INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, COPYRIGHT, TRADEMARK, BRAND, DOMAIN & CONTENT PROTECTION POLICY

This Intellectual Property, Copyright, Trademark, Brand, Domain and Content Protection Policy establishes the ownership, permitted use and enforcement rights relating to intellectual property, proprietary materials, brand assets and online identity associated with Himalayan Yoga Association®/ Himalayan Yoga Ashram®, its official website, courses, facilities, teachers, founders, students, photographs, videos, educational materials and other proprietary content.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, all intellectual property displayed, published, distributed or otherwise made available through `himalayanyogaashram.com` is owned by Himalayan Yoga Association®/ Himalayan Yoga Ashram®, its applicable legal entity, its licensors, or the respective rights holder.

No person, company, yoga school, educational institution, website operator, agency, competitor, publisher, social-media account, domain registrant or other third party obtains ownership rights merely because content is publicly accessible online.

Copyright protection may apply to original materials created, commissioned, owned or lawfully controlled by Himalayan Yoga Association®/ Himalayan Yoga Ashram®, including:

• Website text and written content.
• Yoga teacher training course descriptions.
• 50-hour, 100-hour, 200-hour, 300-hour and 500-hour training materials.
• Sound Healing, Reiki, Meditation, Pranayama, Ayurveda, Aerial Yoga, Yin Yoga and other course materials.
• Educational articles and blog posts.
• Training manuals.
• Books and e-books.
• PDFs.
• Handouts.
• Course schedules where protectable original expression exists.
• Original curricula and instructional materials.
• Original photographs.
• Campus photographs.
• Teacher photographs.
• Student photographs owned or licensed by HYA.
• Retreat photographs.
• Event photographs.
• Video recordings.
• Student testimonial videos owned or licensed by HYA.
• Reels and short-form video content.
• Audio recordings.
• Meditation recordings.
• Sound-healing recordings.
• Graphics.
• Illustrations.
• Infographics.
• Posters.
• Advertisements.
• Website layouts and original visual elements to the extent protected by law.
• Original software and source code.
• Custom PHP, JavaScript, CSS and other programming code developed for HYA.
• Databases and compilations to the extent protected by applicable law.
• Promotional materials.
• Brochures.
• Certificates and certificate designs.
• Course presentation slides.
• Original email content and marketing materials.
• Social-media creative materials.
• Original menu, spa, retreat and other brand content where copyright protection applies.

Under U.S. law, copyright owners have exclusive rights including reproduction, preparation of derivative works, distribution, and certain public performance/display rights, subject to statutory exceptions. India similarly recognizes copyright infringement and remedies under the Copyright Act, 1957. U.S. Copyright Office

Unless otherwise identified:

© Himalayan Yoga Association®/ Himalayan Yoga Ashram®. All Rights Reserved.

No copyright notice is required for copyright to exist where copyright arises automatically under applicable law; however, this notice is provided to expressly notify visitors of our rights.

Removal of a copyright notice, ownership metadata, watermark or other copyright-management information may also create additional liability under applicable law. In the United States, 17 U.S.C. §1202 specifically addresses unauthorized alteration/removal of copyright-management information under qualifying circumstances. U.S. Copyright Office

The name:

Himalayan Yoga Association®/ Himalayan Yoga Ashram®

and variations, logos, stylizations, symbols, slogans, visual identities and other source-identifying elements used by Himalayan Yoga Association®/ Himalayan Yoga Ashram® constitute valuable brand assets and may be protected through:

• registered trademark rights;
• pending trademark applications;
• common-law trademark rights where applicable;
• passing-off rights;
• unfair-competition law;
• false-designation-of-origin law;
• consumer-protection law; and
• other applicable intellectual-property rights.

No third party is authorized to use the Himalayan Yoga Association®/ Himalayan Yoga Ashram® name in a manner likely to create confusion regarding ownership, affiliation, sponsorship, certification, endorsement, authorization or origin.

Under India's Trade Marks Act, a registered proprietor obtains rights against specified infringing uses, while Section 27 preserves passing-off remedies even for unregistered marks. Sections 29 and 135 address infringement and civil relief. IP India

Himalayan Yoga Association®/ Himalayan Yoga Ashram® reserves all rights associated with its trademarks.

The ® symbol must only be used for a mark where registration legally permits its use in the applicable territory.

