1. Distinguishing Source Requirements from Automated Detection
Ubinoq distinguishes between three distinct dimensions of regulatory analysis:
- Government Statutory Requirement: The verbatim rule or standard issued under Gazette notifications, Legal Metrology, or Ministry circulars (e.g. Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules).
- Automated Website Detection: What our automated crawler observed in public HTML, visible text, links, and forms at the specific time of scanning.
- Suggested Action & Manual Verification: Operational guidelines for merchants to review with their legal counsel or internal compliance officers.
2. Limitations of Automated Crawling
An automated web crawler inspects only public, unauthenticated web pages. The crawler cannot and does not:
- Verify whether a designated Grievance Officer actually acknowledges complaints within 48 hours or resolves them within 30 days.
- Inspect whether your business has completed integration into the National Consumer Helpline convergence system.
- Audit backend search algorithm database tables to evaluate organic ranking weights.
- Audit merchant accounting systems to determine whether a displayed reference price represents the true lowest price over the preceding 30 days.
3. Prohibition of "Legally Compliant" Claims
Ubinoq results are labeled strictly as PASS, REVIEW REQUIRED, NOT DETECTED, NOT APPLICABLE, or SCAN ERROR. We explicitly prohibit representing a Ubinoq report as a "legal certification" or evidence that a business is "100% legally compliant".
4. Future-Effective Statutory Rules
Where statutory rules come into force on a future date (for example, amendments taking effect from 1 January 2027), Ubinoq displays the requirement with an explicit effective date tag to assist merchants in proactive preparation without falsely misrepresenting the current date of legal enforceability.