Sponsorship terms
This page explains what it means to sponsor a ritu weather station: what you pay for, who owns it, how ritu keeps it running, and what appears with your name. It is written in plain language. The written agreement ritu gives you before you pay is the full contract.
Last updated 4 August 2026
What sponsoring a station means
When you sponsor a station, you fund a ritu weather station for a town or village. ritu installs it, owns it, and runs it. The village gets accurate, measured weather on a public page, free for everyone, with your name on it. You are not buying hardware to keep.
Sponsoring is a gift to a place. Buying a station for your own land is different: that is covered on the buy page and in ritu’s terms and conditions.
These terms and your agreement
These sponsorship terms apply together with ritu’s terms and conditions and refund and cancellation policy. Before you pay, ritu talks with you and gives you a written agreement for your sponsorship. That written agreement is the full and binding contract. This page explains the main points in plain language so you know them before that conversation.
Who can sponsor
You can sponsor a station as an individual or as an organisation, such as a company, school, college, or trust. You must be at least 18 years old. Many sponsors live outside India, and that is welcome. Before you pay, ritu may need to confirm who you are and where the payment comes from, so that ritu follows Indian law.
Cost and term
ritu shares the cost of a sponsorship, and how long it runs, with you on a call and in writing, before you pay anything. There is no price or term printed on this website. What a sponsorship covers is simple: the station, its installation, and ritu keeping it running. You will see the exact figures in your written agreement.
Cancelling and refunds
You can cancel and get a full refund any time before the station is built and installed. Once the sponsored station is live for the village, the money has been spent on the hardware and the installation, so it can no longer be refunded. The full rules are on the refund and cancellation policy page.
Who owns the station and its data
ritu owns the sponsored station and everything it measures. You fund the station; ritu owns the hardware and the weather data. This is different from buying a station for your own land, where you own the hardware, though ritu still owns the weather data.
ritu can store, publish, share, and sell the weather data that its own stations measure. This is part of how ritu pays to build and run the network. ritu does not resell weather data it receives from other sources, such as OpenWeatherMap or the India Meteorological Department.
This is about weather measurements, not your personal information. How ritu handles your personal data is explained in the privacy policy, and who owns the data is also covered in the terms and conditions.
Keeping the station running
ritu keeps the sponsored station working. If it breaks, ritu repairs or replaces it. Every ritu station comes with a one-year warranty against manufacturing faults, described in the refund and cancellation policy. Repairs and care are ritu’s job, not yours.
A weather station in the real world can stop sending readings for many reasons, such as:
- a power cut,
- a mobile-network or SIM problem,
- damage, theft, or animals,
- severe weather, or
- planned maintenance.
ritu works to bring a station back as soon as it can, but ritu cannot promise a fixed uptime or a fixed repair time. When a station is not sending readings, its public page shows this honestly, marked as offline or under maintenance, so no one is misled about how fresh the data is.
Your name and content on the page
A sponsored station’s public page carries your name, a photo if you want one, and one short line from you. Nothing more. There are no links and no ads.
The name, photo, and line you give must be true, must be yours to share, and must not be offensive, illegal, misleading, or used for political campaigning or advertising. By giving them to ritu, you allow ritu to show them on the station’s public page and in ritu’s own materials about the network.
ritu may review what you provide, and may decline or remove anything that breaks these rules or that ritu judges unsuitable. ritu may also shorten or reformat your line so it fits the page. You can ask ritu to change or remove your name, photo, or line at any time.
If a station has to move or stop
A station belongs to ritu, and ritu may need to move it or retire it, for example if the site is no longer suitable, the hardware reaches the end of its life, or it is damaged beyond repair. If this affects a station you sponsored, ritu will tell you and explain what happens next. Your written agreement covers what your sponsorship includes over its term.
Changes to these terms
ritu may update these terms as the service changes. When it does, the “Last updated” date at the top of this page will change.
Contact ritu
Ritu.ai Pvt Ltd runs ritu, with its registered office at Plot No. 185, 7th Cross Street, M.K.B. Nagar, Vyasarpadi, Chennai 600039, Tamil Nadu, India. For any question about sponsoring a station, or to make a complaint, write to ritu’s grievance officer, Basanth Valeti, at namaste@ritu.ai, or send a message through the contact page.