Terms of Service

1. What this is

LAN (“we”) is a campus-only social app: a live map of SKIT Jaipur, rooms you can join, events you can host, direct messages, and a karma score for taking part. It is run by students for students, and it is currently in a pilot — features change, and the service may be interrupted while we fix things.

2. Who may join

• You must be a current student of SKIT Jaipur (or staff, if a staff account is issued to you) with a working campus email address.
• One account per person. Do not create accounts for other people, and do not share your account or your verification code with anyone.
• Accounts are verified by email or, during the pilot, by a campus invite code issued by the team. Verification confirms control of an address or a code — it is not a background check, and it does not tell you that the person you are talking to is who they claim to be.
• Accounts are not transferable, and we may close accounts that break these rules.

3. Life on campus: the rules that matter

• No harassment. Threats, stalking, sexual advances you have been told to stop, targeted abuse, or following someone between rooms is not tolerated.
• No impersonation — of a student, a member of staff, a department, or the Nexus team.
• No doxxing. Do not post someone’s phone number, address, timetable, photos, or anything else they have not made public.
• No spam, scams, or mass unsolicited messages to students you have no connection with. Rooms and the map are shared space; do not use them to sell things.
• Meetings in real life are your responsibility. We show where an event says it is happening; we do not supervise it, verify attendees, or guarantee that anyone shows up. Meet in public places on campus, in daylight, and tell a friend.
• Hardware bans. We can suspend or permanently ban a device or account for breaking these rules. Ban evasion (a new account, a new device) extends the ban.
• Illegal activity, and anything that endangers another student, will be reported to the institute.

4. Your content

• You keep ownership of what you write and post — messages, bios, room and event descriptions.
• You give us permission to store it and show it to the students who are meant to see it (the members of a room, the two sides of a direct message, attendees of an event). That permission lasts as long as the content exists in the app.
• Text fields are sanitised before they are stored, so markup you type is shown as plain text rather than executed.
• We can remove content that breaks these rules, and we may keep a record of what was removed and why.

5. Rooms, events and RSVPs

• The student who creates a room or event decides where it is, when it runs, and how many people fit.
• Hosts must not use events to collect a crowd somewhere unsafe or misleading.
• We may cancel an event, close a room, or reset a capacity that is being abused.

6. Karma and badges

• Karma is awarded automatically for real activity (joining a room, sending a message, RSVPing, making a friend, hosting). It is a game score: it has no cash value, and it cannot be bought, sold or transferred.
• Karma and the ledger behind it are written only by the server. Attempting to forge them is a ban offence.
• We may correct or zero a score that was earned by gaming the system.

7. Moderation and reporting

You can block a student from their profile, and you can report content to the team. We read reports, we may act without telling you why if doing so would expose someone, and repeated reports that are made in bad faith are themselves a breach of these terms.

8. Availability and changes

The pilot runs on limited infrastructure. We do not promise uninterrupted service, and data may be lost if something breaks. If we make a material change to these terms we will show a notice in the app and ask you to accept the new version before you continue. Continuing to use LAN after a change means you accept it.

9. Limits on our liability

LAN is provided “as is”, without warranties. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, for what other students do on or off the app, or for anything beyond what is reasonable for a free, student-run pilot.

10. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of India, and disputes belong to the courts at Jaipur, Rajasthan.

11. Contact

Write to nexus@skit.ac.in for anything on this page, including a ban appeal or a report you would rather not file in the app.