Northstead’s Terms and Conditions
(Notes regarding these Terms and Conditions)
As you will have already read you pay nothing until your website is live on the internet and, as many hours of work goes into creating the site, I think that you should know and understand the Terms and Conditions at the outset.
During the creation of your website it will at times be temporarily on the internet under one of my spare domain names for you to check. Once you are happy with the site and it is ready to go live you will be asked to sign a personalised version of these Terms and Conditions prior to a domain name being registered and the site going live under that domain name.
Once I have received the signed personalised Terms and Conditions I will register the domain name, the site will go live and the lease will begin on the first day of the following month.
Terms and Conditions,
Upon employing Northstead Enterprises Ltd to provide a leased website it is deemed that the client has read and understood these terms and conditions of business and agrees to be bound by them.
1. Definitions
Company: Northstead Enterprises Ltd., 9 Weydale Court, Weydale Avenue, Scarborough, YO12 6AT.
Client: The business, organisation or individual for which the Company has agreed to provide a leased website.
2. Obligations
The Company agrees to develop a single page or multipage website for the Client and to arrange for the site to be hosted on the internet.
3. Copyright
It is the Client’s responsibility to ensure that they have copyright or permission to use any content and/or images supplied to the Company for inclusion in the Client’s website. The Company reserves copyright in any content and/or images (including any design) supplied by the Company and no reproduction of these is allowed under any circumstances without permission.
4. Domain Name
The Company will purchase and register a .co.uk domain name for the Client’s website. This domain name will be owned by the Company and all renewal fees will be paid by the Company providing all fees for leasing the site are paid by the Client.
5. Hosting
The Company will arrange for the hosting of the Client’s website using a third party hosting service. The Company can accept no liability of any loss, damage or site downtime you incur due to them whatsoever as this is out of the Company’s control. The Company will continue to pay the hosting service’s fees providing all fees for leasing the site are paid by the Client.
6. Ownership
The finished website remains the property of the Company, as one of the Company’s customers the Client is leasing the website from the Company and not purchasing it outright. The Client therefore will not be able to request the HTML files (the coding that makes the website work) of the leased website at any time. As the finished website remains the property of the Company, the Client will not be able to host the leased site elsewhere.
7. Design Credit
With the Client’s permission there may be a credit to the Company at the foot of each page of the Client’s website with a link to the Company’s website. The Company may also request permission to include details (including an image of the Home Page) of any website designed and leased by it to a Client on any of the Company’s websites such as within a portfolio section. No credit will be published without the written permission of the Client.
8. Online Forms
The Client may have straightforward e-mail links on as many pages as desired; or a single online form (which your visitor completes and sends by clicking on a send or submit button) on one of the pages. If an online form is included in your website you will also get an acknowledgement page to inform your visitor that the message has been sent; there will be a charge for the form and the acknowledgement page.
9. Search Engines
The Company will submit details of the Client’s website to major search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) as part of the lease but cannot and does not guarantee high rankings in search engine results. The Company can accept no responsibility or liability if any search engine, online directory or search site chooses not to list the Client’s website.
10. Changes to Content
Any changes to the content of the website, either text or images, are included in the lease.
11. Payment
The Client will pay nothing until the website is completed and is live on the internet with the first payment falling due on the first day of the month following the website going live on the internet.
All payments will be :-
a/ Monthly by standing order
b/ Annually by standing order or by posted account
with the first payment falling due on the first day of the month following the website going live on the internet.
There will be an annual increase of 3% for the continuing lease of the website.
If the Company does not receive payment for any reason the website will be taken offline once the paid period has elapsed and the Company can accept no responsibility or liability for any loss this may cause.
12. Advertising
If the Client arranges for any businesses to advertise on the website The Company will place an advert on whichever page the Client has agreed and include a link to the advertiser’s website. The Company will charge a fee of 25% of any revenue realised from third party advertising on the Clients website. Links to online directories, non profit organisations or non chargeable reciprocal links will be included at no charge.
13. Termination
The agreement between the Company and the Client may be terminated :-
a/ By the Client at any time by advising the Company in writing (post / e-mail / fax).
b/ By the Company if the Client goes into liquidation, becomes bankrupt, or ceases trading for any reason.
c/ If the Client fails to pay any fees by the due date.
14. Privacy
Any information collected from the Client will be held securely by the Company and only used for the purposes of carrying out business with the Client.
15. Modification
The Company reserves the right to modify these Terms and Conditions at any time. Any changes will be advised in advance in the relevant section of the Company’s website.
May 2008
