Terms of Service

1. Who may use GrillRound

You must have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract under the law that applies to you, and by accepting these terms you confirm that you do. GrillRound is a professional tool for people preparing for software engineering roles and is not directed to children.

This is a question of legal capacity only and says nothing about your experience level. Students and freshers are welcome, and a current compensation of zero is expected and fully supported.

You must provide accurate registration information and keep it current. If you are using GrillRound on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you are authorised to bind that organisation to these terms.

2. Your account

You are responsible for everything that happens under your account, including keeping your sign-in credentials secure. Because AI features are paid for by us and metered against your plan, sharing an account is also sharing an allowance: one account is for one person, and you must not share it, resell access to it, or let anyone else use it.

Tell us promptly at support@grillround.com if you believe your account has been accessed without your permission.

3. What the service does

GrillRound is an interview preparation tool. It generates a personalised study roadmap, runs AI mock interviews and scores them, tracks your practice and LeetCode progress, surfaces job listings that match your profile, and can expose your own data to a compatible AI assistant through our remote MCP server.

The service is provided for your personal preparation. Features change over time; we may add, modify, or remove them.

4. AI usage, allowances, and fair use

AI features run on GrillRound’s own account with a third-party AI provider. You supply no key and are never billed by that provider. Because we pay for every call, usage is metered, and that is the most important commercial term here.

• Your plan carries an allowance — a number of credits (spent on mocks, written feedback, roadmap generation and add-ons), a number of interview minutes, and a spending ceiling for the period. The current allowances are published on our pricing page.
• When an allowance is exhausted, AI features stop until the period resets or you move to a plan with a larger one. Everything that is not an AI call — your roadmap, notes, history, streaks and job matches — keeps working.
• We may refuse or stop a request that would exceed your allowance, and we check this immediately before each call rather than after it.
• Allowances are for one person’s own preparation. Automated, bulk, or resold use, and any attempt to evade metering, are a breach of these terms and may lead to suspension under the section below.
• We may adjust allowances or which model serves a feature, in order to keep the service sustainable. Where a change reduces what a paid plan gets, we will give notice first.
• We are not responsible for an AI provider outage, rate limit, model change, or other interruption, or for any consequence of one, beyond the availability commitment we make elsewhere in these terms.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to do any of the following.

• Use the service for anything unlawful, or to infringe anyone rights.
• Upload another person resume, personal data, or confidential information without their permission.
• Submit content that is unlawful, defamatory, discriminatory, harassing, or obscene.
• Submit interview patterns or experiences that disclose material you are contractually barred from sharing, or that reproduce a company confidential assessment material verbatim.
• Attempt to access another user data, probe or breach our security, or circumvent rate limits or usage quotas.
• Scrape, crawl, or bulk-extract content from the service, or use it to build a competing product.
• Resell, sublicense, or provide the service to third parties.
• Automate the service in a way that places an unreasonable load on our infrastructure.

We may suspend or terminate an account that breaches these rules, and where the breach is serious we may do so without notice.

6. Your duties under data protection law

The DPDP Act, 2023 places duties on you as well as on us. In particular, you must not impersonate another person when providing your personal data, must not suppress material information when providing it, and must not register a false or frivolous grievance or complaint. Section 15 of that Act provides for a penalty for breach of these duties.

You must also furnish only information that is verifiably authentic when exercising a right to correction or erasure.

7. Your content and the licence you give us

You keep ownership of everything you put into GrillRound — your resume, your notes, your interview answers, and everything else. We claim no ownership of it.

You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, process, transmit, and display your content strictly to operate the service for you, and to send it to our AI provider so a feature can run. This licence exists only so the product can function, and it ends when you delete the content or your account, except for backups that expire on our normal cycle.

Interview patterns are treated differently, and submitting one is optional. If you submit a recollection of questions asked at a company, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to use it in anonymised and aggregated form to improve mock interviews for other users. You confirm that sharing it does not breach any confidentiality obligation you are under. We do not publish your submission verbatim and never attach your identity to it. The privacy policy explains this in more detail.

8. Our intellectual property

The GrillRound name, logo, software, interface, and the preparation content we author remain our property or that of our licensors. These terms do not grant you any right to use our branding, and you may not copy, modify, reverse engineer, or create derivative works from the service except as the law expressly permits.

9. AI output — accuracy and expectations

This deserves plain language. GrillRound generates roadmaps, interview questions, scores, model answers, and feedback using large language models. That output can be wrong, incomplete, outdated, biased, or simply generic, and it may vary between runs on identical input.

• Treat all AI output as practice material and a second opinion, not as authoritative advice.
• Verify anything technical before relying on it, particularly for a real interview or a real system.
• Scores and readiness indicators are heuristics for tracking your own progress. They do not predict, and are not evidence of, how any real interviewer will assess you.
• Nothing in the service is career, legal, financial, or immigration advice.
• We do not guarantee an interview, an offer, a job, or any particular compensation outcome.

