Terms of use

These terms are the agreement between you and Dreambud when you use our website and app. We've written them to be read, not skimmed past. Please read them with our Privacy notice and Community guidelines, which are part of these terms.

Version 2026-11-04. Effective from this date for the beta.

In short

  • You must be 18 or over and use your real identity.
  • Dreambud introduces people. We don't employ anyone, guarantee jobs or take a fee for a hire.
  • Nobody may charge a job seeker money for a job, interview or referral. Doing so gets you removed.
  • Paid plans show their price, renewal and refund terms before you pay. Credits are not money.
  • You own what you post; you give us permission to show it to the people you're matched with.

1. The agreement

By creating an account or using Dreambud you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use Dreambud. If we make important changes, we'll tell you in the app before they take effect; continuing to use Dreambud after that means you accept them.

2. Who can use Dreambud

  • You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter a binding contract under Indian law.
  • You must use your real name and accurate information about your work, experience and goals.
  • One person, one account. Accounts can't be shared, sold or transferred.
  • You can't use Dreambud if we've previously removed you, or if the law prevents you.
  • We may let people in gradually. If there's a waitlist, you keep your place in line; inviting friends who join can move you up. Being on the waitlist isn't a promise of a date.

3. What Dreambud is, and isn't

Dreambud is a platform that introduces professionals, hiring teams, referrers, mentors and others to each other based on what they're looking for. We are an intermediary under the Information Technology Act, 2000. We don't employ the people you meet, we don't act as a recruitment agency, we don't verify every claim people make, and we can't promise that any introduction leads to a job, a hire or a referral. Decisions about jobs and hiring are always between you and the other person or company.

4. Your account

  • Keep your password safe and tell us if you think someone else has used your account.
  • You're responsible for what happens under your account.
  • Verification (for example, of a work email) tells others something is likely true; it isn't a guarantee, and you should still use your judgement.

5. How you may use Dreambud

You agree to follow our Community guidelines. In particular, you must not:

  • ask anyone for money, fees, deposits or payment of any kind for a job, interview, training, placement or referral;
  • post fake jobs, fake profiles, misleading information about yourself, your company or a role, or impersonate anyone;
  • harass, threaten, discriminate against or abuse anyone, or send sexual or romantic advances;
  • collect other members' data, scrape the service, send bulk or automated messages, or use bots;
  • share someone else's private information or contact details without their permission;
  • post anything unlawful, including content prohibited by Rule 3(1)(b) of the Intermediary Guidelines, 2021;
  • try to break, overload, reverse-engineer or get around the security of Dreambud.

6. Your content

You own what you add to Dreambud: your profile, answers, photos and messages. You give us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store and show that content only as needed to run Dreambud, for example showing your profile to people you're matched with. This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies others have already received in a chat. You confirm you have the right to share what you post.

  • Premium and Recruiter Pro: before you pay, we show the price (including taxes), what's included, how renewal works and how to cancel. You can cancel any time; access continues until the end of the period you paid for.
  • Refunds: handled as described at the point of purchase and as required by the Consumer Protection Act, 2019. If something we promised doesn't work, tell us and we'll put it right.
  • Credits: earned by helping others (for example, confirmed referrals) and spent on visibility features. Credits have no cash value, can't be bought, sold, transferred or exchanged for money, and expire 12 months after they're earned.
  • How credits are checked: referral credits need a verified work email and both people confirming each step, with time between steps; they aren't paid for referring someone you invited, a very new account, or someone who referred you. Invite credits are paid once the person you invited has been in for 2 days and connected with someone other than you. There are monthly limits. We may hold or remove credits, and suspend accounts, that were earned with fake accounts or arranged between friends.
  • Paid plans give you speed and reach, never access to other people's private data. Conversations with your connections are always free.

7A. Opportunity cards

  • For hiring teams: a card describes one real opportunity. It's checked by our team before it goes live and must not include contact details, links or any fee. It picks a few people at a time from those who fit best, and moves on when someone passes or doesn't answer. You agree to answer people who claim your card within 72 hours and to contact the people you accept. If members report that you didn't contact them, your cards can be paused until our team reviews it.
  • For members: when a card picks you, you have 48 hours to claim or pass. Free accounts can claim 3 cards a month; Premium can claim more. Claiming isn't an application or a job offer: the hiring team decides whether to contact you.
  • Dreambud doesn't promise that any card leads to an interview, an offer or a hire.

8. Referrals

Referrals happen between two members and are recorded only when both confirm each step. Any reward a company offers its own employees for referrals is between that employee and their employer. Dreambud doesn't pay or take referral fees.

9. Safety, reports and removal

You can report or block anyone. Our team reviews reports and may hold messages, restrict features, suspend or remove accounts, or remove content that breaks these terms or the law, with or without notice where safety requires it. Where we can, we'll tell you why and how to appeal. We also act on valid orders from courts and government agencies as the law requires.

Some checks are automatic: words that aren't allowed are refused, and repeated problems or reports from several different people put an account under review, during which it's hidden and can't send messages. A person on our team decides the outcome of every review, including any ban. To appeal, write to the Grievance Officer.

10. Ending your use

You can delete your account at any time in Settings. We may end or suspend your account if you seriously or repeatedly break these terms, or if we must by law.

11. Disclaimers and limits of liability

We work hard to keep Dreambud safe, accurate and available, but we provide it “as is”. To the extent the law allows, we aren't responsible for what members say or do, for decisions you make based on an introduction, or for losses that are indirect or that we couldn't reasonably foresee. Our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or ₹1,000 if you haven't paid us. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under consumer protection law that can't be limited.

12. Your responsibility to us

If you break these terms or the law and someone makes a claim against us because of it, you agree to cover the reasonable costs that result, to the extent the law allows.

13. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of India. Please talk to us first: most problems are solved quickly. If a dispute remains, the courts at Bengaluru, Karnataka have exclusive jurisdiction, without affecting your right to approach a consumer commission where the law allows.

14. Contact and Grievance Officer

For questions or complaints about content or these terms, contact our Grievance Officer. Name, email and postal address will be published here before public launch. We acknowledge complaints within 24 hours and aim to resolve them within 15 days, as the Intermediary Guidelines require.