Terms

Two separate things are on this page: terms for reading the site, and the terms that apply if you hire me. The second set matters more, so it is written in plain English rather than in a way that needs a solicitor to interpret.

Using this website

This site is provided as it is. Prices, availability and descriptions can change, and nothing on it is a binding offer. A price becomes binding when it is written into a quote for your specific job and you accept it.

The text, design, code and images on this site belong to Evan Almond, except for the screenshots of client work, which show the clients' own brands, photographs and content and remain theirs.

Where this site links somewhere else, I am not responsible for what is there.

Quotes and prices

Every quote is fixed for the scope written in it and holds for thirty days. The price you agree is the price at the end. Work you ask for that falls outside the agreed scope is quoted before it is done, and never added to an invoice afterwards as a surprise.

I am not registered for VAT, so no VAT is charged and none can be reclaimed.

Payment

Half of the agreed fee before work starts, half on handover. Invoices are payable within fourteen days by bank transfer. Monthly plans are paid in advance and can be cancelled with thirty days' notice, without penalty.

Late payment on a business contract carries statutory interest and compensation under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998. I would much rather ask you about it first.

What you provide

You are responsible for the accuracy of anything you give me to publish, and for holding the rights to any logo, photograph or text you supply. Where the law requires you to display something, such as a licence, registration or certification number, supplying the correct one is your responsibility, although I will tell you when I believe one is needed.

If material I need is outstanding for more than thirty days, the timeline moves and the remaining balance may be invoiced for work already completed.

Revisions and changes

The design stage includes as much iteration as it takes to get the direction right. After handover, each package includes the number of revision rounds stated in its quote. Further changes are quoted separately or covered by a care plan.

Ownership

On final payment, everything produced for you becomes yours: the code, the design and the content written for you. The site is deployed to your own domain and hosting account, in your name.

Two carve-outs. Third-party components keep their own licences, all of which are open source and none of which cost you anything. And I keep the right to use generic techniques, tooling and know-how developed in the course of the work, which is not a claim on anything specific to your business.

Unless you ask me not to, I may describe the work and show screenshots of it as a case study. Say the word and I will not.

Cancellation

You can stop at any point. You pay for work completed to that date and you keep it, including the code as it stands. There is no cancellation fee and nothing is structured to make leaving expensive.

If I cannot complete the work, you are refunded for anything paid and not delivered, and you keep whatever has been produced.

Hosting, uptime and things outside my control

Sites are deployed to third-party hosts. I do not guarantee their uptime because I do not control it, though the hosts used are chosen for a good record and the sites are built as plain files, which is the most robust thing to serve.

A site is delivered working and audited. Search rankings, traffic and sales depend on your market, your prices and your competitors, and nobody who promises you a specific ranking is in a position to.

Liability

My total liability in connection with any piece of work is limited to the fees you paid for it. I am not liable for lost profits, lost data or lost business.

Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited. If you are a consumer rather than a business, your statutory rights are unaffected by anything here.

Law

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction.

Questions

Ask before you sign rather than after. evanalmond@gmail.com or 07355 607308.