Who we are
CivilIndia is a sole proprietorship operating https://civilindia.com. Our published contact and grievance details are on the contact page.
Your account
You must be 18 or over to hold an account. You are responsible for keeping your password to yourself and for what is done through your account. Tell us promptly if you think someone else has access, and we will end every active session on your account.
We may suspend an account that is used to break these terms — in practice that means redistributing content, defeating the protection on it, or sharing one account across many people. Where we suspend an account we will tell you why.
What you are buying
You are buying a licence to read a title, not the file. The licence is personal to you, non-exclusive and non-transferable. It lets you read the title through CivilIndia on your registered devices, subject to these terms and the availability provisions below. Purchases are one-time payments, with no book subscription or recurring renewal charge.
The licence does not let you:
- remove, defeat or work around the protection on a title;
- copy, upload, resell, lend or otherwise redistribute a title or any part of it;
- screen-record, screenshot or photograph pages in order to share them, or to rebuild a copy of the title outside CivilIndia;
- use a title commercially — for example as material in a paid course, coaching notes or a product you sell;
- use a title to train a machine-learning model, or extract it in bulk by any automated means;
- share your account so that several people read on one licence.
You keep the ordinary rights the Copyright Act gives you, including fair dealing for private study and research. Nothing here takes those away.
Intellectual property
The titles, their text, drawings, tables and cover art, and the design of this site and the CivilIndia name are published by CivilIndia. Original material belongs to CivilIndia; rights in any credited third-party material remain with its rights holder. These materials are protected by the Copyright Act, 1957 and other laws. Buying a title gives you the licence described above; it does not transfer any of these rights to you.
Using the site fairly
When you use the site or the apps, please do not:
- use bots, scrapers or other automated tools to access, download or copy content, except ordinary search-engine crawling that respects our robots.txt;
- probe, overload or try to get around the security of the service, or access an account or data that is not yours;
- register with false details, or impersonate someone else;
- use the service for anything unlawful.
If these terms are broken
Depending on how serious the breach is, we may warn you, sign your account out of every device, suspend it, or close it. Where a licence is ended because content was redistributed or its protection defeated, the purchase is not refunded. Infringing copyright can also lead to civil and criminal liability under the Copyright Act, 1957 and the Information Technology Act, 2000, and we will take action to protect our authors’ work where it is needed. Where we act against an account we will tell you what we did and why, and you can ask us to review the decision through the contact page.
Devices
A purchased title may be read on up to three registered devices. You can see and remove your registered devices from your account page. Removing a device frees the slot; it does not affect what you own.
Previews
Free preview pages are available without registration so you can judge a title before buying. They are part of the same licence terms: read them, do not redistribute them.
Prices and payment
Prices are shown in Indian rupees and are the full amount you pay at checkout. Payments are processed securely by Razorpay, and the checkout shows the total payable before you authorise payment. Never send us your card credentials, UPI PIN or OTP. If a price is displayed that is obviously wrong, we may cancel the order and refund you in full rather than supply at that price, and we will tell you when we do.
Refunds are governed by our refund and cancellation policy.
Digital delivery
Guides are read online through your CivilIndia library. No physical book is shipped and no downloadable PDF is included. See our digital delivery and access policy for requirements and help with missing access.
Availability
We try to keep the service running and your library reachable, but we do not promise uninterrupted access. We may take the service down for maintenance, and we may remove a title from sale. If a title you have already bought has to be withdrawn for legal reasons, we will tell you and refund you.
The free jobs board and blog
The jobs board and the blog are free and need no account. Job listings link to the employer’s own page or to the official notification, and we take no applications and charge no candidate. We source listings carefully, but the recruiter’s own notification is always the authority — check it before you rely on a date, a fee or an eligibility rule.
Engineering content is reference, not advice
CivilIndia publishes engineering reference material. It is not a substitute for the governing standard, for statutory approval, or for the judgement of a qualified engineer responsible for a specific design. Always work from the current, official text of any standard or code, and satisfy yourself that what you are doing is correct for the structure in front of you. We do not accept liability for design decisions taken on the strength of material read here.
Our liability
Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. Subject to that, and except as the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 provides otherwise, our total liability to you for any claim connected with a title is limited to what you paid for it.
Indemnity
If you break these terms or infringe someone else’s rights through your use of the service, and a claim is brought against us as a result, you agree to make good the loss and reasonable costs that the breach causes us. This does not apply to anything that is our fault.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of India, and the courts of Madhya Pradesh have jurisdiction. This does not affect any right you have to take a complaint to a consumer forum where you live.
Changes
We may change these terms. The date at the top is when the wording last changed, and a change never applies retrospectively to a purchase you have already made.