10. Job listings and third-party content

Job listings are fetched from third-party sources and are shown as-is. We do not verify employers, listings, salaries, or their current availability, and a match score is a convenience, not a recommendation. Apply at your own discretion and never send money or sensitive documents to an employer you have not independently verified.

The service links to third-party sites and integrates with third-party providers. We are not responsible for their content, practices, or availability.

11. Grievance Officer, complaints, and unlawful content

Parts of GrillRound host content submitted by users, which makes us an intermediary for that content under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules made under it. We take the obligations that come with that seriously.

You can contact our Grievance Officer at grievance@grillround.com to report content that is unlawful, infringing, defamatory, or otherwise in breach of these terms, or to raise any other complaint about the service. Please include the URL or a description precise enough for us to locate the content, the reason for the complaint, and your contact details.

• We acknowledge every complaint within twenty-four hours.
• We aim to resolve complaints within fifteen days of receipt.
• We remove or disable access to content within thirty-six hours of receiving a valid court order or a notification from an authorised government agency.
• We may remove content that breaches these terms without a court order where the breach is clear.
• We will notify you at least once a year, and on any material change, that continued use requires compliance with these terms and the privacy policy.

12. Availability and changes to the service

We aim to keep GrillRound available but we do not promise any particular uptime, and we offer no service level agreement. The service may be unavailable for maintenance, provider outages, or reasons outside our control.

We may change, suspend, or discontinue any part of the service. If we discontinue the service entirely, or remove a feature you materially rely on, we will give reasonable notice by email where we can and, where practical, a way to export your data first.

13. Fees

GrillRound has a free tier and paid plans. Current prices, allowances, and what each plan includes are published on our pricing page; prices are in Indian rupees and include GST. A new account starts on a time-limited full-featured trial that requires no payment card and ends by itself, and the free tier remains available after it.

14. Suspension and termination

You may stop using GrillRound at any time, and you may request deletion of your account and data as described in the privacy policy.

We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these terms, if your use creates a legal or security risk, or if we discontinue the service. Where the circumstances allow it, we will give you notice and an opportunity to fix the problem first.

On termination your right to use the service ends immediately. The sections on your content licence for contributed patterns, our intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, and governing law survive.

15. Events outside our control

We are not liable for any failure or delay in providing the service caused by an event beyond our reasonable control, including an outage or change of terms at a hosting, database, or AI provider we depend on, a failure of internet or telecommunications infrastructure, a cyber attack, a change in law or a government order, a natural disaster, an epidemic, industrial action, or war.

16. Disclaimers

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, that defects will be corrected, or that any content or AI output will be accurate or suitable for your purpose.

17. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, GrillRound and its team will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, or exemplary damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, employment opportunity, or anticipated savings, arising out of or relating to your use of the service, even if we have been advised that such loss is possible.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the service in any twelve-month period is limited to the greater of the total amount you paid us for the service in that period, or one thousand Indian rupees. On the free tier that will be the latter.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including liability for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.

18. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless GrillRound and its team from any claim, demand, loss, or expense, including reasonable legal fees, arising from your breach of these terms, your misuse of the service, your violation of any law, or content you submitted that you were not entitled to submit.

19. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the service changes. The date at the top always reflects the current version. For material changes we will give reasonable advance notice by email or through the application. Continuing to use the service after a change takes effect means you accept the updated terms; if you do not accept them, stop using the service and request deletion of your account.

20. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of India, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Subject to the paragraph below, the courts at Noida, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or relating to these terms or the service, and you consent to that jurisdiction.

Nothing in this clause purports to confer jurisdiction on a court that would not otherwise possess it. Where you deal with us as a consumer, any right you have to approach a forum designated by consumer protection law is unaffected.

Before starting formal proceedings, please contact us at support@grillround.com so we can try to resolve the matter directly. Most issues are settled far more quickly this way.

21. How we give you notice

We give notice under these terms by email to the address on your account, or by a prominent notice inside the application. It is your responsibility to keep that address current and monitored; notice is treated as received on the day it is sent. You give us notice by writing to support@grillround.com.

22. General

• If any provision of these terms is held unenforceable, the rest remains in force and the unenforceable provision is limited to the minimum extent necessary.
• Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.
• You may not assign these terms without our written consent. We may assign them to a successor in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
• These terms, together with the privacy policy, are the entire agreement between you and GrillRound regarding the service.

23. Contact

For questions about these terms, email support@grillround.com. For privacy questions or to exercise a data right, email privacy@grillround.com. To report unlawful content or raise a formal complaint, email our Grievance Officer at grievance@grillround.com. To report a security issue, email security@grillround.com.