These Terms and Conditions constitute a legally binding statutory agreement between Ecotech Compliances (“Ecotech”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) and the enterprise client, concessionaire, or individual (“Client”, “you”) accessing our environmental advisory, mining consultancy, regulatory clearance, and sustainability services.
Effective Date:January 1, 2026
Last Updated:March 28, 2026
Regulatory Scope:Sovereign & State Boards
Statutory Defensibility Guaranteed
Section 01
1. Acceptance of Terms & Advisory Mandate
By engaging Ecotech Compliances, visiting our digital platforms, retaining our consultancy personnel, or receiving technical memos, audit reports, or regulatory filings, you agree to be bound unconditionally by these Terms and Conditions.
If you are entering into this agreement on behalf of a corporation, partnership, government concessionaire, or institutional asset holder, you warrant that you possess the requisite statutory and corporate authority to bind said entity to these covenants.
Statutory Precedence:
Specific project execution contracts, Statements of Work (SOW), and Sovereign Clearances Engagement Letters executed in writing between Ecotech and the Client shall take precedence over general clauses herein in the event of an irreconcilable conflict.
Section 02
2. Independent Advisory Status & Non-Contracting Impartiality
Ecotech operates exclusively as an **independent, third-party scientific and statutory advisory firm**. We do not act as an EPC contractor, equipment manufacturer, commodity broker, or turn-key civil builder unless explicitly specified under a separate turnkey engineering charter.
Impartial Scientific Assessments: All baseline environmental analyses, tailings stability reviews, and emissions telemetry are conducted in accordance with objective scientific methodologies and statutory benchmarks.
No Vendor Kickbacks: Ecotech maintains strict commercial independence from technology vendors, chemical reagent suppliers, or civil machinery subcontractors, ensuring 100% fiduciary objectivity for the client.
Section 03
3. Scope of Environmental, Mining & Technical Services
Ecotech provides professional consulting spanning four principal institutional domains:
Mining Consultancy & Audits
Concession evaluation, hydrogeological risk modeling, mine closure plan statutory validation, slope stability peer reviews, and overburden management audits.
Regulatory & Clearances
Environmental Clearance (EC) defense, Consent to Establish (CTE), Consent to Operate (CTO), hazardous waste authorizations, and continuous emission telemetry audits.
Renewable Energy Systems
Compressed Biogas (CBG) statutory feasibility, solar PV ecological impact, grid interconnect clearances, and feedstock digestate regulatory governance.
ESG & Project Advisory
Scope 1-3 carbon verification, CSRD / BRSR compliance frameworks, institutional capital safeguard audits, and multi-stakeholder conciliation.
Section 04
4. Client Obligations, Data Authenticity & Site Access
The efficacy, defensibility, and statutory validity of Ecotech's advisory deliverables depend directly upon the completeness and veracity of information provided by the Client:
Accurate Operational Records: Client agrees to provide genuine, unadulterated production logs, spatial boundary coordinates, water extraction metrics, and hazardous inventory registers.
Unrestricted Site Access: Client shall grant Ecotech auditors and field scientists safe, timely, and lawful access to mining concessions, industrial plants, monitoring borewells, and effluent treatment facilities.
Material Change Notification: Client must immediately notify Ecotech in writing of any structural modifications in production capacity, chemical processes, or boundary disputes during ongoing statutory filings.
Section 05
5. Regulatory Filings & Sovereign Authority Determinations
While Ecotech maintains a peerless track record of rigorous statutory preparation, submission defense, and technical conciliation before State Pollution Control Boards (SPCB), the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), and National Green Tribunals:
Regulatory Discretion Notice
Final grant, revocation, suspension, or conditionality of environmental clearances, industrial consents (CTE/CTO), and mining lease renewals remain within the sovereign discretion of relevant government bodies and judicial authorities. Ecotech does not guarantee statutory outcomes contingent upon discretionary political or sovereign policy shifts.
Section 06
6. Intellectual Property & Technical Dossiers
All proprietary computational models, environmental baseline algorithms, spatial telemetry scripts, risk matrices, and advisory methodologies developed by Ecotech remain the sole intellectual property of Ecotech Compliances.
Upon receipt of full payment under an executed agreement, the Client is granted a non-exclusive, perpetual, non-transferable license to utilize the delivered reports, EIA dossiers, and compliance memos strictly for the specific asset and statutory purpose intended.
Section 07
7. Non-Disclosure & Institutional Confidentiality
Ecotech enforces institutional-grade non-disclosure protocols. All proprietary mining data, metallurgical assays, concession financial valuations, confidential plant blueprints, and trade secrets disclosed during advisory engagements are treated with strict confidentiality.
Confidentiality obligations do not extend to information that: (a) is or becomes publicly known through no breach of Ecotech; (b) is required to be disclosed under sovereign statute, ministerial subpoena, or court order; or (c) was independently known prior to disclosure.
Section 08
8. Limitation of Liability & Disclaimers
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall Ecotech Compliances, its directors, scientific officers, or affiliates be liable for any indirect, consequential, punitive, exemplary, or special damages, including lost revenue, statutory fines incurred prior to retention, or production downtime.
Aggregate Cap on Liability:
Ecotech's total cumulative liability arising out of or related to any advisory engagement, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), or statutory duty, shall not exceed the total professional advisory fees actually paid by the Client to Ecotech under the relevant SOW in the 12 months preceding the claim.
Section 09
9. Indemnification & Risk Allocation
The Client agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Ecotech Compliances and its consulting personnel against any third-party claims, statutory penalties, environmental damages, or legal actions resulting from: (a) inaccurate or fraudulent data submitted by Client; (b) Client's failure to implement mandatory environmental management plans (EMP); or (c) unauthorized hazardous operational discharges on site.
Section 10
10. Governing Law & Sovereign Jurisdiction
These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India. Any legal dispute, arbitration, or proceeding shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts having territorial jurisdiction over our registered corporate desk.
Section 11
11. Revisions & Policy Modifications
We reserve the right to modify these Terms and Conditions periodically to reflect amendments in environmental statutes, judicial precedents, and international ESG disclosure directives (e.g., CSRD, ISSB). The updated version will be indicated by the “Last Updated” date at the header of this page.
Section 12
12. Legal Inquiries & Official Notices
All formal notices, statutory conciliation letters, and legal inquiries regarding these Terms should be addressed in writing to our Legal & Governance Secretariat: