Aroh · Terms of use

The terms, in plain words.

Last updated 31 October 2026. Applies to thearoh.com and the app installed from it.

What this is

Aroh is a UPSC study companion: a daily plan, a syllabus tracker, past questions and revision in one place. Aroh is provided by ACT FOR IAS, run by Vikram Veer, Hyderabad, India, for its students and for anyone who opens an account. Using it means you accept these terms and the privacy policy.

Your account

• Anyone can open an account, or ask us to open one. We may decline a request, or close an account, without giving a reason.
• You keep your password and PIN to yourself. Anything done while signed in with them is treated as done by you.
• One person, one account. Logging work you did not do, or logging work only to collect points, spoils the leaderboard for everyone and is grounds for closing the account.

What you write

• Your reflections, answers, notes and recall cards remain yours. You give Aroh permission to store them, show them to you and to your mentor, and to include your effort (never your marks or words) in the guardian note if one is switched on.
• A recall card you offer to the shelf may be shown to other students after approval. Do not offer anything that is abusive, that identifies another person, or that you do not have the right to share. An approved card can be withdrawn after three reports.
• Short extracts from study material pasted into your own cards for your own revision are fine. Do not use Aroh to republish whole books or paid courses.

Fees

Paid plans. Aroh Free costs nothing. A new account can try the complete system, Anthropology included, for seven days without a card and then moves to Free on its own. During the launch, every account has Pro free until payments open and for seven days after, as notice; the plans page says when that is. Pro is bought outright for a month (30 days) or six months (180 days); Pro Yearly (365 days) and the 2-Years Pro Pass (730 days, one payment) include the Anthropology optional; each at the price shown on the plans page, in rupees with GST included, and nothing renews on its own. A founding price, while it is offered, is kept for as long as the plan is renewed within seven days of its end date. A plan bought while another is running adds to its end date. If you change your mind within seven days of a payment, write to us and we refund it in full, no questions asked; after that a plan runs to its date. Payments are taken by our payment gateway (Razorpay, Cashfree or Instamojo, as named on the plans page); we never see your card details, and we keep only the payment reference, the plan, the amount, your name and email address and, where the gateway asks for it, your mobile number. A plan that has ended goes back to Free; nothing you logged is deleted. Students of an academy that uses Aroh get everything through their batch for as long as they are in it. Aroh itself is free to start. Fees for courses and mentorship are agreed separately with the admissions team and are not collected through this site. Nothing you pay or do not pay changes what Aroh records about your effort.

Availability

We aim to keep Aroh up at all times and to tell you in advance when it will be down for maintenance. It runs on shared hosting and will occasionally be slow or unreachable for a few minutes. Ticks made while offline are kept on your phone and sent when a connection returns. We do not promise uninterrupted service and we are not liable for a lost streak.

Closing an account

You can leave at any time from Account › Your data › Delete my account, or by messaging us. We will close the account and remove your record as described in the privacy policy. We may close an account that breaks these terms, after telling you why.

The law that applies

These terms are governed by the laws of India. Any dispute goes to the courts of Hyderabad, Telangana.

Changes

If these terms change, the date at the top changes and a What's New note goes to every student before the change applies.

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