INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, COPYRIGHT, BRAND, DOMAIN, MEDIA & CONTENT PROTECTION POLICY
Effective Date: 7 September 2026
Last Updated: 7 September 2026
Official Brand: Kohi Cafe / KOHI CAFE
Official Website: https://kohicaferishikesh.com/
Founder: Himanshu Joshi
Location: Lane No. 10, Nirmal Block-B, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand 249201, India
Official Contact: +91 92593320164
The website describes Kohi Cafe as a calm, creative co-working environment for work, study and connection, with coffee, food, Wi-Fi and workspace facilities.
IMPORTANT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY NOTICE
Kohi Cafe strictly protects its brand identity, website, original photographs, food and beverage photography, café photography, videos, menu content, written content, graphics, promotional materials, designs and other proprietary intellectual property.
Unauthorized commercial copying, reproduction, scraping, republication, impersonation, misleading use, domain-name abuse, fake business listings, deceptive advertising or use of Kohi Cafe intellectual property to promote another café, co-working space, restaurant, yoga business or other commercial organization is prohibited except where authorized or independently permitted by applicable law.
Where legally justified, Kohi Cafe reserves the right to pursue copyright and trademark complaints, platform takedowns, hosting and registrar enforcement, search-engine removal requests, domain proceedings, injunctions, damages, recovery of attributable profits and other available remedies.
Public availability does not constitute permission. Attribution alone does not constitute permission.
1. Purpose & Scope
This Policy establishes Kohi Cafe’s position regarding ownership, authorized use and protection of intellectual property associated with:
- kohicaferishikesh.com
- Kohi Cafe / KOHI CAFE branding
- Authorized social-media accounts
- Google and other business listings
- Food and beverage photography
- Café photography
- Co-working-space photography
- Menus
- Website content
- Blog articles
- Videos and reels
- Promotional campaigns
- Printed materials
- Advertising
- Other original commercial material.
No commercial licence should be inferred merely because content is publicly accessible.
2. Protected Intellectual Property
To the extent owned, commissioned, licensed or otherwise legally controlled by Kohi Cafe, protected materials may include:
- Website text
- Blog articles
- Original photographs
- Coffee photography
- Matcha photography
- Bakery photography
- Food photography
- Beverage photography
- Café interior photography
- Co-working-area photography
- Workspace photography
- Staff photographs
- Founder photographs
- Customer photographs where appropriately owned/licensed
- Videos
- Reels
- Promotional videos
- Food and beverage videos
- Menu designs
- Original menu descriptions
- Graphics
- Posters
- Advertisements
- Social-media creatives
- Brochures
- Signage
- Original illustrations
- Logo artwork
- Brand graphics
- Original website design elements where protectable
- Original website code where protectable
- Marketing copy
- Email campaigns
- Promotional material
- Proprietary commercial materials.
The official website currently contains substantial content concerning Kohi’s co-working concept, coffee and bakery offerings, workspace, wellness activities, blog content and photography.
3. Copyright
Copyright may protect eligible original Kohi Cafe works under applicable law.
This may include original:
photographs, videos, written material, graphics, advertisements, website content, blog articles, creative menu descriptions and other expressive works.
Copyright generally protects original expression rather than ordinary facts, ideas, ingredients, coffee-making methods, recipes, work-space concepts or general café concepts.
4. Copyright Notice
Unless otherwise indicated:
© 2026 Kohi Cafe Rishikesh. All Rights Reserved.
Protected material must not be unlawfully reproduced, commercially republished, distributed, adapted, falsely attributed or exploited.
5. Kohi Cafe Brand Protection
Kohi Cafe reserves all legally available rights relating to:
- Kohi Cafe
- KOHI CAFE
- Kohi Cafe Rishikesh
- Kohi Co-Working Cafe
- Logos
- Stylized branding
- Commercial identity
- Source-identifying graphics
- Advertising identity
- Social-media identity
- Commercial goodwill.
No third party may unlawfully use Kohi branding in a manner likely to create confusion regarding ownership, affiliation, authorization, partnership, sponsorship, endorsement, branch status or commercial connection.
Do not add the ® symbol unless the particular Kohi mark is actually registered and use of the registration symbol is legally appropriate.
6. Official Website
The official website is:
https://kohicaferishikesh.com/
The website describes Kohi as a dedicated co-working café created for people looking for a comfortable environment in which to work or study, and identifies it as part of the Himalayan Yoga Cafe family.
