Social Impact & Responsible Innovation.

Nature, Status & Definitions

This Social Impact & Responsible Innovation Policy (the “Policy”) is a voluntary social-responsibility and concessionary-pricing initiative established and administered by Warke Technologies and Research Private Limited (“Company”, “Warke Technologies”, “we” or “our”). It describes the conditions on which the Company may, but is not required to, provide reduced professional software engineering and product development fees for selected projects having credible public-benefit objectives.

The initiative is a Company-controlled, privately funded commercial programme. It is not a government programme, public benefit entitlement, donation scheme, grant, subsidy, or statutory Corporate Social Responsibility (“CSR”) policy for the purpose of Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013. It does not represent government certification, approval, financing, supervision, or endorsement.

For the purposes of this Policy: “Applicant” means a person or organisation requesting consideration; “Qualifying Project” means a proposed project satisfying the Company’s selection criteria; “Approved Project” means an engagement for which an authorised written concession has been issued; and “Eligible Professional Fees” means only the Company’s own service fees expressly covered by that approval.

Purpose, Principles & Voluntary Commitment

The purpose of this Policy is to make high-quality product engineering more accessible to carefully selected initiatives whose intended outcomes can reasonably benefit education, healthcare, social welfare, community development, accessibility or similar public interests.

The Company seeks to balance social value with responsible commercial management. Assessment will consider integrity, measurable or credible benefit, inclusion, practicality, technical safety, cost, available engineering capacity, and the applicant’s ability to sustain the solution after deployment.

This initiative does not oblige the Company to finance projects, provide free services, accept commercial losses, commit a minimum annual amount, or continue the programme indefinitely. No person is guaranteed consideration within a particular timeframe.

Preferred Social Impact Areas

Subject to independent assessment, the Company may consider proposals related to the following illustrative areas:

• Education: affordable learning, access for underserved students, special education, institutional efficiency and educational tools.
• Healthcare: health-service access, public-health awareness, patient support, administrative systems and responsible medical technology.
• Nonprofits and NGOs: charitable operations, transparent programme delivery, volunteer coordination and beneficiary support.
• Social welfare: poverty reduction, accessibility, disability inclusion, community safety, livelihoods and rural development.
• Environmental and public-interest innovation: sustainability, community resilience and other substantiated social-benefit applications.

The list is illustrative, not an entitlement schedule. The project’s actual purpose, beneficiaries and proposed impact matter more than its industry label. A commercial business operating in one of these sectors may still be ineligible where public benefit is incidental or insufficiently supported.

Applicants Who May Be Considered

Applications may be made by individuals, independent innovators, early-stage businesses, social enterprises, educational institutions, healthcare organisations, non-governmental organisations, Section 8 companies, registered charities, research teams and other legally permitted applicants.

An applicant must be able to identify a legitimate project owner or authorised representative, demonstrate sufficient control over the project and required materials, provide truthful supporting information, and enter into a lawful engagement where selected.

Applicant type does not determine eligibility. NGO registration, startup status, charitable intent, limited funds, or a stated association with a social cause does not guarantee a concession. The Company may require further verification even where an applicant otherwise appears qualified.

Minimum Qualification Standards

For consideration, an applicant must demonstrate, to the Company’s reasonable satisfaction: (a) a genuine public-interest objective; (b) a credible implementation plan; (c) sufficient legal authority to commission the work; (d) accurate identity and project information; (e) lawful proposed use of the resulting technology; and (f) capacity to meet the obligations of the intended service agreement.

Where requested, applicants must substantiate their social claims, the intended beneficiaries, financial circumstances or operational readiness. Inability or unwillingness to supply proportionate evidence may lead to deferral or rejection.

There is no automatic eligibility for every individual, NGO, startup, educational institution, healthcare entity or social-impact project. Eligibility, if provisionally indicated, remains subject to formal written approval and available capacity.

