Terms of Use
Last updated: 2 July 2026
Welcome to Tech Lens Media.
These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of the website located at techlensmedia.com, including our articles, newsletters, directories, listings, event pages, submission forms, advertising products, sponsored content, and any other services or content provided through the website.
By accessing or using Tech Lens Media, you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree with these Terms, please do not use the website.
1. About Tech Lens Media
Tech Lens Media is a digital media brand operated from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. We publish and curate content related to technology, artificial intelligence, startups, venture funding, acquisitions, AI tools, AI agencies, startup listings, events, and related business and technology topics.
Tech Lens Media is not currently registered as a separate legal entity. References to “Tech Lens Media,” “TLM,” “we,” “us,” or “our” refer to the operator of the Tech Lens Media website and related media properties. If Tech Lens Media is later incorporated, registered, acquired, or transferred to a legal entity, these Terms may be updated to reflect the new operator.
2. Use of the Website
You may use Tech Lens Media for lawful, personal, informational, editorial, research, and business purposes, subject to these Terms.
You agree not to:
- Use the website for any unlawful, misleading, abusive, fraudulent, or harmful purpose
- Interfere with the security, functionality, availability, or integrity of the website
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the website, systems, data, forms, accounts, or infrastructure
- Scrape, copy, reproduce, republish, or commercially exploit our content without permission
- Use bots, crawlers, automated scripts, or extraction tools in a way that overloads the website or violates our instructions
- Submit false, misleading, defamatory, infringing, confidential, or unauthorized information
- Impersonate any person, company, investor, startup, tool provider, agency, event organizer, or representative
- Upload or transmit malware, spam, or harmful code
- Use the website in a way that infringes intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights
Search engines and legitimate indexing services may crawl publicly available pages in accordance with our robots.txt file and applicable technical instructions.
3. Editorial Content
Tech Lens Media publishes original, curated, submitted, sponsored, and AI-assisted editorial content.
Our content may include funding news, startup stories, company updates, product launches, acquisition coverage, AI industry analysis, event updates, lists, rankings, directories, interviews, press-release-based articles, opinion-led articles, and informational guides.
All editorial content is provided for general informational purposes only. It should not be treated as investment advice, financial advice, legal advice, tax advice, employment advice, professional consulting, or a recommendation to invest in, purchase from, partner with, or rely on any company, startup, agency, investor, product, event, or service mentioned.
You should independently verify important information before making business, investment, financial, legal, hiring, partnership, or procurement decisions.
4. No Investment or Financial Advice
Tech Lens Media may cover startups, venture capital funds, funding rounds, acquisitions, investor activity, company performance, revenue claims, valuation claims, market trends, AI tools, and business growth stories.
Such coverage is informational only. Nothing on Tech Lens Media should be understood as:
- A recommendation to invest
- A solicitation to buy or sell securities
- Financial, investment, legal, or tax advice
- Due diligence on a company, founder, fund, investor, tool, agency, or event
- Confirmation that any public or submitted claim is accurate, complete, or current
Readers, investors, sponsors, companies, and users are responsible for conducting their own due diligence.
5. Submissions
You may be able to submit information through the website, including startup details, funding announcements, AI tools, AI agencies, company listings, event details, sponsored content inquiries, advertising inquiries, contact messages, newsletter subscriptions, corrections, or other materials.
By submitting information to Tech Lens Media, you represent and warrant that:
- You have the right and authority to submit the information
- The information is accurate to the best of your knowledge
- The submission does not infringe any intellectual property, privacy, confidentiality, contractual, or legal rights
- You are not submitting confidential information unless we have separately agreed in writing to receive it as confidential
- Any logos, images, screenshots, brand assets, founder photos, documents, or media files you provide may be used by Tech Lens Media for review, editorial, listing, promotional, or publication purposes
You grant Tech Lens Media a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable license to use, copy, edit, format, publish, distribute, display, promote, excerpt, archive, and adapt your submitted materials in connection with Tech Lens Media’s website, newsletters, social media channels, directories, editorial products, advertising products, and related services.
Submission does not guarantee publication, listing, ranking, approval, promotion, traffic, leads, conversions, or continued availability on the website.
6. Editorial Review and Moderation
We may review, edit, reject, remove, update, reformat, summarize, fact-check, label, or decline any submission, listing, article, comment, event, tool, startup profile, agency profile, sponsored request, or other content at our discretion.
We may also remove or update content if we believe it is inaccurate, outdated, misleading, promotional without disclosure, unlawful, infringing, harmful, low quality, duplicative, irrelevant, or inconsistent with Tech Lens Media’s editorial standards.
We are not obligated to publish, maintain, explain, or justify editorial decisions.
7. Listings, Rankings, and Directories
Tech Lens Media may provide listings, directories, rankings, collections, or curated pages for AI tools, AI startups, agencies, events, products, companies, investors, or related technology businesses.
Listings may be free, paid, sponsored, submitted, editorially selected, curated, algorithmically assisted, manually reviewed, or based on publicly available information.
The order, visibility, ranking, category placement, badge, mention, feature, or display of any listing may depend on various factors, including editorial relevance, completeness of information, public interest, category fit, recency, geography, sponsorship, commercial arrangements, website design, user experience, internal review, or other criteria determined by Tech Lens Media.
A listing, ranking, mention, article, profile, badge, link, or feature does not mean that Tech Lens Media endorses, verifies, recommends, guarantees, or certifies the company, tool, agency, startup, event, founder, investor, or service.
