Virya Grid Legal Notices
viryagrid.com · Effective August 28, 2026 · Operated by Anshul Saxena
This document contains the Disclaimer, Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Legal Notices for viryagrid.com. The current version is always published at viryagrid.com/terms and viryagrid.com/privacy. Questions: contact@viryagrid.com.
Disclaimer
Informational and educational only. Not investment, engineering, or regulatory advice.
Virya Grid is not responsible for any mistakes or errors in the documents, data, and tools presented on this website. You use them at your own risk, and you agree to this each time you sign in.
The Virya Grid courses, games, and teaching simulator deliberately simplify how electricity markets and grids work in order to teach concepts. They do not replicate any real market's rules, prices, or outcomes. Nothing in a Course is operational, trading, or engineering guidance, and a certificate of completion is not an accredited credential, professional certification, continuing-education credit, or license.
Nothing on viryagrid.com creates an advisor, fiduciary, or professional relationship. Outputs are generated from public and third-party data and from simplified models, and may be inaccurate, incomplete, or out of date. Do not rely on anything on this site for any decision involving money, assets, project siting, interconnection, market participation, or regulatory compliance without independent verification and qualified professional advice. You are solely responsible for decisions you make using this site.
Terms of Service
Effective date: August 28, 2026
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of viryagrid.com (the "Site"), operated by Anshul Saxena ("Virya," "we," "us"). By creating an account or using the Site, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Site.
1. Eligibility and accounts
- You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract.
- You must provide accurate registration information and keep it current.
- Your account is personal to you. Do not share your login, let others use your account, or use another person's account. You are responsible for all activity under your credentials.
- We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, at our discretion and without notice.
2. The service is currently free
The Site is provided free of charge during its early-access period. We may introduce paid plans, usage limits, or feature tiers in the future. We will give at least 30 days' notice by email or in-product notice before any feature you use becomes paid, and you will never be charged without affirmatively agreeing to a price.
3. License to use the Site
Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Site for your own internal informational and educational purposes. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.
4. Our intellectual property
The Site and everything in it (software, models, simulators, datasets we compile, analyses, text, graphics, course material, and the Virya name and logos) are owned by Anshul Saxena or our licensors and protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws. Outputs generated for you by the Site's tools are licensed to you under Section 3, not sold.
5. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Copy, scrape, crawl, or bulk-download any part of the Site or its outputs, whether manually or with automated tools.
- Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the source code, models, or underlying data of the Site.
- Resell, sublicense, redistribute, or publicly republish the Site's outputs, datasets, or course content, except for brief excerpts with attribution to Virya.
- Use the Site to build, train, or improve a competing product or dataset.
- Circumvent access controls, rate limits, or authentication.
- Upload malicious code, interfere with the Site's operation, or probe it for vulnerabilities without written permission.
- Use the Site in violation of any law, market rule, or third-party right.
6. Confidential information
Non-public features, beta functionality, unreleased analyses, pricing discussions, and anything we mark confidential are our confidential information. You will not disclose them to third parties or use them except to use the Site. This obligation survives termination for three years. Invited beta testers are additionally bound by the Beta / Early Access Agreement.
7. Not professional advice
The Site provides information, education, and analytical tools. Nothing on the Site is investment, trading, legal, tax, engineering, regulatory, or other professional advice, and nothing creates an advisor or fiduciary relationship. Do not rely on the Site for any decision involving money, assets, project siting, interconnection, market participation, or regulatory compliance without independent verification and qualified professional advice. You are solely responsible for decisions you make using the Site.
8. Data and accuracy
The Site draws on public and third-party sources (including ISO/RTO, EIA, FERC, and state regulatory data) and on models that simplify real systems. We do not warrant that any content, output, or simulation is accurate, complete, current, or fit for any purpose. Third-party data remains subject to its own terms. Models and results may change without notice.
9. Feedback
If you send us feedback, suggestions, or ideas, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use them for any purpose without obligation to you.
10. Third-party services
The Site uses third-party services for authentication, hosting, and analytics. Your use of those services is subject to their terms. We are not responsible for third-party services or links.