Eligible Engineering & Development Services

The programme may cover custom software engineering; web and mobile application development; product architecture and design; user experience engineering; backend systems and APIs; digital platforms and SaaS solutions; and related technical development work performed directly by the Company.

Consulting, research, migration, testing, maintenance, infrastructure implementation, cybersecurity assessments, and post-delivery services are eligible only where the Company expressly includes them in a written offer.

The programme does not create a promise that the Company will develop an entire product free of charge or supply unlimited resources.

Maximum Waiver & Calculation

At its sole commercial discretion, and subject to this Policy and applicable law, the Company may approve a waiver of up to thirty percent (30%) of specifically identified Eligible Professional Fees. The actual rate may be any percentage from zero to thirty percent, including no concession.

Waivers are calculated only against the pre-tax fees expressly identified in an authorised quotation or agreement. For example, where approved eligible professional fees are ₹5,00,000 and an authorised waiver is 20%, the waiver is ₹1,00,000 and the revised professional fee is ₹4,00,000, excluding applicable taxes and third-party charges. This calculation is illustrative only.

Only the approved applicant, project, service scope, quotation validity and written fee base are covered. The concession is not transferable, cumulative with other offers unless expressly permitted, refundable in cash, or retroactively applicable to invoices or services already contracted or delivered.

Non-Covered Fees, Taxes & Third-Party Costs

Unless explicitly agreed in writing, the waiver does not apply to GST or other taxes and statutory levies; government fees; regulatory approvals; cloud hosting, infrastructure, domains and SSL certificates; third-party software or API subscriptions; payment gateways and communication usage; hardware; external security audits; certifications; travel; subcontracted specialist services; or pass-through expenses.

Expenses directly incurred or payable to third parties remain governed by the project quotation, invoice, and relevant vendor terms. The Company does not guarantee third-party pricing, availability, licensing, regulatory approval, or service continuity.

Waivers are not cash grants, reimbursements, donations, scholarships, tax exemptions, or credits redeemable against unrelated invoices.

Merit-Based Assessment Factors

The Company may undertake a holistic evaluation of the following non-exhaustive considerations:

• The nature, seriousness and evidence of the public-interest problem addressed.
• Identifiable intended beneficiaries and likely social value, including accessibility.
• Applicant credibility, legal standing, governance, honesty and ability to execute.
• Technical feasibility, security, data protection, regulatory sensitivity and project risk.
• Funding position, genuine financial need, approved project budget and commercial sustainability.
• Current engineering workload, financial exposure, required specialist skills and project priority.
• Potential duplication, misuse, exaggerated impact claims or conflicts of interest.

These are factors for discretionary assessment, not a points-based certification, public ranking, or guarantee that any particular project will be selected. The Company may attach reasonable conditions to consideration or approval.

Ordinarily Ineligible or Excluded Proposals

The following will ordinarily be ineligible, or may be rejected following risk-based assessment:

• Projects primarily intended for ordinary private commercial gain with no credible material public benefit.
• Applications relying on unsupported social-impact claims, fabricated documents or materially misleading representations.
• Unlawful, fraudulent, exploitative, deceptive, infringing or unsafe systems, including technology intended to facilitate harm or abuse.
• Proposals whose principal purpose is partisan electoral campaigning, unlawful discrimination, or other objectives inconsistent with the programme’s public-benefit purpose.
• Projects lacking sufficient technical scope, financial readiness, lawful data rights, governance or necessary sector permissions.
• Requests relating to previously completed projects, historical invoices, unrelated contracts, or cash reimbursements instead of eligible engineering services.
• Projects beyond the Company’s expertise, risk tolerance or available resources, even where their social objectives are credible.

These examples are not exhaustive. The Company reserves the right to decline a request on other legitimate commercial, ethical, legal or operational grounds, without unlawful discrimination.

Application Information & Verification

Applicants should ordinarily submit their identity and contact information; legal or organisational status; a clear description of the project; intended beneficiaries; evidence of relevant social need; technical scope; provisional timeline and budget; funding position; expected outcomes; and an explanation of why concessionary engineering fees are needed.

