops. They are provided in good faith and to the best of my knowledge at the time of writing.

They represent my personal views at the moment of publication and nothing more. They are not statements of established fact, not an authoritative reference, and not a substitute for primary sources or qualified expertise. My understanding of any topic may be incomplete or mistaken, and may change over time without the published article being updated to match.

Opinions expressed here are my own personal views and do not represent those of any employer, client, or other organisation.

5.2 Not professional advice

Nothing published on this website is professional advice of any kind — technical, engineering, architectural, security, operational, financial, tax, legal, medical, career, or otherwise — and nothing on it may be relied upon as such. No professional relationship of any kind is created between you and me by your reading this website, or by your contacting me about it.

5.3 Not a recommendation

Nothing published on this website is a recommendation, endorsement, instruction, or inducement to take, or to refrain from taking, any action. Descriptions of tools, technologies, techniques, libraries, services, patterns, or approaches — including any that appear favourable, critical, or comparative — are accounts of my own experience and reasoning. They are not advice to adopt, purchase, avoid, deploy, or rely on anything, and they should not be read as a suggestion that any particular course of action is suitable for you, your work, your systems, or your circumstances.

5.4 Your responsibility

You remain solely and entirely responsible for any decision you make, or action you take or do not take, on the basis of anything on this website, and for all consequences of it.

Before relying on anything published here, you must independently evaluate and verify it for yourself — including its accuracy, completeness, currency, security, legality, and suitability for your specific purpose — and obtain professional advice appropriate to your own circumstances from someone qualified to give it. You should assume nothing has been verified for your situation, because it has not been.

Technology changes quickly, and content may become outdated, incomplete, or incorrect over time without notice. Code samples are illustrative only and are provided without any warranty that they are correct, secure, performant, maintained, or suitable for production use; you must review, test, and secure any code before using it, and you use it entirely at your own risk.

6. External links and separate projects

This website links to external websites, including third-party sources cited in articles and my own separate projects hosted on subdomains.

External links are provided for convenience and reference only. I do not control external websites, do not endorse their content by linking to them, and am not responsible for their content, accuracy, availability, or practices. Visiting them is at your own risk and subject to their own terms and policies.

My separate projects are governed by their own terms and privacy policies, not by these. Applications offering accounts or handling your data — such as those hosted at cashledger.chaitanyalakamsani.com and calclab.chaitanyalakamsani.com — publish their own terms, which apply to your use of them. These Terms apply only to chaitanyalakamsani.com.

7. Availability

This website is a personal project offered free of charge and provided on an "as available" basis.

I do not guarantee that it will be available at any particular time, uninterrupted, or free of errors. I may change, suspend, restrict, or discontinue the website or any part of it — including removing, editing, or rewriting published content — at any time, without notice and without liability. Access may also be affected by matters outside my control, including hosting, network, or DNS provider issues.

8. Disclaimer of warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, this website and all of its content are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory. This includes, without limitation, any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, non-infringement, uninterrupted availability, or freedom from errors, viruses, or other harmful components.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law:

I shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, or exemplary damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, business, goodwill, or anticipated savings, arising out of or in connection with your use of, or inability to use, this website or its content — whether based in contract, tort (including negligence), or any other legal theory, and whether or not I have been advised of the possibility of such damages;
I shall not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your reliance on any information published on this website, or from any action you take or fail to take on the basis of it;
my total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with this website and these Terms shall not exceed one thousand Indian Rupees (₹1,000).

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any other liability which applicable law does not permit to be excluded.

You use this website, and rely on its content, at your own risk.

10. Privacy

Your use of this website is also governed by the Privacy Policy, which explains what information is collected and how it is handled. Please read it alongside these Terms.

11. Changes to these terms

These Terms may be updated from time to time, for example to reflect changes to the website or to the law. The revision date at the top of this page always reflects the current version, and changes take effect when published. Your continued use of the website after a change constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms. Please review this page periodically.

12. Severability and waiver

If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, that provision shall be severed or modified to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect.

My failure to enforce any provision of these Terms shall not be treated as a waiver of that provision or of any other right.

13. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them, their subject matter, or their formation — including non-contractual disputes or claims — are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India.

Subject to applicable law, any such dispute or claim shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts having jurisdiction over the Owner's place of residence in the State of Andhra Pradesh, India.

14. Language

These Terms are written in English. If any translated version is published, it is provided for convenience only, and the English version governs in the event of any inconsistency, ambiguity, or dispute.

15. Contact

Questions about these Terms, and requests for permission to use content, may be sent to:

Chaitanya Lakamsani Andhra Pradesh, India

Legal and permissions: contact@chaitanyalakamsani.com General enquiries: hello@chaitanyalakamsani.com