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Detailed Terms and Conditions

Welcome to Beyond Placebo.

These Terms and Conditions govern your access to and use of the Beyond Placebo website, digital platforms, content, products, tools, educational resources, and other services provided through or associated with Beyond Placebo.

By accessing or using this website or any of its resources, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to these Terms and Conditions.

If you do not agree with these Terms, please do not use the website or its services.

1. About Beyond Placebo

Beyond Placebo is an educational, creative, coaching, and personal-development ecosystem created and operated by Sukhendu Mandal.

The ecosystem may include, among other things:

• Transformational coaching and mentorship

• Books and written publications

• Courses and educational programs

• Meditation and self-reflection resources

• AI-assisted tools and coaches

• Crystal and energy-related educational content

• Spiritual and consciousness-related educational material

• Articles, blogs, videos, audio and other media

• Music and creative content

• Downloads, reports, guides and other digital resources

• Online applications and forms

• Other current or future digital products, services, programs, or resources

Different services may have additional terms that apply specifically to them.

2. Separate Terms for Transformational Coaching

The Beyond Placebo Transformational Coaching program is governed by a separate Transformational Coaching Terms document.

If you apply for, purchase, or participate in Transformational Coaching, you must agree to those additional terms.

The Coaching Terms contain specific provisions relating to:

• Eligibility and application

• Screening and suitability

• Participant conduct

• Spiritual-practice boundaries

• Program progression

• Coaching sessions

• Intellectual property

• Confidentiality

• Payments and refunds

• Suspension or termination

• Participant responsibilities

• Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 participation

These provisions apply in addition to these general Terms and Conditions.

Where a provision specifically applicable to Transformational Coaching differs from a general provision in these Terms, the Transformational Coaching Terms will apply to the coaching relationship to the extent of that difference.

3. Use of the Website

You may use this website for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms.

You agree not to:

• Use the website for unlawful, fraudulent, abusive, or harmful purposes

• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the website, servers, systems, accounts, or data

• Interfere with the operation or security of the website

• Introduce malicious code, malware, viruses, or other harmful material

• Scrape, copy, systematically download, or reproduce substantial portions of the website without permission

• Circumvent technical or access restrictions

• Misrepresent your identity or affiliation

• Use our content or resources to impersonate Beyond Placebo or its representatives

• Use the website in a way that could damage the rights, safety, reputation, or legitimate interests of Beyond Placebo or others

We may restrict or terminate access where we reasonably believe that these Terms have been violated or that use of the website creates a security, legal, or operational concern.

4. Educational and Personal-Development Content

Beyond Placebo provides educational and personal-development material intended to support reflection, learning, self-exploration, and personal growth.

Our content may discuss subjects including:

• Consciousness

• Spiritual development

• Meditation

• Emotional processing

• Values

• Personal transformation

• Spiritual experiences

• Yogic or contemplative principles

• Energy and crystal traditions

• Personal-development practices

• Coaching and self-directed development

Such material is provided for educational and informational purposes.

The presentation of a spiritual, traditional, philosophical, energetic, or consciousness-related concept does not necessarily mean that Beyond Placebo represents it as an objectively established scientific fact.

You remain responsible for how you interpret and apply educational material.

5. Health, Medical and Psychological Matters

Beyond Placebo does not provide medical diagnosis, medical treatment, psychiatric treatment, emergency care, or other clinical healthcare services through this website unless expressly stated otherwise.

Books, articles, meditation resources, AI tools, crystal-related material, coaching, courses, exercises, and other resources should not be treated as a substitute for qualified medical, psychiatric, psychological, or other professional healthcare.

You should seek an appropriately qualified professional where professional assessment, diagnosis, treatment, or emergency support is required.

Our separate Health, Spiritual Practice & AI Disclaimer forms part of the information governing use of relevant Beyond Placebo resources.

6. AI and Automated Tools

Beyond Placebo may provide AI-assisted or automated tools, including meditation, reflection, coaching-support, crystal-related, or other educational tools.

AI-generated responses are produced through automated systems and may be incomplete, inaccurate, generalized, or inappropriate for a particular situation.