The Company may seek registration details, authority letters, business or programme records, project documents, indicative finances, credentials or references where reasonably necessary to assess eligibility and risk. It may independently verify material declarations and suspend screening while clarifications remain outstanding.

Applicants should not submit patient records, identification documents of beneficiaries, passwords, confidential datasets or other excessive sensitive information during initial enquiry. Any necessary exchange of protected information must follow applicable privacy and confidentiality safeguards.

Review, Decision & Written Approval

Review may include preliminary screening, eligibility verification, social-impact assessment, technical scoping, cost estimation, risk assessment and management authorisation. The Company determines the order, depth and timing of review, subject to applicable law.

A waiver becomes effective only when expressly confirmed by an authorised representative in a written quotation, approval letter, statement of work or executed service agreement specifying the approved percentage and covered fees. A website statement, social-media post, enquiry acknowledgement, verbal discussion or provisional estimate is not approval.

The Company may approve, partially approve, defer, condition or decline any application. It is not required to allocate engineers, provide detailed reasons or disclose confidential internal deliberations, except where a disclosure is required by law or an enforceable contractual obligation.

Company Governance & Decision-Making Authority

The programme is established, funded, administered and controlled by Warke Technologies and Research Private Limited through its appropriate management and authorised decision-makers. The Company determines application processes, evidence requirements, assessment criteria, approval levels, concessions, budgets, operational priorities and programme continuation.

Within the limits of applicable law and binding written commitments, the Company retains final discretion over whether an applicant is accepted, the percentage (if any) approved, the covered services, and the conditions of participation. No applicant has an inherent right to demand eligibility, equal concession percentages, access to internal deliberations or reversal of a lawful refusal.

Only persons duly authorised by the Company may approve or modify concessions. Internal decisions are not government licensing actions, statutory awards or adjudications. The Company may adopt internal procedures and delegate limited authority as it considers appropriate.

Commercial Capacity & Programme Limits

This voluntary programme is subject to available funds, cash-flow requirements, engineering resources, risk appetite, business continuity and the Company’s existing client obligations. The Company may set undisclosed internal budgets, annual or project-level caps, intake periods, waiting lists, geographical priorities and workload limits.

The Company may decline an otherwise socially valuable proposal where it is commercially impracticable, outside current expertise, unsafe, premature, inadequately documented or not supportable within available capacity.

Approval of one applicant does not oblige the Company to approve another, nor does it guarantee the same terms for future phases, different customers, affiliated entities or repeat engagements. Discretion must be exercised lawfully and consistently with existing binding agreements.

Conditions Governing Approved Engagements

Each approved project remains subject to the accepted quotation, statement of work, delivery plan, payment schedule, confidentiality and security obligations, testing and acceptance arrangements, and all other applicable contractual provisions.

The applicant must provide accurate requirements, lawful materials, required approvals, timely feedback, access and payments under the agreement. Failure to fulfil these obligations may affect performance, scheduling or contractual remedies.

Unless specifically varied in writing, the waiver does not amend warranties, post-delivery support, maintenance, intellectual-property rights, project scope, third-party obligations, taxes or standard conditions of service. The Company's Terms & Conditions and relevant contractual documents remain applicable.

Scope Changes, Purpose Changes & Reassessment

Changes to deliverables, engineering effort, project phase, ownership structure, main beneficiaries, funding arrangements, or intended use may trigger reassessment of the approved waiver.

Additional development, enhancements, integrations, platforms, deployments, or support work will be separately estimated unless covered by the existing written agreement. The Company may apply a different waiver rate or none to newly requested services.

Previously agreed fees and rights are not automatically altered by changes to the published Policy; changes affecting an executed contract remain subject to that contract and applicable law.

Integrity, Fraud & Conflict Management

Applicants must provide accurate information and must not fabricate credentials, inflate beneficiary numbers, misstate their financial circumstances, disguise commercial objectives, submit forged documents, conceal material project changes or offer inducements to influence approval.

