Terms of use

1. About these terms

These terms apply to this website, barebase.in, and to Design my home, our free service that turns your floor plan into 3D concept views. They are a contract between you and Barebase (“Barebase”, “we”, “us”), #202, Second Floor, Ahuja Chambers, Kumarakrupa Road, Madhava Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka.

By using this website you agree to sections 1 to 6 and 17 to 20. When you tick the box to accept these terms on Design my home, you also agree to sections 7 to 16. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the service; you can still talk to us directly.

How we handle your personal data is explained in our privacy policy, which forms part of these terms.

2. Using this website

The website shows our work, our process and general guidance on designing a home. It is information, not advice for your particular home, and not an offer to do work at a set price.

• Projects shown are real Barebase projects. Every home is different, so what we design for you will depend on your space, needs and choices.
• We don’t publish prices or timelines. Work is priced line by line in an itemised quote after a design consultation.
• Any project with us is governed by a separate written agreement and quote, signed by both of us. If that agreement and these terms differ, the agreement wins.

We try to keep the website accurate and available, but it may sometimes be out of date, contain errors, or be unavailable. We may change or remove any part of it.

3. Enquiries, calls and messages

When you send us an enquiry, consultation request or Design my home request, you are asking us to contact you about it. You agree that we may call you, and email you if you gave an email address, about that request, even if your number is registered on the National Do Not Call registry.

We message you on WhatsApp when you tick the WhatsApp consent box on a form, or ask us to on a call. If you prefer not to use WhatsApp, you can call or email us directly instead of submitting a form. You can stop WhatsApp messages at any time by replying STOP, or ask us to stop calls by writing to support@barebase.in.

Please give your own name and a number you use. Don’t submit someone else’s details without their permission.

4. Our content

The text, photographs, drawings, designs, videos, logos and code on this website belong to Barebase or the people who licensed them to us. You may view the website, share links to it, and print or save pages for your own use. You may not copy, republish, sell or use our content commercially, or present our designs as your own, without our written permission.

5. Fair use of the website

Please don’t:

• send false information, or use the forms to send spam, advertising or abuse;
• try to get around limits on the forms, break or overload the website, or upload anything harmful such as malware;
• scrape, copy or download the website or its images in bulk, including to train AI models;
• use the website in any way that breaks the law.

We may block requests or access that breaks these rules.

6. Links to other websites

We link to other websites, such as Instagram, WhatsApp and Google Maps. We don’t control them and aren’t responsible for their content or how they use your data. Their own terms apply.

7. Design my home: what it is

Design my home is a free service. You upload a floor plan, tell us about the home, and pick styles. We make 3D concept views of your home in those styles using artificial intelligence (AI), and a Barebase designer checks them before they are sent to you. At present that is three styles and two views of each, sent to you on WhatsApp.

• There is no fee and no obligation to work with Barebase.
• We may limit how many requests one person or number can send, and we may decline a request, for example if the plan can’t be read or the service is being misused.
• We may change, pause or stop the service at any time. If we do, any request already sent is still handled under the terms you accepted.

8. Who can use it

You must be 18 or older and able to enter a contract under Indian law. The home should be yours, or one you are planning with the owner’s agreement. You need an Indian mobile number so we can reach you.

9. Your floor plan

When you upload a floor plan, you confirm that you have the right to share it with us. That is the case for a plan of your own home, including one from your builder’s brochure or sale documents. Don’t upload plans that belong to someone else, or that you received in confidence, without their permission.

Upload the layout only. Please don’t upload sale deeds, ID documents, bank papers or anything with other people’s personal details. If your plan shows your name or address, you may crop it out; we don’t need it.

You keep your rights in your plan. You give Barebase a non-exclusive, royalty-free permission to use, copy and adapt it, and to share it with the service providers named in our privacy policy, to make your designs, check them, show them to you and discuss them with you. You also allow us to use your plan and the designs made from it, without your name or contact details, to improve our design tools and services and to show examples of our work.

10. How the designs are made

The views are generated by AI image models run by our technology providers (for example, OpenAI), working from your plan, your answers and our design prompts. A Barebase designer reviews every set before it reaches you and may ask for some views to be made again. We always make clear that the views are AI-generated.

