The deal between you and Orbit.

Orbit is built and operated by Rajdeep Sharma, an individual based in India, at Sector 57, Gurugram, Haryana 122003, India. In these terms, “Orbit”, “we” and “us” mean them; “you” means you. We intend to incorporate a company to run Orbit; when we do, this agreement passes to it under the assignment clause below, and we’ll tell you.

These terms cover the Orbit mobile app, the website at networkwithorbit.com, the public card pages and the Orbit physical card. Our Privacy Policy forms part of this agreement — please read it, because it explains what we do with what you write.

If you don’t agree with something here, the answer is not to use Orbit. If you already have an account, you can delete it at any time.

• You must be 18 or older.
• One account per person. No running several, and no accounts for organisations, brands or bots.
• Orbit is currently invite-only. Access is at our discretion and having an invite doesn’t entitle you to keep access indefinitely.
• You must be honest about who you are. Orbit only works if the person on the other side is real.

Orbit is a professional network built on one conviction: a connection should follow a conversation, not precede it. Rather than collecting contacts, you say what you’re working on, and Orbit tries to put a small number of relevant people in front of you.

In practice that means:

• Posts— short statements of what you’re working on, text and links only.
• Coach— an AI assistant that reads your posts, suggests people, explains why, and drafts an opening message.
• Reach-outs— how you start a conversation, subject to the limits in the next section.
• Messages and meetups— where the conversation goes once it starts.
• The card— a physical card with a web page, for meeting people in person.

Orbit is early-stage software. Features appear, change and disappear. We may change how any of it works, and we don’t promise that something you like today will be there next month.

Orbit deliberately restricts how much you can reach out. These aren’t technical constraints, they’re the design, and by using Orbit you accept them:

• You can have two pending reach-outs at a time — three with Pro.
• A reach-out that goes unanswered expires after seven days.
• Everyone sets their own weekly limit on incoming reach-outs, and can snooze them entirely. If someone’s full, you wait.
• A conversation becomes a connection only once both people have actually engaged with it.

We may adjust these numbers as we learn what keeps Orbit worth being on. Trying to get around them — extra accounts, automation, scripted reach-outs — is a breach of these terms.

You sign in with Apple or LinkedIn; Orbit has no password of its own. That means the security of your Orbit account depends on the security of that provider account, which is your responsibility. You’re responsible for what happens under your account. Tell us at support@networkwithorbit.com if you think someone else is in it.

You own what you create on Orbit. To be able to show it to the people you intend to show it to, we need your permission, so you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, display and distribute your content within Orbit and on your card page, for as long as you keep it there. That licence exists only so we can run the service. We don’t sell your content, and we don’t use it in advertising.

Two consequences worth stating on their own:

You confirm you have the right to post what you post, and that it doesn’t infringe anyone else’s rights. If you give us feedback or suggestions we may act on them freely, without owing you anything for it — but that doesn’t give us any rights over your content.

Orbit itself — the software, the name, the design — belongs to us, and this agreement doesn’t give you any rights to it beyond using the service.

Orbit is a professional context and we expect people to treat it as one. Don’t:

• Harass, threaten, abuse, stalk or intimidate anyone, or keep contacting someone who has made clear they’re not interested.
• Post anything unlawful, hateful, defamatory, sexually explicit, or that attacks people for who they are.
• Send spam, bulk pitches, recruitment blasts, chain messages or promotional content dressed up as a reach-out.
• Impersonate anyone, or misrepresent who you are or what you do.
• Scrape, crawl, bulk-export or harvest other members’ data, or use Orbit to build a contact database.
• Automate your use of Orbit, or use it through anything other than our own app and website.
• Attack the service — break into accounts, probe for vulnerabilities, interfere with the infrastructure, or upload malicious code. Responsible security research reported to support@networkwithorbit.com is welcome and won’t be treated as a breach.
• Share what someone told you privately on Orbit outside it, without their agreement.

Every post, reply and image is automatically screened when you submit it. Content that gets flagged is withheld and permanently deleted after 7 days. Automated screening is imperfect in both directions — if we’ve got it wrong, email support@networkwithorbit.com and a person will look.

You can report any profile, post or message, and you can block anyone. Blocking is mutual: neither of you sees the other, and they can’t reach out to you.

We review reports, and we may remove content, limit an account, or suspend or terminate someone — with notice where we reasonably can, and immediately where the situation calls for it. We aren’t obliged to monitor everything, and we don’t promise to catch everything.

Coach is a suggestion engine, not an adviser. What it produces is generated by an AI model, which means it can be wrong, misleading or simply odd. Its matches are not endorsements of anyone, its explanations may misread a situation, and its draft openers are drafts.

Nothing Coach says is professional, legal, financial, medical or career advice. When you send a message Coach drafted, it’s your message — read it first, and you’re responsible for it.

Each card has a unique link, and that link is what makes your card page reachable — it’s printed into the card and encoded in the Wallet pass. Anyone who has it can see the page. If you lose the card, ask us to deactivate it at support@networkwithorbit.com and the page stops working.

