Terms, and the use of the Council’s name
Everything the Council publishes is free to copy, adapt and use, without asking and without any relationship with PrepGraph. The Council’s name is the one thing that is not on offer, at any price, to anybody.
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
- Not licensed
- The Council’s name and marks
- Last reviewed
- 29 August 2026
- Correspondence
- [email protected]
The Council is being constituted. Its founding cohort is forming and no Council publication, roundtable or research output has yet been produced. Everything described as planned is a commitment of intent, not a record of work done.
The material on this site
Every instrument published here — the Founding Charter, the Responsible AI Principles, the School AI Readiness Framework, the Research Agenda and the governing policies — is available free and in full at a public address, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Nothing stands between a reader and the text: no registration, no form, no email address, no account, and no version held back for members.
A school may therefore copy it, print it, translate it, put it in a staff handbook, adapt it to fit the school, and use it in its own decisions, without asking the Council and without any relationship with PrepGraph. That is the point of the licence. A school that would rather have nothing to do with the Council's convener can still take every word of this and use it.
Attribution means naming the instrument and the Council, giving the version and date of the text you used, and linking to the page you took it from where a link is possible. Where you adapt the text, say that you have adapted it, and do not present the adapted text as the Council's.
Every Council publication is available in full at a public address without registration, form, email address or account, and is free to reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.
Planned The Council has published no guidance note, finding or research output yet. The same licence and the same terms will apply to each of them when it does.
What is not licensed
The licence covers the text. It does not cover names or marks, and no licence to either is granted anywhere else on this site. The name PrepGraph Council for Responsible AI & School Innovation – India, its shorter forms, the name PrepGraph, the Council's seal and the PrepGraph mark remain the property of PrepGraph, which convenes and funds the Council.
You may name the Council in order to cite it, describe it, criticise it or disagree with it in public. You may not put its name or its seal on something so that the thing looks approved — on a product, a page banner, a logo lock-up, a brochure, a prospectus, a stall or a certificate. The distinction is between reference and endorsement, and it is not a fine one.
The hard part
Claims that may not be made
No school, no supplier and no individual may describe itself, its school, its product, its service or its practice as Council approved, Council certified, Council recommended, Council rated, Council accredited or Council recognised. No such status exists. None has been issued to anyone. None is planned.
This is not a matter of trade mark housekeeping. A body that certified nothing but allowed the word to circulate would be selling the impression of certification, which is worse than certifying, because nobody could check it. Where the Council learns of such a use it will write and ask for it to be withdrawn, and will say plainly, in public if necessary, that the claim is untrue.
The Council is not a regulator and has no power to penalise anyone. Asking, in writing and then in public, is very nearly the whole of its remedy — which is a reason to treat any claim of Council standing as false on sight rather than to wait for the Council to correct it.
The Council is a voluntary, non-statutory initiative. It is not a government, regulatory or accrediting body, and it does not certify, rate or approve schools, curricula or products.
The Council does not endorse individual procurement decisions or technology vendors. Its role is to advance responsible AI readiness, educator capability and evidence-based innovation in schools.
The Council issues no mark, seal, badge, accreditation, rating or approval to any school, product, supplier or individual, and grants no right to display its name as a credential.
The words "recognised by", "approved by", "accredited by", "certified by", "in partnership with" and "powered by" may not be used with the Council's name by any member, school or supplier.
What may accurately be said
Refusing the false claims is only half of it. These are the descriptions that are true, need no permission, and are enough for any honest purpose.
Accurate, and needs no permission
- A member may state their membership
- In the exact form of words the membership terms set out, in a personal biography, a conference note or a school staff page. Not in admission material, fee material, or a tender or procurement document.
- Anyone may quote or cite an instrument
- With attribution, in a school policy, a paper, a tender response, a news report, or an argument against the Council. No permission is needed and none should be sought.
- A school may say it has adopted the Principles
- And should add nothing to it. The Council does not verify, inspect, monitor or score adoption, keeps no register of adopting schools, and holds no evidence at all about any school’s practice.
- Anyone may describe what the Council is
- Voluntary, non-statutory, convened and funded by a company that sells to schools. Saying so accurately requires nobody’s permission, least of all ours.
Not available, at any price
- Council approved, certified, recommended, rated
- Of a school, a supplier, a product, a service or a person. No such status exists, none has been issued to anyone, and none is planned.
- Recognised by, accredited by, in partnership with, powered by
- The Council enters no partnership that could be read as a credential, and lends its standing to no commercial proposal.
- A Council school
- Membership is personal to the member. It certifies nothing about the member’s school, its teaching, its safeguarding or its use of technology.
- The name or the seal used as a mark
- As a badge, a logo lock-up, a page banner, a product name or a credential on a wall. No right to display the Council name in that way is granted to anyone.
- Adoption presented as assessment
- Adopting the Principles says nothing whatever about a product a school has bought, and may not be used to suggest that the Council has looked at one.
The permitted form of words for a member What adopting the Principles is not
No warranty, and no advice
The instruments are guidance, written for a school to use in reaching its own judgement. They are written carefully and they may still be wrong, out of date, or a poor fit for a particular school in a particular year. The Council does not inspect, approve or supervise anything, and it takes no responsibility for a decision a school makes after reading them. It could not take that responsibility even if it wished to: it is voluntary, non-statutory, and it has done no work yet.
Nothing here is legal advice. Adopting an instrument does not establish compliance with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 or with any other law. A school's obligations under law are owed to the regulator and to the children concerned, not to the Council, and they remain the school's own.
The material is offered as it stands, with no warranty of any kind. What the Council does undertake is correction: where an instrument is wrong it publishes a new version with the change noted, keeps every earlier version available, and never alters a document silently. Tell us what is wrong and that is what will happen to it.
Links to other sites
This site links to prepgraph.com and academy.prepgraph.com, which are the commercial and training sites of the Council's convener, and to other pages a reader may want to check for themselves. A link is a pointer and not an endorsement — of a company, a product, a paper or an argument — and the Council neither controls nor reviews what is at the other end of one. Those sites have their own terms and their own privacy practices, and this notice does not reach them.
How to raise an issue
Nothing on this site is sold, and nobody is asked to accept these terms in order to read it, so this is not a contract. It is a statement of what the Council permits and what it refuses. Where a question about it arises it is dealt with under the law of India, and the first step is correspondence rather than anything more formal.
Write to [email protected], marked for the Chair. Anyone may write — a school, a teacher, a parent, a journalist, a competitor of PrepGraph's, or a PrepGraph employee — and no membership, relationship or standing is required. Tell the Council that its name has been misused, that something it published is wrong, or that it has broken its own rules.
A concern raised under the independence policy is acknowledged within five working days and determined within thirty. If those deadlines pass without an answer, the person who raised it is free to publish it in full, and the Council asserts no confidentiality against them for doing so.
Raising a concern, including against PrepGraph Contact the secretariat
Related instruments
The refusal above is the Council’s, not this page’s.
The independence policy lists what the Council will never issue to anybody, and names who may report a breach of it, including a breach by PrepGraph. The membership terms set out the one form of words a member may use, and the several a member may not.