Terms of Use and Licence

1. Who provides the app, and accepting these terms

NRI Ghar (the app) is published by Chetan Potdar, an individual developer in the Netherlands (we, us). Contact details are on the who publishes this page.

This document is both our terms of use and the licence for the app. By downloading or using the app you agree to it. If you do not agree, please do not use the app.

You must be at least 16 years old to use the app.

The app is free. There is no payment, no subscription, no in-app purchase, and no advertising.

2. What the app is

NRI Ghar is a private, offline organiser for Indian documents and dates. It helps you keep documents in one place, track dates you enter yourself, and read summaries of published government requirements. It works entirely on your device, with no accounts and no servers.

The app is a general publication. It is not tailored to your circumstances, it does not know your full situation, and it does not review anything you enter.

3. General information only, and not a substitute for professional advice

This product is not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. It is also not a substitute for the advice of a tax professional, an accountant, or a licensed immigration adviser. If you need help with a legal, tax, or immigration matter, please consult a qualified professional.

Any reference material, summaries, or checklists in the app are general information only. Rules, fees, forms, and deadlines set by governments change, and information in the app can become outdated at any time. Each rule shows the official source it came from and the date we last checked that source. That date tells you how current the summary is, and nothing more. Where a summary has not been checked in over a year, the app says so on screen.

Official government sources are the authority on every requirement and deadline. Where the app links to an official source, that source, and not the app, is authoritative.

To be clear, the app:

• does not provide legal, tax, or immigration advice of any kind;
• does not file applications or submit forms on your behalf;
• does not contact consulates, embassies, banks, or any government office;
• does not verify, validate, certify, or authenticate any document;
• does not make promises about compliance, eligibility, status, or outcomes.

NRI Ghar is an independent product. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the Government of India, any Indian ministry, mission, consulate, or authority, or the government of any other country. Government names and terms are used descriptively only.

4. Calculations are estimates, not determinations

The app performs arithmetic on the dates and trips you enter. Where it shows a count of days, a residency indication, a deadline, or an urgency band, that output is an estimate based only on what you typed. It is not a determination of your legal, tax, or residential status, and it is not a finding that any requirement does or does not apply to you.

Some rules the app describes rest on interpretations that are not settled in law. For example, counting both the day of arrival in and the day of departure from India is the prevailing practice, but it is not written into the statute. Where the app relies on an interpretation of this kind, it says so on screen.

Always confirm any figure that matters with the official source or with a qualified professional before you act on it.

5. No sole reliance

The app is one input among several and is not designed to be your only source. You agree not to rely on it as the sole basis for any decision with legal, financial, tax, travel, or immigration consequences.

6. Your responsibilities

You are responsible for verifying every deadline, requirement, and rule with the relevant official government source before you act on it.

Reminders are local notifications scheduled on your device. They depend on the dates you enter, on your granting notification permission, and on your device settings. Because iOS limits how many notifications an app may have pending at once, the app schedules the soonest ones rather than every future one. Treat reminders as a helpful nudge and never as the final word. The app works without notification permission; you simply do not get reminders.

You are responsible for the accuracy of what you enter, for keeping your device secure, and for maintaining your own backups. Because the app has no servers, we cannot recover data lost from your device.

7. Licence, and what you may do with the app

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app on Apple-branded devices that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions.

The app, its design, its text, and the rule summaries belong to us and are protected by copyright. Documents and data you put into the app remain entirely yours, and we never see them.

You agree not to copy, resell, sublicense, or redistribute the app or its content, and not to reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble it except so far as the law expressly permits despite this restriction.

8. Links to official sources

The app links to government and other third-party websites so you can check the original. We do not control those sites, we are not responsible for their content, availability, or accuracy, and a link is not an endorsement or a sign of any relationship.

9. Availability

The app runs on your device and does not depend on any service of ours. We do not promise that it will be free of errors, that it will stay compatible with every future version of iOS, or that it will remain available for download. We may stop publishing or supporting it, and if we do, you keep any copy already installed for as long as your device supports it.

This website is hosted on a free hosting plan that our provider may withdraw or change at its discretion. We do not promise the website will be reachable at any particular moment.

10. Limitation of liability

Please read this carefully. It limits what we owe you if something goes wrong, but it does not, and cannot, take away rights the law gives you.

The app is supplied free of charge. Except as set out below, and to the extent the law permits, our total liability to you for all claims arising out of or connected with the app is limited to 500 euro.

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for:

• death or personal injury;
• fraud, intent, or conscious recklessness (opzet of bewuste roekeloosheid);
• any liability the law does not permit to be limited or excluded.

If you are a consumer, your mandatory statutory rights are unaffected, including any rights you have in respect of digital content and digital services under the law of the country where you live. If any part of this section is held unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.

Subject to the above, the app is provided as is and as available, without warranties beyond those the law requires, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss.

11. Complaints and safety reports

If something in the app is wrong, unsafe, or has caused you a problem, write to nl.chetanpotdar@gmail.com. We read every message and aim to reply within ten working days. If you believe a rule summary is out of date or incorrect, include the rule and the official source, and we will check it.

12. Termination

You may stop using the app at any time by deleting it, which also deletes its data from your device. We may end this licence if you breach these terms in a material way. Sections 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 13 and 14 survive.

13. Apple and this licence

The App Store is operated by Apple. The following terms are required in every licence agreement for an app distributed through the App Store, and they apply to this one.

• 13.1 This licence is concluded between you and us alone, and not with Apple. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for the app and its content.
• 13.2 The licence in section 7 is limited to a non-transferable licence to use the app on any Apple-branded products you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, except that the app may be accessed by other accounts associated with you through Family Sharing or volume purchasing.
• 13.3 We are solely responsible for providing any maintenance and support for the app. Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support.
• 13.4 We are solely responsible for any product warranties, whether express or implied by law, so far as they are not effectively disclaimed. If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of the app to you, which for this app is zero. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the app, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, or expenses attributable to a failure to conform to any warranty are our sole responsibility.
• 13.5 We, and not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims by you or any third party relating to the app or your possession and use of it, including product liability claims, any claim that the app fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection, privacy, or similar legislation.
• 13.6 If a third party claims that the app or your possession and use of it infringes that third party intellectual property rights, we, and not Apple, are solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement, and discharge of that claim.
• 13.7 You represent and warrant that you are not located in a country subject to a government embargo, or designated as a terrorist supporting country, and that you are not on any government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• 13.8 Questions, complaints, and claims about the app should be directed to Chetan Potdar, the Netherlands, nl.chetanpotdar@gmail.com.
• 13.9 You must comply with any applicable third-party terms when using the app.
• 13.10 Apple and Apple subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this licence, and upon your acceptance Apple will have the right, and is deemed to have accepted the right, to enforce this agreement against you as a third-party beneficiary.

14. General

• 14.1 Changes. We may update these terms. If we do we will update this page and the effective date above. Continued use after a change means you accept the updated terms.
• 14.2 Governing law. These terms are governed by the laws of the Netherlands, and the courts of the Netherlands have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory law of the country where you habitually reside, and you may also bring proceedings there.
• 14.3 Severability. If any provision is held invalid, the rest continues in force.
• 14.4 No waiver. Not enforcing a right is not a waiver of it.
• 14.5 Assignment. You may not assign these terms. We may assign them to a successor, provided your rights are not reduced.
• 14.6 Entire agreement. These terms and our privacy policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the app.
• 14.7 Feedback. If you send us a suggestion we may use it without obligation to you. Please do not send confidential information.
• 14.8 Contact. nl.chetanpotdar@gmail.com.