8. Sponsored Content, Advertising, and Paid Promotions
Tech Lens Media may offer sponsored articles, paid PR or funding coverage, paid listings, featured placements, event promotions, display ads, newsletter sponsorships, lead generation services, brand visibility packages, and other commercial products.
Sponsored, paid, promotional, or partner-supported content may be labelled using terms such as “Sponsored,” “Partner Content,” “Promoted,” “Featured,” “Paid Listing,” “Advertisement,” or similar wording where appropriate.
Payment does not guarantee a positive review, endorsement, investment recommendation, ranking outcome, editorial opinion, business result, lead volume, conversion, traffic level, or publication permanence unless specifically agreed in writing.
We may reject or remove sponsored or paid content at our discretion if we believe it is misleading, unlawful, low quality, harmful, unverifiable, reputationally risky, or inconsistent with Tech Lens Media’s standards.
Any separate written agreement, invoice, proposal, order form, or campaign confirmation may contain additional commercial terms. If there is a conflict between these Terms and a specific written agreement, the specific written agreement will apply to that campaign or service.
9. Payments and Refunds
Tech Lens Media may offer paid services now or in the future, including sponsored content, funding coverage, listings, advertising, event promotions, and lead generation.
Unless a separate written agreement states otherwise:
- All fees must be paid in the amount and currency stated at the time of purchase or invoicing
- Payment does not guarantee business results, leads, conversions, traffic, rankings, or audience engagement
- Paid services are non-refundable once work has started, content has been reviewed, a listing has been processed, a campaign has been scheduled, or publication has occurred
- Tech Lens Media may pause, reject, remove, or cancel paid content that violates these Terms or applicable laws
Payment processing may be handled by third-party providers such as Razorpay, Stripe, PayPal, or other payment processors. Their own terms and privacy policies may apply.
10. Intellectual Property
All content on Tech Lens Media, including articles, headlines, summaries, analysis, graphics, directories, page layouts, design, branding, logos, databases, rankings, lists, copy, images, videos, and other materials, is owned by Tech Lens Media or used under permission, license, fair use, editorial use, or applicable law.
You may view and share our publicly available content for personal and non-commercial purposes, provided that you do not modify it, misrepresent it, or remove attribution.
You may quote short excerpts from our content with clear attribution and a link back to the original Tech Lens Media page.
You may not copy, reproduce, republish, syndicate, scrape, sell, license, mirror, redistribute, train datasets on, or commercially exploit substantial portions of our content without prior written permission.
All third-party trademarks, logos, company names, product names, investor names, and brand assets remain the property of their respective owners. Their appearance on Tech Lens Media does not imply endorsement, sponsorship, partnership, or affiliation unless expressly stated.
11. Third-Party Links and Embeds
Tech Lens Media may link to or embed content from third-party websites, platforms, tools, startups, agencies, investors, social media platforms, event organizers, payment providers, analytics providers, advertisers, or other external services.
We do not control third-party websites or services and are not responsible for their content, accuracy, privacy practices, security, availability, pricing, claims, or terms.
You access third-party websites and services at your own risk.
12. Comments and User Interaction
Tech Lens Media may enable comments, discussion features, forms, reactions, or other user interaction features in the future.
If such features are enabled, you are responsible for the content you submit. We may moderate, edit, hide, delete, or restrict comments or user content that we consider abusive, unlawful, promotional, spammy, misleading, defamatory, discriminatory, infringing, irrelevant, or harmful.
We are not responsible for user-generated content posted by visitors or third parties.
13. Availability and Accuracy
We try to keep Tech Lens Media accurate, useful, and available, but we do not guarantee that:
- The website will always be available, secure, uninterrupted, or error-free
- All information will be accurate, complete, current, or suitable for your needs
- Listings, articles, event details, prices, funding details, tool features, agency claims, founder details, or third-party information will remain up to date
- Errors will be corrected immediately
- The website will be free from viruses, vulnerabilities, or harmful components
Content may be updated, removed, corrected, archived, or changed at any time.
14. Disclaimer of Warranties
Tech Lens Media is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, reliability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, uninterrupted availability, and suitability for business, investment, legal, or financial decisions.
15. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Tech Lens Media and its operators, contributors, editors, contractors, partners, service providers, and affiliates will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, exemplary, or economic loss, including loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, business opportunity, investment value, leads, customers, reputation, or anticipated savings.
This applies whether the claim arises from use of the website, reliance on content, listing decisions, paid promotions, advertising, third-party links, publication delays, inaccuracies, technical issues, or any other matter related to Tech Lens Media.
Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law.
16. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Tech Lens Media and its operators, editors, contributors, contractors, partners, service providers, and affiliates from any claims, losses, damages, liabilities, costs, expenses, or legal fees arising from:
- Your use of the website
- Your submissions
- Your breach of these Terms
- Your violation of applicable law
- Your infringement of any rights of another person or organization
- Any false, misleading, unauthorized, or unlawful information you provide
17. Changes to the Website and Terms
We may update, modify, suspend, discontinue, or remove any part of Tech Lens Media at any time.
We may also update these Terms from time to time. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date. Your continued use of the website after changes are posted means you accept the updated Terms.
18. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms are governed by the laws of India.
Subject to applicable law, the courts located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India will have jurisdiction over disputes arising from or related to these Terms, the website, or your use of Tech Lens Media.
19. Contact
For questions about these Terms, please contact:
Tech Lens Media
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Email: hello@techlensmedia.com