Intellectual Property Policy

This policy sets out who owns what — the work we make for you, the material you give us, the tools we build with, and the content on this site. It is the detailed form of clause 6 of our Terms of Service and applies to work by Solvey Nous Techne, a sole proprietorship of Mitali Singh, based in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

What you own

• Websites, design and marketing work, once paid for in full. On receipt of final payment, the design, code, copy and source files we produced for your project transfer to you, worldwide and permanently. Until then, work in progress remains ours.
• Software, apps and AI work: the source, and the right to change it. These are licensed rather than transferred, and the licence gives you the complete source code, and the right to run it and have it changed — by your own team or any developer you appoint — for as long as you like. It does not give you the right to pass it on: reselling it, publishing it, or letting another developer keep any part of it for someone else's project. Outright ownership is available where your business needs it, and is quoted separately. The software licence is the full text, and it also governs our managed systems, where the system stays ours and your records stay yours.
• Everything you gave us. Your logos, images, text, data and brand material stay yours throughout. By supplying them you confirm you have the right to, and you grant us a limited licence to use them for your project only.

What stays ours

• Our reusable work. Components, internal libraries, templates, methods and know-how we bring to a project are not created for you and do not transfer. You get a permanent, royalty-free licence to keep using them as part of your deliverable, for as long as you like — as part of it, and not separately from it. The licence cannot be transferred or sublicensed, and the components may not be lifted out into a library, template or product of their own, by you or by a developer working for you.
• This website. The text, graphics, icons, layout and code of solvey.in are ours unless marked otherwise. Do not copy, republish or build derivative works from them without written permission.
• Concepts you did not buy. Rejected directions and unused drafts from a project stay with us.

Third-party material

We build on open-source frameworks, libraries, fonts and stock assets. Those stay under their own licences and are not ours to transfer. Where a project depends on a commercial licence — a paid font, a premium plugin, a stock image — we will tell you before we use it and tell you which obligations pass to you as owner of the finished work, including any renewal you will need to keep paying.

Moral rights

Under section 57 of the Copyright Act, 1957 an author keeps the right to be identified as the author and to object to distortion of their work, even after ownership has transferred. In practice this changes nothing about how you use your website. We will not use it to interfere with your ordinary use, editing or later redesign of what you paid for.

Showing our work

We may feature completed work in our portfolio, case studies and marketing, and describe what we did. If you need the engagement kept confidential, tell us in writing before we start and we will record that in the project agreement and honour it. Asking later is also fine — we will take it down, though anything already printed or indexed elsewhere may take time to disappear.

What you must not do

• Claim ownership of our reusable tools, methods or processes.
• Reproduce or redistribute this website's content without permission.
• Resell or sublicense deliverables before ownership has transferred.
• Resell, sublicense or pass on a licensed system at any time.
• Remove or alter licence notices in third-party code we supplied.

Reporting an infringement

If you believe something on this site, or in work we have published, infringes your rights, email hello@solvey.in with the subject line "IP complaint" and include:

• the URL of the material you are complaining about;
• what you own and how you own it;
• your contact details;
• a statement that you believe the use is not authorised.

We acknowledge within 2 working days and respond substantively within 14 days. Where a complaint looks well-founded we will take the material down while we investigate rather than argue first.

The same applies in reverse: if you think we have infringed something in client work, tell us and we will look at it properly.

Governing law

This policy is governed by the laws of India, with the courts at Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh having exclusive jurisdiction, on the same terms as clause 19 of our Terms of Service.

Changes

We may update this policy. The "last updated" date above reflects the current version, and the version in force when you engaged us governs that engagement.

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