Because the images are generated, two requests with the same plan can give different results, and an image may resemble other images. We don’t promise that your designs are unique.

11. What the designs are, and what they are not

The views are concept images. They show a possible direction for your home so you can react to it. They are not:

• to scale, or an exact copy of your plan. Walls, doors, windows, columns, room sizes and fixed services may be shown in different places, or left out;
• architectural, structural, electrical or plumbing drawings, approved building plans, or advice on Vastu, safety or building rules;
• a quote, an estimate, a timeline, or a promise that any material, product or feature shown can be supplied, fitted or approved in your building.

Please don’t rely on them to buy a property, place orders, or start any work, and don’t make changes to your home’s structure based on them. A real design starts with measuring your home and a design consultation. Any work we do is set out in a separate written agreement and itemised quote.

12. Who owns the designs

The designs belong to Barebase. That includes the views, the design direction they show, and our prompts and working files. Design my home is free because it is a preview of how Barebase would design your home, so the designs are shown to you to help you decide whether to work with us.

You may look at them, and show them to the people you are deciding with, such as your family or co-owner. Unless you sign a paid design agreement with Barebase that says otherwise, you may not:

• download, save, copy, print or forward them, beyond keeping the messages we send you;
• give them to another designer, contractor, carpenter or vendor, or use them to plan, quote or carry out any work;
• post them online, use them in advertising or listings, sell them, or present them as your own design.

When you sign a paid design agreement with us, that agreement sets out what you may do with the designs made for your home.

13. WhatsApp and calls about your designs

Because Design my home delivers your views on WhatsApp, we ask for your WhatsApp consent before you submit a request. We send your designs and updates about them on WhatsApp from +91 81052 87610, and our team may also call you about them. If you prefer not to use WhatsApp, you can call or email us directly instead of using the form.

WhatsApp is run by WhatsApp LLC and Meta, and their terms apply to your use of it. Reply STOP at any time and we won’t send more WhatsApp messages.

14. Timing and availability

We aim to send your designs within an hour during studio hours. That is a target, not a promise. Requests can take longer at busy times, outside studio hours, or if a plan needs a second look, and technical problems can delay a request or stop it going through. If that happens, we’ll call you or ask you to send the plan again.

15. Our responsibility to you

The service is free and provided as it is. We take care to make it useful, but because the designs are concept images (section 11), we are not responsible for loss that comes from relying on them as if they were measured drawings, advice or a quote.

We are not responsible for loss we could not reasonably foresee, for indirect loss such as lost income or opportunity, or for delays and failures caused by things outside our reasonable control, such as outages at our providers, WhatsApp or your network.

Nothing in these terms takes away your rights under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 or any other law that cannot be excluded, or limits our responsibility where the law does not allow it to be limited.

16. Withdrawing and deleting

You can withdraw your request, your consent to us using your plan, or your WhatsApp opt-in at any time, as easily as you gave them: write to support@barebase.in or message us on WhatsApp. We then stop using your plan and designs and delete them, except for what the law requires us to keep, as described in our privacy policy. Section 12 still applies to designs we have already shown you.

17. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms when the website or the service changes, or when the law does. The date and version at the top of this page show when they last changed. A Design my home request is governed by the version you accepted when you sent it; we record that version with your request.

18. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of India. If something goes wrong, please contact us first (section 20) so we can try to put it right. If we can’t resolve it, the courts at Bengaluru, Karnataka have jurisdiction. This does not affect your right to approach a consumer commission under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019.

19. General

If a court finds any part of these terms unenforceable, the rest still applies. If we don’t enforce a term straight away, we can still enforce it later. You may not transfer your rights under these terms to someone else. These terms, the privacy policy and, for a project, our signed agreement are the whole agreement between us about the website and the service.

20. Contact and grievances

For any question or complaint about these terms, the website or Design my home, contact us:

• Email: support@barebase.in
• Phone and WhatsApp: +91 81052 87610
• Post: Grievances, Barebase, #202, Second Floor, Ahuja Chambers, Kumarakrupa Road, Madhava Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka

We acknowledge complaints within two working days and aim to resolve them within one month.