Marks not registered in a particular jurisdiction may be designated with ™ or another legally appropriate designation.

Nothing in this Policy shall be interpreted as falsely claiming registration of an unregistered mark.

Making material publicly available on a website, Google, social media, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest or another online platform does not grant permission to reproduce or commercially exploit that material.

Except where applicable law expressly permits a use, prior written authorization from Himalayan Yoga Association®/ Himalayan Yoga Ashram® is required before a third party uses protected HYA material.

Silence does not constitute consent.

Failure to immediately pursue one instance of unauthorized use does not constitute permission or waiver of rights.

Unless otherwise permitted by applicable law, written authorization is required before anyone:

copies HYA photographs; downloads and republishes HYA photographs; screenshots and republishes protected creative content commercially; reproduces course text; rewrites protected content so closely that it remains an unlawful derivative work; republishes articles; copies course manuals; republishes PDFs; reproduces videos; edits or reuploads HYA videos; reproduces testimonial videos; uses HYA graphics; uses HYA artwork; reproduces certificates; reproduces proprietary course materials; translates protected material; creates commercial derivative works; sells HYA material; licenses HYA material to others; distributes HYA material; incorporates it into another course; uses it in another yoga school's website; uses it in commercial advertisements; or presents HYA-owned content as material belonging to another business.

Written permission must identify the specific content, purpose, territory, duration and medium authorized.

Original photographs owned or licensed by Himalayan Yoga Association®/ Himalayan Yoga Ashram® may not be:

• copied;
• downloaded and republished;
• cropped and republished;
• recolored;
• mirrored;
• filtered;
• altered;
• edited;
• combined with another image;
• placed into advertisements;
• used as another yoga school's photographs;
• presented as another school's facilities;
• used in another school's Google Business Profile;
• uploaded to another website;
• uploaded to booking platforms;
• uploaded to social networks commercially;
• included in brochures;
• used in travel listings;
• used to market courses;
• used in paid advertisements;
• converted into AI-generated derivatives where that use infringes or violates applicable contractual rights;
• or commercially distributed without authorization.

Adding a credit such as “Photo: Himalayan Yoga Association®/ Himalayan Yoga Ashram®” does not by itself provide permission.

Permission must be obtained separately.

HYA-owned or controlled videos may not be downloaded, screen-recorded, clipped, re-edited, dubbed, translated, reposted, embedded in a misleading context or used commercially without permission, except where applicable law expressly permits the use.

The same prohibition applies to HYA-owned:

• yoga demonstrations;
• testimonials;
• teacher interviews;
• ceremonies;
• retreat videos;
• Sound Healing videos;
• Reiki videos;
• educational videos;
• meditation recordings;
• promotional reels;
• and original audio recordings.

Original text published by Himalayan Yoga Association®/ Himalayan Yoga Ashram® is protected to the extent provided by copyright law.

Changing a few words, replacing synonyms, rearranging sentences or paraphrasing while retaining substantial protected expression does not automatically make unauthorized copying lawful.

Competitors and other yoga schools are specifically prohibited from copying HYA content for their own commercial websites, advertisements, brochures or training programs where such copying infringes HYA's rights.

HYA course manuals, teaching materials, lesson descriptions, presentations and proprietary educational content are intended solely for authorized students and instructors according to applicable course terms.

Purchasing or attending a program does not transfer copyright ownership.

Unless expressly licensed in writing, a student or teacher may not commercially reproduce, publish, sell, distribute, upload or license HYA's copyrighted manuals or protected educational materials.

Himalayan Yoga Association®/ Himalayan Yoga Ashram® logos and source-identifying graphics may not be used without prior written authorization except where applicable law independently permits the use.

No person may use an HYA logo in a manner suggesting:

• official partnership;
• authorization;
• certification;
• sponsorship;
• franchise relationship;
• accreditation;
• affiliation;
• association;
• endorsement;
• or ownership

where no such relationship exists.

No third party is authorized to register, acquire, use, advertise or commercially exploit a domain name containing Himalayan Yoga Association®/ Himalayan Yoga Ashram® or a confusingly similar variation where the use violates HYA's trademark, passing-off or other legal rights.

Examples may include misspellings, alternative extensions, deceptive variations and domains designed to create confusion as to affiliation.