11. Disclaimer of warranties
THE SITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR SECURE.
12. Limitation of liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANSHUL SAXENA AND HIS AFFILIATES, EMPLOYEES, AND CONTRACTORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SITE. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM OR (B) ONE HUNDRED US DOLLARS ($100). Some jurisdictions do not allow these limits; in those, our liability is limited to the fullest extent permitted.
13. Indemnification
You will indemnify and hold harmless Anshul Saxena from claims, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your breach of these Terms or your misuse of the Site.
14. Termination
You may close your account at any time by emailing contact@viryagrid.com or using the account settings page where available. We may suspend or terminate your access at any time, with or without cause. Sections 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, and 16 survive termination.
15. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by JAMS / AAA in Santa Clara County, California, except that either party may bring claims in small-claims court or seek injunctive relief for intellectual-property violations in any court of competent jurisdiction. You waive any right to a jury trial or to participate in a class action.
16. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms. For material changes we will give at least 14 days' notice by email or in-product notice, and the updated Terms will show a new effective date. Continued use after the effective date means you accept the change.
17. General
These Terms, the Virya Grid Supplement below, and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Site. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. You may not assign these Terms; we may. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver.
18. Contact
Anshul Saxena, contact@viryagrid.com.
Virya Grid Supplement
This Supplement is part of the Terms of Service for viryagrid.com. It covers the courses, games, and teaching simulator (together, the "Courses").
A. Course access
Enrolling in a Course gives you a personal, non-transferable license to view the Course content for as long as the Course remains available on the Site. We may retire, revise, or replace Courses. If we later charge for a Course, access terms (duration, refunds) will be stated at purchase.
B. One learner per account
Courses are licensed to one named learner. Sharing logins, screen-sharing lessons to groups, or purchasing one seat for a team is prohibited. We may suspend accounts that show concurrent use from multiple locations. Team and classroom licenses are available on request at contact@viryagrid.com.
C. No downloading or redistribution
You may not download (except where we provide a download button), record, transcribe, or redistribute videos, simulator scenarios, quizzes, or course notes, or post them to any file-sharing service or AI training dataset.
D. Certificates are not credentials
Any certificate of completion we issue confirms only that you completed the Course's lessons. It is not an accredited credential, professional certification, continuing-education credit, or license, and does not qualify you to perform any regulated activity. Do not represent it otherwise.
E. Educational simplifications
The games and teaching simulator deliberately simplify how electricity markets and grids work in order to teach concepts. They do not replicate any real market's rules, prices, or outcomes, and nothing in a Course is operational, trading, or engineering guidance.
F. User content
If the Site lets you post comments, questions, or simulator scenarios, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free license to host, display, and moderate that content, and you confirm you have the right to post it. We may remove content at our discretion. Report content that infringes your rights to contact@viryagrid.com.
G. Learners must be 18 or older
The Site is not directed at children. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 18, we will close it. Educators who want to use the Courses with students should contact us about a classroom license.
Privacy Policy
Effective date: August 28, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Anshul Saxena ("Virya," "we," "us") collects, uses, and shares information when you use viryagrid.com and its sister site viryaintel.com (the "Sites").
1. Information we collect
| Category | Examples | How we get it |
|---|---|---|
| Account information | Name, email address, password hash or OAuth identifier, profile details you add | You provide it at sign-up |
| Usage data | Pages viewed, tools and lessons used, simulator inputs and results, quiz answers, course progress, timestamps | Collected automatically as you use the Sites |
| Device and log data | IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URL, approximate location derived from IP | Collected automatically |
| Communications | Emails you send us, support requests, feedback, forum posts | You provide it |
| Cookies and similar | Session cookies for login, preference cookies, analytics identifiers | Set by the Sites and listed providers |
We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18, and we do not collect payment card details (there are no paid plans at this time; if we add them, a payment processor will handle card data and we will update this policy).
2. How we use information
- To create and secure your account and let you sign in.
- To operate the tools and courses, including saving your progress and scenarios.
- To send service emails (account, security, changes to terms) and, if you opt in, the Energy Policy Brief or product updates.
