Please read these Terms and Condtions (“Terms”, “Terms of Service”, “Conditions”) carefully. By confirming project and paying 50% of the total fee payable under our proposal (2. OUR FEES AND DEPOSITS) you agree to be bound by these Terms
1. STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS
These are the standard terms and conditions for Website Design and Development and apply to all contracts and all work undertaken by S. Mulder d.b.a. WP WebMaster Service (“S.Mulder”, “wpwebmasterservice.com”,”us”, “we”, “Designer(s)” or “our”) for its clients (“you”, “your”, “them”, “their”, “client(s)”).
WP WebMaster Service is operated and owned by S. Mulder, Sole Trader, Shrewsbury – England.
We may amend this Agreement at any time by posting the amended terms on our Website. We may or may not post notices on the homepage of our Website when such changes occur.
2. OUR PRICES, FEES AND DEPOSITS
All prices appearing on this site are subject to change without notice. All prices are in Euro. S. Mulder/WP Webmaster Service is exempt from charging VAT.
A 50% deposit of the total fee payable under our proposal is due immediately upon you instructing us to proceed with the website design and development work. The remaining 50% shall become due when the work is completed to your reasonable satisfaction but subject to the terms of the “approval of work” and “rejected work” clauses. We reserve the right not to commence any work until the deposit has been paid in full.
The 50% deposit is only refundable if we have not fulfilled our obligations to deliver the work required under the agreement. The deposit is not refundable if the development work has been started and you terminate the contract through no fault of ours.
We maintain a policy of no refunds for completed and client-approved work.
3. SUPPLY OF MATERIALS
You must supply all materials and information required by us to complete the work in accordance with any agreed specification. Such materials may include but are not limited to, photographs, written copy, logos and other printed material. Where there is any delay in supplying these materials to us which leads to a delay in the completion of work, we have the right to extend any previously agreed deadlines by a reasonable amount.
Where you fail to supply materials, and that prevents the progress of the work, we have the right to invoice you for any part or parts of the work already completed.
4. VARIATIONS
We are pleased to offer you the opportunity to make revisions to the design. However, we have the right to limit the number of design proposals to a reasonable amount and may charge for additional designs if you make a change to the original design specification.
Our website development phase is flexible and allows certain variations to the original specification. However any change request from the specification will be charged at the rate of EUR 45.00 per hour.
Change Request: If the Client wants to change the Scope of Work after acceptance of this Agreement, the Client shall send the Designer a written Change Order describing the requested changes in detail. Within 7 days of receiving a Change Order, the Designer will respond with a statement proposing designers’ availability, additional fees, changes to delivery dates, and any modification to the Terms and Conditions. The designer will evaluate each Change Order at its standard rate and charges.
Major Change: If Client requests are at or near 20% percent of the time required to produce Deliverables, or the value of the Scope of Services, Designer shall be entitled to submit a new and separate Proposal to Client for written approval. Designer shall not begin work on the revised services until he receives a fully signed revised proposal and any additional fees.
Minor Change: If Client requests are not Major Changes, Client will be billed on a time and materials basis at Designer’s hourly rate of EUR 45.00 per hour. Such charges shall be in addition to all other amount payable under this Agreement, despite any maximum budget, contract price or final price identified. Designer may extend or modify any delivery schedule or deadlines in the Agreement as may be required by such changes.
5. PROJECT DELAYS AND CLIENT LIABILITY
Any time frames or estimates that we give are contingent upon your full co-operation and complete and final content in photography for the work pages. During development, there is a certain amount of feedback required in order to progress to subsequent phases. It is required that a single point of contact be appointed from your side and be made available on a daily basis in order to expedite the feedback process.
Hosting Final Deliverables: WP WebMaster Service will host the Final Deliverables on its web space while the Project is under construction. If the Final Deliverables are not completed by the completion date listed in the Project Proposal, and the delay is not caused by Designer, Client agrees to pay Designer EUR 30.00 per month for hosting until the Final Deliverables are moved to Client’s server.
6. APPROVAL OF WORK
On completion of the work you will be notified and have the opportunity to review it. You must notify us in writing of any unsatisfactory points within 7 days of such notification. Any of the work which has not been reported in writing to us as unsatisfactory within the 7-day review period will be deemed to have been approved. Once approved, or deemed approved, work cannot subsequently be rejected and the contract will be deemed to have been completed and the 50% balance of the project price will become due.
7. REJECTED WORK
If you reject any of our work within the 7-day review period, or not approve subsequent work performed by us to remedy any points recorded as being unsatisfactory, and we, acting reasonably, consider that you have been unreasonable in any rejection of the work, we can elect to treat this contract as at an end and take measures to recover payment for the completed work. WP WebMaster Service will not be obligated to perform any services beyond those in the original Agreement.
