By placing an order with LVD TECH, you confirm that you are in agreement with and bound by the terms and conditions below.
Definitions:
The Client: The company or individual requesting the services of LVD TECH.
LVD TECH: Primary designer/site owner & employees or affiliates.
General
LVD TECH will carry out work only where an agreement is provided either by email, telephone, mail or fax. LVD TECH will carry out work only for clients who are 18 years of age or above. An ‘order’ is deemed to be a written or verbal contract between LVD TECH and the client, this includes telephone and email agreements.
Website Design
Whilst every endeavor will be made to ensure that the website and any scripts or programs are free of errors, LVD TECH cannot accept responsibility for any losses incurred due to malfunction, the website or any part of it.
The website, graphics and any programming code remain the property of LVD TECH until all outstanding accounts are paid in full.
Any scripts, cgi applications, php scripts, or software (unless specifically agreed) written by LVD TECH remain the copyright of LVD TECH and may only be commercially reproduced or resold with the permission of LVD TECH.
LVD TECH cannot take responsibility for any copyright infringements caused by materials submitted by the client. We reserve the right to refuse any material of a copyrighted nature unless adequate proof is given of permission to use such material.
Any additions to the brief will be carried out at the discretion of LVD TECH and where no charge is made by LVD TECH for such additions, LVD TECH accept no responsibility to ensure such additions are error free and reserve the right to charge an according amount for any correction to these or further additions.
The client agrees to make available as soon as is reasonably possible to LVD TECH all materials required to complete the site to the agreed standard and within the set deadline.
LVD TECH will not be liable for costs incurred, compensation or loss of earnings due to the failure to meet agreed deadlines.
LVD TECH will not be liable or become involved in any disputes between the site owner and their clients and cannot be held responsible for any wrongdoing on the part of a site owner.
LVD TECH will not be liable for any costs incurred, compensation or loss of earnings due to the work carried out on behalf of the client or any of the clients appointed agents.
LVD TECH will not be liable for any costs incurred, compensation or loss of earnings due to the unavailability of the site, its servers, software or any material provided by its agents.
A deposit of 50% is required with any project before any design work will be carried out.
Once a website has been designed and completed the final balance of payment is then due in accordance with our payment terms. There are no exceptions to this, i.e If the client decides they no longer want the site, as they have commissioned the work and paid a deposit they are still obliged to pay for the work that has been done. Non payment will result in legal action being taken if necessary.
Database, Application and E-Commerce Development
LVD TECH cannot take responsibility for any losses incurred by the use of any software created for the client. Whilst every care has been taken to ensure products are problem free and accurate, the ultimate responsibility lies with the client in ensuring that all software is functioning correctly before use.
Any scripts, cgi applications or software (unless specifically agreed) written by LVD TECH remain the copyright of LVD TECH and may only be commercially reproduced or resold with the permission of LVD TECH.
Where applications or sites are developed on servers not recommended by LVD TECH, the client is expected to provide or seek any information,additional software,support or co-operation pertaining to the server required in order for the application to be correctly developed. Where large applications are to be developed, it is the clients responsibility to provide a suitable testing environment which is identical to the final production environment.
The client is expected to test fully any application or programming relating to a site developed by LVD TECH before being made generally available for use. Where “bugs”, errors or other issues are found after the site is live, LVD TECH will endeavor (but is not obliged to) to correct these issues to meet the standards of function outlined in the brief.
Website Hosting
We do not offer web hosting service and would recommend some hosting providers to clients but note that selecting any hosting provider is at user risk and LVD TECH has nothing to do with the turn out of events from the client’s decision.
Whilst LVD TECH recommends hosting companies to host websites, no guarantees can be made as to the availability or interruption of this service by LVD TECH cannot accept liability for losses caused by the unavailability, malfunction or interruption of this service, or for loss of turnover, sales, revenue, profits or indirect, consequential or special loss. Should you require any additional information, please refer to the terms and conditions of the hosting provider you would be choosing.
Hosting and Domain Renewal
Please note that you are required to renew your domain and hosting yearly for your website to keep running. You woud relate directly with the hosting provider concerning this.
LVD TECH will not be held responsible if your website does not function because you did not renew your domain.
Payment of Accounts
A deposit is required from any new client before any work is carried out. It is the LVD TECH policy that any outstanding accounts for work carried out by LVD TECH or its affiliates are required to be paid in full, no later than 1 week from the date of the invoice unless by prior arrangement with LVD TECH.
Once a deposit is paid and work completed you are obliged to pay the balance of payment in full. We will contact clients via email and telephone to remind them of such payments if they are not received when due.
Passing of Rights
Once all amounts due to us from you are paid and cleared you are assigned the rights to use, as applicable, the products and services, including, the web site which includes the text, graphics, animation, audio components and digital components contained within the finished web site, in accordance with these terms and conditions.
No such rights as described in above will pass until all amounts due to us from you are paid. This means that we will have a lien over any service, products, data or information. If you have not paid the invoice in full within 1 week from the date of the invoice you agree that you will forfeit your rights.