- To understand how the Sites are used and improve them, including aggregated or de-identified analytics.
- To detect abuse, enforce our Terms, and comply with law.
We do not sell your personal information and do not share it with third parties for their own marketing.
3. Legal bases (for users in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland)
We process account and usage data to perform our contract with you; analytics and security on the basis of our legitimate interests; marketing email on the basis of your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.
4. Who we share information with
| Processor | Purpose | Data involved |
|---|---|---|
| Auth provider, e.g. Clerk / Supabase Auth / Auth0 | Sign-up, login, password reset | Email, name, OAuth identifier, IP |
| Hosting provider, e.g. Vercel / Cloudflare / AWS | Serving the Sites, storing your data | All categories |
| Analytics provider, e.g. PostHog / Plausible / Google Analytics | Usage analytics | Usage, device, and log data |
| Email provider, e.g. Resend / Postmark / Mailchimp | Service and subscription email | Email, name |
| AI provider, if any tool sends user input to an LLM API | Generating tool outputs | Inputs you submit to that tool |
We may also disclose information to comply with law, enforce our Terms, protect rights and safety, or in connection with a merger, sale, or financing, in which case we will notify you.
5. Cookies
We use strictly necessary cookies for login and preferences, and analytics cookies to measure usage. You can control cookies in your browser; blocking necessary cookies will prevent sign-in. If you use a cookie banner, describe the choices here.
6. Retention
We keep account data while your account is active and for up to 90 days after you close it, then delete or de-identify it. We keep server logs for 30–90 days. We may keep de-identified or aggregated data indefinitely.
7. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or export your personal information, to object to or restrict processing, and to withdraw consent. California residents have rights under the CCPA/CPRA, including the right to know, delete, and correct, and the right not to be discriminated against for exercising them; we do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined there. To exercise any right, email contact@viryagrid.com; we will respond within the time required by law (45 days under the CCPA). EEA/UK users may also complain to their local supervisory authority.
8. Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures, including encryption in transit, hashed passwords or delegated authentication, and access controls. No system is perfectly secure; notify us at contact@viryagrid.com if you believe your account has been compromised.
9. International transfers
The Sites are operated from the United States and your data is processed there. If you use the Sites from outside the US, you consent to that transfer; for EEA/UK users we rely on standard contractual clauses or an adequacy decision where required.
10. Children
The Sites are for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If you believe we have, contact us and we will delete it.
11. Changes
We will post any changes here with a new effective date and, for material changes, notify you by email or in-product notice.
12. Contact
Anshul Saxena, contact@viryagrid.com, Postal address, required under CalOPPA and GDPR; a registered-agent or PO box address is fine.
Legal Notices
Copyright
© 2026 Anshul Saxena. All rights reserved. The content, software, models, datasets, course material, and design of viryagrid.com are protected by United States and international copyright law. Brief excerpts may be quoted with attribution to Virya Grid and a link to viryagrid.com; any other reproduction requires written permission from contact@viryagrid.com.
Trademarks
"Virya," "Virya Intelligence," "Virya Grid," and the Virya logos are trademarks of Anshul Saxena. ISO/RTO, agency, and company names appearing on the Site are the trademarks of their respective owners and are used for identification only; no affiliation or endorsement is implied.
Third-party data
Data presented on the Site is derived from publicly available sources, including ERCOT, CAISO, PJM, MISO, SPP, NYISO, ISO-NE, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, FERC, and state public utility commissions. That data remains subject to its publishers' terms of use. Virya is not affiliated with any of these organizations.
Copyright complaints
If you believe content on the Site infringes your copyright, send a notice to contact@viryagrid.com including: the work claimed to be infringed, the URL of the allegedly infringing material, your contact information, a statement of good-faith belief, a statement under penalty of perjury that the notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act, and your physical or electronic signature. Register a DMCA designated agent with the U.S. Copyright Office to preserve safe-harbor protection if the Site hosts user content.
Contact
Anshul Saxena, operator of viryagrid.com. Email: contact@viryagrid.com. Sister site: viryaintel.com (contact@viryaintel.com).