Potentially actionable conduct includes using a confusing domain to:

• divert HYA students;
• capture HYA enquiries;
• sell competing yoga programs;
• imitate HYA;
• create fake affiliation;
• obtain payment;
• collect student information;
• damage HYA's reputation;
• or commercially benefit from consumer confusion.

For applicable generic top-level domains, HYA may pursue remedies through the ICANN Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). UDRP complainants generally must establish trademark rights, lack of respondent rights/legitimate interests, and registration and use in bad faith. Commercial attraction through confusion may constitute evidence of bad faith. ICANN

Where applicable in the United States, HYA may also consider claims under the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. §1125(d). Legal Information Institute

Himalayan Yoga Association®/ Himalayan Yoga Ashram® takes seriously unauthorized attempts to impersonate, misrepresent or exploit its founder, management, teachers and representatives.

No third party may falsely represent that:

• the founder established another organization;
• another school is operated by the founder;
• the founder endorses another school;
• the founder teaches at another organization;
• another domain is an official HYA domain;
• a third party is an authorized representative of HYA;
• or HYA has a partnership or relationship that does not exist.

Original HYA-written biographies, photographs, interviews, videos, recordings and promotional materials may also be separately protected by copyright or other law.

Legal accuracy: a person's name and bare historical facts are not automatically owned by HYA through copyright. This Policy therefore does not attempt to prohibit lawful factual reporting, commentary or other legally protected uses. It prohibits unauthorized exploitation to the extent protected by copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, passing-off, contract, unfair-competition and related laws.

Student, teacher and employee information must not be harvested from HYA's website or systems for unauthorized commercial exploitation, impersonation, targeted solicitation or other unlawful use.

This includes, where applicable:

• names;
• photographs;
• videos;
• testimonials;
• email addresses;
• telephone numbers;
• WhatsApp numbers;
• social profiles;
• course enrollment information;
• dates of attendance;
• nationality information;
• certificates;
• signatures;
• identification documents;
• payment information;
• private communications;
• and other personal information.

HYA does not claim copyright ownership over a person's identity or ordinary factual information about that individual.

However, HYA may own copyright in photographs, videos, written testimonials, website presentations and compilations, and personal data may independently be subject to privacy, contractual and data-protection requirements.

India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and DPDP Rules, 2025 are being implemented on a phased commencement schedule. HYA will apply those requirements as and when they become legally applicable. MeitY

No competitor, agency, marketer, individual or organization may use unauthorized scraping, deceptive access or other unlawful methods to obtain student/customer data from HYA systems for:

• competitor marketing;
• WhatsApp solicitation;
• spam;
• course advertising;
• fake reviews;
• impersonation;
• lead generation;
• bulk email;
• fraud;
• phishing;
• or identity misuse.

Where online conduct independently satisfies the statutory elements of identity theft or cheating by personation, provisions including Sections 66C and 66D of India's Information Technology Act, 2000 may become relevant. MeitY

A student's review remains subject to the rights of the student and the applicable platform.

However, where Himalayan Yoga Association®/ Himalayan Yoga Ashram® owns the relevant recording, photograph, video production, graphic presentation or other creative material, third parties may not simply copy HYA's presentation or media asset and use it to promote another business.

No person may alter an HYA student testimonial to falsely suggest that the student attended, reviewed or endorsed another school.

It is strictly prohibited, to the extent prohibited by applicable law, to falsely represent oneself as:

Himalayan Yoga Association®/ Himalayan Yoga Ashram®

or an authorized branch, office, affiliate, franchise, representative, employee, school, academy, centre, retreat, teacher-training organization or partner of Himalayan Yoga Association®/ Himalayan Yoga Ashram®.

This applies to websites, domains, Google profiles, social media accounts, advertisements, emails, WhatsApp accounts, Telegram accounts, booking platforms and other online services.

HYA content may not be copied into an account designed to look like an official Himalayan Yoga Association®/ Himalayan Yoga Ashram® account.

Prohibited misleading practices include:

• copying our profile image;
• copying our logo;
• copying our biography;
• copying our photographs;
• cloning our posts;
• using confusing handles;
• claiming to be “Official Himalayan Yoga Association®/ Himalayan Yoga Ashram®” without authorization;
• and collecting enquiries through an impersonating account.