AI tools are not a substitute for professional medical, psychiatric, psychological, legal, financial, or emergency services.

You should not rely on an AI-generated response as the sole basis for an important personal, health, legal, financial, or safety-related decision.

You are responsible for evaluating information received from an AI tool and deciding whether and how to use it.

AI tools may be modified, replaced, restricted, suspended, or discontinued at any time.

7. Spiritual and Energy-Related Material

Beyond Placebo may discuss spiritual traditions, meditation, energy practices, crystals, healing traditions, consciousness, transformational experiences, and related subjects.

The inclusion of a practice, tradition, concept, crystal, technique, or spiritual claim in our educational material does not constitute a guarantee that it will produce a particular result.

Beyond Placebo does not require users to adopt any particular spiritual belief system.

We encourage responsible, grounded, self-directed engagement with spiritual and personal-development material.

Certain practices or behaviours may be inappropriate for particular individuals or circumstances. You remain responsible for exercising appropriate judgment and seeking qualified professional assistance where necessary.

8. Books and Digital Publications

Beyond Placebo may offer books, ebooks, reports, guides, written programs, and other digital publications.

Unless expressly stated otherwise:

• Digital products are licensed for personal use.

• Purchasing a digital publication does not transfer copyright ownership to you.

• You may not redistribute, resell, reproduce, upload, or commercially exploit the material without permission.

• You may not present Beyond Placebo's written material as your own.

• You may not reproduce substantial portions of our publications for training, commercial, or derivative purposes without authorization.

Individual products may contain additional usage instructions.

9. Courses and Educational Programs

Courses, educational programs, workshops, and other learning resources may be offered through Beyond Placebo.

Unless specifically stated otherwise:

• Access is provided to the purchaser or registered participant only.

• Access does not transfer ownership of the underlying educational material.

• Course completion does not guarantee certification, professional qualification, income, business success, healing, transformation, or any other particular outcome.

• Course structures, materials, platforms, schedules, and delivery methods may change when reasonably necessary.

Where a course has its own specific terms, those terms will also apply.

10. Meditation and Self-Reflection Resources

Meditation practices, exercises, guided material, reflective prompts, and related resources are provided for educational and personal-development purposes.

You should use reasonable personal judgment when engaging with any practice.

If a practice causes significant distress, discomfort, destabilization, or other concern, discontinue the practice and seek appropriate professional assistance where necessary.

Beyond Placebo does not guarantee that any meditation or self-reflection practice will produce a particular experience or outcome.

11. Crystal and Energy-Related Content

Beyond Placebo may publish educational material concerning crystals, minerals, energy traditions, symbolic practices, meditation, intention, and related systems.

References to crystals or energetic practices are not a guarantee of medical, psychological, financial, or other specific outcomes.

Crystals and related practices should not be used as a substitute for appropriate professional care.

Any physical crystal product, where applicable, is subject to the terms and conditions associated with that particular purchase.

12. Music and Creative Content

Beyond Placebo and its associated creators may publish music, audio, videos, artwork, written works, and other creative material.

Unless explicitly stated otherwise, such material remains protected by applicable intellectual-property rights.

Access to music or other creative content does not grant permission to:

• Reproduce it commercially

• Redistribute it

• Repackage it as your own

• Upload it to another platform as your own work

• Create unauthorized commercial derivatives

Specific licensing permissions, where offered, will override this general provision to the extent stated.

13. Intellectual Property

The Beyond Placebo website and ecosystem may contain intellectual property belonging to Beyond Placebo, Sukhendu Mandal, or other respective rights holders.

This may include:

• Names and branding

• Logos and visual assets

• Books and written material

• Frameworks and educational structures

• Articles and website content

• Videos and audio

• Music

• Meditation material

• AI prompts, systems, outputs, or implementation structures

• Reports and downloadable resources

• Graphics and photographs

• Software and website components

• Original educational and creative material

Unless expressly permitted, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, publish, distribute, sell, license, reverse engineer, or commercially exploit protected material.

Nothing on this website transfers ownership of Beyond Placebo intellectual property to you.