Where credible evidence indicates material misrepresentation, misuse or an undisclosed conflict of interest, the Company may reject a pending application, withhold an unutilised concession, request clarification, and pursue remedies available under the relevant agreement and law.

Nothing in this provision authorises arbitrary cancellation of fees or rights under an existing binding contract. Where legally appropriate, suspected unlawful conduct may be brought to the attention of competent authorities.

Human Rights, Inclusion & Safeguarding

The Company seeks to support respectful, accessible, and inclusive technology. Applications will be considered without unlawful discrimination based on protected characteristics unrelated to project eligibility.

Projects involving children, patients, persons with disabilities, economically vulnerable communities, or other at-risk groups may require enhanced safeguarding, consent, accessibility, privacy, and institutional supervision provisions.

The Company may decline work that facilitates exploitation, deceptive practices, unlawful discrimination, infringement, abusive surveillance, or other material risks inconsistent with responsible innovation.

Regulated Industries & Professional Obligations

Medical, educational, financial, or other regulated software may require sector-specific licensing, professional review, certifications, security assessments, or government approvals before operation. These requirements are not waived by participation in the programme.

Unless expressly contracted and lawfully qualified to do so, the Company does not provide clinical advice, certify treatment outcomes, guarantee regulatory clearance, or assume the applicant’s statutory role as healthcare provider, educational institution, or regulated operator.

The applicant remains responsible for procuring applicable domain expertise, approvals, consent, lawful datasets, and operating permissions, as allocated by agreement and law.

Privacy, Confidentiality & Cybersecurity

Application information will be collected and used for programme screening, identity and eligibility verification, correspondence, quotation preparation, risk assessment, and engagement administration in accordance with applicable law and the Company’s privacy materials.

Applicants should minimise sharing of sensitive personal data. Where a prospective project requires confidential technical information or personal-data processing, the parties may enter into appropriate nondisclosure or data-processing arrangements before disclosure or access.

No policy statement is a guarantee of absolute security. Security requirements, responsibility allocation, testing, incident response, and handling of project data shall be defined in the relevant agreement and comply with applicable law.

Intellectual Property, Branding & Publicity

A fee waiver does not by itself transfer, expand, or restrict intellectual-property rights. Ownership of commissioned deliverables, pre-existing technology, open-source components, licences, and third-party materials remains governed by the applicable agreement and relevant law.

Neither party may imply sponsorship, certification, official partnership, charitable status, or endorsement solely because a waiver was requested or granted.

Public case studies, testimonials, beneficiary images, trade names, logos, metrics, and confidential project information should be disclosed only with the permissions and legal basis required for that use.

Measuring & Reviewing Social Outcomes

For suitable projects, the Company may invite applicants to identify intended outcomes and proportionate indicators such as learners reached, time saved by a nonprofit, accessibility improvements, administrative efficiency, community uptake, or service availability.

The Company may request reasonable progress updates or aggregated non-sensitive outcome reports, particularly where continued concessionary support is being considered. Such requests do not guarantee any specific public result or independently validate an applicant’s claims.

The Company may periodically assess the effectiveness, cost, risks, and continuation of the programme, subject to confidentiality and available resources.

Transparency, Recordkeeping & Statements

The Company may maintain appropriate internal records of applications, assessments, decisions, quotations, concession values and signed approvals in accordance with applicable law, confidentiality obligations and its document-retention practices.

It may publish accurate aggregate information about this voluntary initiative, but it is not required to release individual applicants’ identities, pricing negotiations, internal evaluations, trade secrets, personal data or confidential records unless disclosure is lawfully required.

Published details shall not suggest that an internal concession is a government subsidy, statutory tax relief, official grant or externally certified charitable benefit. Any statutory accounting or disclosure obligations shall be addressed separately where applicable.

