About Adsta

1. About these Terms

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of Adsta, the website and web app at adstahub.com (the “Service”), operated by Adsta (“Adsta”, “we”, “us”, “our”). By creating an account, buying credits or a plan, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms, our Privacy Policy and our Refund & Cancellation Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

Adsta is for builders of every age. A new enterprise or a paper plane made by a four-year-old both have a home here. Because the law treats people under 18 differently:

• If you are 18 or older, you can create and run your own account.
• If you are 13 to 17, you can run your own account once your parent or legal guardian approves it from the email we send them. By approving, they agree to these Terms on your behalf and take responsibility for your use of Adsta. Until they approve, you can browse and set up your profile; posting unlocks when they approve. They can pause or close the account at any time.
• If you are under 13, a parent or legal guardian can share your ideas and creations from their own account.
• Only adults can buy credits or monthly plans. For accounts of 13 to 17 year olds, the parent or guardian buys credits from their guardian page.
• Accounts of 13 to 17 year olds have built-in protections: they start private (the teen can make them public, and we tell the guardian), contact details are never shown, they cannot become investors or post investor-only pitches, and investors can only reach them by requesting an intro through their guardian (section 8).

2. What Adsta is

Adsta is a social network and self-serve advertising platform for entrepreneurs. On Adsta you can:

• create a profile, post updates, comment, follow others and save content (free);
• place paid ads in the Adsta feed using Adsta Credits (see sections 4 to 7);
• list a product idea in the Demand Validation Engine to collect boosts and waitlist sign-ups (free);
• keep private or public idea notes in JotPad (free);
• publish pitches in the Investor Launchpad, including investor-only pitches (free);
• run a page for a local shop in the Merchant Hub (free);
• use Tenacity, our AI assistant (free).

What customers pay for is advertising placement on Adsta. Adsta does not sell goods or services on behalf of other users, does not take payments for other users, and does not hold or transfer money between users.

3. Your account

• Give accurate information and keep it up to date. One person may not run accounts to impersonate others or evade a suspension or ban.
• Keep your password safe. You are responsible for activity on your account. Tell us at once at care@adstahub.com if you think your account has been misused.
• You can delete your account at any time from Settings → Account (see section 15).

4. Adsta Credits

Adsta Credits (“credits”) are prepaid credits used to pay for ad placements on Adsta. One credit corresponds to ₹14 of ad placement at our current prices. You get credits by buying a credit pack, through a monthly plan, or occasionally through promotions.

• Credits can only be used on Adsta, for the features we price in credits.
• Credits have no cash value. They cannot be withdrawn, exchanged for money, transferred or sold to another account, or used outside Adsta.
• Credits are not a currency, a stored-value or e-money product, a cryptocurrency or digital asset, or an investment.
• Credits do not expire while your account is open. Unused credits are forfeited, without refund, when your account is deleted or banned for breaking these Terms.
• Promotional credits (for example, from a promo code) are free, may have their own conditions, and are never refundable.
• If credits are added or deducted by mistake (for example, through a technical error), we may correct the balance.

5. Prices, payment and delivery

• Current prices for ad placements, credit packs and monthly plans are listed on our Pricing page (adstahub.com/pricing) and shown again before you pay. Prices are in Indian Rupees (INR).
• Payments are processed by Dodo Payments, our Merchant of Record. Dodo Payments handles checkout, invoicing and the calculation and collection of applicable taxes, and its own buyer terms also apply to your payment. Adsta never receives or stores your card or bank details.
• Credits are delivered instantly to your Adsta account once your payment is confirmed. If they have not arrived within 30 minutes, contact us (see the Refund & Cancellation Policy).
• We may refuse or cancel a purchase if we reasonably suspect fraud, unauthorised use or a pricing error. If we cancel a paid purchase for that reason, we refund it.
• We may change prices for future purchases. Price changes never affect credits you have already bought.

6. Monthly plans

• Monthly plans (Student, Hobbyist, Enterprise Base, and Enterprise Custom above ₹1,008 per month) are charged when you subscribe and then automatically every month on the same date until you cancel.
• Each successful monthly payment adds that plan's credits to your account.
• You can cancel at any time using the subscription management link in your Dodo Payments receipt email, or by writing to care@adstahub.com from your account email. Cancellation stops future charges. Your plan stays active until the end of the month you have already paid for, and credits you have already received stay in your account.
• We do not give partial or prorated refunds for unused days of a month.
• If a renewal payment fails, the plan ends and no further credits are added. Credits you already received are not affected.
• If we change the price of a plan, we will tell you at least 7 days before the change applies to your next renewal, so you can cancel first.

7. Ads on Adsta

Every paid ad runs in the Adsta feed for exactly 7 days (168 hours) from launch and then moves to your archive. Credits are used only when an ad goes live. Our ad formats are:

• Tier 1: a text ad, or a text ad with one image: 1 credit (₹14).
• Tier 2: an image carousel of 3 to 24 images: 2 credits (₹28) for up to 3 images, plus 1 credit (₹14) for each further group of up to 3 images.
• Tier 3: one vertical video of up to 30 seconds and 15 MB: 4 credits (₹56).

