M Media and Design Limited - Terms & Conditions
The following terms and conditions apply to all website development / design services provided by M Media and Design Limited to the Client. Although the term website is used throughout this document these terms and conditions are also applicable to design and print work carried out by M Media and Design Ltd.
1. Acceptance
It is not necessary for any Client to have signed an acceptance of these terms and conditions for them to apply. If a Client accepts a quote then the Client will be deemed to have satisfied themselves as to the terms applying and have accepted these terms and conditions in full.
Please read these terms and conditions carefully. Any purchase or use of our services implies that you have read and accepted our terms and conditions.
2. Charges
Charges for services to be provided by M Media and Design Limited are defined in the project quotation that the Client receives via e-mail. Quotations are valid for a period of 30 days. M Media and Design Limited reserves the right to alter or decline to provide a quotation after expiry of the 30 days.
Unless agreed otherwise with the Client, all website design services require an advance payment of a minimum of thirty (30) percent of the project quotation total before the work is supplied to the Client for review. A second charge of thirty (30) percent is required after the development stage, with the remaining forty (40) percent of the project quotation total due prior to upload to the server or release of materials. If payment is not made in full by the client M Media and Design Limited excludes itself, its Employees and or Agents from all and any liability and reserves the right to remove its work for the Client from the Internet.
Payment for services is due by cheque or bank transfer. Cheques should be made payable to M Media and Design Limited and sent to M Media and Design Limited, Fusion Hive, North Shore Road, Stockton-on-tees TS18 2NB. Bank details will be made available on invoices.
3. Client Review
M Media and Design Limited will provide the Client with an opportunity to review the appearance and content of the website during the design phase and once the overall website development is completed. At the completion of the project, such materials will be deemed to be accepted and approved unless the Client notifies M Media and Design Limited otherwise within 30 (thirty) days of the date the materials are made available to the Client.
4. Turnaround Time and Content Control
M Media and Design Limited will install and publicly post or supply the Client’s website by the date specified in the project proposal, or at date agreed with Client upon M Media and Design Limited receiving initial payment, unless a delay is specifically requested by the Client and agreed by M Media and Design Limited.
In return, the Client agrees to delegate a single individual as a primary contact to aid M Media and Design Limited with progressing the commission in a satisfactory and expedient manner.
During the project, M Media and Design Limited will require the Client to provide website content; text, images, movies and sound files
5. Failure to provide required website content:
To remain efficient M Media and Design Limited must ensure that work we have programmed is carried out at the scheduled time. On occasions we may have to reject offers for other work and enquiries to ensure that your work is completed at the time arranged.
This is why we ask that you provide all the required information in advance. On any occasion where progress cannot be made with your website because we have not been given the required information in the agreed time frame, and we are delayed as a result, we reserve the right to impose a surcharge of up to 25%.
If your project involves Search Engine Optimisation we need the text content for your site in advance so that the SEO can be planned and completed efficiently.
If you agree to provide us with the required information and subsequently fail to do within one week of project commencement we reserve the right to close the project and the balance remaining becomes payable immediately.
NOTE: Text content should be delivered as a Microsoft Word, email (or similar) document with the pages in the supplied document representing the content of the relevant pages on your website. These pages should have the same titles as the agreed website pages. Contact us if you need clarification on this.
6. Payment
Invoices will be provided by M Media and Design Limited upon completion but before publishing the live website. Invoices are normally sent via email; however, the Client may choose to receive hard copy invoices. Invoices are due upon receipt. Accounts that remain unpaid thirty (30) days after the date of the invoice will be assessed a service charge in the amount of the higher of one and one-half percent (1.5%) or £30 per month of the total amount due.
7. Additional Expenses
Client agrees to reimburse M Media and Design Limited for any additional expenses necessary for the completion of the work. Examples would be purchase of special fonts, stock photography etc.
8. Web Browsers
M Media and Design Limited makes every effort to ensure websites are designed to be viewed by the majority of visitors. Websites are designed to work with the most popular current browsers (e.g. Firefox, Google Chrome, etc.). Client agrees that M Media and Design Limited cannot guarantee correct functionality with all browser software across different operating systems.
M Media and Design Limited cannot accept responsibility for web pages which do not display acceptably in new versions of browsers released after the website have been designed and handed over to the Client. As such, M Media and Design Limited reserves the right to quote for any work involved in changing the website design or website code for it to work with updated browser software.
