Terms of Service

1. Who you are dealing with

Sefism is an independent project operated by Tauseef Fayyaz, an individual based in Lahore, Pakistan. There is no company behind it and no team. One person reads your messages and writes the replies.

Sefism is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or operated on behalf of any current or former employer of Tauseef Fayyaz. Employment history is stated on this site as biographical fact only. Any views expressed here are personal and do not represent any employer. Company names and trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.

By creating an account or using the site, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use Sefism.

2. Who may use Sefism

You must be at least 16 years old. You must give accurate registration details, keep your login credentials to yourself, and you are responsible for what happens under your account.

One person, one account. Accounts may not be shared, sold, or transferred.

3. What Sefism actually offers

Sefism provides mentorship conversations, career guidance, feedback on your projects and portfolio, a curated library of learning resources, written articles, member profiles, and a Discord community.

It does not sell coding-interview or system-design interview preparation, does not run a coding-problem bank, and does not provide a code-execution environment or in-browser IDE.

Everything here is educational and advisory. It is guidance from one engineer’s experience, not professional, legal, financial, immigration, or employment advice, and no substitute for it.

4. What is not promised

This matters, so it is stated plainly:

• No job, offer, interview, promotion, salary increase, or hiring outcome is guaranteed, implied, or promised.
• No referral to any employer is offered or implied, including to any company mentioned anywhere on this site.
• Replies are best-effort and personal. There is no guaranteed response time and no service-level agreement.
• Advice is opinion. You decide what to act on, and the consequences of acting on it are yours.
• Resources listed here are third-party and provided for convenience. Listing something is not an endorsement, and we are not responsible for it.

5. Credits

Credits exist to keep the inbox manageable so that questions actually get answered. New accounts receive a starting allowance. Sending a query spends one credit.

• A credit is an internal allowance for submitting a query. It is not currency, has no cash value, and confers no ownership or stored-value rights.
• Credits are personal and non-transferable. They cannot be sold, gifted, or exchanged between accounts.
• Spending a credit buys a reply, a considered, personal answer. It does not buy a particular answer, a particular length, a particular timeframe, or a particular outcome.
• If a query goes unanswered because of an error on our side, the credit is restored on request.
• Credits are forfeited if you delete your account, and forfeited if your account is terminated for a breach of these terms.
• Credits may expire after a period of inactivity. If expiry is introduced, registered users will be notified in advance.

Paid credit packages are currently disabled. If purchasing is enabled in future, the Refund Policy will apply to those purchases, and prices, taxes and terms will be shown at checkout before you pay.

6. Your content

Your profile, projects, messages, and comments stay yours. You keep all ownership.

By submitting content you grant Sefism a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, reproduce, and display that content strictly for the purpose of operating the platform, for example, publishing your profile at /u/your-slug once you switch it on, or showing your comment beneath an article. This licence ends when you delete the content or your account.

You confirm you have the right to post what you post, that it does not infringe anyone else’s rights, and that it does not contain confidential information belonging to your own employer or clients. Please do not send us anything you are not free to share.

Feedback and suggestions about Sefism itself may be used freely and without compensation.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Impersonate anyone, or misrepresent your identity, experience, or affiliation.
• Post unlawful, harassing, hateful, defamatory, or sexually explicit content.
• Send spam, promotional bulk messages, or recruit members for unrelated commercial purposes.
• Scrape, crawl, or bulk-collect member profiles or any other content.
• Probe, disrupt, overload, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the platform or its infrastructure.
• Upload malware, or use the platform to distribute anything harmful.
• Resell, repackage, or redistribute paid or member-only material.

Accounts that breach these rules may be suspended or removed without notice or refund.

8. Our content

Articles, guides, designs, code, branding and other original material on this site belong to Tauseef Fayyaz and are protected by copyright. You may read, share links, and quote briefly with attribution. You may not republish substantial portions, or use the material to train a commercial model or build a competing product, without written permission.

9. Ending your account

You can delete your account at any time from Account → Security → Delete account. Deletion is immediate and irreversible; see the Privacy Policy for exactly what is removed and what is retained.

We may suspend or terminate an account that breaches these terms, that is used unlawfully, or that puts the platform or its members at risk. Where it is reasonable to do so, we will explain why.

Sefism may change, restrict, or discontinue any feature at any time. If a feature you paid for is discontinued, unused paid credits will be refunded on a pro-rata basis.

10. Disclaimers and liability

Sefism is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, to the fullest extent the law allows. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any particular result will follow from using it.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability to you for any claim arising out of or relating to Sefism is limited to the greater of the amount you actually paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or USD 50. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages, or for lost profits, lost opportunities, or lost job offers.

Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence. If you are a consumer, you keep every statutory right your local law gives you.

11. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and the courts of Lahore, Pakistan have jurisdiction over any dispute.

If you are a consumer resident elsewhere, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer-law provisions of your own country, or of your right to bring proceedings in your local courts.

Before starting formal proceedings, please email support@sefism.com. Most things are quicker to resolve directly.

12. Changes to these terms

These terms may be updated. The date at the top will change, and material changes will be notified to registered users by email or in-app notification before they take effect. Continuing to use Sefism after that means you accept the revised terms.

If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in force.