No unauthorized website may falsely represent itself as the official Kohi Cafe website or an authorized branch, booking service or commercial partner.
7. Domain Name Protection
Kohi Cafe reserves legally available rights against deceptive domain registrations intended to:
- impersonate Kohi Cafe;
- divert customers;
- imitate the official website;
- collect payments;
- redirect traffic;
- advertise competitors;
- create fake reservations;
- damage the brand;
- or commercially exploit customer confusion.
Where appropriate, Kohi Cafe may submit complaints to hosting providers, registrars, search engines and applicable domain-dispute mechanisms.
8. No Permission Through Public Availability
Material appearing on:
- Google Images
- YouTube
- TripAdvisor
- blogs
- directories
- other websites
does not automatically become free to commercially reuse.
Downloading a photograph does not establish ownership.
Giving credit does not by itself create a licence.
9. Photography Protection
Original Kohi Cafe photography is an important commercial asset.
Protected photographs must not be unlawfully:
- downloaded and commercially republished;
- copied;
- cropped and reused;
- modified to disguise their source;
- recolored;
- mirrored;
- stripped of metadata;
- uploaded to another café listing;
- placed on another café’s website;
- used on food-delivery platforms;
- used in advertisements;
- used by another co-working space;
- or presented as another company’s facilities, food, drinks or services.
10. Co-Working Space & Interior Images
Kohi Cafe’s workspace is a core part of its commercial identity. The official site specifically promotes large co-working desks, air conditioning, Wi-Fi, comfortable seating and a distraction-reduced environment for remote workers and students.
Protected photographs of these facilities must not be used deceptively to suggest that another:
- café;
- co-working business;
- hotel;
- hostel;
- yoga school;
- restaurant;
- digital-nomad space
owns or operates the facilities shown.
11. Food, Coffee & Beverage Images
Original photographs of Kohi Cafe coffee, matcha, bakery products, food and other beverages must not be commercially reused to advertise another establishment without permission where permission is legally required.
A competitor must not present Kohi Cafe’s food or beverage photographs as its own products.
12. Menu Content
Kohi Cafe may hold copyright in qualifying original expression contained within its menus, including:
- original descriptions;
- photographs;
- graphic designs;
- creative written presentation;
- illustrations;
- original layouts.
Kohi Cafe does not claim copyright over ordinary ingredients, common dish names, general recipes, coffee-making techniques or culinary facts where those elements are not independently protectable.
13. Website Content
Original expression published on kohicaferishikesh.com may be protected by copyright.
Unauthorized commercial copying is not necessarily made lawful merely by:
- replacing words with synonyms;
- changing sentence order;
- translating the material;
- removing attribution;
- paraphrasing copied material with AI;
- combining copied material with additional content.
14. Blog Articles
Kohi Cafe publishes original café, remote-work and wellness-related articles, including material addressing productivity, digital nomads, remote working and work-friendly cafés in Rishikesh.
Qualifying original expression within these articles may be protected by copyright.
Commercial websites should not reproduce complete articles or substantial protected portions without authorization unless applicable law independently permits the use.
15. Videos, Reels & Social Media
Protected Kohi Cafe videos must not be unlawfully:
- downloaded;
- screen-recorded;
- reuploaded;
- clipped;
- repackaged;
- dubbed;
- modified;
- monetized;
- incorporated into another company’s advertising;
- falsely attributed.
16. Founder – Himanshu Joshi
The Kohi Cafe About page identifies Himanshu Joshi as the founder behind the café’s wider vision and describes his involvement with the Himalayan Yoga Association community.
No person may falsely represent that Himanshu Joshi endorses, owns, founded, authorizes or is commercially associated with another business where no such relationship exists.
Kohi Cafe does not claim copyright ownership over a person’s identity or historical facts themselves. Different legal rights may apply to particular photographs, biographies, videos, trademarks, privacy interests, publicity interests or deceptive commercial representations.
17. Staff & Customer Media
Protected photographs, videos or other media featuring Kohi Cafe staff or customers must not be manipulated to falsely suggest that the individuals:
- work for another café;
- visited another café;
- endorse another business;
- reviewed another establishment;
- or appeared in another company’s advertising.
Applicable privacy and personality rights must also be respected.