9. Default
Accounts unpaid thirty (30) days after the date of invoice will be considered in default. If the Client in default maintains any information or files on M Media and Design Limited’s Web space, M Media and Design Limited will, at its discretion, remove all such material from its web space. M Media and Design Limited is not responsible for any loss of data incurred due to the removal of the service. Removal of such material does not relieve the Client of the obligation to pay any outstanding charges assessed to the Client’s account. Cheques returned for insufficient funds will be assessed a return charge of £25 and the Client’s account will immediately be considered to be in default until full payment is received. Clients with accounts in default agree to pay M Media and Design Limited reasonable expenses, including legal fees and costs for collection by third-party agencies, incurred by M Media and Design Limited in enforcing these Terms and Conditions.
10. Termination
Termination of services by the Client must be requested in a written notice and will be effective on receipt of such notice. E-mail or telephone requests for termination of services will not be honoured until and unless confirmed in writing. The Client will be invoiced for work completed to the date of first notice of cancellation for payment in full within thirty (30) days.
11. Indemnity
All M Media and Design Limited services may be used for lawful purposes only. You agree to indemnify and hold M Media and Design Limited harmless from any claims resulting from your use of our service that damages you or any other party.
12. Copyright
The Client retains the copyright to data, files and graphic logos provided by the Client, and grants M Media and Design Limited the rights to publish and use such material. The Client must obtain permission and rights to use any information or files that are copyrighted by a third party. The Client is further responsible for granting M Media and Design Limited permission and rights for use of the same and agrees to indemnify and hold harmless M Media and Design Limited from any and all claims resulting from the Client’s negligence or inability to obtain proper copyright permissions. A contract for website design and/or placement shall be regarded as a guarantee by the Client to M Media and Design Limited that all such permissions and authorities have been obtained. Evidence of permissions and authorities may be requested.
13. Standard Media Delivery
Unless otherwise specified in the project quotation, this Agreement assumes that any text will be provided by the Client in electronic format. Although every reasonable attempt shall be made by M Media and Design Limited to return to the Client any images or printed material provided for use in creation of the Client’s website, such return cannot be guaranteed.
14. Access Requirements
If the Client’s website is to be installed on a third-party server, M Media and Design Limited must be granted temporary read/write access to the Client’s storage directories which must be accessible via FTP. Depending on the specific nature of the project, other resources might also need to be configured on the server.
15. Post-Placement Alterations
M Media and Design Limited cannot accept responsibility for any alterations caused by a third party occurring to the Client’s pages once installed. Such alterations include, but are not limited to additions, modifications or deletions.
17. Domain Names
M Media and Design Limited may purchase domain names on behalf of the Client. Payment and renewal of those domain names is the responsibility of the Client. The loss, cancellation or otherwise of the domain brought about by non or late payment is not the responsibility of M Media and Design Limited. The Client should keep a record of the due dates for payment to ensure that payment is received in good time.
18. General
These Terms and Conditions supersede all previous representations, understandings or agreements. The Client’s signature below or payment of an advance fee constitutes agreement to and acceptance of these Terms and Conditions. Payment online is an acceptance of our terms and conditions.
19. Social Media Management
Social Media Marketing and Management is defined as helping a client to promote their products or services through social media channels. M Media and Design Limited will honour the components of your chosen social media package, providing an agreement to a minimum 3 months contract is served and monthly payments are received in advance. In the event that payment is not received on time, we regret that further work will be halted until this is rectified.
20. Governing Law
This Agreement shall be governed by English Law.
21. Liability
M Media and Design Limited hereby excludes itself, its Employees and or Agents from all and any liability from:
- Loss or damage caused by any inaccuracy;
- Loss or damage caused by omission;
- Loss or damage caused by delay or error, whether the result of negligence or other cause in the production of the web site;
- Loss or damage to clients’ artwork/photos, supplied for the site. Immaterial whether the loss or damage results from negligence or otherwise.
The entire liability of M Media and Design Limited to the Client in respect of any claim whatsoever or breach of this Agreement, whether or not arising out of negligence, shall be limited to the charges paid for the Services under this Agreement in respect of which the breach has arisen.
22. Severability
In the event any one or more of the provisions of this Agreement shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of this Agreement shall be unimpaired and the Agreement shall not be void for this reason alone. Such invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision shall be replaced by a mutually acceptable valid, legal and enforceable provision, which comes closest to the intention of the parties underlying the invalid.
