TERMS OF USE

Terms of use

The terms that apply to browsing Spotrove, publishing a listing, and taking part in the Fundraiser programme: what advertisers and creators promise, what review and verification do and do not mean, how paid placements and reward-based fundraising work, and how to report a problem.

Last updated: 2026-10-01. Operated by Spotrove. Questions: contact@higglerslab.com.

1. What Spotrove is

Spotrove is an advertising directory. Every listing is an advertisement supplied by the person or organisation offering the product. Spotrove does not sell the advertised products, take payment for them, hold stock, ship anything, or act as an agent for any advertiser. Your contract for any product is with the advertiser, on their own website and terms. The one exception is the Fundraiser programme (section 7), where backers pay through Spotrove’s checkout into the creator’s own Razorpay account.

2. Using Spotrove as a visitor

Browsing is free and needs no account. You agree not to scrape the site in a way that degrades it for others, not to interfere with measurement counters, and not to misrepresent a listing as an endorsement by Spotrove. Saved products and interests are stored in your own browser as described in the privacy notice.

3. Publishing a listing

By submitting a listing you confirm that:

  • you own or are licensed to use every image, video, name, and logo in the creative, and publishing it here infringes nobody’s rights;
  • the description, pricing, and product link are accurate and not misleading, and any claim you make is one you can substantiate;
  • the product and the landing page comply with the laws that apply to you and to the people who will see the listing, including advertising and consumer-protection rules;
  • the destination link is a working public HTTPS address for the product itself, not a redirect chain, download, or unrelated page.

You grant Spotrove a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, display, resize, and cache your creative and listing text for as long as the listing is published, and to include it in search-engine results, previews, and feeds. You may withdraw this by deleting the listing.

4. Prohibited listings

Spotrove does not publish listings for: adult content; weapons, explosives, or regulated drugs; tobacco, vaping, or alcohol sold across borders without the required licences; gambling; financial products promising returns; cryptocurrency offerings or token sales; multi-level marketing or income-opportunity schemes; counterfeit or replica goods; medical treatments or supplements making health claims; personal data or scraping-as-a-service; software designed to bypass security or to deceive; and anything unlawful, hateful, or targeting a private individual.

5. Review, rejection, and removal

Every submission is reviewed by a person before publication. Review is a check against these terms and the content rules. It is not an endorsement, a quality assessment, a ranking, or verification of any claim. Spotrove may reject a submission, remove a published listing, or suspend an account at any time — including for a broken link, a changed landing page, an unsubstantiated claim, a rights complaint, or a pattern of visitor reports — and will give a reason on the listing where it can.

6. Spotlight placements

Spotlight is an optional paid placement: ₹499 in India or $9 elsewhere, for one approved listing for 7 days. It gives priority ordering in the For you feed and a visible Spotlight label. It does not guarantee any number of impressions, clicks, visitors, or sales, and it does not relax review standards. The number of concurrent Spotlight placements in a category may be limited. Payment is taken through Razorpay, and the placement starts once payment is confirmed. It expires automatically and is not renewed unless bought again. If a listing is removed for breaching these terms during an active placement, the remaining days are not refunded.

Studio is an optional subscription for advertisers, billed monthly or yearly through Razorpay at the price shown when you subscribe. It renews automatically at the end of each period until you cancel. You can cancel at any time from your studio; you will not be charged again and keep Studio until the end of the period already paid for. Periods already charged are not refunded. If a renewal payment fails, Razorpay retries it for a few days before Studio ends. Deleting your account cancels the subscription immediately. A price change applies only to new subscriptions.

Other paid placements — Launch Day, sponsor banners on the homepage, category, or collection pages, and newsletter sponsor slots — run for the dates shown at checkout, are always labelled as paid, and are subject to the same content rules. A booked date or slot may move if a listing is removed for breaching these terms; the remaining value is not refunded in that case. The social post included with Launch Day is published at our discretion within a few days of the launch.

The verified business badge means we confirmed control of a domain through a DNS record and reviewed the business details you supplied. It is not an endorsement or a guarantee of the business or its products, and we may remove it if the details stop being accurate. The verification fee is not refunded if verification is declined.

Studio members can publish time-limited deals. A deal must be genuinely available on your site for its whole period. Some product buttons use partner (affiliate) links, which are disclosed next to the button; Spotrove may earn a commission from those.

7. Fundraiser programme

The Fundraiser programme lets a verified creator raise money for a product from backers, who receive rewards from the creator in return: for example early access, a discounted unit, a lifetime licence, or merchandise. It is currently a pilot open by invitation.

Fundraising on Spotrove is reward-based only. It is not an investment. A pledge does not buy shares, equity, a loan, interest, a share of profit or revenue, or any other financial return, and creators must not offer one. A pledge is support for a project in exchange for the reward the creator describes. The reward contract is between the backer and the creator; Spotrove provides the platform and the payment flow through Razorpay.