14. User-Submitted Information and Materials

Certain parts of the website may allow you to submit information, questions, applications, feedback, comments, or other material.

You remain responsible for the accuracy and legality of information you submit.

You must not knowingly submit:

• False or misleading information

• Material that infringes another person's rights

• Malicious code

• Unlawful content

• Confidential information belonging to another person without authorization

Where you submit material for a specific service, additional terms may apply.

15. Website Accounts and Access

Certain resources may require an account, registration, email address, application, or other access credentials.

You are responsible for:

• Providing accurate information

• Maintaining the security of your login credentials

• Preventing unauthorized access to your account

• Informing us where you reasonably believe your account has been compromised

We may restrict or suspend accounts where necessary for security, legal, operational, or Terms-compliance reasons.

16. Purchases and Payments

Certain products and services may require payment.

Before completing a purchase, applicable pricing and purchase information will be presented through the relevant purchase process.

Unless otherwise stated:

• Prices are displayed in the currency specified at the point of purchase.

• Payment must be completed through the payment method provided.

• Taxes, transaction charges, currency-conversion charges, or other charges may apply depending on your location and payment provider.

• Payment for a service does not guarantee a particular personal, professional, spiritual, business, financial, or other outcome.

Coaching payments and related conditions are governed additionally by the separate Transformational Coaching Terms.

17. Refunds, Cancellations and Digital Purchases

Refund, cancellation, rescheduling, and access conditions may differ according to the type of product or service purchased.

Applicable terms presented at the time of purchase will apply.

Nothing in these Terms is intended to remove or restrict any consumer right that cannot lawfully be excluded under applicable law.

For Transformational Coaching, the separate Transformational Coaching Terms apply.

18. Third-Party Services and Links

The Beyond Placebo ecosystem may use or link to third-party services, platforms, payment processors, hosting providers, AI providers, communication services, social-media platforms, video platforms, analytics services, or other external websites.

Third-party services are operated independently from Beyond Placebo.

We are not responsible for the content, availability, security, privacy practices, policies, or performance of third-party websites or services.

Your use of a third-party service may be subject to that provider's own terms and policies.

19. Website Availability

We aim to keep the website and its resources available and functional, but continuous availability cannot be guaranteed.

The website or particular resources may occasionally be unavailable because of:

• Maintenance

• Technical problems

• Security measures

• Platform changes

• Third-party service interruptions

• Hosting or infrastructure problems

• Circumstances beyond our reasonable control

We may modify, suspend, replace, or discontinue any website feature or resource.

20. Accuracy of Information

We make reasonable efforts to maintain useful and accurate website information.

However, website content may contain errors, omissions, outdated information, or technical inaccuracies.

Information may also change as programs, products, research, platforms, pricing, or business operations develop.

You should consider the context and date of information before relying upon it.

21. No Guarantee of Results

Beyond Placebo does not guarantee that use of its website, books, courses, meditation resources, AI tools, crystal-related material, educational content, coaching, or other services will produce any particular result.

Results from personal-development, spiritual, educational, creative, or business work can vary substantially between individuals.

No statement on this website should be interpreted as a promise of:

• Healing

• Transformation

• Spiritual awakening

• Emotional resolution

• Financial gain

• Business success

• Audience growth

• Book sales

• Professional recognition

• Fame

• Certification

• Employment

• Any other specific outcome

22. Personal Responsibility

You are responsible for your own decisions, interpretations, actions, and use of information obtained through the Beyond Placebo ecosystem.

You should use appropriate judgment regarding your individual circumstances.

Where a matter requires specialist professional advice, you should consult an appropriately qualified professional.

23. Prohibited and Harmful Use

Beyond Placebo resources must not be used to facilitate unlawful, abusive, dangerous, fraudulent, exploitative, or harmful activity.

This includes using our material or systems to:

• Harm another person

• Harass or threaten others

• Facilitate fraud or deception

• Circumvent security

• Infringe intellectual-property rights

• Distribute malicious software

• Exploit vulnerable individuals

• Impersonate Beyond Placebo or its representatives

• Misrepresent our content or services

• Conduct activities that create significant safety or legal concerns

We reserve the right to restrict access where such use occurs.

24. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time to reflect changes in our website, services, technology, legal requirements, or business operations.

The updated version will be published on this page with an updated date.

Your continued use of the website after an updated version becomes effective constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms to the extent permitted by applicable law.

25. Changes to Products and Services

Beyond Placebo may develop, modify, replace, or discontinue products, programs, content, tools, platforms, or other services.

We may change:

• Program structures

• Content

• Delivery methods

• Technology

• Platforms

• Features

• Availability

• Pricing

• Access arrangements

Where a change materially affects an existing paid service, applicable contractual and consumer rights will be respected.

26. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Beyond Placebo and its representatives will not be responsible for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or unforeseeable losses arising from your use of the website or its resources.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where such exclusion or limitation is prohibited by applicable law.

Nothing in these Terms is intended to exclude statutory consumer rights or liability that cannot legally be excluded.

27. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to take responsibility for claims, losses, liabilities, damages, or expenses arising from your unlawful use of the website, your violation of these Terms, or your infringement of another person's rights.

This provision does not apply to the extent that applicable law prevents such responsibility from being imposed.

28. International Users

Beyond Placebo may be accessed by users from different countries.

Different countries may have different laws concerning consumer rights, privacy, digital products, taxation, intellectual property, and online services.

You are responsible for complying with laws applicable to your own use of the website.

Nothing in these Terms is intended to remove mandatory rights that apply to you under the law of your jurisdiction.

29. Privacy

Your use of the website may involve the collection and processing of personal information.

The way we collect, use, store, and protect personal information is described in our separate Privacy & Data Policy.

By using relevant services, you acknowledge that your information may be processed in accordance with that policy and applicable law.

30. Electronic Communications

When you communicate with Beyond Placebo electronically, including through forms, email, applications, or other online systems, you consent to receiving electronic communications where permitted by applicable law.

Electronic communications may include information concerning purchases, applications, services, account access, administrative matters, or other relevant interactions.

31. No Waiver

If we do not immediately enforce a provision of these Terms, that does not mean that we waive our right to enforce it later.

32. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is determined to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue to apply to the extent permitted by applicable law.

33. Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with any applicable product-specific terms, Coaching Terms, purchase terms, Privacy & Data Policy, and other policies expressly incorporated into them, form the applicable agreement governing your use of the relevant Beyond Placebo services.

Where different terms apply to a specific service, the terms specifically applicable to that service will govern that service to the extent of any inconsistency.

34. Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms will be interpreted and applied in accordance with applicable law.

Any governing-law and dispute-resolution provisions applicable to a particular paid service may be stated in that service's specific terms.

For Transformational Coaching, please refer to the separate Transformational Coaching Terms.

Nothing in this section is intended to prevent a consumer from exercising mandatory rights available under applicable law.

35. Contact

For questions concerning these Terms and Conditions or the Beyond Placebo website, please use the contact information provided on the official Beyond Placebo website.

Important Notice

Beyond Placebo is a broader educational, creative, personal-development, and coaching ecosystem.

Different resources within the ecosystem serve different purposes. No resource on this platform is related to healthcare, therapy, or professional advice.

Before using a particular service, please review any additional terms or disclaimers specifically provided for that service.

For Transformational Coaching, the separate Transformational Coaching Terms are mandatory and apply in addition to these general Terms.

By continuing to use the Beyond Placebo website and its resources, you acknowledge that you have had an opportunity to review these Terms and the policies applicable to the service you are using.

Returns & Refunds policy

No cancellations and refunds are accepted.

Due to the non-physical nature of the product, refund is not possible. For workshops, no refund will be given once a seat is booked. The bookings are non-transferable and cannot be carried over to later seminars.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our Returns and Refunds Policy, please contact us by e-mail sukhendu.beyondplacebo@gmail.com

Medical Disclaimer

Transformational coaching and meditation has no connection with medical diagnosis and prescription. The only aspects in focus are human behavior, perception, ways of making choices, and subtle inner programs.

If there is a need for medical support, please approach a clinician. Under no circumstance, the books and any other program be used as an alternative to medical treatment.