New ads get a small launch-priority weight in feed ranking (Tier 1 +5%, Tier 2 +10%, Tier 3 +15%) until they reach a launch-impression goal set by the size of the Adsta community. After that, and throughout, ranking also depends on engagement (clicks, comments, saves and shares) and freshness. We do not promise any particular number of impressions, clicks, sign-ups, sales or other results.

• You are responsible for your ads, including that every claim is true, that you have the rights to all text, images, video and trademarks used, and that the products, services and links you promote are lawful.
• Ads may not promote anything listed in section 10, financial or investment schemes, gambling, adult content, weapons, drugs, counterfeit goods, or misleading health claims.
• Paid ad fields (format, media, run time) cannot be changed after launch. If you delete an ad early, or we remove it for breaking these Terms, the credits used are not refunded.

8. Free tools

Demand Validation Engine. When people join your product's waitlist, you receive their email addresses. Use them only to update those people about that product, and honour unsubscribe requests. Broadcasts sent through Adsta are limited to one per product per day.

Investor Launchpad. The Launchpad is a place for founders to share pitches and for investors to discover them. Adsta is not a stock exchange, broker, investment adviser or fundraising portal. We do not offer, sell or recommend securities, do not take part in any investment, and do not handle any money between founders and investors. Investor verification (work-email check and our review) is a basic trust signal, not due diligence. Investor-only pitches can be opened only by verified investors who have accepted the Launchpad NDA. They carry a watermark naming the viewer, and access is logged and shown to the founder. Anyone who invests does so entirely at their own risk and under their own legal advice. Founders under 18 can post public pitches only. Verified investors may follow them (a private profile still has to accept), and we tell the parent or guardian when they do, but investors cannot comment on their posts or contact them directly. A verified investor can request an intro, which we email to the founder’s parent or guardian with the investor’s verified details. Any discussion or agreement then happens with the parent or guardian, outside Adsta.

Merchant Hub. Shop owners are responsible for their shop information, announcements and restock notices. Adsta does not sell or deliver shop products. A shop run by someone under 18 is shown as guardian-approved, and their parent or guardian is responsible for it. Please list only a city or area as the location, never a home address.

Tenacity AI. Tenacity gives automated suggestions that can be wrong or incomplete. They are not legal, financial, tax or investment advice. Check important decisions with a qualified professional.

9. Your content

You keep ownership of what you post (posts, ads, ideas, pitches, comments, reviews, images, video and files). You give Adsta a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, display, format and distribute that content within the Service, for as long as it is on the Service, so that we can run Adsta. Public content can be seen by other users and visitors, depending on your privacy settings. Private JotPad notes are visible only to you.

10. Rules for everyone

You must not use Adsta to post, promote or do anything that:

• is illegal, fraudulent, deceptive or a scam, including fake reviews and fake engagement;
• infringes anyone’s intellectual property, privacy or other rights;
• is hateful, harassing, threatening, sexually explicit, or harmful to children;
• impersonates a person or business, or misrepresents your affiliation;
• is spam, mass unsolicited messaging, or automated scraping or data harvesting;
• spreads malware, or tries to break, overload or get around the security of the Service;
• tries to manipulate rankings, boosts, waitlists or reports (for example, with multiple accounts).

11. Reports, moderation, suspensions and bans

Anyone can report a post, ad, idea, pitch, product listing, comment, review, profile or shop. We review reports and may remove content, warn an account, suspend it, or ban it.

• Warning: you are told what was wrong. Nothing else changes.
• Suspension (usually 1 to 30 days): you can sign in and browse, but cannot post, comment, react, buy credits or message until it ends.
• Ban: you can no longer sign in and your content is hidden from Adsta. Unused credits are forfeited.

We tell you the reason for any action against your account with an in-app notification and, where possible, by email. If you believe we got it wrong, write to care@adstahub.com within 30 days and we will review the decision again. We may act without notice where the law requires it or to prevent harm.

12. Adsta’s rights

The Adsta name, logo, software and design belong to Adsta. These Terms do not give you any right to use them except to use the Service as intended.

13. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

We work hard to keep Adsta reliable, but the Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the extent the law allows, we do not guarantee that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that any ad, listing or pitch will achieve a particular result. We are not responsible for content posted by users or for dealings between users.

To the extent the law allows, Adsta is not liable for indirect or consequential losses (such as lost profits or lost data), and our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the amount you paid Adsta in the 3 months before the claim arose. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, or your statutory consumer rights.

14. Indemnity

If someone makes a claim against Adsta because of content you posted or your breach of these Terms or the law, you agree to cover the reasonable losses and costs this causes us.

15. Ending your use of Adsta

You can delete your account from Settings → Account. Deletion is permanent 30 days after your request (you can cancel within that time by signing in). Cancel any monthly plan first to stop future charges. Unused credits are not refunded when you delete your account. We may close accounts that break these Terms, as described in section 11.

16. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms as Adsta grows. We will post the new version here with a new date and, for important changes, tell you in the app or by email before they take effect. If you keep using Adsta after the change takes effect, the new Terms apply.

17. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of India. Courts in Uttar Pradesh, India have jurisdiction over disputes, subject to any mandatory consumer-protection rights you have where you live.

18. Contact and grievances

For help, billing questions or complaints, contact care@adstahub.com. Complaints, including about content or moderation decisions, are handled by our Grievance Officer, Adsta Trust & Safety, at care@adstahub.com. We acknowledge complaints within 24 hours and aim to resolve them within 15 days.