No person may use HYA intellectual property in advertisements or search-engine content in a manner that unlawfully causes consumers to believe the advertiser is Himalayan Yoga Association®/ Himalayan Yoga Ashram® or is authorized by it.

This includes misleading:

• Google Ads;
• Meta Ads;
• social advertisements;
• search titles;
• metadata;
• landing pages;
• structured data;
• business listings;
• and sponsored listings.

This section does not prohibit uses that applicable trademark law independently permits.

Except for ordinary indexing by legitimate search engines in accordance with applicable technical permissions and law, no third party is granted permission to systematically scrape, harvest, extract or reproduce protected HYA content for unauthorized commercial purposes.

This includes extracting:

• articles;
• photographs;
• prices;
• teacher profiles;
• student data;
• testimonials;
• videos;
• course material;
• structured data;
• contact databases;
• and protected compilations.

No express license is granted to use HYA-owned copyrighted material for commercial:

• AI training;
• machine-learning datasets;
• retrieval databases;
• synthetic dataset creation;
• generative content models;
• image-generation training;
• voice cloning;
• persona cloning;
• or commercial automated content-generation systems.

Any restriction under this section applies only to the extent enforceable under applicable copyright, contract, database, privacy and other laws.

Written licensing inquiries may be submitted to HYA.

Use of photographs, video, voice recordings or other materials to falsely create AI-generated content purporting to show an HYA founder, teacher, student or representative saying or doing something they did not say or do is prohibited where unlawful.

HYA reserves the right to report such activity to platforms, hosts, law-enforcement authorities and other appropriate entities.

Third parties may not use HYA's servers as free commercial image/video hosting or otherwise hotlink content in ways that violate applicable law, circumvent HYA controls, create misleading affiliation or impose excessive server/resource use.

No person may intentionally remove, conceal or modify, for an infringing purpose where prohibited by law:

• copyright notices;
• author information;
• ownership notices;
• photographer credits;
• digital watermarks;
• visible watermarks;
• embedded copyright metadata;
• ownership metadata;
• or licensing information.

U.S. law provides separate protection for qualifying copyright-management information under 17 U.S.C. §1202. U.S. Copyright Office

No third party may knowingly claim authorship or ownership of HYA-owned works where doing so violates applicable law.

This includes submitting fraudulent copyright claims against HYA's own original material.

Nothing in this Policy is intended to remove rights that applicable law expressly grants to the public.

For example, India's Copyright Act recognizes certain fair-dealing exceptions, including qualifying private/research use, criticism/review and reporting of current events. Copyright Office of India

United States copyright law similarly recognizes fair use under 17 U.S.C. §107 based on factors including purpose, nature, amount used and market effect. U.S. Copyright Office

Accordingly, HYA's requirement for written permission applies except where applicable law independently authorizes the specific use.

Nothing in this Policy is intended to suppress lawful journalism, criticism, review, research, commentary or other protected activity.

Anyone wishing to use protected Himalayan Yoga Association®/ Himalayan Yoga Ashram® materials must request written permission before use.

A permission request should include:

Applicant:
Organization:
Material requested:
Exact URL:
Purpose:
Commercial/non-commercial use:
Country/territory:
Platform:
Duration:
Expected audience:
Whether modification is requested:

Permission is valid only when issued in writing by a person authorized by Himalayan Yoga Association®/ Himalayan Yoga Ashram®.

Oral statements do not constitute an IP license unless applicable law requires otherwise.

Unauthorized use of HYA property for any period of time does not transfer ownership.

Failure by HYA to discover infringement immediately does not create authorization or ownership in the infringer.

When Himalayan Yoga Association®/ Himalayan Yoga Ashram® discovers suspected infringement, impersonation, cybersquatting or unlawful exploitation, it may take one or more actions allowed by law, including:

• preserve evidence;
• issue cease-and-desist correspondence;
• send copyright notices;
• submit DMCA notices;
• report infringement to Google;
• submit trademark complaints;
• report impersonating social accounts;
• notify domain registrars;
• notify hosting providers;
• notify CDNs;
• contact payment processors;
• contact booking platforms;
• submit marketplace complaints;
• initiate UDRP proceedings;
• seek injunctive relief;
• pursue damages;
• seek an account of profits;
• request delivery/destruction of infringing material where available;
• seek attorneys' fees/costs where legally available;
• pursue appropriate civil proceedings;
• or report qualifying criminal conduct to competent authorities.