8. FOLLOW UP SUPPORT SERVICES
Warranty Period: During the first 1 month following the expiration of this Agreement, Designer shall provide up to 2 hours of Support Services at no additional cost to the Client. Support Services means commercially reasonable technical support and assistance to maintain and update the Deliverables, including correcting any errors or Deficiencies. Requests for additional support will be billed on a time and materials basis at Designers’s standard rate.
Maintenance Period: After the Warranty Period expires and at the Client’s option, the Designer will provide Support Services for the following 3 months for the Designer’s hourly fees of EUR 45.00 per hour.
No Enhancements: The services in the Warranty Period and the Maintenance Period do not include enhancements to the Project or other services outside the scope of the Proposal.
9. PAYMENT
Upon completion of the 7-day review period, we will invoice you for the 50% balance of the project.
10. WARRANTY BY YOU AS TO OWNERSHIP OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
You must obtain all necessary permissions and authorities in respect of the use of all copy, graphic images, registered company logos, names and trademarks, or any other material that you supply to us to include in your website or web applications.
You must indemnify us and hold us harmless from any claims or legal actions related to the content of your website
11. LICENSING
Once you have paid us in full for our work we grant to you a license to use the website and its related software and contents for the life of the website.
12. SEARCH ENGINES
We do not guarantee any specific position in search engine results for your website. We perform basic search engine optimisation according to current best practices.
13. WEBSITE PERFORMANCE
We do not guarantee any specific website/page performance. We perform basic website optimisation according to current best practices.
14. CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS
We shall not be liable for any loss or damage which you may suffer which is in any way attributable to any delay in performance or completion of our contract, however that delay arises.
15. DISCLAIMER
To the full extent permitted by law, all terms, conditions, warranties, undertakings, inducements or representations whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise (other than the express provisions of these terms and conditions) relating in any way to the services we provide to you are excluded. Without limiting the above, to the extent permitted by law, any liability of WP WebMaster Service under any term, condition, warranty or representation that by law cannot be excluded is, where permitted by law, limited at our option to the replacement, re-repair or re-supply of the services or the payment of the cost of the services that we were contracted to perform.
16. SUBCONTRACTING
We reserve the right to subcontract any services that we have agreed to perform for you as we see fit.
17. NON-DISCLOSURE
We (and any subcontractors we engage) agree that we will not at any time disclose any of your confidential information to any third party without your written consent.
18. ADDITIONAL EXPENSES
You agree to reimburse us for any requested expenses which do not form part of our proposal including but not limited to the purchase of templates, third-party software, stock photographs, fonts, domain name registration, web hosting or comparable expenses.
19. BACKUPS
You are responsible for maintaining your own backups with respect to your website and we will not be liable for restoring any client data or client websites except to the extent that such data loss arises out of a negligent act or omission by us.
20. OWNERSHIP OF DOMAIN NAMES AND WEB HOSTING
We will supply to you account credentials for domain name registration and/or web hosting that we purchased on your behalf when you reimburse us for any expenses that we have incurred.
21. GOVERNING LAW
The agreement constituted by these terms and conditions and any proposal will be construed according to and is governed by the laws of The United Kingdom. You and WP WebMaster Service submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in and of The United Kingdom in relation to any dispute arising under these terms and conditions or in relation to any services we perform for you.
22. CROSS BROWSER COMPATIBILITY
By using current versions of well supported content management systems such as “Wordpress”, we endeavour to ensure that the web sites we create are compatible with all current modern web browsers such as the most recent versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari. Third party extensions, where used, may not have the same level of support for all browsers. Where appropriate we will substitute alternative extensions or implement other solutions, on a best effort basis, where any incompatibilities are found.
23. E-COMMERCE
You are responsible for complying with all relevant laws relating to e-commerce, and to the full extent permitted by law will hold harmless, protect, and defend and indemnify WP WebMaster Service and its subcontractors from any claim, penalty, tax, tariff loss or damage arising from your or your clients’ use of Internet electronic commerce.
24. SECURITY
You are responsible for your website security. We do not guarantee any specific website security level, regardless of the chosen security measures and software. You will hold harmless, protect, and defend and indemnify WP WebMaster Service and its subcontractors from any claim, penalty, tax, tariff loss or damage arising from your or your clients’ use of your website.
We strongly advise to invest in professional security software and services, if you choose not to we will install a free version firewall/antivirus application and perform basic website security according to current best practice.
25. PRIVACY
You are responsible for complying with all relevant laws relating to privacy, and to the full extent permitted by law will hold harmless, protect, and defend and indemnify WP WebMaster Service and its subcontractors from any claim, penalty, tax, tariff loss or damage arising from your or your clients’ use of your website.