We’ll always do our best to fulfill your needs and meet expectations. But it’s important to have things written down. In this contract, you won’t find any complicated legal terms or long passages of unreadable text. We’ve no desire to trick you into signing something that you might later regret. What we do want is what’s best for both parties, now and in the future.
You: You have the authority to enter into this contract on behalf of yourself, your company, or your organization. You’ll give us the assets and information we tell you we need to complete the project. You’ll do this when we ask and provide it in the formats we ask for. You’ll review our work, provide feedback and approval in a timely manner too. Deadlines work two ways, so you’ll also be bound by the dates we set together. You also agree to stick to the payment schedule set out at the end of this contract.
Us: We have the experience and ability to do everything we’ve agreed with you, and we’ll do it all in a professional and timely manner. We’ll endeavor to meet every deadline that’s set, and on top of that, we'll maintain the confidentiality of everything you give us.
We’re sure you understand how important it is to pay the invoices that we send you promptly as a small business. You agree to pay all charges associated with international transfers of funds. We reserve the right to charge interest on all overdue debts at the rate of 10% per month or part of a month.
“Intellectual property rights” means all patents, rights to inventions, copyright (including rights in software) and related rights, trademarks, service marks, get up and trade names, internet domain names, rights to goodwill or to sue for passing off, rights in designs, database rights, rights in confidential information (including know-how) and any other intellectual property rights, in each case whether registered or unregistered and including all applications (or rights to apply) for, and renewals or extensions of, such rights and all similar or equivalent rights or forms of protection which subsist or shall subsist now or in the future in any part of the world.
First, you guarantee that you either own all elements of text, images, or other artwork you provide or that you’ve permission to use them. Second, when you provide text, images, or other artwork to us, you agree to protect us from any claim by a third party that we’re using their intellectual property.
We guarantee that we either own all elements of the work we deliver to you or we’ve obtained permission to provide them to you. When we provide text, images, or other artwork to you, we agree to protect you from any claim by a third party that you’re using their intellectual property.
Provided you’ve paid for the work, and that this contract hasn’t been terminated, we’ll assign all intellectual property rights to you as follows:
We’ll own any intellectual property rights we’ve developed before, or developed separately from this project and not paid for by you. We’ll own the unique combination of these elements that constitutes a complete design, and we’ll license its use to you
We love to show off our work, so we reserve the right to display all aspects of our creative work, including sketches, work-in-progress designs, and the completed project on our portfolio and in articles on websites, magazine articles, and books.
We don’t want to limit your ability to change your mind. The price at the beginning of this contract is based on the number of weeks that we estimate we’ll need to accomplish everything you’ve told us you want to achieve, but we’re happy to be flexible. If you wish to change your mind or add anything new, that won’t be a problem, as we’ll provide a separate estimate for those additional weeks.
Testing using popular smaller screen devices is essential in ensuring that a person’s experience of a design is appropriate to the capabilities of the device they’re using. We test our designs in:
iOS: Safari and Google Chrome
Android: Google Chrome
We won’t test in Opera Mini/Mobile, specific Android devices, or other mobile browsers unless we agreed separately. If you need us to test using these, we can provide a separate estimate.
You should supply graphic files in an editable, digital format. You should supply photographs in a high resolution digital format that adheres to specifications provided by Koalition. If you choose to buy stock photographs, we can suggest stock libraries. If you’d like us to search for photographs for you, we can provide a separate estimate. Design files should be provided in organized layered files in Photoshop, Sketch, Figma or Adobe XD format.
We deliver pages developed from HTML markup, CSS stylesheets for styling, and unobtrusive JavaScript for behaviors.
Unless agreed separately, we’re not responsible for inputting text or images into your content management system or creating every page on your website beyond content provided in designs or agreed to. We provide professional copywriting and editing services, so if you’d like us to create new content or input content for you, we’ll provide a separate estimate.
We don’t guarantee improvements to your website’s search engine ranking, but the pages that we develop are accessible to search engines. We provide professional SEO and marketing services, so if you’d like us to SEO marketing , we’ll provide a separate estimate.
We’ll carry out our work following good industry practice and at the standard expected from a suitably qualified person with relevant experience. That said, we can’t guarantee that our work will be error-free. So we can’t be liable to you or any third party for damages, including lost profits, lost savings or other incidental, consequential or special damages, even if you’ve advised us of them.
Your liability to us will also be limited to the amount of fees payable under this contract and you won’t be liable to us or any third-party for damages, including lost profits, lost savings or other incidental, consequential or special damages, even if we’ve advised you of them.
Finally, if any provision of this contract shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from this contract and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
Neither of us can transfer this contract to anyone else without the other’s permission.
We both agree that we will adhere to all relevant laws and regulations in relation to our activities under this contract and not cause the other to breach any relevant laws or regulations.
This contract stays in place and need not be renewed. If for some reason one part of this contract becomes invalid or unenforceable, the remaining parts of it remain in place.
Although the language is simple, the intentions are serious and this contract is a legal document under exclusive jurisdiction of US courts.