Separate From Statutory CSR Requirements

Corporate Social Responsibility under Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013 and the Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Rules, 2014 is a separate statutory framework applying to companies that meet the relevant legal criteria. This voluntary programme is not intended to be held out as that statutory framework.

Custom software engineering and product development form part of the Company’s ordinary professional activities. Reduced fees or discounts for these services must not automatically be classified as qualifying statutory CSR expenditure; applicable exclusions, tax rules and other requirements would have to be independently evaluated.

Nothing in this Policy states that the Company currently has a statutory CSR Committee, satisfies statutory CSR thresholds, enjoys government programme recognition, or may count the value of any waived fees against legally mandated CSR expenditure. If mandatory CSR obligations arise in the future, the Company must separately comply with the law then applicable.

Government Independence & Applicable Law

This programme is not established, financed, managed, endorsed or approved by any ministry, regulator or government agency merely because it appears on the Company’s website. Government bodies do not select beneficiaries or fix waiver percentages under this privately administered policy, unless a specific applicable legal obligation or lawful order provides otherwise.

However, government authorities retain all powers granted by law. The Company, its clients and their projects remain subject to the Companies Act, applicable tax and consumer laws, contractual and data-protection obligations, industry licensing requirements, lawful investigations and orders of competent courts and regulators.

The Company cannot use its voluntary status to exclude government jurisdiction, avoid statutory duties, waive third-party rights or override legal requirements. No statement in this Policy shall be interpreted as claiming immunity from government oversight or judicial review where legally applicable.

Feedback, Review & Complaints

An applicant may seek correction of inaccurate submitted information, provide new material facts, request reconsideration or raise an integrity or privacy concern through the Company’s official contact channels.

The Company may review such matters in good faith but does not provide a guaranteed appeals process, automatic second evaluation or an entitlement to detailed disclosure of commercially sensitive decision-making. Any binding statutory rights or remedies remain unaffected.

Reports of fraud, personal-data misuse or other unlawful conduct may be addressed internally and, where required, referred to appropriate regulators or law-enforcement agencies.

Effective Date, Revision & Discontinuation

This Policy becomes effective when officially published following appropriate internal authorisation, unless the Company specifies a different effective date. It applies prospectively to applications considered under that version.

The Company may amend, suspend, limit, replace or discontinue this voluntary programme, including its eligibility criteria, waiver ceiling, admission process and covered services, through an appropriate internal decision and publication of revised terms.

Such changes shall not unilaterally undo enforceable contractual obligations or previously agreed fee concessions. Existing projects remain governed by their written agreements and applicable law; prospective applicants are subject to the version in force when considered.

Legal Effect, Limits & Governing Documents

This Policy is informational and describes a voluntary screening and commercial concession framework. It is not a legally binding offer to provide services to all applicants, a promise of funding, a charitable grant, a government-backed entitlement or a guarantee of successful project outcomes.

Neither an application nor a discretionary approval by itself creates a partnership, agency, joint venture, trust, employment relationship, licence, endorsement or government certification. Contractual rights and obligations arise only to the extent established by a binding written instrument and applicable law.

Where there is an inconsistency concerning an actual commissioned engagement, the signed project-specific contract shall control to the extent of the inconsistency, subject to mandatory law. Website Terms & Conditions, privacy documents and other relevant policies remain applicable where appropriate.

Contact & Requesting Consideration

Applicants may approach Warke Technologies and Research Private Limited through the official channels published on warkegroup.com. An initial enquiry should briefly identify the applicant, explain the proposed technology, describe the intended beneficiaries and public benefits, and indicate project scope and timing.

The Company may respond with clarification requests, a screening decision or a commercial discussion. There is no guaranteed response or acceptance period. Applicants should refer to their project description when following up and should avoid sending passwords or unnecessary sensitive records.

Policy Version: 1.0  |  Document Date: 21 October 2026  |  Effective: upon authorised publication  |  Primary Territory: India. Cross-border requests may be considered solely where lawful and commercially practicable.