Veda Designs Escort Web Design

Terms of Service

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All contents on this website including information, material and graphics, user interface design and lay outs are copyrighted property of VedaDesigns.net.

By ordering or using any of Veda Designs products or services including a Veda Design Web Site the client is deemed to have accepted these Terms and Conditions whether or not the client has been provided with a copy.

In these Terms and Conditions "we, our, us, I, me, my refers to Veda Designs Escort Web Design and Hosting. "You" and "Client" refers to Veda Designs service or buyer of any product or service offered by Veda Designs.

Rejection

Veda Designs reserves the right to withdraw any or all services from any client who infringes these regulations (as set out below) without notice and with immediate effect. In the event of suspending services, it is not my policy to offer a refund of any monies paid for services or any part thereof.

Limitation of liability

a) Veda Designs will under no circumstance be liable for indirect, special, or consequential damages including any loss of business, revenue, profits, or data in relation to your use of the Web site.

b) In purchasing domain names on behalf of the client, Veda Designs is acting solely as the clients agent and accepts no responsibility for legal issues the client encounters from the misuse of their domain. All domain renewal fees must be paid by the client after the first year of service. Veda Designs agrees to transfer any domain into clients name upon request, providing that all account, hosting and renewal fees are paid up to date.

c) The Client agrees that they are not using, nor intending to use, their website to conduct business illegally in any way or perform activities that violate their state , federal, local, or international laws. Veda Designs cannot be held liable for any legal issues the client encounters from misuse of their website. It is the responsibility of the Client to register their business in accordance with their local city or state tax laws.

Copyrights and Trade marks

a) Client unconditionally guarantees that any elements of text, graphics, photos, designs, trademarks, or other artwork furnished to Veda Designs for inclusion in the Project are owned by Client, or that Client has permission from the rightful owner to use each of these elements, and will hold harmless, protect, indemnify and defend Veda Designs from any liability (including legal fees and court costs), including any claim or suit, threatened or actual, arising from the use of such elements furnished by Client.

b) Design Ownership
Upon delivery and payment of project, client assumes ownership of all non-VedaCMS related code, graphics and design elements relating to website. However, client may not modify, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, reverse engineer or in any way exploit any of the design elements created by Veda Designs, in whole or in part, except as otherwise expressly permitted in written agreement between the Client and Veda Designs.

c) Portfolio Display
Veda Designs reserves the right to showcase a screenshot of all client designs within an online portfolio as an example of work and creative style. Clients who wish their design not be showcased are required to pay a surcharge of $50. This fee does not apply to retired Clients, whose screenshots will be removed upon request at no additional cost.

d) Design Credit Link
All websites designed by Veda Designs require a design credit link pointing to http://www.vedadesigns.net in the footer area OR links page of the website. It is prohibited to remove or modify this link unless expressly permitted by Veda Designs. Design credit removal is available for a surcharge of $100.

Project Completion and Fees

Project Fees

All design, programming or freelance services require a non-refundable 50% deposit of the quoted fee before any work on a project is started. Full web design projects are required to submit this deposit to secure their project start date. The remaining balance of all service fees must be paid in full within 7 days of completion unless an installment agreement has been made. Veda Designs reserves the right to change the listed rates for any project, packages or maintenance services. If prices change after the client has contracted Veda Designs for work - the original quoted price will be honored unless additional functionality or content as been requested by the client.

Development and Completion:

Veda Designs and Client undertake to work together to complete Project within the timescale defined prior to project commencement. Veda Designs will inform client on project progress and will always endeavor to meet the defined milestones. Client must supply all requested source materials and down-payment BEFORE or within three days of the scheduled project start date. Failure to provide source materials within 7 days of the scheduled start date will be sufficient grounds for Veda Designs to cancel the agreement and retain any down payment thus far as cancellation fees.

  1. Stage 1: Design
    Creation of the website design concept and first draft. The first draft will be presented to client for approval as a mock-up (screenshot) or coded web page, whichever Veda Designs feels most sufficient for review. This stage typically requires two weeks or less.
    Client Expectations:
    Little or no Client involvement is needed during this stage, providing all initial photos and design requests have been received.
  2. Stage 2: Modifications
    The period of time after the initial design draft has been presented where modifications are made based on client feedback. The timeline of this stage depends on Client feedback and desired modifications, though is typically seven days or less.
    Client Expectations:
    Regular correspondence between Veda Designs and Client is necessary throughout this stage in order to modify and finalize all design elements. Clients who fall out of contact for more than five days (without prior notice) will have development of their project suspended and will be required to reschedule. Failure to contact Veda Designs or reschedule within 30 days will result in project cancellation and forfeiture of deposit.
  3. Stage 3: Development
    Coding the design concept into actual web pages and installing/configuring the content management system to publish page content. This stage typically takes 3-5 days.
    Client Expectations:
    Client is expected to submit their full site copy at this point if they wish Veda Designs to do the initial insertion.
  4. Stage 4: Testing and Launch
    Final updates, testing and public launch of website. All remaining balances due on project must be paid before public launch.
    Client Expectations:
    Final confirmation that all design, text and form elements are to the Client's satisfaction. Payment of final project balance prior to public launch.

Project Fees on Extended Development

The standard fee quoted for a complete website includes up to 60 billable hours of design and development time, which is more than sufficient in 98% of the websites developed by Veda Designs. Billable time is that which is spent actively working on the Client website. Time needed to research new technologies, coding methods or design resources for client website are NOT billed. If the Client chooses to use a 3rd party hosting provider, any extra time needed to configure VedaCMS for use with your hosting service is considered billable.