18. Fake Business Listings
No third party may create or operate a deceptive listing that falsely represents itself as Kohi Cafe.
This includes listings appearing on:
- Google Business Profile
- Google Maps
- Apple Maps
- Bing
- TripAdvisor
- restaurant directories
- co-working directories
- food-delivery platforms
- travel websites.
19. Social-Media Impersonation
Unauthorized persons must not create deceptive social accounts that falsely appear to be official Kohi Cafe accounts.
This includes:
Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and Telegram.
20. Booking & Payment Impersonation
No unauthorized party may falsely publish:
- UPI IDs;
- QR codes;
- bank details;
- payment links;
- reservation forms;
- telephone numbers;
- WhatsApp numbers;
- payment instructions
as belonging to Kohi Cafe.
Suspected payment fraud may be reported to payment providers, banks, platforms, hosting companies, domain registrars, cybercrime authorities or law enforcement as appropriate.
21. Advertising & Search Engines
No third party may use Kohi Cafe’s identity or protected material in deceptive advertising that causes customers to believe they are:
- visiting Kohi Cafe;
- ordering from Kohi Cafe;
- booking Kohi Cafe;
- contacting Kohi Cafe;
- viewing an official Kohi website;
- or paying Kohi Cafe
when that is not true.
22. Scraping & Automated Extraction
No express commercial licence is granted for unauthorized systematic scraping of protected Kohi Cafe material, including:
- photographs;
- articles;
- menu descriptions;
- videos;
- original website text;
- staff profiles;
- proprietary compilations.
This does not prohibit legitimate search-engine crawling or activities independently permitted under applicable law.
23. Artificial Intelligence
No express commercial licence is granted for Kohi Cafe-owned copyrighted content to be used for:
- commercial generative-AI training;
- image-model training;
- commercial language-model datasets;
- synthetic commercial datasets;
- unauthorized founder cloning;
- staff persona cloning;
- commercial advertising generated from copied protected content.
This provision remains subject to rights and exceptions independently provided by applicable law.
24. AI Impersonation & Deepfakes
Kohi Cafe photographs, videos and audio must not be unlawfully used to create deceptive synthetic media falsely representing the founder, employees, customers or representatives.
25. Customer Data & Privacy
Customer information must not be unlawfully collected, disclosed, sold or commercially exploited.
This may include:
- customer names;
- phone numbers;
- WhatsApp details;
- emails;
- reservation information;
- payment information;
- private communications;
- photographs;
- feedback;
- customer databases.
Applicable Indian privacy and data-protection law may apply.
26. Fair Dealing & Lawful Uses
Nothing in this Policy overrides rights independently granted under applicable law.
Depending upon the facts and jurisdiction, lawful uses may include qualifying:
- criticism;
- review;
- journalism;
- reporting;
- research;
- quotation;
- education;
- commentary;
- parody;
- statutory exceptions.
Kohi Cafe does not use this Policy to prohibit genuine customer criticism or lawful independent reviews.
27. Enforcement Rights
Where legally appropriate, Kohi Cafe may:
- preserve evidence;
- issue cease-and-desist notices;
- submit copyright complaints;
- submit applicable trademark complaints;
- submit qualifying DMCA notices;
- report impersonating websites;
- notify hosting providers;
- notify registrars;
- report fake Google listings;
- report social-media impersonation;
- report deceptive advertisements;
- request appropriate search-engine action;
- notify payment providers;
- commence domain proceedings;
- seek injunctions;
- seek damages;
- seek attributable infringer profits;
- pursue costs where legally available;
- commence civil proceedings;
- report qualifying criminal activity.
28. Monetary Liability
IMPORTANT LEGAL NOTICE
Commercial infringement can result in substantial financial liability where applicable law provides such remedies.
Potential liability depends on matters such as:
- jurisdiction;
- ownership;
- registrations;
- number of protected works;
- nature of the infringement;
- actual loss;
- infringer profits;
- intentional conduct;
- consumer deception;
- repeated infringement;
- fraudulent conduct.
Kohi Cafe does not impose an arbitrary automatic private fine merely by publishing this Policy.
Any damages or financial remedy must have an appropriate legal or contractual basis.
29. Repeated or Willful Infringement
Continued unauthorized use after receiving notice may be relevant to questions of knowledge, intention, bad faith or willfulness where applicable law makes those matters relevant.
