Intellectual Property Policy

This policy explains who owns what: the content and branding on this website, the technology Bymond Private Limited uses to deliver services, and the deliverables produced in a custom development engagement. It forms part of our Terms & Conditions.

Where a signed agreement, statement of work or order form contains its own intellectual property provisions, those provisions govern that engagement and prevail over this page. This policy applies where no more specific arrangement has been agreed, and fills any gaps in one that has.

The content of this website, including text, page structure, diagrams, illustrations, photographs, case studies, technical articles, code samples published as part of an article, layout and design, is owned by Bymond or used by us under licence, and is protected by copyright and other laws.

What you may do

• read, view, download and print pages for your own reference and internal evaluation;
• quote short extracts with clear attribution to Bymond and a link to the page you are quoting;
• share links to our pages.

What you may not do

• republish substantial parts of our content as your own, or without attribution;
• copy our content, structure or design to present a competing offering as though it were your own work;
• systematically scrape or bulk-extract the site, or use its content to train a model or build a derived dataset, without our written permission;
• remove or obscure copyright, trade mark or attribution notices.

The Bymond name, the Bymond logo and mark, the BigBlueButton Host name and mark, and the associated visual identity are the branding of Bymond. You may not use them without our written permission, except to refer to Bymond factually, for example describing us as a supplier, or naming us in a list of vendors.

Names, logos and marks of other organisations that appear on this website (technologies we work with, platforms we deploy on, and open-source projects we contribute to or operate) belong to their respective owners. Their appearance here identifies the technology or relationship in question and does not imply endorsement, partnership, certification or affiliation unless we say so expressly.

BigBlueButton is an open-source project created and maintained by its own community. Bymond deploys, operates and supports BigBlueButton infrastructure; the project and its marks belong to their owners.

Delivering software efficiently depends on not rebuilding the same things repeatedly. Bymond owns, and retains ownership of, the technology and material it brings to an engagement, which includes:

• pre-existing code, software and systems written before or outside the engagement;
• reusable libraries, frameworks, modules and generic components;
• internal tools, scripts, automation, deployment tooling and infrastructure templates;
• project scaffolding, boilerplate and starter templates;
• methodologies, architectural patterns, technical approaches, know-how, experience and general skills;
• documentation, reference material and internal knowledge bases;
• generic improvements, bug fixes and enhancements made to any of the above during an engagement.

Where a customer fully sponsors custom development, ownership of the agreed final deliverables may transfer to that customer as specified in the applicable agreement. In the absence of different agreed terms, the following applies.

• What transfers. The bespoke work product created specifically for the customer under the engagement (the custom application code, custom configuration and the documentation produced for it) as identified in the quotation or statement of work.
• When it transfers. On payment in full of the amounts due for that work, unless the applicable agreement provides otherwise. Until then, deliverables are licensed for review and acceptance only.
• What does not transfer. Bymond background technology, third-party components, and open-source software, none of which are ours to give away.

Licence to background technology inside a deliverable

Deliverables commonly incorporate Bymond background technology. Where they do, Bymond grants the customer a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use, run, modify and maintain that background technology to the extent it is embedded in the deliverable and for the purpose the deliverable was built for. That licence does not permit extracting the background technology to redistribute, license, resell or productise it separately from the deliverable.

Our work commonly incorporates open-source and third-party components. Those components remain owned by their authors and licensed under their own terms, which continue to apply and are not superseded by any transfer of ownership in a deliverable.

• You are responsible for complying with the licence terms of components included in a deliverable once it is in your hands.
• Open-source software is generally provided by its authors without warranty. Bymond does not extend a warranty over third-party open-source code. See warranties and disclaimers.
• Where a component carries licence obligations that materially affect how a deliverable may be used, we will tell you about it as part of the engagement.

Content, data, code, designs, trade marks and other material you provide to us remain yours. You grant Bymond a licence to use them for the limited purpose of performing the engagement, including hosting, processing, modifying and deploying them as the work requires.

You are responsible for having the right to provide that material to us, including any third-party licences or permissions it depends on. See indemnity in our Terms.

If you give us feedback, suggestions or ideas about our services or technology, we may use them without restriction or obligation. Bymond also remains free to use the general knowledge, experience, skills and techniques its personnel acquire during an engagement, provided this does not involve disclosing your confidential information or reusing your proprietary material.

Where AI tooling is used in producing a deliverable, the ownership and licensing position for that deliverable is as set out above. The legal status of AI-generated material is still developing in many jurisdictions, and outputs produced by generative systems may not attract the same protection as material authored by a person. Where this matters for a project, for example where a deliverable is intended to be a protectable asset, it should be addressed in the applicable agreement. See our AI Services & Usage Policy.

Bymond may identify its customers and refer to the work performed for them in its portfolio, case studies, website and marketing materials, including by displaying a customer name and logo, without disclosing confidential information, credentials, source code or commercially sensitive terms. Where a non-disclosure agreement or other written restriction applies, that agreement prevails. The full position is set out in our Terms.

If you believe material on this website infringes your intellectual property rights, write to [email protected] with:

• the URL of the page and a description of the material concerned;
• a description of the right you hold and the basis on which you hold it;
• your contact details;
• a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the rights holder, its agent or the law.

We take such reports seriously, will investigate promptly, and will remove or correct material where a report is well-founded.