If a final design concept (Stage 1 above) cannot be agreed upon within 30 billable hours, the client has the option of terminating the project without being responsible for any remaining balances. Monies received for down payment will be applied towards previous development and will not be refunded.

Failure to finalize design elements (Stage 1 AND 2 above) within 40 billable hours may incur additional project fees at the discretion of Veda Designs if it is deemed the Development and Testing phase cannot be completed within the allotted 60 Hours of total development time. Fees will be based on additional time needed and will not exceed $30/hour.

Any development that exceeds the initial 60 billable hours included with project fee will be invoiced at a rate of $30/hour.

Project Cancellations

  1. Full Deposit Refund
    If a project cancellation is received 5 or more days BEFORE our scheduled start date, you will receive a full refund of your project deposit.
  2. Partial Deposit Refund
    If a project cancellation is received between 5 days BEFORE or 5 days AFTER your start date and no development has occurred on your project, you will be refunded 50% of your project deposit. The remaining portion covers revenue lost from having your project blocked off on my calendar.
  3. No Deposit Refund
    If a project cancellation is received later than 5 days AFTER our scheduled start date OR IF ANY WORK HAS BEEN DONE TO-DATE on the project, your deposit will be forfeited entirely to cover the lost revenue for those days blocked off on my calendar and/or any time put in to-date.

Note:
If Client does not wish to cancel, but requires pausing development temporarily, a development extension for up to six months is available upon request. All extension requests must be made within 30 days of the original project start date to avoid project cancellation. Project extensions that are not resumed or rescheduled within six months will be cancelled entirely with deposit forfeiture.

In the event of a dispute regarding the design of the website or issues of late payment, Veda Designs reserves the right to withhold or withdraw all web pages and image files until such dispute is resolved.

Ongoing Maintenance

VedaCMS Editing Application allows clients to perform all basic maintenance tasks on their own.  Clients are expected to use VedaCMS for any website updates that are possible through the software.  Maintenance by Veda Designs for tasks not possible within VedaCMS is available, but will be charged for at the current hourly maintenane rate. Veda Designs performs client updates every Monday and Friday.  It is the clients responsibility to open a support ticket when requesting maintenance services.

Abuse through content

Veda Designs is only responsible for the technical development of the website and the client must provide all content materials. You agree that you will not post any material which is false, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise in violation of ANY law

Search Engine Ranking

Veda Designs puts every effort to optimize your web site for better ranking in Search Engines by utilizing appropriate title, meta and alt tags throughout the website source code. Websites are coded to standards and will validate XHTML Transitional. However, Veda Designs does not guarantee any ranking of your web site in any search engine and does not perform any marketing services aside from initial website submission to major search engines.

The Client is responsible for providing all text content for their web pages, including what is used for the Title, Description and Keyword Meta Tags on each page. All abovementioned content can be added/modified by the Client at any time through their Content Management System. The client is also responsible for any 3rd party marketing solutions.

Delivery of website

Uploading a website to your Hosting account, sending files through FTP, CD or any other media is considered as delivery of website after which the client is not eligible for a refund of any monies paid. By signing up with Veda Designs, the client agrees that he will clear any balance dues after the website has been delivered. If all fees are not paid within two weeks of delivery, Veda Designs may temporarily suspend the client's account until all fees are paid. If fees have not been paid in over 30 days, Veda Designs has the right to assume ownership of all graphics, source code and materials until you are able to pay your balance in full (unless other arrangements have been made).

Upon delivery completed payment of website, Veda Designs agrees not to resell or redistribute client's website to anyone else.

Charges

a) Veda Designs reserves the right to levy extra charges if additional unexpected time is expended on the creation of the site, or loading of the site onto the Internet, due to circumstances beyond my control or due to working with material created and/or provided by a third party. Commercial Third Party add-ons to your site must be paid by the client.
b) Optional domain name registration and hosting are included for the first year with Veda Designs standard design package. The client is responsible for paying any renewal fees for each year after.
c) Additional charges may apply if excessive bandwidth from client's website puts a strain on Veda Designs servers.

Draft Website

During the course of development, Veda Designs will provide a first draft of proposed website to be approved by the Client and will modify it as needed based on client feedback. This first draft will be provided as a mock-up (screenshot) or coded web page. If a final design concept cannot be agreed upon within 30 billable hours, the client may cancel services without needing to pay remaining project fees. However, all deposit monies paid will be surrendered and applied towards previous development time. If this occurs, Client will not be permitted to use any of the code, images, logos or design elements for the cancelled project that were created by Veda Designs.

Acceptance

Where Web site design or other Programming Services are supplied, Client will notify Veda Designs of any errors or omissions for rectification within a period of 7 days from Delivery. After 7 days from Delivery, Client is deemed to have accepted that the Delivery is provided to an acceptable level of quality and further changes which do not fall within the included six months of basic maintenance will be chargeable.

Commencement

Veda Designs cannot always guarantee to start work on web design projects immediately. If this is the case it will be discussed with the client before any work is started. All reasonable efforts will be made to work to client time scales.

Backups and Data loss

Your use of the optional hosting service is at your sole risk. Veda Designs is not responsible for files and data residing on your hosting account. You agree to take full responsibility for files and data transferred and to maintain all appropriate backup of files and data stored on our servers.

Installments

If an installment plan has been agreed upon for payment of services between Veda Designs and the Client, all materials created by Veda Designs, including information, material and graphics, user interface design and lay outs are the copyrighted property of VedaDesigns.net until the Client's balance has been paid in full.

Failure by the Client to make installments as agreed upon may result in the client's account being terminated, at which point all content materials and monies paid will be forfeited.