Kohi Cafe is not obligated to issue repeated warnings before pursuing a legally available remedy.
30. Evidence Preservation
Kohi Cafe may preserve relevant evidence including:
- screenshots;
- screen recordings;
- archived webpages;
- source code;
- timestamps;
- advertisements;
- social posts;
- domain records;
- DNS records;
- hosting information;
- payment pages;
- communications;
- original photographs;
- RAW/source media;
- video files;
- metadata;
- invoices;
- design files.
Such evidence may be supplied to legal advisers, platforms, registrars, hosting companies, courts or competent authorities where appropriate.
31. Third-Party Intellectual Property
Kohi Cafe respects intellectual-property rights belonging to others.
Third-party trademarks, platforms, photographs or other material appearing on the website remain subject to their respective owners’ rights.
Nothing in this Policy claims ownership over intellectual property belonging to another party.
32. No False IP Claims
This Policy does not authorize:
- knowingly false copyright notices;
- fabricated DMCA claims;
- false trademark complaints;
- false registration claims;
- fraudulent platform reports;
- abuse of domain-dispute procedures.
Enforcement should be pursued in good faith.
33. Licensing & Written Permission
Kohi Cafe may provide written permission for specific uses.
Any licence may specify:
- permitted material;
- user/licensee;
- commercial purpose;
- duration;
- platform;
- territory;
- attribution;
- modifications;
- fees;
- termination.
Permission for one use does not create permission for unrelated future uses.
34. Photographers, Designers & Contractors
Where photographers, videographers, designers, writers, developers or agencies create material for Kohi Cafe, ownership depends upon the relevant agreements and applicable law.
For strong IP protection, written assignments, licences, releases and contractor IP clauses should be maintained wherever appropriate.
35. Reporting Intellectual Property Infringement
A report should preferably contain:
Infringing website/account:
Exact infringing URL:
Original Kohi Cafe URL/content:
Description of infringement:
Screenshots/evidence:
Date discovered:
Reporter details:
Additional information:
I recommend creating a dedicated address such as:
or
for formal intellectual-property complaints.
36. Official Business Information
Kohi Cafe Rishikesh
Lane No. 10, Nirmal Block-B
Rishikesh, Uttarakhand 249201
India
Phone: +91 92593320164
Website: https://kohicaferishikesh.com/
The address and phone number above are currently displayed on the official website.
37. Relationship With Himalayan Yoga Association Community
The current official site states that Kohi Cafe is part of the Himalayan Yoga Association community and describes Kohi as part of the wider Himalayan Yoga Cafe concept.
This relationship does not authorize unrelated third parties to use the intellectual property, names, photographs, logos or goodwill of any of these organizations.
Rights belonging to each respective entity or rights holder remain separately protected.
38. Governing Law & International Enforcement
To the extent legally enforceable, contractual matters concerning use of the Kohi Cafe website may be governed by applicable Indian law.
Nothing in this Policy prevents a rights holder from pursuing available remedies in another jurisdiction where an infringement occurs, an infringer operates, consumers are targeted, or an applicable platform, registrar or service provider operates.
39. No Waiver
Failure to immediately enforce a right does not automatically waive that right.
Permission granted for one particular use does not automatically authorize another.
Past unauthorized use does not establish future permission.
40. Severability
If any provision of this Policy is determined to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions should continue to operate to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.
41. Reservation of Rights
ALL APPLICABLE RIGHTS ARE RESERVED.
Nothing appearing on kohicaferishikesh.com should be interpreted as granting an implied commercial licence to Kohi Cafe intellectual property except where applicable law independently provides otherwise.
STRICT BRAND & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION NOTICE
Kohi Cafe Intellectual Property Is Strictly Protected
Unauthorized copying, commercial reproduction, impersonation, misleading use of the Kohi Cafe / KOHI CAFE identity, misuse of café photographs, workspace images, food photography, coffee photography, videos, menu content, logos, domains, website content or other protected material is strictly prohibited except where authorized or independently permitted by applicable law.
Kohi Cafe reserves the right to pursue lawful takedowns, copyright complaints, applicable trademark remedies, platform enforcement, hosting and registrar complaints, domain disputes, injunctions, damages and other legally available remedies.
All rights reserved. Public availability of Kohi Cafe content does not itself create a licence, affiliation, authorization or ownership.