Participants may or may not reach their goal in a given time. Due to the vast possibilities in human behavior, there is no guarantee if our approach will work for a person.

Meditation Coach — Use Policy

Last updated: [7-Sep-2026]

Welcome to Meditation Coach, a feature of Beyond Placebo. By using Meditation Coach, you agree to the terms below. Please read them before you begin.

What Meditation Coach Is

Meditation Coach offers daily silence meditation practice and different forms of intention meditation with silence. It still applies values mapping framework to every meditation. It also guides how to use the music healing meditation in a empowering way.

1. Silence Meditation — a structured, self-guided daily practice with no external audio or video, meant to help you connect with your own inner guidance through stillness.

2. Healing Meditation — a chat-style guide that listens to what you describe, and points you to a relevant meditation session from the Beyond Placebo library, based on fixed, automated logic. No human counselor and no AI-generated advice is involved in how sessions are matched or how the coach responds — every response is pre-written and rule-based.

Medical Disclaimer

Meditation Coach has no connection with medical diagnosis or treatment. Like Beyond Placebo's coaching work, it focuses only on human behavior, perception, patterns of choice, and subtle inner programs — nothing more.

If you need medical or psychological support, please approach a licensed clinician. Under no circumstance should Meditation Coach, or any Beyond Placebo material, be used as a substitute for medical treatment. If you are in crisis or in danger, please contact your local emergency services or a crisis line in your area.

No Outcome Guarantees

Every person's experience with meditation and reflection work is different. Meditation Coach does not promise or guarantee any specific emotional, spiritual, or life outcome. Language used in session names or descriptions (for example, "healing," "clearing," "alignment") describes the intent and philosophy behind the practice, not a verified or guaranteed result.

Your Responsibility

You are responsible for:

• How you interpret and act on anything you experience while using Meditation Coach

• Decisions you make in your personal, professional, financial, medical, or relational life

• Deciding whether this kind of practice is right for you, and seeking professional support where appropriate

• What you share with the coach — its automated logic can only respond to what you tell it, and cannot detect what you leave out or misrepresent

Meditation Coach offers structured reflection and curated content. It does not supervise or take responsibility for what you personally do with your experience of using it.

What Meditation Coach Is Not For

Please don't use Meditation Coach to seek influence, control, or power over another person — their choices, relationships, health, or free will — even someone you care about. This isn't a tool for that, and requests along these lines will be declined. If there's fear, pain, or attachment underneath a request like that, Meditation Coach is glad to help you work with your own experience of it instead.

Meditation Coach also reserves the right to end a conversation and redirect you toward professional support if what you share suggests a mental health crisis, a diagnosed clinical condition, or a situation this tool isn't equipped to help with. This isn't a judgment of you — it's a recognition that some things deserve more than an automated tool can offer.

Your Privacy

Meditation Coach doesn't require an account. It doesn't send or store your reflections, answers, or session history on a server. Any memory of your practice (for example, session pacing) is stored only in your own browser and isn't visible to us. This page works alongside, not in place of, Beyond Placebo's main Privacy Policy.

Content and Ownership

Session names, written guidance, and the structure of Meditation Coach belong to Beyond Placebo. Music and audio sessions are embedded from YouTube and remain the property of their original creator and subject to YouTube's own terms — Beyond Placebo doesn't control their availability.

Fair Use of This Tool

Please don't try to manipulate, exploit, or misuse Meditation Coach's automated logic, or misrepresent what it said or recommended to you — including to unfairly blame it for a decision, outcome, or circumstance that was your own or unrelated to its guidance. Beyond Placebo reserves the right to refuse or end access for anyone using the tool in bad faith, and to pursue appropriate remedies in cases of clear misrepresentation or defamation.

Changes to This Policy

This page may be updated from time to time. Continuing to use Meditation Coach after changes means you accept the updated terms.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this policy, reach out at sukhendu.beyondplacebo@gmail.com.

This policy applies specifically to the Meditation Coach tool. It works alongside, and does not replace, Beyond Placebo's existing Disclaimer, Privacy Policy, and Terms and Conditions.

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