Fellowship Terms

01 Not employment

The Databery Fellowship is a voluntary, educational programme. Taking part does not create a contract of employment, a worker or apprenticeship relationship, an agency or partnership, or any obligation for Databery to pay wages, a salary, a stipend, or expenses. You are not an employee, worker, or contractor of Databery by reason of the fellowship.

The fellowship is offered free of charge. There is no fee to apply or to take part, and equally there is no payment from Databery to you.

02 Eligibility

• The fellowship is open to students, recent graduates, and people moving into research, strategy, or sales, with no prior qualifications required beyond a genuine commitment to the work.
• You must be able to take part remotely and to meet weekly deadlines.
• If you are under 18, you may take part only with the knowledge and consent of a parent or guardian, and we may ask for confirmation.
• You are responsible for ensuring that taking part does not breach any visa, immigration, employment, or study conditions that apply to you.

03 Applications & selection

Places are limited and selective. We review applications as they arrive and select participants at our discretion. Applying does not guarantee a place, and we are not obliged to give reasons for our decisions. We may open, close, pause, reschedule, or change the format of any cohort or track.

04 Your commitment

The fellowship is a working programme. If offered a place, you agree to engage with the material, submit the weekly deliverables, and complete a final project to the best of your ability, within the deadlines set. The programme is self-paced within those deadlines; we suggest planning for a few focused hours each week.

05 Code of conduct

• Treat mentors, staff, and fellow participants with respect. Harassment, discrimination, and abusive behaviour are not tolerated.
• Do your own work. Plagiarism, fabricating sources or data, or misrepresenting your work is grounds for removal.
• Follow reasonable instructions and any programme guidelines we provide.

06 Confidentiality

During the fellowship you may be exposed to real research briefs, client information, methods, and other confidential material. You agree to keep all such information strictly confidential, to use it only for the purposes of the fellowship, and not to disclose, publish, or reuse it. This obligation continues after the fellowship ends. If asked, you will sign a separate confidentiality undertaking.

07 Intellectual property

• Work on live or client briefs. Any work you produce that relates to a real client engagement, and all results of it, belong to Databery (and, where relevant, its client). You assign to us all intellectual property rights in that work.
• Your case study. You may keep and show the final training project you complete as part of your portfolio, provided you first remove or anonymise any confidential or client-identifying information. If in doubt, ask us before sharing.
• Licence to Databery. You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, and display your fellowship work (in anonymised form where appropriate) for training, assessment, and promotion of the programme, and to credit you by name where we choose to.

08 Certificates & recognition

A fellowship certificate is issued on satisfactory completion of the programme, judged at our reasonable discretion. Letters of recommendation and public recognition are offered to strong performers at our discretion and are not guaranteed. Completing the fellowship does not entitle you to any award beyond what we choose to provide.

09 No offer of employment

The fellowship is not a recruitment process and carries no promise of a job, internship, paid work, or ongoing relationship with Databery. Any future opportunity would be a separate matter, offered entirely at our discretion and subject to its own terms.

10 Withdrawal & removal

You may withdraw from the fellowship at any time by letting us know. We may suspend or remove any participant who breaches these terms, misses deliverables without reasonable explanation, or behaves in a way that harms the programme or others, without any liability to you.

11 Liability & data

Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law. Subject to that, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, Databery is not liable for any indirect or consequential loss arising from the fellowship, and our total liability in connection with the fellowship is limited to INR 10,000. The programme and any materials are provided “as is”, without warranty of any particular career or learning outcome.

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12 Governing law & contact

These terms are governed by the laws of India, and the courts of Bengaluru, Karnataka have exclusive jurisdiction. We may update them from time to time; the date above shows the latest version. Questions about the fellowship or these terms can go to [email protected].