You are hiring Macon-Middle Georgia Black Pages to design, develop and launch a Website for the agreed upon Terms & Conditions and Payment, stated as follows.

Parties Agree To:

As our customer, you have the power and ability to enter into this terms on behalf of yourself and/or your company or organization. You agree to provide us with everything that we need to complete the project including text content, images and other information requested as and when we need it, and in the format that we request. You agree to review our work, provide feedback and sign-off approval in a timely manner. You also agree to stick to the payment schedule set out at the end of this contract.

We have the experience and ability to perform the services you need from us and we will carry them out in a professional and timely manner. Along the way we will endeavor to meet all the deadlines set, but we can’t be responsible for a missed launch date or a deadline if you have been late in supplying materials or have not approved or signed off our work on-time at any stage. On top of this we will also maintain the confidentiality of any information that you give us.

Work Details:

We will create designs for the look-and-feel, layout and functionality of your Website. These terms include one fully implemented design plus the opportunity optionally to have our team update your text, photos, videos, and other necessary content to keep your Website current.

Layout:

If the project includes forms, plug-ins, scripts, or databases that require outsourcing or third party provider(s), this will be discussed with you via email and if any charges are necessary, they will be charged accordingly. We will test your completed Website in current versions of all major browsers including those made by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla.

Text Content:

We are not responsible for writing or providing any text content for your new Website. You will provide your own original text content when needed and we will input it into the Website during the pre-launch design process. It is your responsibility to carefully review, proof and verify accuracy of the text. If changes are required, we will need to be provided specific text changes. We will not be held responsible for any damages or inaccuracy of text content on your Website.

Photographs:

You are welcome to supply us photographs in digital format (JPG or PDF). We will use stock photographs as necessary.

Payments:

You agree to stick tight to the payment schedule we establish when we discuss your Website project with you and before we being working on your project.

Copyrights:

You guarantee to us that any elements of text, graphics, photos, designs, trademarks, or other artwork that you provide us for inclusion in the Website are either owned by you, your company/organization, or that you have permission to use them. When we receive your first payment, copyright is automatically assigned as follows: You own the text content, photographs, graphics and other visual elements, and other data that you provided for this project and also own the text content whether written by our team, someone else, or provided by you once it has been published online. You will still be responsible for maintaining the files you provide to us, as we are not required to keep them if you ever cancel your service with us.

We own the design content, XHTML markup, CSS and other code and we license it to you or your company/organization for use on only this project. We love to show off our work and share with other people, so we also reserve the right to display and link to and/or from your completed project as part of our portfolio and to write about the project on Websites, in magazine articles and books about Web design. At no time will we ever share confidential information about your or your business/organization and operations.

Domain & Hosting:

We use a preferred Website Host and Domain Name Provider, which are available to you as optional services. You must purchase your domain and maintain ownership of the domain itself. You are responsible for the payment of your hosting account and domain name each year to those providers.

Maintenance:

Our preferred Web developer provides optional maintenance contract for updates and changes to your Website for use after your new Website is implemented/launched (updates are post-launch changes to text and images, creation of new pages, deletion of pages, and minor changes throughout the Website). Updates do not include major changes to a Website’s design and structural layout. Change requests cannot be sent directly to us via email or text message after your Website has been implemented/launched.

Legal:

We can’t guarantee that the functions contained in any Web page or in a completed Website will always be error-free and 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 arising out of the operation of or inability to operate this web site and any other Web pages, even if you have advised us of the possibilities of such damages. We will not be held liable for any damages for website content provided including but not limited to: text content you provide such as service guarantees, testimonials, customer privacy policy and accessibility related issues. We will provide a chosen template that does not constitute legal advice or protection.

If any provision of these Terms & Conditions shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from this agreement and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. If for some reason one part of these Terms & Conditions become invalid or unenforceable, the remaining parts of it remain in place.

Although the language is simple, the intentions are serious and these terms act as a legal document under exclusive jurisdiction of US courts.