When someone taps your card and signs up, Orbit connects the two of you — that’s what the card is for. We may deactivate a card that’s being used to spam or mislead people.

Orbit is free to use. We also offer a paid subscription, Orbit Pro, which adds a third reach-out slot and other benefits described in the app at the time you subscribe. This section applies once Pro is available and you subscribe to it.

Paying

• Prices are shown in the app before you commit, and include applicable Indian taxes such as GST unless stated otherwise.
• If you subscribe through the Apple App Store or Google Play, payment is taken by them under their terms, and you’ll manage or cancel the subscription in your store account rather than in Orbit.
• If you subscribe directly, payment is handled by our payment provider. Your card details go to them, never to us.

Renewal and cancellation

• Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each period, at the then-current price, until you cancel.
• You can cancel any time. You keep Pro until the end of the period you’ve paid for; we don’t pro-rate a partial period.
• If we change the price, we’ll tell you at least 30 days before it applies to you, and you can cancel instead.

Refunds

For App Store and Play purchases, refunds are Apple’s and Google’s to give, under their policies — we can’t issue them. For direct purchases, write to support@networkwithorbit.com: we’ll refund an unused subscription within 14 days of purchase, and we’ll refund you if we’ve failed to deliver what you paid for. Beyond that, payments aren’t refundable. Nothing here limits any refund right you have under Indian consumer law.

If a payment fails or a subscription lapses, Pro features stop but your account carries on as a free account.

We want Orbit to be up all the time, but we don’t guarantee it. There will be maintenance, outages and bugs. We may add, change or remove features, and we may stop offering Orbit altogether — if we discontinue the service we’ll give you reasonable notice and a way to get your data out, and we’ll refund any prepaid subscription for the period we haven’t delivered.

By you

Deactivate or delete your account from the Account screen at any time. Deactivating hides you and is reversible. Deleting is permanent and cannot be undone. What happens to your data in each case is set out in the Privacy Policy.

By us

We may suspend or terminate your account if you break these terms, if you’re using Orbit to harm other people, if we’re required to by law, or if you don’t pay for a subscription you’ve taken. We’ll give you notice and a chance to respond where it’s reasonable to do so, and act immediately where it isn’t — harassment and safety cases in particular. If you think we’ve got it wrong, appeal to our Grievance Officer below.

When an account ends, access stops. The clauses that should outlive this agreement — content licences for material already distributed, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnity, and governing law — do.

Orbit is provided as is. To the extent the law allows, we make no warranties about it — not that it will be available, or error-free, or that it will get you a job, a co-founder, a customer or a single useful conversation.

We’re not responsible for what members say or do, for meetups whoever organises them, or for third-party sites and services you reach from links on Orbit.

To the extent Indian law permits, we’re not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, or for lost profits, lost business, lost opportunities, lost data or reputational harm, however it arises.

Our total liability to you for everything connected with Orbit is capped at whichever is greater of: what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or ₹5,000.

Nothing here excludes liability we can’t lawfully exclude — including for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by our negligence. Some jurisdictions don’t allow these limits, in which case they apply to you only as far as they’re permitted.

If someone brings a claim against us because of what you posted, how you used Orbit, or because you broke these terms or someone else’s rights, you agree to cover our reasonable losses and legal costs in dealing with it. We’ll tell you about the claim and let you take part in defending it.

This agreement is governed by the laws of India.

If something goes wrong, tell us first — legal@networkwithorbit.com— and give us 30 days to sort it out. Most things end there.

If they don’t, the dispute goes to arbitration by a sole arbitrator under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, seated in Gurugram, conducted in English.The courts at Gurugram have exclusive jurisdiction over anything arbitration can’t handle, including interim relief.

None of this stops you taking a complaint to a consumer forum or a regulator where the law gives you that right.

We’ll update these terms as Orbit changes. The date at the top tells you the current version. For material changes we’ll notify you by email and in the app at least 14 days before they take effect, so you have time to leave if you don’t agree. Continuing to use Orbit after that means you accept the new version. Minor corrections take effect when posted.

• Whole agreement. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between us about Orbit.
• Severability. If a court finds part of this unenforceable, the rest stands.
• No waiver.If we don’t enforce something immediately, we haven’t given up the right to.
• Assignment.You can’t transfer this agreement. We may, to a successor if the business is incorporated as a company, sold or reorganised.
• No partnership.Using Orbit doesn’t make you our employee, agent or partner.

Legal — legal@networkwithorbit.com
Support — support@networkwithorbit.com
Privacy — privacy@networkwithorbit.com

Our Grievance Officer is appointed under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, and will acknowledge your complaint within 24 hours and resolve it within 15 days.

Grievance Officer

Rajdeep Sharma
grievance@networkwithorbit.com

Rajdeep Sharma
Sector 57, Gurugram, Haryana 122003, India