Community Guidelines

COMMUNITY GUIDELINES

Effective Date: 20 October 2026

AOB Maverick programmes may include online and offline learning communities, cohort groups, discussion forums, WhatsApp groups, networking sessions, mentoring groups and other collaborative environments. These Community Guidelines are intended to create a professional, useful and respectful learning environment for every participant. Participation in an AOB Maverick community constitutes acceptance of these Guidelines.

1. Respect the Community

Participants must communicate respectfully with:

• fellow participants;
• faculty;
• mentors;
• guest speakers;
• AOB Maverick employees;
• administrators; and
• other members of the community.

Disagreement is acceptable. Personal attacks are not.

Harassment, intimidation, bullying, threats, discrimination or abusive behaviour will not be tolerated.

2. Professional Conduct

AOB Maverick is a professional learning and entrepreneurial community.

Members should avoid:

• obscene or offensive material;
• inflammatory personal arguments;
• repeated disruptive behaviour;
• inappropriate language;
• defamatory allegations;
• impersonation;
• intentionally misleading information; and
• conduct that interferes with other participants' learning experience.

3. No Unauthorised Solicitation or Spam

Participants may naturally build professional relationships within the community.

However, members must not use AOB Maverick groups primarily for:

• unsolicited selling;
• mass messaging;
• lead harvesting;
• recruitment spam;
• unauthorised advertising;
• pyramid or referral schemes;
• repeated promotional messages; or
• unrelated commercial solicitation.

Genuine networking and collaboration are encouraged when conducted respectfully and transparently.

4. Protect Member Privacy

Contact information or personal data obtained through an AOB Maverick programme must not be:

• scraped;
• exported;
• sold;
• shared outside the community;
• added to marketing databases; or
• used for unsolicited commercial outreach

without the person's permission.

Screenshots of private conversations or community discussions should not be published externally without appropriate consent.

5. Confidentiality

Participants may discuss business ideas, commercial plans, strategies, challenges or other sensitive information during programmes.

Members should exercise reasonable confidentiality and should not disclose another participant's non-public business information without permission.

Participants should also avoid sharing confidential information belonging to their employer, client or another third party where they do not have authority to do so.

6. Intellectual Property

Programme material supplied by AOB Maverick or its faculty is intended for the enrolled participant's personal learning.

Participants must not, without permission:

• upload classes publicly;
• record and distribute live sessions;
• share paid programme videos;
• circulate proprietary presentations;
• resell templates;
• reproduce curriculum commercially;
• share login credentials; or
• create competing training material substantially copied from protected programme content.

Faculty and guest speakers may also have independent intellectual property rights in their materials.

7. Recording of Sessions

AOB Maverick may record certain classes, mentoring sessions, webinars or events in accordance with its Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.

Participants should not independently record a session unless permission has been obtained.

Questions, chat messages, voice and video may become part of an official session recording.

8. Responsible Networking

AOB Maverick encourages participants to build meaningful relationships.

Networking should be based on:

• mutual consent;
• professional courtesy;
• genuine relevance; and
• respect for personal boundaries.

Repeated unwanted messaging after another member has indicated that they are not interested may be treated as harassment.

9. Business and Investment Discussions

Participants may discuss businesses, ideas, technologies, projects, partnerships or opportunities.

Such discussions are between the relevant participants.

AOB India does not automatically endorse, verify or guarantee:

• a participant's business;
• a proposed partnership;
• investment opportunity;
• financial projection;
• vendor;
• service provider;
• employment opportunity; or
• transaction discussed within the community.

Participants are responsible for conducting their own due diligence before entering into any commercial or financial arrangement.

10. Faculty and Mentor Interaction

Participants are encouraged to engage with faculty and mentors during authorised programme sessions.

However, participation in the programme does not create an entitlement to:

• unlimited private consultation;
• personal business advisory services;
• private contact details;
• employment;
• investment;
• partnership; or
• continued access beyond the programme scope.

Any interaction outside the programme is at the discretion of the respective faculty member or mentor.

11. Social Media and External Publication

Participants may generally state that they are enrolled in or have completed an AOB Maverick programme.

However, they must not:

• falsely claim to represent AOB Maverick;
• imply employment or formal partnership where none exists;
• use the AOB Maverick brand commercially without permission;
• publish confidential programme material;
• misrepresent statements made by faculty; or
• publish misleading or manipulated programme recordings.

12. Academic and Professional Integrity

Participants should submit their own work where assignments or projects are required.

Plagiarism, impersonation, falsification, deliberate misuse of AI tools or other forms of dishonest conduct may result in academic or disciplinary action.

Use of AI tools may be permitted where appropriate, but participants remain responsible for the accuracy and originality of submitted work.

13. Prohibited Activities

The following may result in immediate restriction or removal:

• harassment or threats;
• illegal activity;
• hate speech;
• sexually inappropriate conduct;
• impersonation;
• fraud;
• cyber abuse;
• piracy;
• unauthorised recording or distribution;
• credential sharing;
• repeated spam;
• scraping member data;
• intentional disruption of classes;
• serious violation of intellectual property rights; or
• conduct creating a material safety or reputational risk to the community.

14. Moderation

AOB Maverick may moderate its communities and may:

• remove inappropriate posts;
• issue warnings;
• restrict posting;
• temporarily suspend a participant;
• remove a participant from a group; or
• terminate programme/community access

where reasonably necessary to enforce these Guidelines.

The level of action may depend upon the seriousness and frequency of the conduct.

15. Reporting a Concern

Members are encouraged to report genuine concerns involving:

• harassment;
• privacy violations;
• fraudulent conduct;
• serious misconduct;
• intellectual property violations; or
• other material breaches.

Reports should contain sufficient information for the matter to be reviewed.

16. Contact

Community concerns may be reported by sending email to digital@aobmaverick.com.