"Proposal" - Any document or email issued by Ad Finem Limited which offers a service
"Agreement" - The Agreement includes these Terms and Conditions and the Proposal to which they relate
General terms and conditions
This Agreement shall apply to all goods and/or services ordered by the client from Ad Finem Limited whether or not the Client has received these terms and conditions in relation to any such order.
By ordering services or products from Ad Finem Ltd you understand the features and limitations as detailed in the Proposal. All of your questions have been adequately answered by asking Ad Finem staff.
Projects which are uncompleted after 30 days of initiation due to The Client's failure to provide content, feedback or information required by Ad Finem to complete the project must be paid in full.
Projects must be paid for within 14 days of completion or within 14 days of the invoice issue date, whichever is the later.
The Client is responsible for all payments due to Ad Finem Limited.
Customer support is a courtesy service and may be withdrawn at any time without notice
The Client is required to check the content of material produced by Ad Finem Limited. Ad Finem are not responsible for spelling or grammatical errors or for ensuring that content meets legal requirements. These are the responsibility of The Client.
The Proposal sets out the limits of the project. Features and changes outside of the Proposal are subject to quotation. Ad Finem Limited reserves the right to refuse any changes to the project specification.
Ad Finem Limited reserves the right to charge interest on overdue invoices at a rate of 8%
Whilst any payment due under the agreement remains outstanding, Ad Finem Limited shall be entitled at its sole and absolute discretion to withhold provision of any goods or services it would otherwise be obliged to provide under the agreement.
Overdue payments may result in The Client's account being suspended and this may include The Client's website. If service is requested to be restarted after it has been discontinued, a £50 setup fee may apply to reactivate.
Deposits and interim payments are non refundable.
Ad Finem Limited reserves the right to cancel any order and refund the amount paid before starting a project.
Ad Finem Limited is not liable for loss of money paid by The Client due to transactions being lost with the payment processors, either party's bank, postal service, or courier service.
Any liability arising from, including but not restricted to damage caused or allegedly caused by any failure to provide the agreed service, error, any act or omission of Ad Finem Limited, interruption of service and/or delay of transmission of service, loss of electronically stored information due to theft, fire, destruction or by means of unauthorized access to electronic information stored on Ad Finem Limited equipment, shall be restricted to a maximum of the amount paid by the customer for the service/s provided by Ad Finem Limited's administration costs. This clause does not exclude liability for death or personal injury arising out of any act or omission of Ad Finem Limited.
Conditions stipulated on any Client order form are not accepted by Ad Finem Limited to the extent that they are in conflict with our conditions.
In the event any one or more of the provisions of this agreement and/or order form shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of this Agreement and/or order form shall be unimpaired and the Agreement and/or order form shall not be void for this reason alone. Such invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision shall be replaced by a valid, legal and enforceable provision which comes closest to the intention of the parties underlying the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision.
The Customer shall pay Ad Finem Limited all costs and expenses (so that any legal fees shall be based on an indemnity basis) incurred by Ad Finem Limited in enforcing any of these Conditions, or in exercising any of its and remedies under the Agreement, including (without prejudice to the generality) all costs incurred in tracing the Customer in the event that legal processes cannot be enforced at the address last notified to Ad Finem Limited.
Terms applicable to web site design or development, graphic design, & web application development
Where unlimited revisions are specified these apply during the design stage only. Changes requested after a design has been coded into a web page (where applicable) or after it has been finalised will be charged for.
Unless otherwise specified the layout and design of all web pages will remain constant throughout the web site.
Unless otherwise specified web sites may contain up to 15 pages. Extra pages are chargeable.
Content supplied by The Client will be added to the website in one implementation. Should further implementations be requested or required, or should text require appending, then it shall be charged at Ad Finem's standard rate.
All designs, coding and material created by Ad Finem Ltd remain the property of Ad Finem Ltd until it is paid for in full. Ad Finem Ltd reserves the right to remove such material from the development URL or final URL if payment is delayed.
Domain Name renewals are the responsibility of the Domain Owner. The Domain Owner must not rely upon receiving notification from registrars, agents or resellers for domain renewals. It is the responsibility of the Domain Owner to ensure the renewal fees, has been received by the registrar within the existing registration period.
The position of the website within search engines is beyond the control of Ad Finem Limited. Ad Finem Limited does not guarantee or imply that any position will be achieved, or that the search engines will accept the web site into their database.
The client is responsible for testing all features within the website and/or project. Ad Finem Limited does not accept responsibility for losses incurred due to faults, omissions, or errors which were not reported by The Client or if The Client fails to test any features or facilities.
Certain systems used in the website may have limitations on their layout and graphic design capabilities. All graphic design is subject to compatibility with the software and subject to confirmation by the programmer.
Ad Finem Ltd retains the copyrights to all designs produced during projects except for the final design agreed with The Client.
Due to the complexities of international copyright and trademark law, Ad Finem Limited will not be held liable should The Client be found to be infringing on any already existing copyrights or trademarks or service mark relating to the project name, description or service. When a design has been finalised The Client should conduct a copyright and/or trademark search before closing the project.
Terms applicable to web hosting
Unless otherwise specified, web hosting is limited to 50mb of web space and a monthly bandwidth of 1.5 GB
During the course of the project it may be necessary to disclose your web hosting login details to employees, contractors, or associates working on behalf of Ad Finem. It is The Client's responsibility to change passwords after project completion. Ad Finem cannot be held liable for loss of data due to unauthorised access of the web site.
Terms applicable to the Ad Finem Quality Assurance
Website mark-up includes the HTML and XHTML languages only
Code errors are defined as:
in the case of mark-up languages, coding which does not comply to the specification issues by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
in the case of JavaScript, coding which produces an "error on page" message in current versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape, or Opera only.
in the case of other languages, coding which produces a parse error within the web page
Errors must be reported within the guarantee period
Errors caused by code alterations carried out by any person outside of Ad Finem Limited are not covered.
The guarantee applies to work carried out by Ad Finem only. Features, applications, and software developed by a supplier are covered by the suppliers warranty only (if applicable)