7.1 Applying and verification

To apply, a creator must be an individual or business based in India with a PAN and an Indian bank account, hold the verified business badge for the domain the listing links to, have an approved listing, and have had a Spotrove account for at least 14 days. Before an application is approved, Spotrove checks:

  • the applicant’s identity, using the Aadhaar Paperless Offline e-KYC file the applicant downloads from UIDAI and uploads with their consent. We verify UIDAI’s digital signature and keep only the name, date of birth, gender, and last four digits of the Aadhaar number. The file itself is deleted immediately, and we never receive or store the full Aadhaar number;
  • the applicant’s PAN and, for businesses, the business PAN, registration, and GSTIN, against the documents supplied and public government records;
  • the names of the applicant and the business against public sanctions lists (including the UN Security Council and US OFAC lists);
  • the payout bank account, through a Razorpay Route linked account. Razorpay runs its own verification and its own terms apply to that account. The account must belong to the applicant or their business; third-party accounts are not accepted;
  • the product itself, through a working demo or prototype, and a short video call with the applicant.

Identity and business documents are visible only to Spotrove reviewers, every access is logged, and they are deleted 180 days after the application closes unless we need them for an open dispute or a legal obligation. See the privacy notice.

Approval makes a listing eligible to run a campaign for 12 months. It means the checks above were completed. It is not an endorsement of the creator or the product or a guarantee that rewards will be delivered. Spotrove may decline an application, and a declined listing may apply again after 30 days. Giving false or misleading information, or using someone else’s identity, documents, or bank account, leads to rejection, removal of campaigns and listings, suspension of the account, and a report to the authorities where the law requires it.

7.2 Campaigns, payments, and fees

  • A campaign has a funding goal and runs for up to 60 days. Campaigns are all-or-nothing: if the goal is not reached by the deadline, or the campaign is cancelled or suspended before it succeeds, every backer is refunded in full automatically.
  • Backers are charged when they pledge. Funds are held on Razorpay Route against the creator’s linked account and are not paid out until the campaign succeeds.
  • For a successful campaign, Spotrove charges a platform fee of 5% of the funds raised plus GST (3% plus GST for creators with an active Studio membership). Payment gateway charges for the pledges are passed on at cost. Nothing is charged to the creator if the campaign does not succeed.
  • After fees, 80% of the funds is released when the campaign succeeds and the remaining 20% once reward delivery is confirmed.
  • Spotrove may delay or hold a payout, or reverse a transfer that has not yet been paid out, if we suspect fraud, if backers raise substantiated complaints, if the creator stops posting updates, or if the creator breaches these terms. Held funds may be used to refund backers.

7.3 What creators promise

  • to describe each reward, its estimated delivery date, and the risks and challenges honestly, and to deliver every reward as described;
  • to post an update for backers at least every 30 days until all rewards are delivered, and to tell backers promptly about any delay or change;
  • to refund backers whose rewards cannot be delivered;
  • not to back their own campaign, directly or through others, or otherwise inflate its results;
  • to meet their own legal and tax obligations for the rewards they sell, including GST and consumer-protection rules;
  • to indemnify Spotrove against claims arising from their campaign, their rewards, or their failure to deliver them.

7.4 Backing a campaign

Backers need a Spotrove account. Spotrove verifies creators as described above, but it does not make or deliver rewards and does not guarantee that a project will be completed or a reward delivered on time or at all. If a campaign does not reach its goal, you are refunded in full automatically. After a campaign succeeds, rewards come from the creator. If something goes wrong, report it to us. We will contact the creator and may hold their remaining payout and use it toward refunds, but we cannot promise a refund once funds have been released.

7.5 Campaigns we do not accept

Anything prohibited in section 4, and also: offers of equity, shares, interest, profit or revenue share, tokens, or any financial return; donations or charitable appeals (including for registered NGOs); fundraising for medical treatment or personal needs; political campaigns; products the creator does not own or have the rights to sell; ideas without a working demo or prototype; and rewards that are themselves regulated products.

8. Measurement

Reported impressions, clicks, and saves are de-duplicated once per visitor, per listing, per day, and retained for 90 days. They are best-effort discovery signals, not an audited audience measurement, not a fraud-detection system, and not a basis for billing. Spotrove does not attribute sales.

9. Reporting a listing

Any visitor can report a listing from its options menu. Rights holders and anyone with a legal complaint should write to contact@higglerslab.com with the listing URL, the nature of the complaint, and how to contact you. Spotrove aims to acknowledge within five working days.

10. Availability and liability

Spotrove is provided “as is” without a warranty of uninterrupted availability. To the extent the law allows, Spotrove is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits, or lost business arising from use of the site or from any dealing with an advertiser. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited. Advertisers indemnify Spotrove against third-party claims arising from their own listing content.

11. Ending your use

You may delete a listing at any time from the studio, and delete your account from the studio’s Account section. Deleting an account removes your listings and their counters permanently.

12. Changes to these terms

The date above changes when these terms change. Material changes affecting advertisers are sent to the account email. Continuing to use Spotrove after a change means accepting the updated terms.