U.S. DMCA §512 provides a formal notice-and-takedown framework for qualifying online service providers and copyright owners. U.S. Copyright Office

Where United States law applies, 17 U.S.C. §504 permits recovery of actual damages and attributable profits or, where available, statutory damages.

Statutory damages generally range from:

USD 750 to USD 30,000 per copyrighted work

and may reach:

up to USD 150,000 per work for willful infringement

where statutory requirements are satisfied. U.S. Copyright Office

Because multiple works can be infringed simultaneously, total exposure in a serious copying operation can therefore potentially exceed USD 1,000,000.

Timely U.S. copyright registration is particularly important for eligibility for certain statutory damages and attorneys' fees. 17 U.S.C. §412 restricts those remedies where registration timing requirements are not satisfied. U.S. Copyright Office

Where applicable, HYA may rely on U.S. trademark and unfair-competition principles under the Lanham Act, including claims relating to registered marks, false designation of origin, false affiliation and cybersquatting.

For qualifying counterfeit-mark cases, U.S. statutory damages can reach up to USD 2,000,000 per counterfeit mark per type of goods or services in willful cases.

For qualifying Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act violations, statutory damages can range from USD 1,000 to USD 100,000 per domain name. Legal Information Institute

These remedies are awarded according to applicable statutory requirements and judicial determination.

HYA reserves rights available under the Copyright Act, 1957, as amended.

Depending upon the circumstances, infringement may permit civil remedies including:

• injunction;
• damages;
• account of profits;
• and other relief available under Section 55.

Section 58 also addresses rights regarding infringing copies. Copyright Office of India

For qualifying knowing infringement, Section 63 provides criminal consequences including imprisonment and fines within the statutory range. Repeat convictions may attract enhanced consequences under Section 63A. Section 64 provides certain police seizure powers for infringing copies where statutory requirements are satisfied. Copyright Office of India

HYA does not represent that criminal liability applies to every copyright dispute; the statutory requirements must be satisfied.

HYA reserves all rights available under the Trade Marks Act, 1999, including where applicable:

• infringement of registered marks;
• passing off;
• deceptive similarity;
• use of marks as trade/business names;
• confusing advertising;
• injunctions;
• damages;
• account of profits;
• delivery-up/destruction;
• and other available relief.

Sections 27, 28, 29 and 135 are particularly relevant to these rights and remedies. IP India

Sections 102–105 also establish criminal provisions for specified false-trademark conduct where their statutory requirements are satisfied. IP India

Where a third party goes beyond ordinary IP infringement and uses online systems to commit qualifying identity theft, cheating by personation or fraud, HYA reserves the right to refer the matter to competent law-enforcement or cybercrime authorities.

Sections 66C and 66D of India's Information Technology Act address certain forms of identity theft and cheating by personation through computer resources. MeitY

Their application depends upon the actual facts and statutory requirements.

Where a domain is identical or confusingly similar to an HYA trademark or service mark and the requirements are otherwise satisfied, HYA may seek cancellation or transfer under:

ICANN UDRP

or other applicable country-code dispute procedures.

Under the UDRP, the complainant must generally prove:

1. trademark/service-mark rights and confusing similarity;
2. absence of legitimate rights/interests by the respondent; and
3. registration and use in bad faith.

ICANN

HYA may preserve evidence of suspected infringement including:

• screenshots;
• archived webpages;
• timestamps;
• WHOIS/registration records;
• DNS records;
• hosting information;
• source code;
• HTML;
• advertisements;
• payment pages;
• social posts;
• emails;
• WhatsApp communications;
• student complaints;
• Google search results;
• invoices;
• enrolment forms;
• and other relevant materials.

Evidence may be shared with lawyers, courts, registrars, hosting providers, platforms, law enforcement and competent authorities as permitted by law.

Repeat infringement after receiving notice may be treated as evidence relevant to willfulness, knowledge, bad faith or intentional conduct where applicable law permits such inference.

HYA may escalate repeat violations without providing unlimited additional warnings.

Certain materials displayed by HYA may belong to third parties and may be used under licence, permission or applicable law.

HYA does not claim ownership of third-party rights merely because the material is displayed on its website.

Third-party marks remain the property of their respective owners.