TERMS & CONDITIONS

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  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 Digital Brilliance Custom Media Design for its clients.

  2. OUR FEES AND DEPOSITS

    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.

  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 major deviation from the specification will be charged at the rate of $100.00 per hour.

  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.

  6. A six month maximum is what is allowed for a timeframe for the client to complete sending information over to complete the work unless previously arranged. If a client does not send over relevant infomation for website to be completed, the final balance will be do and the website will go up as is.

  7. 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. A typical website usually takes up to 12 weeks from start to launch. This estimate includes 2 weeks discovery, 2 weeks design, 3 weeks development, and 5 weeks of modifications, these estimates vary per customer and can be earlier or later.

  8. 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.

  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 trade marks, 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 optimization according to current best practice.

  13. 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.

  14. 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 Digital Brilliance Custom Media Design 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.

  15. SUBCONTRACTING

    We reserve the right to subcontract any services that we have agreed to perform for you as we see fit.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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 California. You and Digital Brilliance Custom Media Design submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in and of California in relation to any dispute arising under these terms and conditions or in relation to any services we perform for you.

  21. CROSS BROWSER COMPATIBILITY

    By using current versions of well supported content management systems such as “Joomla”, we endeavor 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.

  22. 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 Digital Brilliance Custom Media Design and its subcontractors from any claim, penalty, tax, tariff loss or damage arising from your or your clients’ use of Internet electronic commerce.

  23. BARCODE AND FACTS LABELS

    Customer is solely responsible for supplying barcodes, SKU numbers, and all facts for nutirtional and supplemental facts labels. We are not responsible for barcodes not scanning due to customer supplying insufficiant barcodes and/or SKU numbers.

  24. MAINTENANCE FEES FOR DOMAIN NAMES AND WEB HOSTING

    If customer chooses web hosting through us, we will invoice you the monthly/yearly maintenance fee for services upon requested use of web hosting services. If the customer chooses to web host elsewhere, further information will be given to customer. Depending on type of maintenance and specific customers needs, fees will vary. Our basic web hosting package which includes a monthly hosting fee and a monthly updates of information on website will be $25/month. The basic web hosting package includes small tweaks and additions; up to one hours worth of service. The upgraded web hosting package includes weekly or biweekly maintenance and updates, plus the web hosting will start at $50/month depending on customer needs. All fees can either be paid on a monthly basis or a full yearly price. If more services are needed during any given month you will be invoiced based on what and how much customer needs. If customer is paying monthly and fails or refuses to continue payments, services and hosting will be halted until payment is made. If customer is paying monthly, you will be invoiced on a set date every month. 

  25. WEBSITE MAINTENANCE & HOSTING FEES

    Option 1: Hosting fee Only (no maintenance) - $10/mo
    Option 2: Hosting fee + Occasional maintenance (every 3 months) - $18/mo
    Option 3: Hosting fee + Once a month maintenance - $25/mo
    Option 4: Hosting fee + Twice a month maintenance - $40/mo
    Option 5: Hosting fee + Once a week maintenance - $70/mo
    Option 6: Unlimited Hosting fee - $100/mo

See Hosting page for more details.